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Homothetic Killing Vectors in Expanding HH-Spaces with Lambda
Creators: name: Chudecki, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conformal Killing equations and their integrability conditions for expanding hyperheavenly spaces with Lambda in spinorial formalism are studied. It is shown that any conformal Killing vector reduces to homothetic or isometric Killing vector. Reduction of respective Killing equation to one master equation is presented. Classification of homothetic and isometric Killing vectors is given. Type [D]x[any] is analysed in details and some expanding HH complex metrics of types [III, N]x[III, N] with Lambda admitting isometric Killing vectors are found.
description: 28 pages
Exploring deposition pattern characteristics of aerosols and bioaerosols by inertial impaction for the development of real-time silicon MEMS mass detection systems
Creators: name: Ugur Soysal
name: Géhin, Evelyne
name: Marty, Frédéric
name: Algré, Emmanuelle
name: Robine, Enric
name: Motzkus, Charles
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The objective of this study was to analyze the deposition patterns of aerosolized bacteria, fungi, and fluorescent particles with a lab-made, multiple round nozzle, single-stage inertial impactor. The cut-off diameter (d50 ), experimental d50 , and Reynolds number of the impactor were 0.39 µm, 0.80 µm, and 2825, respectively. The impactor was elaborated based on a classical impactor design criterion. The deposition characteristics, namely the size, shape, and collection efficiency of aerosols, differed significantly for impaction surfaces like smooth silicon and nanostructured silicon (i.e., black silicon) and various sizes of particles. Our experiment results, based on the image analysis method, suggest that the impaction characteristics of aerosols are subject to a rebound and re-entrainment (i.e., bounce effect) phenomenon that is tuned by the size of the particles, regardless of their origin. This finding leads us to distinguish the collection of global (classical) and local efficiencies, based on where the particles are deposited on the impaction plate. The particles in the primary impaction zone, located underneath the nozzle to which a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) is aligned, are considered to evaluate the local collection efficiency. We estimated the local collection efficiency from the collection on a smooth silicon surface as 17.9 ± 1.8% for fluorescent particles with an aerodynamic diameter (dae ) of 0.92 µm and <1% for particles with dae  of 2.07, 2.53, and 3.83 µm in size. The reduced number of particles in the primary impaction zone as their size increases is evidence of the bounce effect. This observation is also confirmed for the first time with the capturing of bioaerosols. For the elimination of the bounce effect and localization of the deposit in the primary zone, this empirical study proposes the solution of tailoring the smooth silicon surface with sharp pillar nanostructures (e.g., black silicon, BSi). Therefore, we show that a BSi-functionalized MEMS mass sensor–integrated impactor is suitable for the detection of micron-sized solid particles, such as Aspergillus niger spores (dae  of 3.04 µm).
Slow light with a swept-frequency source
Creators: name: Zhang, Rui
name: Zhu, Yunhui
name: Wang, Jing
name: Gauthier, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new concept for stimulated-Brillouin-scattering-based slow light in optical fibers that is applicable for broadly-tunable frequency-swept sources. It allows slow light to be achieved, in principle, over the entire transparency window of the optical fiber. We demonstrate a slow light delay of 10 ns at 1550 nm using a 10-m-long photonic crystal fiber with a source sweep rate of 0.4 MHz/ns and a pump power of 200 mW. We also show that there exists a maximal delay obtainable by this method, which is set by the SBS threshold, independent of sweep rate. For our fiber with optimum length, this maximum delay is ~38 ns, obtained for a pump power of 760 mW.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
The Traces of a Radical Education: Neoliberal Rationality in Sudbury Student Imaginings of Educational Opportunities
Creators: name: Wilson, Marguerite Anne Fillion
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2016

description: Sudbury education, a progressive school model that originated in the 1970s United States, provides an example of how pedagogy can be reimagined toward radically empowering children. Sudbury schools project an idealistic vision of individual self-actualization, self-directed learning, and egalitarian democratic participation in an unstructured pedagogical environment. This article draws on ethnographic narratives of students who have experienced Sudbury education to trace a more complex and contradictory reality of Sudbury socialization. Focusing on the case study of Natalie, a lifelong Sudbury student who transitioned to public school at the age of 15, what emerges is a narrative of self and society imbued with neoliberal discourses of self-motivation, entrepreneurship, and individualistic notions of success, punctuated by brief structural critiques of public schooling. The overwhelmingly individualistic consequences of Natalie’s socialization, however, showcase the limits of Sudbury education to promote a collective sense of social responsibility.
description: Critical Education, Vol 7 No 6 (2016)
title: Study on the presence and perception of coypu (Myocastor coypus Molina, 1782) in three areas of Lazio region (Italy)
Creators: name: Adriani, S.
name: Bonanni, M.
name: Amici, A.
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: eradication
subject: introduction
subject: invasive species
subject: Myocastor coypus
subject: public survey
subject: rodents

