cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Economic behaviour during conflict : education and labour market participation in Internally Displaced People's camps in Northern Uganda
Creators: name: Lehrer, Kim Jamie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation investigates men and women's labour force participation and children's education outcomes using original data collected in Ugandan Internally Displaced People's (IDP) camps in 2005 and 2007. The random nature of the conflict and mass displacement in the region is exploited to identify their impacts on behaviour. Furthermore, a randomized trial of two alternative food for education programs implemented in the IDP camps is evaluated. The impacts of the programs on primary school participation, cognitive development, and learning achievement are investigated. The first chapter introduces the dissertation and explores the research setting by detailing the randomized school feeding experiment and the data collection process. It considers the context in which the data was collected, focusing on the conflict in the region at the time. The second chapter uses this unique data set and the exogenous nature of the conflict and resulting displacement in Northern Uganda to examine their impacts on labour market participation. I find that the longer the existence of the camp to which people moved, the less men work. In contrast, women's labour market decisions are not influenced by the age of the Internally Displaced People's camp in which they live. I argue that these responses result from the development of gender-specific social norms regarding idleness and not from a lack of opportunities. A decline in the percentage of men working in a camp leads to a reduction in the probability that a given man works. The third and fourth chapters provide solid empirical evidence of the educational impacts of two food for education programs. Joint with my co-authors, I compare education outcomes between three randomly assigned groups: Beneficiaries of an in-school meals program, beneficiaries of a take-home rations program providing equivalent food transfers conditional on school attendance, and a control group. The findings suggest that, in general, both programs performed equally well in improving school participation. While access to both programs improved cognition, the impacts on learning achievement are not as strong.
Noise Effects in Nonlinear Biochemical Signaling
Creators: name: Bostani, Neda
name: Kessler, David A.
name: Shnerb, Nadav M.
name: Rappel, Wouter-Jan
name: Levine, Herbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been generally recognized that stochasticity can play an important role in the information processing accomplished by reaction networks in biological cells. Most treatments of that stochasticity employ Gaussian noise even though it is a priori obvious that this approximation can violate physical constraints, such as the positivity of chemical concentrations. Here, we show that even when such nonphysical fluctuations are rare, an exact solution of the Gaussian model shows that the model can yield unphysical results. This is done in the context of a simple incoherent-feedforward model which exhibits perfect adaptation in the deterministic limit. We show how one can use the natural separation of time scales in this model to yield an approximate model, that is analytically solvable, including its dynamical response to an environmental change. Alternatively, one can employ a cutoff procedure to regularize the Gaussian result.
Pion production in the MiniBooNE
Creators: name: Lalakulich, O.
name: Gallmeister, K.
name: Leitner, T.
name: Mosel, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate one pion production processes within the Giessen Boltzmann--Uehling--Uhlenbeck (GiBUU) coupled channel transport model. Our calculations for integrated and differential cross sections for realistic experimental neutrino fluxes are compared to the data recently provided by the MiniBooNE collaboration.
description: Talk at NuInt11, Dehradun, India, March 2011
Agent-Relativity and the Foundations of Moral Theory
Creators: name: Hammerton, Matthew
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2016
Subjects: agent-relativity
agent-neutrality
moment-relativity
moment-neutrality
time-relativity
time-neutrality
patient-relativity
patient-neutrality
constraints
agent-centered
deontology
consequentialism

description: This thesis is concerned with agent-relativity and its importance in understanding and evaluating moral theories. Many would agree with Thomas Hurka that the distinction between agent-relativity and agent-neutrality is one of “the greatest contributions of recent ethics”. Among other things, it is important because it has allowed moral philosophers to better explore the logical space of moral theories, enabling them to see promising moral theories that were previously absent from the debate. This thesis continues this project of exploring the logical space of moral theories, and then applies the insights gained to various debates in moral theory. It contains a preface and five chapters. Each chapter is an independent essay that can be read without reference to any of the other chapters. Yet the arguments made in the five chapters overlap in various ways and are united by their focus on agent-relativity. Taken together, here is roughly what these chapters say. There is an important distinction between moral rules and theories that are agent-relative and moral rules and theories that are agent-neutral. Despite some difficulties, this distinction can be made with formal precision. There is also an important related distinction between moment-relative rules and theories and moment-neutral rules and theories. Finally, there is a third important distinction between patient-relative rules and theories and patient-neutral rules and theories. Together, these three distinctions give us a precise way of understanding the structure of moral theories. Traditionally, deontology has been associated with agent-relativity and consequentialism with agent-neutrality. Several philosophers hold that consequentialism can also be agent-relative. For this to be true there must be agent-relative moral values. Some argue that such values are implausible, however, they can be defended by showing that commonsense morality is already committed to them. Thus, agent-relative consequentialism appears plausible. Other philosophers hold that deontology can be agent-neutral. I argue this is false—deontology is necessarily agent-relative. One of the main attractions of deontology is its ability to explain agent-centered constraints. However, when we think through cases involving agent-relativity and moment-relativity we see that deontology faces a trilemma with respect to agent-centered constraints. Either, (i) it is really a version of agent-relative consequentialism, or (ii) it fails to be uniquely action-guiding in cases where commonsense morality requires it, or (iii) it endorses a counterintuitive anti-aggregation principle. This trilemma poses a serious problem for the deontologist and suggests that agent-relative consequentialism is the better theory when it comes to accommodating commonsense morality.
