cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Froggattimyia-Anagonia Genus Group (Diptera: Tachinidae)
Creators: name: Colless, Donald H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Anagonia scutellata (Malloch)
 Delta scutellata Malloch, 1930:334. Synonymy by Crosskey (1973:139).
 Type. Holotype male in ANIC [formerly in SPHTM], Mullewa, Western Australia.
 Male. Exceedingly similar to A. tillyardi and doubtfully distinct (see below). Differs mainly in colour of tarsal segments, which are uniformly dark. No difference observed in terminalia. However, specimens other than those from ACT almost all (11/13) with 3 presutural dorsocentral bristles on at least one side and lacking the pair of submedian marginal bristles on abdominal tergite 3. Specimens from ACT rarely (5/20) with 3 presutural dorsocentral bristles and all with differentiated submedian marginals on tergite 3.
 Female. Differs from A. tillyardi in colour and bristle characters as for the male; but indistinguishable from female of A. propinqua (see below).
 Distribution. Widespread on the Australian mainland. I have also seen a male, apparently of this species, from Wau in Papua New Guinea.
 Biology. Specimens have been reared from larvae of the chrysomelids Liliocentris bakewelli (Baly) and Chrysophtharta m-fuscum (Boheman). The remainder were taken at light.
 Notes. The relatively slight difference from A. tillyardi, and especially the complete correspondence in fine detail of the male terminalia, suggests that A. scutellata cannot be maintained as a separate species. It could, perhaps, represent a variant “form”, breeding in an unusual host. Even more bothersome is the possibility that this might be true of the ACT specimens, whereas the others, with their rather distinctive chaetotaxy, may comprise yet another, different species. It is certainly true that reared specimens of A. scutellata (one from Queensland, and a long series from ACT) are from hosts from which A. tillyardi has never been reared.
Principal Component analysis of head measurements (not shown) does show a degree of separation of the two species, but of no diagnostic value. The situation is intriguing, but the evidence either way inconclusive. Since there exists a
 holotype male for scutellata —and therefore an available name—it seems best to let the matter rest there for the present.
description: Published as part of Colless, Donald H., 2012, The Froggattimyia-Anagonia Genus Group (Diptera: Tachinidae), pp. 167-211 in Records of the Australian Museum 64 (3) on pages 191-192, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.64.2012.1590, http://zenodo.org/record/4684127
SUBVERTING ORIENTALISM AND PRIMITIVISM? SONIA DELAUNAY'S YELLOW NUDE, 1908
Creators: name: Ryan, Laura
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: In this thesis, I demonstrate that Yellow Nude includes a number of pointed references to historic stereotypes and contemporaneous tropes that embroil the artist’s identity in the primitivist ideologies she apparently appropriates. I first identify the background design within the painting as that of a turn of the century ikat textile, with Central Asian, Jewish, and Russian production histories that mimic the biographic transnationality of Delaunay herself. Delaunay therefore invites viewers to conflate the figure in the painting with the woman who made it, capitalizing on the perceived “exoticism” of her “primitive” cultural upbringing. From this perspective, the featured figure’s mask-like face, disjunctive body, and gender ambiguity further implicate, interrogate, and perhaps undermine international fascination with the “primitive.” I argue that in Yellow Nude Sonia Delaunay both recreated the popular type of the exotic foreign woman and subtly undercut the ideologies behind the genre through specific references likely legible to those who shared her background.
Modelling the Global Price of Oil: Is there any Role for the Oil Futures-spot Spread?
Creators: name: Valenti, Daniele
name: Valenti, Daniele
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Global Market for Crude Oil
subject: Bayesian SVAR Model
subject: Oil Futures-spot Spread
subject: Oil

description: In this work, we propose an analysis of the global market for crude oil based on a revised version of the Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) model introduced by Kilian and Murphy (2014). On this respect, we replace the global proxy for above-ground crude oil inventories with the oil futures-spot spread. The latter is defined as the percent deviation of the oil futures price from the spot price of oil and it represents a measure of the convenience yield but expressed with an opposite sign. The following model provides an economic interpretation of the residual structural shock, namely the financial market shock. This new shock is designed to capture an unanticipated change in the benefit of holding crude oil inventories that is driven by financial incentives. We find evidence that financial market shocks have played an important role in explaining the rises in the price of oil during the period 2003-2008.
Additional file 2 of Mutations in COL1A1/A2 and CREB3L1 are associated with oligodontia in osteogenesis imperfecta
Creators: name: Andersson, Kristofer
name: Malmgren, Barbro
name: Åström, Eva
name: Nordgren, Ann
name: Taylan, Fulya
name: Dahllöf, Göran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Genes involved in tooth development that were evaluated.
