cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The FTA’s Energy Provisions and Canada’s Oil Export Options
Creators: name: Kuzik, Michael
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: History--Canadian
subject: History--Military
subject: The Canada- United States North American Free Trade Agreement

description: The 1989 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement includes an energy chapter that spelt the end of arbitrary state intervention in Canada's oil industry and established a new course for Canadian-U.S. oil- trade. The FTA's energy provisions helped created an atmosphere of collaboration between government and the oil industry, while paving the way to a free trade agreement. Ottawa did give up some policy-making powers, but less than what critics contend. One of the main objectives of the energy chapter was to remove government from the day to day activities in Canada's oil industry. The oil sector itself, the thousands of companies involved in this important economic sector, are largely unaffected by its provisions. However, too much has been made of the constraints imposed on government, and not enough attention focused on the business atmosphere it fostered and the positive legacy it has created.
Differential deposition applied to x-ray mirror substrate
Creators: name: Bras, Patrice
name: Labouré, Sylvain
name: Vivo, Amparo
name: Perrin, François
name: Morawe, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The process of differential deposition is currently applied at the ESRF in order to correct figure errors of x-ray optics substrates, prior to multilayer deposition. The substrate is moved at a controlled speed in front of a sputtering source to precisely control the deposition profile. This work will describe the concept of differential deposition at the ESRF as well as recent results of its implementation to correct a real mirror substrate surface. Finally, initial studies using a synchrotron beamline characterization technique based on x-ray total reflection are presented.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures, SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics 2023, Prague
Modulation of hypothalamic synapses by stress: variations on a theme of retrograde signalling
Creators: name: Wamsteeker, Jaclyn
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Hypothalamus
subject: stress
subject: synapse

description: Physiological or psychological stress challenges recruit an evolutionarily hardwired endocrine stress response resulting in surges of glucocorticoids (GCs) into the blood. This adaptive response is orchestrated by a cluster of parvocellular neuroendocrine cells (PNCs) located in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN). Homeostatic control of stress responses is determined by a) GC feedback and b) synaptic connections from brain stress-circuits to PNCs. This is obligatory for survival, and yet PNC responses are also extremely plastic over the course of life. What cellular and synaptic mechanisms could mediate such learning and memory is largely unknown. Here, I tested a hypothesis that PNCs exhibit a capacity for autoregulatory control over information carried by incoming GABA and glutamate synapses. Furthermore, I hypothesized that adaptive stress responses could be achieved through dynamic regulation of this/these mechanisms by a history of stress/GC exposure. Using electrophysiological recordings from rodent PNCs, I found that increases in PNC activity caused suppression of both GABA/glutamate neurotransmitter release. First, brief bouts of PNC activity liberated endocannabinoids (eCBs) that acted as retrograde signals to transiently suppress neurotransmitter release. In further exploring this mechanism, I found that stress/GCs acutely potentiated signalling, while accumulations of predictable or novel stress challenges over time led to bimodal shifts in CB1 receptor (CB1R) function at presynaptic terminals. Under these circumstances I found that CB1R function is regulated by presynaptic activity state, reflecting stressor valence-dependent shifts in stress-circuit activity. I next found that sustained periods of synaptic and PNC activation caused persistent suppression of GABA/glutamate release through somatodendritic release and retrograde actions of opioids. Here, acute stressor exposure, through PNC GC receptor activation, was a metaplastic switch that was necessary for opioid release. Lastly, I investigated a transgenic approach that can be used in future studies to test the role of discrete cellular mechanisms in PNC neurons in vivo. Together the data in this thesis provide comprehensive evidence for how adaptive and homeostatic control over PNC activity during stress challenges may be mediated by embedded eCB and opioid circuit breaker mechanisms.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO QUANTIFY THE ARABIC LANGUAGE? A FUTURE VIEW OF COMPUTERIZING LANGUAGE WRITING AND PRONOUNCING
Creators: name: HAITHM ZINHOM
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Quantification, Arabic, Al-Farahidi, Dictionary, Prosody