Additional file 2 of Major adverse cardiovascular events are associated with necroptosis during severe COVID-19
Creators: name: Wiscovitch-Russo, Rosana
name: Ibáñez-Prada, Elsa D.
name: Serrano-Mayorga, Cristian C.
name: Sievers, Benjamin L.
name: Engelbride, Maeve A.
name: Padmanabhan, Surya
name: Tan, Gene S.
name: Vashee, Sanjay
name: Bustos, Ingrid G.
name: Pachecho, Carlos
name: Mendez, Lina
name: Dube, Peter H.
name: Singh, Harinder
name: Reyes, Luis Felipe
name: Gonzalez-Juarbe, Norberto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2. Pyroptosis and apoptosis are not overly active in patients with MACE. Immunoblot for Gasdermin-D (pro-[53 kDa], activated [30 kDa], and inactivated [20 kDa]) and Caspase-3 (pro-[35 kDa] and cleaved [19 kDa and 17 kDa]) in serum of hospitalized patients experiencing MACE or no-MACE. Uncropped gels are shown below.
English Women and the Late-Nineteenth Century Open Space Movement
Creators: name: Curtis, Robyn
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Environment
gender
philanthropy
England
open space
nineteenth century
conservation
Kyrle Society
National Trust
Metropolitan Public Gardens Association
Commons Preservation Society

description: During the second half of the nineteenth century, England became the most industrialised and urbanised nation on earth. An expanding population and growing manufacturing drove development on any available space. Yet this same period saw the origins of a movement that would lead to the preservation and creation of green open spaces across the country. Beginning in 1865, social reforming groups sought to stop the sale and development of open spaces near metropolitan centres. Over the next thirty years, new national organisations worked to protect and develop a variety of open spaces around the country. In the process, participants challenged traditional land ownership, class obligations and gender roles. There has been very little scholarship examining the work of the open space organisations; nor has there been any previous analysis of the specific membership demographics of these important groups. This thesis documents and examines the four organisations that formed the heart of the open space movement (the Commons Preservation Society, the Kyrle Society, the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association and the National Trust). It demonstrates connections between philanthropy, gender and space that have not been explored previously. The Parliamentary Archives, London Metropolitan Archives, Guildhall Library Archives and the archives of the National Trust provided a wealth of material, including minutes, publications, newspaper cuttings and personal letters. My thesis focuses particularly on the many women activists who contributed to the achievements and philosophy of the open space movement. Unusually, women undertook significant public roles in the movement. Their participation engendered personal, professional and political advancement for their sex. My analysis illuminates the numerous motivations behind Victorian philanthropy and expands the picture of Victorian society. Further, it analyses the variety of motivations that prompted the movement’s ethos, as well as exploring the range of language used by supporters in their descriptions of the ‘natural’ world. This research highlights a significant, gendered turning point in the appreciation of conservation, preservation and the importance of open spaces in England.
Long-time behavior of an angiogenesis model with flux at the tumor boundary
Creators: name: Cieslak, Tomasz
name: Morales-Rodrigo, Cristian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper deals with a nonlinear system of partial differential equations modeling a simplified tumor-induced angiogenesis taking into account only the interplay between tumor angiogenic factors and endothelial cells. Considered model assumes a nonlinear flux at the tumor boundary and a nonlinear chemotactic response. It is proved that the choice of some key parameters influences the long-time behaviour of the system. More precisely, we show the convergence of solutions to different semi-trivial stationary states for different range of parameters.
