cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Peripheral estate decline and planning : a critical analysis of housing policy in Glasgow
Creators: name: Milne, Leslie
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1979

description: This thesis is an attempt to fill a gap, from an academic point of view, in the rather neglected subject of post-war peripheral council housing development in Britain, and in Glasgow in particular* It is divided into three sections entitled "Construction"; "Decline" and "Re-planning and Revitalisation", respectively, representing three phases in the evolution of such estates. In Part One (Chapters One and Two) the historic importance of council housing in Glasgow is traced particularly with respect to the relationship between industrial development and housing. In Chapter One, emphasis is laid on the contradictions associated with industrial expansion and allocation of council houses to particular sections of the population. The spatial manifestations of such differentiations have implications for choice in a city-wide housing context today. Chapter Two is concerned to a lesser extent with industry, and more with ideological issues associated with the decision to build the peripheral estates, particularly central and local political motives and contemporary planning arguments. Part Two (Chapter Three) deals with the physical decline of peripheral estates since their construction with respect to (a) Latent effects of variables outlined in Part One and (b) Issues associated with implications of rising unemployment; weakening fiscal base; child population growth; allocation policy; socio-economic imbalance and the reputation for violence and other anti-social behaviour. On this basis, a sociological casual theory of decline in peripheral estates is suggested for possible hypothesis testing in the future. Part Three (Chapters Four and Five) attempts to utilise the ideas set out in Parts One and Two to criticise recent policy approaches operated by the District Council to deal with peripheral estate problems, and to suggest some possibilities for more sensitive solutions and additions to the current strategy. Among the major criticisms are a weak theoretical and methodological base with which to define problems and therefore attempt remedial planning. The suggestions are made that a more even distribution of responsibility within the corporate structure is necessary; that equal emphasis be paid to the large rehousing inter-war tenement stock throughout the city as well as the introduction of unorthodox sociological and psychological. planning approaches to deal with an issue of long-standing complexity.
Unionicola (Bakeratax) chappuisi Walter 1935
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Unionicola
Unionicola chappuisi

description: Unionicola (Bakeratax) chappuisi Walter, 1935
Records from the study area: West Bengal—Lundblad (1969).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: India, Sri Lanka.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Efficiency at maximum power output for an engine with a passive piston
Creators: name: Sano, Tomohiko G.
name: Hayakawa, Hisao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Efficiency at maximum power (MP) output for an engine with a passive piston without mechanical controls between two reservoirs is theoretically studied. We enclose a hard core gas partitioned by a massive piston in a temperature-controlled container and analyze the efficiency at MP under a heating and cooling protocol without controlling the pressure acting on the piston from outside. We find the following three results: (i) The efficiency at MP for a dilute gas is close to the Chambadal-Novikov-Curzon-Ahlborn (CNCA) efficiency if we can ignore the side wall friction and the loss of energy between a gas particle and the piston, while (ii) the efficiency for a moderately dense gas becomes smaller than the CNCA efficiency even when the temperature difference of reservoirs is small. (iii) Introducing the Onsager matrix for an engine with a passive piston, we verify that the tight coupling condition for the matrix of the dilute gas is satisfied, while that of the moderately dense gas is not satisfied because of the inevitable heat leak. We confirm the validity of these results using the molecular dynamics simulation and introducing an effective mean-field-like model which we call stochastic mean field model.
description: 24 pages, 13 figures
title: Modelling and characterisation of industrial bifacial solar cells for high efficiency modules
Creators: name: Sng, Guan Kian Ernest
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: Bifacial photovoltaic modules absorb additional sunlight from the module rear, as well as the front, in comparison to the monofacial modules that only generate electricity from its front side. Therefore, bifacial modules result in higher energy conversion efficiency as it could potentially generate twice the energy per unit area when compared to the conventional monofacial modules. While the analysis of optical gains and power transfer of monofacial photovoltaic cells and module are relatively well-established, there are many nuanced effects that contribute to bifacial cells and modules performance. As such, these potentially high-performing bifacial cells do not easily translate to better module performance. In this thesis, new results in the modelling, simulation and outdoor study of bifacial modules are presented. Firstly, a study on optical ray tracing for bifacial solar modules with reflective coating at the cell gap is presented for three different configurations. The simulation considered absorption losses with current gain from each configuration with varying cell gap designs. These bifacial modules with white reflective coating configurations were fabricated for indoor flash test under standard test conditions (STC) and outdoor monitoring energy yield to verify the simulation results. This is followed by the optimisation of the cell structure and material thickness under varying tilt conditions. Last but not the least, an investigation of ground reflected irradiance on the bifacial gain is conducted. It is demonstrated that the main contribution to bifacial module irradiance gain is from the ground reflected rays that were transmitted through the transparent cell gap of bifacial modules. Similarly, outdoor energy monitoring results are used to verify the simulation results from the fabricated modules. From the simulations, indoor flash tests and outdoor energy yield monitoring, the proposed optimal module design for STC indoor front illumination flash test is Configuration 1 at 3.4% current gain. For front and rear illumination flash test, Configuration 2 gives the highest gain at 2.2%. For outdoor performance on a tracker, bifacial modules without reflective coating would give the best performance. For fixed installation, the highest performance is from Configuration 1 bifacial modules that are mounted at a 45◦ tilt. The above identification of the various optimal module design and their mounting condition are critical for efficient performance of bifacial modules in different applications, thereby improving bifacial module performance.
