cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fully Explorable Horned Particles Hiding Charge
Creators: name: Guendelman, Eduardo
name: Vasihoun, Mahary
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charge-hiding effect by a horned particle, which was studied for the case where gravity/gauge-field system is self-consistently interacting with a charged lightlike brane (LLB) as a matter source, is now studied for the case of a time like brane. From the demand that no surfaces of infinite coordinate time redshift (horizons) appear in the problem we are lead now to a completly explorable horned particle space for traveller that goes through the horned particle (as was the case for the LLB) but now also in addition to this, the horned region is fully visible to a static external observer. This requires negative surface energy density for the shell sitting at the throat. We study a gauge field subsystem which is of a special non-linear form containing a square-root of the Maxwell term and which previously has been shown to produce a QCD-like confining gauge field dynamics in flat space-time. The condition of finite energy of the system or asymptotic flatness on one side of the horned particle implies that the charged object sitting at the throat expels all the flux it produces into the other side of the horned particle, which turns out to be of a "tube-like" nature. An outside observer in the asymptotically flat universe detects, therefore, apparently neutral object. The hiding of the electric flux behind the tube-like region of a horned particle is the only possible way that a truly charged particle can still be of finite energy, in a theory that in flat space describes confinement. This points to the physical relevance of such solutions, even though there is the need of negative energy density at the throat of the horned particle, which can be of quantum mechanical origin.
description: The new version has been accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravity. Title changed to "Fully Explorable Horned Particles Hiding Charge". Horned Particles terminology is used now instead of "wormholes" to dscribe the solutions here. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1108.3735
The Japanese corporation and its management
Creators: name: Saba, Shoichi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: Economics

description: The concepts of capitalism and modern industry were introduced into Japan about 120 years ago following the restoration of the Meiji Emperor to power in 1868. Industry did begin developing rapidly after capitalism was introduced to Japan, and capitalism in Japan at that time was similar to Western capitalism at that time. Capitalist corporate owners invested capital and exploited laborers, with whom they had an antagonistic relationship. Many industries were dominated by monopolies, and the major corporate groupings, or zaibatsu, were much more powerful than they are today. Several fundamental aspects of the early Japanese capitalism were changed by reforms made by the United States during the period of occupation following World War II. These reforms ultimately led to a strikingly high level of economic and social equality in postwar Japan.
Technology Transfer with Moral Hazard
Creators: name: Choi, Jay Pil
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Economics

description: This paper develops an incomplete contract model of the licensing relationship that is susceptible to the moral hazard problem. The optimal contractual form of licensing derived in the model generates predictions that seem to be consistent with actual practice. For instance, the introduction of inputs that are not contractible and costly explains the prevalence of royalty contracts in the licensing relationship. Moreover, the model is able to relate the size of the royalty rate to the parameters that represent the environments under which the concerned parties operate. The framework also provides a rigorous evaluation of the recent debate on the issue of technology licensing and competitiveness in the global economy. In addition, the difficulty that the licensor faces in controlling the use of information in the development of related products in the future can explain the rationale for including grant-back clauses in licensing contracts. Finally, the model can be naturally extended to analyze the choice of a technology holder between direct investment and licensing in an attempt to serve a foreign market.
Gauss-Bonnet as effective cosmological constant
Creators: name: Zhao, Liu
name: Meng, Kun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is known that Gauss-Bonnet terms in higher dimensional gravity can produce an effective cosmological constant. We add extra examples to this picture by presenting explicitly two branches of accelerating vacuum solutions to the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravities with a bare cosmological constant in 5 and 6 dimensions. Both branches of solutions are of constant curvature and the effective cosmological constants are independent of the acceleration parameter. One branch (the "-" branch) of the solutions is well defined in the limit when the Gauss-Bonnet parameter approaches zero, in which case the effective cosmological constant becomes identical with the bare value, while the other (i.e. the "+") branch is singular in the same limit, and beyond this singular limit, the effective cosmological constant is inversely proportional to the Gauss-Bonnet parameter with a negative constant of proportionality when the bare value vanishes.
description: 8 pages
Measuring Development Prospects by Greening the National Accounts
Creators: name: Hamilton, Kirk
name: Hassan, Rashid
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics

description: Development of both the theory and practice of environmental accounting over the past decade and a half suggests that the policy rule for increasing social welfare is to maintain positive genuine saving. This paper argued that while better and more environment-friendly economic policy does not automatically follow from greener measures of income, analysis of genuine saving offers a more direct route to policy. First, the sign and magnitude of genuine saving provide a clear indicator of the extent to which social welfare is increasing, and whether the economy is on an unsustainable path. Second, the decomposition of genuine savings into its component parts permits relatively direct linkages to be established between saving and particular policy levers. Among the components of gross saving, the level of public (government) dissaving is typically the issue, which is directly amenable to alteration by fiscal policies. Policies linked to private saving tend to be more indirect, involving tax incentives, maintenance of positive real interest rates, and the depth and stability of the financial system. For many developing countries a focus on government dissaving is likely to be the most important issue. In extreme circumstances consuming wealth is the correct policy option, when the alternative is starvation. But this should serve as a clear signal that some of these countries are not only poor but are getting poorer.
Apiary: Easy-to-use Desktop Application Fault Containment on Commodity Operating Systems
Creators: name: Potter, Shaya
name: Nieh, Jason
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Computer science

description: Desktop computers are often compromised by the interaction of untrusted data and buggy software. To address this problem, we present Apiary, a system that provides transparent application fault containment while retaining the ease of use of a traditional integrated desktop environment. Apiary accomplishes this with three key mechanisms. It isolates applications in containers that integrate in a controlled manner at the display and file system. It introduces ephemeral containers that are quickly instantiated for single application execution and then removed, to prevent any exploit that occurs from persisting and to protect user privacy. It introduces the virtual layered file system to make instantiating containers fast and space efficient, and to make managing many containers no more complex than having a single traditional desktop. We have implemented Apiary on Linux without any application or operating system kernel changes. Our results from running real applications, known exploits, and a 24-person user study show that Apiary has modest performance overhead, is effective in limiting the damage from real vulnerabilities to enable quick recovery, and is as easy to use as a traditional desktop while improving desktop computer security and privacy.
Mass Insertion Formula for Chargino Contribution to ΔB = 1 Wilson Coefficients and its Application to CP Asymmetries of B \to Kπ
Creators: name: Endo, Motoi
name: Yoshinaga, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The comprehensive mass insertion formula of the b \to s \bar q q transitions was provided for the chargino contributions. The method clarifies physics behind the calculations of the supersymmetric contributions to FCNCs. The result was applied to the analysis of the difference of the CP asymmetries of the B \to Kπdecays. It is shown that the supersymmetry is not responsible for the discrepancy.
Hôtel Drouot networks 1941-1943
Creators: name: Fuchsgruber, Lukas
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::330 Wirtschaft
subject: Drouot
subject: auctions
subject: art market
subject: provenance research
subject: Provenienzforschung
subject: Kunstmarkt
subject: Auktion

description: Data on the cooperations between auctioneers and dealer-experts at the Hôtel Drouot October 1940 to July 1943. Source of the names and cooperations are the three volumes of "Les ventes de tableaux, aquarelles, gouaches, dessins, miniatures a l'Hôtel Drouot", which can be consulted online at https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/drouot These were transcribed, the data cleaned and refined with the INHA catalogue http://bibliotheque.inha.fr/ and the names in the dossiers of the auctioneers in Isabelle Rouge-Ducos "Le crieur et le marteau : Histoire des commissaires-priseurs de Paris (1801-1945)" (2013) p. 365ff. The file contains the cleaned and refined list of auctions and weighted edges for network visualizations. Also included is the first line of the registry entry from the source OCR.
Adaptive Anomaly Detection via Self-Calibration and Dynamic Updating
Creators: name: Cretu, Gabriela F.
name: Stavrou, Angelos
name: Locasto, Michael E.
name: Stolfo, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Computer science