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv; 432; 49-50
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title: Development of a power supply for a diode-pumped CW laser
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Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2021
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description: The given work is devoted to one of the most important elements of laser installations operating mainly in the continuous mode, namely, the power source for the laser diode, laser diode arrays (matrices). The power supply has such functions as: temperature protection, overcurrent protection with adjustable threshold, analog and digital control, automatic voltage adjustment, soft start, etc. The work will describe the electrical circuits on the basis of which the power supply is assembled, and the practical results obtained will be presented. And also the areas of application of this power supply are considered.
Merging the multi-measurement approach to Breathomics
Creators: name: Bryant, Luke
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) found in exhaled breath (EB) have the potential to transform the diagnosis of a range of diseases, notably cardiovascular diseases such as asthma, lung cancer, pneumonia and heart failure by providing a rapid, non-invasive and repeatable sampling methodology. The use of near patient techniques which could provide data in near real time, such as proton transfer reaction – time of flight – mass spectrometry (PTR-ToF-MS offers the ability to gain an insight into human metabolism. Challenges such as a lack of standardised data processing methodologies and a lack of clinically relevant studies have restricted the uptake of EB analysis in routine clinical care.This thesis describes a novel methodology for handling real time mass spectrometry data, leveraging the information gained from the direct sampling methods possible mass spectrometry techniques such as PTR-ToF-MS. The method described demonstrates a substantial increase in the ability to accurately predict groups of individuals in a statistical model of participants based upon their smoking history. This thesis also describes the integration of EB analysis using PTR-ToF-MS into a large clinical study with the recruitment of over 300 participants, which is uncommon in the breath analysis literature. The use of a large-scale study revealed challenges in multiclass, such as the shortfalls in using identifying individual VOCs which have sufficient discriminatory power to be of clinical interest. Finally, this thesis describes the use of EB analysis in cutting edge clinical research, with two major clinical trials investigating improvements in patient care. The outcomes from the two clinical trials demonstrate that overall breath patterns can discriminate between groups of individuals with clinical relevance but falls short of accurately identifying chemical features which significantly discriminate between groups. Despite challenges noted throughout this these, the use of PTR-ToF-MS as a method for the analysis of EB still holds potential for future research.
Worldlessness and Wordlessness: How Might We Talk about Teacher Education in a Fractured World?
Creators: name: Panayotidis, E. Lisa
name: Towers, Jo
name: Lund, Darren E.
name: Smits, Hans
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2016

description: In this polyvocal article, four teacher educators evoke Arendt’s notion of world alienation or worldlessness: a fracturing not only of the spaces that allow action in concert with one another, and a more generous recognition of plurality, but also wordlessness, the experience of a flood of meaningless words and constructions that serve to cover up possibilities for understanding. The authors reflect collectively and separately on neoliberal influences on faculties of education, and of experiencing a loss of language that might allow for deeper understandings of humanity in our academic institutions. These collective reflections about teacher education highlight the stories and discussions of experiencing worldlessness, and facing the challenge of narrating more generously the meanings of our work.
description: Critical Education, Vol 7 No 7 (2016)
Der Barbar aus dem Norden
Creators: name: Amling, Christine
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Norden
subject: Skandinavien
subject: Nordenbilder
subject: Literaturwissenschaft
subject: Conan
subject: 839 Andere germanische Literaturen

description: Die Conan-Erzählungen von Robert E. Howard können als eindeutige Produkte der Populärkultur gelten. Sie sind Teil einer als Massenprodukt ausgelegten Heftreihe mit einer ökonomisch ausgerichteten Verkaufsstrategie. Unter diesem Gesichtspunkt stellt das Bild des Nordens, das Howard als Herkunftsort seines Protagonisten Conan entwirft, nichts weiter dar, als den Versuch, durch Rückgriff auf bekannte Schemata eine möglichst große Leserschaft ansprechen zu können: Der Norden in Howards Welt des Hyborian Age ist kalt und unwirtlich, bewohnt von blonden und zähen Hünen, die zivilisatorischer Ursprünglichkeit frönen. Die Andersartigkeit des Nordens und seiner Bewohner liefert zudem den Hintergrund für Conans speziellen Charakter.
description: Unarguably, Robert E. Howard's Conan-stories are products of popular culture. They are part of a pulp series that focuses on mass production and economic sales strategy. Taking this into account, it becomes obvious that Howard’s fictional space of the North as Conan's place of origin refers to known clichés and concepts in order to attract a large body of readers. The North in Howard's world of the Hyborian Age is cold and unfriendly, populated by blond and tough warriors who live under pre-civilized, barbaric conditions. The otherness of the North and its inhabitants serves as the background for Conan's special character.
Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy: Staking a Claim Against the Macrostructural Unconscious
Creators: name: McLaren, Peter
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2016

