cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Foreword
Creators: name: Johnson, Alexsis M.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2018

description: The third annual conference of Empowering Women of Color (EWOC), Double-Consciousness: Women of Color as Advocates for Ourselves and Others, gathered law students, practitioners, and academics together to discuss and strategize around double- consciousness as a phenomenon shared among women lawyers of color yet unique to each person’s idiosyncratic and multi-faceted identities. The conference sought to address ever- present questions of balance: How do we balance our reality as private citizens who are subject to the law with our role as advocates armed with the power of the law? How do we balance our individual professional pursuits with the quest for collective advancement of our identity groups in society?
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 36 No. 1 (2018)
Skin health in king salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) farmed in New Zealand
Creators: name: Comezzi, FG
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Skin health is a primary indicator of fish general health and welfare in aquaculture, and it often correlates with fish growth and performance. Summer is the most stressful period for the skin health of king salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) farmed in Marlborough Sounds New Zealand, with some fish affected by seasonal development of skin lesions. Growth and skin health were investigated during a summer feeding trial. The first part of the study is a comprehensive evaluation of sampling methods and gross scoring system employed by the local industry to assess skin health in farm-based trials. Sampling bias was found in each of the sampling techniques assessed. However, depending on the method, samples were biased either in favour of fish with better skin health and higher weight (+ 0.20 kg), or towards fish with poorer skin health and lower weight (- 0.14 kg) than the pen population average. Basic histological assessment was performed to determine if the gross scoring of lesion severity could be objectively confirmed at the histological level based on the perforation of lower dermis (stratum compactum). Gross scoring-histology agreement on average was good, but only moderate for the most severe skin lesion category. Because the same sampling and scoring methods are used in routine surveillance of commercial pens, these results should be considered in future research involving analysis of farm data, including epidemiological studies. The second part of the thesis focusses on growth and skin health differences in post-smolts fed 3 different commercial diets over the summer. Diet had a significant effect on weight, growth and general health as suggested by haematology and plasma biochemistry indicators. Most ulcers were healed or at an advanced healing stage by the end of the summer. The prevalence of fish with large healed ulcers and fish without lesions differed among diet treatments, suggesting a possible influence of the diet on skin ulceration. However, evidence of the effects of diet was conclusive only for growth and general health. In addition to the direct contribution to our knowledge of farmed salmon health and welfare management, results of this work highlight research challenges relevant to the entire field of skin health investigation in cultured fish.
Les revues savantes nationales des sciences humaines et sociales et leur rôle pour la recherche au Canada
Creators: name: van Bellen, Simon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: publication savante, affiliation, libre accès, revue scientifique, Québec, Canada

description: Présentation orale au Congrès de l'Acfas, 11 mai 2023, Université de Montréal.
Optomechanics with molecules in a strongly pumped ring cavity
Creators: name: Schulze, R. J.
name: Genes, C.
name: Ritsch, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cavity cooling of an atom works best on a cyclic optical transition in the strong coupling regime near resonance, where small cavity photon numbers suffice for trapping and cooling. Due to the absence of closed transitions a straightforward application to molecules fails: optical pumping can lead the particle into uncoupled states. An alternative operation in the far off-resonant regime generates only very slow cooling due to the reduced field-molecule coupling. We predict to overcome this by using a strongly driven ring-cavity operated in the sideband cooling regime. As in the optomechanical setups one takes advantage of a collectively enhanced field-molecule coupling strength using a large photon number. A linearized analytical treatment confirmed by full numerical quantum simulations predicts fast cooling despite the off-resonant small single molecule - single photon coupling. Even ground state cooling can be obtained by tuning the cavity field close to the Anti-stokes sideband for sufficiently high trapping frequency. Numerical simulations show quantum jumps of the molecules between the lowest two trapping levels, which can be be directly and continuously monitored via scattered light intensity detection.
Note from the Editor
Creators: name: Hopper, Madeline K.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2018

description: The Columbia Journal of Gender and Law was honored to cosponsor the third annual conference of Empowering Women of Color at Columbia Law School (EWOC) entitled Double-Consciousness: Women of Color as Advocates for Ourselves and Others in March 2017.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 36 No. 1 (2018)
Women and Whistleblowing: Exploring Gender Effects in Policy Design
Creators: name: Tilton, Clare
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2018

