cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Ocean Structure and Biological Productivity of the Southern and Atlantic Oceans during the Early to Middle Eocene Climatic Transition
Creators: name: Alexander, Sophie McLean
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2024

description: At the onset of the Cenozoic cooling trend, the Earth system transitioned from the early Eocene greenhouse towards Antarctic glaciation. In this thesis, I integrate foraminifera stable isotope records with portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) and Benthic Foraminiferal Accumulation Rate (BFAR) records to assess changes in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans across the Early-Middle Eocene Transition (EMET). This thesis presents evidence of heterogeneous response of the Southern Ocean during the Eocene, with the Antarctic Zone (AZ) stratifying at ~47 Ma, whilst the Sub-Antarctic Zone (SAZ) remains well mixed, with high productivity. Stratification of the AZ is likely caused by intrusion of a warm surface current sourced from the Pacific into the Southern Ocean. Flow of a shallow current from the Pacific into the Atlantic AZ could occur due to shallow transient (~400 kyr) openings of Drake Passage. The AZ stratification resultant from throughflow caused a reduction in Southern Ocean deep water formation intensity, allowing the dominance of Northern Sourced Waters (NSW) in the Equatorial Atlantic. The closure of Drake Passage via shifting continental blocks reinvigorates deep water formation in the Southern Ocean homogenising the abyss and redistributing nutrients through the Atlantic basin, fuelling export productivity. Finally, this thesis compares the spatial distribution of sedimentary hallmarks of hyperthermals and ocean circulation during two rapid warming events, C21nH2 and ETM-2. From comparing these hyperthermals, I suggest a new mechanism for the cause of hyperthermals. Shoaling of Southern Ocean overturning and a subsequent filling of the Atlantic abyss by NSW results in a strong chemical stratification of the Atlantic water column. The role of eccentricity-modulated changes in ocean overturning producing the sedimentary features of a hyperthermal has previously been overlooked, and the hypothesis of a ‘source’ of carbon can now be discarded.
The Price of Inequality
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: An interview with Joseph Stiglitz, a member of the Berggruen Insitute's 21st Century Council and recipient of the Nobel Prize for economics in 2001. He states that the central thesis of his book "The Price of Inequality" is about economic recovery from recession through austerity measures. He says that U.S. faces problems with the rise in inequality due to its chosen policy. He adds that policy choices such as enforced bankruptcy and antitrust laws can help address inequality.
Global well-posedness of slightly supercritical active scalar equations
Creators: name: Dabkowski, Michael
name: Kiselev, Alexander
name: Silvestre, Luis
name: Vicol, Vlad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q35, 76U05

description: The paper is devoted to the study of slightly supercritical active scalars with nonlocal diffusion. We prove global regularity for the surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) and Burgers equations, when the diffusion term is supercritical by a symbol with roughly logarithmic behavior at infinity. We show that the result is sharp for the Burgers equation. We also prove global regularity for a slightly supercritical two-dimensional Euler equation. Our main tool is a nonlocal maximum principle which controls a certain modulus of continuity of the solutions.
Suplementary Information from From Reddit to Wall street: the role of committed minorities in financial collective action
Creators: name: Lucchini, Lorenzo
name: Aiello, Luca Maria
name: Alessandretti, Laura
name: De Francisci Morales, Gianmarco
name: Starnini, Michele
name: Baronchelli, Andrea
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022

description: Additional information complementing the results presented in the main manuscript.
Welfare Reform at 15 and the State of Policy Analysis
Creators: name: Pimpare, Stephen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Social service
Public policy (Law)

description: This article offers a review of welfare reform evaluation studies, summarizing research that has generated a consensus among mainstream policy analysts that the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) has had few effects beyond caseload reductions and increases in employment. Given that supporters and opponents alike expected the law to have profound consequences, the article considers two ways to explain this surprising outcome, showing that (1) quantitative policy analysis has been ill equipped to capture the PRWORA's effects and (2) expectations were nonetheless wrong because they failed to appreciate how thoroughly Aid to Families with Dependent Children had already been eroded in the decades prior to its reform. Welfare reform was not the beginning of a process of policy change; it was the end of one. In response to these findings, the article describes how a more critical perspective on reform matters for social work researchers! , advocates, and practitioners.
title: What an on call Radiology Resident needs to know about acute abdominal pain on CT imaging?