description: The deployment and use of Anomaly Detection (AD) sensors often requires the intervention of a human expert to manually calibrate and optimize their performance. Depending on the site and the type of traffic it receives, the operators might have to provide recent and sanitized training data sets, the characteristics of expected traffic (i.e. outlier ratio), and exceptions or even expected future modifications of system's behavior. In this paper, we study the potential performance issues that stem from fully automating the AD sensors' day-to-day maintenance and calibration. Our goal is to remove the dependence on human operator using an unlabeled, and thus potentially dirty, sample of incoming traffic. To that end, we propose to enhance the training phase of AD sensors with a self-calibration phase, leading to the automatic determination of the optimal AD parameters. We show how this novel calibration phase can be employed in conjunction with previously proposed methods for training data sanitization resulting in a fully automated AD maintenance cycle. Our approach is completely agnostic to the underlying AD sensor algorithm. Furthermore, the self-calibration can be applied in an online fashion to ensure that the resulting AD models reflect changes in the system's behavior which would otherwise render the sensor's internal state inconsistent. We verify the validity of our approach through a series of experiments where we compare the manually obtained optimal parameters with the ones computed from the self-calibration phase. Modeling traffic from two different sources, the fully automated calibration shows a 7.08% reduction in detection rate and a 0.06% increase in false positives, in the worst case, when compared to the optimal selection of parameters. Finally, our adaptive models outperform the statically generated ones retaining the gains in performance from the sanitization process over time.
The perturbation theory of higher dimensional spacetimes a la Teukolsky
Creators: name: Godazgar, Mahdi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the possibility of deriving a decoupled equation in terms of Weyl tensor components for gravitational perturbations of the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini solution. We find a particular gauge invariant component of the Weyl tensor does decouple and argue that this corresponds to the vector modes of Ishibashi and Kodama. Also, we construct a Hertz potential map for solutions of the electromagnetic and gravitational perturbation equations of a higher dimensional Kundt background using the decoupled equation of Durkee and Reall. Motivated by recent work of Guica and Strominger, we use this to construct the asymptotic behaviour of metric perturbations of the near-horizon geometry of the 5d cohomogeneity-1 Myers-Perry black hole.
Topological minigap in quasi-one-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled semiconductor Majorana wires
Creators: name: Tewari, Sumanta
name: Stanescu, T. D.
name: Sau, J. D.
name: Sarma, S. Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The excitation gap above the Majorana fermion (MF) modes at the ends of 1D topological superconducting (TS) semiconductor wires scales with the bulk quasiparticle gap E_{qp}. This gap, also called minigap, facilitates experimental detection of the pristine TS state and MFs at experimentally accessible temperatures T << E_{qp}. Here we show that the linear scaling of minigap with E_{qp} can fail in quasi-1D wires with multiple confinement bands when the applied Zeeman field is greater than or equal to about half of the confinement-induced bandgap. TS states in such wires have an approximate chiral symmetry supporting multiple near zero energy modes at each end leading to a minigap which can effectively vanish. We show that the problem of small minigap in such wires can be resolved by forcing the system to break the approximate chirality symmetry externally with a second Zeeman field. Although experimental signatures such as zero bias peak from the wire ends is suppressed by the second Zeeman field above a critical value, such a field is required in some important parameter regimes of quasi-1D wires to isolate the topological physics of end state MFs. We also discuss the crucial difference of our minigap calculations from the previously reported minigap results appropriate for idealized spinless p-wave superconductors and explain why the clustering of fermionic subgap states around the zero energy Majorana end state with increasing chemical potential seen in the latter system does not apply to the experimental TS states in spin-orbit coupled nanowires.
description: Crucial difference of the present results with previously reported results for idealized spinless p-wave wires discussed (see conclusion); new references added; Title changed in response to Editor comment; new version as accepted in PRB
Developing novel therapeutics for excitotoxic neuronal death following stroke
Creators: name: Lai, Ted
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Ischemic stroke is a major cause of death and disability in developed countries, and a major economic burden in the world. The mechanisms mediating stroke damage are likely multifactorial, with N- methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) mediated excitotoxicity being an important factor. But NMDAR blockers are not clinically feasible due to their side effects and short therapeutic window. This doctoral dissertation discusses an ongoing effort to develop novel anti-excitotoxic therapeutics that can overcome these limitations. Our strategies are largely based on the premises that NR2A- subunit containing NMDARs (NR2ARs) are pro-survival whereas NR2B-subunit containing NMDARs (NR2BRs) are pro-death, and NR2BRs mediate neuronal death in large by activating a set of neuronal death signaling proteins. Specific Findings: 1, we investigated whether stimulation of NR2ARs by the NMDAR co- agonist glycine rather than blocking NR2BRs would confer a wider therapeutic time window in an in vivo rat model of focal and global ischemia. Because we stimulated neuronal survival rather than blocked neuronal death, our therapeutic remained efficacious up to 6 h post-ictus - a time point when many known death signaling proteins downstream of NR2BRs were already activated. 2, we studied the death-signaling pathway of SREBP1 (sterol response element binding protien 1), a transcription factor downstream of NR2BR, in an in vivo rat model of focal ischemia. In the ischemic brain, we found SREBP1 activation and nuclear translocation due to the ubiquitination and degradation of its inhibitory partner Insig1 (protein encoded by insulin signaling gene1). Notably, the new therapeutic peptide Indip (Insig1 degradation inhibiting peptide) prevented neuronal death when administered 1 h pre- and 2 h post-ictus. Because we targeted a death-signaling protein rather than all signaling proteins downstream of NMDARs, our treatment would have fewer side effects than NMDAR blockers. 3, we developed a novel method to selectively knockdown death-signaling proteins downstream of NR2BRs by means of ubiquitin-tagged peptides. Because interference peptides in the past were limited to disrupting protein-protein interactions and post-translational modifications, this opened a new avenue to develop therapeutics for excitotoxicity following stroke.
Fieldwork
Creators: name: Sørensen, Bent
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2013