description: Laws that incentivize employees to blow the whistle when they perceive a financial risk and protect them from retaliation have sharply increased in popularity and have even become commonplace at the state level for fraud related to government money. Dodd-Frank codified a similar kind of protection for whistleblowers who report private-sector fraud. This Note suggests that states, especially New York, have an opportunity to propose new financial fraud whistleblower legislation in response to the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the federal government’s active regulatory role in the financial sector. However, the prevalence and potential of such legislation should inspire a closer look at how legal mechanisms target and encourage participation across the employee population. Any program that seeks to encourage participation within an existing context, such as the financial services workplace, risks entrenching bias and inequality if it fails to consider the differential effects of its design across different demographics. This Note therefore addresses whistleblower laws’ implications for women employees’ participation in whistleblowing when they observe financial services sector-based misconduct. It reviews existing research regarding women’s participation in whistleblowing and considers how that evidence should shape choices of policymakers who seek to encourage employee reporting while still fostering workplace environments and regulatory structures that value and bene t from women’s voices.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 35 No. 2 (2018)
The unit ball of the Hilbert space in its weak topology
Creators: name: Avilés, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B50, 46B26, 46C05, 54B30, 54D15.

description: We show that the unit ball of a Hilbert space in its weak topology is a continuous image of the countable power of the Alexandroff compactification of a discrete set, and we deduce some combinatorial properties of its lattice of open sets which are not shared by the balls of other equivalent norms when the space is nonseparable.
The Health/Care Divide: Breastfeeding in the New Millenium
Creators: name: Laufer-Ukeles, Pamela
name: Barzilay, Arianne Renan
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2018

description: Given recent health and cultural pressures to breastfeed, this Article argues that legal and societal developments should enable working mothers to choose whether or not to breastfeed without sacrificing their employment. In analyzing current solutions for working mothers, we identify two major developments, which we term “separation strategies,” to contend with the health push: limited and unpaid pumping breaks at work established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the advent of an online market in human milk. We critique these developments, despite the limited relief they may provide, for the way these strategies do not provide sufficient breastfeeding support and separate the nurturing act of breastfeeding from the nutritional benefits believed to be contained in breastmilk as a sole recourse for working women. Separation strategies reflect the legal and societal undervaluing of direct, symbiotic parental care and the way scientific priorities tend to separate and sterilize nutritional and relational benefits while overlooking additional health benefits of the breastfeeding method, as well as the cost, threats to breastmilk supply, and distributive effects of separation strategies. We describe the way legislative measures, antidiscrimination law, and constitutional rights have failed to aid breastfeeding mothers in the workplace. Finally, we articulate ways in which the workplace can be restructured to accommodate breastfeeding and, as a result, parental care more generally.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 35 No. 2 (2018)
Good Girls: Gender-Specific Interventions in Juvenile Court
Creators: name: Gamal, Fanna
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2018

description: In the juvenile legal system, many jurisdictions are adopting interventions that target girls for specialized treatment. The proliferation of so-called Girls Courts—or specialty courts designed to address the specific challenges faced by system-involved girl—is one such intervention. Girls Court rejects gender-blindness in the juvenile justice system in order to address the unique needs of system-involved girls. This Article enlists Critical Race Feminism to argue that, although well intentioned, these gender-specific juvenile courts enlist harmful gender stereotypes to guide girls towards an antiquated and hegemonic form of femininity. By examining the underlying assumptions that drive Girls Court, this Article assesses the line between gender-consciousness and gender stereotyping and critiques the role of law in entrenching harmful notions about what “good girls” ought to be. Lifting ideologies from problem-solving courts, Girls Court purports to serve the most at-risk girls, with some jurisdictions placing special emphasis on holistic intervention for child victims of sexual exploitation. Girls Court targets girls, mostly girls of color, for enhanced scrutiny and surveillance. Although heightened services are needed for girls battling intersecting forms of oppression, this Article argues that Girls Court exemplifies important limitations to gender-specific reform. While the court’s approach rightly acknowledges the role of gender in shaping outcomes for young people, it also targets girls for intrusive and punitive methods of social control. Girls Court funnels girls towards a very specific notion of girlhood—one centered in white, middle-class notions of femininity. Through criminalization, an emphasis on sexual purity, and a desire to instill obedience, Girls Court advances certain subordinating stereotypes about girls, particularly girls of color. At its core, this Article argues for an increased duty of care when it comes to programming for girls. It urges a careful examination of all the messages we send, and the values we promote, when we target young girls for intervention.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 35 No. 2 (2018)
EXPLORING BLACK FEMINIST LEADERSHIP IDENTITY OF BLACK UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN LEADERS
Creators: name: Henry, Brittany
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Black women
undergraduate
student leaders
identity-based
sisterhood
community activism