How does the mass transport in disk galaxy models influence the character of orbits?
Creators: name: Zotos, Euaggelos E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the regular or chaotic nature of orbits of stars moving in the meridional (R,z) plane of an axially symmetric time-dependent disk galaxy model with a central, spherically symmetric nucleus. In particular, mass is linearly transported from the disk to the galactic nucleus, in order to mimic, in a way, the case of self-consistent interactions of an actual N-body simulation. We thus try to unveil the influence of this mass transportation on the different families of orbits of stars by monitoring how the percentage of chaotic orbits, as well as the percentages of orbits of the main regular resonant families, evolve as the galaxy develops a dense and massive nucleus in its core. The SALI method is applied to samples of orbits in order to distinguish safely between ordered and chaotic motion. In addition, a method based on the concept of spectral dynamics is used for identifying the various families of regular orbits and also for recognizing the secondary resonances that bifurcate from them. Our computations strongly suggest that the amount of the observed chaos is substantially increased as the nucleus becomes more massive. Furthermore, extensive numerical calculations indicate that there are orbits which change their nature from regular to chaotic and vice versa and also orbits which maintain their orbital character during the galactic evolution. The present outcomes are compared to earlier related work.
description: Published in Baltic Astronomy journal. arXiv admin note: previous papers with related context: arXiv:1406.0446, arXiv:1404.4194, arXiv:1410.3203
Characterization of cell lysis events on a microfluidic device for high-throughput single cell analysis
Creators: name: Ramsey, John Michael
name: Hargis, Amy D.
name: Alarie, Jean Pierre
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: A microfluidic device capable of rapidly analyzing cells in a high-throughput fashion using electrical cell lysis is further characterized. In the experiments performed, cell lysis events were studied using an EMCCD camera with high frame rate (> 100 fps) data collection. It was found that, with this microfluidic design, the path that a cell follows through the electric field affects the amount of lysate injected into the analysis channel. Elimination of variable flow paths through the electric field was achieved by coating the analysis channel with a polyamine compound to reverse the electroosmotic flow (EOF). EOF reversal forced the cells to take the same path through the electric field. The improved control of the cell trajectory will reduce device-imposed bias on the analysis and maximizes the amount of lysate injected into the analysis channel for each cell, resulting in improved analyte detection capabilities.
title: Supersonic gas-jet based beam profile monitor
Creators: name: Putignano, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: Ions and in particular antiprotons, stored and cooled at low energies in a storage ring or at rest in traps, are highly desirable for the investigation of a large number of basic questions on fundamental interactions, on the static structure of exotic antiprotonic atomic systems or of (radioactive) nuclei as well as on the time-dependent quantum dynamics of correlated systems. Such low energy, low intensity beams pose, however, new challenges on beam instrumentation, as they require least intrusive diagnostics operating at ultra-high vacuum pressures of the order of 10
Sample transport and electrokinetic injection in a microchip device for chemical cytometry
Creators: name: Allbritton, Nancy L.
name: Xiong, Jessie C.
