cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A nucleic acid-based lateral flow device for rapid diagnosis of West Nile Virus infection
Creators: name: Bräuer, Birgit
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Lateral Flow Devices,
West Nile Virus
Rapid diagnostics
mobile laboratory

description: When epidemic outbreaks occur, fast screening of humans and/or animals as well as environmental monitoring of pathogens in the respective region is essential to locally contain the spread of the disease and prevent pandemics. Rapid diagnostic tests are a valuable tool in this context. Within our project MOBILISE, which is dedicated to establishing a mobile laboratory facility responding to disease outbreaks in remote areas, we are developing nucleic acid-based lateral flow devices (LFDs) as rapid tests for West Nile Virus (WNV). WNV has become more common in Europe in recent years due to increasing temperatures caused by climate change [1]. Nucleic acid-based LFDs directly target viral nucleic acids using DNA probes suitable for hybridization to the target sequence. Our approach involves immobilization of oligonucleotides complementary to a segment of the target WNV sequence on the test line as a capture probe. A gold nanoparticle-DNA-horseradish peroxidase conjugate containing oligonucleotides that bind a different section of the WNV target nucleic acid serves as detection probe to visualize the signal, with Au nanoparticles accumulating on the test line. The oligonucleotides immobilized on the gold nanoparticle and test line are derived from the forward primer and the reverse complement of the reverse primer of a published WNV PCR assay. In the rapid test developed herein, the optical signal is further enhanced by applying 3,3′,5,5′-tetramethylbenzidin, which is converted to a blue product by the horseradish peroxidase immobilized on the Au-nanoparticle-DNA-HRP conjugate. We varied the ratio of DNA loaded onto the Au nanoparticles to optimize sensitivity of our lateral flow device, which was lowest (1 nM WNV ssDNA) at a ratio of 63:1 of DNA:AuNP and 0.25 mg/ml HRP during conjugate synthesis. In conclusion, we have developed a nucleic-acid-based lateral flow device for WNV detection which directly detects viral nucleic acid without using antibodies. Targeting viral nucleic acids is beneficial for identifying pre-symptomatic and acute cases, where antibody titres are zero or low [2]. Furthermore, a nucleic-acid-based approach avoids frequently encountered problems of antibody-based rapid tests such as batch-to batch variations in antibody quality and enables rapid adaptation to new virus variants by simply changing the sequences of capture, detection and control probes. Future work will focus on improving sensitivity by optimizing the composition of the running buffer and implementing pre-amplification of the target into the LFD. 
References 
1. Farooq, Z. et al., 2023. One Health 16: 100509. 
2. Lustig, Y. et al., 2018. Frontiers in Microbiology 9: 2421.
Schloss Blankenhain in Thüringen
Creators: name: Friedhoff, Jens
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: -
description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 44 Nr. 4 (2003): Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
The Deuteron and Exotic Two-Body Bound States from Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Beane, S. R.
name: Chang, E.
name: Detmold, W.
name: Lin, H. W.
name: Luu, T. C.
name: Orginos, K.
name: Parreno, A.
name: Savage, M. J.
name: Torok, A.
name: Walker-Loud, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results of a high-statistics, multi-volume Lattice QCD exploration of the deuteron, the di-neutron, the H-dibaryon, and the Xi-Xi- system at a pion mass of m ~ 390 MeV are presented. Calculations were performed with an anisotropic n_f = 2+1 Clover discretization in four lattice volumes of spatial extent L ~ 2.0, 2.5, 3.0 and 4.0 fm, with a lattice spacing of b_s ~ 0.123 fm in the spatial-direction, and b_t ~ b_s/3.5 in the time-direction. The Xi-Xi- is found to be bound by B_{Xi-Xi-} = 14.0(1.4)(6.7) MeV, consistent with expectations based upon phenomenological models and low-energy effective field theories constrained by nucleon-nucleon and hyperon-nucleon scattering data at the physical light-quark masses. We find weak evidence that both the deuteron and the di-neutron are bound at this pion mass, with binding energies of B_d = 11(05)(12) MeV and B_{nn} = 7.1(5.2)(7.3) MeV, respectively. With an increased number of measurements and a refined analysis, the binding energy of the H-dibaryon is B_H = 13.2(1.8)(4.0) MeV at this pion mass, updating our previous result.
description: 25 pages, 30 figures
PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: STANISLAUS OKEAHIALAM
name: CHIKEZIRIM OKORAFOR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Problem, Maintenance, Road, Infrastructure, Housing, Investment, Nigeria.