description: The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore leadership identity development through the lens of Black feminist leadership for Black undergraduate women in leadership positions. The study focused specifically on the phenomenon of leadership identity development through Black women's leadership roles in Black women's student organizations on their campuses, such as campus clubs, sororities, or honor societies. Black feminist leadership examines the intersectionality of race, gender, and class, and encourages Black women in leadership roles to lead to bring about systemic change. Based on semistructured interviews with nine women via Zoom, several themes emerged that highlighted the unique experiences of Black female student leaders and their growth, empowerment, and mentorship enhanced through participation in Black women-centered organizations. The themes included (a) Women as Role Models for Leadership, (b) Legacy Versus Choice, and (c) The Power of Naming: I Am. Black women-centered organizations served as counter safe spaces for Black women in higher education navigating challenges due to race and gender, such as systemic oppression, stereotypes, and lack of institutional support. Black female student leaders were able to gain the skills, knowledge, and belief in self to be able to give back to others and inspire future leaders to take on leadership roles and uphold the mission, vision, and traditions in Black women's student organizations.
Improving ESOL provision for displaced adult migrants in Scotland: Key recommendations and findings
Creators: name: Meer, Nasar
name: Peace, Timothy
name: Hill, Emma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: migration, governance, refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, integration

description: ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) provision for asylum seekers and refugees in Scotland is devolved to the Scottish Government’s (SG) education brief and has developed independently of and diverged from UK Government approaches in England. The SG’s ESOL Strategy, now in its second iteration, Welcoming Our Learners (2015-2020), interacts with other policy areas, including Adult Literacies, Community Learning and Development (CLD) and the New Scots integration strategy to provide guidance to all migrants in need of English language tuition in Scotland. The SG has established a fee waiver for asylum seekers and any migrants in receipt of benefits, including refugees. This fee waiver is distinctive to Scotland and in keeping with the SG’s ‘from day one’ approach to integration, meaning that asylum seekers and refugees do not face financial barriers to accessing ESOL provision. However, whilst the SG’s approach to ESOL provision for displaced migrants addresses immediate financial hurdles to accessing ESOL, other barriers persist, including immigration demands relating to their status, health and wellbeing factors and precarious housing, all of which can adversely impact a person’s ability to (a) access ESOL and (b) learn in the same way as other learners. GLIMER Research finds that in Scotland, these factors are exacerbated by environmental and systemic factors in a noticeably complex ESOL environment, which do not explicitly take into account additional barriers and vulnerabilities for displaced migrants. This Policy Brief by the GLIMER Scotland team puts forward recommendations for how this can be addressed.
“Like a Withered Tree, Stripped of Its Foliage”: What the Roe Court Missed and Why it Matters
Creators: name: Erlich, J. Shoshanna
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2018

description: While it would certainly be too much to argue that a fuller exposition of the multi-dimensional origins of the nation’s criminal abortion laws by the Roe Court would have somehow prevented the emergence of the “pro-woman” antiabortion position, I nonetheless contend that if the Roe Court had exposed the gendered origins of our criminal abortion laws, the deep paternalism of the woman-protective approach may well have attracted more critical attention than it did prior to 2007 when the Supreme Court’s embrace of the abortion regret trope served to focus greater public and scholarly attention on this development. In short, this historic knowledge serves to sharpen our understanding of the longstanding link between the regulation of abortion and the effort to control women’s reproductive bodies, thus making it clear that antiabortion activism has never simply been about protecting the fetus. This Article proceeds in three parts. In Part I, we take a close look at the physicians’ mid-nineteenth century campaign to criminalize abortion. Specifically, we will focus on 1) the launch of their campaign; 2) the physicians’ framing of their effort as a “bold and manly” appeal; 3) their focus on preserving and protecting women’s purity and divinely ordained maternal role; 4) their claim that abortion was rife with injurious impacts as embodied in the view that it marked the uterus with a “stamp of derangement”; and 5) the antiabortion physicians’ claim that abortion, as practiced by white, middle-class women, threatened the racial character of the nation. In Part II, we turn to the Court’s landmark decision in Roe v. Wade. Zeroing in on its examination of the historical underpinnings of the nation’s criminal abortion laws, we first take a look at what the Roe Court said about this history, followed by a discussion of what the Court missed—namely, its elision of the gendered and racialized tropes that permeated the physicians’ antiabortion campaign. In Part III, we examine the late twentieth-century emergence of the “pro-woman/pro-life” antiabortion argument. After consideration of the traditional fetal-centric “pro-life” position, we turn to the origins of this new frame. This discussion is followed by a comparison of the core themes of the nineteenth-century physicians’ campaign with the contemporary woman- protective antiabortion position. These themes include: 1) that abortion is incompatible with women’s true nature, 2) that meaningful consent is an impossibility, and 3) that abortion is inherently harmful to women. In conclusion, this Article circles back to the Roe Court’s narrow reading of the physicians’ campaign to argue that if the Roe Court had engaged in a more robust reading of this history, the gendered paternalism of the contemporary “pro-woman/pro-life” position would have been rendered far more visible as a discredited approach to pressing women into motherhood.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 35 No. 2 (2018)
About Abortion: Reflection & Response
Creators: name: Pozen, David E.
name: Sanger, Carol
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2017