name: Lai, Hsuan-Hong
name: Kovarik, Michelle L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Sample transport and electrokinetic injection bias are well-characterized in capillary electrophoresis and simple microchips, but a thorough understanding of sample transport on devices combining electroosmosis, electrophoresis, and pressure-driven flow is lacking. In this work, we evaluate the effects of electric fields from 0–300 V/cm, electrophoretic mobilities from 10−4–10−6 cm2/Vs, and pressure-driven fluid velocities from 50–250 µm/s on sample injection in a microfluidic chemical cytometry device. By studying a continuous sample stream, we find that increasing electric field strength and electrophoretic mobility result in improved injection and that COMSOL simulations accurately predict sample transport. The effects of pressure-driven fluid velocity on injection are complex, and relative concentration values lie on a surface defined by pressure-driven flow rates. For high mobility analytes, this surface is flat, and sample injection is robust despite fluctuations in flow rate. For lower mobility analytes, the surface becomes steeper, and injection depends strongly on pressure-driven flow. These results indicate generally that device design must account for analyte characteristics and specifically that this device is suited to high mobility analytes. We demonstrate that for a suitable pair of peptides fluctuations in injection volume are correlated; electrokinetic injection bias is minimized; and electrophoretic separation achieved.
Erfahrungen katholischer Eheleute (Auszug aus: Eheliche Praxis-Kirchliche Lehre - Erfahrungsberichte)
Creators: name: Novak, Michael
Publisher: name: Diakonia
Year: 1970

description: Diakonia, Bd. 1 Nr. 1 (1966): Diakonia, Band 1, Heft 1
On the $C_k$-stable closure of the class of (separable) metrizable spaces
Creators: name: Banakh, Taras
name: Gabriyelyan, Saak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46E10, 54C35, 54E18

description: Denote by $\mathbf C_k[\mathfrak M]$ the $C_k$-stable closure of the class $\mathfrak M$ of all metrizable spaces, i.e., $\mathbf C_k[\mathfrak M]$ is the smallest class of topological spaces that contains $\mathfrak M$ and is closed under taking subspaces, homeomorphic images, countable topological sums, countable Tychonoff products, and function spaces $C_k(X,Y)$ with Lindelöf domain. We show that the class $\mathbf C_k[\mathfrak M]$ coincides with the class of all topological spaces homeomorphic to subspaces of the function spaces $C_k(X,Y)$ with a separable metrizable space $X$ and a metrizable space $Y$. We say that a topological space $Z$ is Ascoli if every compact subset of $C_k(Z)$ is evenly continuous; by the Ascoli Theorem, each $k$-space is Ascoli. We prove that the class $\mathbf C_k[\mathfrak M]$ properly contains the class of all Ascoli $\aleph_0$-spaces and is properly contained in the class of $\mathfrak P$-spaces, recently introduced by Gabriyelyan and Kąkol. Consequently, an Ascoli space $Z$ embeds into the function space $C_k(X,Y)$ for suitable separable metrizable spaces $X$ and $Y$ if and only if $Z$ is an $\aleph_0$-space.
description: 17 pages
title: Is it still about 'the split'? The ideological basis of 'dissident' Irish republicanism since 1986
Creators: name: Whiting, sophie
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: The focus of this thesis is on the evolution of dissidence within Irish republicanism since 1986, the contemporary phase of competing interpretations of the Irish republican tradition and ideology. Across the various strands of Irish republicanism there exists agreement over the ultimate goal of a united Ireland, but the means of achieving this remain highly contested. Republicanism is represented by a broad spectrum of tactics and principles; from those who consider armed struggle to be an essential element of any republican campaign to those who seek reform within constitutional arrangements. This thesis examines the broad spectrum of republicanism in Northern Ireland and considers whether these rival interpretations can all be accommodated under a broad republican umbrella. It examines how dissidents came to reject the Provisional form of republicanism which, at its outset, had itself been perceived as a dissident reading of republican ideology and method. This examination of intra-republican difference has required assessment of Sinn Féin’s evolution from the margins of political existence to becoming mainstream constitutional players and how the compromises associated with these changes have been rejected by republican ‘ultras’. The signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, the decommissioning by the Provisional IRA (PIRA) and the acceptance of policing exemplified how far Sinn Féin had moved since the 1986 split in the movement, the first fracture which contributed to the emergence of what are today know as ‘dissidents’. Amid such changes from Sinn Féin, the party has come to be seen as ‘mainstream’ republicanism, with ‘dissident’ groups often considered in relation to what Sinn Féin, in their modern day form, represent. The term ‘dissident’ is used to refer to those groups, individuals and factions that have dissented from the Sinn Féin ‘brand’ of republicanism. This thesis assesses the various groups operating under the ‘dissident’ republican label. Using in depth interviews and enjoying a level of access to groups not yet evident to others, it has been possible to explore the origins, strategy and goals of the various strands of republicanism evident in Northern Ireland today. Original data from a media analysis has also been utilised to provide an analysis of dissident republican newspapers and their attempts to construct a ‘counter’ narrative to mainstream media portrayals In assessing tactics, principles and the balance of political and military elements within the republican tradition, the thesis offers a sceptical critique of notions of a single or ‘true’ form of republicanism, rendering the label ‘dissident’ unsatisfactory. Rather it is a label to collectivise a broad spectrum of republican groups attempting to challenge what is seen as ‘normal’ and the ‘accepted’ status quo.
