cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Study of the leaching of goethite and hematite.
Creators: name: Roach, Gerald Ian Dunstan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The direct dissolution of various samples of hematite and goethite in hydrochloric, sulphuric and perchloric acids using a particulate (-65, + 150 mesh) feed has been investigated. The reductive dissolution of hematite samples using acidified sulphur dioxide solutions was also investigated. Goethite and hematite leached by a common mechanism with comparable rates. The various shapes of leaching curves obtained for different hematite samples can be correlated with their grain size to particle size ratio. An increasing rate of dissolution was found for a large number of grains per particle, and an approximately constant rate was observed for particles containing relatively few grains per particle. The effect of acid concentration on the rate of dissolution for different acids has led to the modification of a previously proposed chemical mechanism dependent on the complexing power of the anion of the acid with iron. The increase in dissolution rate for a weak complexer was proportional to the acid concentration e.g. HCIO₄, and for a strong complexer, if was proportional to the acid concentration squared e.g. HCl. The rate of dissolution in the presence of sulphur dioxide was extremely rapid compared with the acid dissolution.
Personality features in university students : links between impulsivity, aggressiveness and psychopathic characteristics
Creators: name: Mizzi, RA
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Literature review Traditionally, aggressiveness and impulsivity have been defined, measured and predicted based on the overt behaviour that is often displayed by those who possess a high level of these characteristics. As such, this has led to a view of human nature as either impulsive, aggressive or neither. This paper explores current theories regarding the development of aggressiveness and impulsivity and their nature, and argues that impulsivity and aggressiveness can be conceptualised as personality characteristics that exist on a continuum, and that each and every individual possesses some level of both. This paper further examines the nature and development of psychopathy as a personality disorder, and posits that this cluster of interrelated but relatively independent facets is also dimensional in nature. Finally, the current paper examines the role of impulsivity and aggressiveness in psychopathy, and suggests directions for future research. Empirical study The present study investigated the role of impulsivity and aggressiveness in subclinical psychopathy within an undergraduate university sample. One hundred and fifty three participants (122 female, 28 male, 3 gender unidentified) completed self-report measures in the areas of impulsivity, aggressiveness and psychopathy. Correlation analysis and stepwise regression models were constructed in accordance with the aim of the study, which was to clarify the role of impulsivity and aggressiveness in psychopathic characteristics, and to determine the utility of self-report measures in psychopathy research. The results of the study supported the hypothesis predicting a positive relationship between impulsivity, aggressiveness and psychopathy scores, and that high levels of both impulsivity and aggression were a better predictor of psychopathy scores than either impulsivity or aggressiveness alone. Partial support was received for the hypotheses predicting differential relationships between components of impulsivity, aggressiveness and psychopathy. Specifically, impulsivity scores were found to significantly correlate with the erratic lifestyle scale. However, a significant negative relationship was not found between empathy scores and callous affect scores, contrary to predictions. Post hoe stepwise regression was undertaken to examine which, if any, aspects of impulsivity and aggressiveness were predictive of aspects of psychopathy. The results of the post hoe analysis were discussed with reference to current theories regarding the nature of psychopathy.
Semiring and semimodule issues in MV-algebras
Creators: name: Di Nola, Antonio
name: Russo, Ciro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 06D35, 16Y60

description: In this paper we propose a semiring-theoretic approach to MV-algebras based on the connection between such algebras and idempotent semirings - such an approach naturally imposing the introduction and study of a suitable corresponding class of semimodules, called MV-semimodules. We present several results addressed toward a semiring theory for MV-algebras. In particular we show a representation of MV-algebras as a subsemiring of the endomorphism semiring of a semilattice, the construction of the Grothendieck group of a semiring and its functorial nature, and the effect of Mundici categorical equivalence between MV-algebras and lattice-ordered Abelian groups with a distinguished strong order unit upon the relationship between MV-semimodules and semimodules over idempotent semifields.
description: This version contains some corrections to some results at the end of Section 7
Grampus griseus
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Cetacea
Delphinidae
Grampus
Grampus griseus

description: 106. Risso’s Dolphin, Grampus griseus (G. Cuvier, 1812)
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Status: Occasional; stranded dead to the south of Tartous coast (Ibrahim 2011a) (Fig. 115).