description: Carol Sanger, About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First Century America (2017) The Abortion Closet (with a Note on Rules and Standards) Reflection by David E. Pozen Closets, Standards, Abortion: A Reply to Professor PozenResponse by Carol Sanger
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 35 No. 1 (2017)
Supplementary Text, Table, and Figures from Immune lag is a major cost of prokaryotic adaptive immunity during viral outbreaks
Creators: name: Weissman, Jake L.
name: Alseth, Ellinor O.
name: Meaden, Sean
name: westra, Edze R.
name: Fuhrman, Jed A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Supplementary Text, Table, and Figures
The Deceptive Fermata of HIV-Criminalization Law: Rereading the Case of “Tiger Mandingo” Through the Juridico-Affective
Creators: name: Lawless, Joseph F.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2017

description: In July 2015, Michael Johnson, a twenty-three-year-old Black queer college student in Missouri, was sentenced to slightly over thirty years in prison on one count of reckless transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) to another person and on four counts of reckless attempted transmission of HIV. Johnson’s conviction and exorbitant carceral sentence are not unique, however. State penal laws criminalizing the transmission of HIV have existed for well over twenty-five years and have remained nearly impervious to legal challenge throughout that time. This Article queries the continued vitality of HIV-criminalization laws and argues that their survival reflects their investment in appeals to the affective—the sensations of bodily impingement and intrusion that the terrifying spectacle of HIV is meant to conjure. The injection of the affective into the jurisprudential regime of HIV criminalization is shown to be at the core of Michael Johnson’s prosecution and conviction, animating Johnson’s unwitting transformation into HIV itself. Reflecting on this disturbing genealogy, the discussion concludes with both legal and critical prescriptions to combat the persistence of HIV stigma.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 35 No. 1 (2017)
Mittag-Leffler Functions and Their Applications
Creators: name: Haubold, H. J.
name: Mathai, A. M.
name: Saxena, R. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated essentially by the success of the applications of the Mittag-Leffler functions in many areas of science and engineering, the authors present in a unified manner, a detailed account or rather a brief survey of the Mittag- Leffler function, generalized Mittag-Leffler functions, Mittag-Leffler type functions, and their interesting and useful properties. Applications of Mittag-Leffler functions in certain areas of physical and applied sciences are also demonstrated. During the last two decades this function has come into prominence after about nine decades of its discovery by a Swedish mathematician G.M. Mittag-Leffler, due its vast potential of its applications in solving the problems of physical, biological, engineering and earth sciences etc. In this survey paper, nearly all types of Mittag-Leffler type functions existing in the literature are presented. An attempt is made to present nearly an exhaustive list of references concerning the Mittag-Leffler functions to make the reader familiar with the present trend of research in Mittag-Leffler type functions and their applications.
description: 49 pages, Plain TeX, references extended, reviewers recommendations incorporated
THE EFFECT OF CHILDHOOD TRAUMA ON HOARDING DISORDER IN ADULTS
Creators: name: Bavarsad, Mehrnoosh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: childhood trauma
hoarding disorder
older adults

