cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Politics of Korean Queer Cinema
title: Investigating Korean Queer Films in Politics, Economy and Queer
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Ryu, Jaewook
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis discusses various issues around queer in the Korean film industry, looking at different perspectives, such as gender, politics, and economy. In particular, this thesis may be the first that investigates Korean queer films in various domains. Unlike earlier research looking into Korean queer films, this thesis focuses on exploring a variety of contexts and texts related to queer. Just beyond film analysis, in a tour approach, this thesis deals with multiple perspectives from politics, the economy (including film industry analysis), queering, queer films and alternative movements, such queer film festivals and the queer pride parade. Indeed, it will examine the context of production (industry, director and politics), texts (queer films, genre and queering non-queer films) and circulation (film festivals and the place of queer in queer culture). These are all related to further understanding the meaning of queer film making in Korean society. First of all, this thesis explores the political role of film in Korea by looking at political Korean film history including various issues that the Korean film industry has faced. This thesis also provides evidence about why Korean films are so political. Second, to further understand the Korean film industry it investigates the economic particularity of the Korean film industry. Third, this thesis investigates several non-queer films in terms of queer reading. By analysing films with a possibility of being viewed in a queer reading, it discusses various discourses from film texts. Fourth, this thesis hypothesises that there are certain ways to represent queer in contexts around the heteronormative film industry. Thus, to further understand Korean queer films and to seek implications about the political purpose of queer film making in Korea, this thesis looks into them. Lastly, this thesis looks into alternative perspectives about queerness in Korea in addition to focussing only on Korean films. Therefore, this thesis deals with alternative perspectives including the queer film festival and the place of queer in Korean society.
Residenzlandschaften am See als Typus einer Kulturlandschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts in Europa
Creators: name: Gunzelmann, Thomas
Publisher: name: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Year: 2020

description: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees, Bd. 71 (2019): ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Asymmetric Higgsino Dark Matter
Creators: name: Blum, Kfir
name: Efrati, Aielet
name: Grossman, Yuval
name: Nir, Yosef
name: Riotto, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the supersymmetric framework, a higgsino asymmetry exists in the universe before the electroweak phase transition. We investigate whether the higgsino is a viable asymmetric dark matter candidate. We find that this is indeed possible. The gauginos, squarks and sleptons must all be very heavy, such that the only electroweak-scale superpartners are the higgsinos. The temperature of the electroweak phase transition must be in the (1-10) GeV range.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Survey of Knowledge and Opinion among Thai Veterinarians on Nicotine Toxicity and Second-hand Smoke Effects on Pets' Health+
Creators: name: Pongsri Srimoragot
Publisher: name: Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Knowledge
Nicotine toxicity
Opinion
Second-hand smoke
Veterinarian

description: The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 51, 1, 69
Effective doping and suppression of Fermi surface reconstruction via Fe vacancy disorder in KxFe2-ySe2
Creators: name: Berlijn, Tom
name: Hirschfeld, P. J.
name: Ku, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of disordered vacancies on the normal-state electronic structure of the newly discovered alkali-intercalated iron selenide superconductors. To this end we use a recently developed Wannier function based method to calculate from first principles the configuration-averaged spectral function of K0.8Fe1.6Se2 with disordered Fe and K vacancies. We find that the disorder can suppress the expected Fermi surface reconstruction without completely destroying the Fermi surface. More interestingly, the disorder effect raises the chemical potential significantly, giving enlarged electron pockets almost identical to highly doped KFe2Se2, without adding carriers to the system.
New DRIE-Patterned Electrets for Vibration Energy Harvesting
Creators: name: Boisseau, S.
name: Duret, A. -B.
name: Chaillout, J. -J.
name: Despesse, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is about a new manufacturing process aimed at developing stable SiO2/Si3N4 patterned electrets using a Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE) step for an application in electret-based Vibration Energy Harvesters (e-VEH). This process consists in forming continuous layers of SiO2/Si3N4 electrets in order to limit surface conduction phenomena and is a new way to see the problem of electret patterning. Experimental results prove that patterned electrets charged by a positive corona discharge show excellent stability with high surface charge densities that may reach 5mC/m^2 on 1.1μm-thick layers, even with fine patterning and harsh temperature conditions (up to 250°C). This paves the way to new e-VEH designs and manufacturing processes.
description: Proc. European Energy Conference, 2012
Sichtfeldstudie zu Windenergieanlagen im Rahmen des Welterbe- Nominierungsantrags „Das Residenzensemble Schwerin – Kulturlandschaft des romantischen Historismus“
Creators: name: Kloos, Michael
Publisher: name: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Year: 2020