description: Abstract
One veritable parameter for assessing the status of any urban centre is the condition of infrastructure. Infrastructure is of various forms such as road network, electricity, drainage, sewage system, markets, potable water, waste disposal, telecommunication, primary health services, security, schools as well as housing. The availability and adequacy of this infrastructures contributes largely to a nation's success. In the context of this reportage, the author looked at the problem associated with the provision and maintenance of the urban road transportation system in Nigeria, using a quantitative approach. A total of one hundred and four (104) respondents, that comprises three different practioners in property market vis-à-vis, estate surveyors and valuers; housing developers and housing investors, were utilised. A questionnaire survey was adopted in eliciting views from the participants. The study used three-set criteria amongst the respondents in unravelling the problem. Data collected were presented using descriptive statistics tools such as tables and percentages and were analysed using SPSS. Hitherto, the study revealed that estate surveyors and valuers, housing developers alongside with housing investors gave maximum weight to political factors followed by economic factors as having the greatest negative impact on the provision and maintenance of road infrastructure, while social factors in the study area had little or no negative influence. Therefore, the study concluded that political and economic problems were the greatest challenge facing road infrastructure provision and maintenance in the study area and urged the government to rise to their role of road infrastructure provision and maintenance to enhance housing investment which will increase housing supply and improve economic prosperity.
Domestic violence against women and unplanned pregnancy: a new link?
Creators: name: Newsham, Tanis M.
Publisher: name: Social Work
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: HV 6626 N49 1994
subject: Abused women
subject: Family violence
subject: Pregnancy
subject: Women - Health and hygiene
subject: Human reproduction

description: Bibliography: p. 91-102.
Memristive excitable cellular automata
Creators: name: Adamatzky, Andrew
name: Chua, Leon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The memristor is a device whose resistance changes depending on the polarity and magnitude of a voltage applied to the device's terminals. We design a minimalistic model of a regular network of memristors using structurally-dynamic cellular automata. Each cell gets info about states of its closest neighbours via incoming links. A link can be one 'conductive' or 'non-conductive' states. States of every link are updated depending on states of cells the link connects. Every cell of a memristive automaton takes three states: resting, excited (analog of positive polarity) and refractory (analog of negative polarity). A cell updates its state depending on states of its closest neighbours which are connected to the cell via 'conductive' links. We study behaviour of memristive automata in response to point-wise and spatially extended perturbations, structure of localised excitations coupled with topological defects, interfacial mobile excitations and growth of information pathways.
description: Accepted to Int J Bifurcation and Chaos (2011)
Stochastic Quantization and Casimir Forces
Creators: name: Rodriguez-Lopez, Pablo
name: Brito, Ricardo
name: Soto, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we show how the stochastic quantization method developed by Parisi and Wu can be used to obtain Casimir forces. Both quantum and thermal fluctuations are taken into account by a Langevin equation for the field. The method allows the Casimir force to be obtained directly, derived from the stress tensor instead of the free energy. It only requires the spectral decomposition of the Laplacian operator in the given geometry. The formalism provides also an expression for the fluctuations of the force. As an application we compute the Casimir force on the plates of a finite piston of arbitrary cross section. Fluctuations of the force are also directly obtained, and it is shown that, in the piston case, the variance of the force is twice the force squared.
description: Submitted to EPL
Isotope analyses of microgram quantities of sulfur: applications to soil sulfur mineralization studies
Creators: name: Norman, Ann-Lise
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: QD 181 S1 N67 1994
subject: Soils - Sulphur content
subject: Sulphur - Isotopes

description: Bibliography: p. 159-171.
The relationship between aggression and mating success in male Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata)
Creators: name: Norman, Sherry Dawn
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: QL 737 P93 N67 1994
subject: Japanese macaque - Reproduction
subject: Japanese macaque - Behavior
subject: Aggressive behavior in animals
subject: Sexual behavior in animals

description: Bibliography: p. 129-142.
Vibrational mechanics in an optical lattice: controlling transport via potential renormalization
Creators: name: Wickenbrock, A.
name: Holz, P. C.
name: Wahab, N. A. Abdul
name: Phoonthong, P.
name: Cubero, D.
name: Renzoni, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally the phenomenon of vibrational resonance in a periodic potential, using cold atoms in an optical lattice as a model system. A high-frequency (HF) drive, with frequency much larger than any characteristic frequency of the system, is applied by phase-modulating one of the lattice beams. We show that the HF drive leads to the renormalization of the potential. We used transport measurements as a probe of the potential renormalization. The very same experiments also demonstrate that transport can be controlled by the HF drive via potential renormalization.
description: Phys. Rev. Lett., in press
Editorial
Creators: name: Haspel, Jörg
name: Brandt, Sigrid
name: Enders, Siegfried RCT
name: Kondrashev, Leonid
name: Kudryavtsev, Alexander
name: Gorbatenko, Sergey
Publisher: name: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Year: 2020