description: 17 pages
title: GIS in Crises Management Use of Smart Phone GIS Application in the Event of Natural Disaster
Creators: name: Petrovski, Aleksandar
name: Taneski, Nenad
name: Ackoski, Jugoslav
Publisher: name: Proceeding of 1st International Conference on Environmental Protection and Disaster RISKs, 2020, p. 249-258
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Today it has become both the government and citizens concern to care human beings against ever-increasing crisis around the globe. There are so many natural disasters like: forest fire incidents, earthquakes, floods, eruptions, tsunami and etc. despite all this kinds of natural and man- made disasters from a social perspective, it their potentiality to seriously and irreversible damage regions. In addition the extent and severity of such incidents may significantly affect the population. For that reason and the fact that Geographic information system is recognized as a useful system for alleviation the risk during the crisis management we develop the idea to promote a new model to have a practical and applicable method of GIS adoption within the crisis management in order to save as many lives as it can be done. This study aims to come out with a model that will not allow drop links. Each smart phone will have application in the event of natural disaster and it switched due to the change of the vital function of man in trouble. This will help departments respond as soon as they can and save lives as many as they can and to reduce the percentage of people who could not call for help. This work highlights the design challenges and required technical innovations towards the goal of making GIS much more useful.
description: Proceeding of 1st International Conference on Environmental Protection and Disaster RISKs, 2020, p. 249-258
Injury Rates, Mechanisms, and Risk Factors For Injury in Youth Rock Climbers
Creators: name: Woollings, Kaikanani
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Recreation
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Public Health
subject: rock climbing
subject: athletic injury
subject: child and adolescent

description: Objective: To examine the incidence, mechanisms, and risk factors for injury in 11- to 19-year-old recreational and elite sport climbers and boulderers. Methods: Cross-sectional study design. Participants were recruited from climbing facilities across Alberta, Canada, and 116 youths completed an anonymous questionnaire. Primary Outcome Measure: Climbing injury Results: The incidence rate of climbing injury was 4.44 injuries/1000 climbing hours (95% CI; 3.74, 5.23). Sprains and strains were the predominant injury type, and the primary mechanism of injury was repetitive overuse. Hands and fingers were the most commonly injured locations. Older age (15–19-year-olds), injury in a sport other than climbing, and preventive taping were shown to be risk factors for injury. Conclusions: Climbing injury incidence rates are high in youth climbers. Findings are consistent with reported rates and details surrounding injury in adults. Modifiable potential risk factors warrant further investigation in order to inform development of future injury prevention strategies.
Nonlinear Temporal Dynamics of Strongly Coupled Quantum Dot-Cavity System
Creators: name: Majumdar, Arka
name: Englund, Dirk
name: Bajcsy, Michal
name: Vuckovic, Jelena
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 theoretically analyze and simulate the temporal dynamics of strongly coupled quantum dot-cavity system driven by a resonant laser pulse. We observe the signature of Rabi oscillation in the time resolved response of the system (i.e., in the numerically calculated cavity output), derive simplified linear and non-linear semi-classical models that approximate well the system's behavior in the limits of high and low power drive pulse, and describe the role of quantum coherence in the exact dynamics of the system. Finally, we also present experimental data showing the signature of the Rabi oscillation in time domain.
Enhancing the Production of Lipids and Antioxidants in Heterotrophic Cultures of Auxenochlorella protothecoides
Creators: name: Ibarra Vidal, Mary
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: microalgae
subject: protothecoides
subject: Lipids
subject: Antioxidants
subject: glycerol

description: Auxenochlorella protothecoides, aside its potential for biofuels, is an excellent source of antioxidants, reaching high lipid productivity under heterotrophic conditions utilizing glucose. Glucose-fed cultures, however, experience chloroplast bleaching affecting antioxidants production. In this study, glycerol, was evaluated as a carbon source at varying carbon-nitrogen ratios in batch-cultures. Glycerol presence in glucose fed-cultures reduced, or completely eliminated, chloroplast bleaching and increased the substrate-to-biomass yield beyond its thermodynamic limit. These results, suggest that glycerol forced the photosynthetic pathway to remain active, resulting in dark carbon fixation through the Calvin-cycle reactions. The maximum cell-density and biomass productivity were 17.60 g/L and 1.91 g/L·d respectively. Cultures grown on only-glycerol showed the highest lipid yield, 149 mg-lipids/g-substrate and antioxidants yield 6.650 µmol-Trolox/g-substrate. These values were higher to those observed with sole-glucose fed-cultures by 7% and 93% respectively. The maximum antioxidant productivity reached was 12.53 µM-TEAC/L•d, value comparable to those previously reported for Haematococcus Pluvialis.