description: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees, Bd. 71 (2019): ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Third Cinema in the United States, 1960-67
Creators: name: O'Brien, Michael William
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2019
Subjects: Third Cinema
Black film
Civil Rights
Revolution
Radical cinema
1960s film

description: This dissertation explores how cinema was an important outlet that artists and activists in the 1960s turned to in order to engage in cultural battles against various forms of institutional oppression. It links the aims and struggles of Americans making socially conscious films about racial discrimination to a broader category of image warfare known as Third Cinema. Third Cinema is generally applied to the notable proliferation of politically engaged films and revolutionary filmmaking theories developed in economically depressed and/or colonially exploited countries. This project seeks to answer the question of what Third Cinema might look like in a First World country in an attempt to better understand the social, cultural, industrial and political struggles involved in using film to foster social change. In connecting black-themed, revolutionary-inspired filmmaking in the United States from 1960-1967 to a broader atmosphere of global resistance to physically and mentally oppressive hegemonic forces, this dissertation provides a critical framework that offers a more informed and flexible approach to understanding the history and significance of representation and revolution in film. The year 1960 signaled a turning point for the representation of black Americans on national movie screens. The independent, black-themed filmmaking from this period generally has been overlooked for reasons explored throughout this dissertation. This dissertation aims to reexamine, recontextualize and ultimately redeem a collection of texts that have been dismissed or ignored because of their lack of access to distribution channels and/or low production values. Each chapter considers the production and reception of a set of black-themed films from the 1960s and discusses them alongside developments in the American filmmaking industry, international and revolutionary cinematic movements, and the civil rights struggle. The films are analyzed for the ways in which they articulate a revolutionary impulse and the desire to promote social, cultural, and political change. Taken together, these film texts and the artists who created them demonstrate the possibilities of a radical cinema in America.
“Unity, Creativity, Beauty” – Decline and Survival of Socialist Memorial Sites in Bulgaria
Creators: name: Kaleva, Emilia
name: Vasileva, Aneta
Publisher: name: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Year: 2020

description: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees, Bd. 73 (2020): ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Fitting in a complex chi^2 landscape using an optimized hypersurface sampling
Creators: name: Pardo, L. C.
name: Rovira-Esteva, M.
name: Busch, S.
name: Moulin, J. -F.
name: Tamarit, J. Ll.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fitting a data set with a parametrized model can be seen geometrically as finding the global minimum of the chi^2 hypersurface, depending on a set of parameters {P_i}. This is usually done using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. The main drawback of this algorithm is that despite of its fast convergence, it can get stuck if the parameters are not initialized close to the final solution. We propose a modification of the Metropolis algorithm introducing a parameter step tuning that optimizes the sampling of parameter space. The ability of the parameter tuning algorithm together with simulated annealing to find the global chi^2 hypersurface minimum, jumping across chi^2{P_i} barriers when necessary, is demonstrated with synthetic functions and with real data.
Toward culturally appropriate consultation: an approach for Fort McKay First Nation
Creators: name: McKillop, Jennifer A,
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: AC1 .T484 2002 M397