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
title: Stable Isotopes and the Ecology and Physiology of Reptiles
Creators: name: Durso, Andrew M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Animals trade-off limited resources among competing demands. Trade-offs are difficult to quantify because it is challenging to measure investment into disparate physiological systems using a common scale. Additionally, biologists desire methods to more precisely measure energy status in wild animals. I used stable isotopes to help solve both of these problems. I examined natural spatial and temporal variation in stable isotope signatures of wild lizards and found significant variation. In the lab, I was able to demonstrate the utility of nitrogen stable isotope ratios of uric acid pellets for measuring nutritional stress. By tracing labeled amino acids through the bodies of gravid female lizards, I demonstrated that vitellogenesis and wound healing compete for amino acids and quantified the direction and magnitude of the trade-offs. I showed that reproductive-immune trade-offs vary based on reproductive stage and energy availability, have effects on metabolism and immune function, and are influenced by hormonal mechanisms. My findings shed light on the interconnectedness of stable isotope endpoints and key physiological systems in animals. I showed that isotopic signatures of physiological stress can be reflected at a large scale in natural populations, and I made novel measurements of the size and direction of trade-offs, which were formerly limited to physiological and performance outcomes.
Handlungsfelder für die Digitalisierung des Handwerks in Südniedersachsen
Creators: name: Bizer, Kilian
name: Proeger, Till
name: Thonipara, Anita
Publisher: name: Göttingen : ifh, Volkswirtschaftliches Institut für Mittelstand und Handwerk an der Universität Göttingen
Year: 2020
Subjects: Digitalisierung
Digitalisierungsindex
Handwerk
Online-Marketing
Online-Plattformen
Struktur- und Potenzialanalyse Konjunktur

description: Aufgrund der gewichtigen Rolle von Handwerksbetrieben für die regionale Wirtschaftsleistung in Südniedersachsen spielt die Digitalisierung des Handwerks und damit dessen Innovations- und Leistungsfähigkeit eine wichtige Rolle für die regionale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Die Studie basiert auf mehreren empirischen Analysen über die Digitalisierung des Handwerks in Südniedersachen und Deutschland insgesamt und formuliert übergreifende Ergebnisse und Handlungsfelder. Diese definieren die zentralen Bereiche der unternehmenseigenen Digitalisierung sowie der Digitalisierungspolitik, die sich in den zu Grunde liegenden Untersuchungen zeigten. Die zentralen Bereiche sind: (1) Der Einstieg in Digitalisierungsprozesse, dessen Erfolg für den weiteren Verlauf von Digitalisierungsbemühungen entscheidend ist. Es ist dabei zwischen dem grundlegenden Einstieg bei bislang wenig bis nicht digitalisierten Betrieben und der gezielten Förderung bereits digital innovativer Betriebe zu unterscheiden, wobei jeweils unterschiedliche Formate, Zielrichtungen und Trägerinstitutionen erforderlich sind. (2) Das digitale Marketing als ein aktuell hochrelevanter Teilbereich der Digitalisierung, der einen niedrigschwelligen, leicht nachvollziehbaren Bereich darstellt, der dennoch weitere, darauf aufbauende Digitalisierungsschritte ermöglicht. (3) Die Digitalisierungs- beratung ist insbesondere bei den kleinen Betrieben des Handwerks entscheidend, da sie die größenbedingten Nachteile bei der Umsetzung von Digitalisierungsschritten kompen- sieren kann. Sie organisiert den Zugang zu Fördermitteln, die Kontakte zu regionalen Netz- werken und eine umfassende Begleitung des Betriebs und seiner Entwicklung. (4) Die Rolle der Mitarbeiterqualifikation sowie Aus- und Weiterbildung zeigt sich als eine weitere zentrale Erfolgsbedingung betrieblicher Digitalisierung im Handwerk. Geeignete Formate können das Bewusstsein für den digitalen Wandel der Berufsbilder fördern, Fähigkeiten vermitteln und ggf. branchenübergreifend und interdisziplinär den Wissenstransfer in die Betriebe fördern. Die aus den empirischen Ergebnissen des Forschungsprojekts abgeleiteten Handlungs- felder können somit als Grundlage für regionale Diskussionen zur weiteren Förderung der digitalen Transformation von Handwerksbetrieben und damit der Erhöhung der regionalen Innovationskraft und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit genutzt werden.