Additional file 1 of Exploring the eating disorder curricula of accredited university dietetic programs in Australia and New Zealand
Creators: name: Parker, Elizabeth Kumiko
name: Ashley, Mellisa Anne
name: Harris, Deanne Maree
name: Stefoska-Needham, Anita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1: COREQ Checklist.
Navigating the Invisible: Elite Athletes’ Experience of Sports-Related Concussions
Creators: name: Kintzel, Franziska
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Education--Guidance and Counseling
subject: Education--Health
subject: Anthropology--Physical
subject: Mental Health
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Concussion
subject: Brain Injury
subject: Sport Psychology
subject: Counselling Psychology
subject: Stress and Coping
subject: Elite Athletes
subject: Sports-related concussion
subject: Qualitative research
subject: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

description: Sports-related concussions and their impact on athletes have been recognized as a pressing concern, as their hidden severity is often underestimated. Despite extensive research on the neurocognitive impact of sports-related concussions, little has been done in terms of understanding athletes’ sense-making of their experiences with and adjustment to such injuries. In this study, I examined how elite athletes made sense of their lived experiences following a sports-related concussion, how they coped, and what they found helpful or hindering during their recovery. Semi-structured interviews with six former elite athletes were conducted and analyzed by utilizing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Four overarching themes emerged: (a) The Context of Sports Culture, (b) The Impact of Concussion, (c) Navigating the Injury, and (d) Transitioning. Findings are discussed in the context of relevant scholarly literature, and implications are presented for counselling professionals and educators, as well as future research.
Existence of Gradient Kahler-Ricci Solitons
Creators: name: Cao, Huai-Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is the original paper appeared in the book "Elliptic and Parabolic Methods in Geometry (Minneapolis, MN,1994), A K Peters, Wellesley, MA, (1996)" (p.1-16), except with a few minor modifications as described at the end of the paper (on p.14). Due to frequent requests for the article, we decided to post it on the arXiv.
Radiation properties of extreme nulling pulsar J1502-5653
Creators: name: Li, J.
name: Esamdin, A.
name: Manchester, R. N.
name: Qian, M. F.
name: Niu, H. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on radiation properties of extreme nulling pulsar J1502-5653, by analyzing the data acquired from the Parkes 64-m telescope at 1374 MHz. The radio emission from this pulsar exhibits sequences of several tens to several hundreds consecutive burst pulses, separated by null pulses, and the appearance of the emission seems quasi-periodic. The null fraction from the data is estimated to be 93.6%. No emission is detected in the integrated profile of all null pulses. Systematic modulations of pulse intensity and phase are found at the beginning of burst-pulse sequences just after null. The intensity usually rises to a maximum for the first few pulses, then declines exponentially afterwards, and becomes stable after few tens of pulse periods. The peak phase appears at later longitudes for the first pulse, then drifts to earlier longitudes rapidly, and then systematic drifting gradually vanishes while the intensity becomes stable. In this pulsar, the intensity variation and phase modulation of pulses are correlated in a short duration after the emission starts following a null. Observed properties of the pulsar are compared with other nulling pulsars published previously, and the possible explanation for phase modulation is discussed.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures. Accepted by MNRAS
The Welfare Implication of Lifting the No Surcharge Rule in Credit Card Markets
Creators: name: Tan, Hongru
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Banking
subject: Economics--Finance
subject: Antitrust
subject: Credit card markets

description: This dissertation investigates the welfare implications of banning the no surcharge rule (NSR) in credit card markets. Nowadays, Visa and MasterCard have been facing antitrust and regulatory investigations all over the world. They are charged for certain business practices that may adversely affect competition. Among all the business practices, the NSR has been particularly at issue. The NSR is a business practice that prohibits merchants from charging a higher price to purchases made using credit cards than to purchases made using other forms of payment. Chapter One investigates the welfare implication of banning the NSR using a model in which a monopoly credit card company provides credit card services to both consumers and Hotelling merchants through competitive issuing banks and competitive acquiring banks. The main finding is that banning the NSR decreases social welfare, which stands in contrast with previous core literature-- namely, Rochet and Tirole (2002) (RT2002). Moreover, this unambiguous conclusion for welfare holds in a open payment system, regardless of the degree of competition among issuing banks. Chapter Two investigates the welfare implication of banning the NSR using a model in which a monopoly credit card company provides credit card services to both consumers and monopoly merchants through competitive issuing banks and competitive acquiring banks. The main finding is that banning the NSR decreases social welfare because banning the NSR results in a double marginalization problem in providing credit card services. Another contribution of this chapter is that it provides an explanation of the surcharging behavior of merchants in Australia. Chapter Three applies a model of platform competition to investigate the welfare implication of lifting the NSR in credit card markets. This paper finds that lifting the NSR always drives down the provision of credit card service below the level of a typical equilibrium in a Cournot game and always decreases social welfare. Social welfare decreases because banning the NSR opens the door for the merchant to abuse its market power in reselling the credit card service. Therefore, a new distortion is generated after the ban of the NSR, and social welfare decreases.