Cluster Frustration in the Breathing Pyrochlore Magnet LiGaCr4S8
Creators: name: Pokharel, Ganesh
name: Arachchige, Hasitha Suriya
name: Williams, Travis J.
name: May, Andrew F.
name: Fishman, Randy S.
name: Sala, Gabriele
name: Calder, Stuart
name: Ehlers, Georg
name: Parker, David S.
name: Hong, Tao
name: Wildes, Andrew
name: Mandrus, David
name: Paddison, Joseph A. M.
name: Christianson, Andrew D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive neutron scattering study of the breathing pyrochlore magnet LiGaCr4S8. We observe an unconventional magnetic excitation spectrum with a separation of high and low-energy spin dynamics in the correlated paramagnetic regime above a spin-freezing transition at 12(2) K. By fitting to magnetic diffuse-scattering data, we parameterize the spin Hamiltonian. We find that interactions are ferromagnetic within the large and small tetrahedra of the breathing pyrochlore lattice, but antiferromagnetic further-neighbor interactions are also essential to explain our data, in qualitative agreement with density-functional theory predictions [Ghoshet al.,npj Quantum Mater.4, 63 (2019)]. We explain the origin of geometrical frustration in LiGaCr4S8 interms of net antiferromagnetic coupling between emergent tetrahedral spin clusters that occupy a face-centered lattice. Our results provide insight into the emergence of frustration in the presence of strong further-neighbor couplings, and a blueprint for the determination of magnetic interactions in classical spin liquids.
description: Supplemental information available upon request
It’s So Hot in Here: Information Avoidance, Moral Wiggle Room, and High Air Conditioning
Creators: name: D’Adda, Giovanna
name: Gao, Yu
name: Golman, Russell
name: Tavoni, Massimo
name: D’Adda, Giovanna
name: Gao, Yu
name: Golman, Russell
name: Tavoni, Massimo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Information Avoidance
subject: Energy Efficiency
subject: Moral Wiggle Room

description: Environmental policies based on information provision are widespread, but have often proven ineffective. One possible explanation for information’s low effectiveness is that people actively avoid it. We conduct an online field experiment on air conditioning usage to test the theory of moral wiggle room, according to which people avoid information that would compel them to act morally, against the standard theory of information acquisition, and identify conditions under which each theory applies. In the experiment, we observe how exogenously imposing a feeling of moral obligation to reduce air conditioning usage and exploiting natural variation in the cost of doing so, given by outside temperature, influences subjects’ avoidance of information about their energy use impacts on the environment. Moral obligation increases information avoidance when it is hot outside, consistent with the moral wiggle room theory, but decreases it when outside temperature is low. Avoiding information positively correlates with air conditioning usage. These findings provide guidance about tailoring the use of nudges and informational tools to the decision environment.
On the exact gravitational lens equation in spherically symmetric and static spacetimes
Creators: name: Perlick, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lensing in a spherically symmetric and static spacetime is considered, based on the lightlike geodesic equation without approximations. After fixing two radius values r_O and r_S, lensing for an observation event somewhere at r_O and static light sources distributed at r_S is coded in a lens equation that is explicitly given in terms of integrals over the metric coefficients. The lens equation relates two angle variables and can be easily plotted if the metric coefficients have been specified; this allows to visualize in a convenient way all relevant lensing properties, giving image positions, apparent brightnesses, image distortions, etc. Two examples are treated: Lensing by a Barriola-Vilenkin monopole and lensing by an Ellis wormhole.
description: REVTEX, 11 pages, 12 eps-figures, figures partly improved, minor revisions
Internal and External Barriers to Energy Efficiency: Made-to-Measure Policy Interventions
Creators: name: Cattaneo, Cristina
name: Cattaneo, Cristina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Energy Efficiency, Energy Policy
subject: Behavioural Economics

description: This paper has two objectives. First it provides a correlation between internal and external barriers to energy efficiency and consumer behaviour related to two domains. It evaluates behaviour related to energy curtailment, which represents routine, repetitive effort to decrease consumption on a day-to-day basis. It also considers behaviour related to investments, which are one time actions such as purchasing new energy efficiency technologies.. Second, it assesses the effectiveness of the different interventions and programs in addressing the two types of barriers (internal and external) with the aim of informing the policy debate. By assessing the value of a large number of interventions, this paper is one of the first that combines in a unified framework the main findings of different disciplines, from economics to psychology.