description: This article examines some aspects of the phenomenon of popular fiction, using the terminology proposed by Pierre Bourdieu in his works on distinction and cultural production, including ‘position taking,’ ‘field,’ and ‘capital(s).’ After the theoretical groundwork is laid, the second half of the article analyzes specifically the case of popular postmodern author Paul Auster, with regards to the role of genre and dual readership/reading protocol inscribed in his fictions, the mechanisms of gatekeeping, consecration and position taking involved in the production of his place in the field of popular fiction (cf. Ken Gelder’s Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field, 2004), and the distinct American and European/Scandinavian markets for his books.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture, Vol. 7
A Synthesis of the Procedural and Declarative Styles of Interactive Theorem Proving
Creators: name: Wiedijk, Freek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.4.1, I.2.3, I.2.4

description: We propose a synthesis of the two proof styles of interactive theorem proving: the procedural style (where proofs are scripts of commands, like in Coq) and the declarative style (where proofs are texts in a controlled natural language, like in Isabelle/Isar). Our approach combines the advantages of the declarative style - the possibility to write formal proofs like normal mathematical text - and the procedural style - strong automation and help with shaping the proofs, including determining the statements of intermediate steps. Our approach is new, and differs significantly from the ways in which the procedural and declarative proof styles have been combined before in the Isabelle, Ssreflect and Matita systems. Our approach is generic and can be implemented on top of any procedural interactive theorem prover, regardless of its architecture and logical foundations. To show the viability of our proposed approach, we fully implemented it as a proof interface called miz3, on top of the HOL Light interactive theorem prover. The declarative language that this interface uses is a slight variant of the language of the Mizar system, and can be used for any interactive theorem prover regardless of its logical foundations. The miz3 interface allows easy access to the full set of tactics and formal libraries of HOL Light, and as such has "industrial strength". Our approach gives a way to automatically convert any procedural proof to a declarative counterpart, where the converted proof is similar in size to the original. As all declarative systems have essentially the same proof language, this gives a straightforward way to port proofs between interactive theorem provers.
Pure and Public, Popular and Personal
Creators: name: Eriksson, Birgit
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2013

description: In the article I reexamine the traditional aesthetical and political critiques of popular culture and reevaluate the social and communicative potential of bestselling cultural artifacts such as highly popular television series.

First, I sketch the alleged aesthetic and social problems of popular culture as described in the critical tradition originating in Kant and radicalized by Theodor Adorno regarding the cultural industry, and by Jürgen Habermas regarding the public sphere.

Second, I draw attention to the blind spots of this critical tradition: the distinctions of the pure aesthetic and the exclusions of the public sphere. I argue that the ideals of a pure aesthetic and a public sphere neglect issues that are crucial to the type of commonality at stake in popular cultural artifacts: personal issues, social conflicts, and what is pleasurable to the senses or has to do with emotions.

Third, I exemplify my argument by drawing on the case of the television series Borgen, produced by the public service broadcaster DR (the Danish Broadcasting Corporation) in 2010-13. I examine how Borgen’s combination of themes, discourses, and domains includes the viewers in ways that point towards a more pragmatic and inclusive understanding not only of bestselling popular culture but also of aesthetics and the public sphere.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture, Vol. 7
Frye and the Opposition between Popular Literature and Bestsellers
Creators: name: Graham, Brian Russell
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2013

description: Northrop Frye’s view of “bestseller” literature forms the focus of this article. The legacy of postmodernism entailed the demise of the division between high and low cultural products. However, this did not solve the problem concerning the value of a given work. Frye offers a different model. While Frye defends popular literature proper, he has general reservations about commercial bestsellers, and his choice of concepts represents an interesting contribution to the current discussion.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture, Vol. 7
Simple counterterms for asymptotically AdS spacetimes in Lovelock gravity
Creators: name: Yale, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although gravitational actions diverge in asymptotically AdS spacetimes, boundary counterterms can be added in order to cancel out those divergences; such counterterms are known in general to third order in the Riemann tensor for the Einstein-Hilbert action. Considering foliations of AdS with an $S^m \times H^{d-m}$ boundary, we discuss a simple algorithm which we use to generate counterterms up to sixth order in the Riemann tensor, for the Einstein-Hilbert, Gauss-Bonnet and third-order-Lovelock Lagrangians. We also comment on other theories such as $F(R)$ gravity.
description: 16 pages. v3: title and presentation updated to match published version. Explicit expressions for 4th-order Lovelock Lagrangians and Gibbons-Hawking terms can be found in v2
Genre-Hybridization – a Key to Hyper-Bestsellers?
Creators: name: Bergman, Kerstin
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2013