Additional file 2 of Exploring the eating disorder curricula of accredited university dietetic programs in Australia and New Zealand
Creators: name: Parker, Elizabeth Kumiko
name: Ashley, Mellisa Anne
name: Harris, Deanne Maree
name: Stefoska-Needham, Anita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 2: Interview Question Guide.
Nonlocal symmetries of a class of scalar and coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations of any order
Creators: name: Pradeep, R. Gladwin
name: Chandrasekar, V. K.
name: Senthilvelan, M.
name: Lakshmanan, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we devise a systematic procedure to obtain nonlocal symmetries of a class of scalar nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) of arbitrary order related to linear ODEs through nonlocal relations. The procedure makes use of the Lie point symmetries of the linear ODEs and the nonlocal connection to deduce the nonlocal symmetries of the corresponding nonlinear ODEs. Using these nonlocal symmetries we obtain reduction transformations and reduced equations to specific examples. We find the reduced equations can be explicitly integrated to deduce the general solutions for these cases. We also extend this procedure to coupled higher order nonlinear ODEs with specific reference to second order nonlinear ODEs.
description: Accepted for publication in J. Phys. A Math. Theor. 2011
Automated Pain Recognition Using Analysis of Facial Expressions
Creators: name: Shier, Warren Adam
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Computer Science
subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Psychology--Physiological
subject: Convolutional Neural Networks
subject: Automated Pain Recognition
subject: Facial Expression Recognition
subject: Support Vector Machines
subject: Gabor Filters

description: Current pain evaluation involves the use of patient self-reporting, which can be subjective, prone to suggestion, and infeasible on certain patients. Post-surgery patients, elderly people with dementia, or young children cannot properly convey their pain, even though it still occurs. There are also limitations on the frequency caregivers or doctors can check on their patients. To help solve this problem, this thesis develops solutions for automated pain detection via facial expressions. The system continually classifies the subject as being in pain, or not in pain. Subject pain levels are verified using the Prkachin and Solomon Pain Intensity Scale. Two fully automated algorithms are presented, the first uses Gabor filters with Support Vector Machines, the other uses a type of deep learning, Convolutional Neural Networks. Feasibility studies are conducted on a database and real-life subjects from an elderly care facility. Results are evaluated using precisions and speed of computation.
Land, law and language : rhetorics of Indigenous rights and title
Creators: name: Makmillen, Shurli
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: For good or ill, settler Indigenous relations in settler colonies around the world are being framed by longer and more complex texts. This renders the study of language more important than ever, especially as the frameworks and perspectives of Aboriginal people are increasingly given their due; it also raises the question about other strategies for resistance and redress, such as the role of the arts, politics, culture and media. This thesis explores these issues with respect to assumptions and debates about language and meaning, about language and culture, and about legal and literary language in a selection of genres in which natives and newcomers in British Columbia and Aotearoa/New Zealand mediate their claims about land, about government, and about what counts as legitimate knowledge. No longer is it correct to enforce paradigms of Western justice, nor to essentialize or exoticize Indigenous cultural production. But what is taking their place and how do particular rhetorics of language and of difference structure these legal and literary genres in this particular "contact zone"? That language is used in ways to serve situations is fundamental to rhetorical genre theory; that subsequent interpretations of this language use may serve subsequent often quite different situations is also of interest, and part of the action of genre. As a hermeneutical concept, genre can mediate between discourse and sentence levels of analysis in ways that keep audience effects in mind. But in the case of these genres both speakers and audiences can be polarized, dispersing intentions, uptakes, and effects. Theories of rhetoric and genre, which are my conceptual foundation, need amendment to account for this. Generating a more nuanced account of genre helps me develop a category of genres called contact genres: those genres in which rhetorical situations may be profoundly differently construed and yet they maintain their stability in order to address and dissolve colonialism’s culture.