description: Bibliography: p. 96-108
description: Resource extraction from the traditional lands of Aboriginal peoples without appropriate consideration for traditional land use activities has transformed social and cultural structures, compromised economies, and restricted access to resources. Industrial intrusion into the traditional lands of Fort McKay First Nation, located within the Athabasca oil sands region of northern Alberta, reveals the need to develop an effective approach for consultation that addresses the implications of resource extraction for traditional activities and associated social and cultural values. This MDP establishes that existing frameworks do not recognize the rights of Aboriginal people and do not meet the standards for consultation set by the courts. Current approaches to the assessment of impacts on traditional land use are inadequate due to their lack of recognition of what landscapes are most important to the community. A Culturally Significant Ecosystem (CSE) approach is developed to define patterns of resource harvesting according to intensity of use, an approach that is founded in the values and interests of community in the use of natural resources and geographic distribution of harvesting activities. A more appropriate development assessment framework is proposed, one that relies on a CSE approach, the development of a community­based environmental management strategy, and is cognizant of the rights of Aboriginal peoples. This framework represents a movement from consultation toward true participation of the community, and recognizes both the desire and ability of Aboriginal people to make decisions about what affects their lives and their livelihoods.
Nucleon axial and pseudoscalar form factors from the covariant Faddeev equation
Creators: name: Eichmann, Gernot
name: Fischer, Christian S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the axial and pseudoscalar form factors of the nucleon in the Dyson-Schwinger approach. To this end, we solve a covariant three-body Faddeev equation for the nucleon wave function and determine the matrix elements of the axialvector and pseudoscalar isotriplet currents. Our only input is a well-established and phenomenologically successful ansatz for the nonperturbative quark-gluon interaction. As a consequence of the axial Ward-Takahashi identity that is respected at the quark level, the Goldberger-Treiman relation is reproduced for all current-quark masses. We discuss the timelike pole structure of the quark-antiquark vertices that enters the nucleon matrix elements and determines the momentum dependence of the form factors. Our result for the axial charge underestimates the experimental value by 20-25% which might be a signal of missing pion-cloud contributions. The axial and pseudoscalar form factors agree with phenomenological and lattice data in the momentum range above Q^2 ~ 1...2 GeV^2.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
Superfluidity of metastable bulk glass para-hydrogen at low temperature
Creators: name: Osychenko, O. N.
name: Rota, R.
name: Boronat, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Molecular para-hydrogen has been proposed theoretically as a possible candidate for superfluidity, but the eventual superfluid transition is hindered by its crystallization. In this work, we study a metastable non crystalline phase of bulk p-H2 by means of the Path Integral Monte Carlo method in order to investigate at which temperature this system can support superfluidity. By choosing accurately the initial configuration and using a non commensurate simulation box, we have been able to frustrate the formation of the crystal in the simulated system and to calculate the temperature dependence of the one-body density matrix and of the superfluid fraction. We observe a transition to a superfluid phase at temperatures around 1 K. The limit of zero temperature is also studied using the diffusion Monte Carlo method. Results for the energy, condensate fraction, and structure of the metastable liquid phase at T=0 are reported and compared with the ones obtained for the stable solid phase.
description: 10 pages, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
Development of NbN based Kinetic Inductance Detectors on sapphire and diamond substrates for fusion plasma polarimetric diagnostics
Creators: name: Mazzocchi, Francesco
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2022
Subjects: Supraleitender Detektor
Diamant
NbN
Kernfusionsplasma
Polarimetrie
Superconducting detector
Diamond
Nuclear Fusion Plasma
Polarimetry

description: This work aimed at designing, studying and producing the first prototypes of KIDs tailored for fusion plasma polarimetric diagnostics. Diamond was considered for the first time as substrate material for low-temperature superconducting detectors given its unmatched optical, radiation hardness and thermal qualities, properties necessary for working environments potentially saturated with radiation. This work represents a first step toward the optimization and final application of this technology.
On the Order Dimension of Convex Geometries
Creators: name: Beagley, Jonathan E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52C10, 06A07

description: We study the order dimension of the lattice of closed sets for a convex geometry. Further, we prove the existence of large convex geometries realized by planar point sets that have very low order dimension. We show that the planar point set of Erdos and Szekeres from 1961 which is a set of 2^(n-2) points and contains no convex n-gon has order dimension n - 1 and any larger set of points has order dimension strictly larger than n - 1.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
Inhalt
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 9 Nr. 11 (1956): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Rudolf Wittkower, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the Sculptor of the Roman Baroque
Creators: name: Boeck, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Rudolf Wittkower, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the Sculptor of the Roman Baroque. London, The Phaidon Press, 1955, X, 255 S. m. 122 Abb. auf Taf. und 98 Textabb. DM 32.50.
description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 9 Nr. 12 (1956): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Development of a cryogenic tracer irradiation facility
Creators: name: Lester, Ryan Stuart
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cryogenics
Irradiation
Tracer gas
Radiotracer
Radioxenon
Radioargon

description: The goal of this thesis is to provide instruction on the design, modeling, construction, and implementation of a cryogenic tracer irradiation facility that produces isotopically pure noble gas samples both efficiently and cost effectively. These samples will be used for various research purposes. This facility will be installed into Beam Port 1 (BP1) of The University of Texas at Austin’s Nuclear Engineering Teaching Lab (NETL) TRIGA Mark II reactor core. This work builds on previous creation of noble gas activities of ¹²⁷Xe and ³⁷Ar on the order of 3.7x10¹⁰ Bq (1 Ci). These were produced through the activation of ¹²⁶Xe and ³⁶r, respectively, in the 3-Element facility which sat within the reactor core. This new facility offers means to produce these tracer gases in ways that are much safer and more cost-effective. Methods developed include solidification of the respective gases to increase sample density, change of location, and new facility components. The most important aspect of the design is the changes made to increase sample density by way of cryogenically freezing the gases onto a condenser. Beam Port 1 was chosen because it is larger than the in-core facilities and provided a safer location than in the core itself in the event that the pressure safety limit was exceeded. To efficiently freeze these gases a condensing system was designed and built by Cryomech Inc. The condensing system is composed of an irradiation canister, heat exchanger, helium compressor and transfer lines, and gas transfer lines.
Submerged pedology: the soils of minor islands in the Venice lagoon
Creators: name: Washa, Mohammad
name: Nadimi-Goki, Mandana
name: Gallo, Alba
name: Cabianca, Claudio
name: Bini, Claudio
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: soil processes; Entisols; Inceptisols; soil properties