description: Hoarding disorder, characterized by persistent difficulties discarding possessions and the excessive accumulation of clutter, holds considerable significance in mental health research and clinical practice. This intricate condition has gained increasing recognition due to its profound impact on individuals' lives, including impaired functioning, strained relationships, and compromised well-being. Despite its relevance, there is a pressing need to gain a deeper understanding of the intricate nuances of hoarding disorder, particularly within the context of childhood trauma, an aspect that has received limited attention in existing literature. In this research, we employed self-report questionnaires such as the Saving Inventory-Revised (SIR), Clutter Images Rating (CIR), Hoarding Rating Scale (HRS), and Childhood Trauma-Short Form (CTSF) to assess variables. To test our hypotheses, we utilized statistical techniques, including correlation analysis, hierarchical multiple regression, multiple linear regression, and multivariate analysis of variance. The results of our study revealed a negative correlation between age and hoarding tendencies, with younger adults in this sample scoring higher on hoarding behaviors. Additionally, living alone was associated with higher levels of hoarding, and male individuals exhibited a greater propensity for hoarding behavior. Furthermore, findings indicated that childhood trauma had a significant impact on measures such as SIR, HRS, and CIR, thereby supporting our initial hypothesis. However, gender differences were not observed in SIR and HRS scores, while male/transgender individuals scored notably higher on the CIR. Lower levels of trauma were linked to reduced hoarding tendencies, and lower levels of education were associated with higher hoarding scores.
Unlocking the Conservation Potential of Managed Timberlands Through Understanding Avian Community Dynamics
Creators: name: Jordan Haber
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2025

description:
This study investigates avian community composition across different forest stand stages within managed pine landscapes of the southeastern United States. It addresses two key research questions: (1) How do avian species richness and community composition vary across different successional stages within managed pine landscapes in the southeastern U.S.? and (2) How do stand-scale characteristics and landscape-scale features influence avian diversity in managed timberlands?


A total of 69 bird species were documented, with natural stands supporting the highest species richness (55 species), followed by emergent and mature stands. The most abundant habitat-use groups were edge specialists and generalists, while insectivores dominated dietary guilds, accounting for 71.6% of detections. Among migration groups, non-migratory residents comprised 55% of detections, with long-distance migrants at 28% and short-distance migrants at 17%.


Statistical analyses, including Jaccard Similarity Indices and PERMANOVA, revealed significant differences in bird community composition among stand stages, particularly between pre-thinned, natural, and emergent stands. Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMDS) indicated that habitat structure and land cover characteristics—such as basal area, tree density, and herbaceous cover—strongly influenced avian community composition. These findings highlight the importance of both stand-scale and landscape-scale environmental gradients in shaping bird communities.


An Indicator Species Analysis (ISA) identified 16 indicator species across stand stages, with mature and emergent stands supporting the highest numbers. Notably, the Blue Grosbeak, Common Yellowthroat, and Yellow-breasted Chat emerged as strong indicators of emergent habitats. Species Distribution Models (SDMs) for these species highlighted grassland-herbaceous cover, basal area, and proximity to water as key predictors of habitat presence. Jackknife analyses further confirmed the importance of vegetation structure and landscape features, with logistic regression models demonstrating classification accuracies ranging from 68.6% to 95.2%.


Overall, this study underscores the significant influence of stand stage on avian community structure and habitat preferences. The results emphasize the ecological importance of natural and emergent stands in maintaining bird diversity, particularly for species associated with early successional and structurally complex habitats. These findings provide critical insights for forest management and conservation planning, supporting strategies aimed at promoting avian biodiversity across working timberlands.
Care and Community Empowerment: Coalition-Building Between Home Care Workers and Disability Rights Activists
Creators: name: Kozak-Oxnard, Andrea
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2017