description: Abstract
This paper explores the foundations of quantifying the Arabic language laid by Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad Al-Farahidi (d. 175 AH) through his seminal works on the dictionary Al-Ayn and establishing the science of Arabic prosody. Using an inductive, comparative methodology, the paper analyzes Al-Farahidi's techniques to uncover his principles of quantification focused on achieving stability, objectivity, generalization, analogy, and accurate measurability. Al-Farahidi pioneered the systematic classification of Arabic lexicon based on the number of root letters and mathematical permutations. His dictionary covered all possible Arabic words systematically derived from two to five root letters. He also devised a formal prosodic system rooted in the basic units of vowel motion and stillness to quantify Arabic poetry. Al-Farahidi set clear objectives, defined the subjects of quantification, categorized lexical and prosodic types, formed quantitative relational equations, and highlighted exceptions. He also employed logic, objectivity, and experiential evidence. The principles extracted from Al-Farahidi's quantitative methods can enrich Arabic language studies today and align them with modern scientific techniques. Investing in Al-Farahidi's methodology can enable progress in linguistics through computational techniques. The paper concludes that Al-Farahidi's founding techniques contain the blueprint for quantifying the qualitative dimensions of the Arabic language and transforming linguistic research.
“Popular” and “Highbrow” in the theatre. Cultural interaction and osmosis between the genres
Creators: name: Grammatas, Theodoros
Publisher: name: Antropologia e Teatro. Rivista di Studi
Year: 2013
Subjects: highbrow; popular theatre; western culture;

description: Abstract – IT Le categorie di “teatro popolare” e “teatro d'arte” si riferiscono a due ambiti culturali differenti, distinti non soltanto da caratteristiche estetiche di base, ma anche dai loro ruoli e dalle ricadute sociali. Ciascuno comporta specifici riferimenti e tecniche, contesti di spazio e di tempo deputati, strategie di comunicazione sia tra gli artisti, sia tra questi stessi e il pubblico. Ciononostante, malgrado la storica competizione tra cultura bassa e alta, il loro rapporto è sempre stato osmotico e complementare; reciproche influenze hanno costituito un equilibrio in perenne slittamento, nel teatro (e nella cultura) occidentale sin dalle origini rituali. L'autore presenta alcuni esempi, per convalidare tale approccio come prospettiva metodologica negli studi storiografici. Abstract – EN Categories such “popular” and “artistic” theatre refer to two different cultural fields, which are distinguished not only by their primary aesthetical features, but also by their social roles as well as consequences. Each one of them involves peculiar techniques and references, setting in space and time and strategies of communication, both among the artists and between them and the audience. Nevertheless, despite an historical competition involving low and highbrow culture, the relationship between these two fields is valued as osmotic and complementary; mutual influences have been constituing an ever-shifing balance in Western theatre (and culture) since its ritual origins. The author eventually exposes some examples in order to validate such approach as a methodologic perspective in Western historical Theatre Studies.
description: Antropologia e Teatro. Rivista di Studi, N. 4 (2013)
An agile framework for variability management in software product line engineering
Creators: name: Ghanam, Yaser
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Agile methods
subject: Software Product Line
subject: Variability

description: During the past few years, research in agile product line engineering has been gaining more popularity, driven by the much needed ability to combine the flexibility and high responsiveness of agile methods with the economic advantages of reuse and mass customization offered by software product lines. This dissertation presents a novel framework to manage variability in software product lines in an agile context. By leveraging agile practices such as iterative and incremental development, test-driven development, and refactoring, this dissertation shows that a reactive approach to variability management is indeed feasible. The findings of this research demonstrate that acceptance tests can play an important role in variability elicitation; but they may not be sufficient to deduce implicit constraints from requirements. This issue is addressed by using executable acceptance tests alongside feature models in order to uncover implicit constraints and hidden dependencies. The dissertation also discusses the role of executable acceptance tests in supporting the evolution of variability by providing instantaneous feedback on the impact of adding or removing features or variants. For requirements that cannot be adequately described using acceptance tests such as usability and portability requirements, the dissertation demonstrates how such requirements can be treated using a lightweight and reactive approach. At the implementation level, the results of this research show that realizing variability can occur in a reactive manner provided that proper refactoring and testing practices are followed. The results also illustrate how the process can be made more systematic by using tests as a common starting point to inject variability on-demand. The efficiency of the process can be improved by providing automated tool support. Once variability has been realized in the system, the dissertation discusses how individual products can be built using the derivation technique or the instantiation technique. Finally, the dissertation presents important findings on the issues and challenges likely to arise when adopting a new software product line framework in an industrial context. The findings reveal a number of technical challenges, but also bring to surface non-technical issues related to the business needs, the organizational context, and a raft of human factors.
Parallel-tempering cluster algorithm for computer simulations of critical phenomena
Creators: name: Bittner, Elmar
name: Janke, Wolfhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In finite-size scaling analyses of Monte Carlo simulations of second-order phase transitions one often needs an extended temperature range around the critical point. By combining the parallel tempering algorithm with cluster updates and an adaptive routine to find the temperature window of interest, we introduce a flexible and powerful method for systematic investigations of critical phenomena. As a result, we gain one to two orders of magnitude in the performance for 2D and 3D Ising models in comparison with the recently proposed Wang-Landau recursion for cluster algorithms based on the multibondic algorithm, which is already a great improvement over the standard multicanonical variant.
description: pages, 5 figures, and 2 tables
Crown and Community: The Coroner in Early Modern England, 1580-1630
Creators: name: Murray, Danielle Jean
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: History--Modern
subject: History--European
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: coroners
subject: England
subject: Crown
subject: almoner
subject: inquests
subject: deodand