description: Göttinger Beiträge zur Handwerksforschung ; 45
Future planning, safety and crime prevention at Kingston's central business district
Creators: name: Moses, Andrew John
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This study explores the connection between urban design and criminal behaviour with the central aim of assessing the impact of this relationship on people's safety, security and use of a suburban central business district. The social construction of public space is analysed to demonstrate the profound implications that developments in consumerism and privatisation have on the use and development of public space. Environmental criminologies are critiqued, leading to discussions of the crime prevention paradigm with a particular focus on situational and environmental approaches. Themes from a comprehensive safety audit completed by a range of users of the target environment, in conjunction with a number of interviews, are discussed in light of the literature review and the theoretical framework of environmental crime prevention. As an intended redevelopment, the Kingston CBD provides a significant opportunity to critically assess current urban design characteristics, gauge public perceptions and provide grounded recommendations for improving the safety and amenity of this vital public space. An environmental design guideline for obtaining better crime prevention outcomes will be a practical aid for local authorities to integrate public safety in future developments through the creation of appropriate plalllling and urban design policies.
title: Lived Experience of Young Widowed Individuals
Creators: name: Jones, Eunicia
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Young widowhood is a unique experience that has received little in-depth attention in research and clinical settings. Their experiences may differ from other types of losses, particularly from losses that are typically expected to happen later in life. The present study treated the lived experiences of young men and women who have experiences the loss of a spouse. Eleven men and women between the ages of 18 and 49 were interviewed about their experiences post-loss using phenomenological methods. After coding for similarities and differences between the experiences, five themes emerged in all eleven interviews: (1) relationship, (2) first reactions, (3) resources, (4) concerns, and (5) age and gender. The results explored these themes in depth and provided insight into the grief process of young widows and widowers. Implications included the need for more accessible resources for young widowed individuals, such as therapeutic services, finances, and childcare. Implications are also provided for clinicians, individuals, couples, and families.
Additional file 1 of Superior protective effects of PGE2 priming mesenchymal stem cells against LPS-induced acute lung injury (ALI) through macrophage immunomodulation
Creators: name: Hezam, Kamal
name: Wang, Chen
name: Fu, Enze
name: Zhou, Manqian
name: Liu, Yue
name: Wang, Hui
name: Zhu, Lihong
name: Han, Zhibo
name: Han, Zhong-Chao
name: Chang, Ying
name: Li, Zongjin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. Complete details of antibodies. Table S2. Primers Used for Real-Time PCR. Fig. S1. Dose and time point effects of LPS-induced ALI in mouse models. Fig. S2. RNA-Seq analysis to assess the expression patterns of differentially expressed genes under different experimental conditions. Fig. S3. PGE2-MSCs regulate macrophage polarization and cytokine production. Fig. S4. Images of the uncropped immunoblots are shown in Fig. 7A.
Critical points and resonance of hyperplane arrangements
Creators: name: Cohen, D.
name: Denham, G.
name: Falk, M.
name: Varchenko, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32S22; 52C35, 55N35

description: If F is a master function corresponding to a hyperplane arrangement A and a collection of weights y, we investigate the relationship between the critical set of F, the variety defined by the vanishing of the one-form w = d log F, and the resonance of y. For arrangements satisfying certain conditions, we show that if y is resonant in dimension p, then the critical set of F has codimension at most p. These include all free arrangements and all rank 3 arrangements.
description: revised version, Canadian Journal of Mathematics, to appear
title: Peer-Implemented Script Fading to Promote Play-Based Statements in Children With Autism
Creators: name: Rosdahl, Jessie
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: In this study, we examined the effect of peer-implemented script fading procedures on the frequency of independent statements of play by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in a classroom setting. The target children included five 5-year-old individuals with ASD with the ability to speak in three- to five-word phrases but did not initiate play with peers. We trained typically developing peers, ages 5 to 6, on how to implement procedures, prompt correct responses, systematically fade scripts, and interact with the target children. We used a script-fading intervention, including auditory scripts that prompted initiation of play with peers. We conducted sessions in an open area of a classroom using a preferred toy set and two additional toy sets for generalization. Following training, we found that peers implemented procedures with fidelity and target participants showed an increase in independent statements of play, both scripted and unscripted.
title: Refugee and Employer Perceptions of the Effects of Capital on Refugee Employability in Utah
Creators: name: Fritz, Christian L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Refugees are once again a major topic of international politics, but one that also reaches down to the local level of even some small, rural American towns. This study pulled data from a qualitative, statewide refugee needs assessment in Utah, funded by the Department of Workforce Services, in order to explore the perceptions of both refugees and refugee employers concerning the variables affecting refugee employability. The data was framed using the concepts of social, cultural, human, and financial capital. In many cases, the refugees and employers perceived the same deficits and stores of capital as important, but there was some disconnect over institutionalized cultural capital, financial capital in the form of government assistance, and external embodied cultural capital. These findings will help increase the sociological knowledge base regarding refugee issues and will lead to future research that can dive deeper into some of the issues that were uncovered.