description: This Note looks closely at the issues facing home care workers and the persons with disabilities and older persons who consume that care. It argues that without seriously taking into account the unique intersectional needs of both care providers—predominately low-income women of color—and care consumers—generally persons who have disabilities, are elderly, or both—advocates will fail to create empowering care partnerships. The Note discusses the ways in which a purely feminist or disability rights lens fails to take into account the complex dynamics of the home care relationship, and suggests that scholars who have integrated the needs of care workers and care consumers have provided what should be considered foundational theories for home care empowerment activism. It implores advocates to continue to look to theorists that holistically incorporate feminist scholarship and disability rights scholarship in order to best understand the complex, multi-dimensional issues facing participants to relationships of care. The Note also examines advocates and organizations already doing this kind of integrated work and argues that they should be promoted and emulated, to the extent that their efforts have been successful. Finally, the Note lays out several possible policy solutions that would serve the needs of home care workers and care consumers, empowering and elevating all care participants, and contends that these should be prioritized in advocacy efforts going forward.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 35 No. 1 (2017)
Naturaleza, indígenas e imperio en Noticias de Nutka (1793) de José Mariano Mociño
Creators: name: Moguel Aquino, Luis Enrique
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The following thesis offers an interpretation of Noticias de Nutka, written by José Mariano Mociño, after he visited Nootka, on the Western coast of Vancouver Island. Mociño was a Mexican naturalist in the team of the Royal Scientific Expedition to New Spain organised in 1792 by the Spaniard crown to explore the territories beyond California, which were considered as part of its domains. The book, prepared in the next year (1793), is the most complete approach of its time to the area’s people and culture in Spanish literature and can be considered as part of the testimonial corpus of first European-Indigenous encounters on the Canadian Pacific coast, besides the most known texts by James Cook or George Vancouver. This study focuses on the representation of nature and natives of Nootka and analyses the apparent contradiction between the goals of the scientific mission and Mociño’s recommendation for the Europeans powers to prevent colonizing the Northwest coast. By discussing those elements, the thesis explores the relation between the discourses of natural history and Spanish imperialism at the end of the Eighteenth Century. The interpretative proposal developed by Mary Louise Pratt in her book Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation serves as the main theoretical framework for the analysis presented here, although I show how it needs to be modified when applied to Mociño’s context. In sum, the thesis reveals the “colonial ambiguity” that distinguishes Mociño’s positionalities in relation to his subject of study and Spanish imperial expansion, considering that feature as part of the construction of scientific discourse and Creole identity in New Spain.
Light Curve Morphology Study of UW CrB -- Evidence for a 5 d Superorbital Period
Creators: name: Hakala, Pasi
name: Hjalmarsdotter, Linnea
name: Hannikainen, Diana C.
name: Muhli, Panu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since its discovery in 1990, UW CrB (also known as MS1603+2600) has remained a peculiar source without firm classification. Our current understanding is that it is an Accretion Disc Corona (ADC) low mass X-ray binary. In this paper we present results from our photometric campaign dedicated to studying the changing morphology of the optical light curves. We find that the optical light curves show remarkable evidence for strongly evolving light curve shapes. In addition we find that these changes show a modulation at a period of $\sim$ 5 days. We interpret these changes as either due to strong periodic accretion disc warping or other geometrical changes due to disc precession at a period of 5 days. Finally, we have detected 11 new optical bursts, the phase distribution of which supports the idea of a vertically extended asymmetric accretion disc.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Broad Strokes and Bright Lines: A Reconsideration of Shari’a Based Reservations
Creators: name: Monforte, Tanya
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2017

description: One of the most politically charged as well as legally technical problems occupying the field of international women’s rights revolves around the reservations made to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). An opposition among states became heated as several Muslim-majority states entered reservations to CEDAW invoking norms of Islamic Law, or Shari’a (sometimes referred to as either “Islamic reservations” or “Shari’a based reservations”). Several European states in turn lodged formal objections to these reservations. The row between European states and Muslim-majority states over the reservations has formed the basis for the technicalization of conflicting views on women’s rights, in the depoliticizing sense of turning a political conflict into a seemingly technical legal one.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 35 No. 1 (2017)
Rhinophis pulneyensis Gü. R. b. J.
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Ophidia
Uropeltidae
Rhinophis
Rhinophis pulneyensis

description: * Rhinophis pulneyensis Gü. R. b. J.
(Plectrurus p. Bedd.)
Pulney hills von F M. [1]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 675, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
Enhanced spin injection efficiency in a four-terminal double quantum dot system
Creators: name: Qin, Ling
name: Lu, Hai-Feng
name: Guo, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the scheme of quantum rate equations, we investigate the spin-resolved transport through a double quantum dot system with four ferromagnetic terminals. It is found that the injection efficiency of spin-polarized electrons can be significantly improved compared with single dot case. When the magnetization in one of four ferromagnetic terminals is antiparallel with the other three, the polarization rate of the current through one dot can be greatly enhanced, accompanied by the drastic decrease of the current polarization rate through the other one. The mechanism is the exchange interaction between electrons in the two quantum dots, which can be a promising candidate for the improvement of the spin injection efficiency.
description: 10 pages and 5 figures
Right Scholarship and the Goddesses of Commercial Law
Creators: name: Martin, Nathalie
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2016