Uniform separation through intermediate points
Creators: name: Gröhn, Janne
name: Nicolau, Artur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34C10

description: It is shown that a separated sequence of points in the unit disc of the complex plane is in fact uniformly separated, if there exists a certain intermediate sequence whose separated subsequences are uniformly separated. This property is applied to improve a recent result in the theory of differential equations.
description: 12 pages
title: Distinguishing skills from luck in trading and investment
Creators: name: Ma, Tren
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: This thesis develops a series of statistical frameworks to control type I errors in picking out-performers. It consists of three independent essays which assess performance of U.S. equity mutual funds, currency trading strategies and hedge funds. The first essay introduces a novel multiple hypothesis testing method named the functional False Discovery Rate“plus” (fFDR+). The method incorporates informative covariates in estimating the False Discovery Rate (FDR)of predictive models’ “conditional” performance. In simulations, the fFDR + control swell the FDR and gains considerable power over prior methods that do not account for extra information. In empirical analyses, we construct portfolios based on several covariates and show that they enhance the performance of mutual fund portfolios, highlighting the value of extra information in the multiple hypothesis testing framework. The second essay develops the multivariate functional false discovery rate (mfFDR) method that accounts for multiple informative covariates to examine the conditional performance of predictive models and gain a considerably higher power than prior methods including the one in the first essay. The proposed method is then applied to control luck in detecting profitable technical trading rules using 30 developed and emerging market currencies. It selects more profitable rules than prior methods; more importantly, these rules offer better out-of-sample performance. The third essay introduces a new procedure to control for family error rate (FWER) in picking out-performers. The method utilizes multiple side information to more precisely estimate the FWER and gains much higher power in detecting out-performers compared to existing ones. In empirical analyses, the method allows investors picking out-performing hedge funds with very low FWER. The portfolios of hedge funds selected by the method beat passive benchmarks in various settings. Further analyses show that the new method detects truly out-performing hedge fund managers who can repeat their past performance over a long horizon.
title: Development of a beam loss monitor using the Cherenkov Effect in optical fibres
Creators: name: Intermite, Angela
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: The need for real-time monitoring of beam losses, including evaluation of their intensity and localization of their exact position, together with the possibility to overcome the limitations due to the reduced space for the diagnostics, makes exploitation of the Cherenkov effect in optical fibres, one of the most suitable candidates for beam loss monitoring. In this thesis, the design, development and characterization of an optical fibre beam loss monitor based on high radiation hardness pure silica fibres and silicon photomultipliers is reported. The tests were carried out at the ALICE accelerator research and development facility, Daresbury Laboratories, UK. For this purpose high numerical aperture fibres were used together with the latest generation silicon detector instead of the standard photomultiplier tubes commonly used for Cherenkov beam loss monitoring.
High electric field strength two-dimensional peptide separations using a microfluidic device: Microfluidics and Miniaturization
Creators: name: Henley, W. Hampton
name: Ramsey, J. Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: New instrumentation has been developed to improve the resolution, efficiency, and speed of microfluidic two-dimensional separations using micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) coupled to high field strength capillary electrophoresis (CE). Previously published two-dimensional separation instrumentation [1] from our group was limited to a maximum potential difference of 8.4 kV, resulting in an electric field strength of only ~200 V/cm in the first dimension. The circuit described in this report has been designed to couple a higher voltage supply with a rapidly switching, lower voltage supply to utilize the best features of each. Voltages applied in excess of 20 kV lead to high electric field strength separations in both dimensions, increasing the separation resolution, efficiency, and peak capacity while reducing the required analysis time. Detection rates as high as 6 peptides per second (based on total analysis time) were observed for a model protein tryptic digest separation. Additionally, higher applied voltages used in conjunction with microfluidic chips with longer length channels maintained higher electric field strengths and produced peak capacities of over 4,000 for some separations. Total separation time in these longer channel devices was comparable to that obtained in short channels at low field strength; however, resolving power improved approximately 3 fold.