description: The role coroners played in English state formation between 1580 and 1630 is examined by looking at their relationship in the peripheries with other officials and by looking at their interactions with the state through the central court systems. Coroners were liminal figures who answered directly to the crown while maintaining loyalties to the local communities where they were elected and lived. Their role as a key interlocutor for both the crown and the community meant that they often had to deal with conflicting interests. Other government officials and courts oversaw their duties in order to bring the uniformity of operation to the office that was necessary for state formation and required coroners to alter their duties in accordance with particular needs of the state. This control of their office by the state complicated the performance of their duties in cases where the state or its officials had divergent interests.
A Computational Model of Aneurysmal Flow at the Abdominal Aorta
Creators: name: Nobakht, Samaneh
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Biomedical
subject: Aneurysm
subject: CFD
subject: Wall Shear Stress

description: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm is a dilatation of the aortic artery that occurs in response to degradation of the wall structure. The present research focused on developing a realistic hemodynamic model of the aneurysm using a new method to assign boundary conditions. A three element Windkessel model was coupled to the 3D geometry model of the disease in order to couple inlet flow with outlet pressure. This model resulted in more precise hemodynamic conditions for pulsatile flow: 1- in terms of realistic wall pressure values and pressure curves, 2- realistic geometry effect. Contours of wall shear stress, mean wall shear stress, static pressure, and velocity streamlines were calculated and results were compared for two patients and an ideal geometry of the aneurysm. Finally maps of mean wall shear stress were produced to investigate relationship between values of the mean wall shear stress and histological profiling of aneurysm specimens obtained during surgery.
Exploring Syntactic Relations for Literature-based Discovery
Creators: name: Elsheikh, AbdAllah
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Science
subject: Education--Sciences
subject: Computer Science
subject: text mining
subject: Enhanced Dictionary-based NER
subject: Literature-based discovery

description: As the amounts of textual data generated by different economic, social, and scientific systems are increasing over time, having computerized systems that exploit the potential and valuable knowledge becomes a need. In our work, we propose a syntactic relation discovery system that explores potential relations between interesting domain entities and summarizes all valuable relations in a visualized and easy to understand network graph. This exploratory analysis should define research paths in different domains and guide researchers through more advanced inferential, predictive and causality analyses.
Generalized genetic association study with samples of related individuals
Creators: name: Feng, Zeny
name: Wong, William W. L.
name: Gao, Xin
name: Schenkel, Flavio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Genetic association study is an essential step to discover genetic factors that are associated with a complex trait of interest. In this paper we present a novel generalized quasi-likelihood score (GQLS) test that is suitable for a study with either a quantitative trait or a binary trait. We use a logistic regression model to link the phenotypic value of the trait to the distribution of allelic frequencies. In our model, the allele frequencies are treated as a response and the trait is treated as a covariate that allows us to leave the distribution of the trait values unspecified. Simulation studies indicate that our method is generally more powerful in comparison with the family-based association test (FBAT) and controls the type I error at the desired levels. We apply our method to analyze data on Holstein cattle for an estimated breeding value phenotype, and to analyze data from the Collaborative Study of the Genetics of Alcoholism for alcohol dependence. The results show a good portion of significant SNPs and regions consistent with previous reports in the literature, and also reveal new significant SNPs and regions that are associated with the complex trait of interest.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOAS465 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Lo studio della relazione attore-spettatore e i nuovi modelli cognitivi
Creators: name: Sofia, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Antropologia e Teatro. Rivista di Studi
Year: 2013
Subjects: attore; spettatore; neuroscienze; percezione; ricezione