description: Critical pedagogy currently exists today as precariously as a shabby lean-to room added to a typical American hall-and-parlor house. I’m referring to the type of house that formed the basic English prototype for the classic American building we see everywhere in New England and on the East Coast. If the hall-and-parlor house represents education in the main, then we critical educators are as rare as hen’s teeth, shunted to the rear of the house, squatters huddled under a slanted roof, wearing fingerless gloves, clutching our tin cups of broth and spearing biscuits and dreaming of the day when we will become an official part of the architecture of democracy.
description: Critical Education, Vol 7 No 8 (2016)
title: Genetic variability of raccoon dogs and their impacts on the environment in Lithuania
Creators: name: Pūraitė, I.
name: Griciuvienė, L.
name: Paulauskas, A.
name: Sruoga, A.
name: Gedminas, V.
name: Butkauskas, D.
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: genetics
subject: impacts
subject: invasion
subject: Nyctereutes procyonoides
subject: RAPD
subject: raccoon dog

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv; 432; 51-52
Unten und im Norden
Creators: name: Schmidt, Andreas
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 839 Andere germanische Literaturen

description: Der Artikel untersucht die Rezeption altnordischer Motive im lyrischen Konzept der Black Metal-Band Helrunar, die sich stark von gängigen Rezeptionsformen im Metal-Spektrum unterscheidet. Altnordische Mythen werden bei Helrunar, als kulturell fundiertes Geflecht bestimmter metaphorischer Sprechweisen verstanden, zur Arbeitsfläche eines lyrisch-künstlerischen Programms. Anliegen des Dichters ist, aus Mythen entlehnte Sprachbilder über sich selbst den Rezipienten so weiter zu vermitteln, dass auch diese aktiv in Kommunikation mit dem Mythos treten können. Dafür sind wissenschaftlich geschulte Kompetenzen von Dichter und Rezipient für ein umfängliches Textverständnis notwendig, sodass die entsprechende Rezeptionsstrategie sich als »nordistisch« begreifen lässt.
description: The article analyses the reception of Old Norse motifs in the literary concept of the Black Metal band Helrunar, which differs greatly from the usual adaptations in Metal culture. Helrunar understand Old Norse myth as a culturally grounded net of metaphorical modes of speaking, the myths becoming the working ground of an artistic programme aimed at borrowing and re-arranging images from them, creating symbolic lyrics that are open to interpretation. The poet aims at conveying his lyrics to the recipients in a way that allows them to actively communicate with the myths and their images as well. In doing so, academic competences are required for both poet and recipient to fully understand the texts, making it possible to call Helrunar’s reception »scholarly« in nature.
Constraints from neutrino masses and muon (g-2) in the bilinear R-parity violating supersymmetric model
Creators: name: Hundi, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bilinear R-parity violating supersymmetric model is a viable model which can explain the smallness of neutrino masses and the mixing pattern in the lepton sector. In this model, there is a common set of parameters which determine the neutralino and chargino masses, also determine the neutrino masses and the anomalous magnetic moment of muon, $(g-2)_μ$. From the experimental data on neutrino masses and mixing angles, and also from the fact that the experimentally measured value of $(g-2)_μ$ differs from the corresponding standard model value by 3$σ$, we have analyzed some constraints on these model parameters. Constraints on these model parameters are obtained for some values of supersymmetry breaking soft parameters. These constraints can set upper and lower bounds on the chargino masses of this model.
description: 15 pages, 5 figure captions. Length of the paper has been reduced. Some figures are removed. Results and conclusions are unchanged. Added new references. This manuscript has been accepted by Physical Review D
Density Functional Theory of Inhomogeneous Liquids IV. Squared-gradient approximation and Classical Nucleation Theory
Creators: name: Lutsko, James F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Squared-Gradient approximation to the Modified-Core Van der Waals density functional theory model is developed. A simple, explicit expression for the SGA coefficient involving only the bulk equation of state and the interaction potential is given. The model is solved for planar interfaces and spherical clusters and is shown to be quantitatively accurate in comparisons to computer simulations. An approximate technique for solving the SGA based on piecewise-linear density profiles is introduced and is shown to give reasonable zeroth-order approximations to the numerical solution of the model. The piecewise-linear models of spherical clusters are shown to be a natural extension of Classical Nucleation Theory and serve to clarify some of the non-classical effects previously observed in liquid-vapor nucleation. Nucleation pathways are investigated using both constrained energy-minimization and steepest-descent techniques.
description: to appear in J. Chem. Phys
Das Make-Up des Narrativs
Creators: name: Grünewald, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Norden
subject: Skandinavien
subject: Nordenbilder
subject: Kriminalroman
subject: Literaturwissenschaft
subject: 839 Andere germanische Literaturen

