cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Three Essays on International Trade, the Environment and Climate Change
Creators: name: Wen, Yuan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Carbon Emissions
subject: Kyoto Protocol
subject: Carbon Leakage

description: Greenhouse gas emissions have been a big concern in recent decades. The Kyoto Protocol is currently the most important international agreement aiming at reducing global carbon emissions. However, the Kyoto Protocol excludes developing countries so the unilateral action raises concern about carbon leakage. The first chapter adopts a Ricardian approach to explore how the differences in carbon intensity influence the magnitude of carbon leakage relative to the literature that ignores them. It finds the Ricardian model includes an additional, extensive-margin channel through which leakage occurs. As a result, it generates higher levels of carbon leakage than the typical Armington approach, with the magnitude of leakage depending on the degree of heterogeneity in carbon intensity per dollar across goods. Due to the variations in carbon intensity, the extensive margin effects are potentially an important determinant of carbon leakage. The second chapter uses a differences-in-differences plus country-specific time trends approach to examine the effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol in reducing carbon emissions and its carbon leakage effects. The empirical strategy corrects the endogeneity problem and captures the different time trends in carbon emissions among developed and developing countries that cannot be attributed to the Kyoto Protocol. Main results show that domestic carbon emissions on average have been reduced by 8% if a country ratified the Protocol and had a binding target compared with the case it did not. Compared with the literature, studies that fail to capture country-specific time trends over-estimate the effects of the Protocol by 2 percentage points. The third chapter empirically examines the effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol in reducing emissions in each single country. The synthetic control method enables the case study of heterogeneous treatment effects in each single country rather than the aggregate effects in all countries as a group. Empirical results show on average the Protocol has reduced carbon emissions per capita by 12% and reduced carbon emissions per dollar by 14% in each European country who have participated in the EU ETS. Effects of the Protocol in former Soviet Union countries and their neighbors are about a half of that in the EU ETS countries.
Un Faro per il patrimonio culturale nel post-Covid-19
Creators: name: Volpe, Giuliano
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: The current epidemiological situation requires an acceleration of the reform process, based on the rethinking of the forms of protection and public enjoyment of cultural heritage, by fostering the development of widespread ‘social protection’ practices, the active participation of citizens, and bottom-up management systems. In this respect, guide-lines are provided by the Faro Convention as well as by the Italian Constitution and case studies from various Italian regions will be presented.
description: Scienze del Territorio, 2020: SPECIAL ISSUE: Abitare il territorio al tempo del Covid / Living the territories in the time of Covid
Anatomy and Function of Synaptic Zinc in the Striatum
Creators: name: Thackray, Sarah Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: synaptic zinc
subject: striatum
subject: ZnT3
subject: experience-dependent plasticity
subject: motor behaviour