description: Sometimes scholarship is just scholarship. I am referring to the type of scholarship that is often written but barely read, the type written to impress someone or get a promotion rather than because there is a burning need or desire to say what needs to be said. Other times, scholarship flows from the heart, as a result of desire to share a discovery that could change the law, or to share a thought or series of thoughts that could change the world. I call this scholarship of the heart “right scholarship,” a phrase taken from the Buddhist concept of right livelihood. Right scholarship reflects real passions and concerns of the heart that permeate its author’s existence on an almost cellular level. This Essay examines examples of right scholarship in works of two commercial law “goddesses”: Jean Braucher and Elizabeth Warren.1 This Essay combines many topics about which I am deeply passionate, including religion, sex, yoga philosophy, and the influential works of two women I admire greatly. Hopefully, this brief Essay does not try to do too much at the expense of all of these topics.2 In Part I of this Essay, I describe the concept of right scholarship through various religious traditions and yoga philosophy’s principles for living known as the yamas. I then describe, through the works of young scholar Shari Motro, scholarship that has gone wrong. Finally, through the psychological concept of flow, I describe how we know when scholarship has gone right. In Part II, I provide some background information and brief excerpts from right scholarship written by the commercial law goddesses, both of whom were intensely passionate about their work. Their work is scholarship from the heart that has changed the world.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 34 No. 1 (2016): 2016 Symposium: Female Perspectives in Commercial and Consumer Law
Women in the Shark Tank: Entrepreneurship and Feminism in a Neoliberal Age
Creators: name: Keren, Hila
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2016

description: Shark Tank is the American version of a reality television format featuring entrepreneurs pitching their business ideas in order to secure investment from a panel of venture capitalists. Every episode of the show consists of several pitches. In each pitch, an entrepreneur or a team of entrepreneurs (“pitchers”) presents an innovative business, seeking investment by one or more investors (“sharks”) out of a panel of ve, in exchange for equity in the presented business. All sharks are investing their own money, and successful pitches lead to deals that bring the entrepreneurs not only capital, but also the help of the investing shark(s) with business connections and mentorship. Currently on its seventh season, the show enjoys remarkable popularity. It has millions of viewers,2 and in both 2014 and 2015 it won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Structured Reality Program. Numerous avid fans who not only follow the show but also write about it in a variety of mediums, including social media, further enhance its impact.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 34 No. 1 (2016): 2016 Symposium: Female Perspectives in Commercial and Consumer Law
The occupancies of individual orbits and the nuclear matrix element of the $^{76}$Ge neutrinoless $ββ$ decay
Creators: name: Menéndez, J.
name: Poves, A.
name: Caurier, E.
name: Nowacki, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the variation of the nuclear matrix element (NME) for the neutrinoless double beta ($0νββ$) decay of $^{76}$Ge when the wave functions are constrained to reproduce the experimental occupancies of the two nuclei involved in the transition. In the Interacting Shell Model description the value of the NME is enhanced about 15% compared to previous calculations, whereas in the QRPA the NME's are reduced by 20%-30%. This diminishes the discrepancies between both approaches. In addition, we discuss effect of the short range correlations on the NME in the light of the recently proposed parametrizations based on a consistent renormalization of the $0νββ$ transition operator.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure
Grey Milky Way Extinction from SDSS Stellar Photometry
Creators: name: Gorbikov, Evgeny
name: Brosch, Noah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report results concerning the distribution and properties of galactic extinction at high galactic latitudes derived from stellar statistics using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We use the classical Wolf diagram method to identify regions with extinction, and derive the extinction and the extinction law of the dust using all five SDSS spectral bands. We estimate the distance to the extinguishing medium using simple assumptions about the stellar populations in the line of sight. We report the identification of three extinguishing clouds, each a few tens of pc wide, producing 0.2-0.4 mag of g'-band extinction, located 1-2 kpc away or 0.5-1 kpc above the galactic plane. All clouds exhibit grey extinction, i.e., almost wavelength-independent in the limited spectral range of the SDSS. We discuss the implication of this finding on general astrophysical questions.
description: 30 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Creditors’ Use of Consumer Debt Criminalization Practices and their Financial Abuse of Women
Creators: name: Johnson, Creola
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2016