description: Skandinavische Kriminalromane stellen derzeit auf dem deutschsprachigen Buchmarkt die einzigen Publikationen dar, die in einer homogenen und geographisch gefassten Kategorie präsentiert und vermarktet werden. Da mittlerweile davon auszugehen ist, dass diese Kategorie weniger inhaltlich begründet ist, sondern vielmehr künstlich erzeugt wurde, untersucht der Artikel die Marketinginstrumente Titelbild und Titel. Dabei verdeutlicht der Kontrast zu den Originalausgaben in den skandinavischen Ländern, welchen Transformationen die Produkte bei ihrer Übersetzung unterliegen. Die Fragen, welche textuellen und visuellen Komponenten bei der Gestaltung des deutschen Buchumschlags genutzt werden, um skandinavische Kriminalromane zu vermarkten, und wie dabei mit Stereotypen umgegangen wird, stehen im Mittelpunkt des Artikels.
description: On the German book market, Scandinavian crime novels are seemingly the only publications that are presented and marketed as a homogenous, geographically defined category. As it grows increasingly obvious that this category, rather than being constituted by its content, is produced artificially, this article analyses the marketing tools on the book jacket: title and cover picture. A contrastive stand towards the original Scandinavian versions reveals the essential transformations of the products during the translation process. The central questions asked in the article are which textual and visual components are used for the marketing of Scandinavian crime novels in German-speaking countries and how stereotypes are involved in this process.
The Corporate University: An E-interview by Emil Marmol with Dave Hill, Alpesh Maisuria, Anthony Nocella, and Michael Parenti
Creators: name: Marmol, Emil
name: Hill, Dave
name: Maisuria, Alpesh
name: Nocella, Anthony
name: Parenti, Michael
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2015

description: Since the neo-liberal turn, corporate investment in universities has accelerated as the withdrawal of government funding, among other factors, has further exposed universities to market forces. While this process offers numerous benefits for corporations and wealthy individuals, it has been mostly detrimental for students, educators, and the public at large. In this interview, international scholars Dave Hill, Alpesh Maisuria, Anthony Nocella, and Michael Parenti broadly explain why corporations have been aggressively investing in universities. They address the numerous ways that corporate involvement in university activity negatively impacts academic freedom, research outcomes, and the practice of democracy. The interview ends on a hopeful note by presenting examples of resistance against corporate influence. Their analyses focus primarily on the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada.
description: Critical Education, Vol 6 No 19 (2015)
Policy Networks in Mathematics: Educating for Corporations and Against People
Creators: name: Wolfmeyer, Mark
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2015

description: This article introduces 1) an extensive analysis of the messy, entangled web of the politics of math education and 2) a novel method for policy analysis. I have identified a policy network surrounding math education for America that presents the following interrelated interests: a national math education that develops human capital (the characteristics of productive workers), debates over traditional and reform pedagogy, agreement on a content knowledge deficit of math teachers, and a math education that fuels an education services sector. This article primarily describes the first of these trends, the notion that math education for America produces in people those intangible qualities usable by businesses.
description: Critical Education, Vol 6 No 20 (2015)
High Resolution Spectroscopy of the Planetary Nebulae PM1-242, PM1-318 and PM1-322
Creators: name: Miranda, L. F.
name: Vázquez, R.
name: Guerrero, M. A.
name: Pereira, C. B.
name: Iñiguez-Garín, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have recently confirmed the planetary nebula (PN)nature of PM1-242, PM1-318 and PM1-322. Here we present high-resolution long-slit spectra of these three PNe in order to analyze their internal kinematics and to investigate their physical structure. PM1-242 is a tilted ring and not an elliptical PN as suggested by direct images. The object is probably related to ring-like PNe and shows an unusual point-symmetric brightness distribution in the ring. PM1-318 is a pole-on elliptical PN, instead of a circular one as suggested by direct images. PM1-322 is spatially unresolved and its spectrum shows large differences between the forbidden lines and H$α$ profiles, with the latter showing a double-peaked profile and relatively extended wings (FWZI $\sim$ 325 km\,s$^{-1}$). These properties are found in other PNe that are suspected to host a symbiotic central star.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in PASA
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title: Image segmentation of road environment using neural networks in the task of autonomous driving
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Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
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neural network
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description: The object of the research is image segmentation algorithms. The aim of the work is to study and implement algorithms for the segmentation of images of the road situation in the problem of autonomous driving. The paper presents reviews of segmentation methods, data sets for road segmentation, metrics for assessing the quality of segmentation. The evaluation of the quality of model segmentation was carried out, the results were analyzed. Recommendations on the use of neural network methods of segmentation of road images are formulated.
title: Results of four years of digital urban monitoring of Rattus norvegicus with RatMap in Hamburg including data on infestation near the surface and in underground sewers
Creators: name: Plenge-Bönig, A.
name: Zickert, A.
name: Baumgardt, K.
name: Sammann, A.
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2011

