cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title:  "The Tide of the Unconscious" Jung, Bosch and the Archetypes of The Garden of Earthly Delights
Creators: name: Peck, Andrea R.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1981

description: Many scholars have discussed the meaning of Hieronymous Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights concluding that Bosch's works were of a conscious nature relating to the real world. By contrast, this study, using the theories of Carl Jung, fragments Bosch's work and sees the milieu of his art through the eyes of the collective unconscious. Accordingly, a number of explanations of Jungian ideas are presented with the view to better understanding Bosch: Jung's theory of the archetypes, his view of Christianity, his analysis of medieval alchemy, as well as matrix archetypes and symbolic forms relating to The Garden. Through this procedure an attempt is made to create a nexus between Bosch's work and Jung's theoretical constructs. The thesis does not draw conclusions, but rather looks at possibilities of meaning to be found in The Garden.
Students' addition of decimal fractions: the effects of context
Creators: name: Turton, A
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Queensland and national curriculum documents of recent years suggest that addition and subtraction of decimal fractions can occur in a money context earlier than they do without a context. However, there does not appear to be enough research to support the legitimacy of this approach and the lack of fine detail in the curriculum documents has resulted in a variety of interpretations taken by textbook writers and presumably teachers. Some research has shown that the use of contexts to make mathematics more relevant to students can have unintended results. Among these is the negative impact that using money problems as exemplars can have on the conceptualisation of decimal fractions. Given this finding, together with the limited guidance in the relevant curriculum documents and the variety of presentations by textbook publishers, this study sought data on the following questions: 1. How does accuracy with addition differ when decimal fractions to hundredths are written with dollar signs compared to when they are not? 2. How do addition methods differ when decimal fraction problems using hundredths are contextualised with dollar signs compared to when they are not? A cross-sectional study was undertaken to provide a snapshot of school students' ability to undertake decimal computation addition problems in contextualised and non-context situations. Students in Years 4 and 5 in Queensland state schools completed one of two test papers. One paper presented addition problems involving decimal fractions without any context (e.g., 1.30 + 1.20). The other paper had identical questions but with a dollar sign included for each decimal fraction ($1.30 + $1.20). Altogether 161 students participated. The results showed that there was a difference in accuracy in favour of the group working with non-contextualised decimal fractions. It was also revealed that the group working with the money context reported answers for particular questions in ways that may indicate underlying conceptual errors about money or about the relationship between money and decimal fractions. It was found that the students working without a money context preferred showing their thinking using a standard written method in greater numbers than did the students working with the contextualised problems. The latter group, in contrast, had a greater incidence of writing answers but without recording a method. Although no difference in accuracy was observed between males and females, some difference in method choice was recorded.
ENLIGHT RISE - Deliverable 2.1 - Map of scientific and technological domains and common skills
Creators: name: ENLIGHT RISE WP2-Create synergies through R&I capacity building
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: European universities alliance
R&I

description: The main objective of Work Package 2 (WP2) of ENLIGHT RISE is to create synergies through R&I capacity building and to contribute to establish a common Research & Innovation agenda. Complementing the mapping of expertise in the ENLIGHT Think Tank (Erasmus+), WP2 analyses the alliance members’ scientific and technological profiles to identify the strongest research synergies leading to maximize ENLIGHT alliance’s competitive advantage (task 2.1). WP2 Research & Innovation observatory will help identifying ENLIGHT R&I capacities (task 2.2) and R&I synergies will be established through focus groups and incentives mechanisms (task 2.3).  

This document represents deliverable D2.1. It explores and applies a technology intelligence-based approach to map the R&I activities of the nine universities of the alliance based on a set of selected scientific and technological data associated with them. 

Research & Innovation synergies identified at this “macroscopic” level will assist the ENLIGHT governance in identifying R&I areas where the alliance is most competitive internationally. It will also provide the Research & Innovation support group with broad orientations for prioritizing R&I support activities (WP1).

Version approved by the European Commission.
The targum (1942:Feb. 4 - 1942:Feb. 28)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1942

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
ENLIGHT RISE - Deliverable 2.1 - Map of scientific and technological domains and common skills
Creators: name: ENLIGHT RISE WP2-Create Synergies Through R&I Capacity Building
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: European universities alliance
R&I

description: The main objective of Work Package 2 (WP2) of ENLIGHT RISE is to create synergies through R&I capacity building and to contribute to establish a common Research & Innovation agenda. Complementing the mapping of expertise in the ENLIGHT Think Tank (Erasmus+), WP2 analyses the alliance members’ scientific and technological profiles to identify the strongest research synergies leading to maximize ENLIGHT alliance’s competitive advantage (task 2.1). WP2 Research & Innovation observatory will help identifying ENLIGHT R&I capacities (task 2.2) and R&I synergies will be established through focus groups and incentives mechanisms (task 2.3). This document represents deliverable D2.1. It explores and applies a technology intelligence-based approach to map the R&I activities of the nine universities of the alliance based on a set of selected scientific and technological data associated with them. Research & Innovation synergies identified at this “macroscopic” level will assist the ENLIGHT governance in identifying R&I areas where the alliance is most competitive internationally. It will also provide the Research & Innovation support group with broad orientations for prioritizing R&I support activities (WP1).
Strong Decays of the Radial Excited States $B(2S)$ and $D(2S)$
Creators: name: Zhang, Jin-Mei
name: Wang, Guo-Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The strong OZI allowed decays of the first radial excited states $B(2S)$ and $D(2S)$ are studied in the instantaneous Bethe-Salpeter method, and by using these OZI allowed channels we estimate the full decay widths: $Γ_{B^0(2S)}=24.4$ MeV, $Γ_{B^+(2S)}=23.7$ MeV, $Γ_{D^0(2S)}=11.3$ MeV and $Γ_{D^+(2S)}=11.9$ MeV. We also predict the masses of them: $M_{B^0(2S)}=5.777$ GeV, $M_{B^+(2S)}=5.774$ GeV, $M_{D^0(2S)}=2.390$ GeV and $M_{D^+(2S)}=2.393$ GeV.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
Some aspects of the mutagenic activity of the pyrrolizidine alkaloid heliotrine in drosophila melanogaster
Creators: name: Brink, NG
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The pyrrolizidine alkaloids are a group of chemical compounds which occur naturally in certain genera of the Compositae, Lugminosae and Boraginaceae. The alkaloid molecule consists of a basic methylpyrrolizidine ring with one or more hydroxyl groups esterified by mono-or di-basic carboxylic acids (Warren, 1955).
title: Learning brief: Strengthening the monitoring and evaluation of COVID-19 prevention programmes
Creators: name: White, Sian
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Year: 2021

description: This brief summarises lessons learned about the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of COVID-19 prevention programmes. In this brief, we describe how M&E approaches have changed during the pandemic and outline 6 ways to strengthen future programmatic learning. The lessons shared in this brief are drawn from the work of the COVID-19 Hygiene Hub. This brief is primarily designed for people working within the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector and others who have been involved in COVID-19 prevention programming.
An alternative view of the links between the western world order and the third world economic and environmental crisis
Creators: name: Abraham, AP
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: An alternative view of the existing world order is adopted, since, it is argued, the orthodox view (of a benevolent First World tirelessly engaging the development problems of a Third) is illusory. The parlous condition of debt-ridden Third World countries is explained by locating them within the confines of this order and drawing an interrelationship between their lack of beneficial development and the rapid deterioration of their environments. Some of the mechanisms by which the now unrestrained western economic system are examined where the residents of one hemisphere are 'managed' to service and support the profligate lifestyles of elites in the other. It is argued that a western order has straddled a reconstructed world economy since 1945 and has been sustained by the hegemonic power of the United States and its major industrial allies. It is further argued that the archaic exploitative nature of this order has rendered it inappropriate for new world conditions and the present general turmoil is a symptom of its decline. The world is moving from an old to a new set of imperatives, which must be socially-just and ecologically-benign. Thus movements for socio/economic justice and the environment can no longer be perceived as separate ends but as parts of the same larger global process.
title: Verdieping Europaterminal: deelrapport 1. Monitoringprogramma ten behoeve van het opvolgen van de potentiële effecten
Creators: name: Plancke, Yves
name: Van den Bergh, Erika
name: Vereecken, Hans
name: Vandevoorde, B.
Publisher: name: Flanders Hydraulics Research
Year: 2022

description: Title : WL Rapporten. Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium: Antwerpen. Volume : 21_042_1 Issue : Pagination : VI, 14
The targum (1942:Jan. 10 - 1942:Jan. 31)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1942

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Plain Varieties
Creators: name: Bodnár, Gábor
name: Hauser, Herwig
name: Schicho, Josef
name: Villamayor, Orlando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14M20

description: Algebraic varieties which are locally isomorphic to open subsets of affine space will be called {\em plain}. Plain varieties are smooth and rational. The converse is true for curves and surfaces, and unknown in general. It is shown that plain varieties are stable under blowup in smooth centers.
Investigation of the role of anterior and lateral connections of the ventromedial hypothalamus in control of food intake, activity, food motivation and reactivity to taste
Creators: name: Storlien, Leonard Henry
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The "hyperphagic syndrome" consists of a number of behavioral changes which normally occur along with the increased weight gain following VMH lesions in the rat. The present study explored the possibility of separating these behavioral changes from the increased weight gain. The behavioral dimensions sampled were activity, tendency to work for food and reactivity to diet adulteration. Three different methods were employed to produce the increased weight gain: electrolytic VMH lesions, cuts lateral to the VMH, and cuts anterior to the VMH. The results confirmed the decreased activity, decreased tendency to work for food, and increased reactivity to taste manipulation previously reported for VMH-lesioned animals. Cuts lateral to the VMH were indistinguishable from lesions on each of these measures. Cuts anterior to the VMH resulted in no change in normal activity level or in the tendency to work for food but did result in increased reactivity to taste manipulation. The results are consistent with the notion of a medial-lateral system controlling some facit of energy balance and of an anterior system underlying a sex dependent part of the weight gain in female rats.
The values of Canadian citizens
Creators: name: Premat, Christophe
Publisher: name: Stockholm University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies
Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism
Cultural theory
Social and cultural anthropology
Cultural studies of nation and region
Sociology of culture

description: This presentation is a part of a course at the basic level at Stockholm University. It is a course which was supported by the Centre for Canadian Studies of Stockholm University. The course is designed to introduce students to a variety of aspects related to the history, culture and literature of Canadian society. It also tackles the bilingual aspect of Canadian society and helps students to discuss issues that are relevant in Canada. The course then looks at the challenges facing Canada in the 21st Century with focus on immigration and multiculturalism, the First Nations, gender equality, specific regions in Canada with special emphasis on Québec, and Canada's cultural identity. In this lecture, the focus is on the comparison between the debates on the national narrative of Canada and the values expressed by Canadian citizens. If the national narrative is characterized by the myth of an open and multicultural society, the empirical analysis of the attitudes can give an accurate insight on the "values" of the citizens. With the help of the cross-cultural surveys (World Values Survey), the answers to some of the key questions (cultural diversity / immigration) can be compared with the attitudes of citizens in the United States to see if there is a form of integration of the "cultural model".
 The document is published with a modification for the slide 12 of the presentation (update of the figures) in previous version below reference: doi.org/10.17045/sthlmuni.15329100.v1 .
Engel curves for residential electricity
Creators: name: McGee, M
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: In the past twenty years there have been numerous studies conducted on the topic of electricity demand. This coincides with the rapid development of electricity requirements, both residential and non-residential. This dissertation focuses on the residential demand for electricity in Tasmania. The accent of this work is on measuring the income elasticity of demand for electricity. The applications to which this knowledge could be put are discussed in Chapter One. The main envisaged application, as is indicated there, is in the use of an income variable in forecasting residential demand for electricity. Chapter Two presents a review of related studies in which it is found that investigations in this field do not as a rule develop models of electricity demand in a rigorous manner from a utility maximization framework.
title: The Appropriation of Nietzschean Thought by Donald Kuspit in the Critic Is Artist: The Intentionality of Art and the Existential Activist Painter: The Example of Leon Golub
Creators: name: Bayersdorfer, Frederic S.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1994

description: The prolific scholar and art critic, Donald Kuspit has frequently cited the works of Friedrich Nietzsche as a means to elucidate his art critical theories. This paper is an investigation of these citations in two of his most important works, The Critic is Artist: The Intentionality of Art, published in 1984, and The Existential Activist Painter: The Example of Leon Golub, published in 1986. In each of these two works many citations revolve around two Nietzschean concepts, the will to power and ressentiment. This paper first explores the relevance of using the philosophical work of Nietzsche as a point of departure for art critical theories, and follows with a brief discussion of the application of Nietzsche's theories to the visual arts. Finally, the citations used by Donald Kuspit are compared to Nietzsche's text, demonstrating their use to be in conflict with Nietzsche's theories.
Tale "The Little Scientist" for children with liver cancer
Creators: name: Armengol, Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Tale, children, liver cancer, biological samples

description: This leaflet with a tale has been written and illustrated by scientists to be given to pediatric patients with liver cancer enrolled in the European branch of the pediatric Hepatic International Tumor Trial (PHITT) with the intention that patients and families undrestand its important contribution to the research that we are conducting at the Childhood Liver Oncology group (cLOG) at Germans Trias i Pujol research institute (IGTP).
description: Tale financed by the ChiLTERN project (GA668596)
Polyhedral Kahler Manifolds
Creators: name: Panov, Dmitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C56; 32Q15

description: In this article we introduce the notion of Polyhedral Kahler manifolds, even dimensional polyhedral manifolds with unitary holonomy. We concentrate on the 4-dimensional case, prove that such manifolds are smooth complex surfaces, and classify the singularities of the metric. The singularities form a divisor and the residues of the flat connection on the complement of the divisor give us a system of cohomological equations. Parabolic version of Kobayshi-Hitchin correspondence of T. Mochizuki permits us to characterize polyhedral Kahler metrics of non-negative curvature on CP^2 with singularities at complex line arrangements.
THE IMPORTANCE OF READING ACTIVITIES IN READING COMPREHENSION
Creators: name: The english teacher of Shakhrisabz military-academik  lyceum "Temurbeklar maktabi" Odilov Nozimbek Evatovich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Present work can be used as a practical depot for taking data about the importance of reading, its types and methods of creating activities on reading classes. On the other hand, specific aspects which are used to develop readingstrategies in general schools were noted. Teaching and learning reading skill demand to practice many times. In oder to be interesting this process the teachers should use different kinds of reading handouts. Our course work includes examples of handouts that can be utilized in reading lessons.

Key words: educational contexts, pre-reading activities, sampling error, rhetorical structure, Interactive model, graphophonic, syntactic, top-down strategies.
Predictive Analysis for Social Processes I: Multi-Scale Hybrid System Modeling
Creators: name: Colbaugh, Richard
name: Glass, Kristin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This two-part paper presents a new approach to predictive analysis for social processes. In Part I, we begin by identifying a class of social processes which are simultaneously important in applications and difficult to predict using existing methods. It is shown that these processes can be modeled within a multi-scale, stochastic hybrid system framework that is sociologically sensible, expressive, illuminating, and amenable to formal analysis. Among other advantages, the proposed modeling framework enables proper characterization of the interplay between the intrinsic aspects of a social process (e.g., the appeal of a political movement) and the social dynamics which are its realization; this characterization is key to successful social process prediction. The utility of the modeling methodology is illustrated through a case study involving the global SARS epidemic of 2002-2003. Part II of the paper then leverages this modeling framework to develop a rigorous, computationally tractable approach to social process predictive analysis.
A new spectroscopic and interferometric study of the young stellar object V645 Cyg
Creators: name: Miroshnichenko, A. S.
name: Hofmann, K. -H.
name: Schertl, D.
name: Weigelt, G.
name: Kraus, S.
name: Manset, N.
name: Albert, L.
name: Balega, Y. Y.
name: Klochkova, V. G.
name: Rudy, R. J.
name: Lynch, D. K.
name: Mazuk, S.
name: Venturini, C. C.
name: Russell, R. W.
name: Grankin, K. N.
name: Puetter, R. C.
name: Perry, R. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of high-resolution optical spectroscopy, low-resolution near-IR spectroscopy and near-infrared speckle interferometry of the massive young stellar object candidate V645 Cyg, acquired to refine its fundamental parameters and the properties of its circumstellar envelope. Speckle interferometry in the $H$- and $K$-bands and an optical spectrum in the range 5200--6680 Åwith a spectral resolving power of $R$ = 60 000 were obtained at the 6-m telescope of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Another optical spectrum in the range 4300--10500 Åwith $R$ = 79 000 was obtained at the 3.6-m CFHT. Low-resolution spectra in the ranges 0.46--1.4 $μ$m and 1.4--2.5 $μ$m with $R \sim$ 800 and $\sim$ 700, respectively, were obtained at the 3-m Shane telescope of the Lick Observatory. Using a novel kinematical method based on the non-linear modeling of the neutral hydrogen density profile in the direction toward the object, we propose a distance of $D = 4.2\pm$0.2 kpc. We also suggest a revised estimate of the star's effective temperature, T$_{\rm eff} \sim$25 000 K. We resolved the object in both $H$- and $K$-bands. We conclude that V645 Cyg is a young, massive, main-sequence star, which recently emerged from its cocoon and has already experienced its protostellar accretion stage. The presence of accretion is not necessary to account for the high observed luminosity of (2--6)$\times 10^4$ M$_{\odot}$ yr$^{-1}$. The receding part of a strong, mostly uniform outflow with a terminal velocity of $\sim$800 km s$^{-1}$ is only blocked from view far from the star, where forbidden lines form.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Personality and demographic factors of qualified Tasmanian librarians
Creators: name: Stebbings, GN
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This study investigated the demographic factors and personality of a group of qualified Tasmanian librarians. Ninety five librarians employed at the academic, public, school and special institutions were tested during May to July, 1973. The tests administered were the 16 PF-Form A, the EPI-Form A , and an information sheet. The findings: (1) Half the female librarians are relatively young; the majority of librarians live in Hobart and the surrounding suburbs, especially the southern Hobart area; the majority are of Australian and British nationality; over half the librarians are married; the female librarians tend to receive lower salaries; most librarians possess B.A degrees; a third of librarians in all institutions have obtained their qualifications since 1970; and there has been a considerable growth of librarianship in Tasmania. (2) Generally, librarians are of above average intelligence, experimenting, critical, self-sufficient, resourceful, resolute persons. They tend to be neither unduly attentive to nor conventional in practical matters but to be a sensitive, effeminate, aesthetically inclined group. They tend to be aloof and reserved persons, who prefer working alone rather than dealing with people. As a group, librarians tend also to be casual and less dependable. (3) Although both reader services and technical services librarians exhibit the above average qualities, reader services librarians tend to be less attentive to or conventional in practical matters but possessing more self-confidence. (4) Technical services staff, especially older technical services librarians, female technical services librarians and female cataloguers, are more silent, serious and uncommunicative than reader services staff. (5) Results generally concur with previous studies of the librarian and at least dispel the image that reference librarians are extraverted and cataloguers are introverted.
Home wireless network security risk analysis
Creators: name: Livingston, DS
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: It is becoming more and more common place to find wireless networks present in residential homes. This thesis investigates whether these networks are set up securely, if home users use the security features that are available and whether or not home users lack the knowledge to make the choices to make their networks secure. The thesis examines the risks associated with leaving a wireless network open and investigates whether or not such networks are frequented by casual \moochers\" who simply wish to connect to the internet through these open wireless networks or alternatively whether there are attackers about with a more malicious intent To answers these questions four methods were used: wardriving to detect the number of open networks in the Sandy Bay residential area; honeypots to attempt to see what attacker/intruders do on an open network; a device critique to examine the security features that are available on home devices; and a survey ofchome users to find out how and if the devices could be improved. The results from this study show that there are a significant number of networks at risk but that the honeypot system was not intruded upon. The user survey shows some possible directions for improvements in future wireless access points from a home user's point of view."
Predictive Analysis for Social Processes II: Predictability and Warning Analysis
Creators: name: Colbaugh, Richard
name: Glass, Kristin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This two-part paper presents a new approach to predictive analysis for social processes. Part I identifies a class of social processes, called positive externality processes, which are both important and difficult to predict, and introduces a multi-scale, stochastic hybrid system modeling framework for these systems. In Part II of the paper we develop a systems theory-based, computationally tractable approach to predictive analysis for these systems. Among other capabilities, this analytic methodology enables assessment of process predictability, identification of measurables which have predictive power, discovery of reliable early indicators for events of interest, and robust, scalable prediction. The potential of the proposed approach is illustrated through case studies involving online markets, social movements, and protest behavior.
Anxiety, absence, anger and archetypes. The domestic familial and feminism in The Orchard Thieves and Camille's Bread.
Creators: name: van der Wetering, E
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: When it comes to using the word 'feminism' there's extreme caution . Young women are nervous about associating themselves with feminism, yet once they start talking about what it's like to be a woman, their views often fit a broad feminist agenda. It's the word that's the problem and the - in many cases - stereotypical ideas of what it represents. (Kathy Bail \Introduction\" from DIY Feminism 4) I regard fiction in other words both as the document and as the agency of cultural history. I believe it helped to formulate the ordered space we now recognize as the household made that space totally functional and used it as the context for representing normal behaviour. In so doing fiction contested and finally suppressed alternative bases for human relationships. In realizing this one can not - I think - ignore the fact that fiction did a great deal to relegate vast areas of culture to the status of aberrance and noise. As the history of this female domain is articulated then it will outline boldly the telling cultural move upon which I believe the supremacy of middle-class culture has rested. Such a history will re-enact the moment when writing invaded revised and contained the household by means of strategies that distinguished private from social life and thus detached sexuality from political history. On the domestic front perhaps even more so than in the courts and the marketplace the middle-class struggle for dominance was fought and won. (Nancy Armstrong Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel 23-4)"
Indenture Between James Loper and Abraham Gardiner, August 31, 1773
Creators: name: Loper, James
name: Gardiner, Abraham
name: Isaacs, Aaron
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1773
Subjects: Edwards Family
Debt
Contracts
Gardiner Family
Documents
East Hampton

description: Indenture Between James Loper and Abraham Gardiner, August 31, 1773. This item is part of the Isaac Edwards Deed Collection, donated by Bess Rattray in December 2020.
Time-dependent MHD shocks and line intensity ratios in the HH 30 jet: A focus on cooling function and numerical resolution
Creators: name: Tesileanu, O.
name: Massaglia, S.
name: Mignone, A.
name: Bodo, G.
name: Bacciotti, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coupling between time-dependent, multidimensional MHD numerical codes and radiative line emission is of utmost importance in the studies of the interplay between dynamical and radiative processes in many astrophysical environments, with particular interest for problems involving radiative shocks. There is a widespread consensus that line emitting knots observed in Herbig-Haro jets can be interpreted as radiative shocks. In this paper we address two different aspects relevant to the time-dependent calculations of the line intensity ratios of forbidden transitions, resulting from the excitation by planar, time-dependent radiative shocks traveling in a stratified medium. The first one concerns the impact of the radiation and ionization processes included in the cooling model, and the second one the effects of the numerical grid resolution. In this paper we apply the AMR methodology to the treatment of radiating shocks and show how this method is able to vastly reduce the integration time. The technique is applied to the knots of the HH 30 jet to obtain the observed line intensity ratios and derive the physical parameters, such as density, temperature and ionization fraction. We consider the impact of two different cooling functions and different grid resolutions on the results. We conclude that the use of different cooling routines has effects on results whose weight depends upon the line ratio considered. Moreover, we find the minimum numerical resolution of the simulation grid behind the shock to achieve convergence in the results. This is crucial for the forthcoming 2D calculations of radiative shocks.
description: A&A accepted, 8pages, 9 figures
Random Walks on Strict Partitions
Creators: name: Petrov, Leonid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J60, 60C05, 60J10, 05E05

description: We consider a certain sequence of random walks. The state space of the n-th random walk is the set of all strict partitions of n (that is, partitions without equal parts). We prove that, as n goes to infinity, these random walks converge to a continuous-time Markov process. The state space of this process is the infinite-dimensional simplex consisting of all nonincreasing infinite sequences of nonnegative numbers with sum less than or equal to one. The main result about the limit process is the expression of its the pre-generator as a formal second order differential operator in a polynomial algebra. Of separate interest is the generalization of Kerov interlacing coordinates to the case of shifted Young diagrams.
description: LaTeX, 54 pages, 3 figures
Fractional order Taylor's series and the neo-classical inequality
Creators: name: Hara, Keisuke
name: Hino, Masanori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26D15, 30B10, 26A33

description: We prove the neo-classical inequality with the optimal constant, which was conjectured by T. J. Lyons [Rev. Mat. Iberoamericana 14 (1998) 215-310]. For the proof, we introduce the fractional order Taylor's series with residual terms. Their application to a particular function provides an identity that deduces the optimal neo-classical inequality.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure
A subjective evaluation of the effects of digital channel errors in PCM and DPCM voice communication systems
Creators: name: Yan, James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: When the message sink of a speech communication system is a human, the ultimate criterion of system performance is the subjective quality of the output speech. Unfortunately, no tractable mathematical function has been found to adequately relate speech quality to the physical system parameters. For this reason, empirical methods must be utilized to assess the interplay between the subjective quality and the objective parameters of a speech communication system. In this thesis the effects of transmission errors on the speech quality of pulse code modulation (PCM) and differential pulse code modulation (DPCM) voice communication systems are investigated. The subjective figure of merit adopted in this study is the listener's preference of the output speech with respect to a suitably chosen reference. Under some assumptions and restrictions, the system models of the two types of modulation systems of interest are formulated and simulated in an IBM System 360/Model 67 time-shared computer. With the aid of a special-purpose input/output interface, the simulated systems are used to process a recorded speech sample representative of English speech. The quality of the processed speech is then subjectively evaluated according to the isopreference method. The results of the subjective evaluation are presented in the form of isopreference contours. These contours indicate that in both PCM and DPCM systems, the speech quality is dominantly influenced by quantization error when the channel is relatively error-free; whereas if the channel is relatively noisy, finer quantization offers no improvement in quality. Furthermore, encoding the quantizer's output by either natural or folded binary coding yields virtually identical speech quality. In a comparison with contours of constant system signal-to-distortion power ratio, the isopreference contours reveal that under some conditions, the system signal-to-distortion power ratio may be a reasonably adequate measure of human preference of speech. In terms of the minimum channel capacity required to achieve a desired speech quality, DPCM is found to perform better than PCM for three important channel models: the binary symmetric channel, the additive white Gaussian channel, and the Rayleigh fading channel with additive white Gaussian noise. In the latter two cases, the performance improvement of DPCM over PCM increases with increasing desired speech quality for the range of speech quality considered in this study. Finally, the implications of the subjective tests' results in two suboptimal operations are discussed.
Small gain theorems for large scale systems and construction of ISS Lyapunov functions
Creators: name: Dashkovskiy, Sergey N.
name: Rüffer, Björn S.
name: Wirth, Fabian R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93A15, 34D20, 47H07

description: We consider interconnections of n nonlinear subsystems in the input-to-state stability (ISS) framework. For each subsystem an ISS Lyapunov function is given that treats the other subsystems as independent inputs. A gain matrix is used to encode the mutual dependencies of the systems in the network. Under a small gain assumption on the monotone operator induced by the gain matrix, a locally Lipschitz continuous ISS Lyapunov function is obtained constructively for the entire network by appropriately scaling the individual Lyapunov functions for the subsystems. The results are obtained in a general formulation of ISS, the cases of summation, maximization and separation with respect to external gains are obtained as corollaries.
description: provisionally accepted by SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
Density correlations and dynamical Casimir emission of Bogoliubov phonons in modulated atomic Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Carusotto, Iacopo
name: Balbinot, Roberto
name: Fabbri, Alessandro
name: Recati, Alessio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theory of the density correlations that appear in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate as a consequence of the dynamical Casimir emission of pairs of Bogoliubov phonons when the atom-atom scattering length is modulated in time. Different regimes as a function of the temporal shape of the modulation are identified and a simple physical picture of the phenomenon is discussed. Analytical expressions for the density correlation function are provided for the most significant limiting cases. This theory is able to explain some unexpected features recently observed in numerical calculations of Hawking radiation from analog black holes.
Precise determination of the lattice spacing in full lattice QCD
Creators: name: Davies, C. T. H.
name: Follana, E.
name: Kendall, I. D.
name: Lepage, G. Peter
name: McNeile, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare three different methods to determine the lattice spacing in lattice QCD and give results from calculations on the MILC ensembles of configurations that include the effect of $u$, $d$ and $s$ sea quarks. It is useful, for ensemble to ensemble comparison, to express the results as giving a physical value for $r_1$, a parameter from the heavy quark potential. Combining the three methods gives a value for $r_1$ in the continuum limit of 0.3133(23)(3) fm. Using the MILC values for $r_0/r_1$, this corresponds to a value for the $r_0$ parameter of 0.4661(38) fm. We also discuss how to use the $η_s$ for determining the lattice spacing and tuning the $s$-quark mass accurately, by giving values for $m_{η_s}$ (0.6858(40) GeV) and $f_{η_s}$ (0.1815(10) GeV).
description: 15 pages
Mesh infection following abdominal wall hernia repair. Diagnosis, prevention and treatment
Creators: name: Κουργιαλή, Χάρις Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Πλέγμα
Λοίμωξη
Κοιλιοκήλη
Mesh
Infection
Abdominal wall hernia

description: Η χρήση του χειρουργικού πλέγματος αποτέλεσε μια τεράστια ανακάλυψη στην χειρουργική αποκατάσταση των κηλών, καθώς οδήγησε σε σημαντική μείωση των ποσοστών υποτροπής της κήλης. Ωστόσο, εκτός από τα οφέλη που έχει προσφέρει, έχουν εμφανιστεί επιπλοκές με μια από τις σημαντικότερες να είναι η λοίμωξη του χειρουργικού πλέγματος. Έστω και μια μικρή παραβίαση της ασηψίας ενός τέτοιου υλικού μπορεί να οδηγήσει σε ευνοϊκό περιβάλλον για τον πολλαπλασιασμό των βακτηρίων και στη δημιουργία του ‘’biofilm’’. Αυτό μπορεί να οδηγήσει στη δημιουργία συριγγίων, στο σχηματισμό αποστημάτων γύρω από το πλέγμα καθώς και στη σήψη ή ακόμα και στο θάνατο. Η παραμικρή παραβίαση των πρωτοκόλλων στειρότητας μπορεί να οδηγήσει σε μια τόσο βαριά επιπλοκή και παράλληλα να αυξήσει τη νοσηρότητα και το κόστος της θεραπείας. Η διαχείριση της λοίμωξης ενός πλέγματος μπορεί να επιτευχθεί με διάφορες μεθόδους συμπεριλαμβανομένων της τοπικής φροντίδας των τραυμάτων με χειρουργικό καθαρισμό, άρδευση των πιθανών συλλογών, χορήγηση συστηματικών αντιβιοτικών καθώς και αφαίρεση των πλεγμάτων και αποκατάσταση των κοιλιακών τοιχωμάτων εάν αυτό κριθεί απαραίτητο. Αξίζει να τονιστεί παρόλα αυτά ότι η πρόληψη της λοίμωξης ενός πλέγματος αποτελεί την καλύτερη θεραπεία.
description: The use of mesh has been a massive breakthrough in hernia repair, as it has led to a significant reduction of recurrence rates. However aside from the benefits, some major problems have also occurred with one of the greatest probably being mesh infection. A slight breach in asepsis in a foreign material can lead to favorable environment for bacterial proliferation and form a ‘biofilm’. This can give rise to chronic discharging sinus at the port site, abscess formation around mesh and even sepsis. Slightest breach in sterility or protocols might lead to such a large ventral wall sinus, increasing morbidity and cost of treatment. Management of mesh infection can be achieved by wound care with local debridement and irrigation, mesh removal and systemic antibiotics culminating in increased morbidity over duration of disease, but still it would be worth emphasizing that preventing a mesh to be infected is the best treatment.
title: Analyse der Usability Auswirkungen von mobile-first Designs auf den Desktop Kontext anhand eines remote Usability Testkonzepts
Creators: name: Homann, Kelvin
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 004 Informatik

description: In dieser Bachelorarbeit werden zwei Ziele verfolgt. Ein Ziel ist es anhand einer Karriere-Seite mit einem Bewerbungsformular einzuordnen, ob die Gestaltung dieser mit der mobile-first Philosophie einen Einfluss auf die Usability und bezüglich der Benutzbarkeit von Interaktionselementen im Desktop-Kontext hat. Ein weiteres Ziel ist, bedingt durch die COVID-19 Pandemie, eine prototypische Software-Lösung zu entwickeln, welche den kompletten Lösungsversuch im Rahmen eines Usability-Tests einer Versuchsperson inklusive der Blickpositionen, ohne den Einsatz spezieller Hardware, aufnimmt und diese Aufnahme für eine Auswertung auch wieder abspielen kann. Die Arbeit setzt sich dabei aus zwei praktischen Teilen zusammen. Der erste Teil umfasst die Konzeption und Entwicklung der Karriere-Seite unter Einsatz der mobile-first Philosophie für das betreuende Unternehmen, frobese GmbH. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit wird die Auswirkung der mobile-first Philosophie auf die Usability im Desktop-Kontext empirisch untersucht. Dies geschieht im Rahmen eines remote Usability-Tests mithilfe der dafür entwickelten Software-Lösung. Diese nimmt die Lösungsversuche mitsamt der Blickpositionen der Versuchspersonen auf und fordert sie anschließend auf, einen Fragebogen auszufüllen. Abschließend werden die Ergebnisse, der Versuchsaufbau und die Ergebnisse kritisch gewürdigt. Der remote Usability-Test im zweiten Teil der Arbeit wurde mit insgesamt 30 Versuchspersonen durchgeführt. Sie wurden dabei in zwei Gruppen aufgeteilt, eine mobile Gruppe und eine Desktop Gruppe. Im Rahmen des Usability-Tests mussten sie eine Aufgabe auf der prototypischen Karriere-Seite vom ersten praktischen Teil dieser Arbeit erledigen. Die entwickelte remote Lösung erlaubte auch unter Pandemiebedingungen eine einfache Rekrutierung der Versuchspersonen und Durchführung der Versuche. Mithilfe eines Auswertungs-Clients konnten die Versuchsaufnahmen im Nachhinein wieder abgespielt werden und in Form von Heatmaps visualisiert werden. Die Auswertung zeigte, dass mithilfe der mobile-first Philosophie eine exzellente Usability im mobilen Kontext erreicht werden konnte, die sich auch auf den Desktop übertragen hat. Es konnte aber auch ein signifikanter Unterschied in den Bearbeitungszeiten zwischen beiden Gruppen festgestellt werden. Hier konnten die Versuchsaufnahmen Indizien auf die Ursachen dieser Diskrepanz geben.
title: Downsizing America in the Twentieth Century: A Sociological and Theoretical Analysis of the Shrinking Middle Class
Creators: name: Adams, Terreea Lynne
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: Downsizing is the process by which a firm decreases its number of employees, even during times of a strong economy, with the stated purpose of generating greater efficiency, productivity and of course, profit. The downsizing trend in the United States during the past three decades has resulted in an enormous shift in the structure of our society. Various theorists, sociologists and economists employ differing ways of looking at this downsizing trend and its effects on the largest segment of the population; that is, the middle class.

lndications of a healthy economy are low levels of unemployment and poverty-. Downsizing involves laying off large numbers of employees and paying the remaining workers less, except those in high-skill positions. One result would appear t9 be the destabilization of society, with increasing disparity in wages among skilled and unskilled workers, and a widening of the gap between the wealthy and the poor. Studies have shown widely divergent views as to the current health of the American economy. Various sociological and theoretical viewpoints are used to sort out the conflicting data.