Studies of single doping of Mn and Fe in Si to deduce simple guidelines in selecting transition metal elements for growing Si-based spintronic materials
Creators: name: Shaughnessy, Michael
name: Fong, C. Y.
name: Snow, Ryan
name: Yang, L. H.
name: Chen, X. S.
name: Zhiang, Z. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single dopings of Mn and Fe in Si are investigated using 8-, 64-, and 216-atom supercells and a first-principles method based on density functional theory. Between the two transition metal elements (TMEs), atom sizes play an essential role in determining the contraction or the expansion of neighboring atoms around the TME dopant at a substitutional site. At a tetrahedral interstitial site, there is only expansion. Magnetic moments/TME at the two sites are calculated. Physical origins for these inter-related properties are discussed. A few suggestions about the growth of these Si-based alloys are given.
description: 5 figures
The charm quark mass from non-relativistic sum rules
Creators: name: Signer, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis to determine the charm quark mass from non-relativistic sum rules, using a combined approach taking into account fixed-order and effective-theory calculations. Non-perturbative corrections as well as higher-order perturbative corrections are under control. For the PS mass we find m_{PS}(0.7 GeV) = 1.50\pm 0.04 GeV, which translates into a MS-bar mass of m = 1.25\pm 0.04 GeV.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
Effect of Intrinsic Curvature on Semiflexible Polymers
Creators: name: Ghosh, Surya K.
name: Singh, Kulveer
name: Sain, Anirban
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently many important biopolymers have been found to possess intrinsic curvature. Tubulin protofilaments in animal cells, FtsZ filaments in bacteria and double stranded DNA are examples. We examine how intrinsic curvature influence the conformational statistics of such polymers. We give exact results for the tangent-tangent spatial correlation function C(r) = t(s).t(s + r), both in two and three dimensions. Contrary to expectation, C(r) does not show any oscillatory behavior, rather decays exponentially and the effective persistence length has strong length dependence for short polymers. We also compute the distribution function P(R) of the end to end distance R and show how curved chains can be distinguihed from WLC using loop formation probability.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
title: Expression and Iron Loading of Recombinant Ferritin Homopolymers
Creators: name: Guo, Jia-Hsin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: Ferritin is an iron storage protein consisting of H and L chains to form a 24-subunit heropolymer. Ceruloplamin oxidizes Fe(II) and then loads the iron into ferritin. This research was conducted to determine which ferritin subunit is involved and whether a proposed iron-loading channel is required for iron loading by ceruloplasmin.
Recombinant rat liver H and L chain ferritin homopolymers, designated as rH-Ft and rL-Ft, respectively, were produced using insect cell-baculovirus and Escherichia coli expression systems. The expressed rH-Ft strongly suppressed the growth of the host. The rH-Ft expressed in the E. coli contained approximately 150 iron atoms/ferritin and was observed to have protein damage, which was found to affect iron-loading by ceruloplasmin. The ferritin expressed in the E. coli system apparently was not proper for this iron loading study. Alternatively, the ferritins expressed in the insect cell-baculovirus system were utilized for this purpose . Ceruloplasmin was able to load iron into the rH-Ft, but not the rL-Ft. The initial rate of loading iron into the rH-Ft by ceruloplasmin was similar to that of native rat liver ferritin heteropolymer. Both the rH-Ft and the native rat liver ferritin could be maximally loaded with iron by ceruloplasmin up to 2,500 iron atoms/ferritin. When the rH-Ft or the native ferritin was present, the ferroxidase activity of ceruloplasmin was enhanced. No such enhancement was observed in the presence of the rL-Ft. This suggests that ceruloplasmin only associates with the ferritin H, but not L, chain during iron loading.
The role of an a-helix bundle channel in iron loading by ceruloplasmin was investigated by using sitedirected mutagenesis. The channel in the rH-Ft was closed by mutation E62K and H65G to form a K62 to El07 salt bridge, which is thought to exist in the L chain. Conversely, the salt bridge in the channel of the L chain was removed by mutation K58E and G61H to form a channel similar to that in the four-a-helix bundle of the H chain. The initial rate of loading iron into the rL-FT mutant by ceruloplasmin was 50% of that for loading iron into the rH-Ft. When 500 atoms of iron per ferritin were used for loading, 98% loaded into the rH-Ft by ceruloplasmin in 5 minutes, but only 30% loaded into the rL-Ft mutant in the same time. The ferroxidase activity of ceruloplasmin was enhanced in the presence of the rHFt and its mutant, but not in the presence of the rL-Ft or its mutant. These results indicate that the association of ceruloplasmin and ferritin is required and the a-helix bundle channel is a channel for iron loading.