description: Minor islands of the Venice lagoon are part of a delicate ecosystem, with equilibrium that depends on multiple factors deriving from both the aqueous and the terrestrial compartment, and represent useful indicators of the lagoon ecosystem status. Over centuries, some islands emerged, some others disappeared, others are being submerged in consequence of sea level rise, or are dismantled by marine erosion. Ecological survey and soil sampling evidenced rather homogeneous environment and soil characters, likely due to the same genesis from HTM during centuries, and to environmental conditions such as moisture and brackish groundwater. Four of the examined soils are Inceptisols, while the others present limited horizon differentiation, and are Entisols. All the profiles reflect udic or aquic conditions, and some of them are submerged for most time. Most soils are moderately alkaline (7.9  250 g/kg); organic carbon content at surface is within the normal range (8  17 g/kg) and carbonates. Moreover, the textural class is generally silty-loam with increasing clay content with depth. Currently, the soils examined present hydromorphic pedofeatures, which are the result of the most important pedogenic process in the lagoon. Alternating reduction/oxidation processes would increase as a consequence of sea level rise, determining reducing conditions at bottom, and conversely enhancing salt concentration uppermost, with negative consequences for both pedogenic evolution and vegetation survival.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 18 (2015)
Les Belles Heures de Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Creators: name: Winkler, Friedrich
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Les Belles Heures de Jean de France, Duc de Berry. Reproduction intégrale des enluminures, précédée d'une introduction de Jean Porcher. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1953. 158 Tafeln, 50 Seiten, 16 Abb.
description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 9 Nr. 7 (1956): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Spontaneous emission enhancement in metal-dielectric metamaterials
Creators: name: Iorsh, Ivan
name: Poddubny, Alexander
name: Orlov, Alexey
name: Belov, Pavel
name: Kivshar, Yuri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spontaneous emission of a dipole emitter imbedded into a layered metal-dielectric metamaterial. We demonstrate ultra-high values of the Purcell factor in such structures due to a high density of states with hyperbolic isofrequency surfaces. We reveal that the traditional effective-medium approach greatly underestimates the value of the Purcell factor due to the presence of an effective nonlocality, and we present an analytical model which agrees well with numerical calculations.
Soil microbial activity in hydromorphic-subaqueous ecosystems: processes and functional biodiveristy
Creators: name: Papp, Ruxandra
name: Vittori Antisari, Livia
name: Vianello, Gilmo
name: Marabottini, Rosit
name: Marinari, Sara
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: Sulfiwassent; Psammowassent; Psammaquent; soil microbial activity

description: The hydromorphic and subaqueous soils have largely been overlooked on their pedogenic concepts or in soil C accounting studies considering their phisico-chemical properties. Conversely, little attention has been paid to the microbial activity playing a key role in regulating the biogeochemical cycle of elements. The aim of the study was to evaluate biological properties such as enzyme activities and the functional diversity of soil microbial population as bio- indicators, sensitive to processes affected by the water shallow. Eight soil profiles were opened along two transects: 1) a-a’ North and 2) b-b' South, in a dune ecosystem of the Adriatic coast, Ravenna (Italy). The soil chemical and biochemical properties were determined. In particular, soil enzyme activities and soil induced respiration were measured using the microplates technique in order to assess the microbial functional diversity. The soil biochemical properties such as the potential enzyme activities and microbial induced respiration, as well as microbial functional diversity were sensitive indicators to study hydromorphic and subaqueous soils. A general reduction of hydrolytic enzyme activities was observed in subaqueous soil with respect to hydromorphic one. Moreover, the endopedon of subaqueous soils showed a lower microbial functional diversity than hydromorphic one. In this study the ratio of enzyme activities involved in C to S cycles (SEIC/Aryl) as well as the C:S ratio showed a marked reduction in the subaqueous with respect to hydromorphic soils. In conclusion, in a coastal area the C and S biogeochemical cycles, in the hydromorphic and subaqueous soils, may depend on freshwater and saltwater interface equilibrium.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 18 (2015)
Modelling fluids and crystals using a two-component modified phase field crystal model
Creators: name: Robbins, Mark J.
name: Archer, Andrew J.
name: Thiele, Uwe
name: Knobloch, Edgar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A modified phase field crystal model in which the free energy may be minimised by an order parameter profile having isolated bumps is investigated. The phase diagram is calculated in one and two dimensions and we locate the regions where modulated and uniform phases are formed and also regions where localised states are formed. We investigate the effectiveness of the phase field crystal model for describing fluids and crystals with defects. We further consider a two component model and elucidate how the structure transforms from hexagonal crystalline ordering to square ordering as the concentration changes. Our conclusion contains a discussion of possible interpretations of the order parameter field.
Methane and carbon dioxide fluxes from Limonium residues decomposition in saltmarsh soils: effects of tide regime
Creators: name: Pellegrini, Elisa
name: Floreani, Federico
name: Cortin, Marco
name: De Nobili, Maria
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: saltmarsh soils; hydromorphic conditions; mineralisation; methane