description: Synaptic zinc is located in many regions of the brain. One area that contains a high amount is the input center of the basal ganglia: the striatum. Environmental enrichment was used to examine potential changes in morphology of striatal cells of mice with (ZnT3 wildtype) and without (ZnT3 knockout) the zinc transporter (ZnT3) necessary to load zinc into vesicles. No changes were found in dendritic length for any regions of the striatum. However, all regions of the striatum showed an increase in spine density in both genotypes, with enriched ZnT3 KO mice having a greater increase in the nucleus accumbens region. ZnT3 mice were also tested on a battery of motor behavioural tasks. ZnT3 KO mice may be hyperactive, as evidenced by their performance on the pole task, and impulsive, as evidenced by their inaccurate performance on a skilled reach task, when compared to ZnT3 WT mice.
Housing collaborativo e prospettive creative: scenari per la città a venire
Creators: name: Perini, Lorenza
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: The new and uncertain times into which the Covid pandemic has thrown us make it clear that we need to rethink the way we live in the city, in our neighborhood, and even in the interior spaces of our homes. How this change should take place is not entirely clear, nor should we expect a standard recipe. Certainly, the direction to follow is that of an increasing sustainability – in all the meanings that this word can assume – environmental, economic, social sustainability. Not necessarily this direction points straight out of the city and into the countryside villages, as many of the current speeches seem to support. In this paper, we want to talk about different and creative ideas for a sustainable and socialized living, in the direction of a sharing of services and functions, using also an historical perspective for setting up scenarios and contexts of possible practices.
description: Scienze del Territorio, 2020: SPECIAL ISSUE: Abitare il territorio al tempo del Covid / Living the territories in the time of Covid
Dworkin's Paradox
Creators: name: Baek, Seung Ki
name: Choi, Jung-Kyoo
name: Kim, Beom Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: How to distribute welfare in a society is a key issue in the subject of distributional justice, which is deeply involved with notions of fairness. Following a thought experiment by Dworkin, this work considers a society of individuals with different preferences on the welfare distribution and an official to mediate the coordination among them. Based on a simple assumption that an individual's welfare is proportional to how her preference is fulfilled by the actual distribution, we show that an egalitarian preference is a strict Nash equilibrium and can be favorable even in certain inhomogeneous situations. These suggest how communication can encourage and secure a notion of fairness.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
Il futuro è già qui
Creators: name: Viale, Guido
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: Despite the authoritative warnings (from IPCC to COP 21, from Pope Francis to Greta Thunberg) climate crisis is reaching irreversibility. Besides essential mitigation measures (stopping as soon as possible extraction and use of fossils, useless and harmful Major Projects, relocations to save on environmental and labour costs, and analogous) adaptation measures must be put in place as soon as possible to face life conditions becoming more and more difficult. International institutions and governments have not been up to the task, therefore local communities must lead the turn, recreating inside themselves and in their mutual relations conditions that promote a wider autonomy both in managing their own territories and in the production field through the reterritorialisation of many activities now spread throughout the planet. Efficiency and energy generation from local and differentiated renewable sources; ecological, proximity and multifunctional agriculture and farming for a healthy and sustainable diet; ecodesign finalized to zero waste; drastic reduction of mobility based on private motorization and care of hydrogeological systems. These are the core intervention fields for the unavoidable ecological conversion: a process requiring a strong popular participation, but also an inevitable conflict with the established powers.
description: Scienze del Territorio, 2020: SPECIAL ISSUE: Abitare il territorio al tempo del Covid / Living the territories in the time of Covid
Additional file 1 of Establishment of early diagnosis models for cervical precancerous lesions using large-scale cervical cancer screening datasets
Creators: name: Meng, Bo
name: Li, Guibin
name: Zeng, Zhengyu
name: Zheng, Baowen
name: Xia, Yuyue
name: Li, Chen
name: Li, Minyu
name: Wang, Hairong
name: Song, Yuelong
name: Yu, Shihui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1. Other details of this study.
Parasites and Hormones as Non-invasive Bioindicators of Ecophysiology in Carnivores
Creators: name: Bryan, Heather
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Forestry and Wildlife
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Parasitology
subject: ecophysiology
subject: disease ecology
subject: grizzly bear
subject: black bear
subject: wolf
subject: hair analysis
subject: stress
subject: reproductive hormones
subject: non-invasive research methods
subject: wildlife health
subject: cortisol
subject: testosterone
subject: Progesterone

description: Non-invasive measures for investigating physiological responses provide useful tools for understanding how wildlife responds to environmental change. The central and north coasts of British Columbia, Canada, comprise one of the most intact ecosystems in the world; however rapid increases in large-scale human activities, including the threat of oil transport by tankers, could affect ecological processes. I used two biomarkers of physiological responses to investigate how wildlife might be affected by increased or altered patterns in economic activities. I focussed first on the possibility that environmental change could introduce new parasites or alter existing parasite-host dynamics. By examining larval stages of parasites in wolf feces, I found that most parasites reflected seasonal and spatial patterns in wolf trophic interactions. As a complementary approach, I studied micro- and macro-parasite exposure in dogs as sentinels for wild canids and found that they had been exposed to micro-parasites common in canids elsewhere in North America. Results from dogs and wolves reflected positively the health of their environment and provide a baseline for monitoring against future change. Widespread salmon declines pose an additional concern for coastal ecosystems, particularly for large carnivores whose fitness is linked with salmon consumption. To investigate how these declines affect bears, I examined stress and reproductive hormones, dietary salmon estimates, and spatial data on salmon abundance. Cortisol and testosterone measurements in bear hair—which reflect cumulative endocrine activity over a 6-month period—varied in relation to salmon consumption and abundance, suggesting that salmon declines might lead to nutritional stress and/or social instability due to competition for salmon. Moreover, trends differed between grizzly and black bears, presumably reflecting their different nutritional requirements, social densities, and habitat use. An underlying theme was to advance and apply non-invasive research methods. Through several collaborations, I combined morphological techniques with genetics to identify larval stages of parasites in feces. I also validated assays to measure cortisol, testosterone, and progesterone in hair and applied the assays to test whether hormone levels differed in two populations of wolves. Collectively, these studies provide novel understanding of how socio-ecological conditions affect wildlife.
Il confinamento domiciliare nel post-sisma dell’Appennino centrale
Creators: name: Della Valle, Claudia
name: Mariani, Enrico
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: The recent Coronavirus pandemic that has affected territories all over the world and, in particular, the following Italian regulatory provisions, have stimulated a broad interdisciplinary reflection on the theme of housing. This contribution analyses the relationship between the prolonged confinement and housing practices within two post-disaster emergency housing areas, assigned for those who lost their homes in the 2016-2017 central Apennine earthquake. Through a research design that contemplates the comparison of the most different study cases, and through the use of qualitative methods, in particular the ethnographic ones, some aspects are highlighted: on the one hand, some critical issues related to post-earthquake temporary living, which, during the period of home confinement, have contributed to exacerbating vulnerabilities; on the other, the emergence of new and unprecedented social and housing configurations, which recall resilient processes already activated following the disaster.
description: Scienze del Territorio, 2020: SPECIAL ISSUE: Abitare il territorio al tempo del Covid / Living the territories in the time of Covid
Multi-omics Decoding the Molecular Landscape and Cellular Organization of the Avian Optic Tectum
Creators: name: 廖阔(Kuo Liao)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Transcriptome or Gene expression
Multispecies
Evolution