The Digital Revolution within Colour Trend Forecasting
Creators: name: King, Julie
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Research paper presented at Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities, Glasgow School of Art, 11th-12th November 2015.

Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities
Edited by Helena Britt, Laura Morgan and Kerry WaltonNovember 2015
ISBN: 978 1 911217 08 4
Prescriptive considerations and outcomes of High-Intensity Multimodal Training: A systematic mapping review
Creators: name: Coutts, Aaron J.
name: Sharp, Tijana
name: Slattery, Katie
name: Ralph, Lara
name: Wallace, Lee
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sports Sciences
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: A systematic mapping review relating to the prescriptive considerations and outcomes of High-Intensity Multimodal Training (HIMT).
Social contact processes and the partner model
Creators: name: Foxall, Eric
name: Edwards, Roderick
name: Driessche, P. van den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a stochastic model of infection spread on the complete graph on $N$ vertices incorporating dynamic partnerships, which we assume to be monogamous. This can be seen as a variation on the contact process in which some form of edge dynamics determines the set of contacts at each moment in time. We identify a basic reproduction number $R_0$ with the property that if $R_0<1$ the infection dies out by time $O(\log N)$, while if $R_0>1$ the infection survives for an amount of time $e^{γN}$ for some $γ>0$ and hovers around a uniquely determined metastable proportion of infectious individuals. The proof in both cases relies on comparison to a set of mean-field equations when the infection is widespread, and to a branching process when the infection is sparse.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/15-AAP1117 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
title: Stability of stochastic differential equations in infinite dimensions
Creators: name: Zhou, Yiqian
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: In engineering, physics and economics, many dynamical systems involving with stochastic components and random noise are often modeled by stochastic models. The stochastic effects of these models are often used to describe the uncertainty about the operating systems. Motivated by the development of analysis and theory of stochastic processes, as well as the studies of natural sciences, the theory of stochastic differential equations in infinite dimensional spaces evolves gradually into a branch of modern analysis. Many qualitative properties of such systems have been studied in the past few decades, among which, investigation of stability of such systems is often regarded as the first characteristic of the dynamical systems or models. In general, this thesis is mainly concerned with the studies of the stability property of stochastic differential equations in Hilbert spaces. Chapter 1 is an introduction to a brief history of stochastic differential equations in infinite dimensions, together with an overview of the studies. Chapter 2 is a presentation of preliminaries to some basic stochastic analysis. In Chapter 3, we study the stability in distribution of mild solutions to stochastic delay differential equations with Poisson jumps. Firstly, we use approximation of strong solutions to pass on the stability of strong solutions to the mild ones. Then, by constructing a suitable metric between the transition probability functions of mild solutions, we obtain the desired stability result under some suitable conditions. In Chapter 4, we investigate the stochastic partial delay differential equations with Markovian switching and Poisson jumps. By estimating the coefficients of energy equality, both the exponential stability and almost sure exponential stability of energy solutions to the equations are obtained. In Chapter 5, we study the relationship among strong, weak and mild solutions to the stochastic functional differential equations of neutral type. Finally, in Chapter 6, we study the asymptotic stability of two types of equations, impulsive stochastic delay differential equations with Poisson jumps and stochastic evolution equations with Poisson jumps. By employing the fixed point theorem, we derive the desired stability results under some criteria.
title: The art of regeneration: the establishment and development of the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, 1985–2010
Creators: name: Clayton, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: This thesis is about change. It is about the way that art organisations have increasingly been used in the regeneration of the physical environment and the rejuvenation of local communities, and the impact that this has had on contemporary society. This historical analysis of the development of a young art organisation, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), which has previously not been studied in depth, provides an original contribution to knowledge with regard to art and culture, and more specifically the development of media and community art practices, in Britain. The nature of FACT’s development is assessed in the context of the political, socio-economic and cultural environment of its host city, Liverpool, and the organisation is placed within broader discourses on art practice, cultural policy, and regeneration. The questions that are addressed – of local responsibility, government funding and institutionalisation – are essential to an understanding of the role that publicly funded organisations play within the institutional framework of society, without which the analysis of the influence of the state on our cultural identity cannot be achieved. The research was conducted through the triangulation of qualitative research methods including participant observation, in-depth interviews and original archival research, and the findings have been used to build upon the foundations of the historical analysis and critical examination of existing literature in the fields of regeneration and culture, art and media, and museum theory and practice. This research concludes that FACT, in its establishment and development, has been heavily influenced by the unique local conditions of Liverpool, and by wider national policy, and it asserts that the organisation’s growth was aided by its location in a city that was in receipt of increasing levels of financial support after the social unrest of the early-1980s, throughout New Labour’s policies of ‘social inclusion,’ and following the award of European Capital of Culture status in 2003. Intrinsically linked to these funding opportunities was the process of institutionalisation that FACT has undergone, and the rebranding of the organisation in 1997 and opening of the FACT Centre in 2003 are cited as the main reasons for the redefinition of the organisation’s aims and objectives. These claims are supported by the interrogation of the Video Positive festivals, the Collaboration Programme and the Moving Image Touring and Exhibitions Service, sub-brands which comprised FACT’s core offer prior to the opening of the FACT Centre. The changes that have taken place within each of these projects is identified as symptomatic of the power of national funding and government policy, the changing technological environment and the production and consumption of art.