description: The flooding regime of saltmarshes strongly affects organic matter mineralisation, representing a unique situation where oxygen diffusion is either impeded by submersion or favoured by retreating water in regular cycles within the same day. Decomposition of Limonium vulgare Mill. residues in saltmarsh soils was evaluated measuring CO2 and CH4 emissions. Four different saltmarshes from the Grado Lagoon (Northern Adriatic Sea) were investigated. Soils were characterised by a similar vegetation (Sarcocornietea class) and similar high coverage of L. vulgare (70-75%) but differed in redox potential, texture and organic carbon content. Hydromorphic conditions were reproduced in mesocosms, and soils were 20 incubated under fully aerobic, fully anaerobic and transient (6 hours cycles) tidal states. Partially decomposed litter (leaves) of L. vulgare was added and 22 decomposition processes were monitored through CO2 and CH4 emissions. Larger CO2 emissions were measured under aerobic conditions, in particular in soil samples with coarse texture. Fully anoxic and tidal regimes showed a similar behaviour. On the contrary, CH4 emissions were less dependent upon flooding, showing only slightly larger values under completely submerged conditions. Larger CH4 emissions have been obtained in fine textured soils. Soil organic matter content also influenced gas emissions: larger values corresponded to higher emissions of both CO2 and CH4.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 18 (2015)
GSH 006-15+7: A local Galactic supershell featuring transition from HI emission to absorption
Creators: name: Moss, Vanessa A.
name: McClure-Griffiths, Naomi M.
name: Braun, Robert
name: Hill, Alex S.
name: Madsen, Greg J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the discovery of a new Galactic supershell, GSH 006-15+7, from the Galactic All Sky Survey data. Observed and derived properties are presented and we find that GSH 006-15+7 is one of the nearest physically large supershells known, with dimensions of ~ 780 x 520 pc at a distance of ~ 1.5 kpc. The shell wall appears in HI emission at b ~ -6.5 deg. We use this feature along with HISA diagnostics to estimate an optical depth of tau ~ 3, a spin temperature of ~ 40 K and a swept-up mass of M ~ 3e6 solar masses. We also investigate the origin of GSH 006-15+7, assessing the energy contribution of candidate powering sources and finding evidence in favour of a formation energy of ~ 1e52 ergs. We find that this structure provides evidence for the transfer of mass and energy from the Galactic disk into the halo.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Land use, salinity and water quality. The case study of a coastal system in central Italy
Creators: name: Canfora, Loredana
name: Benedetti, Anna
name: Francaviglia, Rosa
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: coastal systems; land use; microbial community; salinity; water quality