description: Abstract – IT Lo studio della relazione attore-spettatore può essere oggi approfondita alla luce dei nuovi modelli cognitivi. Questi modelli, legati in diversi modi alle proposte di embodied mind e alla neurofenomenologia introdotta da Varela negli anni ’90, hanno operato tre cambiamenti di paradigma fondamentali per lo studio della relazione teatrale: 1. esiste una connessione diretta tra percezione e azione; 2. la coscienza non è il risultato del lavoro del solo cervello ma può essere descritta come processo circolare tra essere umano e ambiente; 3. la descrizione dei processi cognitivi necessita il superamento della dicotomia logica tra interno e esterno. Grazie a questi avanzamenti, lo studio della relazione attore-spettatore conquista dei nuovi concetti che ne raffinano l’analisi: l’intenzione dilatata, il body schema performativo, la co-costituzione dello spazio scenico, l’esperienza performativa dello spettatore. Abstract – EN The research on the actor-spectator relationship can achieve a higher precision thanks to the new cognitive models. Linked to the propositions of embodied mind and neurophenomenology, proposed by Varela in the 90s, this models propose some important paradigm’s shift: 1. a direct connection between perception and action has been showed; 2. consciousness is not the result of the brain alone but it is a circular process between human being and the world; 3. the description of the cognitive processes has to bypass of the logical dichotomy inner/outer. From the point of view of this advancements, the study of the actor-spectator relationship gains new concepts which improve the precision of the analysis: the dilated intension, the performative body schema, the co-constitution of the theatrical space, the spectator performative experience.
description: Antropologia e Teatro. Rivista di Studi, N. 4 (2013)
A holographic map of action onto entropy
Creators: name: Acosta, D.
name: de Cordoba, P. Fernandez
name: Isidro, J. M.
name: Santander, J. L. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a holographic correspondence between the action integral I describing the mechanics of a finite number of degrees of freedom in the bulk, and the entropy S of the boundary (a holographic screen) enclosing that same volume. The action integral must be measured in units of (i times) Planck's constant, while the entropy must be measured in units of Boltzmann's constant. In this way we are led to an intriguing relation between the second law of thermodynamics and the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics.
description: 12 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1107.1898
Bacterial diversity in geothermal environments with an emphasis on methanotrophs
Creators: name: Sharp, Christine
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Methanotroph
subject: hot springs
subject: Stable Isotope Probing
subject: Verrucomicrobia

description: This study determined environmental controls on the diversity of Archaea and Bacteria as well as the distribution, diversity and physiology of methanotrophs in geothermal environments. It is known that animal and plant diversity peaks at the tropics and decreases towards the poles, a trend often attributed to temperature differences with latitude. To test the impacts of temperature and pH on prokaryotic diversity, 16S rRNA gene pyrotag sequencing was used to assess the diversity of soil, sediment and biomat samples from geothermal areas in Canada and New Zealand, covering a temperature range of 7.5-99°C and a pH range of 1.8-9.0. Temperature was found to play an important role in determining microbial community diversity when considered over most of the temperature range within which life is possible. To investigate the presence and types of Verrucomicrobia in geothermal and acidic environments, the above geothermal data set and community analyses of additional acidic peats were investigated for putative methanotrophic 16S rRNA gene sequences. Methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia were found in geothermal environments below pH 5, but not in acidic peats. Based on soil depth profiles with varying temperatures, the analysis of different geothermal sites and a comparison of isolates there appear a thermophilic and a mesophilic group of methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia. A stable isotope probing (SIP) approach was used to identify methanotrophs in Canadian geothermal springs (pH range 6.34-8.68, temperature range 19.2-50°C). 16S rRNA gene sequences were analyzed following incubation with 13CH4 and separation of 13C-labelled DNA from unlabelled nucleic acids. 16S rRNA gene sequences from the 13C-labelled fractions from high temperature incubations showed a dominance of methanotrophic Alphaproteobacteria genera. Methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia have been shown to fix carbon autotrophically. As a result 13CH4-SIP will not detect verrucomicrobial methanotrophs. A modified SIP technique was developed based on labelling with 13CH4 and 13CO2. This protocol was validated using M. infernorum strain V4, which assimilated 13CO2 but not 13CH4. To specifically detect Verrucomicrobia methanotrophs a qPCR assay specific to the verrucomicrobial-pmoA genes was developed and used in combination with SIP. Testing this protocol on acidic geothermal soils demonstrated that the primary active methanotrophs were autotrophs and belonged to the Verrucomicrobia.
The Gap in the Fence: Austerity Cuts, Retrenchment and European Theatre’s Wake-Up Call
Creators: name: Freeman, John
Publisher: name: Antropologia e Teatro. Rivista di Studi
Year: 2013
Subjects: theatre; public funding; crisis; austerity