title: Cavitation Limits and the Effect of Aeration on Cone Valves
Creators: name: Mumford, Bart "L"
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1985

description: Cavitation in cone valves can cause eventual valve failure. However, little data are available on cavitation limits for solid plug cone valves. Flow conditions were identified for a 6 inch cone valve where incipient, critical, incipient damage, and choking cavitation limits occurred at valve openings between 20 and 70 degrees. A description of how these limits are used to predict cavitation intensity is given. Air was used to reduce the damage levels. Aeration increased the allowable pressure drop for damage free operation 6 to 72 percent for valve openings less than 70 degrees. A chart is given for predicting when a cone valve will draw air. Location of the air injection point 1s not important as long as it is introduced into the separation zone.
Loss of reactive elements during electroslag processing of iron-base alloys
Creators: name: Etienne, Michel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Oxidative losses of reactive elements during Electroslag Remelting have been investigated in the alloys AISI 321 stainless steel and Maraging 300 steel which contain titanium and in 1409 Al steel, containing aluminium. Attention has been devoted to the influence of various melt parameters, i.e., the partial pressure of oxygen in the atmosphere, the composition of the slag in relation to its oxygen potential and mass transport properties, the type of current, the polarity of operation and the melt rate. A distinction is made between actual oxidative losses and composition variations which may result from the removal of inclusions during the remelting process. Kinetic models are proposed for the rate of transfer of oxygen and alloying elements between the various phases present, and are compared with the experimental data obtained in this work or collected from the literature.
\Artists at Cosmos\" : the design and implementation of a community based program for moderately and severely intellectually handicapped young people Hobart Tasmania"
Creators: name: Moss, Julianne
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This project aims to present the process of the design and implementation of a community based program for moderately and severely intellectually disabled young people. The design and implementation of the program has been a solo exercise which took place during the 1984 school year. As a teacher responsible for a class group at Talire Special School, Hobart, it was my task in 1984, to define a curriculum for those young people, sixteen to eighteen years old, in their final school years. The 1984 project grew out of four years prior experience with these students in a school setting. Through the perusal of current writings in curricular directions for this group it became clear to the author that changes should be made to existing programs for this group of young people, considering the weight of the large body of evidence, presented in the literature, and the current emphasis on the least restrictive alternative and normalisation principles. Before entering the field of Special Education, my experience had been in the area of art education with secondary students. With this perspec tive I was struck by the immense talents and skills exhibited by this group in the art/craft fields generally. During 1984, the writer defined a curriculum ~om the group referred to which was outside the traditional confines of a school setting, and made specialised provision to develop art and craft skills through the develop ment of the concept of an \Artists' Workshop\". This project documents the search of the literature and the events that have occured in order to establish the program. The first chapter deals with evidence found in the literature on the directions of program development for moderately and severely intellect ually disabled students as well as detailing the particular circumstances that exist for this group in Tasmania. Chapter Two outlines the design and workings of the curriculum for this group that were developed. Chapter Three examines the \"Artists' Workshop\" the part of the curriculum that focuses on the development of art/craft skills. Chapter Four examines the difficulties that exist within this State for post-school experience for this group of moderately to severely intellect ually disabled adolescents. Also highlighted are the possible ways that the concept of the Artists' Workshop could be introduced and developed beyond school life. Chapter Five concludes with personal observations that have arisen from the process of design and implementation of a community based program for the target group described."
On a new compactification of moduli of vector bundles on a surface, III: Functorial approach
Creators: name: Timofeeva, Nadezda V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 14J60, 14D20, 14M27

description: A new compactification for the scheme of moduli for Gieseker-stable vector bundles with prescribed Hilbert polynomial, on the smooth projective polarized surface (S,L), is constructed. Families of locally free sheaves on the surface S are completed by locally free sheaves on schemes which are modifications of S. Gieseker -- Maruyama moduli space has a birational morphism onto the new moduli space. We propose the functor for families of pairs polarized scheme -- vector bundle with moduli space of such type.
description: 53 pages, typo in sec.12 corrected
Stenella coeruleoalba
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Cetacea
Delphinidae
Stenella
Stenella coeruleoalba

description: 107. Striped Dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833)
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Status: Occasional; a floating drifted specimen at Al-Bassah River (Dede et al. 2012; Ibrahim 2011a) (Fig. 116).