description: In 1998, while a practicing attorney, I helped a legal aid client file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy relief because she was no longer able to manage her debts. As required under bankruptcy law, I had to help her file a list of all her creditors, as well as a statement of intention, which provides a snapshot as to how certain debts will be treated. My client, “Brenda,” a single mother, became fearful as I discussed with her the possibility of not paying a rent-to-own (“RTO”) company from which she had obtained a living room set. She told me that we had to pay the company because, as she said, “I don’t want them to put me in jail.” I was completely dumbfounded that she thought that could really happen to her. I explained to her that the RTO company could not put her in jail for failing to pay a civil debt. But she insisted we had to pay because, “I’m not going to jail.” Little did I know I was really the ignorant one.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 34 No. 1 (2016): 2016 Symposium: Female Perspectives in Commercial and Consumer Law
title: The independent group at the Institute of Contemporary Arts : its origins, development and influences 1951-1961
Creators: name: Whitham, G. J
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: Abstract of Ph D. thesis. University of Kent at Canterbury Contents / Acknowledgements / General introduction to the work 1. 1951 and Before: the Establishment of the ICA (British art c.1935-51; the concept and development of the ICA; early ICA exhibitions; the Institute's Dover street premises) 2. 1952: the Genesis of the Independent Group (Some dissatisfaction amongst the ICA's YOlli1ger members; early organised meetings of the Independent Group; members of the Independent Group) 3. 1953: the Independent Group Develops - Contributions at the ICA (Early Independent Group concerns and their manifestation in the ICA programme; the social and cultural background of Independent Group members; the exhibition Parallel of Life and Art) 4. 1954: Focusing Interests - the 'Fine Art/Pop Art Continuum' (Independent Group activities inside and outside the ICA; the emergence of Lawrence Alloway and John McHale as important members of the Group; the concept of the 'Fine Art/Pop Art Continuum') 5. 1955: Formal Meetings and the Concept of ' Multiple Connectivity' (Organised meetings of the Group; the exhibition Man, Machine and Motion; the 'investigations' into expendability, mass communication and popular culture, and the institutionalisation of 20th century art, using the method of 'multiple connectivity') 6. 1956: Theory into Practice - This is Tomorrow (Events at the ICA involving Independent Group members; the House of the Future; the organisation of This is Tomorrow ('l'IT ); the exhibits of 'l'IT, with special reference to the role of e:x-member;-of the Independent Group) 7. 1957-58: Outlets f or Independent Group Ideas - Ark and the Paintings of Richard Hamilton -- (The role of Ark in the dissemination of Group ideas; the influence upon painters a t the RCA; the 'pop' paintings of Richard Hamilton and their relation to Group discussions ; exhibitions and events of 1957-58) 8. 1959-61: Further Limits of Independent Group Influence - Architectural Design, the Cambridge Connection and Pop Art (The role of Architectural Design in the dissemination of Group ideas; rCA events which involved ex-members of the Group; Cambridge Opinion and the Scroope Group; the relation of the Independent Group to Archigram and the RCA's 1961 Young Contemporaries) 9. 1962 and Beyond: Myths Created and Myths Modified (The waning of Independent Group influence at the ICA; the Group's challenge to existing interpretations of 20th century art and especially to pre-war Modernism; the Group's influence upon the post-1960 pop aesthetic.
The Grid[Way] Job Template Manager, a tool for parameter sweeping
Creators: name: Lorca, Alejandro
name: Huedo, Eduardo
name: Llorente, Ignacio M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.1.4

description: Parameter sweeping is a widely used algorithmic technique in computational science. It is specially suited for high-throughput computing since the jobs evaluating the parameter space are loosely coupled or independent. A tool that integrates the modeling of a parameter study with the control of jobs in a distributed architecture is presented. The main task is to facilitate the creation and deletion of job templates, which are the elements describing the jobs to be run. Extra functionality relies upon the GridWay Metascheduler, acting as the middleware layer for job submission and control. It supports interesting features like multi-dimensional sweeping space, wildcarding of parameters, functional evaluation of ranges, value-skipping and job template automatic indexation. The use of this tool increases the reliability of the parameter sweep study thanks to the systematic bookkeping of job templates and respective job statuses. Furthermore, it simplifies the porting of the target application to the grid reducing the required amount of time and effort.
description: 26 pages, 1 figure,