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv; 432; 53
Education, State, and Market: Anatomy of Neoliberal Impact
Creators: name: Kumar, Ravi
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2015

description: The physical landscape has altered- in not only cities but also the countryside. In the vast open fields on two sides of the highways stand ugly looking buildings thrusting down our imagination the delicate story of a resurgent India. Malls, plush apartments, education institutions, and everything that could be put to sale surround us as consumers to buy the product. This is the new landscape- the cities, towns, once nondescript district headquarters- everywhere, the narrative of a homogenous world, a universalized idea of ‘market is the regulator and provider of everything’ can be seen. Those who argued for local/mini narratives and denounced the category of ‘universal’ are confronted with this new world order. A new narrative has become dominant – one that breeds unprecedented and starker inequality, thwarts the idea of social justice, and converts social concerns into marketable commodities.
description: Critical Education, Vol 6 No 21 (2015)
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title: Strength of the inner prestressed containment of the reactor buildings of nuclear power plants
Creators: name: Ð§ÐµÑÐµÐ½ÐºÐ¾Ð², ÐÐ²Ð°Ð½
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2019
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description: Ð ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐµ Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´ÑÑÐ°Ð²Ð»ÐµÐ½ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐµÑ Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÑÐ½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ Ð²Ð½ÑÑÑÐµÐ½Ð½ÐµÐ¹ Ð·Ð°ÑÐ¸ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´Ð½Ð°Ð¿ÑÑÐ¶ÐµÐ½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð¾Ð±Ð¾Ð»Ð¾ÑÐºÐ¸ Ð·Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐµÐ°ÐºÑÐ¾ÑÐ° ÐÐ­Ð¡ Ñ ÑÑÐµÑÐ¾Ð¼ ÐµÐ²ÑÐ¾Ð¿ÐµÐ¹ÑÐºÐ¸Ñ Ð¸ Ð°Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°Ð½ÑÐºÐ¸Ñ Ð½Ð¾ÑÐ¼Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð²Ð¾Ð². ÐÑÐ¾Ð²ÐµÐ´ÐµÐ½ Ð¾Ð±Ð·Ð¾Ñ ÑÑÑÐµÑÑÐ²ÑÑÑÐ¸Ñ ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÑÑÐºÑÐ¸Ð¹ Ð·Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ð¹ ÑÐµÐ°ÐºÑÐ¾ÑÐ¾Ð² Ð°ÑÐ¾Ð¼Ð½ÑÑ ÑÑÐ°Ð½ÑÐ¸Ð¹. ÐÑÐ¾Ð°Ð½Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ð·Ð¸ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¾ ÑÑÐ°Ð²Ð½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ ÑÐµÐ·ÑÐ»ÑÑÐ°ÑÐ¾Ð² ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÐµÑÐ½Ð¾-ÑÐ»ÐµÐ¼ÐµÐ½ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐµÑÐ° Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÑÐ½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ Ð¿Ð¾ Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÐµÐºÑÐ½ÑÐ¼ ÐºÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐ¸ÑÐ¼ ACI 359 Ð¸ EN-1992. ÐÑÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ°Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¾Ð´Ð¸ÐºÐ° ÑÐ°ÑÑÐµÑÐ° Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÑÐ½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ Ð¼Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÑ Ð±ÑÑÑ Ð¸ÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»ÑÐ·Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð° Ð¿ÑÐ¸ Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÐµÐºÑÐ¸ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ð¸ Ð½Ð° ÐµÐ²ÑÐ¾Ð¿ÐµÐ¹ÑÐºÐ¸Ñ Ð¿Ð»Ð¾ÑÐ°Ð´ÐºÐ°Ñ ÐÐ­Ð¡, Ð° ÑÐ°ÐºÐ¶Ðµ ÑÐ»ÑÐ¶Ð¸ÑÑ ÑÐµÐºÐ¾Ð¼ÐµÐ½Ð´Ð°ÑÐ¸ÑÐ¼Ð¸ Ð´Ð»Ñ ÑÐ¾Ð·Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ Ð½Ð¾ÑÐ¼Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð²Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð´Ð¾ÐºÑÐ¼ÐµÐ½ÑÐ°.
description: The paper presents the strength calculation of the inner containment of the NPP, taking into account European and American Codes. The review of existing structures of nuclear power plant reactor buildings is carried out. The comparison of the strength calculation results by finite element method according to the design criteria ACI 359 and EN-1992 were analyzed. The developed method of strength calculation can be used in the engineering design of European NPP, as well as serve as recommendations for the creation of a regulatory document.
Magnetic Non-Potentiality of Solar Active Regions and Peak X-Ray Flux of the Associated Flares
Creators: name: Tiwari, Sanjiv Kumar
name: Venkatakrishnan, P.
name: Gosain, Sanjay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Predicting the severity of the solar eruptive phenomena like flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) remains a great challenge despite concerted efforts for several decades. The advent of high quality vector magnetograms obtained from Hinode (SOT/SP) has increased the possibility of meeting this challenge. In particular, the Spatially Averaged Signed Shear Angle (SASSA) seems to be an unique parameter to quantify the non-potentiality of the active regions. We demonstrate the usefulness of SASSA for predicting the flare severity. For this purpose we present case studies of the evolution of magnetic non-potentiality using 115 vector magnetograms of four active regions namely ARs NOAA 10930, 10960, 10961 and 10963 during December 08-15, 2006, June 03-10, 2007, June 28-July 5, 2007 and July 10-17, 2007 respectively. The NOAA ARs 10930 and 10960 were very active and produced X and M class flares respectively, along with many smaller X-ray flares. On the other hand, the NOAA ARs 10961 and 10963 were relatively less active and produced only very small (mostly A and B-class) flares. For this study we have used a large number of high resolution vector magnetograms obtained from Hinode (SOT/SP). The analysis shows that the peak X-ray flux of the most intense solar flare emanating from the active regions depends on the magnitude of the SASSA at the time of the flare. This finding of the existence of a lower limit of SASSA for a given class of X-ray flare will be very useful for space weather forecasting. We have also studied another non-potentiality parameter called mean weighted shear angle (MWSA) of the vector magnetograms along with SASSA. We find that the MWSA does not show such distinction as the SASSA for upper limits of GOES X-Ray flux of solar flares, however both the quantities show similar trends during the evolution of all active regions studied.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Where is Citizenship Education in the Age of Common Core State Standards?
Creators: name: Knoester, Matthew
name: Parkison, Paul
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2015