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
title: Shadow Pattern Simulator
Creators: name: Brown, Roberto A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1988

description: This paper describes an interactive computer program that can be used as a design tool in assessing the shading effects of trees in relation to buildings. The program determines the area and position of the shadow cast by a tree or group of trees on a surface of a building which can have any orientation. The program outputs numerical and · graphical hourly results at any time of the day, for any day of the year, at any location on the earth, for any relative positioning between the tree and building, and estimates percent irradiation reductions on building surfaces resulting from tree shade. The program allows three different shapes of tree (elliptical, cylindrical, and parabolic) to be used. This program is being interfaced with a commercially available building energy analysis program.
Superconductivity under high pressure in LaFeAsO
Creators: name: Okada, H.
name: Igawa, K.
name: Takahashi, H.
name: Kamihara, Y.
name: Hirano, M.
name: Hosono, H.
name: Matsubayashi, K.
name: Uwatoko, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electrical resistivity measurements under high pressures up to 29 GPa were performed for oxypnictide compound LaFeAsO. We found a pressure-induced superconductivity in LaFeAsO. The maximum value of Tc is 21 K at ~12 GPa. The pressure dependence of the Tc is similar to those of LaFeAsO1-xFx series reported previously.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn Vol.77 No.11
Symmetries of Ginsparg-Wilson Chiral Fermions
Creators: name: Mandula, Jeffrey E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The group structure of the variant chiral symmetry discovered by Luscher in the Ginsparg-Wilson description of lattice chiral fermions is analyzed. It is shown that the group contains an infinite number of linearly independent symmetry generators, and the Lie algebra is given explicitly. CP is an automorphism of this extended chiral group, and the CP transformation properties of the symmetry generators are found. The group has an infinite-parameter invariant subgroup, and the factor group, whose elements are its cosets, is isomorphic to the continuum chiral symmetry group. Features of the currents associated with these symmetries are discussed, including the fact that some different, non-commuting symmetry generators lead to the same Noether current. These are universal features of lattice chiral fermions based on the Ginsparg-Wilson relation; they occur in the overlap, domain-wall, and perfect-action formulations. In a solvable example, free overlap fermions, these non-canonical elements of lattice chiral symmetry are related to complex energy singularities that violate reflection positivity and impede continuation to Minkowski space.
description: 36 pages; PDF only; References added
Overfishing, uncertainty, and ocean governance : Lord Perry's question revisited
Creators: name: Nevill, CJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: \Why does overfishing persist in the face of regulation?\" This question the subject of intense interest and discussion has no easy or palatable answer. While trawling over old ground this thesis hopefully offers new insights and adds weight to important arguments advanced by other writers. I argue here that overfishing a fundamental cause of the crisis facing our oceans is the result of the failure of our fishing management agencies (ultimately our politicians and communities) to embrace a small suite of powerful tools (more correctly strategic approaches) which have been developed to account for uncertainty. Broad success in managing fisheries to achieve sustainability goals will (I argue) only come if these tools are enthusiastically applied. Moreover I suggest that this will not happen until organisational cultures within fishery management agencies undergo a major shift. In my view the only way this shift will occur is for asset-based biodiversity conservation rather than resource exploitation to be placed at the centre of ocean governance. This thesis examines these issues in the context of case studies covering regional national and provincial (State) fishery management agencies. With the exception of the case study of a regional fishery (the southern ocean krill fishery) all case studies are drawn from Australian experiences. Commercial and recreational fisheries are considered. The central recommendation of the thesis is that fishery management agencies worldwide should be replaced by biodiversity asset management agencies. While recognising that many factors affect biodiversity assets (some well outside the control of current fishery agencies) such a strategy would mesh with the increasing acceptance of integrated coastal zone management and in general the need for integrated and precautionary management of natural resources."
Electrochemical aspects of the aqueous oxidation of copper sulphides
Creators: name: Etienne, Arlette
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The Cu-S binary system was subjected to electrochemical studies at temperatures below 100°C in acid solution. Three types of electrochemical experiments were conducted: a) Measurements of electromotive force were made on the galvanic cell, Cu | 0.1 M CuSO₄, 0.1 M H₂SO₄ | Cu[sub y]S across the Cu-S system (y variable). The range of copper activity corresponding to the zone of stability of digenite (~ Cu[sub 1.8]S) was accurately determined. From these measurements and the existing thermodynamic data on covellite (CuS), the standard free enthalpy of formation of digenite (~ Cu[sub 1.8]S) and djurleite (Cu[sub 1.965S]) was calculated. b) Copper sulphides were grown on a copper anode from an acidic solution saturated with H₂S at constant current. The thickening: of the copper sulphide film was accounted for by electrolytic transport in the scale. The diffusion coefficient of cuprous ions in low chalco-cite (Cu₂S) and low digenite (~ Cu[sub 1.8]S) was calculated from the slope of the electrode potential versus time relationship. c) Galyanostatic polarization of rotating disk anodes of digenite and covellite was studied at 55°C in 0.1 M CuSO₄-0.1 M H₂SO₄ solutions. The resistances arising during the anodic dissolution of these sulphides were assessed from the dependence of the electrode potential on time and current density. The above polarization experiments were correlated with the electrolysis of copper matte anodes and the leaching experiments in acidic ferric solutions described in the literature.