Effect of Cleaving Temperature on the Surface and Bulk Fermi Surface of Sr2RuO4 Investigated by High Resolution Angle-Resolved Photoemission
Creators: name: Liu, Shanyu
name: Zhang, Wentao
name: Weng, Hongming
name: Zhao, Lin
name: Liu, Haiyun
name: Jia, Xiaowen
name: Liu, Guodong
name: Dong, Xiaoli
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Mao, Z. Q.
name: Chen, Chuangtian
name: Xu, Zuyan
name: Dai, Xi
name: Fang, Zhong
name: Zhou, X. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High resolution angle-resolved photoemission measurements are carried out to systematically investigate the effect of cleaving temperature on the electronic structure and Fermi surface of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$. Different from previous reports that high cleaving temperature can suppress surface Fermi surface, we find that the surface Fermi surface remains obvious and strong in Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ cleaved at high temperature, even at room temperature. This indicates that cleaving temperature is not a key effective factor in suppressing the surface bands. On the other hand, in the aged surface of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ that is cleaved and held for a long time, the bulk bands can be enhanced. We have also carried out laser ARPES measurements on Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ by using vacuum ultra-violet laser (photon energy at 6.994 eV) and found an obvious enhancement of bulk bands even for samples cleaved at low temperature. These information are important in realizing an effective approach in manipulating and detecting the surface and bulk electronic structure of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$. In particular, the enhancement of bulk sensitivity, together with its super-high instrumental resolution of VUV laser ARPES, will be advantageous in investigating fine electronic structure and superconducting properties of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ in the future.
Penetralia
Creators: name: Nelson, Brandon
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Literature--Modern
subject: Literature--Canadian (English)
subject: Literature--English
subject: short fiction

description: Penetralia is a short fiction collection that occupies the fissures between the minds and bodies of its protagonists. Each story involves an uncanny disruption of identity that results in personal, social, and sexual convulsion and collapse. The convulsions are many: a man finds wisdom in silence when he is numbed and unable to speak during a tooth extraction, a woman uses cuddle parties to escape her anxiety and obsessive rituals, Marlene Dietrich converses casually with a marketer licensing her image posthumously, a confused revolution strikes its first blow after a fertility clinic refuses to inseminate across racial lines, a renowned writer plagiarizes from a schizophrenic homeless man, and a stand-up comedienne listens for echoes of herself from the other side of the spotlight. The mundane combines with the bizarre to disorient and unnerve bodies that have palsied in the grip of a modernity circling back to feed on itself.
Eigenfrequency correction of Bloch-Floquet waves in a thin periodic bi-material strip with cracks lying on perfect and imperfect interfaces
Creators: name: Vellender, A.
name: Mishuris, G. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse an asymptotic low-dimensional model of anti-plane shear in a thin bi-material strip containing a periodic array of interfacial cracks. Both ideal and non-ideal interfaces are considered. We find that the previously derived asymptotic models display a degree of inaccuracy in predicting standing wave eigenfrequencies and suggest an improvement to the asymptotic model to address this discrepancy. Computations demonstrate that the correction to the standing wave eigenfrequencies greatly improve the accuracy of the low-dimensional model.
Hybridization and speciation in the Yellow-rumped Warbler complex
Creators: name: Brelsford, Alan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Hybrid zones provide insight into the speciation process. They show which characteristics have evolved differently between recently separated populations, and which differences promote reproductive isolation upon secondary contact. In the Yellow-rumped Warbler complex, the Myrtle and Audubon's forms hybridize in the Rocky Mountains. I investigated the history of the complex and the current evolutionary dynamics of the hybrid zone. In chapters two and three, I used genetic, plumage, and song analysis to show that the hybrid zone is stable and maintained by postmating barriers. Association between two genetic markers on different chromosomes showed that the hybrid zone is maintained by moderately strong selection against hybrids. Comparison between my sampling and data collected in 1965 showed that the hybrid zone remained stable during that time. Myrtle and Audubon's songs were weakly differentiated, with hybrid songs intermediate between them. Both parental types reacted as strongly to hybrid songs as to songs of their own type, and there was no evidence of assortative mating. In chapter four, I investigated the history of divergence and hybridization among the four Yellow-rumped Warbler subspecies. Previously, conflicting relationships had been hypothesized. Based on appearance, the Audubon's form had been grouped with two southern subspecies from Mexico and Guatemala. Another study of mitochondrial DNA had supported a very recent divergence between Audubon's and Myrtle and more distant relationship with the southern forms. Using nuclear markers, I showed that the Audubon's Warbler is closely related to the Mexican subspecies, but has acquired its mitochondrial DNA and a substantial fraction of its nuclear genome from the Myrtle form. This is the first multilocus genetic evidence for the hybrid origin of a widespread bird taxon. This thesis provides evidence for the diversity of mechanisms that may drive species divergence. Unlike many well-studied examples, neither premating barriers nor song maintain the distinctness of Myrtle and Audubon's Warblers. My work provides further evidence that hybridization can be a source of evolutionary novelty in animals, and highlights the importance of surveying multiple genetic markers in phylogeography. Finally, this study is a point of comparison for several other hybridizing species with similar biogeographic histories.