description: In this study, the evaluation of soil and groundwater quality was coupled with a T-RFLP and real time qPCR analysis of 16S and 18S rRNA genes in order to investigate the soil microbial community structure and diversity in a coastal lagoon system of Central Italy. The main aim of the research was to assess the reciprocal effect of the lagoon salinity and of the different land uses both on the inland groundwater and quality, and on the soil microbial community structure and diversity. Results emphasize for the first time the diversity of the microbial communities in environments with a strong salinity gradient, as affected by land use, depth and spatial location.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 18 (2015)
The Time Dependent CP Violation in Charm
Creators: name: Inguglia, Gianluca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model which describes the time-dependent CP formalism in $D^0$ decays has recently been proposed. There it has been highlighted a possible measurement of the angle $β_c$, in the charm unitarity triangle, using the decays $D^0\to K^+ K^-$ and $D^0\to π^+ π^-$, and a measurement of the mixing phase $ϕ_{MIX}$. The same method can be used to measure the value of the parameter $x$, one of the two parameters defining charm mixing. We numerically evaluate the impact of a time-dependent analysis in terms of the possible outcomes from present and future experiments. We consider the scenarios of correlated $D^0$ mesons production at the center of mass energy of the $Ψ(3770)$ at Super$B$, uncorrelated production at the center of mass energy of the $Υ(4S)$ at Super$B$ and Belle II, and LHCb. Recently a hint of direct CP violation in charm decays was reported by the LHCb collaboration, we estimate the rate of time-dependent asymmetry that could be achieved using their available data, and we generalise the result for the full LHCb program. We conclude that LHCb is already able to perform a first measurement of $β_{c,eff}$, and slightly improve the present constraints on the parameters $x$ and $ϕ_{MIX}$. A more precise determination of $β_{c,eff}$, $ϕ_{MIX}$ and $x$ will require a larger data sample, and most probably the cleaner environment of the new high luminosities $B$-factories (both Super$B$ and Belle II) will be needed. We show that Super$B$ will be able to measure $β_{c,eff}$ and $ϕ_{MIX}$ with a precision of $1.4^o$ and improve the precision on $x$ by a factor of two.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables, contribution to the proceedings of the XXVI course of "Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d'Aoste"
Constructing gender differences: media accounts of female and male youth crime
Creators: name: Perverseff, Tara Lee
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: AC1 .T484 2002 P474

description: Bibliography: p. 118-129
description: This thesis examines the social construction of youth crime in the news media. Specifically, the focus is on the differences (and similarities) in newspaper accounts of young female and male offenders and victims. Various themes and images are presented and compared with respect to young victims and offenders. Using qualitative content analysis of newspapers, findings illustrate different images of youthful offenders and victims and how these differences are reflective of their gender status. The media images of youthful offending and victimization vary by sex of the offender and victim. The news media's general commentary on youth crime, for example, the impact of crime on the community, is further considered to present an overall picture of the images of youth crime. From the media's social construction of youth crime, it appears as though youth crime is a serious problem and that images of youth identified in media accounts suggest that crime is pervasive.
An IDE to Build and Check Task Flow Models
Creators: name: Fernandez-y-Fernandez, Carlos Alberto
name: Morales, Jose Angel Quintanar
name: Santos, Hermenegildo Fernandez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents the Eclipse plug-ins for the Task Flow model in the Discovery Method. These plug-ins provide an IDE for the Task Algebra compiler and the model-checking tools. The Task Algebra is the formal representation for the Task Model and it is based on simple and compound tasks. The model-checking techniques were developed to validate Task Models represented in the algebra.
The contributions of mother, father, and friend in attachment and social provisions to adolescent psychosocial development
Creators: name: Schwartz, Kelly Dean
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: AC1 .T484 2002 S39

description: Bibliography: p. 191-218
description: Adolescents' relationships with their parents and peers have long been acknowledged as important contributors to their psychosocial development. The purposes of this investigation were to (a) explore the nature of adolescents' relationships with their mothers, fathers, and most important same-sex friends, (b) assess the relative contributions of these three relationship systems on the psychosocial development of adolescents, and (c) determine whether there are underlying constructs cutting across the different kinds of relationships that predict adolescent psychosocial development. Of particular interest were the separate and unique contributions of attachment style (e.g., secure, preoccupied) with mother, father, and same-sex best friend and the social provisions (e.g., intimacy, conflict) provided by these relationships to psychosocial development. Participants were 232 mid-adolescents (102 males, 130 females; M= 15.1 years) from four Catholic junior and senior high schools in Calgary, Alberta. Participants completed a web-based questionnaire during class that assessed attachment style with their mother, father, and most important same-sex friend (Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991) and the social provisions (Furman & Buhrmester, 1985) within each relationship. They then completed a series of measures related to psychosocial development, i.e., Emotional Autonomy Scale (Steinberg & Silverberg, 1986), Psychosocial Maturity Inventory (Greenberger & Sorenson, 1974), Psychosocial Inventory of Ego Strengths (Markstrom, Sabino, Turner, & Berman, 1997), and Dellas Identity Status Inventory - Religious Beliefs (Dellas & J emigan, 1987). Adolescents viewed their relationships with mother, father and friend as both independent and interdependent. Secure and insecure attachment relationships were consistent across the three relationship dyads, while social provisions were more differentiated across relationships. Different attachment styles and social provisions were associated with different aspects of psychosocial development. For example, having insecure attachments with and negative interaction provisions from parents and friends were positively associated with emotional autonomy and ego strength; whereas having secure attachment styles with and positive support provisions from parents and friends were positively associated with psychosocial maturity and religious identity. This pattern of findings occurred using either separate measures of attachment styles and social provisions or underlying constructs derived from factor analysis. The relative contributions of mothers, fathers and friends to psychosocial development were discussed.
Lantier, Raymond, Lugdunum (Tabula imperii Romani ; NL 31)
Creators: name: Koethe, Harald
Publisher: name: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Lantier, Raymond, Lugdunum. Paris, 1938 - (Tabula imperii Romani ; NL 31)
description: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete, Bd. 13 Nr. 3 (1938): Trierer Zeitschrift : für Geschichte und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Unification of the three families of generalized Apostol type polynomials on the Umbral algebra
Creators: name: Dere, Rahime
name: Simsek, Yilmaz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A40, 11B83, 11B68, 11B73, 26C05, 30B10