Strong and Electromagnetic J/psi and psi(2S) Decays into Pion and Kaon Pairs
Creators: name: Czyz, Henryk
name: Kuhn, Johann H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A combined analysis of the electromagnetic pion and kaon form factors in the neighborhood of J/psi and psi(2S) and of the strong decay amplitude of these resonances into kaons is presented. In the presence of a large relative phase between strong and electromagnetic resonance amplitudes the branching ratio, as measured in electron-positron annihilation, receives an additional contribution from the interference between resonance and continuum amplitude neglected in earlier papers. Our study is model independent and does not rely on the SU(3) symmetry assumptions used in earlier papers. We note that the large relative phase between strong and electromagnetic amplitudes observed in earlier analyses is model dependent and relies critically on the specific assumptions on SU(3) symmetry and breaking.
title: The Effects and Desirability of Utilizing Dried Whey in Selected Food Products
Creators: name: Robinson, Katherine P.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: The effects and desirability of utilizing dried whey in pie crust, muffins, and beef gravies were studied using taste panel evaluations and objective testings. In pas try the addition of whey caused significant changes. As the whey level increased to 10 percent of the flour weight, the crust became browner during baking and the shortometer recorded an increase in tenderness. The taste panel noted as whey levels increased to 10 percent and above that the color became yellow instead of creamy white; the flavor became undesirable; and pastry became less tender and flaky. Whey significantly increased the desirability of muffins by enhancing the golden brown color, producing a more desirable flavor and increasing the tenderness of the muffins. Whey enhanced the flavor of fresh gravies. The consistency and mouth feel rated undesirable in milk gravies when whey was added. However it was more acceptable in gravies using water as the liquid. High whey levels prevented excessive retrogradation, but had adverse flavor effects.
A critical analysis of EC-Biotech : the panel's approach to other rules of international law and the application of the SPS agreement
Creators: name: Newey, B
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The United States and the European Communities have developed different regulatory strategies to address the challenges posed by agricultural and food biotechnology. Examining the development of biotechnology regulation in both the US and the EC, it becomes apparent that while EC regulation of biotechnology can generally be characterised as precaution-oriented and restrictive, comparatively, US regulation can be considered technology promoting and permissive. The complaint brought by the United States (and Canada and Argentina) at the World Trade Organization against the European Communities' approval regime for biotechnology products was significant as it served to highlight the disparate regulatory approaches to biotech products taken in the US and the EC. The dispute raised issues concerning not only the WTO-compatibility of the more precautionary EC biotech approval regime with WTO trade rules, but also the nature of genetically modified organisms for the purpose of their classification under the WTO agreements. However, the Panel in EC ‚ÄövÑvÆ Biotech managed to avoid many of the potentially contentious issues raised by the dispute by narrowly focusing the majority of its conclusions on technical grounds. This thesis argues that in order to avoid such questions, the Panel used legally questionable reasoning in regard to two specific issues: the relevance of other international law rules to the provisions of the WTO, and the scope of application of the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures. It is argued that the Panel's approach to these issues is problematic as there may be negative repercussions for the resolution of future WTO disputes.
Penetrating Radiation at the Surface of and in Water
Creators: name: Pacini, Domenico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At the beginning of the twentieth century, two scientists, the Austrian Victor Hess and the Italian Domenico Pacini, developed two brilliant lines of research independently, leading to the determination of the origin of atmospheric radiation. Before their work, the origin of the radiation today called "cosmic rays" was strongly debated, as many scientists thought that these particles came from the crust of the Earth. The approach by Hess is well known: Hess measured the rate of discharge of an electroscope that flew aboard an atmospheric balloon. Because the discharge rate increased as the balloon flew at higher altitude, he concluded in 1912 that the origin could not be terrestrial. For this discovery, Hess was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1936, and his experiment became legendary. Shortly before, in 1911, Pacini, a professor at the University of Bari, made a series of measurements to determine the variation in the speed of discharge of an electroscope (and thus the intensity of the radiation) while the electroscope was immersed in a box in a sea near the Naval Academy in the Bay of Livorno (the Italian Navy supported the research). The measures are documented in his work "Penetrating radiation at the surface of and in water". Pacini discovered that the discharge of the oscilloscope was significantly slower than at the surface. Documents testify that Pacini and Hess knew of each other's work. Pacini died in 1934, two years before the Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of cosmic rays. While Hess is remembered as the discoverer of cosmic rays, the simultaneous discovery by Pacini is forgotten by most.