description: Abstract – ITA Com’è ampiamente risaputo, per le piccole-medie compagnie teatrali i tagli dovuti alla politica europea di austerità significano affrontare un futuro incerto. E questo proprio mentre l'età dell'oro del finanziamento pubblico si avvicina alla sua fine. Ma è stato aureo, di per sé, il teatro che questo finanziamento ha prodotto? E gli Europei, quando usano il termine “austerità”, fanno di un dramma una crisi? Questo articolo avanza la provocatoria ipotesi per la quale, con probabilità, se il sussidio da un lato sostiene il teatro, dall'alto ne sopprime l'innovazione e che, forse, il teatro funzioni al meglio come genere fuori dalla legge, libero dal controllo pubblico mascherato da sostegno. Abstract – EN As the world well knows, austerity cuts in Europe mean that small-to-medium theatre companies are facing an uncertain future, to the extent that the golden age of funding is coming to an end. But has the theatre this funding has produced been golden in itself? And are Europeans turning a drama into a crisis when they use the term “austerity”? This paper puts forward the provocative argument that subsidy is as likely to suppress innovative theatre as it is to support it and that, perhaps, theatre functions best as an outlaw genre, free from public control masquerading as support
description: Antropologia e Teatro. Rivista di Studi, N. 4 (2013)
Bunraku e Android-Human Theater. Un confronto tra scena tradizionale e contemporanea in Giappone
Creators: name: Toscano, Cinzia
Publisher: name: Antropologia e Teatro. Rivista di Studi
Year: 2013
Subjects: bunraku; android theater; Hirata Oriza

description: Abstract – IT Questo articolo affronta il tema del bunraku, forma classica del teatro delle marionette giapponese, esponendone brevemente la struttura e gli elementi costitutivi (musica per shamisen, narratore, manipolatore e marionetta). In particolar modo ci si è soffermati sulla componente visiva dello spettacolo, ossia sul rapporto che lega i manipolatori alla marionetta. Questa scelta è finalizzata a svolgere un confronto con il nascente teatro degli androidi, che in Giappone ha il suo primo esempio nelle opere del regista Hirata Oriza. Dal confronto si evidenzia una continuità tra queste due forme teatrali tanto lontane nel tempo, quanto vicine negli intenti: dar vita all’oggetto inanimato. Abstract – EN This article outlines bunraku, a classical form of Japanese puppet theatre, briefly focusing on the structure as well as on dramatic components (music for shamisen, chanter, puppeteers and puppet itself). More specifically, we concentrate on visual features of the play, or the relationship between puppeteers and puppet. The aim is to compare it with the rising android theatre, which in Japan is exemplified by Hirata Oriza's work. Such comparison enlightens a continuity between these two theatrical forms, which are as distant in time as close in the intentions: giving life to an inanimate object.
description: Antropologia e Teatro. Rivista di Studi, N. 4 (2013)
Stefano Casi, Angela Felice, Gerardo Guccini, a cura di, Pasolini e il teatro
Creators: name: Doi, Hideyuki
Publisher: name: Antropologia e Teatro. Rivista di Studi
Year: 2013
Subjects: Pasolini; teatro; Doi; Casi; Guccini; Felice

description: Antropologia e Teatro. Rivista di Studi, N. 4 (2013)
CP-violating CFT and trace anomaly
Creators: name: Nakayama, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is logically possible that the trace anomaly in four dimension includes the Hirzebruch-Pontryagin density in CP violating theories. Although the term vanishes at free conformal fixed points, we realize such a possibility in the holographic renormalization group and show that it is indeed possible. The Hirzebruch-Pontryagin term in the trace anomaly may serve as a barometer to understand how much CP is violated in conformal field theories.
description: 15 pages, v2: typos corrected, reference and comment added
Improving career/life services in K-12 schools: An investigation into a career interventions training program for pre-service teachers
Creators: name: Slomp, Mark
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Education--Guidance and Counseling
subject: career education
subject: Career counselling
subject: Curriculum and Instruction
subject: career guidance

description: The world of work in the twenty-first century is characterized by instability, insecurity and unpredictability (Robinson, 2011; Savickas, 2012). Thriving in such an environment requires a high level of self-awareness about sources of personal meaning (Robinson, 2011), the ability to adapt (Savickas & Porfeli, 2012), an understanding of factors that contribute to the construction of a fulfilling life (Baumeister, Vohs, Aaker, & Garbinsky, In Press), and the ability to examine the world of work critically (Malik, 2005). Currently, career services provided in Kindergarten-Grade 12 schools reflect traditional paradigms and models that emphasize stability, linearity, and predictability (Pryor & Bright, 2011) and do not adequately provide students the opportunity to develop such knowledge and competencies (Savickas, 2012). As a result, students report dissatisfaction with the career services received in K-12 schools (Campbell & Ungar, 2008; Johnson, Rochkind, Ott, & DuPont, 2010; Magnusson & Bernes, 2002). In 2009, members of the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge began offering a pilot project to pre-service teachers to address the lack of effective career support being provided to students in the K-12 educational system. The pilot project is designed to train pre-service teachers to infuse career interventions into regular curriculum. As such, pre-service teachers complete a course in career education as well as an internship wherein they integrate career interventions into regular curriculum in K-12 schools. My study (heavily based on interpretivism and critical theory) investigates whether the training provided through this pilot project effectively prepares students to flourish in the twenty-first century world of work. Through this investigation a number of strengths are identified such as the emphasis on the value of career indecision. A number of weaknesses are also identified such as the lack of emphasis on, and sensitivity towards, issues of social justice.
Claudio Tolcachir/Timbre4, Una trilogia del living, a cura di Silvia Mei
Creators: name: De Matteis, Stefano
Publisher: name: Antropologia e Teatro. Rivista di Studi
Year: 2013
Subjects: Mei; trilogia; Living Theatre; Tolcachir/Timbre4