description: The aim of this paper is to investigate and introduce some new identities related to the unification and generalization of the three families of generalized Apostol type polynomials, which are Apostol-Bernoulli, Apostol-Euler, and Apostol-Genocchi polynomials, on the modern theory of the Umbral calculus and algebra. We also introduce some operators. Recently, Ozden constructed generating function of the unification of the Apostol type polynomials (see Ozden [H. Ozden, AIP Conf. Proc. 1281, (2010), 1125-1227.]). By using this generating function, we derive many properties of these polynomials. We give relations between these polynomials and Stirling numbers.
An integrated approach to prevent the erosion of salt marshes in the lagoon of Venice
Creators: name: Barausse, Alberto
name: Grechi, Laura
name: Martinello, Nevenka
name: Musner, Tommaso
name: Smania, Dario
name: Zangaglia, Alberto
name: Palmeri, Luca
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: salt marsh erosion; Venice lagoon; soil bioengineering techniques; sustainability

description: The loss of coastal habitats is a widespread problem in Europe. To protect the intertidal salt marshes of the lagoon of Venice from the erosion due to natural and human causes which is diffusely and intensely impacting them, the European Commission has funded the demonstrative project LIFE VIMINE. LIFE VIMINE aims to protect the most interior, hard-to-access salt marshes in the northern lagoon of Venice through an integrated approach, whose core is the prevention of erosion through numerous, small but spatially-diffuse soil-bioengineering protections works, mainly placed through semi-manual labour and with low impact on the environment and the landscape. The effectiveness of protection works in the long term is ensured through routine, temporally-continuous and spatially-diffuse actions of monitoring and maintenance. This method contrasts the common approach to managing hydraulic risk and erosion in Italy which is based on large, one-off and irreversible protection actions. The sustainability of the LIFE VIMINE approach is ensured by the participatory involvement of stakeholders and the recognition that protecting salt marshes means defending the benefits they provide to society through their ecological functions, as well as protecting the jobs linked to the existence or conservation of this habitat.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 18 (2015)
Wiederholen, verfremden, ausbrechen: Zeitlichkeit in der (post-)sowjetischen Kunst
Creators: name: Renz, Seraina
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2020

description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 1 Nr. 1 (2020): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Preliminary notes on C-N ppols in sediments from the Sacca di Goro coastal lagoon (Po delta, northern Italy)
Creators: name: Bianchini, Gianluca
name: Natali, Claudio
name: Fogli, Riccardo
name: Vittori Antisari, Livia
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: subaqueous soils; coastal lagoon; Sacco di Goro, C-N isotopes

description: A very hot debate is currently focused on submerged substrates that can be classified either as sediments or subaqueous soils. In this paper, the controversy is contextualized on a specific case study, i.e. the Sacca di Goro coastal lagoon facing the North Adriatic Sea. The submerged substrate has been sampled along a a E-W transect and subsequently analyzed to investigate the C-N elemental and isotopic compositions. The recorded concentration of organic carbon (OC) and nitrogen is 0.26-0.50 and 0.02-0.06 wt%, respectively, and the spatial distribution of these parameters highlights a general decrease of concentration from W to E. The carbon isotopic composition of the organic matter (δ13COC) indicates the incorporation within the substrate of significant amount of seaweed and seagrass. Seaweed prevails in the west (δ13COC down to -19‰) due to a nutrient-rich freshwater inflow (Po di Volano), whereas seagrass is preponderant eastward (δ13COC up to -10‰) in a sector of the lagoon fed by riverine waters characterized by lower nutrient load (Po di Goro). The existence of these biological components plausibly implies a lush benthic vegetation, properly rooted on the submerged floor. For this reason, in our view the substrate of the investigated lagoon can be regarded as a subaqueous soil.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 19 (2015)
Quantifying the preference intensities associated with physical tasks
Creators: name: Rosnau, Lucas J. W.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: AC1 .T484 2002 R675