Creators: name: Gioutlaki, Eleni
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Emergency Imaging
subject: Abdomen
subject: Emergency
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Acute
subject: Diverticula
subject: Volvulus
subject: Not applicable
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To discuss the CT protocol to be followed To illustrate the imaging features of the most common gastrointestinal causes of an acute abdomen To explain the clinical importance of CT findings in the emergency setting and possible pitfalls in...
Composite Scalar Dark Matter
Creators: name: Frigerio, Michele
name: Pomarol, Alex
name: Riva, Francesco
name: Urbano, Alfredo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the dark matter (DM) could be a light composite scalar $η$, emerging from a TeV-scale strongly-coupled sector as a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB). Such state arises naturally in scenarios where the Higgs is also a composite pNGB, as in $O(6)/O(5)$ models, which are particularly predictive, since the low-energy interactions of $η$ are determined by symmetry considerations. We identify the region of parameters where $η$ has the required DM relic density, satisfying at the same time the constraints from Higgs searches at the LHC, as well as DM direct searches. Compositeness, in addition to justify the lightness of the scalars, can enhance the DM scattering rates and lead to an excellent discovery prospect for the near future. For a Higgs mass $m_h\simeq 125$ GeV and a pNGB characteristic scale $f \lesssim 1$ TeV, we find that the DM mass is either $m_η\simeq 50-70$ GeV, with DM annihilations driven by the Higgs resonance, or in the range 100-500 GeV, where the DM derivative interaction with the Higgs becomes dominant. In the former case the invisible Higgs decay to two DM particles could weaken the LHC Higgs signal.
description: 19 pages + appendices, 16 figures. v2: minor changes. v3: version published in JHEP
Remote sensing landscapes of water management on the Victorian goldfields, Australia
Creators: name: Davies, Peter
name: Turnbull, Jodi
name: Lawrence, Susan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430101
subject: Archaeological science
classificationCode: 430107
subject: Historical archaeology (incl. industrial archaeology)
classificationCode: 4301
subject: Archaeology

description: The integration of remote sensing technologies, GIS and mobile mapping platforms is producing new insights into the archaeology of historic water management systems. Our case study of the gold rush in 19th-century Victoria, Australia, has identified ditches, dams, mining claims and sediment sinks at site and landscape scales that are normally obscured by dense vegetation. New technologies including LiDAR provide solutions to these challenges and make possible the analysis and interpretation of these spatially diffuse but historically linked sites. For the first time it is possible to record and analyse a complex archaeological landscape in north-east Victoria that is the result of alluvial mining activity in the later 19th and early 20th century. This approach offers a significant advance in Australasian archaeological science and provides an important model for other researchers examining industrial landscapes.
Post-disaster reconstruction in Coliumo, Chile
Creators: name: Senkow, Shalisha
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 108-111
description: Thesis is in colour.
description: Missing signature page.
description: Chile was struck by an earthquake of magnitude 8.8 and tsunami on February 27, 20 I 0. Numerous coastal communities suffered extensive damage, in particular Coliumo, a small fishing village just north of Concepcion, where those living along the coastline lost portions or all of their homes and belongings. Current housing developments are being planned, including a new community of houses to be built on the site of Coliumo's main transitional housing camp, Alto Rari. This new community will house 45 families and amalgamate those living in the Campa Municipalidad as well as those currently in Alto Rari. While most people will be living in this area on higher ground, approximately 14 families are still choosing to return to the coast to live in tsunami-resistant housing. The challenge of the present Master's Degree Project (MDP)is to design a sustainable community consisting of amenities and housing to entice these 14 families to move to higher ground to create an attractive and safe place that celebrates culture and maintains a vital link to the water: For this to occur, amenities are needed that will not only benefit this specific group of people, but also the greater community of Coliumo. Infused with a measure of self- sufficiency, the community will be more resilient in the face of future adversity, and exert less strain on external aid and supplies in the event of another natural disaster.
title: A graphic review of the common and not so common submucosal lesions of Colon
Creators: name: Patilla Vázquez, Patricia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Education and training
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Colon
subject: GI Tract
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this educational review is to explain, in an orderly, classified and simple manner, the findings associated to submucosal lesions of the large...
