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title: Globalisation and the Negotiation of Identity in South Asian Diasporic Fiction in Britain
Creators: name: Roy, Bidhan Chandra
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2009

description: This thesis responds to gaps in the theorization of South Asian diasporic fiction in Britain and makes a new contribution to the emergent field of Anglophone literature. Given the growing prominence of literature written by South Asian diasporic writers in Britain, theorising the challenges that it represents to traditional categories of identity and literature has become a pressing concern. Working from the premise that as the history of British colonialism recedes and a new phase of global integration intensities, the critical tools of postcolonialism become less useful in reading South Asian diasporic fiction in Britain, this thesis responds to the need for a critical framework that is able to address the relationships between identities and contemporary globality. It examines the politics of representation that are involved in positioning and categorising South Asian diasporic fiction in Britain within such a world, and asks questions of who and what is represented, how and to whom, in a selection of such texts. A secondary aim of this thesis is to address how South Asian diasporic fiction in Britain might extend and qualify theoretical explanations of globalisation. Here narrative analysis is seen as crucial to understanding theoretical explanations of globalisation because all such theory employs a variety of often contradictory narrative forms to make their claims. This thesis asks what role does South Asian diasporic fiction play in constructing narratives of globalisation? And how does literary analysis help us understand how "stories" of globalisation are told? The majority of this study is involved with fleshing out these questions through detailed textual analysis that focuses on the responses of South Asian diasporie texts in light of key theoretical debates of the effects of globalisation upon class, national, Muslim and gender identities. Testing and extending the utility of concepts from both Marxist and liberal explanations of globalisation in this way, the thesis argues for an integrated theoretical approach to a set of texts that operate at the intersection between Britain's colonial past and the complexity of contemporary globality, as well as across local, national and transnational literary contexts.
(502518) Eliza Hanks
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Bounding the set of finite dimensional quantum correlations
Creators: name: Navascues, Miguel
name: Vertesi, Tamas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a simple method to derive high performance semidefinite programming relaxations for optimizations over complex and real operator algebras in finite dimensional Hilbert spaces. The method is very flexible, easy to program and allows the user to assess the behavior of finite dimensional quantum systems in a number of interesting setups. We use this method to bound the strength of quantum nonlocality in bipartite and tripartite Bell scenarios where the dimension of a subset of the parties is bounded from above. We derive new results in quantum communication complexity and prove the soundness of the prepare-and-measure dimension witnesses introduced in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 230501 (2010)]. Finally, we propose a new dimension witness that can distinguish between classical, real and complex two-level systems.
Memorandum: Cinder Lake Crater Field Seismic Profiles
Creators: name: Hassemer, Jerry
Publisher: name: U.S. Geological Survey
Year: 1968
Subjects: Apollo, Astronaut Training

description: Enclosed are the seismic profiles and a plan of the seismic lines at the new Cinder Lake Crater Field in Yavapai county. Along the East-West line the upper layer is made up of 3.5 feet of cinders on the top and then becoming mixed with clay t o a depth of 7.5 to 11.0 feet below the surface. Beneath this is a 10 to 20 foot thick layer of denser cinders or some other unconsolidated material. The third layer, with velocities from 5100 to 5950 ft. per sec., is probably a lava similar to that at Kona-A.
An Interview on the Utilization of E-instructional Materials for Teaching Extensive Reading Course During Pandemic Covid 19
Creators: name: Vebrianti Umar, ,
name: Perdana, Indra
name: Ristati
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: E-instructional material, teaching extensive reading, Higher education.

description: The research about An Interview on the Utilization of E-instructional Materials for Teaching Extensive Reading Course During Pandemic Covid 19
Disparities in food security and glycemic control among people with type 2 diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Thanh Tran
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: BACKGROUND
Little is known about the differing impacts of food insecurity (FI) on HbA1c by race in type 2 diabetes (T2D). Predictions that increased FI due to COVID-19 could exacerbate racial disparities in health, led us to estimate FI post COVID-19 outbreak by race and associations with HbA1c post-COVID. 

METHODS
Data are from electronic health records and surveys from a clinic-based sample with T2D. Multivariable linear regression models estimated the associations between FI and HbA1c and between change in FI and change in HbA1c. Effect modification (EM) was assessed via likelihood ratio tests (LRT) and examination of stratum specific estimates. 