description: Bibliography: p. 194-198
description: What can be inferred about a commuter's preferences over the physical tasks of walking, standing, and sitting using a hybrid of experimental and contingent valuation methodologies? This research addresses the question of whether there exists a valid and reliable dollar-measure of preference intensities for walking, standing, and sitting. Data was collected from over 100 participants; they participated in an experiment involving actual money tradeoffs and physical consequences (walking, standing, or sitting) for choices. The experiment is noteworthy for trying to distil a dollar-measure for preferences over tasks independent of the inherent time-costs associated with those tasks.
First results on enzymatic activities in two salt marsh soils under different hydromorphic level and vegetation
Creators: name: Trasar-Cepeda, Carmen
name: Bello, Diana
name: Ferronato, Chiara
name: Vittori Antisari, Livia
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: salt-marsh soils; enzymatic activities; Juncus maritimus; Spartina maritima

description: Salt-marsh soils are soils characterized by non-permanent hydric saturation that, depending on factors like duration of submersion periods, are dominated by different salt-tolerant plant species. The composition of microbial communities is an essential component in trophic dynamics and biogeochemical processes in salt marshes, and determines the level of enzymatic activities, which catalyze the conversion of complex molecules into simpler ones. Despite of this, the enzymatic activities in marsh-soils has not yet been investigated. The aim of this study was to analyze the enzymatic activities in two soil profiles of marsh-soils under different water saturation level and dominated by different plant species [Juncus maritimus Lam and Spartina maritima (Curtis) Fernald (Sp)]. In both soils, the enzymatic activities were much lower than the levels typically found in terrestrial ecosystems. The enzymatic activities were measured both in air-dried and in re-moistened and incubated soil samples. In air-dried samples, the enzymatic activities were higher in Juncus than in Spartina soil and tended to decrease with depth, being sharper the decrease in Juncus than in Spartina soil. Re-moistened and pre-incubated soils showed a general increase in all the enzymatic activities and throughout the whole soil profile, especially in Spartina soils. Hydrolase activities showed a strong and positive relationship with organic matter content both in air-dried and in re-moistened soil samples, higher in these latter. In general, oxidoreductase activities only showed this relationship in re-moistened soil samples. More studies, preferably using freshly collected soil samples, are needed to understand the relationship between enzymatic activities and these environmental conditions.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 19 (2015)
Zanier, Werner, Der spätlatène- und römerzeitliche Brandopferplatz im Forggensee (Gde. Schwangau)
Creators: name: Unruh, Frank
Publisher: name: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: Zanier, Werner, Der spätlatène- und römerzeitliche Brandopferplatz im Forggensee (Gde. Schwangau). München : Beck, 1999. 202, 46 S. + 4 Beil. - (Münchner Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte ; 52). ISBN 3-406-10752-4
description: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete, Bd. 63 (2000): Trierer Zeitschrift : für Geschichte und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Heyen, Franz-Josef, Das Stift St. Simeon in Trier
Creators: name: Unruh, Frank
Publisher: name: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: Heyen, Franz-Josef, Das Stift St. Simeon in Trier. Berlin : de Gruyter, 2002. XX, 1100 S. - (Germania sacra : N. F. ; 41). ISBN 3-11-017224-0
description: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete, Bd. 65 (2002): Trierer Zeitschrift : für Geschichte und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
First observations on marine subaqueous soils in "Torre del Cerrano" marine protected area, Adriatic sea (Italy)
Creators: name: Cocco, Stefania
name: Cardelli, Valeria
name: Pedicini, Silvia
name: Borguete Alves Rafael, Rogeiro
name: Agnelli, Alberto
name: Fornasier, Flavio
name: Vallarola, Fabio
name: Corti, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: subaqueous soils; animal bioturbation; Chamelea gallina

description: Subaqueous soils have to be studied with proper methodologies, according to a pedological approach and considering the key role of animal bioturbation. Morphological and chemical characteristics of submerged soils found in the MPA of "Torre del Cerrano", Adriatic sea (Italy), have been studied in this way, and we conclude that submarine soils of the MPA are important examples of pedogenesis promoted by animals. Soils from the highly protected marine area hosted a major biodiversity than those from the sub- and non-protected areas, while no striking differences in terms of soil physical and chemical characteristics among protected, sub-protected and non-protected areas occurred.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 19 (2015)