description: The avian optic tectum (OT) has been extensively studied for its diverse functions, yet a comprehensive understanding of its molecular landscape at the cellular level has been lacking. In this study, we employed spatial omics and single nucleus RNA-seq (snRNA-seq) techniques to explore the cellular organization and molecular characteristics of the avian OT. We identified comprehensive layer-specific genes that were highly conserved across avian species and revealed diverse functions in different layers, with the stratum griseum periventriculare (SGP) potentially playing a key role in higher functions of OT. Furthermore, we clarified the laminar distribution of six inhibitory neuron subtypes in OT, which may be related to the visual map of OT. Focusing on the multimodal functions of deeper layers in avian OT, we characterized detailed neuronal subtypes and identified a population of FOXG1+ excitatory neurons, resembling those found in the mouse neocortex, potentially involved in higher-order processing functions and expansion of avian OT. Investigation of inhibitory neurons indicated the medial and lateral ganglionic eminence as the main origins for INN in OT and uncovered a potentially species-specific subtype. These findings could contribute to improving our understanding of the molecular and cellular architecture of avian OT, shedding light on visual processing.
Maximally entangled gapped ground state of lattice fermions
Creators: name: Feder, David L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement between the constituents of a quantum system is an essential resource in the implementation of many quantum processes and algorithms. Indeed, universal quantum computation is possible by measuring individual qubits comprising highly entangled cluster states. In this work it is shown that the unique gapped ground state of non-interacting fermions hopping on a specially prepared lattice is equivalent to a cluster state, where the entanglement between qubits results solely by fermionic indistinguishability and antisymmetry. A deterministic strategy for universal measurement-based quantum computation with this resource is described. Because most matter is composed of fermions, these results suggest that resources for quantum information processing might be generic in Nature.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
Large-scale coherent structures and three-dimensional velocity estimation in the turbulent wake of a low aspect ratio surface-mounted cone
Creators: name: Chen, Zixiang
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid and Plasma
subject: Engineering--Aerospace
subject: Engineering--Environmental
subject: Engineering--Mechanical
subject: Fluid dynamics
subject: Turbulent wake
subject: Sensor-based estimation
subject: Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)
subject: Large Eddy Simulation (LES)
subject: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
subject: Model order reduction
subject: Reduced-order state observers