Non-linear fluctuation effects in dynamics of freely suspended film
Creators: name: Kats, E. I.
name: Lebedev, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Long-scale dynamic fluctuation phenomena in freely suspended films is analyzed. We consider isotropic films that, say, can be pulled from bulk smectic A liquid crystals. The key feature of such objects is possibility of bending deformations of the film. The bending (also known as flexular) mode turns out to be anomalously weakly attenuated. In the harmonic approximation there is no viscous-like damping of the bending mode, proportional to q^2 (q is the wave vector of the mode), since it is forbidden by the rotational symmetry. Therefore the bending mode is strongly affected by non-linear dynamic fluctuation effects. We calculate the dominant fluctuation contributions to the damping of the bending mode due to its coupling to the in-plane viscous mode, that restores the viscous-like q^2 damping of the bending mode. Our calculations are performed in the framework of the perturbation theory where the coupling of the modes is assumed to be small, then the bending mode damping is relatively weak. We discuss our results in the context of existing experiments and numeric simulations of the freely suspended films and propose possible experimental observations of our predictions.
description: 9 pages
Drawn Together: A Conversation with the Collection
Creators: name: Neil, Joanna
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Research paper presented at Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities, Glasgow School of Art, 11th-12th November 2015.

Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities
Edited by Helena Britt, Laura Morgan and Kerry WaltonNovember 2015
ISBN: 978 1 911217 08 4
Open intersection numbers, Kontsevich-Penner model and cut-and-join operators
Creators: name: Alexandrov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We continue our investigation of the Kontsevich--Penner model, which describes intersection theory on moduli spaces both for open and closed curves. In particular, we show how Buryak's residue formula, which connects two generating functions of intersection numbers, appears in the general context of matrix models and tau-functions. This allows us to prove that the Kontsevich--Penner matrix integral indeed describes open intersection numbers. For arbitrary $N$ we show that the string and dilaton equations completely specify the solution of the KP hierarchy. We derive a complete family of the Virasoro and W-constraints, and using these constraints, we construct the cut-and-join operators. The case $N=1$, corresponding to open intersection numbers, is particularly interesting: for this case we obtain two different families of the Virasoro constraints, so that the difference between them describes the dependence of the tau-function on even times.
description: 28 pages
title: Women's dresses from eighteenth-century Scotland: fashion objects and identities
Creators: name: Taylor, Emily Joan
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Dress, textiles, fashion, identity, eighteenth-century, women, material culture, object study, museums practice, Scotland, Scottish identity, social history, clothing

description: Identity and its different constructions - national, social and personal, for example - are increasingly recognised as fundamental to understanding current and historic cultures. The reflexive relationship of identity issues with sartorial expression is a key concept within dress, fashion and textile studies. This thesis contributes to that growing body of knowledge by developing an understanding of how specific eighteenth century Scotswomen and their families related to their garments, thus bringing together contemporary study methods and understandings of identity with historic manifestations. This study of identity is embedded within an object-study methodology, following investigative practice and cataloguing methods currently used within the international museums community. This assists the secondary purpose of the thesis, which is to highlight a breadth of largely unpublished main garment objects within Scottish public and private collections. The intimate study of these objects has revealed stories of how daily life interacted with personal taste and style, purchase methods, garment use and international markets for individuals connected to Scotland. This has contributed material understanding to wider academic research areas, most importantly the everyday lives of eighteenth century Scotswomen, issues of identity within Scotland, and how European fashion trends were adopted or adapted by individuals outside of the major fashion centres of London and Paris. Study of the garments has involved stylistic analysis of their textiles and of their construction, connecting them to other extant and depicted garments from British and international collections. Thus providing material evidence of international styles in the eighteenth century, and matching two items in a rare example of extant main garments evidencing duplication in the eighteenth century handmade clothing industry.