Spin Berry phase in the Fermi arc states
Creators: name: Imura, Ken-Ichiro
name: Takane, Yositake
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unusual electronic property of a Weyl semi-metallic nanowire is revealed. Its band dispersion exhibits multiple subbands of partially flat dispersion, originating from the Fermi arc states. Remarkably, the lowest energy flat subbands bear a finite size energy gap, implying that electrons in the Fermi arc surface states are susceptible of the spin Berry phase. This is shown to be a consequence of spin-to-surface locking in the surface electronic states. We verify this behavior and the existence of spin Berry phase in the low-energy effective theory of Fermi arc surface states on a cylindrical nanowire by deriving the latter from a bulk Weyl Hamiltonian. We point out that in any surface state exhibiting a spin Berry phase pi, a zero-energy bound state is formed along a magnetic flux tube of strength, hc/(2e). This effect is highlighted in a surfaceless bulk system pierced by a dislocation line, which shows a 1D chiral mode along the dislocation line.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
Public space in the new suburban city
Creators: name: Onyszchuk, Christopher Robert
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 131-132
description: Thesis is in colour.
description: Missing signature page.
description: Since the Second World War, uninhibited sprawl has transformed the urban fabric of North American cities. Suburbs are now the home of the middle class, removing citizens from urban centers and placing them on the suburban periphery. As a result, public life is diluted and the benefits of strong community bonds are diminished. Suburbanization has produced neighborhoods that both passively and actively isolate and segregate i??dividuals from their environments and communities.This Master's Degree Project investigates the built environment's ability to condition socially constructed public space within suburbia. Through a series of investigations that integrate architecture and urban planning, I argue for a reprogramming of suburbia that facilitates the production of viable public spaces. By providing a plethora of amenity programs and places of work, suburbia can be adapted to facilitate a better future.
Nonlinear Dynamics of Parity-Even Tricritical Gravity in Three and Four Dimensions
Creators: name: Apolo, Luis
name: Porrati, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently proposed "multicritical" higher-derivative gravities in Anti de Sitter space carry logarithmic representations of the Anti de Sitter isometry group. While generically non-unitary already at the quadratic, free-theory level, in special cases these theories admit a unitary subspace. The simplest example of such behavior is "tricritical" gravity. In this paper, we extend the study of parity-even tricritical gravity in d = 3, 4 to the first nonlinear order. We show that the would-be unitary subspace suffers from a linearization instability and is absent in the full non-linear theory.
description: 22 pages; v2: references added, published version
A Theory for the Lower-Tropospheric Structure of the Moist Isentropic Circulation
Creators: name: Shaw, Tiffany Ann
name: Laliberte, Frederic
name: Pauluis, Olivier
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Atmosphere
Climatic changes

description: A theoretical model describing the structure of the dry and moist isentropic circulations in the lower troposphere is derived. It decomposes the meridional flow in the troposphere into three contributions: a dry equatorward flow, a cold moist equatorward flow, and a warm moist poleward flow in the mixed layer. The model is based on observations of the meridional mass fluxes joint distribution in potential temperature and equivalent potential temperature. It updates an existing model of the dry circulation by emphasizing the role of moisture in the mixed layer. The model is used to derive an expression for the ratio of moist to dry circulation strengths and this expression is used to assess the influence of surface thermodynamics on the circulations. It predicts that the moist circulation should be between 1.5 and 2 times as strong as the dry circulation and that this relative strength should not increase indefinitely with increasing surface temperature variability. The model also yields an expression for the ratio of total meridional heat fluxes to meridional sensible heat fluxes. This expression indicates that while an increase in the total heat fluxes occurs when surface temperature variability increases (via an increase in latent heat flux), it cannot increase indefinitely. The results suggest that changes in surface thermodynamic conditions must be constrained to constrain changes in the meridional overturning circulation associated with a warming climate.