description: Antropologia e Teatro. Rivista di Studi, N. 4 (2013)
Pict2Audio : Sound Generation by Hand-Drawn Images using Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Calandra, Joséphine
name: Hanna, Pierre
name: Legrand, Pierrick
name: Desainte-Catherine, Myriam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: interface ; composition ; neural networks ; images ; sound generation

description: The composition of electroacoustic music engenders another way of thinking, different from purely instrumental compositions. Using transformed, synthetic or artificial sounds created with computers as a tool leads to different reflections in the process of creation of music, in the modeling of sound and in the interaction between the tools and the composer or musician. Today, many sounds and music-edition software are developed by companies, such as Max / MSP and Ableton, or in Music Creation Centers such as Inscore and OSSIA/SCORE respectively at the GRAME and SCRIME laboratories. But although these programs offer a wide range of tools, they may not meet the composer's first need, which is the creation of music. Composers of the twentieth and twenty-first century, such as Iannis Xenakis, develop their own languages and their own tools to compose. Nevertheless, these tools may be specific to each composer and the problem of creating a universal tool facilitating musical creation for composers arises. In this purpose, we propose the first steps of development of a tool that aims to be universal. It should be customizable for each composers by the use of machine learning. The composer gives his own sound bank and his own graphic language that train separately two groups of neural networks, one for sounds and the other for pictures. This tool consists then on a drawing interface that translates new images drawn by the composer into sounds. This develops a new way of creating music. We propose here a proof of concept for this project, with one specific graphic language that we have determined to test our neural networks.
The jet-cloud interacting radio galaxy PKS B2152-699. I. Structures revealed in new deep radio and X-ray observations
Creators: name: Worrall, D. M.
name: Birkinshaw, M.
name: Young, A. J.
name: Momtahan, K.
name: Fosbury, R. A. E.
name: Morganti, R.
name: Tadhunter, C. N.
name: Kleijn, G. Verdoes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: PKS B2152-699 has radio power characteristic of sources that dominate radio feedback. We present new deep ATCA, Chandra and optical observations, and test the feedback model. We report the first high-resolution observations of the radio jet. The inner jet extends ~8.5 kpc towards an optical emission-line High Ionization Cloud (HIC) before taking a zig-zag path to an offset position. Jet X-ray synchrotron radiation is seen. The HIC is associated with 0.3 keV X-ray gas of anomalously low metallicity. On larger scales the radio galaxy displays all three X-ray features that together confirm supersonic expansion of the lobes into the external medium: gas cavities, inverse-Compton emission showing excess internal lobe pressure, and high-contrast arms of temperature above the ~1 keV ambient medium. The well-formed S lobe on the counterjet side is expanding with a Mach number 2.2-3. We estimate a cavity power ~3x10^43 ergs/s, which falls well below previously reported correlations with radio power. The total inferred time-averaged jet power, ~4x10^44 ergs/s, is dominated by the kinetic and thermal energy of shocked gas, and if used instead would bring the source into better agreement with the correlations. The S hotspot is the more complex, with a spiral polarization structure. Its bright peak emits synchrotron X-rays. The fainter N hotspot is particularly interesting, with X-rays offset in the direction of the incoming jet by ~1 arcsec relative to the radio peak. Here modest (delta ~ 6) relativistic beaming and a steep radio spectrum cause the jet to be X-ray bright through inverse-Compton scattering before it decelerates. With such beaming, a modest proton content or small departure from minimum energy in the jet will align estimates of the instantaneous and time-averaged jet power. The hotspots suggest acceleration of electrons to a maximum energy ~10^13 eV in the jet termination shocks.
description: Acccepted for publication in MNRAS. 17 pages, 19 figs. Some figures reduced in quality
EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS IN SEARCH AND RESCUE.pdf
Creators: name: Weldon, William Theodore
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Disaster and emergency management