An Investigation of the protein quality and temporal pattern of peripheral blood aminoacidemia following ingestion of 0.33 g·kg−1 body mass protein isolates of whey, pea, and fava bean in healthy, young adult men
Creators: name: Kozior, Marta
name: Davies, Robert W.
name: Amigo Benavent, Miryam
name: Fealy, Ciaran
name: JAKEMAN, PHILIP
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: An increase in the intake of legumes is recommended in the promotion of plant-sourced (PSP) rather than animal-sourced (ASP) protein intake to produce a more sustainable diet. This study evaluated the quality of novel PSP isolates from pea (PEA) and fava bean (FAVA) and an ASP isolate of whey (WHEY) and compared the magnitude and temporal pattern of peripheral arterial aminoacidemia following ingestion of 0.33 g·kg−1 body mass of protein isolate in healthy young adult men (n = 9). Total indispensable amino acids (IAA) comprised 58% (WHEY), 46% (PEA), and 42% (FAVA) of the total amino acid (AA) composition, with the ingested protein providing 108% (WHEY), 77% (PEA), and 67% (FAVA) of the recommended per diem requirement of IAA. Reflecting the AA composition, the area under the curve (∆AUC0-180), post-ingestion increase in total IAA for WHEY was 41% (p < 0.001) and 57% (p < 0.001) greater than PEA and FAVA, respectively, with PEA exceeding FAVA by 28% (p = 0.003). As a sole-source, single-dose meal-size serving, the lower total IAA for PEA and FAVA would likely evoke a reduced post-prandial anabolic capacity compared to WHEY. Incorporated into a food matrix, the promotion of PSP isolates contributes to a more sustainable diet.
title: The role of convexity in the corner enhancement effect, in visual short- term memory, in perception of symmetry, and in shape interference.
Creators: name: Mohamed Helmy Abdallah, May
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: Contour curvature information has been shown to have an impact on the visual perception of shape. We have conducted studies on perception of convexity and concavity in relation to memory and attention. Previous studies (Badcock & Westheirner, 1985; Krose & Julesz, 1989; Nakayama & Mackeben, 1989) have proposed that visual space is influenced by corners. Recent studies by Cole, Burton and Gellatly (2001) found that reaction times were faster for a stimulus located in the region of a corner of a figure. Cole et al (2001) believe that the role of corners is greater than that of straight edges, due to corners receiving a higher distribution of attentional resources relative to straight edges. The first part of this thesis considers the role figure-ground plays in the corner enhancement effect. Results demonstrate that the corner enhancement effect is only found when the probe is presented on the surface that owns the corner. Thus the corner enhancement effect is present for both concave and convex vertices. However, the effect disappears when the probe lay on the surface that does not own the corner. The second series of experiments made use of a shape with multiple concave or convex features as part of a change detection task, in which only a single feature could change. The results provided no evidence to suggest that convexities are special in visual short-term memory. Though coding of convexities as well as concavities provided a small advantage over an isolated contour. This finding is in accordance with the well documented effect of closure on shape processing (Elder & Zucker, 1993). It has been reported that deviations from symmetry were easier to detect when carried by convexities compared to deviations carried by concavities (Hulleman & Olivers, 2007). We extended this investigation to shapes that were repeated instead of reflected, to test whether there is a specific convexity advantage for bilateral symmetry. The results supported a convexity advantage for repetitions but not for reflections. Possible explanations for this are discussed. The final series of experiments involved a shape interference task; observers responded to circles or square in the context of irrelevant circles and squares. The findings suggest that interference between the shapes is much stronger when the contours that define the shapes belong to the same surface. In summary, we conclude that convexity and concavity are important aspects of shape analysis and representation, but there is no basic difference in how convexities and concavities are attended to, both in the corner enhancement effect, and in visual-short term memory. However, convexity plays a role in some perceptual tasks for example, when analyzing complex shapes observers may adopt strategies that focus on the convexities.
Experimental demonstration of quantum lithography beyond diffraction limit via Rabi oscillations
Creators: name: Rui, Jun
name: Jiang, Yan
name: Lu, Guo-Peng
name: Zhao, Bo
name: Bao, Xiao-Hui
name: Pan, Jian-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diffraction of light sets the fundamental limit for optical lithography. Many quantum lithography schemes have so far been proposed to overcome this limit either by making use of highly entangled photons, multi-photon processes or multiple Lambda transitions, which are all experimentally high-demanding. Recently, Liao et al. proposed a novel quantum lithography scheme which merely employs Rabi oscillation to surpass the diffraction limit. Here we report a faithful experimental realization of this scheme. Resolution up to ninth of the Rayleigh diffraction limit has been observed. Possibility of creating an arbitrary pattern is also tested experimentally by demonstrating the peak narrowing process using several Rabi floppings together with state-selective optical depletion. Our work may have direct applications in atom pattern engineering for quantum information or quantum simulation applications, and will also possibly boost the adoption of quantum lithography into real-world applications in the near future.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Detecting striations via the lateral photovoltage scanning method without screening effect
Creators: name: Kayser, Stefan
name: Farrell, Patricio
name: Rotundo, Nella
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Lateral-photovoltage-scanning method (LPS)
subject: semiconductor simulation
subject: van Roosbroeck system
subject: finite volume simulation
subject: crystal growth
subject: 35Q81
subject: 35K57
subject: 65N08

description: The lateral photovoltage scanning method (LPS) detects doping inhomogeneities in semiconductors such as Si, Ge and Si(x)Ge(1-x) in a cheap, fast and nondestructive manner. LPS relies on the bulk photovoltaic effect and thus can detect any physical quantity affecting the band profiles of the sample. LPS finite volume simulation using commercial software suffer from long simulation times and convergence instabilities. We present here an open-source finite volume simulation for a 2D Si sample using the ddfermi simulator. For low injection conditions we show that the LPS voltage is proportional to the doping gradient as previous theory suggested under certain conditions. For higher injection conditions we directly show how the LPS voltage and the doping gradient differ and link the physical effect of lower local resolution to the screening effect. Previously, the loss of local resolution was assumed to be only connected to the enlargement of the excess charge carrier distribution.
Unionicola (Heversatax) unguiculata Walter 1929
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Unionicola
Unionicola unguiculata

description: Unionicola (Heversatax) unguiculata Walter, 1929
Records from the study area: Kerala—“ Unionicola kantaka “ Cook (1967), “ U. kantaka “ John & Inasu (2005); West Bengal—Lundblad (1969); “ U. kantaka “ Prasad (1974).
Remarks: Lundblad (1969) synonymized Unionicola kantaka Cook, 1967 with U. unguiculata.
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: India, Sri Lanka.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
title: Understanding the role of humour in the relationship between emotional intelligence and psychological well-being among university students: A mixed methods study
Creators: name: Xing, Rong
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: Psychological well-being is feeling good and functioning effectively, and absence of distress. Emotional intelligence (EI) involves competencies in perceiving, understanding, processing, and managing emotions. Although many studies demonstrate the relationship between EI and psychological well-being, underlying mechanisms are unclear. Humour is a potential mediator in the relationship. This systematic review and mixed methods study, explored the role of humour in the relationship between EI and psychological well-being among university students. The systematic review examined existing evidence about the relationship between EI and humour styles. Results based on 10 studies indicated that EI was regularly and positively associated with adaptive humour styles and negatively associated in some studies with maladaptive humour. Trait EI (i.e., viewing EI as a personality trait) showed broader associations with humour styles than ability EI (i.e., viewing EI as a cognitive ability). Self-enhancing humour (i.e., a humorous perspective and a coping strategy towards adversity) showed the most consistent relationship with both ability and trait EI. Trait EI assessed by the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire showed broad, and small to medium correlations with humour styles, and was used for the quantitative study which examined the mediating role of humour styles between trait EI and well-being, and distress. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (N = 536) found self-enhancing humour mediated the relationship between trait EI and positive affect; self- defeating humour (i.e., amusing others at the expense of self) mediated the relationship between trait EI and negative affect, anxiety, and depression, separately; and affiliative humour (i.e., amusing others to improve relationships and reduce tensions) mediated the relationship between trait EI and anxiety. Qualitative semi-structured interviews (N = 16) explored the role of humour in self-managing psychological well-being among UK/EU and international students with diverse EI levels. Themes were: meaning of psychological well- being; functions of humour, and; self-managing psychological well-being. Humour was more likely to function unconsciously in real life. Humour styles are one of the mechanisms underlying the association between EI and psychological well-being, supporting the hypothesis in the Affective Mediation Model and suggesting potential interventions.