Additional file 1 of Reduction in unplanned hospitalizations associated with a physician focused intervention to reduce potentially inappropriate medication use among older adults: a population-based cohort study
Creators: name: M. Alcusky
name: R. B. Thomas
name: N. Jafari
name: S. W. Keith
name: A. Kee
name: S. Del Canale
name: M. Lombardi
name: V. Maio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
SUBVERTING ORIENTALISM AND PRIMITIVISM? SONIA DELAUNAY'S YELLOW NUDE, 1908
Creators: name: Ryan, Laura
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In this thesis, I demonstrate that Yellow Nude includes a number of pointed references to historic stereotypes and contemporaneous tropes that embroil the artist’s identity in the primitivist ideologies she apparently appropriates. I first identify the background design within the painting as that of a turn of the century ikat textile, with Central Asian, Jewish, and Russian production histories that mimic the biographic transnationality of Delaunay herself. Delaunay therefore invites viewers to conflate the figure in the painting with the woman who made it, capitalizing on the perceived “exoticism” of her “primitive” cultural upbringing. From this perspective, the featured figure’s mask-like face, disjunctive body, and gender ambiguity further implicate, interrogate, and perhaps undermine international fascination with the “primitive.” I argue that in Yellow Nude Sonia Delaunay both recreated the popular type of the exotic foreign woman and subtly undercut the ideologies behind the genre through specific references likely legible to those who shared her background.
Additional file 2 of Being involved in research as a collaborator with experience of a prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defect in the fetus: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Carlsson, Tommy
name: Marttala, Ulla Melander
name: Mattsson, Elisabet
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Presentation of the preceding research project collaborating with persons who have lived experience of a prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defect in the fetus.
Cherchez la Femme: Reassassing Francis Picabia's World War II Nudes
Creators: name: Blakeslee, Paul
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis closely examines two of Francis Picabia’s oil paintings from World War II, Femme à la Sculpture Grecque Noire et Blanche (Woman with Black and White Greek Sculpture, c. 1942-43) and Femme à l’Idole (Woman With Idol, c.1941-43). It argues that Picabia employed a range of art historical allusions in each work to critique the French Surrealists’ claims about their own art-making. Aligning himself with an older tradition of modernist avant-gardism, Picabia returned to a Dadaistic mode of artistic deconstruction to wage an attack on André Breton’s theories of Surrealist art. Picabia’s critique of Surrealism encompassed the movement’s political affiliations, its fascination with the erotic female body, and its primitivizing interactions with the art of indigenous cultures. Comparing his own oeuvre to the artistic practices of Édouard Manet and Paul Gauguin, Picabia derided the Surrealist practice as a corruption of the avant-gardism represented by those artists. This understudied portion of Picabia’s oeuvre has previously been seen within the context of the artist’s personal behavior during the Vichy regime in France; however, this argument looks instead to art-historical politics, drawing links between Picabia’s early career as a Dadaist and his enigmatic later practice.
Higgs-Boson Production Induced by Bottom Quarks
Creators: name: Boos, Eduard
name: Plehn, Tilman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bottom quark-induced processes are responsible for a large fraction of the LHC discovery potential, in particular for supersymmetric Higgs bosons. Recently, the discrepancy between exclusive and inclusive Higgs boson production rates has been linked to the choice of an appropriate bottom factorization scale. We investigate the process kinematics at hadron colliders and show that it leads to a considerable decrease in the bottom factorization scale. This effect is the missing piece needed to understand the corresponding higher order results. Our results hold generally for charged and for neutral Higgs boson production at the LHC as well as at the Tevatron. The situation is different for single top quark production, where we find no sizeable suppression of the factorization scale. Turning the argument around, we can specify how large the collinear logarithms are, which can be resummed using the bottom parton picture.
description: 18 pages
Cherchez la Femme: Reassassing Francis Picabia's World War II Nudes
Creators: name: Blakeslee, Paul
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: This thesis closely examines two of Francis Picabia’s oil paintings from World War II, Femme à la Sculpture Grecque Noire et Blanche (Woman with Black and White Greek Sculpture, c. 1942-43) and Femme à l’Idole (Woman With Idol, c.1941-43). It argues that Picabia employed a range of art historical allusions in each work to critique the French Surrealists’ claims about their own art-making. Aligning himself with an older tradition of modernist avant-gardism, Picabia returned to a Dadaistic mode of artistic deconstruction to wage an attack on André Breton’s theories of Surrealist art. Picabia’s critique of Surrealism encompassed the movement’s political affiliations, its fascination with the erotic female body, and its primitivizing interactions with the art of indigenous cultures. Comparing his own oeuvre to the artistic practices of Édouard Manet and Paul Gauguin, Picabia derided the Surrealist practice as a corruption of the avant-gardism represented by those artists. This understudied portion of Picabia’s oeuvre has previously been seen within the context of the artist’s personal behavior during the Vichy regime in France; however, this argument looks instead to art-historical politics, drawing links between Picabia’s early career as a Dadaist and his enigmatic later practice.