description: The turbulent wake of a low-aspect-ratio right angle cone mounted on a flat surface, partially submerged in a steady turbulent boundary layer, is investigated using planar Stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry (SPIV) in a wind tunnel and Large Eddy Simulation (LES). The description of the dynamics of the large-scale quasi-periodic flow structures and their estimations using remote pressure sensors are considered in this study. The dominant vortex structures are first extracted from SPIV data using the traditional phase average method, which yields an average coherent velocity field that represents a typical shedding cycle. The formation and evolution of these large structures are visualized using volume rendering techniques and analyzed in the framework of vorticity dynamics. To go beyond the typical shedding cycle description, a technique to estimate the three-dimensional flow field from uncorrelated velocity measurements is presented. The method utilizes simultaneous pressure sensors mounted on the solid wall boundary in conjunction with the planar SPIV measurements. Compared to the typical shedding cycle representation, the technique can also characterize the low frequency modulation of the vortex shedding process. The capability of this technique to estimate the three-dimensional flow field is then assessed us- ing LES by applying the estimation techniques to planar LES velocity fields and comparing the results to the actual three-dimensional velocity field available from the simulation. The velocity estimation is found to be consistent with the actual three-dimensional velocity field. Additional coherent motions that are not captured in the experiment are also identified with the LES results, and strategies to capture these motions in SPIV measurements are developed based on the numerical data.
Emergenze di futuro: verso nuovi modi di abitare la terra. Il ripopolamento degli stazzi nei territori della Gallura
Creators: name: Decandia, Lidia
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: The essay is inspired by studies on the late-ancient period. A period also strongly affected by a cycle of pandemics, to whose emergence seems to have significantly contributed the structure of the urbanization model of the Roman city-world. Historians who analyzed in such key this era, in many respects similar to ours, in paying attention to the minute signs of change, have revealed how this period was not only a moment of decline but also a period of extraordinary cultural and spiritual vitality from which the medieval civilization originated. Using these same lenses, attentive to clues and minimal stories, the essay tries to look at some repopulation phenomena underway for some years in the countryside of Gallura, a historical region located in the north-east of Sardinia, today accelerated by the appearance of Covid pandemic. This through the analysis of some of the many interviews carried out during a field research, highlighting how in the folds of this territory a swarm of new inhabitants, often coming from the continental metropolises, are trying, in forms still to be understood and interpreted, to build new ways of inhabiting the earth aimed, as well as at reopening new vital relationships with nature, at building other ways of being together.
description: Scienze del Territorio, 2020: SPECIAL ISSUE: Abitare il territorio al tempo del Covid / Living the territories in the time of Covid
Drone data collection protocol using DJI Mavic 3E/3M RTK - Seabird mapping with SeaBee
Creators: name: Arnberg, Mie P.
name: Molværsmyr, Sindre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This protocol provides standardized guidelines for seabird mapping using DJI Mavic 3E/3T/3M RTK series drones as part of the SeaBee project (Discover Seabee). The primary objective is to collect high-resolution aerial imagery to document nesting seabird colonies efficiently and with minimal disturbance to sensitive species. 

Drone-based surveys offer a more accurate and less disruptive alternative to traditional colony walk-throughs for surface-nesting seabirds. Additionally, the imagery serves as a permanent record, allowing for future reanalysis and long-term monitoring. By following this protocol, field teams will contribute to a valuable dataset that improves our understanding of seabird populations and habitat use, supporting conservation and monitoring efforts. 

The protocol emphasizes a balance between data quality and ecological responsibility. It includes guidance on pre-flight planning, mission setup, data gathering, and post-flight procedures to streamline data collection across diverse and sometimes challenging environments. The protocol also integrates manual observations and GPS logging to ensure that most of the accessible islands and nesting spots are mapped and provide a comprehensive view of seabird distributions. 

Detailed instructions are also provided for the safe handling and operation of drones, including wind and terrain considerations, restricted areas, and preflight and in-flight safety checks. Specific guidance on altitude and speed settings for different seabird species helps minimize disturbance and improve data quality. 

Data collected follows an established workflow, including storage, processing, and annotation, to ensure data integrity and consistency. Images are uploaded to a centralized platform, where automated scripts create georeferenced mosaics that can be accessed by researchers and integrated into a machine learning framework for species detection. With this protocol, field teams play an integral role in expanding the database for seabird monitoring, with each dataset contributing to species-specific models and validation efforts. This structured approach aims to foster a sustainable and scalable methodology for seabird conservation efforts across Norway's coastal ecosystems.
Movement Biomechanics and Personalized Exercise Interventions in Individuals with Hip Osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Leigh, Ryan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Osteoarthritis
subject: Hip
subject: Exercise
subject: Gait

description: Hip osteoarthritis (OA) is a prevalent musculoskeletal disorder that results in increased patient morbidity and dysfunction. While exercise is a common therapeutic modality employed in the management of this disorder, effect sizes remain small. Given this finding, the overarching aim of this thesis was to better understand the 3-dimensioanl (3D) gait biomechanics of this clinical population and subsequently test novel exercise interventions to improve clinical outcomes in individuals with mild-to-moderate hip OA. Following the Introduction, Chapter 2 explored whether tester experience influenced the reliability with which 3D gait data can be collected. This study was important since 3D gait collections would be a major part of the final two chapters. Using a coefficient of multiple correlation (CMC) statistic to estimate within-tester reliability, we found that within-tester CMC values exceeded 0.90 for both novice and experienced testers across all kinematic variables. Chapter 3 summarized the current hip OA and exercise literature and determined whether land-based exercise is an effective intervention in hip OA subjects not awaiting surgery. Pooled data from 7 studies demonstrated exercise had no effect on pain or self-reported function immediately post intervention and the overall effect sizes remained small. Chapter 4 characterized the 3D kinematic gait patterns of individuals with mild-to-moderate hip OA considering that to this point, the lower extremity kinematics of hip OA patients had not been fully described. We reported that hip OA subjects walked with greater peak hip abduction, reduced peak hip extension, and greater peak hip external rotation compared to age and body mass index (BMI) matched healthy controls. Whether these subtle biomechanical abnormalities could be used as treatment targets was explored in the capstone investigation. In Chapter 5, we targeted these 3D gait abnormalities with a novel tailored exercise intervention in mild-to-moderate hip OA subjects. This exercise protocol was compared to a tailored intervention that was based on a standard clinical assessment. No significant improvements in pain were found across either group at 8-weeks follow-up and a 3D gait derived exercise program did not result in improved clinical outcomes.
Rapidly Rotating Lenses: Repeating features in the lightcurves of short period binary microlenses
Creators: name: Penny, Matthew T.
name: Kerins, Eamonn
name: Mao, Shude
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microlensing is most sensitive to binary lenses with relatively large orbital separations, and as such, typical binary microlensing events show little or no orbital motion during the event. However, despite the strength of binary microlensing features falling off rapidly as the lens separation decreases, we show that it is possible to detect repeating features in the lightcurve of binary microlenses that complete several orbits during the microlensing event. We investigate the lightcurve features of such Rapidly Rotating Lens (RRL) events. We derive analytical limits on the range of parameters where these effects are detectable, and confirm these numerically. Using a population synthesis Galactic model we estimate the RRL event rate for a ground-based and space-based microlensing survey to be 0.32fb and 7.8fb events per year respectively, assuming year-round monitoring and where fb is the binary fraction. We detail how RRL event parameters can be quickly estimated from their lightcurves, and suggest a method to model RRL events using timing measurements of lightcurve features. Modelling RRL lightcurves will yield the lens orbital period and possibly measurements of all orbital elements including the inclination and eccentricity. Measurement of the period from the lightcurve allows a mass-distance relation to be defined, which when combined with a measurement of microlens parallax or finite source effects, can yield a mass measurement to a two-fold degeneracy. With sub-percent accuracy photometry it is possible to detect planetary companions, but the likelihood of this is very small.
description: 16 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Equation 21 simplified
Segnali di resilienza rispetto al Covid. I casi di Ostana e di Gandino
Creators: name: De La Pierre, Sergio
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: How did two municipalities in mountain areas, different from each other but similar for having since several years many civic associations, react to Covid? We ask this to many privileged witnesses. Ostana is a small virtuous municipality in Piedmont Alps, famous for its successful re-population projects, which experienced directly no Covid case so far, but has been able to take advantage from pandemic designing a new local development scenario. It has namely set up a community cooperative with projects aimed at sociality, tourism, place promotion, culture, neo-agriculture. Gandino, a municipality located in the Bergamasco area most severely hit by Covid, has counted hundreds of dead. Here resistance and solidarity by most people has been extraordinary, bringing many population components to imagine a different future for the after crisis. Resilience signals that in both situations meet the criterion of multisectoral local development, which is a fundamental key to community resilience.
description: Scienze del Territorio, 2020: SPECIAL ISSUE: Abitare il territorio al tempo del Covid / Living the territories in the time of Covid
Where We Come From: A Fictional Study of Shame
Creators: name: Stephen, Michaela
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Literature--Canadian (English)
subject: Creative Writing
subject: affect theory
subject: addiction
subject: shame
subject: travel
subject: rehabilitation
subject: Novel
subject: family
subject: religion
subject: literature

description: Where We Come From: A Fictional Study of Shame is a creative writing thesis that investigates family dynamics revolving around addiction, family shame, and rehabilitation. Taking place in modern day in the year of 2016, the novel alternates between two perspectives: China Rose Lewycka and her father Alek Lewycka. The novel begins with China Rose’s story as she checks into rehabilitation for alcoholism and sex addiction in Arizona, while her father encounters his personal failings back home in Nanaimo, BC. As the novel progresses, the setting shifts to Myanmar where Alek has traveled under the deluded belief of finding salvation through religion. Later, China Rose follows him fearing he seeks self harm. Where We Come From is a study of shame moving within and between bodies, a commentary on the prevalence of cultural tourism, and a glance at cultural dynamics. The novel asks the reader what it means to be rehabilitated. Religious discomfort is a common theme that is brought up by the discussion of healing and rehabilitation. The critical afterword, “Hungry Ghosts: Pursuing Shame in Where We Come From,” uses affect theory and addiction studies to deconstruct the novel’s approach to communication, relationships, and travel. With the help of theorists including Elspeth Probyn, Eve Sedgwick, and Gabor Maté among others, the exegesis narrows in on the prevalence of awkwardness, abjection, shame, and humour within the novel.
Evolution of a periodic eight-black-hole lattice in numerical relativity
Creators: name: Bentivegna, Eloisa
name: Korzynski, Mikolaj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The idea of black-hole lattices as models for the large-scale structure of the universe has been under scrutiny for several decades, and some of the properties of these systems have been elucidated recently in the context of the problem of cosmological backreaction. The complete, three-dimensional and fully relativistic evolution of these system has, however, never been tackled. We explicitly construct the first of these solutions by numerically integrating Einstein's equation in the case of an eight-black-hole lattice with the topology of S3.
description: 21 pages, 13 figures. Corrected and clarified discussion
Friction and Adhesion of Atomically Thin Films: A Study of Few-layer Graphene
Creators: name: Gong, Peng
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science
subject: Graphene
subject: Friction
subject: Adhesion

description: In order to gain better insight on the fundamental mechanisms governing friction and adhesion at the nanoscale, this thesis examines the friction and adhesion properties and mechanisms on the atomically-thin material, graphene. First, through conducting load dependent measurements of friction on mechanical exfoliated graphene samples, the dependence of the friction behaviour on graphene as a function of number of graphene layers, sliding history, environmental humidity, and air exposure time were examined. A mechanism was proposed to fully explain these experimental observations. Secondly, the finite element method (FEM) was applied to investigate the adhesion between a nanoscale tip and graphene covering a silicon substrate. The simulations, contrary to prior experimental results, showed a slight increase in the pull-off force as layer number increased. In addition, it was revealed that the layer-dependent pull-off forces result from the increasing tipgraphene interactions. This work contributes to gaining better insight on the applications to the lubrication mechanisms of graphene.
Ritorni al Sud nel tempo del Covid
Creators: name: Teti, Vito
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: Disasters are accelerators of historical and social processes already underway, and the Covid-19 pandemic is a health and social disaster of planetary scale and historical significance. Since the first days of this emergency there has been a return to birthplaces: from the North to the South of Italy, but also from the urban centres to the villages, from the coast to the inland, from the plain to the mountains. The numbers are still small to speak of a reversal of the trend compared to the decade-long depopulation of certain areas, but something is happening and requires us to reflect on the kind of rebirth that lies ahead for the villages, the margins, the suburbs.
description: Scienze del Territorio, 2020: SPECIAL ISSUE: Abitare il territorio al tempo del Covid / Living the territories in the time of Covid
Ref_ijps_article_3402 (1).pdf
Creators: name: Peter O., Irabor
name: C., Nwamadi Bright
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 130201 Creative Arts, Media and Communication Curriculum and Pedagogy
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: History
subject: 220206 History and Philosophy of Science (incl. Non-historical Philosophy of Science)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 220208 History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences
subject: 220207 History and Philosophy of the Humanities
subject: 220210 History of Philosophy
subject: 180114 Human Rights Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 130205 Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. Economics, Business and Management)
subject: 220104 Human Rights and Justice Issues
subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Philosophy
subject: 220407 Studies in Religious Traditions (excl. Eastern, Jewish, Christian and Islamic Traditions)
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: In recent time, the method of electoral democracy in Nigeria reflects the form of vote trading where exchange of cash and material goods become prevalent. This undue influence and subversion of electorate vote by political parties and candidates leaves significant gap in election and electoral process which are critical to promoting electoral governance. This study assessed the impact of vote trading on voter’s behaviour, and examined the implication of vote trading on electoral governance in Osun State 2018 governorship election in Nigeria.
Prevalencia de la ideación suicida durante el período perinatal en el ASSIR del Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa
Creators: name: Gallego Barrero, M
name: Soligó Illamola, A
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 9 (2019): abril-mayo-junio
New off-lattice Pattern Recognition Scheme for off-lattice kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations
Creators: name: Nandipati, Giridhar
name: Kara, Abdelkader
name: Shah, Syed Islamuddin
name: Rahman, Talat S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the development of a new pattern-recognition scheme for the off- lattice self-learning kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method that is simple and flex ible enough that it can be applied to all types of surfaces. In this scheme, to uniquely identify the local environment and associated processes involving three-dimensional (3D) motion of an atom or atoms, 3D space around a central atom or leading atom is divided into 3D rectangular boxes. The dimensions and the number of 3D boxes are determined by the type of the lattice and by the ac- curacy with which a process needs to be identified. As a test of this method we present the application of off-lattice KMC with the pattern-recognition scheme to 3D Cu island decay on the Cu(100) surface and to 2D diffusion of a Cu monomer and a dimer on the Cu (111) surface. We compare the results and computational efficiency to those available in the literature.
description: 25 pages, 12 figures
Creative Resistance Tactics in the Work of English-Canadian Screenwriters
Creators: name: McArthur, Kerry
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cinema
subject: Mass Communications
subject: Canadian Studies
subject: screenwriting
subject: resistance
subject: Policy

description: This dissertation analyzes how eight successful English-Canadian screenwriters negotiate various systems of filmmaking practice, in particular the criteria for screenwriting structure, character development and closure as imposed by Hollywood normative practice, Canadian film producers and national funding organizations. The writers discuss their tactics for conciliating the interests of funders and producers while honouring their own interpretations of what they consider essential narrative elements in screenplay projects. Analysis of interview transcripts reveals that many of these writers take their inspiration from works of literature and theatre as much as from influential films; further textual analysis of films written by these same screenwriters shows that not one follows the exact dictates of classical Hollywood narrative, although all deploy various elements and permutations of the form for their own purposes. As per French sociologist Michel de Certeau’s position that society’s powerless both consciously and unconsciously adopt stealth tactics to make their way in the world, these screenwriters reveal the many ways they resist overt control of their writing, alternately by neglecting/ignoring rewriting strictures (provided through reader’s reports and/or producer’s notes), by instinctively taking up anomalous narrative structures provided by alternate genres, and/or by adopting new roles in the process via which they may better exert control over the filmmaking project. Finally, while many of the interviewees reveal a working knowledge of Canadian cinema and related national identity questions, few seem to consider it a relevant issue in their own work as screenwriters. The focus for most English-Canadian professionals instead is upon telling their own versions of contract story ideas in original ways, rather than devising a national ‘voice’ to communicate a cultural identity.
Universal lineshape of the Kondo zero-bias anomaly in a quantum dot
Creators: name: Kretinin, Andrey V.
name: Shtrikman, Hadas
name: Mahalu, Diana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Encouraged by the recent real-time renormalization group results we carried out a detailed analysis of the nonequilibrium Kondo conductance observed in an InAs nanowire-based quantum dot and found them to be in excellent agreement. We show that in a wide range of bias the Kondo conductance zero-bias anomaly is scaled by the Kondo temperature to a universal lineshape predicted by the numerical study. The lineshape can be approximated by a phenomenological expression of a single argument $eV_{sd}=k_{\rm B}T_{\rm K}$. The knowledge of an analytical expression for the lineshape provides an alternative way for estimation of the Kondo temperature in a real experiment, with no need for time consuming temperature dependence measurements of the linear conductance.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Theoretical frameworks for neuroeconomics of intertemporal choice
Creators: name: Takahashi, Taiki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Intertemporal choice has drawn attention in behavioral economics, econophysics, and neuroeconomics. Recent studies in mainstream economics have mainly focused on inconsistency in intertemporal choice (dynamic inconsistency); while impulsivity/impatience in intertemporal choice has been extensively studied in behavioral economics of addiction. However, recent advances in neuroeconomic and econophysical studies on intertemporal choice have made it possible to study both impulsivity and inconsistency in intertemporal choice within a unified framework. In this paper I propose the new frameworks for investigations into neuroeconomics of intertemporal choice. The importance of studying neurochemical and neuroendocrinological modulations of intertemporal choice and time-perception (e.g. serotonin, dopamine, cortisol, testosterone, and epinephrine) is emphasized.
Contextual Interpretations of International Mindedness in International Baccalaureate Diploma Students
Creators: name: Beek, Avis
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education--Curriculum and Instruction
subject: international mindedness
subject: International Baccalaureate
subject: international education
subject: Integral Theory
subject: intercultural

description: The purpose of this study was to examine contextual interpretations of international mindedness by International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma students in a national and an international school in the Czech Republic. Three research questions were addressed in the study: • How is international mindedness actualized by IB Diploma students? • What is the experience of education for international mindedness for IB Diploma students? • What is the role of context in developing international mindedness in IB Diploma students? The conceptual framework was based on Wilber’s (2006) comprehensive integral theory, a novel application in the study of international mindedness. Through integral methodological pluralism, a form of mixed methods research, quantitative and qualitative data was collected and analyzed. Using an empirical methodology, the Global Perspectives Inventory (Braskamp, Braskamp & Engberg, 2014) was administered to IB Diploma students. Descriptive statistical analysis of the results revealed no significant difference between participants from the two schools. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological methodology, interviews were conducted with IB Diploma students and experienced IB Diploma teachers. Findings revealed the experience of international mindedness can be characterized by the development of an intercultural identity, the ability to take alternate perspectives and the capacity to resolve disconnection from important others. Contextual factors of privilege, parent influence and exposure to diversity also characterized the experience of student international mindedness. Implications for improving the education for international mindedness at the level of the school and IB organization are discussed.
Environmental Reservoir of Antimicrobial Resistance in Poultry Production Facilities and Processing Plants in Alberta
Creators: name: Thapa, Paras
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Veterinary Science
subject: antimicrobial resistance
subject: poultry
subject: Biofilm

description: This study was conducted to determine the role of environmental bacteria in maintaining antimicrobial resistance genes in poultry barns and poultry processing plants in Alberta. Aerobic, non-fastidious, fast growing bacteria were isolated from environmental samples. Approximately half of the bacteria were gram-negative and half were gram-positive. Resistance to clinically important antibiotics such as third generation cephalosporins was observed in 20-35% of the gram-negative isolates. Sixty percent of all bacteria assayed were considered multi-drug resistant, having resistance to antibiotics in three or more drug classes. Ten of 14 E. coli isolates were resistant to 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation cephalosporins, three of which harboured the blaCMY-2 gene, which encodes a plasmid borne AmpC cephalosporinase enzyme. Bacterial species expressing a variety of resistance phenotypes were tested for their ability to form a biofilm in vitro and for their ability to withstand exposure to commonly used disinfectants while residing in biofilm. In conclusion, multi-drug resistant environmental bacteria present in poultry barns and processing facilities can serve as reservoir of antimicrobial resistant genes, which could potentially be transferred to pathogenic bacteria.
Epidemie e coscienza sociale nel lungo periodo
Creators: name: Carle, Lucia
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: Since antiquity, humanity has been facing epidemics, one of the great recurring fears in the society of the Ancient Régime. In the long run they have generated or accelerated new collective behaviours, as well as the repetition and perpetuation of ancient reactions and behaviours. The fundamental measures – distancing, isolation, hygiene – generated by the confrontation and coexistence with the disease, are the corpus of long-lasting collective behaviours, handed down and dusted off with each epidemic/pandemic resurgence. Long-term epidemics affect territories, contributing to the definition of their peculiarities. Once imported, they assume precise and different features peculiar to each area, creating short duration spatial and social boundaries. They leave marks in social collective consciousness, modifying during their incidence the related, circumscribed and enlarged horizons defined by anthropic components. Every pandemic crisis affects social collective consciousness. In populations there is always both a rejection of the disease, although evident, up to its denial, and the insistent desire to ‘behave as before’. This is one of the major issues political and health authorities face, today as in the past, fighting against the infection spread and attempting to overcome it. The epidemic accelerates ongoing or underlying processes, influencing collective evolutions and changes. In a long-term perspective, epidemics are ‘bottlenecks’ that have forced societies to concretely deal with the consequences of their fundamental deficiencies.
description: Scienze del Territorio, 2020: SPECIAL ISSUE: Abitare il territorio al tempo del Covid / Living the territories in the time of Covid
Piccoli paesi nell’ondata del virus. Resistenza, democrazia, comunità
Creators: name: Clemente, Pietro
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: As part of the reflections on how Covid-19 has acted in Italian disadvantaged non-urban areas we ask if the lockdown has enhanced – through comparisons with cities – the demand for a higher quality of life; we also try to understand what kind of new subjectivity can strenghten the scene of small villages engaged in this rebirth and which conflicts or growth process regarding new communitarian forms are developing. After a review of the new forms of contemporary community and the identification of the frequent element of conflict for the new undertakings of “Riabitare l’Italia”, we analyse evidence of quality of life in places with lower social density, but also extreme loneliness and heightened sense of abandonment due to the lack of post Covid strong investment policies for marginal areas. The final reflection takes note of the fact that the current debates tend to not see a connection between the social and economic aspects and the symbolic and ritualistic aspects of the social life in small villages, and that points to the need for a recomposition of different aspects of life in terms of analysis and project.
description: Scienze del Territorio, 2020: SPECIAL ISSUE: Abitare il territorio al tempo del Covid / Living the territories in the time of Covid