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Private passions:
Creators: name: Arvay, Susan M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation examines the representation of suffering in medieval affective devotional texts. Images of physical and emotional suffering from Christ's life and Passion abound in these materials meant for private meditation. Critical assessments of this suffering often cast it as indicative of child-like literalism and sentimentality. By contrast, I argue that these texts require the reader to engage with this suffering in far more complex psychological ways. Chapter one explores the connection between imagined suffering and the ethical function of affective meditations. Drawing on Mary Caruthers's work on the cultural meanings and uses of memory, I demonstrate how the classical art of memory evolved during the Middle Ages from a secular tool for orators into a Christian tool for self-fashioning. Chapter two examines the process of self-transformation encouraged by the Meditations on the Life of Christ and questions the perception that the Meditations merely offers a script for a meditator to passively follow in order to feel compassion for Christ. I use performance theory to argue that the Meditations instead relies on a productive tension between pleasure and pain that causes the meditator to experience the act of inflicting emotional pain upon herself as a pleasurable act of self-creation. Chapter three employs Emmanuel Levinas's ideas about the nature of an ethical relationship with the Other to illuminate the nature of Margery Kempe's relationship to Christ in The Book of Margery Kempe. Kempe's Book demonstrates the necessity to the affective project of failing to make God and his suffering "familiar" to the reader. Chapter four uses Caroline Bynum's work on gender in medieval spirituality to argue that the Quis dabit, one of the most popular and influential texts in the planctus Mariae genre, embodies assumptions about gendered spiritual roles that affect how male and female readers relate to Christ and Mary. In the Quis dabit's conversation between Bernard of Clairvaux and Mary, Bernard's attempt to identify with Mary';s suffering turns into his appropriation of Mary's own narrative in order to make her better fit the "feminine" role that he needs her to play for his own spiritual ends.
Ultra compact dwarfs in the Perseus Cluster: UCD formation via tidal stripping
Creators: name: Penny, Samantha J.
name: Forbes, Duncan A.
name: Strader, Jay
name: Usher, Christopher
name: Brodie, Jean P.
name: Romanowsky, Aaron J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a Keck/DEIMOS survey of Ultra Compact Dwarfs (UCDs) in the Perseus Cluster core. We confirm cluster membership for 14 UCDs, with radial velocities ~5300 km s$^{-1}$. Two of these confirmed Perseus UCDs have extremely blue colours ($B-R < 0.6$ mag), reside in star forming filaments surrounding NGC 1275, and have likely formed as massive star clusters in the last ~100 Myr. We also measure a central velocity dispersion of a third, UCD13 ($σ_0 = 38 \pm 8$ km s$^{-1}$), the most extended UCD in our sample. We determine it to have radius $R_{e} = 85 \pm 1.1$ pc, a dynamical mass of ($2.3 \pm 0.8)\times10^{8}$ M$_{\odot}$, and a metallicity [Z/H]$= -0.52^{+0.33}_{-0.29}$ dex. UCD13 and the cluster's central galaxy, NGC 1275, have a projected separation of 30 kpc and a radial velocity difference of ~20 km s$^{-1}$. Based on its size, red colour, internal velocity dispersion, dynamical mass, metallicity and proximity to NGC 1275, we argue that UCD13 is likely the remnant nucleus of a tidally stripped dE, with this progenitor dE having $M_{B} \approx -16$ mag and mass $\sim10^{9}$ M$_{\odot}$.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Internal differences: secularism, religion, and poetic form in nineteenth-century American poetry
Creators: name: Dow, Donald W.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Accounts of the origins of literary modernism typically point back to Walt Whitman's and Emily Dickinson's break with the received conventions of meter and rhyme. These accounts present the perceived break with tradition as authorizing a variety of practices, notably the privileging of innovation in poetic form as indicative of a work's sincerity and authenticity. The dissertation seeks to revisit the break from conventional form, not in terms of modernism, but in terms of the cultural significance of poetic form in the mid-nineteenth century, particularly given the impact of secularism on the preconceptions and critical conventions governing the role of the poet and the formation of the lyrical subject. An important vein of scholarship connecting literature with modern secularism -- going back to M. H. Abrams';s Natural Supernaturalism and beyond -- posits post-Enlightenment literary works as emerging out of the secularization of previously religious tropes and themes. Recent studies of secularism as a historical movement, however, present a more complicated account than the oft-told tale of the inevitable triumph of humanism over religion. In reading the formal choices that Dickinson's and Whitman's works display, I reveal the authors' complex engagement with vital changes not only within contemporary accounts of inspiration, identity, and publication, but also with the modes of spirituality that secularism paradoxically made available as part of its reconfiguration of religiosity on a personal, intimate scale.
Partial Preferences for Mediated Bargaining
Creators: name: Bonatti, Piero A.
name: Faella, Marco
name: Sauro, Luigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work we generalize standard Decision Theory by assuming that two outcomes can also be incomparable. Two motivating scenarios show how incomparability may be helpful to represent those situations where, due to lack of information, the decision maker would like to maintain different options alive and defer the final decision. In particular, a new axiomatization is given which turns out to be a weakening of the classical set of axioms used in Decision Theory. Preliminary results show how preferences involving complex distributions are related to judgments on single alternatives.
description: In Proceedings SR 2014, arXiv:1404.0414
Elastic trapping of dislocation loops in cascades in ion-irradiated tungsten foils
Creators: name: Mason, D R
name: Yi, X
name: Kirk, M A
name: Dudarev, S L
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using _in situ_ transmission electron microscopy (TEM), we have observed nanometre scale dislocation loops formed when an ultra-high-purity tungsten foil is irradiated with a very low fluence of self-ions. Analysis of the TEM images has revealed the largest loops to be predominantly of prismatic 1/2<111> type and of vacancy character. The formation of such dislocation loops is surprising since isolated loops are expected to be highly mobile, and should escape from the foil. In this work we show that the observed size and number density of loops can be explained by the fact that the loops are _not_ isolated - the loops formed in close proximity in the cascades interact with each other and with vacancy clusters, also formed in cascades, through long-range elastic fields, which prevent the escape of loops from the foil. We find that experimental observations are well reproduced by object Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of evolution of cascades _only_ if elastic interaction between the loops is taken into account. Our analysis highlights the profound effect of elastic interaction between defects on the microstructural evolution of irradiated materials.
description: 28 pages, 11 figures, submitted
Lagrangian ADER-WENO Finite Volume Schemes on Unstructured Triangular Meshes Based On Genuinely Multidimensional HLL Riemann Solvers
Creators: name: Boscheri, Walter
name: Balsara, Dinshaw S.
name: Dumbser, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we use the genuinely multidimensional HLL Riemann solvers recently developed by Balsara et al. to construct a new class of computationally efficient high order Lagrangian ADER-WENO one-step ALE finite volume schemes on unstructured triangular meshes. A nonlinear WENO reconstruction operator allows the algorithm to achieve high order of accuracy in space, while high order of accuracy in time is obtained by the use of an ADER time-stepping technique based on a local space-time Galerkin predictor. The multidimensional HLL and HLLC Riemann solvers operate at each vertex of the grid, considering the entire Voronoi neighborhood of each node and allows for larger time steps than conventional one-dimensional Riemann solvers. The results produced by the multidimensional Riemann solver are then used twice in our one-step ALE algorithm: first, as a node solver that assigns a unique velocity vector to each vertex, in order to preserve the continuity of the computational mesh; second, as a building block for genuinely multidimensional numerical flux evaluation that allows the scheme to run with larger time steps compared to conventional finite volume schemes that use classical one-dimensional Riemann solvers in normal direction. A rezoning step may be necessary in order to overcome element overlapping or crossing-over. We apply the method presented in this article to two systems of hyperbolic conservation laws, namely the Euler equations of compressible gas dynamics and the equations of ideal classical magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD). Convergence studies up to fourth order of accuracy in space and time have been carried out. Several numerical test problems have been solved to validate the new approach.
"The horror, the horror": the origins of a genre in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 1880-1914
Creators: name: Gilbert, Jonathan Maximilian
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation analyzes the origins of the genre of popular fiction known as horror fiction. It traces those origins, in British fiction, to the late Victorian and Edwardian eras when the Gothic genre developed into a number of different genres of popular fiction: mystery, science fiction, and horror. It defines the essential features of the horror genre that differentiate it from other genres, including the Gothic, as being the presence of the monster or monstrous and the supernatural and an aim to produce a response of horror in its readers. In addition to making an historical and theoretical argument in regards to genre in general and this genre specifically, the dissertation looks at the ways in which other discourses (such as advertising, travel literature, sociology) made use of the figures and tropes of horror fiction and, which in turn, informed the development of the themes and tropes of horror fiction. The first chapter argues that while genre is an essential concept for readers, authors, and publishers, there is also no such thing as a "pure" example of any given genre. The first chapter also positions horror fiction within the context of the fictions that present horror without the supernatural (Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness) and the supernatural divorced from horror (Marie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds). Chapter Two focuses on the figure of the monster, which becomes over-coded as a representation of multiple and sometimes contrary fears and concerns. The chapter discusses the monster and the feelings of horror it evokes using both contemporary and current anthropological, psychological, and sociological theories to frame the discussion. Chapter Three focuses on the haunted objects that appear in horror fiction and other discourses, such as advertising and political economy, at this time. The final chapter is concerned with the settings of horror fiction and the ways in which those settings differ from those of the Gothic novel. Horror fiction presupposes a realistic milieu such as the suburban home, which is invaded by a supernatural and horrific element. Horror fiction also has a more complex relation to time than its Gothic predecessor and the final chapter concludes with an examination of that relationship.
Dissipation-driven entanglement between qubits mediated by plasmonic nanoantennas
Creators: name: Hou, Jiamin
name: Słowik, Karolina
name: Lederer, Falk
name: Rockstuhl, Carsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel scheme is proposed to generate a maximally entangled state between two qubits by means of a dissipation-driven process. To this end, we entangle the quantum states of qubits that are mutually coupled by a plasmonic nanoantenna. Upon enforcing a weak spectral asymmetry in the properties of the qubits, the steady-state probability to obtain a maximally entangled, subradiant state approaches unity. This occurs despite the high losses associated to the plasmonic nanoantenna that are usually considered as being detrimental. The entanglement scheme is shown to be quite robust against variations in the transition frequencies of the quantum dots and deviations in their prescribed position with respect to the nanoantenna. Our work paves the way for novel applications in the field of quantum computation in highly integrated optical circuits.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Stability of vector bundles on curves and degenerations
Creators: name: Osserman, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H60

description: We observe that if we are interested primarily in degeneration arguments, there is a weaker notion of (semi)stability for vector bundles on reducible curves, which is sufficient for many applications, and does not depend on a choice of polarization. We introduce and explore the basic properties of this alternate notion of (semi)stability. In a complementary direction, we record a proof of the existence of semistable extensions of vector bundles in suitable degenerations.
description: 6 pages
The financial imaginary: Dreiser, DeLillo, and abstract capitalism in American literature
Creators: name: Shonkwiler, Alison R.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: This dissertation examines the representation of capitalism as an abstract phenomenon in American literature at the beginning and end of the “long᾿ twentieth century. Comparing the two most recent ends-of-century—both notorious for the promotion of “new᾿ economic rules and extremes of wealth redistribution—allows us to chart writers’ efforts to find formal strategies adequate to represent changing conditions of economic abstraction. Reading fictions from the period of the American “economic novel᾿ from 1885 to 1912 by William Dean Howells, Henry James, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser, and from contemporary narratives of “late᾿ capitalism from 1998 to 2003 by Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Jane Smiley, and David Denby, I show how texts from these two turns-of-century pose a question of parallel historical urgency: how to find new ways of seeing forces of capitalism that are thought to exceed conventional narrative powers of representation. The financial imaginary thus invites us to consider the novel’s attempts—and its failures—to make late capitalism legible in realist terms. I consider how these texts historicize a particular view of late capital as able to evolve beyond its origins as “real᾿ money and toward new levels of financial immateriality. Exploring the ways in which the representation of capital is reconceived in literature as a problem of historical perception and understanding rather than as an account of a system of material production, I argue that the “financialization᾿ of the novel’s imagination—an expansive projection of cause and effect through the abstract terms of the market—is a literary expression of and a response to the market’s seeming ability to exceed social control. Just as late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century texts seek to define historically viable modes of financial selfhood, late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century texts allow us to track the ways that contemporary narrative returns to the preoccupations of the nineteenth-century economic novel even as it models the inadequacies of such fiction to tell the story of twentieth-century capitalism.
Towards Verifying Safety Properties of Real-Time Probabilistic Systems
Creators: name: Han, Fenglin
name: Blech, Jan Olaf
name: Herrmann, Peter
name: Schmidt, Heinz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Using probabilities in the formal-methods-based development of safety-critical software has quickened interests in academia and industry. We address this area by our model-driven engineering method for reactive systems SPACE and its tool-set Reactive Blocks that provide an extension to support the modeling and verification of real-time behaviors. The approach facilitates the composition of system models from reusable building blocks as well as the verification of functional and real-time properties and the automatic generation of Java code. In this paper, we describe the extension of the tool-set to enable the modeling and verification of probabilistic real-time system behavior with the focus on spatial properties that ensure system safety. In particular, we incorporate descriptions of probabilistic behavior into our Reactive Blocks models and integrate the model checker PRISM which allows to verify that a real-time system satisfies certain safety properties with a given probability. Moreover, we consider the spatial implication of probabilistic system specifications by integrating the spatial verification tool BeSpaceD and give an automatic approach to translate system specifications to the input languages of PRISM and BeSpaceD. The approach is highlighted by an example.
description: In Proceedings FESCA 2014, arXiv:1404.0436
"Claiming ownership of that freed self:" Toni Morrison's American counter-narrative
Creators: name: McFarlane, Caryl
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: This dissertation lends its voice to the works of those scholars who have used Morrison's numerous interviews, essays, and other works of non-fiction to navigate their reading of her prose. Focusing specifically on the similarity of historiographic approaches between The Black Book, Morrison's one historical project, and her fiction, I assert that all of Morrison's novels can be read as historical texts. The Black Book is comprised of variegated pieces of memorabilia, gathered by the authors from collectors, "people who had the original raw material documenting our life" ("Rediscovering" 15). It is, therefore, a (re)collection of pieces of memory, documented and undocumented. Although Morrison's first four novels, do not conform to the traditional definition of the historical novel in "recall[ing] a life which no longer exists," they are based on the same method of historical (re)collection employed in The Black Book, each incorporating documented and undocumented pieces of memory and memorabilia (Christian 328). Based on the aforementioned methodological similarity, I read Morrison's works in historical chronology rather than publication sequence to excavate her multi-layered narrative approach that she lays bare through the process of time. While each of the novels discussed are comprised of various layers of interwoven individual narratives they unfold against the backdrop of a larger American narrative, the National Narrative. Reformulating Morrison's usage of the event based "national narrative" in her Simpson analysis, I argue that the National Narrative is the cohesion of two constructed narratives, white domination and black subjugation ("Official Story" 16). Although each protagonist, with the exception of Sethe in Beloved, has corporeal freedom, all are spiritually bound by difficult past histories, and by the Narrative impact in their present circumstances. Yet, the narrative of the protagonist's life serves as a counter-narrative to the National Narrative's constructions as he/she journeys towards spiritual recrudescence. However, none of Morrison's novels proceeds or concludes in a linearly definitive manner. Contrary to narratological convention, each novel includes fragmented time sequences and concludes with numerous questions unanswered encouraging the reader to participate in the textual conversation Morrison elicits with each opening sentence.
3D Coronal Density Reconstruction and Retrieving the Magnetic Field Structure during Solar Minimum
Creators: name: Kramar, M.
name: Airapetian, V.
name: Mikić, Z.
name: Davila, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurement of the coronal magnetic field is a crucial ingredient in understanding the nature of solar coronal phenomena at all scales. We employed STEREO/COR1 data obtained during a deep minimum of solar activity in February 2008 (Carrington rotation CR 2066) to retrieve and analyze the three-dimensional (3D) coronal electron density in the range of heights from 1.5 to 4 Rsun using a tomography method. With this, we qualitatively deduced structures of the coronal magnetic field. The 3D electron density analysis is complemented by the 3D STEREO/EUVI emissivity in the 195 A band obtained by tomography for the same CR. A global 3D MHD model of the solar corona was used to relate the reconstructed 3D density and emissivity to open/closed magnetic field structures. We show that the density maximum locations can serve as an indicator of current sheet position, while the locations of the density gradient maximum can be a reliable indicator of coronal hole boundaries. We find that the magnetic field configuration during CR 2066 has a tendency to become radially open at heliocentric distances greater than 2.5 Rsun. We also find that the potential field model with a fixed source surface (PFSS) is inconsistent with the boundaries between the regions with open and closed magnetic field structures. This indicates that the assumption of the potential nature of the coronal global magnetic field is not satisfied even during the deep solar minimum. Results of our 3D density reconstruction will help to constrain solar coronal field models and test the accuracy of the magnetic field approximations for coronal modeling.
description: Published in "Solar Physics"
Getting around: circulation and the rise of the gay and lesbian novel
Creators: name: Hurley, Natasha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: My dissertation reorients the prevailing understanding that the gay and lesbian novel came into view in response to the emergence of homosexuality as a concept. I argue that the gay and lesbian novel has a much longer history, which I trace by considering the literary circulation of homosexual types--types that through course of the nineteenth century accrete more and more language to themselves while also generating new abstract terms to describe same-sex sexual sociability. Eighteenth-century literature was sparsely populated by minor characters or fleeting episodes of desire expressed between members of the same sex. By the end of the nineteenth century, minor characters evolve into protagonists and their episodic encounters are either multiplied or developed into novel-length narratives with the texture of entire worlds. "Getting Around" thus takes as its focus the development not just of queer characters or subjects, but of queer protagonists and complete narrative worlds in which those protagonists make sense.My chapters focus both on the ways authors respond to the language of sexual types in other texts and on the ways other texts respond to them as they continue to circulate. My first chapter argues that Herman Melville's Typee has gradually acquired its status as a queer text: in the ways Melville engages with sexuality in missionary writings and in the way other writers engage with sexuality in Typee. This influence can be seen fully in Charles Warren Stoddard's writing, which I explore in Chapter Two. Stoddard's depictions of sexual sociability between men in the South Seas respond directly to Melville's and are, in turn, nurtured by Stoddard's wide circuits of literary and social circulation. My third chapter charts the circulation of female sexual types, tracing the overlapping, and mutually constituting, relationships between old maids and lesbians that are central to the social worlds depicted by Sarah Orne Jewett and Henry James. My final chapter turns fully to James's The Bostonians. In the space of one novel, I argue, James dramatizes the processes of sexual type production and social circulation that I have been documenting in American literature throughout the nineteenth century.
The mother's mark: representations of maternal influence in Middle English popular romance
Creators: name: Florschuetz, Angela L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: This dissertation investigates fourteenth- and fifteenth-century romances in English as they struggle with the complicated question of maternal influence, collectively constructed by intersecting, yet often contradictory discourses and interests. I argue that for Chaucer and the late medieval poets who wrote Octavian, Sir Gowther, and Melusine, the genre of the family romance proved particularly conducive to exploring the status of maternal influence and contribution in the context of these political, medical and religious contexts in their poems. In this project, I argue that not only is biological maternity and its significance interrogated in these romances, but that romance, especially the so-called "family romances" that gained in popularity in the later Middle Ages, with their narrativization of the vicissitudes of genealogy, offered poets an appropriate vehicle for meditating on the problems mothers posed to patriarchal genealogies--and, in some cases, the solutions they offered. Religious and medical texts often located maternal influence as a source of deviance, even monstrosity. Yet Octavian, Sir Gowther, Chaucer's Man of Law's and Clerk's Tales, and the Middle English Melusine undermine and critique paternal claims of maternal monstrosity or pollution as both untrue and ultimately dangerous to the genealogical project of reproducing the patrilineal dynasty. Modern scholarly discussions of medieval maternity tend to avoid the maternal body itself, identifying motherhood as a series of practices or identifying maternal images and metaphors as they were used by non-reproductive figures to describe their identities in other contexts. This project seeks to shift the register of an emerging conversation about medieval maternity to a more complicated level, one which acknowledges and references the complex and ambivalent social contexts in which maternal bodies and their influence were read and interpreted in the late Middle Ages. From the Octavian-poet, who acknowledges and refutes claims that the maternal body is a source of pollution, to the Melusine-poet's examination of the repercussions of recognizing and acknowledging maternal influence, late medieval poets approached the maternal body with profound ambivalence and an awareness of the social and religious stakes involved in representing that body and its significance to the community.
Influence of solar and cosmic-ray variability on climate
Creators: name: Badruddin
name: Aslam, O. P. M.
name: Singh, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze solar, geomagnetic and cosmic ray flux data along with rainfall and temperature data for almost five solar cycles. We provide evidence of significant influence of solar variability on climate. Specifically, we demonstrate association between lower (higher) rainfall and higher (lower) temperatures with increasing (decreasing) solar activity and decreasing (increasing) cosmic ray intensities. We propose a plausible scenario that accounts the results of our analysis.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures and one Table
V Ogólnopolska Konferencja Naukowa Pomoc – wsparcie społeczne – poradnictwo Między teorią a praktyką wspierania jednostki w życiu osobistym, edukacji i pracy
Creators: name: Piorunek, Magdalena
name: Nawój-Połoczańska, Joanna
name: Dolata, Dorota
Publisher: name: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
Year: 2019

description: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca, Nr 18 (2019): Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
Electric Current Circuits in Astrophysics
Creators: name: Kuijpers, Jan
name: Frey, Harald U.
name: Fletcher, Lyndsay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmic magnetic structures have in common that they are anchored in a dynamo, that an external driver converts kinetic energy into internal magnetic energy, that this magnetic energy is transported as Poynting flux across the magnetically dominated structure, and that the magnetic energy is released in the form of particle acceleration, heating, bulk motion, MHD waves, and radiation. The investigation of the electric current system is particularly illuminating as to the course of events and the physics involved. We demonstrate this for the radio pulsar wind, the solar flare, and terrestrial magnetic storms.
description: ISSI Workshop on Structures in cosmic plasmas. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11214-014-0041-y
The shape of intimacy: private space and the British social imagination, 1650-1770
Creators: name: Bobker, Danielle
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: "The Shape of Intimacy" explores the significance of a growing material culture of privacy to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literary history. In recent years, places such as the drawing room and coffee house have come to exemplify emergent norms of domestic and civil sociability. My project shifts our focus to less familiar spaces: the many variations of the closet, the period's quintessential private room, and the carriage, sometimes characterized as the closet's mobile counterpart. Closets and carriages, I argue, are not merely incidental settings in an increasingly quotidian literary landscape; rather, for many British writers of the period, they serve as vehicles for an array of charged and unstable extrafamilial encounters. Tracking the wide range of formal innovations and affective investigations associated with closets and carriages, my dissertation illuminates the double movement of the period's social imagination, which retreats into real and projected intimacies even as it reaches out into ever more expansive, abstract, and anonymous public realms.The first chapter studies the convention of naming printed collections after closets and cabinets. I argue that publishers invoked these elite, exclusive spaces to affirm the cultural capital of knowledge circulating faster and further than ever before, thereby shoring up an enduring paradigm of reading as voyeurism. Turning from printed closets to courtly ones, Chapter Two considers the slippery navigations of power and pleasure in Anthony Hamilton's Memoirs of Count de Gramont, suggesting that the orientalist flourishes in an intrigue set in a Restoration bathing closet -- an interior Charles II had redesigned in Ottoman fashion -- work to underscore the declining political stakes of homoerotic alliances. Chapter Three centers on Jonathan Swift's poem about the pair of privies he built on his friends' country estate. Composed a few decades before water closets would become the newest site of intra-domestic retreat, "Panegyric on the Dean" links the breakdown of communal values to the excretory solitude that seems a travesty of closet prayer. The final chapter contrasts carriage sociability in Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey with earlier satirical scenes of awkwardness between strangers on the road. The vehicle called the Vis-a-vis is Sterne's figure for the possibility of intimate anonymity.
Philosophies of retribution: Kyd, Shakespeare, Webster, and the revenge tragedy genre
Creators: name: Crosbie, Christopher James
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: The first book-length attempt to set the generic parameters of early modern revenge tragedy was also the last. Since Fredson Bowers' Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy (1940), scholarship has interrogated literary and cultural issues within the genre. But it has left intact the prevailing assumption that such plays feature revenge as their principal focus, their very reason for existing as plays. Rather than privilege the retribution trajectory as the end point of critical inquiry, my dissertation argues that revenge proved a particularly apt vehicle for engaging with the highly contested philosophies of the period. For while critical discourse has read revenge as principally concerned with matters of justice and law, the retribution motif, unique among other early modern dramatic conventions, continually recalls to audience attention both the initiating forces behind current action and the fluid boundaries between the immaterial and material. By emphasizing the relationships between cause and effect, spirit and matter, and even idea and action, early modern revenge tragedies invite reconsideration, then, of a wider range of philosophies than the legal and religious injunctions overtly invoked within such plays. Indeed, early modern revenge drama takes on, with surprising sophistication, suchvariegated matters as class, perceptions of moderation, the essential composition of the material world, and the generation of political power through fabulist narrative. While my individual chapters draw attention to strains of intellectual history not traditionally associated with each play - an Aristotelian faculty psychology in The Spanish Tragedy, the ethical mean in Titus Andronicus, the Lucretian atomism of Hamlet, and the Baconian fabulism of The Duchess of Malfi - my project seeks to reveal a larger point about the dynamics of revenge drama. This dissertation contends that early modern revenge tragedy emphasizes the complex interplay between the noetic, or conceptual, and the phenomenological in order to imagine, often in radical ways, the natural, ethical, and political philosophies that shape early modern culture.
Underground subjects: public transportation and perception in New York modernist literature
Creators: name: Stalter, Sunny
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: This dissertation investigates the relationship between public transportation and New York modernist literature. It argues that the experience of riding the subway and elevated train shapes the forms and themes of modernist writing, while textual representations of these spaces of transit in turn shape the modern understanding of urban subjectivity. Exploring the tension between the embodied, habitual ride and the abstract transportation system, New York modernist writers represent the sense of being in thrall to forces of modernity, interrogate the connection between space and psychology, and envision new pathways between the past and the present. I begin with an analysis of the intertwined discourses necessary to a consideration of modernism and public transportation, including visuality and spatial theory, the history of technology, and urban studies. Through readings of American Expressionist plays by Elmer Rice and Osip Dymov, I locate a modernist theatricality in the subway car, one centered on ideas of claustrophobia and fantasy. I then turn to Harlem Renaissance writers Rudolph Fisher and Walter White, whose migration narratives embrace the transitional potential of the mechanized journey North even as they warn against the illusory vision of Harlem seen from the subway steps. Next, I suggest that the affective poetic fusion of Hart Crane's long poem The Bridge finds its equal in the complex network of subway tunnels between Manhattan and Brooklyn, in which Crane locates a new genealogy of American poetry. I conclude by moving aboveground, considering surrealist artist Joseph Cornell's experimental film Gnir Rednow as it participates in and offers alternatives to postwar New York artists' nostalgia for the soon-to-be-razed Third Avenue El. In each of these versions of modernism, public transportation lies at the intersection of material culture and metaphor. Cutting across genres and movements, I hope to remap the boundaries of early twentieth-century American literature as well as underscore the role of technology in the construction of the urban imaginary.
Adult Literacies as Benefit for Inclusion and Equity/ALBIE – komunikat z realizacji projektu badawczego
Creators: name: Tomczyk, Łukasz
Publisher: name: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
Year: 2022

description: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca, Nr 17 (2019): Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
title: Cognitive Resource Management In 5G Networks
Creators: name: Franco-Argueta, Kelvin M.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: The 4G LTE network offers a high speed connectivity that is predicated on the construction platform of the 3G network and relies on an Internet Protocol (IP) for data transmission and reception. This platform’s utility is quickly becoming exhausted as the frequency spectrum approaches maximum device connectivity capacity. To improve network capacity, we must expand the bandwidth that our devices operate on. To effectively carry out this task, a self-configurable network must be employed in the development of the 5g network. This article aims to explore the technologies which form the platform for the 5G network and the cognitive resource management devices which the network is contingent upon. Base Stations (BS); Artificial Intelligence (AI); Internet Protocol (IP).
Execution Time Analysis for Industrial Control Applications
Creators: name: Stattelmann, Stefan
name: Oriol, Manuel
name: Gamer, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: D.4.8;

description: Estimating the execution time of software components is often mandatory when evaluating the non-functional properties of software-intensive systems. This particularly holds for real-time embedded systems, e.g., in the context of industrial automation. In practice it is however very hard to obtain reliable execution time estimates which are accurate, but not overly pessimistic with respect to the typical behavior of the software. This article proposes two new concepts to ease the use of execution time analysis for industrial control applications: (1) a method based on recurring occurrences of code sequences for automatically creating a timing model of a given processor and (2) an interactive way to integrate execution time analysis into the development environment, thus making timing analysis results easily accessible for software developers. The proposed methods are validated by an industrial case study, which shows that a significant amount of code reuse is present in a set of representative industrial control applications.
description: In Proceedings FESCA 2014, arXiv:1404.0436
Close-to-convexity of some special functions and their derivatives
Creators: name: Baricz, Árpád
name: Szász, Róbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33C10, 30C45

description: In this paper our aim is to deduce some sufficient (and necessary) conditions for the close-to-convexity of some special functions and their derivatives, like Bessel functions, Struve functions, and a particular case of Lommel functions of the first kind, which can be expressed in terms of the hypergeometric function ${}_1F_2$. The key tool in our proofs is a result of Shah and Trimble about transcendental entire functions with univalent derivatives. Moreover, a known result of Pólya on entire functions, the infinite product representations and some results on zeros of Bessel, Struve and Lommel functions of the first kind are used in order to achieve the main results of the paper.
description: 6 pages
title: Pulmonary glue embolism as a complication of retrograde spermatic vein sclerotherapy
Creators: name: Mercken, Karel
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chest imaging
subject: Lung
subject: Vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Clinical Case

description: Clinical History: A 40-year-old male patient underwent retrograde sclerotherapy of the left spermatic vein using a Histoacryl®–Lipiodol® mixture as a treatment for varicocele and subfertility.

description: 40 years, male
Component Substitution through Dynamic Reconfigurations
Creators: name: Lanoix, Arnaud
name: Kouchnarenko, Olga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Component substitution has numerous practical applications and constitutes an active research topic. This paper proposes to enrich an existing component-based framework--a model with dynamic reconfigurations making the system evolve--with a new reconfiguration operation which "substitutes" components by other components, and to study its impact on sequences of dynamic reconfigurations. Firstly, we define substitutability constraints which ensure the component encapsulation while performing reconfigurations by component substitutions. Then, we integrate them into a substitutability-based simulation to take these substituting reconfigurations into account on sequences of dynamic reconfigurations. Thirdly, as this new relation being in general undecidable for infinite-state systems, we propose a semi-algorithm to check it on the fly. Finally, we report on experimentations using the B tools to show the feasibility of the developed approach, and to illustrate the paper's proposals on an example of the HTTP server.
description: In Proceedings FESCA 2014, arXiv:1404.0436
Pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Intracellular dynamics
Creators: name: Onyenuru, Okechukwu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Mycobacterium tuberculosis/pathogenicity
subject: Macrophage Activation
subject: Phagosomes
subject: Lysosomes/parasitology
subject: Immunity, Innate

description: Tuberculosis remains one of the leading causes of death from a single infectious agent worldwide, despite decades of research and intervention efforts. The remarkable success of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a human pathogen stems from its ability to survive and replicate within host macrophages, cells designed to eliminate invading microorganisms. This ability is a product of evolution. This review examines the intracellular dynamics between M. tuberculosis and host macrophages, focusing on the molecular mechanisms that underlie the capacity of M. tuberculosis to circumvent host defence systems. We explored the initial stages of infection, including attachment and phagocytosis, followed by a detailed analysis of how M. tuberculosis modifies phagosome maturation, neutralizes reactive oxygen and nitrogen intermediates, and manipulates host cell death pathways. Special attention is given to specific bacterial cell envelope components and secreted proteins that serve as critical virulence factors by modulating host immune responses, and the influence of host genetic polymorphisms on tuberculosis susceptibility and progression. Understanding these complex host-pathogen interactions provides crucial insights for developing novel therapeutic strategies targeting the intracellular phase of tuberculosis, potentially addressing the challenges of drug resistance and persistent infection.
A survey on Human Computer Interaction Mechanism Using Finger Tracking
Creators: name: Shah, Kinjal N.
name: Rathod, Kirit R.
name: Agravat, Shardul J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is a field in which developer makes a user friendly system. User can interact with a computer system without using any conventional peripheral devices. Marker is used to recognize hand movement accurately & successfully. Researchers establish the mechanism to interact with computer system using computer vision. The interaction is better than normal static keyboard and mouse. This paper represents most of innovative mechanisms of the finger tracking used to interact with a computer system using computer vision.
description: 4 pages, 8 figures, International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT)
Pastoral agriculture, a significant driver of New Zealand’s economy, based on an introduced grassland ecology and technological advances
Creators: name: Caradus, John
name: Goldson, Stephen
name: Moot, Derrick
name: Rowarth, Jacqueline
name: Stewart, Alan
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2023
Subjects: Crop and pasture production

description: The New Zealand economy is export-driven and heavily reliant on the productivity of the pastoral sector. The transformation of native forest and tussock grassland ecologies to temperate grasslands occurred rapidly with the arrival of Europeans. However, this transplanted ecology required the development and use of plant, microbial, animal and management technologies for successful grassland farming. These have enabled New Zealand pastoral agriculture to compete effectively in international markets, without subsidies. The extensive list of plant-based and associated microbial-based adaptations, and the management strategies that have enabled the development of highly productive grasslands are described and reviewed. Credible science is required to inform the debate on the environmental impacts of pasture production to avoid misinformation proliferating. This needs transparent and objective integrity from the science community using funding that seeks no defined or preconceived outcomes. Critically, much of the success of New Zealand pastoral farming has been due to the willingness and ability of farmers to use, adapt, adopt and integrate new ideas and technologies into their farming systems. Historic, current and future challenges, and threats that impact on the productivity and sustainability of pastoral agriculture are described and the means to achieve further technology development to manage these is discussed.