description: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees, Bd. 73 (2020): ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Socialist Modernism in Central and Eastern Europe (1955–1991)
Creators: name: Rusu, Dumitru
Publisher: name: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Year: 2020

description: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees, Bd. 73 (2020): ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Bettina Polak, Het fin-de-siècle in de nederlandsche schilderkunst. De symbolistische beweging 1890-1900 - Agnès Humbert, Les Nabis et leur époque, 1888 - 1900
Creators: name: Trier, Eduard
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Bettina Polak, Het fin-de-siècle in de nederlandsche schilderkunst. De symbolistische beweging 1890 - 1900. Utrechtse bijdragen tot de kunstgeschiedenis IV. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1955. VIII und 415 Seiten, 199 Abbildungen. Agnès Humbert, Les Nabis et leur époque, 1888 - 1900. Genf, Editions Pierre Cailler, 1954. 152 Seiten, 51 Abbildungen.
description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 9 Nr. 11 (1956): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Extended axion electrodynamics: Optical activity induced by nonstationary dark matter
Creators: name: Balakin, A. B.
name: Tarasova, N. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish a new self-consistent Einstein-Maxwell-axion model based on the Lagrangian, which is linear in the pseudoscalar (axion) field and its four-gradient and includes the four-vector of macroscopic velocity of the axion system as a whole. We consider extended equations of the axion electrodynamics, modified gravity field equations, and discuss nonstationary effects in the phenomenon of optical activity induced by axions.
description: 6 pages, 0 figures, accepted for publication in the Journal Gravitation and Cosmology, reported at the 14th Russian Gravitational Conference (Ulyanovsk, 2011)
The reconciliation symphony
Creators: name: Nwankpa, Onyemaechi Nnanna
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: M 1001 N83 R43
subject: Symphonies - Scores
subject: Nwankpa, Onyemaechi Nnanna. Reconciliation symphony
subject: Nigeria - Songs and music

description: Bibliography: p. 61-62.
description: The word "reconciliation" as used in this dissertation is symbolic in two ways: the conciliation and reconciliation that characterized the national programs following the end of the war between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the defunct Republic of Biafra, and the synthesis of cross-cultural musical traditions within the symphonic tradition. The Reconciliation Symphony is used to represent these two polarities. It is a program symphony in four movements. It is based on the traumatic events of the thirty-month war (July, 1967 to January, 1970) between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the defunct Republic of Biafra. Its imaginative evocation results in the creation of sonic symbols of events and a synthesis of the Western and African musical traditions. This symphony integrates traditional African instruments, folk songs and rhythms. It also recreates and demonstrates the African practice of the fusion of music, dance and spectacle. It is intended that the synthesis of the Western techniques and African resources found in this symphony will lead to the development and advancement of new musical resources, forms, and an innovative extension of symphonic knowledge and practice. This composer believes that cross-cultural musical elements should be integrated into the symphonic tradition. These elements should not be transformed and disguised in such a manner that the essentials of the cultural tradition from which they are derived are destroyed and negated, but in such a way that the traditional materials borrowed or quoted may remain a distinct part of the overall piece of work. This dissertation is two-fold: the score of the musical composition and an historical analytical paper. The paper is organized into two parts. Its first part briefly introduces the nature of the symphony. It discusses the reason for the choice of styles and techniques, provides some examples of the Western and African musical languages, composers and their works as they relate to this symphony, and discusses the significance of this symphony in terms of musical synthesis. The second part of this paper deals with the program of the symphony, its language and analysis, making cross-references to the Western forms and techniques. It also discusses areas of musical synthesis used in the piece. The symphony has the following instrumentation: 2222/4231/tim., 3 perc., kbd/strings/chamber choir (dancers). It is approximately twenty seven minutes in duration.
Local Tadpole Galaxies
Creators: name: Elmegreen, Debra Meloy
name: Elmegreen, Bruce G.
name: Almeida, Jorge Sanchez
name: Munoz-Tunon, Casiana
name: Putko, Joseph
name: Dewberry, Janosz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tadpole galaxies have a giant star-forming region at the end of an elongated intensity distribution. Here we use SDSS data to determine the ages, masses, and surface densities of the heads and tails in 14 local tadpoles selected from the Kiso and Michigan surveys of UV-bright galaxies, and we compare them to tadpoles previously studied in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The young stellar mass in the head scales linearly with restframe galaxy luminosity, ranging from ~10^5 M_solar at galaxy absolute magnitude U=-13 mag to 10^9 M_solar at U=-20 mag. The corresponding head surface density increases from several M_solar pc^{-2} locally to 10-100 M_solar pc^{-2} at high redshift, and the star formation rate per unit area in the head increases from ~0.01 M_solar yr^{-1} kpc^{-2} locally to ~1 M_solar yr^{-1} kpc^{-2} at high z. These local values are normal for star-forming regions, and the increases with redshift are consistent with other cosmological star formation rates, most likely reflecting an increase in gas abundance. The tails in the local sample look like bulge-free galaxy disks. Their photometric ages decrease from several Gyr to several hundred Myr with increasing z, and their surface densities are more constant than the surface densities of the heads. The far outer intensity profiles in the local sample are symmetric and exponential. We suggest that most local tadpoles are bulge-free galaxy disks with lopsided star formation, perhaps from environmental effects such as ram pressure or disk impacts, or from a Jeans length comparable to half the disk size.
description: 17 pages, 4 tables, 11 figures; accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Changing Shipping Patterns on the St. Lawrence Seaway: With Emphasis on United States Grain Exports
Creators: name: Economic Research Service, Marketing Economics Division
name: Economic Research Service, Marketing Economics Division
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1963
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Report Preface: Major groups associated with export trade have a strong interest in the effect of the improved Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Seaway on commodity movements in both domestic and export trade. Past studies by the Department of Agriculture on the St. Lawrence Seaway emphasized the potential savings in transportation costs in overseas trade for grain. Another study dealt with the possible impact of the Seaway on location of port elevators in the United States. The present study evaluates the traffic record of the new waterway, with emphasis on grain movement, since it opened to large ocean-going vessels in 1959. Attention is given to the total traffic volume that might be generated on the new waterway by 1968.
The gene expression landscape of the human locus coeruleus revealed by single-nucleus and spatially-resolved transcriptomics
Creators: name: Weber, Lukas M
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: locus coeruleus
norepinephrine
spatially-resolved transcriptomics
single-nucleus RNA-sequencing
postmortem human tissue