Ductless fume hoods research
Creators: name: Lee, Janet
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Fume hoods are the primary engineering control used to minimize worker exposure to airborne contaminants such as fumes, vapours and particulate. Typical fume hoods installed at UBC are costly to run in terms of both energy and money due to the large amounts of conditioned air that is exhausted out of the lab. A previous SEEDS project identified potential for energy savings through the use of ductless fume hoods instead of conventional fume hoods (Gretka, 2012). Ductless fume hoods employ charcoal filters to remove vapours from the contaminated air and allow the filtered air to re-enter the lab space. The current report seeks to understand the current research with regards to these ductless hoods as well as WorkSafeBC regulations and applications of these hoods in other industries. WorkSafeBC regulation does not permit recirculation of carcinogens, reproductive toxins, sensitizers or substances whose exposures are to be kept as low as reasonable achievable (Part 5 Chemical Agents and Biological Agents: Ventilation 5.70 and section 5.57(1)). Overall, contacted individuals, other universities and information from literature express concerns over the limitations of the carbon filters and strongly discourage (and in some cases prohibit) the use of ductless fume hoods. Current literature discussing the performance of ductless fume hoods is extremely limited. In summary, the use of ductless fume hoods cannot safely replace all conventional ducted fume hoods. There is however a possibility of obtaining a variance from WSBC if the ductless hoods can be attached to a pre-existing general exhaust system and the substances being used in the hoods are of low toxicity and low volume. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Defiled: Exploring the Issues of Repatriation, Reparation, and Restitution of Latin American Ancient Art and Antiquities
Creators: name: Calderon Garza, Gabriela I.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: This thesis explores the nuances faced by institutions and nations contesting the ownership of antiquities as more repatriation cases come to light. It is important to note that this thesis will specifically focus on art and antiquities of Latin American origin that were exported during the Spanish expansion known as La Conquista (1519-1697). Through historical research and interviews from experts in the field, the paper discusses the effectiveness of current international treaties, the legitimacy of claims, and the future of art organizations at large. This thesis concludes that while experts having differing opinions on repatriation claims, they all agree that international treaties continue to be effective, and pay special consideration to the development of an unbiased committee to oversee these litigations.
Defiled: Exploring the Issues of Repatriation, Reparation, and Restitution of Latin American Ancient Art and Antiquities
Creators: name: Calderon Garza, Gabriela I.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis explores the nuances faced by institutions and nations contesting the ownership of antiquities as more repatriation cases come to light. It is important to note that this thesis will specifically focus on art and antiquities of Latin American origin that were exported during the Spanish expansion known as La Conquista (1519-1697). Through historical research and interviews from experts in the field, the paper discusses the effectiveness of current international treaties, the legitimacy of claims, and the future of art organizations at large. This thesis concludes that while experts having differing opinions on repatriation claims, they all agree that international treaties continue to be effective, and pay special consideration to the development of an unbiased committee to oversee these litigations.
Effects of color superconductivity on the structure and formation of compact stars
Creators: name: Drago, A.
name: Lavagno, A.
name: Pagliara, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that if color superconducting quark matter forms in hybrid or quark stars it is possible to satisfy most of recent observational boundaries on masses and radii of compact stellar objects. An energy of the order of $10^{53}$ erg is released in the conversion from a (metastable) hadronic star into a (stable) hybrid or quark star in presence of a color superconducting phase. If the conversion occurs immediately after the deleptonization of the proto-neutron star, the released energy can help Supernovae to explode. If the conversion is delayed the energy released can power a Gamma Ray Burst. A delay between the Supernova and the subsequent Gamma Ray Burst is possible, in agreement with the delay proposed in recent analysis of astrophysical data.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. To be published in Phys.Rev.D
A KIND OF MAGIC
Creators: name: Shapiro, Seth
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: A Kind of Magic is a collection of original stories that uses the magical to illuminate the ordinary. In the world of these stories, magic has the power to make tangible the intangible, to turn metaphor into reality, to transform what is felt into something that can be touched so that it can be better understood. The presence of the fantastic is both overt and subtle so the reader can recognize it while continuing to search for it. And in the course of that searching, the reader may discover there is more magic yet, often in the most unmagical of moments.