RESULTS
Our sample includes 59% White, 15% of Whites were FI, 39% of Non-Whites were FI, HbA1c was 7.8% ±1.6 among White and HbA1c was 8.4% ±2.1 among Non-White post-COVID-19 outbreak. HbA1c among those very FI was 1.0% [95% CI: 0.222, 1.76, p=0.01] higher than those food secure. EM by race was not observed (LRT = 2.7, p = 0.26). Those with increased FI had a 0.58% [95% CI: 0.024, 1.13, p = 0.04] higher HbA1c than those experiencing no change. EM by race was not observed (LRT = 1.7, p = 0.43). 

LIMITATIONS
Convenience sampling, recall bias, and inadequate power may explain null associations and EM by race. 

CONCLUSION
Further research is needed to assess EM by race since strata-specific estimates were quite different. Prioritization of resources to those with FI should be considered early during public health emergencies to minimize short and long-term health consequences for high-risk populations.
Manned Lunar Exploration Investigations Semiannual Report
Creators: name: U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher: name: U.S. Geological Survey
Year: 1965
Subjects: Apollo

description: The U. S. Geological Survey's Manned Lunar Exploration Investigations carried out during the second half of Fiscal Year 1965 concept studies for Apollo and for AES exploration, and shirt-sleeve field tests of geologic operations for Apollo exploration. Three Apollo field tests were carried out late in the spring using communications and television systems, a simple LEM mock-up, and other equipment such as a surveying staff and one and two-handed sample and instrument carriers. Structure of the Manned Lunar Exploration Investigations was temporarily reorganized (pending complete reorganization for FY 66) late in the period to identify a number of the work areas of responsibility that had come into being (Figure 1). A lunar exploration matrix for Apollo, AES, MOLAB and LESA exploration has been compiled to illustrate concepts of lunar surface exploration, and the need for a long range integrated exploration program. The Work Plan and Field Test Schedule for Fiscal Year 1966 (Figure 2) calls for the conduct of field operations tests for AES and Apollo exploration mainly in Northern Arizona. The test areas include the Hopi Buttes diatreme area, Arizona; test sites adjacent to Flagstaff, Arizona; and the Moses Rock diatreme in Utah. Field work to obtain control geology and geophysics will begin this winter on an additional test site area to be selected by early fall -probably either the Pinacates area in Mexico or the Barstow area in California.
Understanding why Cxcl5 haploinsufficiency increases plaque burden in atherosclerosis
Creators: name: Kongala, Sriya
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease caused by the accumulation of lipid-filled macrophages known as foam cells. Foam cells aid in the development of arterial plaque, obstructing blood flow and leading to more severe cardiac illnesses such as myocardial infarction or coronary artery disease. It was observed that increased levels of Cxcl5 are associated with less severe plaque buildup in clinical models, playing a protective effect against the onset of atherosclerosis. Subsequent in vivo studies of mouse models by our lab determined that deletion of a single Cxcl5 allele in an atheroprone mouse model (ApoE deficient background) is sufficient to increase plaque burden after 16 weeks of a high-fat diet compared to wildtype mice. In contrast, another member of the C-X-C chemokine family, Cxcl12, appears to diminish cholesterol efflux and promote atherosclerosis. 

We still do not know the identity of the cells within the lesion that express Cxcl5 or its receptor Cxcr2, or whether reducing Cxcl5 genetically alters macrophage composition in the lesion. Using single-cell RNA sequencing of ApoE knockout mice provided by the Wirka lab, we found discrete cell populations in atherosclerotic lesions that express either Cxcl5 or its receptor Cxcl2, although neither cell population appears to be macrophage-related. We hypothesized that 1) Cells expressing Cxcl5 and Cxcr2 are located adjacent to the site of foam cell accumulation and 2) genetic disruption of Cxcl5 leads to a more severe atherosclerotic phenotype due to overcompensation of the local inflammatory response, particularly the pro-atherosclerotic chemokine Cxcl12, resulting in increased foam cell formation. Combining frozen aortic murine cross-sections of Cxcl5 knockout (KO, -/-), heterozygous (Het, +/-) and wild-type (WT, +/+) mice with knowledge gleaned from single-cell RNA sequencing of ApoE KO mice, we aimed to use RNAscope to spatially identify cells expressing Cxcl12, its receptor Ackr3, as well as Cxcl5 and its receptor Cxcr2 and their relationship to foam cell accumulation in Cxcl5 +/+, Cxcl5 +/-, and Cxcl5 -/- lesions. We also used this sequenced database to analyze cells in which Cxcl5 (and its receptor Cxcr2) is expressed and to look for other genes that follow a similar trend to determine the influence that Cxcl5 has on cells. 

Overall, the information discovered both supported and contradicted our hypothesis. Across both RNAscope and analysis of single-cell sequencing data, Cxcl12 expression correlated positively with that of Cxcl5 and appeared to localize more strongly to the aorta of Cxcl5 +/+ genotype. However, imaging from our RNAscope data indicated that Cxcl12 expression was present during Cxcl5 haploinsufficiency. In the future, we aim to further analyze clusters of Cxcl12 and its receptor to understand its pathways.
title: Gender and Special Education: What Makes Boys So 'Special'?
Creators: name: Smith, Roy
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2000

description: This study is concerned with those pupils registered as having 'special educational needs' within mainstream schools and also those who attend special schools of non normative designations and seeks to explain the over - representation of white working class boys amongst such populations. The processes of identification and subsequent allocation to non normative special categories are argued to be both class and gender biased and to represent the placement of pupils so identified along a continuum of exclusion, being an indication of their failure in conventional terms. An approach is developed which attempts to make the link between such failure and wider social and educational processes, viewing schooling as a form of cultural politics and seeing such politics as being intimately linked to wider structural relations. To this end the work of Pierre Bourdieu is employed. The aim of the research is to test and also to develop Bourdieu's theories of social and cultural reproduction and particularly his concept of habitus and its gendered embodied nature, as a means of illuminating the processes involved in the generation of these differential outcomes. The study takes the form of qualitative in-depth semi structured interviews with teachers from eight schools, five special and three mainstream, in order to generate detailed contextualised knowledge of the processes by which pupils may have been identified as having special educational needs within mainstream schools and then possibly allocated to special schools and of the assumptions perceptions and understandings of those teachers in special schools at the 'receiving end' of these processes. The resultant data is analysed using a conceptual framework provided by Bourdieu's theories. The study is placed within the context of the recent history I politics of special educational practices through a consideration of legislative and other developments of the past twenty years or so which are argued to have led to an increase in exclusionary pressures despite the rhetorical emphases throughout most of this time firstly on Integration and latterly on inclusion.
Diagnostic tests for the detection of pulmonary exacerbations and/ or respiratory infections in persons with Cystic Fibrosis
Creators: name: Naseem, Raasti
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Diagnosis

description: A scoping review to assess the literature for tests that are currently in use/ under development for diagnosing respiratory infections and/ or pulmonary exacerbations in persons with Cystic Fibrosis (pwCF). The aim of the review is to scope what tests are currently being used and possible new diagnostics in research to target the diagnostic unmet need in respiratory infections and pulmonary exacerbations.
(502508) Sarah [Vince nee Stiles]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Manned Lunar Exploration Investigations Plan Of Research, And Work Plan And Operating Budget. Fiscal Years 1965-1966
Creators: name: U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher: name: U.S. Geological Survey
Year: 1964
Subjects: Apollo, Budget

description: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, working with members of the scientific community, has determined that early manned lunar exploration will be oriented primarily to investigations in the geosciences. Exploration by man on the lunar surface will, therefore be geological, geophysical, geochemical, geochemical, and surveying in nature, and will be directed to the physical and chemical characteristics of the lunar crust, and to measurements that will furnish data pertinent to understanding the physics of the Moon. Scientific exploration of the Moon will provide information fundamental to understanding the origin and composition of the Solar System, and engineering data important to the design of specific scientific investigations and of missions of long duration that might exploit the Moon's lack of atmosphere, low gravity, and relative nearness to Earth.
Sourcing Lithium Pegmatites of the Tin-Spodumene Belt
Creators: name: Rivers, Samuel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: In an attempt to determine the source of lithium pegmatites of the Tin-Spodumene belt, samples from the spodumene-bearing Kings Mountain pegmatite, Cherryville pegmatite, High Shoals granite, York pluton, Clover pluton, and Gastonia pluton were analyzed for their Sm-Nd, Rb-Sr, and U/Th-Pb isotope systematics.  Very low concentrations of Sm and Nd and excessively high radiogenic Sr present in the pegmatite samples prevented the derivation of initial ratios from either of those systems.  Still, the radiogenic Sr of the pegmatite samples suggested the High Shoals, York, Clover, and Gastonia plutons are unlikely to be genetically related to the barren or spodumene-bearing pegmatites.  Isotope (U/Th-Pb) data corroborate this difference in addition to showing similarities between the initial 208Pb/204Pb and 207Pb/204Pb ratios of the barren Cherryville pegmatite and the spodumene-bearing Kings Mountain pegmatites.  This may suggest a genetic relationship between the Cherryville pegmatite and the Kings Mountain pegmatite.  However, viable data from either the Rb-Sr or Sm-Nd isotope systems in addition to more thorough elemental chemistry will be necessary to provide support to that hypothesis.
On the geometry of ghosts
Creators: name: Canarutto, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T13, 81T20

description: An inspection of the precise geometric constructions underlying fundamental notions in quantum gauge field theories sheds light on various aspects which tend to be obscured in the usual formalisms. Revising the notions of mutually conjugated "internal" bundles we propose a general rule for the constructions of free quantum fields and their conjugates, naturally yielding the needed fundamental properties with regard to contractions, super-commutators, field momentum and Hamiltonian, and other quantities. This scheme applies to fields of all types; in particular we examine consequences in relation to ghosts and anti-ghosts. Finally in the context of observer-independent Frölicher-smooth quantum bundles we show how the antifield sectors naturally arise, and examine the precise relation among these and the BRST symmetry of a gauge field theory.
description: 2+29 pages. With respect to v1, a third section was added, and parts of the discussions were modified in order to improve clarity
(502509) Harriet Stiles
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Schwarzschild solution in extended teleparallel gravity
Creators: name: Nashed, G. G. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tetrad field, with two unknown functions of radial coordinate and an angle $Φ$ which is the polar angle $ϕ$ times a function of the redial coordinate, is applied to the field equation of modified theory of gravity. Exact vacuum solution is derived whose scalar torsion, $T ={T^α}_{μν} {S_α}^{μν}$, is constant. When the angle $Φ$ coincides with the polar angle $ϕ$, the derived solution will be a solution only for linear form of $f(T)$ gravitational theory.
description: 8 pages Latex
(502516) William Farr
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
FUQARLIK HUQUQIDA BITIMLARNI HAQIQIY EMAS DEB TOPISHNING HUQUQIY OQIBATLARI
Creators: name: Аbdullаev, Аbdubotır
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ushbu tezisda fuqarolik qonunchiligimizda bitimlarni haqiqiy emasligi oqibatlari tahlil etiladi. Tezida qonunchilimizda bitimlarning haqiqiy emasligi tahlil qilinib, uning asoslari keltirib o`tiladi hamda ushbu institutning qonunchiligimizdagi xususiyatlari haqida so`z yuritiladi.
Modelling photospheric active regions in Kepler solar-type pulsators
Creators: name: Breton, Sylvain N.
name: Lanza, Antonino F.
name: Messina, Sergio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In the absence of resolved observations of a star, starspot modelling provides the opportunity to reconstruct maps of brightness inhomogeneities in the stellar photosphere. This approach is particularly important in the context of the PLATO mission, where interferometric observations will be available only for a small subset of the observed stars. Therefore, in order to explore the possibility to reconstruct reliable starspot distributions of moderately active solar-type stars that will be at the core of PLATO science, we implemented a Bayesian continuous grid model accounting for spots and faculae contributions. We demonstrate the robustness of our method by comparing the reconstructed solar longitudinal spot distribution with the actual observed distribution during Cycles 23 and 24. Applying the method to 10 Kepler asteroseismic targets, we find signatures of stable active nests for 7 of them and we investigate cyclic modulations that might be related to magneto-inertial waves propagating in the envelope, opening the perspective to probe the magnetic field amplitude in the tachocline.
Assessment of CRF Neurons Projections from the Central Amygdala to the Lateral Habenula in Modulating Binge-like Ethanol Consumption
Creators: name: Gonzalez, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: The Central Amygdala (CeA) is a primary output region for the amygdala complex and demonstrates an abundant gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABAergic) neuronal population that projects to higher-order brainstem regions. Previous studies have demonstrated a relationship between the GABAergic projections from the CeA to the LHb and binge ethanol drinking
behavior. Within the GABAergic population of the CeA, a subgroup of neurons contains the neuropeptide corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF). The CRF neuropeptide and its association with the stress response is thought to be implicated in the modulation of ethanol consumption.
Therefore, understanding the effects of CRF as a neuropeptide and its projection from the CeA to the LHb may provide novel insight in identifying its effects on binge ethanol drinking behavior and further extend a potential route toward developing pharmaceuticals that target CRF receptors to treat excessive binge drinking. The following study aims to (1) demonstrate a decrease in binge ethanol drinking behavior through chemogenetic inhibition of CRF projecting neurons from the CeA to the LHb (2) and demonstrate its exclusive effect in binge ethanol drinking
behavior as opposed to universal natural rewards. To determine this, we used the “drinking in the dark” (DID) procedure in combination with a Cre-dependent adeno-associated viral vector, for the expression of Gi-coupled DREADD (hM4Di), and a control virus, both with a mCherry
protein tag. We found that chemogetic inhibition of the CRF projections from the CeA to the LHb demonstrated significantly lower binge drinking 20% ethanol solution, but not 3% sucrose solution. The following results demonstrates a unique insight into the potential effects of targeting CRF projections from the CeA to the LHb in treating AUDs, prior to alcohol
dependence.
Development of time projection chamber for precise neutron lifetime measurement using pulsed cold neutron beams
Creators: name: Arimoto, Y.
name: Higashi, N.
name: Igarashi, Y.
name: Iwashita, Y.
name: Ino, T.
name: Katayama, R.
name: Kitahara, R.
name: Kitaguchi, M.
name: Matsumura, H.
name: Mishima, K.
name: Oide, H.
name: Otono, H.
name: Sakakibara, R.
name: Shima, T.
name: Shimizu, H. M.
name: Sugino, T.
name: Sumi, N.
name: Sumino, H.
name: Taketani, K.
name: Tanaka, G.
name: Tanaka, M.
name: Tauchi, K.
name: Toyoda, A.
name: Yamada, T.
name: Yamashita, S.
name: Yokoyama, H.
name: Yoshioka, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new time projection chamber (TPC) was developed for neutron lifetime measurement using a pulsed cold neutron spallation source at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). Managing considerable background events from natural sources and the beam radioactivity is a challenging aspect of this measurement. To overcome this problem, the developed TPC has unprecedented features such as the use of polyether-ether-ketone plates in the support structure and internal surfaces covered with $^6$Li-enriched tiles to absorb outlier neutrons. In this paper, the design and performance of the new TPC are reported in detail.
description: 33 pages, 10 figures
Baryon spectrum using Nf=2+1+1 ensembles of twisted mass fermions
Creators: name: Alexandrou, C.
name: Drach, V.
name: Hadjiyiannakou, K.
name: Jansen, K.
name: Kallidonis, C.
name: Koutsou, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results on the masses of the low-lying baryons using ten ensembles of gauge configurations with $N_f =2+1+1$ dynamical twisted mass fermions, at three values of the lattice spacing, spanning a pion mass range from about 210 MeV to about 430 MeV. The strange and charm quark masses are tuned to approximately their physical values. We examine isospin symmetry breaking effects on the baryon mass and the dependence on the lattice spacing. After taking the continuum limit we use chiral perturbation theory to extrapolate to the physical vlaue of the pion mass for all forty baryons. We provide predictions for the masses of doubly and triply charmed baryons that have not yet been measured experimentally.
description: Conference Proceedings, 7 pages and 20 figures. Talk presented at the 32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Columbia University, New York City, NY
title: Being Greek: using photographs as a means of exploring cultural identity
Creators: name: Skiftou, Vicky
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2009

description: This thesis addresses the relations between social memory, family photographs and the contemporary construction of Greekness. The empirical focus of the thesis is how Greek participants remember and experience particular social and cultural practices such as national commemorations, ritual ceremonies and lifecycle events through the photographs contained in their family albums. I use the approach that photographs can stand as a means of exploring the merging of the personal and the familial with the public, in order to describe the ways in which people create and construct their sense of Greekness. My research further explores the ways in which memory works in relation to the prompts elicited by a photographic image, and illustrates how memory contributes to a cultural identity that is grounded in the habits, details and performances that emerge in mundane social interaction. Furthermore, I investigate how such experiences are reproduced at the very moment that my informants remember and recreate their sense of Greekness. The argument I develop suggests that the notion of experience does not necessarily have an 'anchor'; rather, it is reproduced through spontaneous, momentary flashes that appear in participants' embodied memories. The concept of 'cultural nationalism' is developed in my research in terms of a historical message that can emerge from the traditions, rituals, folksongs and cultural practices. Symbols, myths, geographies and histories act as inseparable pieces of what Greek participants themselves termed the cultural dimensions of their national identity. The way people perform, celebrate and use such dimensions - and generally their culture – forms and helps to create and sustain the nation itself. I chose to investigate how this kind of national iconography - especially that which forms a part of national commemorations, ritual ceremonies and lifecycle events - forms a sense of belonging and Greekness, produced not only through the normative cultural conventions that construct part of the nation, but also through a complex mixture of cultural ingredients that involve the experiential, the mundane and the everyday. This is what I call the 'mythistorical' narration of cultural identity: where myths, symbols and signs of social and cultural practices come to embody particular styles of national belonging in Greek participants' memories.
Emerging criticality in the disordered three-color Ashkin-Teller model
Creators: name: Zhu, Qiong
name: Wan, Xin
name: Narayanan, Rajesh
name: Hoyos, José A.
name: Vojta, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of quenched disorder on the first-order phase transition in the two-dimensional three-color Ashkin-Teller model by means of large-scale Monte Carlo simulations. We demonstrate that the first-order phase transition is rounded by the disorder and turns into a continuous one. Using a careful finite-size-scaling analysis, we provide strong evidence for the emerging critical behavior of the disordered Ashkin-Teller model to be in the clean two-dimensional Ising universality class, accompanied by universal logarithmic corrections. This agrees with perturbative renormalization-group predictions by Cardy. As a byproduct, we also provide support for the strong-universality scenario for the critical behavior of the two-dimensional disordered Ising model. We discuss consequences of our results for the classification of disordered phase transitions as well as generalizations to other systems.
description: 18 pages, 18 eps figures included, final version as published
(502504) William Stiles
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Najla Ward-Conyers Biology Senior Honors Thesis
Creators: name: Ward-Conyers, Najla
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Escherichia coli (E. coli) infection is the culprit of over 265,000 illnesses annually in the United States alone that comes from contaminated water or food and can cause diarrhea, nausea, and abdominal cramping. Some infections can develop into a life-threatening form of kidney failure called hemolytic uremic syndrome. The body uses a host immune response during E. coli infection, where reactive chlorine species (RCS) are produced and kill invasive organisms and fight infection. RCS are antimicrobial oxidants generated during the innate immune response. E. coli is able to survive RCS through the RclA, RclB, and RclC genes that are in an operon that is RclR-regulated. However, the mechanism by which RclA-C enables E. coli survival of RCS stress is unknown. In addition, another function was proposed for RclC in 2019 as one of the four sites that confer metronidazole resistance in Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). The RclC enzyme in H. pylori shares 53.3% amino acid sequence similarity with the RclC enzyme in E. coli, and we hypothesized that there is a direct interaction between the RclC enzyme in E. coli and metronidazole. This led to the question of whether RclC alone, or some combination of the RclA-C genes, contribute to the reduction of metronidazole. 
We developed a model to study this in E. coli instead of H. pylori for our safety. First, we obtained four E. coli variants, including a parent strain, BW25113, and BW25113-ΔRclC, BW25113-ΔRclB, and BW25113-ΔRclA. Since E. coli is naturally resistant to metronidazole, we first set out to identify the range of metronidazole concentration where growth inhibition occurs. We then tested to see if we could increase E. coli's susceptibility by transformation of the rdxA plasmids from H. pylori and the nfsB plasmid from E. coli. In addition, a plating assay was developed to test colony growth for BW25113, BW25113-ΔRclC, BW25113-ΔRclB, and BW25113-ΔRclA to observe E. coli growth or inhibition in the presence of metronidazole. We observed minimal differences in E. coli growth between the knockouts in the presence of metronidazole. However, our data did show that we increased metronidazole sensitivity through a decrease in colony size at metronidazole concentration 0.60 mg/mL. The data also showed that the RclC knockout might potentially be more sensitive to metronidazole. This was most clearly seen at the metronidazole concentration of 0.60 mg/mL with the rdxA plasmid, where we saw a significant difference in the number of colonies between the parent strain and the Rcl knockouts. These data indicate that the RclC gene may control metronidazole sensitivity. This indicates that this is the gene by which E. coli, and many other bacteria, are able to survive RCS and lead to persistent illnesses in humans. In future work, we plan to confirm our results on RclC and test substrate specificity for this enzyme using fluorescent tools to test if metronidazole has been reduced in its presence.
Influence of water on the CO₂ capture mechanism, capacity and thermodynamic properties of aprotic heterocyclic anion ionic liquids
Creators: name: Avelar Bonilla, Gabriela María
name: 0000-0002-2661-6175
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Ionic liquids
CO2 capture
Water

description: Ionic liquids (ILs) are promising alternative solvents for carbon capture applications, including aprotic heterocyclic anion (AHA) ILs. These ILs were specifically designed for this application. They bind with CO2 in a 1 to 1 mole ratio, with a modest enthalpy of reaction. Water is an important impurity present in the flue gas, and understanding its effect is critical in designing the separation process. Water is of particular importance for ILs because it can change their physical properties and the chemistry of their reaction with CO2. In this dissertation, a comprehensive study regarding the reaction mechanism, CO2 solubility and equilibrium values of the IL-CO2-H2O system is presented. The changes in the reaction mechanism of AHA ILs with CO2 in the presence of water were investigated using NMR spectroscopy methods. It was established that in addition to the anion reacting with CO2 to form carbamate, the anion reacts with water and is reprotonated, leaving hydroxide to react with CO2 to form bicarbonate. The amount of reprotonated anion, carbamate and bicarbonate formed depends strongly on the nature of the anion and substituent groups on it. Additionally, the enthalpy, entropy and equilibrium constants for the reaction between the IL and CO2 in the presence of water were estimated. This was done by fitting experimental data of the CO2 absorption isotherms of AHA ILs and water mixtures to a Langmuir model. The results revealed that the enthalpy of the reaction leading to bicarbonate formation is larger in magnitude than the value obtained for the reaction of the neat IL with CO2 (only carbamate formation). An increase in the overall enthalpy of reaction could increase the amount of energy needed for the IL regeneration process and, subsequently, the cost of carbon capture. Nevertheless, it was concluded that water present in the post-combustion flue gas will not hinder the use of AHA ILs, in CO2 capture applications.
(502506) Martha Pontifex
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Group theoretical analysis of a quantum-mechanical three-dimensional quartic anharmonic oscillator
Creators: name: Fernández, Francisco M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper illustrates the application of group theory to a quantum-mechanical three-dimensional quartic anharmonic oscillator with $O_{h}$ symmetry. It is shown that group theory predicts the degeneracy of the energy levels and facilitates the application of perturbation theory and the Rayleigh-Ritz variational method as well as the interpretation of the results in terms of the symmetry of the solutions . We show how to obtain suitable symmetry-adapted basis sets.
(502505) Russell Pontifex
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
EXIT-Chart Aided Near-Capacity Quantum Turbo Code Design
Creators: name: Babar, Zunaira
name: Ng, Soon Xin
name: Hanzo, Lajos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The design of Quantum Turbo Codes (QTCs) typically relies on the analysis of their distance spectra, followed by Monte-Carlo simulations. By contrast, in this paper we appropriately adapt the conventional non-binary EXtrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) charts for quantum turbo codes by exploiting the intrinsic quantum-to-classical isomorphism. The EXIT chart analysis not only allows us to dispense with the time-consuming Monte-Carlo simulations, but also facilitates the design of near-capacity codes without resorting to the analysis of their distance spectra. We have demonstrated that our EXIT chart predictions are in line with the Monte-Carlo simulations results. We have also optimized the entanglement-assisted QTC using EXIT charts, which outperforms the existing distance spectra based QTCs. More explicitly, the performance of our optimized QTC is as close as 0.3 dB to the corresponding hashing bound.
description: 10 pages
Biomarkers in advanced melanoma
Creators: name: Lee, Jenny H.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Immune checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionised the treatment of advanced cancer, leading to durable tumour shrinkage across multiple cancer types. However, response is only seen in a subset of patients and immune related adverse events that mimic autoimmune disease may occur, irrespective of response. There is an urgent need for biomarkers that predict response and toxicity to determine which patients will benefit most from these potentially toxic therapies. The continuous release of tumour microenvironment derived genomic and proteomic material into the circulation has the potential to be used as a biomarker of response and survival. Therefore, its role in personalised therapy, prognostication and predicting immune related adverse events warrants investigation.
(502507) William Farr
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Mold Growth by Climatological Factors in the Southeastern United States
Creators: name: Hope, Gloria
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: Mycology
Climatology

description: Indoor molds pose a serious issue to both human health (e.g., upper respiratory conditions and allergies), and building infrastructure (e.g.,  pipes, wells, and insulation). It is known that certain climates and weather conditions favor mold growth, and countries and cities in these parts of the world suffer more from mold outbreaks than others. This thesis begins with an extended literature review that investigates the relationships between mold and climate. The review reveals that both temperature and relative humidity play key roles in dictating rates of mold growth. According to the combined climatological results and the data from previous mold studies, the ideal conditions for mold growth are cooler temperatures (15-20 Celsius) and high relative humidities (upward of 90%). These conditions are met in the Appalachian Mountains and along the coastlines of the Southeastern U.S. 

A model is constructed that predicts mold growth from two factors: hourly temperatures and hourly relative humidities. This model suggests that certain areas in the Southeast US are better suited for mold growth, namely areas with cooler temperatures and high humidities such as the Appalachian Mountains and along the northern border of the study area. The climatology also reveals marked year-to-year variations in mold production that are related to inter-annual variations in temperature and relative humidity. Furthermore, mold growth in indoor environments depends on building material and the condition of the material itself. To account for this, a geography of housing age is overlaid on this climatology to reveal the areas in the Southeast United States where mold poses an elevated risk to homeowners and communities.
A Critical Review of IAQ Advanced Control Strategies for Multizone VAV Air Handling and Terminal Units
Creators: name: Liu, Tianqi
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Building Science and Techniques

description: Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) plays a crucial role in fostering healthy and productive office environments. Despite this, current Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) control strategies primarily emphasize thermal comfort and energy efficiency, leaving IAQ inadequately addressed. This thesis presents an in-depth literature review of pertinent regulations, simulation and field studies, aiming to inform the development of innovative, advanced control strategies for multi-zone Variable Air Volume (VAV) systems, which represent the most prevalent HVAC system type in the United States. The review process identifies key sensors and actuators integral to IAQ improvement. At the zone level, these sensors encompass discharge airflow, zone temperature, occupancy, and CO2 measurements. At the system level, these include outdoor air temperature, supplemented in many cases by an outdoor weather station to monitor outdoor CO2 concentration, solar radiation, and wind speed. The main actuators utilized in the system comprise the VAV box damper position, the hot water valve of the reheat coil within the VAV box at the zone level, the supply fan speed, and the economizer outdoor air damper at the system level. In contrast to conventional rule-based or Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers, the study foregrounds model-based control as an effective mechanism for managing the complexities and non-linearity of HVAC systems. This approach is further refined by integrating both zone-level and system-level controls, optimizing system performance and enhancing control reliability. A distributed control architecture is highlighted for its scalability, fault tolerance, swift response times, and unique ability to balance local optimization with global constraints. Alongside these sophisticated strategies, the often-overlooked control of pre-ventilation time is brought into focus as a simple yet impactful tactic for IAQ enhancement. The study also emphasizes the need for a more comprehensive IAQ evaluation method, solidifying the effectiveness of advanced control strategies in managing IAQ for healthier and more productive indoor environments.