description: A search and rescue (SAR) operation requires a rapid, accurate, and effective response to provide the missing person the best chance of being rescued. Personnel from the local area are likely to be closest to the location of the missing person, be familiar with the area, but they may not be adequately trained, experienced, or equipped with the best tools to effectively locate, identify, and retrieve the missing person. Thus, most SAR operations rely on a mix of trained personnel and volunteers. Among the trained personnel, there is a wide variance in proficiency, experience, and access to technology, leading to some emergency response agencies being better prepared than others. Volunteers, on the other hand, could be very helpful, but are largely untrained and inexperienced, reducing their inherent likelihood of success. The primary challenge to successful SAR operations is the lack of consistently trained, adequately equipped, and diversely experienced personnel. Despite the lack of desired resources, SAR operations must be completed rapidly and emergency responders often turn to volunteers. In response to this challenge, the use of unmanned aerial systems, UAS, in small volunteer teams was proposed. Available, off-the-shelf UAS technology can be used to simplify training with the help of affordable advanced technology, and thereby enable rapid, accurate, and effective SAR operations. The following research was executed in the form of three independent, but related, studies. The first study focused on the efficiency of a UAS-equipped SAR operation; the second study focused on the accuracy of a UAS and image analysis software-enabled SAR operation; and the third study tested the ability of novice volunteers to learn and apply the new technologies (UAS plus image analysis) efficiently and effectively. The goal of these studies was to determine whether affordable commercial, off-the-shelf technologies could be used to enhance the efficiency and effectivity of SAR operations. The experimental methodology used specifically designed simulations of SAR operational scenarios. Two operational tactics were tested: (a) Equip the SAR team with UAS and (b) equip the SAR team with UAS and image analysis software. The specific scenarios selected were similar in complexity, but different enough to minimize the transfer of learning from the first study to the second study. Finally, the reference times for manual SAR operations were compared against UAS and computerized image analysis software-assisted methods. The results of the proposed studies determined whether off-the-shelf UAS and image analysis technologies could be used to enable rapid, accurate, and effective SAR operations.
Orientifolds and the Refined Topological String
Creators: name: Aganagic, Mina
name: Schaeffer, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study refined topological string theory in the presence of orientifolds by counting second-quantized BPS states in M-theory. This leads us to propose a new integrality condition for both refined and unrefined topological strings when orientifolds are present. We define the SO(2N) refined Chern-Simons theory which computes refined open string amplitudes for branes wrapping Seifert three-manifolds. We use the SO(2N) refined Chern-Simons theory to compute new invariants of torus knots that generalize the Kauffman polynomials. At large N, the SO(2N) refined Chern-Simons theory on the three-sphere is dual to refined topological strings on an orientifold of the resolved conifold, generalizing the Gopakumar-Sinha-Vafa duality. Finally, we use the (2,0) theory to define and solve refined Chern-Simons theory for all ADE gauge groups.
Multiscale Turbulence Models Based on Convected Fluid Microstructure
Creators: name: Holm, Darryl D.
name: Tronci, Cesare
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Euler-Poincaré approach to complex fluids is used to derive multiscale equations for computationally modelling Euler flows as a basis for modelling turbulence. The model is based on a \emph{kinematic sweeping ansatz} (KSA) which assumes that the mean fluid flow serves as a Lagrangian frame of motion for the fluctuation dynamics. Thus, we regard the motion of a fluid parcel on the computationally resolvable length scales as a moving Lagrange coordinate for the fluctuating (zero-mean) motion of fluid parcels at the unresolved scales. Even in the simplest 2-scale version on which we concentrate here, the contributions of the fluctuating motion under the KSA to the mean motion yields a system of equations that extends known results and appears to be suitable for modelling nonlinear backscatter (energy transfer from smaller to larger scales) in turbulence using multiscale methods.
description: 1st version, comments welcome! 23 pages, no figures. In honor of Peter Constantin's 60th birthday
Estrategias de búsqueda y la infometría sobre los ODS3 en LILACS
Creators: name: Suga, Sueli Mitiko Yano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: revistas LILACS
editores LILACS
ODS3
Buenas prácticas editoriales