Routing of valley photons in a WS2 monolayer via delocalized Bloch modes of in-plane inversion-symmetry broken photonic crystal slabs
Creators: name: Wang, Jiajun
name: Li, Han
name: Ma, Yating
name: Zhao, Maoxiong
name: Liu, Wenzhe
name: Wang, Bo
name: Wu, Shiwei
name: Liu, Xiaohan
name: Shi, Lei
name: Jiang, Tian
name: Zi, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The valleys of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) offer a new degree of freedom for information processing. To take advantage of this valley degree of freedom, on one hand, it is feasible to control valleys by utilizing different external stimuli like optical and electric fields. On the other hand, nanostructures are also used to separate the valleys by near field coupling. However, for both above methods, either required low-temperature environment or low degree of coherence properties limit their further applications. Here, we demonstrate all-dielectric photonic crystal (PhC) slabs without in-plane inversion symmetry (C2 symmetry) could separate and route valley photons in a WS2 monolayer at room temperature. Coupling with circularly polarized photonic Bloch modes of such PhC slabs, valley photons emitted by a WS2 monolayer are routed directionally and efficiently separated in the far field. In addition, the far-field emission is directionally enhanced and with long-distance spatial coherence property.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
The Froggattimyia-Anagonia Genus Group (Diptera: Tachinidae)
Creators: name: Colless, Donald H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Anagonia grisea (Malloch)
 Delta grisea Malloch, 1930:333.
 Type. Holotype female in ANIC, Mullewa, Western Australia.
 As discussed above, grisea is very likely a senior synonym of one of the three foregoing members of the tillyardi group; but, the holotype being a female, I am unable to say which.
description: Published as part of Colless, Donald H., 2012, The Froggattimyia-Anagonia Genus Group (Diptera: Tachinidae), pp. 167-211 in Records of the Australian Museum 64 (3) on page 192, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.64.2012.1590, http://zenodo.org/record/4684127
A KIND OF MAGIC
Creators: name: Shapiro, Seth
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: A Kind of Magic is a collection of original stories that uses the magical to illuminate the ordinary. In the world of these stories, magic has the power to make tangible the intangible, to turn metaphor into reality, to transform what is felt into something that can be touched so that it can be better understood. The presence of the fantastic is both overt and subtle so the reader can recognize it while continuing to search for it. And in the course of that searching, the reader may discover there is more magic yet, often in the most unmagical of moments.
HIRAM POWERS’S THE LAST OF THE TRIBES: AN ALLEGORY IN THE POST-CIVIL WAR ERA
Creators: name: Olson, Hayley
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: Best known for his 1843 sculpture The Greek Slave, which provided a coded commentary on American slavery, Hiram Powers produced many lesser-known works that provide an even more complex picture of American attitudes towards race following the Civil War. His The Last of the Tribes (1867-72) is a case in point. The marble sculpture depicts an idealized white woman running past a chopped tree trunk, with a distressed expression on her face. Rendered in the artist’s typical Neoclassical style, the woman is nude from the waist up, but wears an intricate, yet fantastical, flowing kirtle. By depicting the woman in this romanticized state of semi-undress, rather than in an accurate wardrobe of a specific Native American nation, Powers puts forward a highly generalized and imagined idea of an indigenous person. Most scholars have read the work as a literal representation of Indian Removal in the wake of westward expansion. While this interpretation holds merit, it neglects the broader political, racial, and cultural context in which the work was made, sold, and seen. This thesis explores the sculpture’s complex and multifaceted iconography, subject matter, and material to understand the appeal it would have held in post-Civil War America. Drawing on the historical representation of Native Americans and contemporaneous depictions of runaway slaves, I argue that The Last of the Tribes is an allegory for America as a state in transition. It speaks to Native American removal, but also abolition, yet fundamentally folds these issues into a broader statement and (re-)assertion of whiteness. In this way, the work departs from other sculpture depictions of Native Americans at the time. While works like Erastus Dow Palmer’s Indian Girl, or the Dawn of Christianity (1853-56) and Thomas Crawford’s Native American subjects in his pediment for the United States Capitol building (1863) explicitly address Native removal, Powers’s piece revels the broader racial and ethnic struggles of which removal was a part. In general, it speaks to the ways in which national identity was being re-defined in the post-Civil War era. Ultimately, I posit The Last of the Tribes reveals the multi-faceted racial tensions taking place in the United States at the time, and how nineteenth-century sculpture both hides and later reveals these tensions.