description: translated and commented by Alessandro De Angelis
Tursiops truncatus
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Cetacea
Delphinidae
Tursiops
Tursiops truncatus

description: 108. Common Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus (G. Montagu, 1821)
(Fig. 117)
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Subspecies: T.t. truncates (Montagu, 1821).
Status: Regular; dolphins were found floating adrift in several places along the coasts of Ras Al-Baseet, Ibn Hani, Jableh and Banias (Gonzalvo & Bearzi 2008; Saad 2008; Dede et al. 2012; Ibrahim 2011a; Saad et al. 2019) while others were encountered stranded dead at Jabla, Banias, Tartous, and Ibn Hani coasts (Gonzalvo & Bearzi 2008; Ibrahim 2008; 2011a); Latakia, Tartous, Banias, and Ras Al Baseet coastlines (Saad 2008, Ibrahim 2011a). One injured individual was encountered near Laialina swimming club (Lattakia city) in October 2019 (Ibrahim et al. 2021). A swimming dolphin was found 6 km west of Tartous coast (see Ibrahim et al. 2021). Recent records: 5 km northwest of Tartous (2022) (Fig. 118).
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 107, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
title: Eating Quality of Beef: Influence of Cooking Method; Sires; Mineral (Fe, Mg, Zn, Na, K, and P), Lipid, and Nitrogen Content
Creators: name: Ream, Elisabeth E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: The influence on eating quality of beef of cooking method, sires, mineral (Fe, Mg, Zn, Na, K, and P), lipid, and nitrogen content was determined by objective measurements, sensory evaluations, cooking losses, and chemical analysis. Two adjacent arm and two adjacent rib roasts from 18 Herford animals were used. The arm and rib (sixth to eighth ribs) roasts were deboned, cut in half, and randomly assigned to the conventional or electronic ovens for dry roasting to the medium-rare stage (145 F, 147 F). Roasts of the ninth to twelfth ribs were dry-roasted in a meat research oven at 325 F to an internal temperature of 155 F.
The Warner-Bratzler shear test determined tenderness to be greater in conventional roasts, Press fluid amounts were similar for both ovens. Cooking losses were greatest in the electronic oven.
The taste panel judged conventional roasts to have better flavor and to be more tender and juicy.
Laboratory analysis of minerals indicated specific ones influenced the tenderness of beef, Lipid content was found to be significantly correlated with juiciness, tenderness, shear force, and percentage drip. The findings showed nitrogen to affect juiciness inversely and the cooking losses positively.
High correlations for roasts containing the ninth to twelfth ribs were indicated for flavor, tenderness, and shear force; also tenderness was judged by the taste panel with shear force, and press fluid with cooking loss.
Contact and voter processes on the infinite percolation cluster as models of host-symbiont interactions
Creators: name: Bertacchi, D.
name: Lanchier, N.
name: Zucca, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce spatially explicit stochastic processes to model multispecies host-symbiont interactions. The host environment is static, modeled by the infinite percolation cluster of site percolation. Symbionts evolve on the infinite cluster through contact or voter type interactions, where each host may be infected by a colony of symbionts. In the presence of a single symbiont species, the condition for invasion as a function of the density of the habitat of hosts and the maximal size of the colonies is investigated in details. In the presence of multiple symbiont species, it is proved that the community of symbionts clusters in two dimensions whereas symbiont species may coexist in higher dimensions.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AAP734 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
[Documentation for Master of Fine Arts]
Creators: name: Larby, Kate
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: It is not uncommon to hear the cry raised that \sculpture intimidates people\" as a response or almost an accusation from sculptors and their sympathizers to those who are not of this group. The reply is often that... \"sculpture is what you fall over when you step back to look at a painting\" (an idea you fall over in the dark and similar). With this paper I am examining the facts that lie behind such comments from the psychological sociological and historical viewpoints rather than accepting them as pieces of repartee as closed issues or dismissing it all merely as low level altercation between the proponents of opposing types of art. I am endeavouring to show the substance of the statement as it becomes a real consideration rather than a dismissable remark."