description: Poster presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), in Phoenix, AZ, USA, on December 4-7, 2022.
title: The role of talin splice variants in health and disease
Creators: name: Edwards, William
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: Talin is a protein crucial to the function of cell-matrix focal adhesions, which allows a cell to interact with its environment. In this thesis, I show that alternate splicing of talin, whether by mutation or by cassette exon splicing contributes to the pathogenicity of multiple diseases, by affecting the form and function of focal adhesion complexes. Two variations in alternate talin splicing were examined, the loss of exon 54 and the insertion of novel exon 17b. My work, along with the work of my collaborators on both splice variants, has revealed that the novel talin exon 17b, is highly expressed in many cancers, and alters the structure of the R1 and R2 rod domains of talin, resulting in focal adhesions that display altered force loading and mechano-sensing properties. The data presented here suggests that exon 17b is expressed by cancers to gain drug resistance and evade the immune system. I also propose a function for exon 17b in non-cancerous human cells, that the exon is spliced into talin 1 to reduce the formation of excess scar tissue by deactivating myofibroblasts. I have also worked with collaborators who have discovered a family who suffer from systemic capillary leak syndrome, due to an autosomal dominant mutation, causing an alternate splicing event of talin 1. My work in analysing the impact of exon 54 removal on the R13 rod domain of talin, has shown the resulting deletion creates an over-active talin that ‘leeches’ vinculin from surrounding cell-cell adherens junctions. Preventing vascular tissue reorganisation, resulting in rapid loss of fluid from the vascular system into surrounding tissue. The thesis also discusses my work with a research group from Bordeaux who have developed an artificial, bacterially expressed antibody alternative. Using nuclear magnetic resonance, I show that these ‘intrabodies’ bind their targets with high specificity and affinity, showing potential as a replacement for monoclonal antibodies.
34. Burgenseminar in Heldburg. Verteidigung und Wehrtechnik mittelalterlicher und neuzeitlicher Befestigungen
Creators: name: Die Redaktion
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: -
description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 45 Nr. 1 (2004): Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
National Association of Women Artists 59th Annual Exhibition, April 25 - May 13, 1951
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1951