HIRAM POWERS’S THE LAST OF THE TRIBES: AN ALLEGORY IN THE POST-CIVIL WAR ERA
Creators: name: Olson, Hayley
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Best known for his 1843 sculpture The Greek Slave, which provided a coded commentary on American slavery, Hiram Powers produced many lesser-known works that provide an even more complex picture of American attitudes towards race following the Civil War. His The Last of the Tribes (1867-72) is a case in point. The marble sculpture depicts an idealized white woman running past a chopped tree trunk, with a distressed expression on her face. Rendered in the artist’s typical Neoclassical style, the woman is nude from the waist up, but wears an intricate, yet fantastical, flowing kirtle. By depicting the woman in this romanticized state of semi-undress, rather than in an accurate wardrobe of a specific Native American nation, Powers puts forward a highly generalized and imagined idea of an indigenous person. Most scholars have read the work as a literal representation of Indian Removal in the wake of westward expansion. While this interpretation holds merit, it neglects the broader political, racial, and cultural context in which the work was made, sold, and seen. This thesis explores the sculpture’s complex and multifaceted iconography, subject matter, and material to understand the appeal it would have held in post-Civil War America. Drawing on the historical representation of Native Americans and contemporaneous depictions of runaway slaves, I argue that The Last of the Tribes is an allegory for America as a state in transition. It speaks to Native American removal, but also abolition, yet fundamentally folds these issues into a broader statement and (re-)assertion of whiteness. In this way, the work departs from other sculpture depictions of Native Americans at the time. While works like Erastus Dow Palmer’s Indian Girl, or the Dawn of Christianity (1853-56) and Thomas Crawford’s Native American subjects in his pediment for the United States Capitol building (1863) explicitly address Native removal, Powers’s piece revels the broader racial and ethnic struggles of which removal was a part. In general, it speaks to the ways in which national identity was being re-defined in the post-Civil War era. Ultimately, I posit The Last of the Tribes reveals the multi-faceted racial tensions taking place in the United States at the time, and how nineteenth-century sculpture both hides and later reveals these tensions.
Elliptic Flow Analysis at RHIC: Fluctuations vs. Non-Flow Effects
Creators: name: Zhu, Xianglei
name: Bleicher, Marcus
name: Stoecker, Horst
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cumulant method is applied to study elliptic flow ($v_2$) in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200$AGeV, with the UrQMD model. In this approach, the true event plane is known and both the non-flow effects and event-by-event spatial ($ε$) and $v_2$ fluctuations exist. Qualitatively, the hierarchy of $v_2$'s from two, four and six-particle cumulants is consistent with the STAR data, however, the magnitude of $v_2$ in the UrQMD model is only 60% of the data. We find that the four and six-particle cumulants are good measures of the real elliptic flow over a wide range of centralities except for the most central and very peripheral events. There the cumulant method is affected by the $v_2$ fluctuations. In mid-central collisions, the four and six-particle cumulants are shown to give a good estimation of the true differential $v_2$, especially at large transverse momentum, where the two-particle cumulant method is heavily affected by the non-flow effects.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, revtex 4; The discussion on the non-flow effects is extended, a new figure (Fig.3) on v2-eccentricity correlation is added, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C
The Response of European Energy Prices to ECB Monetary Policy
Creators: name: Torró, Hipòlit
name: Torró, Hipòlit
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Brent
subject: Monetary Policy
subject: European Central Bank
subject: Energy Commodities

description: To our knowledge, this paper is the first to discuss the response of European energy commodity prices to unexpected monetary policy surprises from the European Central Bank. Using the Rigobon (2003) identification through heteroscedasticity method, we find a significant and positive response during the crisis period for Brent and coal. Similar results are obtained by other authors for European financial assets in this period. This result reinforces the idea that during this period, financial assets and some commodities positively responded to conventional and unconventional expansionary monetary policy measures, increasing confidence about the survival of the European monetary union. The remaining European energy commodities (electricity, EUAs, and natural gas prices) seem to be unaffected by monetary policy actions. We think these results are of interest to those economic agents and institutions involved in European energy markets and are especially important for the European Central Bank in order to predict the consequences of its monetary policy on the inflation objective.
The Asterisk After Freedom
Creators: name: Harris, Jessica E.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Asterisk After Freedom is a collection of 30 poems that begin with grief and end with a voice calling out to a generation who witnessed much sorrow and change. The work is heavily influenced by June Jordan's 'Poem About My Rights" and the Black Girl Magic Anthology. It examines the assault on the Black body being narrated from the psyche. The central metaphor of the book is a question waiting for answers and is related to the resilience and beauty--despite the systemic legacy of hatred and racism--which provide content for the collection.
Exciton effects in a scaling theory of intermediate valence and Kondo systems
Creators: name: Irkhin, V. Yu.
name: Katsnelson, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An interplay of the Kondo scattering and exciton effects (d-f Coulomb interaction) in the intermediate valence systems and Kondo lattices is demonstrated to lead to an essential change of the scaling behavior in comparison with the standard Anderson model. In particular, a marginal regime can occur where characteristic fluctuation rate is proportional to flow cutoff parameter. In this regime the "Kondo temperature" itself is strongly temperature dependent which may give a key to the interpretation of controversial experimental data for heavy fermion and related systems.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
The Changing Role of Natural Gas in Nigeria
Creators: name: Occhiali, Giovanni
name: Falchetta, Giacomo
name: Occhiali, Giovanni
name: Falchetta, Giacomo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Nigeria
subject: Natural Gas
subject: Domestic Energy Development
subject: Government Policy
subject: Resource Governance

description: Nigeria is richly endowed with energy resources, and the Government has been making large profits from their export. However, windfall revenues have also been affecting the Government’s responsiveness and accountability towards the people and they have brought it into collusive relationship with international oil and gas companies operating in the country. A skewed distribution of petroleum resources costs and benefits, as well as the dependence on exports exposing the public finances to volatility in the international markets have represented further major issues. As a result, energy access and power generation still represent urgent issues for action in the country. Solid biomass accounts for 74% of the primary energy consumption, while the electrification rate stands at 34% in rural areas. Active power plants are mainly gas-fired, but they face capacity, maintenance, and financial constraints. While historically natural gas has been disregarded or flared into the atmosphere because it was considered a by-product of oil due to lacking market conditions and processing capacity, today the development of a domestic market for natural gas is seen as a key priority to guarantee energy security and boost industrial development in Nigeria. A more efficient and equitable governance of the sector and management of export revenues can play a major role in this sense. In this context, this paper highlights the main current issues and underpins key policy conditions for this transition to take place in Nigeria.
title: Kinetics and mechanisms of solid-state phase transitions and reactions
Creators: name: Purser-Hallard, Beatrice
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2005

description: The phase transition of C,a- to ^p-ferrosilicon has been studied, both with and without a doping of 1% aluminium, at high temperature by time-resolved simultaneous X-ray powder diffraction and iron K-edge EXAFS at four temperatures, and also by high temperature time-resolved Mossbauer spectroscopy at two temperatures. The extent of the phase transition and its evolution with time has been determined using a novel method. The results have been analysed in terms of theories of solid state kinetics. Some tentative conclusions for the mechanism of the phase transition have been drawn. Approximate values for the activation energy of the phase transitions, with and without 1% aluminium doping, have been derived. The structures of the phases, with and without 1% aluminium doping, have been examined by techniques including X-ray powder diffraction, Fe K-edge EXAFS and Si K-edge EXAFS and Mossbauer spectroscopy, in order to gain insight on how the presence of the dopant might affect the phase transition.

The formation of mullite from precursors formed by the hydrothermal processing of aluminium- and silicon-acetates, both undoped and with the inclusion of iron and vanadium dopants, has been investigated using flat-plate room temperature X-ray powder diffraction of samples heated at a variety of temperatures and for different durations of time. The structures of the precursors and the mullite formed have been examined by techniques including X-ray powder diffraction, Fe K-edge EXAFS, Mossbauer spectroscopy and MAS NMR. The formation of 5% iron-doped mullite from a precursor formed by the hydrothermal processing of aluminium-, silicon- and iron acetates has also been monitored by time-resolved X-ray powder diffraction.
The Asterisk After Freedom
Creators: name: Harris, Jessica E.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: The Asterisk After Freedom is a collection of 30 poems that begin with grief and end with a voice calling out to a generation who witnessed much sorrow and change. The work is heavily influenced by June Jordan's 'Poem About My Rights" and the Black Girl Magic Anthology. It examines the assault on the Black body being narrated from the psyche. The central metaphor of the book is a question waiting for answers and is related to the resilience and beauty--despite the systemic legacy of hatred and racism--which provide content for the collection.
Prison Choirs and Choirs for Those Experiencing Homelessness: Landscape and Social Justice Impact in the United States
Creators: name: Goodwin, Sarah
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3603
subject: Music

description: This study provides an overview of prison choirs and choirs for those experiencing homelessness in the United States: where these types of groups exist, defining the work they’re doing with the populations mentioned, and identifying both the best practices and major challenges these types of groups face. Additionally, this study discusses the impact these types of groups have had on their members and surrounding communities in the following areas: social justice, education, and health and rehabilitation. This study began with a comprehensive literature review focused on social capital development in choirs. The fieldwork first identified choirs by tracking online presence and includes interviews with directors of both prison choirs and choirs for those experiencing homelessness. Overall, the work of these two types of choirs contribute to the area of social justice through community cohesion, community building and empowerment, and political activation.
Policing Black autistic children: A qualitative approach to understanding Black caregivers' concerns.