Role of Elemental Sulfur and Polysulfide in Corrosion Mediated by Sulfate Reducing Bacteria
Creators: name: Johnston, Shawna Lee
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: sulfate reducing bacteria
subject: Corrosion
subject: polysulfide
subject: elemental sulfur

description: Sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB), such as Desulfovibrio vulgaris sp. Hildenborough, are strict anaerobes which reduce sulfate to sulfide, which is toxic and leads to reservoir souring and pipeline corrosion. SRB can be controlled through nitrate injection. Nitrate stimulates the nitrate reducing, sulfide oxidizing bacteria (NR-SOB) which reduce nitrate to nitrite. Nitrite is inhibitory to SRB, as it blocks a key sulfate reduction enzyme. Nitrite and oxygen (from periods of oxygen ingress) can also react chemically with sulfide to produce elemental sulfur (S) or polysulfide (PS), both of which are also inhibitory to SRB. In this way, nitrite and oxygen seem to dually inhibit SRB. However, both S and PS are very corrosive species, and their formation in pipelines is undesirable. Recent data suggests that sulfur formation during nitrate injection may occur, which may increase corrosion risk. SRB can overcome nitrite and oxygen stress, as well as S and PS stress. This raises the question: what role are SRB playing in pipeline corrosion? Oxygen and nitrite were added to live and autoclaved D. vulgaris cells, and it was found that D. vulgaris could remove some polysulfide through an electron transport chain involving the hybrid cluster proteins Hcp1 and Hcp2. While making an hcp1 mutant, a genomic island was found, which improves oxygen tolerance at the expense of growth rate. Subsequent studies demonstrated that live D. vulgaris is able to prevent the formation of S and PS up to an oxygen: sulfide ratio of 1:1, although this did not translate to a decrease in weight loss corrosion. S and PS were formed with oxygen under biotic (live cells), abiotic (autoclaved cells) and chemical (high sulfide media) conditions. Corresponding pitting corrosion increased as biotic
Kinematics of the most efficient cilium
Creators: name: Eloy, Christophe
name: Lauga, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a variety of biological processes, eukaryotic cells use cilia to transport flow. Although cilia have a remarkably conserved internal molecular structure, experimental observations report very diverse kinematics. To address this diversity, we determine numerically the kinematics and energetics of the most efficient cilium. Specifically, we compute the time-periodic deformation of a wall-bound elastic filament leading to transport of a surrounding fluid at minimum energetic cost, where the cost is taken to be the positive work done by all internal molecular motors. The optimal kinematics are found to strongly depend on the cilium bending rigidity through a single dimensionless number, the Sperm number, and closely resemble the two-stroke ciliary beating pattern observed experimentally.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Comparison of the density-matrix renormalization group method applied to fractional quantum Hall systems in different geometries
Creators: name: Hu, Zi-Xiang
name: Papic, Z.
name: Johri, S.
name: Bhatt, R. N.
name: Schmitteckert, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a systematic study of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) using the density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method on two different geometries: the sphere and the cylinder. We provide convergence benchmarks based on model Hamiltonians known to possess exact zero-energy ground states, as well as an analysis of the number of sweeps and basis elements that need to be kept in order to achieve the desired accuracy.The ground state energies of the Coulomb Hamiltonian at $ν=1/3$ and $ν=5/2$ filling are extracted and compared with the results obtained by previous DMRG implementations in the literature. A remarkably rapid convergence in the cylinder geometry is noted and suggests that this boundary condition is particularly suited for the application of the DMRG method to the FQHE.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures
BPS States on M5-brane in Large C-field Background
Creators: name: Ho, Pei-Ming
name: Ma, Chen-Te
name: Yeh, Chi-Hsien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extensively study BPS solutions of the low energy effective theory of M5-brane in large C-field background. This provides us an opportunity to explore the interactions turned on by C-field background through the Nambu-Poisson structure. The BPS states considered in this paper include the M-waves, the self-dual string (M2 ending on M5), tilted M5-brane, holomorphic embedding of M5-brane and the intersection of two M5-branes along a 3-brane.