description: The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) was established in 1889 and is the oldest professional women's fine arts organization in the United States. NAWA's mission is to promote awareness of, and interest in, visual art created by women in the United States. As part of this effort NAWA holds an annual exhibition of works by members of the association and publishes an exhibition catalog to accompany or commemorate the annual exhibitions. These catalogs not only function as an exhibition catalog, but also as a document that summarizes the structure, membership, and activities of the association.Information that can be found in these catalogs includes lists of officers, members of the executive board and committees, prize winners, lists of exhibitor and members, and images of some of the artwork exhibited. Catalogs from the 2000s also include information on NAWA events and activities beyond the annual exhibition.Please note that the numbering of the annual catalogs was adjusted in 1960 and again in 1971. For example, NAWA designated the annual exhibition in 1960 as the 70th Anniversary Exhibition after 1959 was the 67th Annual Exhibition. These adjustments appear to have been made to reflect the date of the founding of the association, so that, by 1989, the annual exhibition commemorated the 100-year anniversary of the founding of NAWA in 1889.
RESEARCH OF N,N′-HEXAMETHYLENE BIS-[(O-CRESOLYL)-CARBAMATE] IN INTERNATIONAL CHEMICALS DATABASES
Creators: name: Mashayev, Eldor
name: Ismailov, Boburbek
name: Ergashev, Jasurbek
name: Omonov, Sherzod
name: Makhsumov, Abdukhamid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In this scientific work, studies of bis-carbamate were carried out in modern electronic databases, including elemental analysis, PMR, IR and mass spectra. For example, if we look only at the IR spectra of N,N'-hexamethylene-bis-[(o-cresolyl)-carbamate], we can see functional carbamate groups such as N-H, -C-N, C=O, N-( CO)-O and proves that this is exactly the substance.
Dimension formulas for some modular representations of the symplectic group in the natural characteristic
Creators: name: Gilmer, Patrick M.
name: Masbaum, Gregor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20G05 (Primary) 57R36 (Secondary)

description: We compare the dimensions of the irreducible Sp(2g,K)-modules over a field K of characteristic p constructed by Gow with the dimensions of the irreducible Sp(2g,F_p)-modules that appear in the first approximation to representations of mapping class groups of surfaces in Integral Topological Quantum Field Theory. For this purpose, we derive a trigonometric formula for the dimensions of Gow's representations. This formula is equivalent to a special case of a formula contained in unpublished work of Foulle. Our direct proof is simpler than the proof of Foulle's more general result, and is modeled on the proof of the Verlinde formula in TQFT.
description: 7 pages; Added references to work of Foulle
Regulation of pp60c-src in melanocytes and melanoma cells
Creators: name: O'Connor, Tracy J.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: QP 606 P78 O36 1994
subject: Protein-tyrosine kinase
subject: Protein kinases
subject: Melanocytes
subject: Oncogenes
subject: Cancer - Genetic aspects

description: Bibliography: p. 177-204.
Sobolev quasi periodic solutions of multidimensional wave equations with a multiplicative potential
Creators: name: Berti, Massimiliano
name: Bolle, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove the existence of quasi-periodic solutions for wave equations with a multiplicative potential on T^d, d \geq 1, and finitely differentiable nonlinearities, quasi-periodically forced in time. The only external parameter is the length of the frequency vector. The solutions have Sobolev regularity both in time and space. The proof is based on a Nash-Moser iterative scheme as in [5]. The key tame estimates for the inverse linearized operators are obtained by a multiscale inductive argument, which is more difficult than for NLS due to the dispersion relation of the wave equation. We prove the "separation properties" of the small divisors assuming weaker non-resonance conditions than in [11].
Das Riesenleinwandgemälde Tannhäuser im Venusberg von August von Heckel
Creators: name: Pelludat, Inga
Publisher: name: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Year: 2020

description: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees, Bd. 70 (2019): ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Using Hard Dihadron Correlations to constrain Elastic Energy Loss
Creators: name: Renk, Thorsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One contribution to the energy loss of hard partons propagating through a medium as created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion (A-A) collisions are elastic scattering processes with medium constituents. The magnitude of this energy loss contribution depends crucially on the effective mass of the medium constituents - in the limit of non-recoiling static scattering centers, elastic energy loss vanishes. Thus, it is important to constrain the amount of elastic energy loss in order to gain information about the nature of the degrees of freedom in the medium as resolved by a hard parton. So far, the relative fraction of elastic (or rather incoherent) energy loss has been constrained from above by using pathlength dependent observables. However, using the observation that subleading gluon energy dissipation into the medium is probed by some observables, such as hard dihadron correlations or the dijet asymmetry, a constraint from below can also be found. In this work, this idea is worked out within the in-medium shower evolution Monte Carlo (MC) code YaJEM-D.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. C
'Culture of the soul': fundamentalism and evangelism in Canada, 1921-1940
Creators: name: Opp, James William
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: BT 82.2 O67 1994
subject: Fundamentalism - Canada - History
subject: Evangelistic work - Canada - History
subject: Canada - Church history - 20th century