description: Presentación ministrada el 19/04/2023, en el webinario Cómo las revistas científicas contribuyen al logro de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, de la serie Buenas Prácticas en los Procesos Editoriales de Revistas Científicas para LILACS (2023). 📺 Grabación: https://youtu.be/FR2OJ1QZwL8 📑 Presentaciones: https://bit.ly/revistasLILACS2023
Sex, policies and payroll
Creators: name: Kirchen Abegg, Ladina
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In this thesis I examine the efficacy of the three major governmentally supported systems that address gender inequalities in the labour market in Canada, i.e. the pay equity system, the maternity and parental benefits system within the employment insurance system and the minimum wage system. I compare these systems to alternative concepts like a living wage and a basic income which are the most commonly discussed options for resolving gender inequalities in the labour market. I conclude that all the reviewed systems fail to provide women equal access on the labour market and that the main cause for this is their role as mothers. In order to stop this erosion of the labour market position I propose to encourage women to maximally engage in the labour market as early as possible after giving birth. An important step toward this goal might be achieved with a governmentally funded and regulated childcare service which is free of charge for everybody who is working.
Engineering Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling for cold atoms in a double tripod configuration
Creators: name: Juzeliunas, G.
name: Ruseckas, J.
name: Campbell, D. L.
name: Spielman, I. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study laser induced spin-orbit (SO) coupling in cold atom systems where lasers couple three internal states to a pair of excited states, in a double tripod topology. Proper choice of laser amplitudes and phases produces a Hamiltonian with a doubly degenerate ground state separated from the remaining "excited" eigenstates by gaps determined by the Rabi frequencies of the atom-light coupling. After eliminating the excited states with a Born- Oppenheimer approximation, the Hamiltonian of the remaining two states includes Dresselhaus (or equivalently Rashba) SO coupling. Unlike earlier proposals, here the SO coupled states are the two lowest energy "dressed" spin states and are thus immune to collisional relaxation. Finally, we discuss a specific implementation of our system using Raman transitions between different hyperfine states within the electronic ground state manifold of nuclear spin I = 3/2 alkali atoms.
Studies of Environmental Stress Cracking of High Density Polyethylene Liner in Alkaline Surfactant Polymer Enhanced Oil Recovery Floods
Creators: name: Li, Zhong
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science
subject: High density polyethylene
subject: Environmental stress cracking

description: Alkali surfactant polymer (ASP) flooding is an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) process that is used to increase the amount of crude oil that can be extracted from conventional oil reservoirs. With the increasing use of high density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes in EOR process, environmental stress cracking (ESC) poses a threat to the integrity of the pipe in ASP floods. In this research, the ESC behaviour of HDPE pipes was studied in ASP floods under conditions that simulated the EOR reality. Particularly, tensile tests were conducted on three types of materials, i.e., HDPE4710, HDPE3608 and polyethylene 100+ (PE100+), which have been soaked in ASP under various pressures and temperatures. Results demonstrate that HDPE can experience degradation upon ASP soaking, resulting in a reduction of elongation of the material, especially at elevated temperatures. Moreover, HDPE 4710 is more resistant to ASP soaking in terms of the stress-strain behavior, while 3608 is least resistant to ASP soaking. The resistance of HDPE to ESC was also investigated on pre-cracked specimen in ASP flood with various concentrations. Various analysis techniques, including differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), were used to characterize their ESC behaviour mechanistically. It was found that ASP floods concentration, applied stress level, ambient temperature and the mechanical characteristics of various HDPEs affects the ESC behaviour on the HDPEs. Furthermore, the water permeation property of HDPE 3608 was investigated by determining the water vapour transmission (WVT) rate at various temperatures and the specimen thicknesses. A model was developed to illustrate the parametric effects on the water permeating rate. It was found that WVT is quadratic function of ambient temperature and power function of film thickness. As a result of combination of three parameters, it can be found that ambient temperature is quadratic function to WVT and thickness is quadratic coefficient of temperature term. The modeling results are validated by the experimental data.
title: Прикладные минимаксные задачи
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2023

description: В учебном пособии рассматриваются приемы аппроксимации экономических данных с использованием метода наименьших квадратов и задачи П.Л. Чебышева. Предлагается метод оптимизации инвестиционного портфеля с использованием задачи равномерного распределения риска, дается аналитический, графический и прикладной инструментарий решения задач потребительского выбора и оптимизации прибыли предприятия. При решении применяются прикладные средства — электронная таблица MS Excel и пакет программ эконометрического анализа и прогнозирования Gretl. Подготовлено с учетом требований Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования. Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов направления подготовки «Прикладная информатика», изучающих дисциплины «Методы финансовых и коммерческих расчетов», «Математические методы в экономике», для студентов направления подготовки «Бизнес-информатика», изучающих дисциплину «Специальный курс 2.2». Издание будет полезно при подготовке курсовых работ по дисциплине «Основы функционального программирования» по направлениям подготовки «Прикладная информатика», «Бизнес-информатика», а также для научно-исследовательской работы магистрантов направления подготовки «Прикладная информатика».
Implementación de las metas del ODS-3 en el proceso editorial
Creators: name: Vazquez, Damián
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Editores LILACS
Revistas LILACS
ODS3
Buenas prácticas editoriales
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública

description: Presentación ministrada el 19/04/2023, en el webinario Cómo las revistas científicas contribuyen al logro de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, de la serie Buenas Prácticas en los Procesos Editoriales de Revistas Científicas para LILACS (2023). 📺 Grabación: https://youtu.be/FR2OJ1QZwL8 📑 Presentaciones: https://bit.ly/revistasLILACS2023