Creators: name: Lee, Amanda
name: Russell, Alison
name: King-Pointer, Ayana
name: Yates Flanagan, Ashlee
name: Yu, Naomi
name: Pelella, Maggie Rose
name: Owens, Jamiel
name: Cola, Meredith
name: Turnacioglu, Sinan
name: Ravindran, Vijay
name: Truong, Dieu M
name: Pacheco, Juan
name: Covello, Maxine
name: Lyons, Meg
name: Parish-Morris, Julia
name: Hauptmann, Aili
name: Hicks, Grace
name: Peele, Haley
name: McCleery, Joseph P
name: Miller, Judith S
name: Dicette, Keeana
name: Solórzano, Rita
name: Schillinger, Sarah
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2024

description:
LAY ABSTRACT: In the United States, Black autistic youth face elevated risk of negative outcomes during police interactions. Although the outcomes of these interactions are well-documented, less is known about Black autistic youths' experiences during police encounters, as the current literature has largely examined the experiences of autistic adults, mostly White American samples, and/or autistic youth abroad. This study utilizes qualitative methods to examine the perceptions and concerns of 43 Black caregivers (N = 43; 98% parents; 2% legal guardians; 93% mothers) of Black autistic children (mean age: 16.5; 79% male) regarding police interactions with their autistic children. Through phenomenological analysis, four dominant themes emerged: concerns regarding the Quality of police officers' training, children's Autistic behaviors being inappropriately policed, the explicit Threat of harm and murder, and the hope for Mindful Policing. These findings demonstrate that caregivers' perceptions of police behavior are inextricably linked to their concerns about the quality of police officers' training. This study highlights (1) the importance of including racially and ethnically diverse individuals in research exploring autistic individuals' police interactions, (2) the need for culturally responsive and neuro-affirming adaptations to existing policing interventions designed for autistic people, and (3) the urgency of integrating Black caregivers' concerns into law enforcement training efforts.
Prison Choirs and Choirs for Those Experiencing Homelessness: Landscape and Social Justice Impact in the United States
Creators: name: Goodwin, Sarah
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study provides an overview of prison choirs and choirs for those experiencing homelessness in the United States: where these types of groups exist, defining the work they’re doing with the populations mentioned, and identifying both the best practices and major challenges these types of groups face. Additionally, this study discusses the impact these types of groups have had on their members and surrounding communities in the following areas: social justice, education, and health and rehabilitation. This study began with a comprehensive literature review focused on social capital development in choirs. The fieldwork first identified choirs by tracking online presence and includes interviews with directors of both prison choirs and choirs for those experiencing homelessness. Overall, the work of these two types of choirs contribute to the area of social justice through community cohesion, community building and empowerment, and political activation.
On the relation between non-commutative field theories at theta = infinity and large N matrix field theories
Creators: name: Bietenholz, Wolfgang
name: Hofheinz, Frank
name: Nishimura, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well-known that non-commutative (NC) field theories at theta = infinity are ``equivalent'' to large N matrix field theories to all orders in perturbation theory, due to the dominance of planar diagrams. By formulating a NC field theory on the lattice non-perturbatively and mapping it onto a twisted reduced model, we point out that the above equivalence does not hold if the translational symmetry of the NC field theory is broken spontaneously. As an example we discuss NC scalar field theory, where such a spontaneous symmetry breakdown has been confirmed by Monte Carlo simulations.
description: 12 pages, LaTeX
Redefining Domesticity: Francesca Woodman's "House" Series and the Politics of Feminism
Creators: name: Matthews, Anna
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) was an American photographer who produced the bulk of her work while she was a student at Rhode Island School of Design from 1975-1978. Her oeuvre is defined by the use of the nude female body (often herself) as a subject. Woodman’s use of her own body as the subject of her work has led scholars to analyze the photographs most often through the lends of self-portraiture. By contrast, this thesis offers a new reading of Woodman’s “House” series (1976) through the lens of craft culture, which is evoked by the architecture depicted in the series and the artist’s own approach to photography. In the “House” photographs, which are small black and white gelatin prints, Woodman is engaged with the architectural material and detritus scattered about. Her engagement within the surrounding prompts viewers to foreground and account for her setting. In this thesis, I argue that the “House” photographs represent the home as a site of creativity. In the midst of the feminist movement, activists and artists had understandably targeted the home as a site of female oppression. But Woodman, who was deeply vested in Victorian culture, saw it as a respite from the messy politics of the public sphere. By positing the home as a site of creativity she was able to assert photography’s status as such, too. While many photographers at this time used photography to document works in other media, Woodman saw it as a craft unto itself.