description: Bibliography: p. 151-160.
description: The emergence of fundamentalism in Canada following World War I represented more than the divisive controversies often associated with the movement's struggle against "modernism". Com batting theological liberalism went beyond political battles as fundamentalists worked to establish their own informal network of organizations and institutions. At the heart of these efforts was the prevailing belief that by maintaining and proselytizing the 'fundamental' tenets of faith, fundamentalists could inaugurate a religious revival of Great Awakening proportions. In practice, however, spiritual revitalization proved to be more difficult than expected, and fundamentalists found themselves making select cultural accommodations in order to promote a broader sense of revival. By examining the techniques of evangelism adapted and developed within this emerging sub-culture, this thesis will explore how fundamentalists struggled to re-define their role within a secularizing society.
Changes in the Market Structure of the Breakfast Foods Industry
Creators: name: Heid, Walter G.
name: Heid, Walter G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1963
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the report Preface: In this report important structural changes in the breakfast foods industry from 1947-49 to 1961 are examined. Concentration of the industry, channels of distribution, degree of product differentiation, and conditions of entry are the predominant aspects of market structure considered. The performance, or economic results of changes in the structure of the breakfast foods industry, is measured in terms of technological progress, competition, changes in farm-retail price spreads, and profits. Specific changes in the price spreads and margins of corn flakes and rolled oats, the two most important varieties of breakfast foods, are analyzed in detail. Data were obtained by personal interviews with breakfast food manufacturers and from many secondary sources as indicated in the bibliography.
ChAInGeS: The Chandra Arp Interacting Galaxies Survey
Creators: name: Smith, Beverly J.
name: Swartz, Douglas A.
name: Miller, Olivia
name: Burleson, Jacob A.
name: Nowak, Michael A.
name: Struck, Curtis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have conducted a statistical analysis of the ultra-luminous X-ray point sources (ULXs; L(X) >= 10^39 erg/s) in a sample of galaxies selected from the Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. We find a possible enhancement of a factor of ~2-4 in the number of ULXs per blue luminosity for the strongly interacting subset. Such an enhancement would be expected if ULX production is related to star formation, as interacting galaxies tend to have enhanced star formation rates on average. For most of the Arp galaxies in our sample, the total number of ULXs compared to the far-infrared luminosity is consistent with values found earlier for spiral galaxies. This suggests that for these galaxies, ULXs trace recent star formation. However, for the most infrared-luminous galaxies, we find a deficiency of ULXs compared to the infrared luminosity. For these very infrared-luminous galaxies, AGNs may contribute to powering the far-infrared; alternatively, ULXs may be highly obscured in the X-ray in these galaxies and therefore not detected by these Chandra observations. We determined local UV/optical colors within the galaxies in the vicinity of the candidate ULXs using GALEX UV and SDSS optical images. In most cases, the distributions of colors are similar to the global colors of interacting galaxies. However, the u - g and r - i colors at the ULX locations tend to be bluer on average than these global colors, suggesting that ULXs are preferentially found in regions with young stellar populations. In the Arp sample there is a possible enhancement of a factor of ~2 - 5 in the fraction of galactic nuclei that are X-ray bright compared to more normal spirals.
description: 28 pages, 7 figures, Astronomical Journal, in press
Breaking the framebreakers: the British Military vs. the Nottinghamshire Luddites, 1811-12
Creators: name: Overly, Eric
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: DA 535 O94 1994
subject: Great Britain - History, Military - 1789-1820
subject: Great Britain - History - 1800-1837
subject: Luddites
subject: Law enforcement - Great Britain - History

description: Bibliography: p. 140-143.
ENHANCING COMPANY VALUE: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF SALES GROWTH, DIVIDEND POLICY, COMPANY SIZE, AND INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY SET THROUGH CAPITAL STRUCTURE (A STUDY ON THE LQ45 STOCK INDEX FROM 2017 TO 2021)
Creators: name: PALTI MARULITUA SITORUS
name: ANNISA ANDI SETYANI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Company Value, Capital Structure, PBV Ratio, Valuation, Corporate Finance.

description: Abstract
The study examines factors affecting company value in the LQ45 index (2017-2021). Analyzing fluctuations in stock prices due to slowed growth, the study investigates how sales growth, dividend policy, company size, and investment opportunities influence company value through capital structure. Using descriptive statistics, panel data regression, and the Sobel test in Eviews 12, the findings show that only company size significantly influences capital structure. For company value, significant positive effects are observed from company size, investment opportunity set, and capital structure, while sales growth and dividend policy have no impact. The Sobel test reveals that capital structure acts as a mediator only between company size and company value.
Effect of a thin AlO_x layer on transition-edge sensor properties
Creators: name: Kinnunen, Kimmo M.
name: Palosaari, Mikko R. J.
name: Maasilta, Ilari J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the physics of transition-edge sensor (TES) devices with an insulating AlOx layer on top of the device to allow implementation of more complex detector geometries. By comparing devices with and without the insulating film, we have observed significant additional noise apparently caused by the insulator layer. In addition, AlOx was found to be a relatively good thermal conductor. This adds an unforeseen internal thermal feature to the system.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, Low Temperature Detectors 14 conference
Fuzzy C-means classifier: application to wetland ecosystems in Wood Buffalo National Park
Creators: name: Ow, Charlotte Fung Yen
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: QH 541.5 M3 O83 1994
subject: Wetland ecology - Wood Buffalo National Park (Alta. and N.W.T.)
subject: Wetlands - Wood Buffalo National Park (Alta. and N.W.T.)
subject: Remote sensing - Wood Buffalo National Park (Alta. and N.W.T.)
subject: Fuzzy sets
subject: Environmental monitoring - Remote sensing