Drude and Superfluid Weights in Extended Systems: the Role of Discontinuities and $δ$-peaks in the One and Two-Body Momentum Densities
Creators: name: Hetényi, Balázs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The question of conductivity is revisited. Using the total momentum shift operator to construct the perturbed many-body Hamiltonian and ground state wave function the second derivative of the ground state energy with respect to the perturbing field is expressed in terms of the one and two-body momentum densities. The distinction between the adiabatic and envelope function derivatives, hence that between the Drude and superfluid weights can be introduced in a straightforward manner. It is shown that a discontinuity in the momentum density leads to a contribution to the Drude weight, but not the superfluid weight, however a $δ$-function contribution in the two-body momentum density (such as in the BCS wave-funtion) contributes to both quantities. The connection between the discontinuity in the momentum density and localization is also demonstrated.
description: some changes in the text, to appear in the Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, reference will be added as soon as it is available
Changes in fungal associate abundance over mountain pine beetle lifecycle using target-specific primers and quantitative PCR
Creators: name: Khadempour, Lily
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The mountain pine beetle (MPB) is a native bark beetle of western North America that attacks pine tree species, in particular, lodgepole pine. It is closely associated several ophiostomatoid fungi, with which it has a mutually beneficial relationship. This thesis is comprised of two sections. The first objective was to develop target-specific PCR primers that could identify the major fungal species associated with MPB: the pathogenic Grosmannia clavigera and Leptographium longiclavatum, the less pathogenic Ophiostoma montium, and an un-described Ceratocystiopsis species (Cop. sp.1). Growing, isolating and extracting DNA from fungi vectored by MPB can be time and labour intensive, and these associates can be difficult to differentiate morphologically. I designed three rDNA primer sets that specifically amplify short rDNA amplicons from O. montium, Cop. sp.1. and the pine Leptographium clade (i.e. G. clavigera and L. longiclavatum). I also designed two primer sets, from another gene, that can differentiate G. clavigera and L. longiclavatum. The primers reliably identify their targets from DNA obtained from pure fungal cultures, pulverized beetles, beetle galleries, and tree phloem inoculated with G. clavigera. The second objective was to use these target-specific primers in conjunction with qPCR to compare the relative abundance of MPB fungal associates during the beetle life cycle. To determine the changes in relative abundance of the fungal species, MPB galleries were sampled at four phases in the beetle life cycle: eggs, larvae, pupae and teneral adults. Multivariate analysis of covariance indicated that changes in the relative abundance of the fungi over the lifecycle of the MPB were statistically significant. Univariate analysis of covariance showed a statistically significant difference in the abundance of Cop. sp.1 through the lifecycle, and pair- wise analysis showed that the difference occurs after the larval phase. The staining fungi O. montium and the Leptographium species did not change significantly through the MPB lifecycle. The work described in this thesis contributes to our understanding of the interactions between the MPB and its fungal associates and provides a tool for further studies that require rapid detection, identification and quantification of MPB fungal associates.
State of emergency: improving the efficiency of healthcare through distributed systems
Creators: name: McGie, Michael
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 97-100
description: Thesis is in colour.
description: Missing signature page.
description: Within the vital infrastructure of a modern city, the hospital represents a unique typology which is among the most complex and problematic of urban forms. The implications of hospital design necessarily encompass issues of pure functionality; patient circulation and triage. the optimization of space. and technical requirements. It must also be considered however that there is a challenging human aspect to these spaces which exists beyond the conditions of normative society. This Masters Defence Project will attempt to synthesize the multiple aspects of an urban healthcare delivery system and make an argument for significant interventions which a,m to improve the efficiency of this system. The project explores both small scale architectural interventions. and the large urban scale context as intrinsically linked elements both conceptually and pragmatically. The design gestures are to be situated within a framework of contemporary thought on matters of space, logistics. technology. and control from several noted philosophers of the 20th century. This theoretical background serves to define scenarios and present analogies to the current state of medical care as conceptual models and evaluative tools. Architectural interventions incorporate the latest ,n medical technologies and essentially function as kinetic machines for the purposes of diagnostic imaging. primary and tertiary medical care. and patient stabilization. Beyond this. the architecture is to inhabit the urban fabric and provide a level of accessibility which represents ,ts role as a public amenity, albeit a highly complex and cnt,cal one. In this regard. there ,s a necessary consideration for the psychology of aesthetics and internal environments which are conducive to healing and consider evidence based design practices as well as evidence based medical practices· and exploring the territory in which the two fields overlap. As our cities increase in both size and complexity. there is an imminent need for a healthcare solution which is socially sustainable and explores alternative strategies beyond merely injecting money and manpower at the problems of a struggling system.
An End To Global Trade?
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: Discusses the refusal of a bloc of developing countries to close a deal at the Cancun trade summit in Mexico. Decline in U.S. tariffs; Key factor in creating the East Asian financial crisis; Trade agreement talks between China and its Association of South East Asian Nation periphery and among Brazil, South Africa and India.
Finding new relationships between hypergeometric functions by evaluating Feynman integrals
Creators: name: Kniehl, Bernd A.
name: Tarasov, Oleg V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several new relationships between hypergeometric functions are found by comparing results for Feynman integrals calculated using different methods. A new expression for the one-loop propagator-type integral with arbitrary masses and arbitrary powers of propagators is derived in terms of only one Appell hypergeometric function F_1. From the comparison of this expression with a previously known one, a new relation between the Appell functions F_1 and F_4 is found. By comparing this new expression for the case of equal masses with another known result, a new formula for reducing the F_1 function with particular arguments to the hypergeometric function _3F_2 is derived. By comparing results for a particular one-loop vertex integral obtained using different methods, a new relationship between F_1 functions corresponding to a quadratic transformation of the arguments is established. Another reduction formula for the F_1 function is found by analysing the imaginary part of the two-loop self-energy integral on the cut. An explicit formula relating the F_1 function and the Gaussian hypergeometric function _2F_1 whose argument is the ratio of polynomials of degree six is presented.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
title: Upper gastrointestinal tract radiography: Imaging features of gastric lesions
Creators: name: Yu, Shu Yi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: GI Tract
subject: Abdomen
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Stomach (incl. Oesophagus)
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Barium meal
subject: Contrast agent-oral
subject: Inflammation
subject: Motility
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Not applicable
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: 1- Normal anatomy of the stomach on double-contrast barium study 2- Principles of Image analysis 3- Pattern approach for...
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey V. The peculiar B[e]-like supergiant, VFTS698, in 30 Doradus
Creators: name: Dunstall, P. R.
name: Fraser, M.
name: Clark, J. S.
name: Crowther, P. A.
name: Dufton, P. L.
name: Evans, C. J.
name: Lennon, D. J.
name: Soszyński, I.
name: Taylor, W. D.
name: Vink, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of a peculiar supergiant B-type star (VFTS698/Melnick 2/Parker 1797) in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud which exhibits characteristics similar to the broad class of B[e] stars. We analyse optical spectra from the VLT-FLAMES survey, together with archival optical and infrared photometry and X-ray imaging to characterise the system. We find radial velocity variations of around 400 km/s in the high excitation Si IV, N III and He II spectra, and photometric variability of ~0.6 mag with a period of 12.7 days. In addition, we detect long-term photometric variations of ~0.25 mag, which may be due to a longer-term variability with a period of ~400 days. We conclude that VFTS698 is likely an interacting binary comprising an early B-type star secondary orbiting a veiled, more massive companion. Spectral evidence suggests a mid-to-late B-type primary, but this may originate from an optically-thick accretion disc directly surrounding the primary.
description: 18 pages, 14 figures and 8 tables. Table 8 to be published online
Jed's corner with Emily Thompson
Creators: name: Johnston, Jedediah (Puppet), Interviewer
name: Thompson, Emily
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: Jedediah Johnston (puppet) interviews Emily Thompson.
title: A race against the clock: Imaging of life threatening acute aortic syndrome (AAS).
Creators: name: Gioutlaki, Eleni
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Vascular
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Vascular
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Dissection
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Not applicable
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: 1.To discuss the CT protocol to be followed. 2.To illustrate the imaging features of AAS in CT which must know to differentiate between dissection, intramural hematoma and penetrating ulcer at a glance. 3.To describe the potential pitfalls in CT...
Electromagnetic field fluctuations near a dielectric-vacuum boundary and surface divergences in the ideal conductor limit
Creators: name: Bartolo, Nicola
name: Passante, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the electric and magnetic field fluctuations in the vacuum state in the region external to a half-space filled with a homogeneous non-dissipative dielectric. We discuss an appropriate limit to an ideal metal and concentrate our interest on the renormalized field fluctuations, or equivalently to renormalized electric and magnetic energy densities, in the proximity of the dielectric-vacuum interface. We show that surface divergences of field fluctuations arise at the interface in an appropriate ideal conductor limit, and that our limiting procedure allows to discuss in detail their structure. Field fluctuations close to the surface can be investigated through the retarded Casimir-Polder interaction with an appropriate polarizable body.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Understanding Household Waste Sorting and Contamination Behaviour
Creators: name: BROOKER, BLAIRE LEAH
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 350601
subject: Consumer behaviour
classificationCode: 401106
subject: Waste management, reduction, reuse and recycling

description: This thesis explores consumer waste sorting and disposal behaviour to identify why consumers make disposal errors and contaminate household waste and recycling collections. This thesis includes a systematic literature review, qualitative study and experimental study to address the research questions; (1) What are the household waste sorting decision-making processes and behaviours undertaken before bin collection? (2) What leads people to contaminate their household waste? This thesis finds evidence to support categorisation error as a key contributing factor to contamination. Consumers do not have enough knowledge about waste and recycling rules and processes to correctly categorise waste items during disposal.
Multistakeholder roundtables: civil society, social capital and conflict management
Creators: name: MacKinnon, Laura Katherine
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 136-148
description: Missing signature page.
description: In the last four decades, demands for greater citizen participation in government decision-making have changed the face of governance in Canada. One of many innovations that have been introduced is stakeholder roundtables that operate on the basis of consensus and act in an advisory capacity to government on policy and planning issues. This MDP focuses on the application of multistakeholder roundtables in the domain of land-use planning in non-urban areas, with a particular focus on Crown land planning. This is a vital area of concern as Canada's expansive Crown lands are the locus of competing interests. Roundtables are expected to produce some beneficial outcomes, addressing some of the weaknesses of traditional top-down planning and resource management practices. I have chosen to focus on three outcome criteria, which are in essence social goals: strengthening civil society; building social capital; and effectively managing conflict. A literature review of case studies, best practices, and evaluation was conducted, in order to discover facilitators and barriers to achieving the goals of roundtable processes, particularly in relation to civil society, social capital and conflict management. One such process conducted by the Ontario government, Lands for Life, is used as an illustration. Discussion and recommendations are provided regarding eleven process design factors selected for their strong relation to the three social goals. It is noted that outcome goals of roundtables can be internally inconsistent or contradictory, so that, for example, a design choice that increases social capital may undermine conflict management. These tensions are discussed as part of the final chapter.
title: Monteggia fracture: An easy fracture to miss
Creators: name: Mathur, Namit
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Trauma
subject: Decision analysis
subject: PACS
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Trauma
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Bones
subject: Emergency Imaging
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the incidence of missed Monteggia fracture by radiologists and bedside clinicians at a tertiary...
Field gallery
Creators: name: Fritz, Tyler James
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 82-84
description: Thesis is in colour.
description: Missing signature page.
description: The following Master's Degree Project explores design responses that complement the innate dynamism of the urban condition by 'acilitating indeterminate futures and the emergence of m1cropolitical events. Particular attention is given to the immixing of social capital. Operative analytical and gener-ative tools are derived from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattar1's theories of assemblage, desire & becoming and the aesthet1c/performative model of plastic dynamism in the Futurist arts. The target site, Railtown Par-k, Edmonton, Alberta (pedestrian green space corridor: I IO Street NW spanning Jasper avenue to I 04 avenue) is programmatically developed as a Field Gallery: the site of-and-for the exhibition of art and divergent '1elds by way of environmental variation and the registration of innate tr-ansitory effects including the productive occupation, movement and interaction of people. Developed design responses consist of variable spatial, material and performative definitions, including a material prototype for a performative semi-permeable membrane.
Survival of tree cavities : a critical resource for cavity-nesting communities
Creators: name: Edworthy, Amanda
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Tree cavities are a multi-annual resource used by cavity-nesting vertebrates for nesting and roosting, and the abundance of this resource is influenced by the rates at which cavities are created and destroyed. Tree cavities are vulnerable to forest harvesting and retention of long-lived cavity trees is an important strategy in maintaining the richness and abundance of forest species. My objectives were to: 1) investigate factors influencing longevity of cavities in nesting trees; and 2) assess the effect of harvesting on the risk of loss to cavities in retained trees. To examine factors influencing cavity persistence, I modeled survival of more than1300 nesting cavities over 16 years (1995-2010) for temperate forests of interior British Columbia, Canada. Sources of loss were tree stem blowdown and breakage (90%), chamber decay (7%), and cavity entrance healing over (3%). Cavities in live trees lasted 2.7 times longer than those in dead trees with advanced decay. There were also differences in cavity longevity across forest types and formation agents, which will affect cavity availability for some populations. Comparison of hazard of loss for cavities in two partial-harvest treatments and unharvested stands revealed that hazard of loss increased by 70% for cavities in the partial harvest treatment (44–95% removal of basal area) compared with those in uncut forest, while cavities in wildlife reserves (retention patches; ~ 1 ha) had a 48% increase in hazard of loss relative to uncut forest. Rates of loss were highest in the five years following harvest, and after 8 years declined to pre-harvest levels. My results showed that cavities in live trees lasted longer than cavities in dead trees, cavities in continuous forest stands lasted longer than those in aspen groves within grassland areas, and cavities created by strong excavators lasted longer than those created by weak excavators, or the keystone excavator at my study sites, the northern flicker. Additionally, cavities in trees retained after harvesting had an increased risk of loss across all decay classes, but this effect was somewhat mitigated by retaining cavities embedded in wildlife reserves.
Liminal landscapes: post-humanist heterotopian urbanism
Creators: name: Cotter, Richard
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 156-158
description: Thesis is in colour.
description: Missing signature page.
description: In the context of an increasingly autocratic society of control, architecture's apocryphal claims to the emancipation of life through the mechanism of public space must be challenged if the discipline is to survive as a critically and politically relevant cultural apparatus. Through a series of digitally-enabled investigations into the synaesthetically affective capacity of horrific form (and its imaging), this Master's Degree Project argues for a radical reordering of architectural thought and practice, a reordering that would emancipate architecture from the artificial strictures of reason and deliver it to a liminal space where it might work to redistribute power through populations in order to resist the suppression and subjugation of life itself. In order to achieve such a shift, the project seeks to weaken the fallacious notion that the individual human subject constitutes the most effective unit for navigating and intervening in an incomprehensibly complex world. The work is organized into a prologue, five 'acts', an epilogue, and a series of appendices that 'flesh out' the project proper.-The limitations of documenting the project demand a somewhat linear approach, but the work in this document consistently chases the temporal fluidity of cinema as a means of cultivating ambiguity and ambivalence. Like a Francis Bacon portrait, it is a narrative that tells no story.
National minorities and their representation in Swiss surveys (I): Providing evidence and analysing causes for their underrepresentation
Creators: name: Pollien, Alexandre
name: Laganà, Francesco
name: Lipps, Oliver
name: Gianettoni, Lavinia
Publisher: name: Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences FORS
Year: 2011

description: FORS Working Paper Series, N° 2011-02
Magnetization dynamics at elevated temperatures
Creators: name: Xu, Lei
name: Zhang, Shufeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By using the quantum kinetic approach with the instantaneous local equilibrium approximation, we propose an equation that is capable of addressing magnetization dynamics for a wide range of temperatures. The equation reduces to the Landau-Lifshitz equation at low temperatures and to the paramagnetic Bloch equation at high temperatures. Near the Curie temperature, the magnetization reversal and dynamics depend on both transverse and longitudinal relaxations. We further include the stochastic fields in the dynamic equation in order to take into account fluctuation at high temperatures. Our proposed equation may be broadly used for modeling laser pump-probe experiments and heat assisted magnetic recording.
Additional file 2 of Transcriptomic analysis reveals the dynamic changes of transcription factors during early development of chicken embryo
Creators: name: Liao, Liqin
name: Yao, Ziqi
name: Kong, Jie
name: Zhang, Xinheng
name: Li, Hongxin
name: Chen, Weiguo
name: Xie, Qingmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Data quality assessment in sequencing.
title: Serious board games: useful complementary tools for learning MRI
Creators: name: VETTER, Daniel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Education and Training
subject: MR physics
subject: Radiographers
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Education and training
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: In the context of education for the technologists, including serious board games to the learning cycle of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) seems interesting, although never done to our knowledge. We used to develop several board games for both...
Research Data Management in Life Sciences: Re-using existing data
Creators: name: Botzki, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: research data management, re-use existing data, OmicsDI

description: Slides for the "Reusing existing data” session of the "Research Data Management for Life Sciences" workshop organised on 9 and 10 November 2020 by Ghent University, ELIXIR Belgium and VIB in collaboration with Interreg Vlaanderen-Nederland all presentations can be found here: https://osf.io/fpvgy/
Exact ground states with deconfined gapless excitations for the 3 leg spin-1/2 tube
Creators: name: Lajko, M.
name: Sindzingre, P.
name: Penc, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a spin-1/2 tube (a three-leg ladder with periodic boundary conditions) with a Hamiltonian given by two projection operators - one on the triangles, and the other on the square plaquettes on the side of the tube - that can be written in terms of Heisenberg and four-spin ring exchange interactions. We identify 3 phases: (i) for strongly antiferromagnetic exchange on the triangles, an exact ground state with a gapped spectrum can be given as an alternation of spin and chirality singlet bonds between nearest triangles; (ii) for ferromagnetic exchange on the triangles, we recover the phase of the spin-3/2 Heisenberg chain; (iii) between these two phases, a gapless incommensurate phase exists. We construct an exact ground state with two deconfined domain walls and a gapless excitation spectrum at the quantum phase transition point between the incommensurate and dimerized phase.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, paper revised, references added
title: Imaging Spectrum of Cavernous Sinus Lesions
Creators: name: BEVOOR CHOWDAIAH, SANJANA
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Haemangioma
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: MR
subject: Vascular
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Anatomy
subject: Neuro

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: • To describe the anatomy of the cavernous sinus •To demonstrate the multimodality imaging spectrum of a wide variety of pathologic conditions involving the cavernous sinus •To highlight important imaging clues for differential...
title: Learning from mistakes: Errors, discrepancies and underlying bias in Radiology with case examples
Creators: name: Önder, Ömer
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Outcomes
subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Decision analysis
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Professional issues
subject: Professional Issues

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To describe the concepts of “Error”, “Discrepancy”, “Complication” and their differences. To review 12 radiological error types and their possible consequences with case examples. To discuss types of biases leading to radiological...
Fundamental parameters of RR Lyrae stars from multicolour photometry and Kurucz atmospheric models -- II. Adaptation to double-mode stars
Creators: name: Barcza, S.
name: Benkő, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our photometric-hydrodynamic method is generalized to determine fundamental parameters of multiperiodic radially pulsating stars. We report 302 UBV(RI)_C Johnson-Kron-Cousins observations of GSC 4868-0831. Using these and published photometric data of V372 Ser, their metallicity, reddening, distance, mass, radius, equilibrium luminosity, effective temperature are determined. The results underline the necessity of using multicolour photometry including an ultraviolet band to classify properly subgroups of RR Lyrae stars: our U observations could reveal that GSC 4868-0831 is a subgiant star pulsating in two radial modes, V372 Ser is a giant star with size and mass of an RRd star.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices RAS
Urban augmentation: [code]ifying socially constructed space in the urban realm
Creators: name: Auch, Kyle
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 67-68
description: Thesis is in colour.
description: Missing signature page.
description: For many cities around the world, the urban context remains the location that produces social and cultural identities of a city. However, as a victim of various controls and neutralized urban spaces, the public urban realm is increasingly underutilized. Public spaces no longer offer a stage of social opportunity but "render the individual as a passive body within urban space, rather than an active creator or participant" (Shaw, 2009, p. 1). This method of social cleansing is problematic in that it negatively affects the overall capacity of a city to be inclusive. The true democratic nature of the public urban realm relies on several factors including social inclusion. As a landscape of possibility and open-endedness, inclusive public infrastructure encourages a diverse social mix that transforms the lifeless quality of the public urban realm into a stage for social and cultural activity. This quality to the public urban realm ensures that a climate of multiple social and cultural identities is encouraged. This Master's Degree Project (MOP), codifies socially constructed space within the contemporary city, and highlights a framework of socially inclusive, public infrastructure that redefines the public urban realm. This project serves a larger investigation into the complexities of the public urban realm and offers a broader understanding into this network. Furthermore, this research confirms that the suppression of healthy social and cultural interaction within public space lays culprit to an abandonment of a city's sense of place and identity.