description: The majority of the novels that during the first decade of the 2000s became hyper-bestsellers share one thing in common: They tend to be genre-hybrids, mixing several different, often popular, fiction genres. This is true for Harry Potter, The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, and a number of other hyper-bestseller phenomena of recent years. The thesis of this article is that genre-hybridity is a fundamental feature that contributes to a novel’s success by causing it to attract a larger and more diverse audience, and in so doing makes it stand out from most “regular” bestsellers.

In this article, the concept of the hyper-bestseller is introduced and outlined, followed by a comparative analysis of the use of different fiction genres and sub-genres in two of the most successful hyper-bestsellers of recent times, both of which exhibit strong links with the crime fiction tradition: Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The two novels are found to share many genre-related features, in particular, their dynamic detective duos, feminist agendas, anti-authoritarian attitudes, political criticism, exoticism, and religious elements. A majority of the shared genre conventions are also found to enable a strong sense of reader identification with the detective characters.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture, Vol. 7
Higher-dimensional puncture initial data
Creators: name: Zilhão, Miguel
name: Ansorg, Marcus
name: Cardoso, Vitor
name: Gualtieri, Leonardo
name: Herdeiro, Carlos
name: Sperhake, Ulrich
name: Witek, Helvi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate puncture initial data, corresponding to single and binary black holes with linear momenta, which solve the constraint equations of D dimensional vacuum gravity. The data are generated by a modification of the pseudo-spectral code presented in arXiv:gr-qc/0404056 and made available as the TwoPunctures thorn inside the Cactus computational toolkit. As examples, we exhibit convergence plots, the violation of the Hamiltonian constraint as well as the initial data for D=4,5,6,7. These initial data are the starting point to perform high energy collisions of black holes in D dimensions.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures; corrected typos, added one Table and other minor changes. matches published version in PRD
Simulation study of the dual star permanent magnet synchronous machine using different modeling approaches with an open circuit fault
Creators: name: Amirouche, Elyazid
name: Ghedamsi, Kaci
name: Aouzellag, Djamal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Three mathematical models of a dual star permanent magnet synchronous machine (DSPMSM) are presented, one in the natural reference frame, and two others in a synchronously rotating d-q reference frame. In order to simplify the machine analysis, a proper transformation is needed to transform the time varying quantities of the machine into constant variables, many transformations are reported in the literature. In this paper, two transformations are selected and applied to a DSPMSM. The models are implemented and simulated using Matlab/Simulink environment, the simulation results are discussed, finally, the models behavior under an open circuit fault is analyzed and discussed.
I'm just glad I'm here: stakeholder perceptions from one school in a community undergoing demographic changes on the Alberta grasslands
Creators: name: Hamm, Lyle D.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2009

description: Bibliography: p. 264-282
description: This dissertation thesis describes a qualitative case study of one high school within a district in southern Alberta where increasing numbers of students from diverse cultural, racial, linguistic and socioeconomic backgrounds have entered the school system. Drawing from constructivism and critical theory, the researcher investigated the perceptions of the collective and inclusive leadership elements within the school as they addressed the needs of three stakeholders groups. These perceptions were drawn from three administrators, five teachers and four students through semi-structured interviews. Additional data were also gathered through an initial survey instrument, extensive field notes and school and community documents. Data were coded and categorized using a continuous process of analysis (Stewart, 2007). Dimmock and Walker's (1998, 2005) cross-cultural school focused model supported the researcher in the process of data analysis. Findings revealed that the participants were confronting many new challenges that had emerged in the increasingly diverse school context they were teaching and learning in. Five initial themes arose from the survey instrument and seven major themes emerged from the interview data. The seven major themes that emerged in the study were: (i) language and communication barriers; (ii) professional development and collaboration; (iii) curriculum and pacing in the classroom; (iv) societal influences on the school; (v) issues with equity; (vi) relationships among stakeholders; and, (vii) safe and caring school/community. The findings suggest that further action has to be taken in district schools to address and support the many stakeholders teaching, administrating and learning in the increasingly diverse educational settings. Administrators, teachers, and district leaders should become more proactive in confronting the issues and challenges that have been ushered in with the rapidly changing demographics affecting the community. Several recommendations are provided at the conclusion of the study for teachers, administrators, policy makers and university personnel.
Fiscal Policy and Workouts from Debt Crises: The Case of Indonesia's Domestic Debt
Creators: name: Azis, Iwan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics

description: Much of the discussion of the risks of sovereign debt crises has focused on the issue of currency risk (see Dodd and Spiegel, 2005). This has led to the recommendation that countries should borrow in their local currency. Yet in the drive to develop local markets, many countries are running up domestic debt burdens. Although domestic debt has the advantage over foreign debt that it is not subject to a currency mismatch, countries are still forced to use scarce budget resources to repay the debt, and if the debt gets overly large, a country can run the risk of a debt crisis. There are many reasons that some countries have begun to accumulate large domestic debt burdens including financing external debt buybacks, sterilizing capital inflows, or financing domestic programs. In Indonesia's case, a costly bailout of the banking system following the 1997 crisis left Indonesia saddled with a domestic debt burden.
From The Flame and the Flower to Fifty Shades of Grey
Creators: name: Nilson, Maria
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2013

description: E.L. James’s Fifty Shades trilogy has become a huge success and soldmillions of copies. The novels’ mix of romance and erotica has beendescribed as something new. Reading these books mainly as romance, Nilson focuses on how James uses well known and established romance traits from, for example, the so-called “bodice-ripper” novel and chick lit, in order to create a hybrid. These traits arevisible in both how James describes her protagonists and in howthe relationship between them is portrayed. Nilson argues that theFifty Shades trilogy is, rather than a new kind of romance, a compilation of well-established traits.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture, Vol. 7
Penetration without dependence: A network analysis of Japanese economic activity in the U.S.
Creators: name: Auster, Ellen R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: Economic activity between the U.S. and Japan has skyrocketed in the last decade, yet there is little cross-industry research exploring entry patterns of multiple forms of investment. This study explores the form and occurrence of new Japanese investment across the U.S. economy in 1984. In the first part of the paper, a conceptual scheme for classifying investments is developed and then compared to the results generated from an empirical classification using structural equivalence analysis. The second part of the paper predicts and maps where the three key forms, direct investment (DI), high resource investment linkages (HRIL's), and low resources investment linkages (LRIL's) predominate. The results show that LRIL's are found primarily in less predictable environments with rapidly changing technologies. HRIL's are found in stable environments with difficult barriers to entry. DIs are found in more accessible, profitable environments, often providing suppliers for Japanese companies already established in the U.S. Implications for theory and policy are highlighted.
Nuclear and Non-Ionizing Energy-loss of Electrons with Low and Relativistic Energies in Materials and Space Environment
Creators: name: Boschini, M. J.
name: Consolandi, C.
name: Gervasi, M.
name: Giani, S.
name: Grandi, D.
name: Ivanchenko, V.
name: Nieminem, P.
name: Pensotti, S.
name: Rancoita, P. G.
name: Tacconi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The treatment of the electron-nucleus interaction based on the Mott differential cross section was extended to account for effects due to screened Coulomb potentials, finite sizes and finite rest masses of nuclei for electrons above 200 keV and up to ultra high energies. This treatment allows one to determine both the total and differential cross sections, thus, subsequently to calculate the resulting nuclear and non-ionizing stopping powers. Above a few hundreds of MeV, neglecting the effect due to finite rest masses of recoil nuclei the stopping power and NIEL result to be largely underestimated; while, above a few tens of MeV the finite size of the nuclear target prevents a further large increase of stopping powers which approach almost constant values.
description: To appear on the Proceedings of the 13th ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics and Detectors for Physics Applications, Villa Olmo (Como, Italy), 3--7 October, 2011, to be published by World Scientific (Singapore)
EVA Park Therapy Manual 1: Noun Therapy
Creators: name: Devane, Niamh
name: Talbot, Richard
name: Marshall, Jane
name: Wilson, Stephanie
name: Woolf, Celia
Publisher: name: City, University of London
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420110
subject: Speech pathology

description: A therapy manual for delivering semantic feature analysis, a noun therapy, in the virtual world EVA Park. The manual was developed in 2016 for use in a research project funded by the Tavistock Trust for Aphasia. With thanks to Mary Boyle and Celia Woolf for permission to adapt the original therapy approaches.
Universidades Públicas Abiertas: Posibilidades y desafíos
Creators: name: Box, Celeste
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Presentación realizada por Celeste Box en el marco del panel "Hacia la Universidad Abierta en América Latina" de la edición 2018 de OpenCon LatAm. Las notas de la sesión en español pueden encontrarse en el siguiente link https://goo.gl/rH4Tso

This presentation was given by Celeste Box in the panel discussion "Towards an Open University in Latin America" at the 2018 edition of OpenCon LatAm. Spanish notes of the session can be found in the following link https://goo.gl/rH4Tso
Functional genomics reveals novel o-demethylases involved in the biosynthesis of codeine and morphine in opium poppy
Creators: name: Hagel, Jillian M.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2009

description: Bibliography: p. 170-193
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) produces a diverse array of bioactive benzylisoquinoline alkaloids and has emerged as a versatile model system to study plant alkaloid metabolism. The biosynthesis of morphine and related alkaloids in opium poppy occurs via a complex, multistep pathway beginning with the amino acid tyrosine. Corresponding genes encoding many of the enzymes involved in morphine biosynthesis have been isolated. However, molecular clones are not yet available for some enzymes, and enzyme activity accounting for two key O-demethylation steps leading from thebaine to morphine has yet to be detected. As part of a functional genomics platform aimed at isolating new genes, 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) metabolite profiling was used to characterize six varieties of opium poppy exhibiting altered alkaloid accumulation profiles. Aqueous and chloroform extracts of six different opium poppy cultivars were subjected to chemometric analysis. Principal component analysis of the 1H NMR spectra for latex extracts clearly distinguished two varieties, including a low-alkaloid variety "P" and a high-thebaine, low-morphine cultivar "T." Loading plots confirmed that morphinan alkaloids contributed predominantly to the variance in latex extracts. Relatively few differences were found in the levels of other metabolites, indicating that the variation was specific for alkaloid metabolism. This finding provided a rational basis for a microarray-based, comparative transcriptomics approach, wherein the transcriptome of T poppy stem was compared with those of high-morphine cultivars. This study led to the isolation of thebaine 6-O-demethylase (T6ODM) and codeine O-demethylase (CODM), which together represented the first identified 0-demethylases in the 2-oxoglutarate/Fe(II)-dependent dioxygenase family. It was shown that gene-specific silencing of T6ODM and CODM dramatically alters morphinan alkaloid profiles of opium poppy.
TCP over IEEE 802.11
Creators: name: Reddy, P. Chenna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: IEEE 802.11 is a widely used wireless LAN standard for medium access control. TCP is a prominent transport protocol originally designed for wired networks. TCP treats packet loss as congestion and reduces the data rate. In wireless networks packets are lost not only due to congestion but also due to various other reasons. Hence there is need for making TCP adaptable to wireless networks. Various parameters of TCP and IEEE 802.11 can be set to appropriate values to achieve optimum performance results. In this paper optimum values for various parameters of IEEE 802.11 are determined. Network simulator NS2 is used for simulation.
description: 11 pages
Epipleoneura Williamson 1915
Creators: name: Pessacq, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Protoneuridae
Epipleoneura

description: Epipleoneura Williamson, 1915
 Epipleoneura Williamson, 1915: 616 –620, 632–636 (new genus, generic definition based on venational characters. Type species: Epipleoneura lamina Williamson, 1915, by original designation). Rácenis 1960: 25–27 (history of the genus, list of species, discussion of conflictive species). Donnelly 1998: 115–116 (first record of the genus for Argentina). Pessacq 2008: 521, 523 (phylogenetic analysis of Protoneuridae, Epipleoneura recovered as monophyletic taxon, generic diagnosis and synapomorphies). Von Ellenrieder & Garrison 2008: 7, 28 (modification of key to genus from Pessacq 2008 after transferring a species to new genus Drepanoneura).  Garrison et al. 2010 : 342, 347, 352 (inclusion of genus in keys to males and females, generic characterization).
 Diagnosis. Male and female epiproct strongly developed, approximately a quarter the length of cercus or more in male, distinctly longer than wide in female, and segment 3 of genital ligula with postero-lateral projections, are unique of this genus. Also diagnostic is the combination of an angled frons; rounded postocular lobes; female posterior lobe of pronotum usually not smoothly convex and/or mesanepisternal plates modified; hind femur relatively long, reaching or surpassing anterior margin of S1 when folded against sterna; CuP&AA' absent; antenodal space 1 less than twice the length of 2; internal fold of genital ligula absent; paraproct well developed, not longer than S10 (Pessacq 2008; Garrison et al. 2010).
description: Published as part of Pessacq, Pablo, 2014, Synopsis of Epipleoneura (Zygoptera, Coenagrionidae, " Protoneuridae "), with emphasis on its Brazilian species, pp. 201-234 in Zootaxa 3872 (3) on page 203, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3872.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/230974
In the belly of the (blond) beast : Nietzsche's dietetic critique of philosophy
Creators: name: Hallet, Danielle Kara
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Nietzsche’s account of “life” and his deployment of the language of digestion and diet tend to receive little attention from contemporary philosophical commentators. Yet, he invoked both “life” and dietary-digestive language explicitly and frequently. A particular understanding of life came to prominence in Nietzsche’s writings of the 1880s, which coincided with his intensive reading of physiology and honing of the critical project of revaluating values. This thesis will seek to demonstrate the relevance of the dietary and digestive language that Nietzsche used in his critique of truth for life, and situate it amongst his reading of physiological literature. Nietzsche drew from the work of nineteenth-century physiologists like Michael Foster, Wilhelm Roux, and William Rolph for his understanding of healthy life. These theories, particularly in their focus on the behavior of protoplasm, privileged the ideas of assimilation and digestion in their conceptions of life. Digestion and diet provide Nietzsche with a vocabulary with which to criticize philosophy and outline the possibility of a healthier form of philosophy that would better serve what he, along with many of his peers, saw as a degenerating modern humanity. His engagement with nineteenth-century physiology and concerns about degeneration place Nietzsche firmly in the intellectual context of his day, rendering his critique of truth an “untimely” project executed with the use of “timely” resources. The methodological framework informing the approach on offer here is indebted to Science Studies, and the meta-argument of this paper is that if we wish to understand Nietzsche’s critique of truth in his own terms, we cannot afford to ignore the language in which he articulated it.
Advancing the WHO-INTEGRATE Framework as a Tool for Evidence-Informed, Deliberative Decision-Making Processes: Exploring the Views of Developers and Users of WHO Guidelines
Creators: name: Stratil, Jan M.
name: Osuret, Jimmy
name: Monroe, Aline A.
name: Scheel, Inger B.
name: Wildner, Manfred
name: Rehfuess, Eva A.
name: de Rezende, Carlos E. Menezes
name: Setty, Karen E.
name: Paudel, Deepak
Publisher: name: Maad Rayan Publishing Company
Year: 2020

description:
BACKGROUND: Decision-making on matters of public health and health policy is a deeply value-laden process. The World Health Organization (WHO)-INTEGRATE framework was proposed as a new evidence-to-decision (EtD) framework to support guideline development from a complexity perspective, notably in relation to public health and health system interventions, and with a foundation in WHO norms and values. This study was conducted as part of the development of the framework to assess its comprehensiveness and usefulness for public health and health policy decision-making. METHODS: We conducted a qualitative study comprising nine key informant interviews (KIIs) with experts involved in WHO guideline development and four focus group discussions (FGDs) with a total of forty health decision-makers from Brazil, Germany, Nepal and Uganda. Transcripts were analyzed using MAXQDA12 and qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: Most key informants and participants in the FGDs appreciated the framework for its relevance to real-world decision-making on four widely differing health topics. They praised its broad perspective and comprehensiveness with respect to new or expanded criteria, notably regarding societal implications, equity considerations, and acceptability. Some guideline developers questioned the value of the framework beyond current practice and were concerned with the complexity of applying such a broad range of criteria in guideline development processes. Participants made concrete suggestions for improving the wording and definitions of criteria as well as their grouping, for covering missing aspects, and for addressing overlap between criteria. CONCLUSION: The framework was well-received by health decision-makers as well as the developers of WHO guidelines and appears to capture all relevant considerations discussed in four distinct real-world decision processes that took place on four different continents. Guidance is needed on how to apply the framework in guideline processes that are both transparent and participatory. A set of suggestions for improvement provides a valuable starting point for advancing the framework towards version 2.0.
Iphiaulax melanarius
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Iphiaulax
Iphiaulax melanarius

description: Iphiaulax melanarius (W ALKER, 1871)
Bracon melanarius WALKER, 1871: INNES BEY 1911: 108 (Tadjoura, cat. Lord Collection).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Tadjoura.
Bracon melanarius is known from the Afrotropical (Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan) and Palaearctic (Egypt) regions. WALKER (1871a: 4) recorded Bracon melanarius from Eritrea and Sudan and hence the record from Djibouti is doubtful. BRUES (1926: 334), FAHRINGER (1935: 631-32) and SHENEFELT (1978: 1780) also did not list Djibouti under distribution.
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, pp. 907-967 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 910, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3776452