description: Bibliography: p. 91-99.
The artifacts of component-based development
Creators: name: Qureshi, M. Rizwan Jameel
name: Hayat, Shaukat Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Component based development idea was floated in a conference name "Mass Produced Software Components" in 1968 [1]. Since then engineering and scientific libraries are developed to reuse the previously developed functions. This concept is now widely used in SW development as component based development (CBD). Component-based software engineering (CBSE) is used to develop/ assemble software from existing components [2]. Software developed using components is called component ware [3]. This paper presents different architectures of CBD such as ActiveX, common object request broker architecture (CORBA), remote method invocation (RMI) and simple object access protocol (SOAP). The overall objective of this paper is to support the practice of CBD by comparing its advantages and disadvantages. This paper also evaluates object oriented process model to adapt it for CBD.
description: 6 pages; ISSN: 1013-5316; CODEN: SINTE 8; Quarterly Publications Int, 11-D Sabzazar, Wahdat Rd, Lahore, Pakistan
Margins and centers in Canadian television drama: a case study of North of 60
Creators: name: Pallister, Kathryn Anne Cook
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: PN 1992.77 N6 P35 1994
subject: North of 60 (Television program)
subject: Television broadcasting - Social aspects - Canada
subject: Minorities in television - Canada
subject: Women in television - Canada

description: Bibliography: p. 185-191.
title: Subscribe Now: On the Effectiveness of Advertising Messages in Promoting Newspapers’ Online Subscriptions
Creators: name: Wilczek, Bartosz
name: Schulte-Uentrop, Ina
name: Thurman, Neil
Publisher: name: USC Annenberg Press
Year: 2023

description: Previous literature has suggested that newspaper publishers should optimize how they advertise their online subscriptions. However, empirical findings on the effectiveness of advertising messages in increasing people’s willingness to pay for such online subscriptions are still rare. Therefore, this study conducted an online experiment with U.K. participants (N = 815) to investigate the effects of different advertising messages on people’s willingness to pay for online news. These so-called subscription pitches included digital-specific, social, normative, and price transparency appeals. The findings show that a subscription pitch that includes both a normative appeal and a price transparency appeal significantly increases people’s willingness to pay. This indicates that informing audiences that their subscription will support independent, inclusive, and watchdog journalism and that a subscription model was implemented due to the news industry’s critical financial situation is particularly effective. Thereby, the study expands research on people’s willingness to pay for online news.
Characterization of microbulk detectors in argon- and neon-based mixtures
Creators: name: Iguaz, F. J.
name: Ferrer-Ribas, E.
name: Giganon, A.
name: Giomataris, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recent Micromegas manufacturing technique, so called Microbulk, has been developed, improving the uniformity and stability of this kind of detectors. Excellent energy resolutions have been obtained, reaching values as low as 11% FWHM at 5.9 keV in Ar+5%iC4H10. This detector has other advantages like its flexible structure, low material budget and high radio-purity. Two microbulk detectors with gaps of 50 and 25 um have been characterized in argon- and neon-based mixtures with ethane, isobutane and cyclohexane. The results will be presented and discussed. The gain curves have been fitted to the Rose-Korff gain model and dependences of the electron mean free path and the threshold energy for ionization have been obtained. The possible relation between these two parameters and the energy resolution will be also discussed.
description: Submitted to the Journal of Instrumentation
Density of states deduced from ESR measurements on low-dimensional nanostructures; benchmarks to identify the ESR signals of graphene and SWCNTs
Creators: name: Szirmai, Péter
name: Fábián, Gábor
name: Dóra, Balázs
name: Koltai, János
name: Zólyomi, Viktor
name: Kürti, Jenő
name: Nemes, Norbert M.
name: Forró, László
name: Simon, Ferenc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy is an important tool to characterize the ground state of conduction electrons and to measure their spin-relaxation times. Observing ESR of the itinerant electrons is thus of great importance in graphene and in single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). Often, the identification of CESR signal is based on two facts: the apparent asymmetry of the ESR signal (known as a Dysonian lineshape) and on the temperature independence of the ESR signal intensity. We argue that these are insufficient as benchmarks and instead the ESR signal intensity (when calibrated against an intensity reference) yields an accurate characterization. We detail the method to obtain the density of states from an ESR signal, which can be compared with theoretical estimates. We demonstrate the success of the method for K doped graphite powder. We give a benchmark for the observation of ESR in graphene.
Inundation taphonomy of selected submerged heritage resources in Alberta
Creators: name: Langley, Susan B. M., 1957-
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: CC 77 U5 L36 1994
subject: Underwater archaeology - Alberta
subject: Taphonomy - Alberta
subject: Alberta- Antiquities

description: Bibliography: p. 323-335.
description: A variety of sites in three regions of Alberta were selected to study the taphonomic (chemical and mechanical) processes affecting submerged cultural remains. The research described in this dissertation serves three main purposes. First, it provides information about the taphonomic processes, both cultural and natural, occurring as a result of the freshwater inundation of both historic and prehistoric cultural resources. Second, it records a number of specific sites and documents the processes these are undergoing. Third, it provides a management tool for these and other comparable archaeological resources. The dissertation's value as a tool is evident in that the research makes specific reference to reservoir situations, is long term, and includes an experimental component. The latter tests and evaluates a variety of means of protecting sites in situ; it examines the effects of inundation on buried sites, surface features and on the movement of artifacts on the surface. This facilitates the formulation of both predictions about the effects of inundation on different types of sites under various conditions, and, recommendations as to how these predictions may be addressed. The research encompassed by this dissertation provides sufficient information to permit reliable statements, even as generalizations, about the taphonomic effects of inundation on both historic and prehistoric cultural remains.
Prices, Marketing Margins, and Uses of Peanuts in Peanut Butter
Creators: name: Farnworth, Virginia M.
name: Farnworth, Virginia M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1963
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Excerpts from the report: This study of returns from marketing peanuts in peanut butter has been made in response to the continued and growing interest of consumers and public and private agencies in farmers' returns and marketing margins for agricultural products. This is one of several studies of farm-to-retail price spreads for important food products by the Economic Research Service as a part of a broad program of research on the economics of marketing agricultural commodities. During the 1961-62 marketing year, 4.5 pounds of raw shelled peanuts per person were processed for food, excluding shelled peanuts crushed for oil. Of this amount, about 2.5 pounds per person, or over 451.0 million pounds, were used in the manufacture of peanut butter. The objectives of this study were to measure and summarize returns to farmers for peanuts used in peanut butter and to various processing and marketing agencies for manufacturing and distributing peanut butter to consumers under different market situations. The analyses delineate variations in marketing margins or price spreads associated with type of retail outlet, brand, market location, and size of container.
Spatial confinement effects on quantum harmonic oscillator I: Nonlinear coherent state approach
Creators: name: Harouni, M. Bagheri
name: Roknizadeh, R.
name: Naderi, M. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study some basic quantum confinement effects through investigation of a deformed harmonic oscillator algebra. We show that spatial confinement effects on a quantum harmonic oscillator can be represented by a deformation function within the framework of nonlinear coherent states theory. We construct the coherent states associated with the spatially confined quantum harmonic oscillator in a one-dimensional infinite well and examine some of their quantum statistical properties, including sub-poissonian statistics and quadrature squeezing.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:0710.1942
title: Twin Houses Empirical Validation Dataset: Experiment 2
Creators: name: Strachan, Paul
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde
Year: 2016
Subjects: Empirical validation
IEA

description: Dataset associated with IEA EBC Annex 58 project. A detailed description of the experimental specification and dataset is contained in the pdf file: Empirical_Modelling_Specification_110216
Social work's response to sex offending: the need for structural initiatives
Creators: name: Lavoie, Marguerite Marie Geraldine
Publisher: name: Social Work
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: HQ 71 L37 1994
subject: Sex offenders - Rehabilitation
subject: Sex offenders - Mental health services
subject: Community mental health services
subject: Social work with criminals

description: Bibliography: p. 144-174.
description: The intent of this thesis is to encourage the development of structural initiatives in social work's response to the problem of sex offending. It is posited that, to date, the profession has tended to individualize its response to victims and perpetrators. Through an examination of the ideological constructs of Western society, an investigation of definitions and theories pertaining to sexuality, gender, and sex offending, and feminist analysis, the researcher concludes that the response is unrealistic. A new direction is proposed in an alternative sociological perspective on sex offending which could provide a framework for structural initiatives.