description: 25 pages, reference added
Additional file 1 of Glucagon-like peptide-1 analogues: a new way to quit smoking? (SKIP)—a structured summary of a study protocol for a randomized controlled study
Creators: name: Lengsfeld, Sophia
name: Burkard, Thilo
name: Meienberg, Andrea
name: Jeanloz, Nica
name: Coynel, David
name: Vogt, Deborah R.
name: Hemkens, Lars G.
name: Speich, Benjamin
name: Zanchi, Davide
name: Erlanger, Tobias E.
name: Christ-Crain, Mirjam
name: Winzeler, Bettina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. QSU-G.
Talk About [Men's Perpetration of] Sexual Assault [Against Women]
Creators: name: Mikita, Kiara
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Sociology
subject: WomenÕs Studies
subject: sexual assault
subject: rape
subject: victim-blaming
subject: sexual assault prevention
subject: sexual assault avoidance
subject: discourse analysis
subject: interpretative repertoires
subject: Feminism
subject: feminist

description: Building upon feminist analyses of talk about sexual assault, I use discourse analysis to examine the ways in which speakers construct sexual assault, victims, and perpetrators; describe how sexual assault is and should be prevented; and, set out who is and should be responsible for preventing it. I read from speakers’ talk constructions of women-directed sexual assault “prevention” as a series of unofficial, conduct-circumscribing rules that keep rule-compliant women safe and render or position other women partially or wholly responsible for the sexual assaults that men perpetrate against them. By examining the often subtle and nuanced ways in which women-directed sexual assault avoidance-oriented messages and victim-blaming intersect, I demonstrate how speakers construct women as responsible for men’s perpetration of sexual assault against them. I argue that these constructions are accomplished in speakers’ formulations of sexual assault as a virtually self-perpetuated outcome produced by women who daftly or deliberately breach these conduct-governing rules. Moreover, I maintain that these rules are grounded in hitherto largely unexamined and problematic assumptions about men that in essence task women with compensating for men’s ostensive deficits. I identify and describe seven discursive themes or “interpretative repertoires” that speakers routinely deploy in talk about sexual assault that effaces and/or exculpates perpetrators and implicates and incriminates women. On the whole, in this work that aims to unsettle the sedimentation of perpetrator-concealing, victim-blaming talk, I identify and describe several rhetorical features in speakers’ talk about sexual assault that absolves men and blames women for the sexual assaults that men perpetrate against them. I conclude by identifying a series of alternative discursive practices and strategies that readers might employ in an effort to speak change in terms of how we talk about men’s perpetration of sexual assault against women.
Janus Black Holes
Creators: name: Bak, Dongsu
name: Gutperle, Michael
name: Janik, Romuald A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper Janus black holes in AdS3 are considered. These are static solutions of an Einstein-scalar system with broken translation symmetry along the horizon. These solutions are dual to interface conformal field theories at finite temperature. An approximate solution is first constructed using perturbation theory around a planar BTZ black hole. Numerical and exact solutions valid for all sets of parameters are then found and compared. Using the exact solution the thermodynamics of the system is analyzed. The entropy associated with the Janus black hole is calculated and it is found that the entropy of the black Janus is the sum of the undeformed black hole entropy and the entanglement entropy associated with the defect.
description: 28 pages, 2 figures, reference added
The Temporal Transition of Team Exploratory and Exploitative Learning
Creators: name: Larson, Nicole
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Psychology--Industrial
subject: team learning
subject: exploratory learning
subject: exploitative learning
subject: innovation
subject: goal orientation
subject: team conflict

description: This study investigated exploratory and exploitative actions, an organizational learning theory, and conceptualized it at the level of the team. Results indicated that teams tend to pursue both exploratory and exploitative actions simultaneously and exponentially over time, however these learning behaviours were not related to subsequent performance. Additionally, team goal orientations were found to be differentially related to each of the learning behaviours. Supplemental analyses revealed that intra-team relationship conflict had a moderating effect on the degree to which teams engaged in exploratory learning over time. Furthermore, task conflict measured at the project midpoint, predicted earlier initial levels of team exploratory and exploitative learning behaviours. The findings contribute to the growing body of research on team learning, and offer unique insight into how learning behaviour unfolds over time and the factors which impact these behaviours in teams.