description: There was a time in United States history when the central argument for investing in public education was to ensure that voters were sufficiently informed about the issues of the day to make wise decisions: education for self-governance. According to multiple sources, voter ignorance remains a serious concern and this may be a factor in why the political system in the United States is not more responsive to the needs and preferences of the electorate. Based on an analysis of political discourse and educational policy initiatives, this essay argues that democratic citizenship education has been sidelined by the focus on education for jobs and the economy and outlines what a serious focus on education for active democratic citizenship should entail.
description: Critical Education, Vol 6 No 22 (2015)
The cosmological bulk flow: consistency with $Λ$CDM and $z\approx 0$ constraints on $σ_8$ and $γ$
Creators: name: Nusser, Adi
name: Davis, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive estimates for the cosmological bulk flow from the SFI++ Tully-Fisher (TF) catalog. For a sphere of radius $40 \hmpc$ centered on the MW, we derive a bulk flow of $333 \pm 38\kms $ towards Galactic $ (l,b)=(276^\circ,14^\circ)$ within a $3^\circ$ $1σ$ error. Within a $ 100\hmpc$ we get $ 257\pm 44\kms$ towards $(l,b)=(279^\circ, 10^\circ)$ within a $6^\circ$ error. These directions are at a $40^\circ$ with the Supergalactic plane, close to the apex of the motion of the Local Group of galaxies after the Virgocentric infall correction. Our findings are consistent with the $Λ$CDM model with the latest WMAP best fit cosmological parameters. But the bulk flow allows independent constraints. For WMAP inferred Hubble parameter $h=0.71$ and baryonic mean density parameter $Ω_b=0.0449$, the constraint from the bulk flow on the matter density $Ω_m$, the normalization of the density fluctuations, $σ_8$, and the growth index, $γ$, can be expressed as $σ_8Ω_m^{γ-0.55}(Ω_m/0.266)^{0.28}=0.86\pm 0.11$ (for $Ω_m\approx 0.266$). Fixing $σ_8=0.8$ and $Ω_m=0.266$ as favored by WMAP, we get $γ=0.495\pm 0.096$. The constraint derived here rules out popular DGP models at more than the 99% confidence level. Our results are based on a method termed \ace\ (All Space Constrained Estimate) which reconstructs the bulk flow from an all space three dimensional peculiar velocity field constrained to match the TF measurements. At large distances \ace\ generates a robust bulk flow from the SFI++ that is insensitive to the assumed prior. For comparison, a standard straightforward maximum likelihood estimate leads to very similar results.
description: Two added figures. Emphasizes the robustness of the new method, ASCE, to the choice of the prior. Emphasizes the agreement of ASCE with the standard Maximum Likelihood Estimate. Elaborates on other results in the literature
The Paw Project: Animals and Critical Education in the Public Sphere
Creators: name: Dolby, Nadine
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2015

description: The practice of cat declawing is intertwined with how both veterinarians and the public are educated and socialized to make sense of animals and the relationship between humans and animals. In this article, I review the history of the veterinary profession, its intrinsic “hidden curriculum,” and how it has intersected with three different ways of valuing animals through the lenses of animal health, animal welfare and animal rights. In recent years, successful critical public education efforts are changing the way that people think about animals and their use (and abuse) for human ends. I describe the history of cat declawing and how The Paw Project is reshaping the public conversation around this controversial practice. In conclusion, I examine how The Paw Project can be understood as an important critical education project in the public sphere.
description: Critical Education, Vol 6 No 23 (2015)
Orthogonal simple component analysis: A new, exploratory approach
Creators: name: Anaya-Izquierdo, Karim
name: Critchley, Frank
name: Vines, Karen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Combining principles with pragmatism, a new approach and accompanying algorithm are presented to a longstanding problem in applied statistics: the interpretation of principal components. Following Rousson and Gasser [53 (2004) 539--555] @p250pt@ the ultimate goal is not to propose a method that leads automatically to a unique solution, but rather to develop tools for assisting the user in his or her choice of an interpretable solution. Accordingly, our approach is essentially exploratory. Calling a vector 'simple' if it has small integer elements, it poses the open question: @p250pt@ What sets of simply interpretable orthogonal axes---if any---are angle-close to the principal components of interest? its answer being presented in summary form as an automated visual display of the solutions found, ordered in terms of overall measures of simplicity, accuracy and star quality, from which the user may choose. Here, 'star quality' refers to striking overall patterns in the sets of axes found, deserving to be especially drawn to the user's attention precisely because they have emerged from the data, rather than being imposed on it by (implicitly) adopting a model. Indeed, other things being equal, explicit models can be checked by seeing if their fits occur in our exploratory analysis, as we illustrate. Requiring orthogonality, attractive visualization and dimension reduction features of principal component analysis are retained.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOAS374 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Critical Border Praxis: Choosing the Path of Critical Border Dialogism
Creators: name: Cashman, Timothy G.
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2016

description: This work examines the intersection of place-based and border pedagogies, including the concepts of heteroglossia, meliorism, critical cosmopolitanism, nepantla, dialogic feminism, and pragmatic hope that form the basis of a new critical border dialogic. Critical border dialogic (Cashman, 2015, in press) resituates teachers, students, cultural workers, decision makers, policymakers, and the larger community. A critical border dialogic draws upon a critical pedagogy of place and border pedagogy. Gruenewald’s (2003) critical, place-based pedagogy influences assumptions, practices, and outcomes. Border pedagogy (Giroux, 2005), in turn, engages a critical pedagogy of place and involves a recognition and understanding of margins as affected by history, power, and difference. A critical border dialogic positions us, as educators, students, cultural workers, and members of the larger community, on the course to critical border praxis. Critical border praxis actively engages us as cross borders in a contemplation of historically and socially constructed limitations.
description: Critical Education, Vol 7 No 1 (2016)
The Evolution of Control: The Convergence of Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism in Performance Based Funding Policies
Creators: name: Letizia, Angelo
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2016

description: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how policymakers draw on both neoliberal and neoconservative elements to craft educational policies. When employed together, neoliberalism and neoconservatism can create a powerful mechanism for educational policymakers and others to drive educational change that is more market based. While separate, and even at times contradictory, it is important to understand how both of these theories work in conjunction with each other. I specifically examine performance based funding in the United States.  Performance based funding policies are state level policies which stipulate that public institutions of higher education must meet certain targets, such as producing a certain amount of degrees in a given year (McClendon & Hearn, 2013). Currently, 30 U.S. states employ a version of performance based funding. I specifically examined Tennessee because Tennessee is the national leader of performance based funding (Gorbunov, 2013).
description: Critical Education, Vol 7 No 2 (2016)
Examining differing notions of a ‘real’ education within Aboriginal communities
Creators: name: Louie, Dustin William
name: Scott, David
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2016

description: On a recent visit to an on-reserve school in western Canada several students and teachers told the lead author of this paper, who is Aboriginal, that it was ‘not a real school’. Noting that this is not the first time both authors have heard this sentiment expressed by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginals alike, they unpack this conversational fragment to show how it is implicated in some of the most difficult challenges educators and policy makers face in enhancing the lives of Aboriginal peoples and communities in contemporary times. Guided by a hermeneutic sensibility and Indigenous conceptions of time, the authors present three interpretive possibilities of what it might mean for an on-reserve school to be deemed less than real. As part of this process they trace the historically rooted assumptions and conditions that inform these differing perspectives. The authors then draw on the insights of several indigenous scholars to ‘reread’ key themes that emerged from this analysis with the hope that it might offer more productive and relational possibilities for thinking about and discussing educational futures for Aboriginal communities and peoples.
description: Critical Education, Vol 7 No 3 (2016)
Modelling contributing factors to heat trapping in carbon nanotube forests
Creators: name: Voon, Kevin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Thermal energy conversion promises readily available sources of clean, renewable energy through technologies such as thermionic or thermoelectric devices, which can enhance existing sources such as solar or co-generation. Such devices require sustained high temperature gradients between an electron emitter material and an electron collector, which presents challenges due to factors such as heat dissipation. Carbon nanotube (CNT) forests are a promising candidate for efficient thermal energy conversion due to the highly localized heating (“Heat Trap”) that occurs when they are spot heated by a focused light beam. Because of this, temperatures over 1700 °C and temperature gradients of 10 °C per micrometre are achievable with powers less than 50 W/cm², making CNT forests a promising material for low-cost, miniaturized thermal energy conversion. However, there is much mystery regarding the mechanisms underlying the Heat Trap, particularly anomalous effects such as temperature decay and recovery over a period of hours, and how they are connected to the complex, multiscale structure of the CNT forest. In order to maximize the potential of the Heat Trap, it is important to understand how these various internal interactions come together in assemblies of one-dimensional (1-D) nanoscale objects to produce and influence such phenomena. This thesis outlines the development of a semi-empirical computational model for simulating these 1-D nanomaterial systems, incorporating various models for near-field radiation and analogues to structural features in CNT forests such as defects and density variations. This model showed how the forest structure was a major contributor to the Heat Trap due to nanoscale effects such as near-field radiative energy exchange, which also showed that nanoengineering the structure through methods such as increased CNT density could improve heat retention and thermal conversion efficiency. In addition, simulations were able to explain the observed temperature decay and recovery, attributing it to slow diffusion of adsorbates such as oxygen. This process was non-destructive, a promising sign for long-term device stability. These results demonstrate the potential of the model as a framework for improving the effectiveness of thermal energy conversion and related applications, and for further study into thermal applications of general multiscale nanomaterial systems.
Reconstruction of the Fables: The Myth of Education for Democracy, Social Reconstruction and Education for Democratic Citizenship
Creators: name: Hawley, Todd S.
name: Hostetler, Andrew L.
name: Mooney, Evan
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2016

description: A central goal of social studies education is to prepare students for citizenship in a democracy. Further, trends in the social, political, and economic circumstances, currently and historically in American education and society broadly suggest that: 1) a need for change exists, 2) that change is possible and can be brought about through a reconsideration of social reconstructionist ideas and values, especially those espoused by George Counts, and 3) that social studies teachers and teacher educators can work toward this change through educational practices. In this paper, we argue for these three points through a critical discussion of a perpetuated myth of democratic education.
description: Critical Education, Vol 7 No 4 (2016)
A new proof of the Herman-Avila-Bochi formula for Lyapunov exponents of SL(2,R)-cocycles
Creators: name: Baraviera, Alexandre T.
name: Dias, Joao Lopes
name: Duarte, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the geometry of the action of SL(2,R) on the projective line in order to present a new and simpler proof of the Herman-Avila-Bochi formula. This formula gives the average Lyapunov exponent of a class of 1-families of SL(2,R)-cocycles.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures