cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Video as a tool in the development of oral presentation competence among undergraduate law students
title: An activity theory based analysis
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Barker, Charles
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2021

description: This is a single site study in a post-1992 university law school in England using activity theory and phenomenographic methods to explore how video recordings of students’ oral presentations can be used as a feedback tool to support the development of oral presentation competence. Although oral presentation competence development often forms part of the undergraduate law curriculum, it is not always taught well. While there is extensive literature on both the role of feedback in higher education and oral presentation competence development, the link between the two areas has had only limited attention. More particularly, there is very little literature exploring how themes in the feedback literature, such as self-evaluation, may offer a useful insight into the role of video recording in the development of oral presentation competence. Phenomenographic methods are used to analyse students’ perception of the video material (19 participants were interviewed at three points during the academic year). Activity theory is used to reconceptualise the oral presentation competence development activity and to consider how video can best be used as a feedback tool to support the learning activity. The research analysis demonstrates that video can help students to evaluate their own performances and make adjustments to future performances. However, the research also indicates that there are potential barriers to video being used effectively. These barriers can best be overcome by emphasising the social aspects of the activity. In particular, video recordings of student performances should not be focused upon until students have gained experience of evaluation and developed subject specific notions of quality through giving and receiving peer feedback. By reconceptualising the activity to emphasise its social aspects and foregrounding the role of self-evaluation, this research offers an insight into how video can most effectively be used as a feedback tool to support oral presentation competence development.
Next-to-Leading Order QCD Corrections to Vector Boson Pair Production in Association with two Jets at the LHC
Creators: name: Kerner, Matthias
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2014

description: Pair production of electroweak (EW) vector bosons in association with two jets constitutes an important set of processes at the LHC. Besides their contribution as a background to various searches for physics beyond the Standard Model, these processes allow one to probe the mechanism of EW symmetry breaking. In this thesis, the QCD-induced contributions to these processes are studied at next-to-leading order QCD.
Excerpt from letter from Charles Dollard to Gunnar Myrdal, July 18, 1941; enclosed with July 19, 1941 letter from Gunnar Myrdal to Richard Sterner
Creators: name: Dollard, Charles, 1907-1977
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Race relations
African Americans--Social conditions
Endowments

description: Notes from July 18, 1941 letter from Charles Dollard to Gunnar Myrdal discussing Richard Sterner's returning to work on "An American Dilemma," excerpted and attached to July 19 letter from Dollard to Sterner
One-Dimensional Tunable Josephson Metamaterials - Eindimensionale stimmbare Josephson Metamaterialien
Creators: name: Butz, Susanne
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2014
Subjects: Metamaterials
Tunable metamaterials
SQUIDs
Superconductivity

description: This thesis presents a novel approach to the experimental realization of tunable, superconducting metamaterials. Therefore, conventional resonant meta-atoms are replaced by meta-atoms that contain Josephson junctions, which renders their resonance frequency tunable by an external magnetic field. This tunability is theoretically and experimentally investigated in one-dimensional magnetic and electric metamaterials. For the magnetic metamaterial, the effective, magnetic permeability is determined.
Classical Noncommutative Electrodynamics with External Source
Creators: name: Adorno, T. C.
name: Gitman, D. M.
name: Shabad, A. E.
name: Vassilevich, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a $U(1)_{\star}$-noncommutative (NC) gauge field theory we extend the Seiberg-Witten (SW) map to include the (gauge-invariance-violating) external current and formulate - to the first order in the NC parameter - gauge-covariant classical field equations. We find solutions to these equations in the vacuum and in an external magnetic field, when the 4-current is a static electric charge of a finite size $a$, restricted from below by the elementary length. We impose extra boundary conditions, which we use to rule out all singularities, $1/r$ included, from the solutions. The static charge proves to be a magnetic dipole, with its magnetic moment being inversely proportional to its size $a$. The external magnetic field modifies the long-range Coulomb field and some electromagnetic form-factors. We also analyze the ambiguity in the SW map and show that at least to the order studied here it is equivalent to the ambiguity of adding a homogeneous solution to the current-conservation equation.
69720: First World War project praised by Angela Merkel (blog article)
Creators: name: Project Team, Oxford At War
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: The Oxford Arts Blog reports on how Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel offers her backing to the Europeana 1914-1918, a Europe-wide project which began at Oxford University.
Letter from Gunnar Myrdal to Richard Sterner, July 19, 1941
Creators: name: Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Race relations
African Americans--Social conditions
Endowments

description: Gunnar Myrdal writes to Richard Sterner to express his thoughts on Charles Dollard's opinions on Sterner coming back to work on "An American Dilemma."
A service broker for Intercloud computing
Creators: name: Jrad, Foued
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2014
Subjects: Cloud Computing
Service Broker
Match-Making
Workflow
Multi-Cloud

description: This thesis aims at assisting users in finding the most suitable Cloud resources taking into account their functional and non-functional SLA requirements. A key feature of the work is a Cloud service broker acting as mediator between consumers and Clouds. The research involves the implementation and evaluation of two SLA-aware match-making algorithms by use of a simulation environment. The work investigates also the optimal deployment of Multi-Cloud workflows on Intercloud environments.
Effect of the Heterogeneity of Metamaterials on Casimir-Lifshitz Interaction
Creators: name: Azari, Arash
name: Miri, MirFaez
name: Golestanian, Ramin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Casimir-Lifshitz interaction between metamaterials is studied using a model that takes into account the structural heterogeneity of the dielectric and magnetic properties of the bodies. A recently developed perturbation theory for the Casimir-Lifshitz interaction between arbitrary material bodies is generalized to include non-uniform magnetic permeability profiles, and used to study the interaction between the magneto-dielectric heterostructures within the leading order. The metamaterials are modeled as two dimensional arrays of domains with varying permittivity and permeability. In the case of two semi-infinite bodies with flat boundaries, the patterned structure of the material properties is found to cause the normal Casimir-Lifshitz force to develop an oscillatory behavior when the distance between the two bodies is comparable to the wavelength of the patterned features in the metamaterials. The non-uniformity also leads to the emergence of lateral Casimir-Lifshitz forces, which tend to strengthen as the gap size becomes smaller. Our results suggest that the recent studies on Casimir-Lifshitz forces between metamaterials, which have been performed with the aim of examining the possibility of observing the repulsive force, should be revisited to include the effect of the patterned structure at the wavelength of several hundred nanometers that coincides with the relevant gap size in the experiments.
description: 9 pages, 13 figures. Rewriting equations (10) and (12) and increasing the size of the lettering/numeral in figures
Optimaler Aufbau von Batteriesystemen für Windkraftanlagen
Creators: name: König, Sebastian
name: Leibfried, Thomas
name: Wandschneider, Frank
name: Röhm, Simon
name: Fischer, Peter
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2013

description: Die Modellierung, Simulation und Optimierung eines großen Batteriespeichersystems wird am Beispiel der Vanadium-Redox-Flow-Batterie (VRFB) präsentiert. Das vorgestellte multiphysikalische Gesamtmodell spiegelt das elektrochemi-sche und das hydraulische Verhalten der Batterie wieder. Der elektrische Teil enthält auch eine in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Fraunhofer ICT in Pfinztal/Berghausen entworfene Modellierung der sogenannten Streustromverluste, welche in Flussbatterien auftreten. Das Energiewandlungssystem (EWS) ist in Wirkungsgradkurven hinterlegt, die zuvor in detail-lierten Simulationen ermittelt wurden. Durch die Implementierung des hydraulischen Systems sind auch die Pumpver-luste der Flussbatterie bestimmbar.
Durch die Modellierung und Simulation des Gesamtsystems wird der optimale innere Aufbau der Batterie identifiziert. Neben der Dimensionierung des hydraulischen Kreises, wird die parallele und serielle Verschaltung der Batteriestacks zu Strängen und Modulen optimiert. Der Modellaufbau in Matlab/Simulink ist weitgehend automatisiert. Dadurch ist es in Zukunft möglich, eine große Anzahl von Aufbauvarianten des Batteriesystems aufzubauen und zu validieren. Die Er-gebnisse und Parameter von vier verschiedenen Aufbauvarianten werden präsentiert und diskutiert.
NON-TARGET EVENTS IN SYNTHETIC SOUNDSCAPES pre-trained models
Creators: name: Ronchini, Francesca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This repo contains the checkpoints of the different models used for the paper “THE IMPACT OF NON-TARGET EVENTS IN SYNTHETIC SOUNDSCAPES FOR SOUND EVENT DETECTION”. More information regarding the experiments on the paper at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03354938.
Letter from Richard Sterner to Charles Dollard, July 21, 1941
Creators: name: Sterner, Richard, 1901-1978
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Race relations
African Americans--Social conditions
Endowments

description: Richard Sterner writes to Charles Dollard to explain his choice to leave his current position in Virginia to assist Gunnar Myrdal in completing "An American Dilemma."
A GALEX Ultraviolet Imaging Survey of Galaxies in the Local Volume
Creators: name: Lee, Janice C.
name: de Paz, Armando Gil
name: Kennicutt,, Robert C.
name: Bothwell, Matthew
name: Dalcanton, Julianne
name: Funes, José G.
name: J., S.
name: Johnson, Benjamin
name: Sakai, Shoko
name: Skillman, Evan
name: Tremonti, Christy
name: van Zee, Liese
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from a GALEX ultraviolet (UV) survey of a complete sample of 390 galaxies within ~11 Mpc of the Milky Way. The UV data are a key component of the composite Local Volume Legacy (LVL), an ultraviolet-to-infrared imaging program designed to provide an inventory of dust and star formation in nearby spiral and irregular galaxies. The ensemble dataset is an especially valuable resource for studying star formation in dwarf galaxies, which comprise over 80% of the sample. We describe the GALEX survey programs which obtained the data and provide a catalog of far-UV (~1500 Angstroms) and near-UV (~2200 Angstroms) integrated photometry. General UV properties of the sample are briefly discussed. We compute two measures of the global star formation efficiency, the SFR per unit HI gas mass and the SFR per unit stellar mass, to illustrate the significant differences that can arise in our understanding of dwarf galaxies when the FUV is used to measure the SFR instead of H-alpha. We find that dwarf galaxies may not be as drastically inefficient in coverting gas into stars as suggested by prior H-alpha studies. In this context, we also examine the UV properties of late-type dwarf galaxies that appear to be devoid of star formation because they were not detected in previous H-alpha narrowband observations. Nearly all such galaxies in our sample are detected in the FUV, and have FUV SFRs that fall below the limit where the H-alpha flux is robust to Poisson fluctuations in the formation of massive stars. The UV colors and star formation efficiencies of H-alpha-undetected, UV-bright dwarf irregulars appear to be relatively unremarkable with respect to those exhibited by the general population of star-forming galaxies.
description: submitted to ApJS, revised per referee's comments; accepted Oct. 30 w/o further revision; 37 pages; figure 6 omitted due to size; figure available from http://users.obs.carnegiescience.edu/jlee/papers
Green Infrastructure/Green Roofs (Project Eddie)
Creators: name: Reiva, St.
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2023

description: Runoff in urban areas is an increasingly important issue when it comes to water quality. It is a major hydrologic issue in New York City, as urban infrastructure creates excess runoff and impervious surfaces decrease the infiltration rate of land surfaces. This excess runoff, which often times carries with it pollutants and contaminants, has proven to create water quality issues. It has become ever more critical to try to mitigate the influx of runoff into our waterways. Urbanization increases runoff, and in NYC 64% of the area is impervious. In this module students will explore green roofs as a potential solution to the environmental impacts of increased precipitation brought on by climate change. They will evaluate data collected from studies on 15 green roofs from different areas of the US and other countries, as well as historical precipitation data from Central Park in NY to illustrate how precipitation patterns are changing and if we need to use green infrastructure, such as green roofs, to combat the symptoms of climate change. Students will also use Model My Watershed , a watershed-modeling web app, to analyze real land use data, model storm-water runoff and water-quality i
Improvement of the Statutory Framework for Construction and Demolition Waste Management exemplified in Germany and Australia
Creators: name: Li, Mei
name: Kühlen, Anna
name: Yang, Jay
name: Schultmann, Frank
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2013

description: Construction and demolition (C&D) waste occupies the largest share of overall waste generation in many countries. However, waste management practices and outcomes may differ between countries. For instance, in Australia, C&D waste recovery is continuously improving during the last years but the amount of C&D waste increases every year, as there has been little improvement in waste voidance and minimization. In contrast, in Germany, waste generation remains constant over many years despite the continuous economic growth. The waste recycling rate in Germany is one of the highest in the world. However, most waste recycled is from demolition work rather than from waste generated during new construction. In addition, specific laws need to be developed to further reduce landfill of non-recycled waste. Despite of the differences, C&D waste generation and recovery in both countries depend on the effectiveness of the statutory framework, which regulates their waste management practices. This is an issue in other parts of the world as well. Therefore countries can learn from each other to improve their current statutory framework for C&D waste management. By taking Germany and Australia as an example, possible measures to improve current practices of C&D waste 
management through better statutory tools are identified in this paper. After providing an overview of the statutory framework of both countries and their status in waste generation and recovery, a SWOT analysis is conducted to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the statutory tools. Recommendations to improve the current statutory frameworks, in order to achieve less waste generation and more waste recovery in the construction industry are provided for the German and Australian government and they can also be transferred to other countries.
Highly tunable low-threshold optical parametric oscillation in radially poled whispering gallery resonators
Creators: name: Beckmann, T.
name: Linnenbank, H.
name: Steigerwald, H.
name: Sturman, B.
name: Haertle, D.
name: Buse, K.
name: Breunig, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Whispering gallery resonators (WGR's), based on total internal reflection, possess high quality factors in a broad spectral range. Thus, nonlinear optical processes in such cavities are ideally suited for the generation of broadband or tunable electromagnetic radiation. Experimentally and theoretically, we investigate the tunability of optical parametric oscillation in a radially structured WGR made of lithium niobate. With a 1.04 /mum pump wave, the signal and idler waves are tuned from 1.78 to 2.5 \mum - including the point of degeneracy - by varying the temperature between 20 and 62 °C. A weak off-centering of the radial domain structure extends considerably the tuning capabilities. The oscillation threshold lies in the mW-power range.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Limiting shape for first-passage percolation models on random geometric graphs
Creators: name: Coletti, Cristian F.
name: De Lima, Lucas R.
name: Hinsen, Alexander
name: Jahnel, Benedikt
name: Valesin, Daniel R.
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Poisson--Gilbert graph
subject: Richardson model
subject: Bernoulli bond percolation
subject: subergodicity
subject: high-density limit
subject: isotropic shapes
subject: 52A22
subject: 60F15
subject: 60K35

description: Let a random geometric graph be defined in the supercritical regime for the existence of a unique infinite connected component in Euclidean space. Consider the first-passage percolation model with independent and identically distributed random variables on the random infinite connected component. We provide sufficient conditions for the existence of the asymptotic shape and we show that the shape is an Euclidean ball. We give some examples exhibiting the result for Bernoulli percolation and the Richardson model. For the Richardson model we further show that it converges weakly to a branching process in the joint limit of large intensities and slow passing times.
69721: Shot at Dawn (blog article)
Creators: name: Project Team, Oxford At War
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: An article on the Oxford Arts Blog about award-winning photographer and Ruskin School of Art graduate Chloe Dewe Mathews and her exhibition of images focusing on the sites where First World War soldiers were executed (shot at dawn).
Large Quantum Superpositions and Interference of Massive Nanometer-Sized Objects
Creators: name: Romero-Isart, O.
name: Pflanzer, A. C.
name: Blaser, F.
name: Kaltenbaek, R.
name: Kiesel, N.
name: Aspelmeyer, M.
name: Cirac, J. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to prepare and verify spatial quantum superpositions of a nanometer-sized object separated by distances of the order of its size. This method provides unprecedented bounds for objective collapse models of the wave function by merging techniques and insights from cavity quantum optomechanics and matter wave interferometry. An analysis and simulation of the experiment is performed taking into account standard sources of decoherence. We provide an operational parameter regime using present day and planned technology.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in PRL
Doing Phenomenology
Creators: name: Persaud, Balraj
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 500399
subject: Philosophy not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 500310
subject: Phenomenology

description: This thesis is an investigation of the method of phenomenology. Phenomenology is defined, and the role of phenomenological description is explored. The experience of the method of phenomenology is then examined, followed by a consideration of the role of language in phenomenological description, demonstrating its ability to disturb existing perceptual practices. The thesis concludes by noting the critical capacity and political function of the descriptive method of phenomenology.The full thesis is available via the University of Guelph and Zenodo.
title: Structure, flow, and inequality
title: Analysing consumer outcomes in ecological and socio-ecological resource distribution networks with spatially explicit modelling approaches
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Davis, Natalie
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2021

description: The energetic requirements of all physical systems are supplied by resource acquisition, distribution, and end-use (RADE) networks. While the characteristics of these networks vary considerably, they share similar outcomes, namely heterogeneity in natural systems, and inequality in social systems. Despite the criticality of resources for sustaining life, and impacts of their unequal distribution, little work has attempted to explicitly connect RADE network structure, resource flows, and consumer outcomes. The overall aim of this thesis was to develop and use modelling approaches to identify relationships between network structure and consumer heterogeneity in stylised networks. After reviewing the current literature on RADE networks (Chapter 1), we develop a model of RADE networks using an electrical analogue and quantify consumer inequality as networks evolve toward maximum power (Chapter 2). In networks with heterogeneous architecture, such as commonly seen fractal structures, inequality between consumers increases as resource flows increase, even after maximum power has been reached. We then develop a method to extract macropore networks from soil profile images and analyse them with metrics from network science and transport geography (Chapter 3). The networks are used as the environment in an agent-based model (ABM) of foraging soil organisms. The methodology captures known differences between soil types, and shows larger, more heterogenous soil networks support larger, more diverse simulated consumer populations. Finally, we develop an ABM of generic consumers building a network to move between resources in heterogeneous landscapes, attempting to maximise their time-discounted consumption (Chapter 4). The dynamics were similar across the landscapes, with the consumer inequality decreasing during initial network construction, then increasing as the network reached its stable state. The resource distribution in each landscape moderated the specific rates and timings of these dynamics. Overall, the findings here linking known system development trajectories and network architectures to increased inequality provide insight into the emergence and persistence of heterogeneity among consumers in both ecological and socio-ecological systems, and alleviation of inequality in the latter.
A Compact Cache-Efficient Function Store with Constant Evaluation Time
Creators: name: Zhou, Wei
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2013

description: A new data structure to store a set of key-value mappings for finite static key sets
is presented. The data structure, which is called Cache-Efficient Function Stores
(CEFS), can be built in linear expected time and supports evaluation for a key within
worst-case constant time. Furthermore, (i) the building process can be parallelized
to achieve massive speed-up over known methods; (ii) an evaluation needs less than
two cache misses in average case for many applications, improving upon all known
methods. The data structure is also compact, needing only O(n) bits extra space to
be stored. The data structure is flexible in that there are many parameters that can
be configured in order to fit in specific applications. The time and space properties
for different parameters can be predicted to great precision in advance with formulae
developed in the thesis. It is also possible to automate the selection of parameters.
Experiments have shown the efficiency of the new data structure and confirmed the
theoretical analysis.
Cross-correlation between the cosmic microwave and infrared backgrounds for integrated Sachs-Wolfe detection
Creators: name: Ilic, S.
name: Douspis, M.
name: Langer, M.
name: Pénin, A.
name: Lagache, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the cross-correlation between the cosmic infrared background (CIB) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies due to the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect. We first describe the CIB anisotropies using a linearly biased power spectrum, valid on the angular scales of interest. From this, we derive the theoretical angular power spectrum of the CMB-CIB cross-correlation for different instruments and frequencies. Our cross-spectra show similarities in shape with usual CMB/galaxies cross-correlations. We discuss the detectability of the ISW signal by performing a signal-to-noise (SNR) analysis with our predicted spectra. Our results show that : (i) in the ideal case of noiseless, full-sky maps, the significances obtained range from 6 to 7 sigmas depending on the frequency, with a maximum at 353 GHz (ii) in realistic cases which account for the presence of noise including astrophysical contaminents, the results depend strongly on the major contribution to the noise term. They span from 2 to 5 sigmas, the most favorable frequency for detection being 545 GHz. We also find that the joint use of all available frequencies in the cross-correlation does not improve significantly the total SNR, due to the high level of correlation of the CIB maps at different frequencies.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, 1 table ; small changes to match the version published in MNRAS
title: Exploring the barriers and facilitators to health research with children and young people who are looked after
Creators: name: Dale, Hannah
name: Watson, Lorna
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2010

description: Service provision for children and young people who are looked after should be evidence based, as far as possible, in order to improve their health and wellbeing. This evidence base comes from literature and research. Yet research with young people who are looked after is scarce despite their poor outcomes (For example, Dale and Watson, 2010). This paper provides some reflections on the research process of a health needs assessment in Fife, in which the experience and views of young people was critical (Dale, 2009). It will explore some of the barriers and facilitators in research relevant to health, and makes a plea for a more facilitative approach, within the existing regulatory systems.
Associations between vaginal temperature and induced estrus expression and fertility in lactating Holstein cows
Creators: name: Polsky, Liam Benjamin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The objective of this study was to determine the effect of vaginal temperature on levels of physical activity expressed by lactating Holstein cows following induced estrus. Lactating Holstein cows (n = 641; 41.5 9.4 kg milk/d) were fitted with a leg-mounted pedometer resulting in 843 evaluated activity episodes of estrus. Vaginal temperature was monitored using thermometers, attached to an intravaginal device that recorded vaginal temperature every 10 min for 3 d. Ambient temperature and relative humidity were monitored using an external thermometer placed in the center of each pen. Milk production and BCS were collected at the time of thermometer insertion. All statistical analysis was performed in R. Heat stress (HS) was calculated based on the percentage of time the cow spent with a vaginal temperature ≥39.1°C (PCT39) 9-11 d prior to Timed Artificial Insemination (TAI), and was classified as high or low (median: 22.9%). The mean vaginal temperature was 38.9 ± 0.2°C, whereas the mean maximum and minimum vaginal temperatures were 39.7 ± 0.5°C and 38.0 ± 0.8°C, respectively, with an average amplitude 1.71 ± 0.9°C. Mean relative increase (RI) of steps/hr at estrus was 237.0 ± 160 %. Animals with low BCS were associated with lower RI compared to cows with medium BCS (260.31 ± 17.45% vs. 296.42 ± 6.62%). Lower temperature and humidity (THI) values (≤ 65) were associated with greater RI compared with medium (> 65 - < 70) and high conditions (≥ 70). There was no association between PCT39 on RI. Cows who displayed greater RI at estrus had stronger associations with pregnancy per artificial insemination (P/AI) compared with low RI (27% vs. 20%) and no RI (27% vs. 12%). An interaction was observed between PCT39 and THI on P/AI, where a subpopulation of cows with high PCT39 were associated with decreased P/AI under high THI conditions, but no differences in P/AI were observed for high PCT39 cows under medium and low THI conditions (13% vs. 24% vs. 26%). Future research should aim to refine variables related to hyperthermia as well as understanding the effects of body temperature on estrus expression and fertility.
Charm-loop effect in $B \to K^{(*)} \ell^{+} \ell^{-}$ and $B\to K^*γ$
Creators: name: Khodjamirian, A.
name: Mannel, Th.
name: Pivovarov, A. A.
name: Wang, Y. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the long-distance effect generated by the four-quark operators with $c$-quarks in the $B\to K^{(*)} \ell^+\ell^-$ decays. At the lepton-pair invariant masses far below the $\bar{c}c$-threshold, $q^2\ll 4m_c^2$, we use OPE near the light-cone. The nonfactorizable soft-gluon emission from $c$-quarks is cast in the form of a nonlocal effective operator. The $B\to K^{(*)}$ matrix elements of this operator are calculated from the QCD light-cone sum rules with the $B$-meson distribution amplitudes. As a byproduct, we also predict the charm-loop contribution to $B\to K^*γ$ beyond the local-operator approximation. To describe the charm-loop effect at large $q^2$, we employ the hadronic dispersion relation with $ψ=J/ψ,ψ(2S), ...$ contributions, where the measured $ B\to K^{(*)}ψ$ amplitudes are used as inputs. Matching this relation to the result of QCD calculation reveals a destructive interference between the $J/ψ$ and $ψ(2S)$ contributions. The resulting charm-loop effect is represented as a $q^2$-dependent correction $ΔC_9(q^2)$ to the Wilson coefficient $C_9$. Within uncertainties of our calculation, at $q^2$ below the charmonium region the predicted ratio $ΔC_9(q^2)/C_9$ is $\leq 5% $ for $B\to K \ell^+\ell^-$, but can reach as much as 20% for $B\to K^*\ell^+\ell^-$, the difference being mainly caused by the soft-gluon contribution.
description: A few comments added, version to appear in JHEP
Computability of Brolin-Lyubich Measure
Creators: name: Binder, Ilia
name: Braverman, Mark
name: Rojas, Cristobal
name: Yampolsky, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37F10, 30C85, 26E40

description: Brolin-Lyubich measure $λ_R$ of a rational endomorphism $R:\riem\to\riem$ with $°R\geq 2$ is the unique invariant measure of maximal entropy $h_{λ_R}=h_{\text{top}}(R)=\log d$. Its support is the Julia set $J(R)$. We demonstrate that $λ_R$ is always computable by an algorithm which has access to coefficients of $R$, even when $J(R)$ is not computable. In the case when $R$ is a polynomial, Brolin-Lyubich measure coincides with the harmonic measure of the basin of infinity. We find a sufficient condition for computability of the harmonic measure of a domain, which holds for the basin of infinity of a polynomial mapping, and show that computability may fail for a general domain.
69722: English Words in War-Time : Tracking Language on the Move in WW1 (blog)
Creators: name: Project Team, Oxford At War
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Findings of the project exploring the impact of war on the English language using teh material collected by Andrew Clark, an Oxford English Dictionary volunteer.
Scaling limits of random growth processes
Creators: name: Liddle, George
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Random growth models
Probability
Scaling limits

description: The topic of this thesis is random growth processes. These occur naturally in many real world settings such as in the growth of tumours and lightning strikes. As such we would like to model the processes so that we can effectively study their properties. In particular, we are interested in what the shape of the process is as it grows and so we wish to evaluate the scaling limits of the random processes. In Chapter 1, we will provide the background material needed in order to study the random growth models. We will give examples of real world processes that we would like to study before describing the models used to study them. We then provide some previous results in the area to provide context for the independent research that follows. Chapter 2 will follow [LT21a] closely. In this paper we evaluate a strongly regularised version of the Hastings-Levitov model HL(α) for 0≤α<2. We consider the scaling limit of the model under capacity rescaling. We first consider the case where α=0 and show that the limiting structure of the cluster is not a disk, unlike in the small-particle limit. Then when 0<α<2 we show that under the same rescaling the cluster approaches a disk and we analyse the fluctuations. In Chapter 3, we present results from a second paper [LT21b]. In this paper we study the anisotropic version of the Hastings-Levitov model AHL(ν). We consider the evolution of the harmonic measure on logarithmic timescales and show that there exists a logarithmic time window on which the harmonic measure flow, started from the unstable fixed point, moves stochastically from the unstable point towards a stable point. Finally, in Chapter 4, we give the conclusions of this thesis and the scope for future work.
Letter from Gunnar Myrdal to Frederick P. Keppel, July 7, 1941
Creators: name: Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Race relations
African Americans--Social conditions
Endowments

description: Gunnar Myrdal writes to discuss Alva Myrdal's struggle to secure safe passage back to the United States from Sweden in the wake of escalating Nazi aggression and his current progress on the completion of "An American Dilemma."
The pegi3s Bioinformatics Docker Images Project
Creators: name: López-Fernández, H.
name: P. Ferreira
name: M. Reboiro-Jato
name: C.P. Vieira
name: J. Vieira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: docker
bioinformatics
reproducibility

description: Presentation at PACBB 2021 conference.
title: What is harmed by relationship can be healed by relationship : a developmental/relational approach to residential treatment for young children
Creators: name: Kohlstaedt, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2010

description: Children whose earliest relationships have been marred by violence, chaos, abuse, neglect and loss find that these experiences are ‘hard-wired’ into their brain. As a result, they will grow up believing that these negative experiences reflect what future relationships will be like. Their way of seeing and interacting with the world has been permanently altered by their earliest adverse experiences. Treatment – with a known healing agent, administered in adequate dose and for adequate time and with adequate intensity – can bring those children back into relational health. The curative factor is a relationship with direct care staff. In this paper, the author will describe a developmental/relational approach to residential care for children which has been used at Intermountain, a treatment facility in Helena, Montana, USA, for 27 years. A description of the approach, a case example and the necessity of supervising and monitoring staff are provided. Outcomes of this approach are also detailed.
Letter from Gunnar Myrdal to Charles Dollard, July 16, 1941
Creators: name: Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Race relations
African Americans--Social conditions
Endowments

description: Gunnar Myrdal writes to Charles Dollard to discuss details of Arnold M. Rose and Richard Sterner assisting Myrdal in the completion of "An American Dilemma" over the coming months, including planned start dates and salaries.
69723: The Club at War
Creators: name: Project Team, Oxford At War
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: This link leads to images of 'The Club at War' - the WW1 edition of 'The Balliol Club Magazine' (issues 1-11, 1916-1919, 74 images). The Balliol Boys' Club was a club for boys of the St Ebbe's area of South Oxford. More information about the club can be found via the Balliol archivist blog at http://balliolarchivist.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/faq-balliol-boys-club/
Letter from Samuel A. Stouffer to Gunnar Myrdal, May 28, 1941
Creators: name: Stouffer, Samuel A., 1900-1960
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Race relations
African Americans--Social conditions
Endowments

description: Samuel A. Stouffer writes to inform Gunnar Myrdal that Arnold M. Rose has agreed to serve as Myrdal's assistant starting in September 1941.
Letter from Frederick P. Keppel to Gunnar Myrdal, July 17, 1941
Creators: name: Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Race relations
African Americans--Social conditions
Endowments

description: Frederick P. Keppel writes briefly in response to a July 7 letter from Gunnar Myrdal describing Alva Myrdal's difficultly in securing passage back to the United States from Sweden due to increasing Nazi aggression.
title: Innovationssouveränität: Innovations-, Digitalisierungs- und Technologiepolitik als Wahlkampfthema
title: Anmerkungen zu Zukunftsministerien, Agenturen, Think Tanks und Task Forces und deren Beitrag zur Innovationssouveränität und die fehlende Integration von Innovationskommunikation
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Banholzer, Volker M.
Publisher: name: Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 3 Sozialwissenschaften
subject: 33 Wirtschaft

description: Innovationen sind für Unternehmen ebenso relevant wie für Wirtschaftsstandorte. Von Innovationen hängt Wachstum und damit Wohlstand ab, demzufolge besteht nahezu ein Innovationsimperativ (Passoth & Rammert 2018) für alle Bereiche der Gesellschaft. Im aktuellen Bundestagswahlkampf 2021 sind Innovationen ebenso Thema. Entweder sollen sie helfen, die Auswirkungen der Klimakrise zu bewältigen oder sie werden gebraucht, um den wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand zu sichern. Dabei scheint allerdings etwas im Argen zu liegen. Denn einerseits wird für die kommende Legislaturperi-ode ein „Innovationsfreiheitsgesetz“1 gefordert oder auf die „Entfesselung der Innovationskraft der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft“2 gesetzt. Die Zukunft erscheint so unsicher, dass sie der Steuerung durch ein Zukunftsministerium bedarf, das die Zukunftsfähigkeit des Standortes Deutschland sicherstellt. (...)
Disabled People, Work, and Small-Medium-Size Enterprises (SMEs)
Creators: name: Molyneux, Cara
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2021

description: Finding solutions to address the UK Government aim of getting one million more disabled people into paid employment by 2027 requires a better understanding of the nuanced demand-side barriers currently affecting small and medium size businesses (SMEs). SMEs have been a more robust employer of the unemployed than larger firms meaning they have a unique role in providing employment for disabled people. It is therefore critical to understand how SME employers experience the process of recruiting and retaining disabled people and how disabled people experience working for SMEs. This thesis finds that jobs are still designed with the typical able-bodied worker in mind, and SME practices are often inflexible and therefore exclusionary for people who are deemed not to fit the abled-body worker identity. Yet, despite this, disabled people report feeling welcome in SME workplaces because of the informal nature of the employment relationship. The findings suggest a social relational approach to workplace flex-ability is needed to consider ability-diversity as typical to the human condition. As a value-based and inclusive approach, flex-ability differs to more traditional understandings of flexibility because it aims to operationalise more enabling employment practice by changing workplace culture and practice. In this atmosphere of trust and acceptance, disabled people feel comfortable talking about impairment effects thus reducing the disclosure dilemma. In turn, responding to the needs of disabled workers by changing the workplace instead of changing the individual is therefore the essence of a social relational approach to flex-ability in work.
Polarization Dependence of Raman Spectra in Strained Graphene
Creators: name: Sasaki, K.
name: Wakabayashi, K.
name: Enoki, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The polarization dependences of the G, D, and 2D (G$'$) bands in Raman spectra at graphene bulk and edge are examined theoretically. The 2D and D bands have different selection rules at bulk and edge. At bulk, the 2D band intensity is maximum when the polarization of the scattered light is parallel to that of incident light, whereas the D band intensity does not have a polarization dependence. At edge, the 2D and D bands exhibit a selection rule similar to that of the G band proposed in a previous paper. We suggest that a constraint equation on the axial velocity caused by the graphene edge is essential for the dependence of the G band on the crystallographic orientation observed in the bulk of strained graphene. This is indicative of that the pseudospin and valleyspin in the bulk of graphene can not be completely free from the effect of surrounding edge. The status of the experiments on the G and D bands at the graphene edge is mentioned.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Rigid characterizations of pseudoconvex domains
Creators: name: Nikolov, Nikolai
name: Thomas, Pascal J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32F17

description: We prove that an open set $D$ in $\C^n$ is pseudoconvex if and only if for any $z\in D$ the largest balanced domain centered at $z$ and contained in $D$ is pseudoconvex, and consider analogues of that characterization in the linearly convex case.
description: v2: Proposition 14 is improved; v3: Example 15 and the proof of Proposition 14 are changed
title: Book review : Promoting healthy childhood development today. James R. Harris, Jr., Ph.D. Holyoke, MA., Neari Press, 2007. 92pp, ISBN: 1-929657-30-7
Creators: name: Hollowell, George
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2010

description: Promoting healthy childhood development today, by James R. Harris, Jr., Ph.D., serves as a useful introduction to those working with children and young people in many different capacities, including parents, foster carers and residential child care practitioners, among others. The book tasks itself as a jargon free and practical guide for people working with young people. As the author explains in his introduction, 'the text aims to provide adults with information and strategies to help them address child-rearing issues' (p. XIV). It applies theory to practical examples in a meaningful way, helping people who work with or care for children to understand behaviour as part of a child's development.
Letter from Charles Dollard to Ordway Tead, June 10, 1941
Creators: name: Dollard, Charles, 1907-1977
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Race relations
African Americans--Social conditions
Endowments

description: Charles Dollard writes to formally pitch "An American Dilemma" to Ordway Tead of the publisher Harper & Brothers.
Color centers in NaCl by hybrid functionals
Creators: name: Chen, Wei
name: Tegenkamp, Christoph
name: Pfnür, Herbert
name: Bredow, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present in this work the electronic structure and transition energies (both thermodynamic and optical) of Cl vacancies in NaCl by hybrid density functionals. The underestimated transition energies by the semi-local functional inherited from the band gap problem are recovered by the PBE0 hybrid functional through the non-local exact exchange, whose amount is adjusted to reproduce the experimental band gap. The hybrid functional also gives a better account of the lattice relaxation for the defect systems arising from the reduced self-interaction. On the other hand, the quantitative agreement with experimental vertical transition energy cannot be achieved with hybrid functionals due to the inaccurate descriptions of the ionization energies of the localized defect and the positions of the band edges.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures