cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Strange metals and the AdS/CFT correspondence
Creators: name: Sachdev, Subir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I begin with a review of quantum impurity models in condensed matter physics, in which a localized spin degree of freedom is coupled to an interacting conformal field theory in d = 2 spatial dimensions. Their properties are similar to those of supersymmetric generalizations which can be solved by the AdS/CFT correspondence; the low energy limit of the latter models is described by a AdS2 geometry. Then I turn to Kondo lattice models, which can be described by a mean- field theory obtained by a mapping to a quantum impurity coupled to a self-consistent environment. Such a theory yields a 'fractionalized Fermi liquid' phase of conduction electrons coupled to a critical spin liquid state, and is an attractive mean-field theory of strange metals. The recent holographic description of strange metals with a AdS2 x R2 geometry is argued to be related to such mean-field solutions of Kondo lattice models.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures; Plenary talk at Statphys24, Cairns, Australia, July 2010; (v2) added refs; (v3) more refs
Selective Constraints on Amino Acids Estimated by a Mechanistic Codon Substitution Model with Multiple Nucleotide Changes
Creators: name: Miyazawa, Sanzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Empirical substitution matrices represent the average tendencies of substitutions over various protein families by sacrificing gene-level resolution. We develop a codon-based model, in which mutational tendencies of codon, a genetic code, and the strength of selective constraints against amino acid replacements can be tailored to a given gene. First, selective constraints averaged over proteins are estimated by maximizing the likelihood of each 1-PAM matrix of empirical amino acid (JTT, WAG, and LG) and codon (KHG) substitution matrices. Then, selective constraints specific to given proteins are approximated as a linear function of those estimated from the empirical substitution matrices. Akaike information criterion (AIC) values indicate that a model allowing multiple nucleotide changes fits the empirical substitution matrices significantly better. Also, the ML estimates of transition-transversion bias obtained from these empirical matrices are not so large as previously estimated. The selective constraints are characteristic of proteins rather than species. However, their relative strengths among amino acid pairs can be approximated not to depend very much on protein families but amino acid pairs, because the present model, in which selective constraints are approximated to be a linear function of those estimated from the JTT/WAG/LG/KHG matrices, can provide a good fit to other empirical substitution matrices including cpREV for chloroplast proteins and mtREV for vertebrate mitochondrial proteins. The present codon-based model with the ML estimates of selective constraints and with adjustable mutation rates of nucleotide would be useful as a simple substitution model in ML and Bayesian inferences of molecular phylogenetic trees, and enables us to obtain biologically meaningful information at both nucleotide and amino acid levels from codon and protein sequences.
description: Table 9 in this article includes corrections for errata in the Table 9 published in 10.1371/journal.pone.0017244. Supporting information is attached at the end of the article, and a computer-readable dataset of the ML estimates of selective constraints is available from 10.1371/journal.pone.0017244
Teachers beliefs about student learning-A look at the role of culture on class room practices-19-Nov-201911-11-021.pdf
Creators: name: Aglazor, Genevieve
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education

description: The role of teachers has evolved from a religious-based regimented job requiring no more than high school, GCE, or qualifications to one that operates at the intersection of research, policy, and practice. Teaching is now understood as a social, ideological, and political practice requiring knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and skills necessary to demonstrate global best practices. Using a case study of selected school teachers in Cross River State Nigeria. This paper looks at the confluence of teacher beliefs as informed by culture and how these beliefs drive classroom practice. A combination of observation and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data which was phenomenologically analyzed
A Causal Net Approach to Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Bateson, R. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we discuss a causal network approach to describing relativistic quantum mechanics. Each vertex on the causal net represents a possible point event or particle observation. By constructing the simplest causal net based on Reichenbach-like conjunctive forks in proper time we can exactly derive the 1+1 dimension Dirac equation for a relativistic fermion and correctly model quantum mechanical statistics. Symmetries of the net provide various quantum mechanical effects such as quantum uncertainty and wavefunction, phase, spin, negative energy states and the effect of a potential. The causal net can be embedded in 3+1 dimensions and is consistent with the conventional Dirac equation. In the low velocity limit the causal net approximates to the Schrodinger equation and Pauli equation for an electromagnetic field. Extending to different momentum states the net is compatible with the Feynman path integral approach to quantum mechanics that allows calculation of well known quantum phenomena such as diffraction.
description: Typo corrected version of R D Bateson 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 361 012009
Additional file 1 of Rapid single cell evaluation of human disease and disorder targets using REVEAL: SingleCell™
Creators: name: Namit Kumar
name: Golhar, Ryan
name: Kriti Sen Sharma
name: Holloway, James L.
name: Srikant Sarangi
name: Neuhaus, Isaac
name: Walsh, Alice M.
name: Pitluk, Zachary W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Additional file 1 of Individual responsiveness of macrophage migration inhibitory factor predicts long-term cognitive impairment after bacterial meningitis
Creators: name: Kloek, Anne T.
name: Seron, Mercedes Valls
name: Schmand, Ben
name: Tanck, Michael W. T.
name: Ende, Arie Van Der
name: Brouwer, Matthijs C.
name: Beek, Diederik Van De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1 Suplementary material.
Additional file 2 of Improving pharmacy practice in relation to complementary medicines: a qualitative study evaluating the acceptability and feasibility of a new ethical framework in Australia
Creators: name: Popattia, Amber Salman
name: Hattingh, Laetitia
name: Caze, Adam La
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Discussion prompts. The discussion prompts used to facilitate discussion in the focus groups and interviews.
Theoretical Support for the Hydrodynamic Mechanism of Pulsar Kicks
Creators: name: Nordhaus, J.
name: Brandt, T. D.
name: Burrows, A.
name: Livne, E.
name: Ott, C. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The collapse of a massive star's core, followed by a neutrino-driven, asymmetric supernova explosion, can naturally lead to pulsar recoils and neutron star kicks. Here, we present a two-dimensional, radiation-hydrodynamic simulation in which core collapse leads to significant acceleration of a fully-formed, nascent neutron star (NS) via an induced, neutrino-driven explosion. During the explosion, a ~10% anisotropy in the low-mass, high-velocity ejecta lead to recoil of the high-mass neutron star. At the end of our simulation, the NS has achieved a velocity of ~150 km s$^{-1}$ and is accelerating at ~350 km s$^{-2}$, but has yet to reach the ballistic regime. The recoil is due almost entirely to hydrodynamical processes, with anisotropic neutrino emission contributing less than 2% to the overall kick magnitude. Since the observed distribution of neutron star kick velocities peaks at ~300-400 km s$^{-1}$, recoil due to anisotropic core-collapse supernovae provides a natural, non-exotic mechanism with which to obtain neutron star kicks.
description: Replaced with Phys. Rev. D accepted version
Application of arrangement theory to unfolding models
Creators: name: Kamiya, Hidehiko
name: Takemura, Akimichi
name: Tokushige, Norihide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32S22, 52C35, 62F07

description: Arrangement theory plays an essential role in the study of the unfolding model used in many fields. This paper describes how arrangement theory can be usefully employed in solving the problems of counting (i) the number of admissible rankings in an unfolding model and (ii) the number of ranking patterns generated by unfolding models. The paper is mostly expository but also contains some new results such as simple upper and lower bounds for the number of ranking patterns in the unidimensional case.
Recursive combinatorial constructions and rigidity of frameworks
Creators: name: Hewetson, John
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2023

description: We present a study of combinatorial constructions that are related to understanding the structure of bar-joint frameworks. The primary objects of study in Chapters 2 and 3 of this thesis are connected (k, l)-sparsity matroids. Taking inspiration from [22], where connected (2, 3)-sparsity matroids are considered, we provide a method of constructing graphs with a connected (2, 2)-sparsity matroid. Throughout these chapters we work in as a purely combinatorial a setting as is practical, minimising invocations to theoretic machinery involving frameworks. In Chapter 4 we show that the aforementioned method of construction is pertinent to characterising globally rigid frameworks in two-dimensional spaces endowed with non-Euclidean norms. This “natural avenue of research” [8, p.181] builds on the characterisation of rigid graphs in such spaces by Dewar. However, when compared to Dewar’s characterisation, we make use of an additional constraint in order to link these combinatorial methods to the structure of frameworks in these spaces. Specifically, we demand that the norms we consider are analytic. We then turn our attention, in Chapter 5, away from (k, l)-sparsity matroids and towards labelled graphs. More precisely, we provide a method of constructing a family of labelled graphs designed to satisfy sparsity conditions relevant to the rigidity of frameworks realised on not necessarily concentric spheres. A precise connection between this family of graphs this notion of rigidity is not provided. Such a description would extend work characterising rigid frameworks on concentric spheres [32], [33]. To conclude there is a short chapter suggesting ways this research may be built upon.
Decomposition numbers for Hecke algebras of type $G(r,p,n)$: the $(ε,q)$-separated case
Creators: name: Hu, Jun
name: Mathas, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20C08, 20C30

description: The paper studies the modular representation theory of the cyclotomic Hecke algebras of type $G(r,p,n)$ with $(\eps,q)$-separated parameters. We show that the decomposition numbers of these algebras are completely determined by the decomposition matrices of related cyclotomic Hecke algebras of type $G(s,1,m)$, where $1\le s\le r$ and $1\le m\le n$. Furthermore, the proof gives an explicit algorithm for computing these decomposition numbers. Consequently, in principle, the decomposition matrices of these algebras are now known in characteristic zero. In proving these results, we develop a Specht module theory for these algebras, explicitly construct their simple modules and introduce and study analogues of the cyclotomic Schur algebras of type $G(r,p,n)$ when the parameters are $(\eps,q)$-separated. The main results of the paper rest upon two Morita equivalences: the first reduces the calculation of all decomposition numbers to the case of the \textit{$l$-splittable decomposition numbers} and the second Morita equivalence allows us to compute these decomposition numbers using an analogue of the cyclotomic Schur algebras for the Hecke algebras of type $G(r,p,n)$.
description: Final version
Terahertz microjets for spectroscopy on the subwavelength scale
Creators: name: Mitchell, Michael Eric
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Terahertz radiation, given its unique location in the electromagnetic spectrum between radio-frequency and infrared radiation, has been highly regarded for its potential of non-invasive spectroscopy. The long wavelengths and low photon energies of terahertz radiation allow for the measurement of the rotational and vibrational modes of cellular tissue without damaging the cells themselves. However, the long wavelengths inherent to THz radiation restrict the focal spot sizes and therefore limit the size of samples that can be analyzed with THz spectroscopy systems. Spatial resolution has been a long-standing issue for THz spectroscopy systems, especially for the long wavelengths of the low frequency (0.3-to-0.7) THz band, being the focus of this thesis. The thesis highlights the validity, through theoretical and experimental testing, of using dielectric spheres to focus THz radiation to a scale that improves the spatial resolution of conventional THz spectroscopy systems. The dielectric spheres focus the THz radiation into so-called “THz microjets”, which can achieve subwavelength focusing over a broad-bandwidth. A complete optimization of the dielectric sphere, both in terms of size and material parameters, is undertaken. Optimal dielectric spheres are then manufactured out of custom THz microcomposite materials and experimentally characterized in terms of the focusing performance. Finally, the dielectric spheres are demonstrated in a spectroscopic application to show the improvement in resolution.
Additional file 1 of Isolation and characterisation of Methylocystis spp. for poly-3-hydroxybutyrate production using waste methane feedstocks
Creators: name: Rumah, Bashir L.
name: Stead, Christopher E.
name: Stevens, Benedict H. Claxton
name: Minton, Nigel P.
name: Grosse-Honebrink, Alexander
name: Zhang, Ying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary information providing additional methods and results. Methods and results include: Bacterial strains and plasmid used in this study (Table S1); Method and result for next generation sequencing analysis; Rebase analysis of restriction patterns (Figure S1 and Table S2); Comparison of genes shared by isolates (Table S3); Method of Phase Contrast and Transmission Electron Microscopy; Method of phylogenetic tree analysis and whole genome alignment; Growth on different nitrogen sources (Figure S2); Siloxane composition of AD gases (Table S4); Method of preliminary PHB accumulation assay.
Papio ursinus approach behaviour ethogram, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Creators: name: Muschinski, Jana
name: Carvalho, Susana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: baboon
ethogram
greeting
approach behaviour

description: These files include ethograms used to collect behavioural data on approach interactions from video recordings of baboons filmed in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. For more information, see README file. 
Suggested citation in BibTex format: 
@manual{Muschinski2022,  title        = "\textit{Papio ursinus} approach behaviour ethogram, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique ",  author       = "Muschinski, Jana and Carvalho, Susana",  organization = "Paleo-Primate Project, Gorongosa National Park",  address      = "Gorongosa National Park, Sofala, Mozambique",  edition      = "2",  month        = "12",  year         = "2023",  note         = "Ethogram used for data collection on approach behaviour in chacma baboons",  doi           = "10.5281/zenodo.10339136"}
description: Organization: Paleo-Primate Project, Gorongosa National Park
Notes on cardinals that are characterizable by a complete (Scott) sentence
Creators: name: Souldatos, Ioannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03C75, 03C30, 03C35, 03E10, 03E75

description: This is part I of a study on cardinals that are characterizable by Scott sentences. Building on [3], [6] and [1] we study which cardinals are characterizable by a Scott sentence $ϕ$, in the sense that $ϕ$ characterizes $κ$, if $ϕ$ has a model of size $κ$, but no models of size $κ^+$. We show that the set of cardinals that are characterized by a Scott sentence is closed under successors, countable unions and countable products (cf. theorems 2.3, 3.4, and corollary 3.6). We also prove that if $\aleph_α$ is characterized by a Scott sentence, at least one of $\aleph_alpha$ and $\aleph_alpha^+$ is homogeneously characterizable (cf. definition 1.3 and theorem 2.9). Based on Shelah's [8], we give counterexamples that characterizable cardinals are not closed under predecessors, or cofinalities.
description: Version 2 replaces version 1 of the same paper (with the same title), but version 2 contains only half of the content of version 1. The second half of version 1 will be posted by itself
Papio ursinus approach behaviour ethogram, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Creators: name: Muschinski, Jana
name: Carvalho, Susana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: baboon
ethogram
greeting
approach behaviour

description: These files include ethograms used to collect behavioural data on approach interactions from video recordings of baboons filmed in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. For more information, see README file. Suggested citation in BibTex format: @manual{Muschinski2022,
 title = "\textit{Papio ursinus} approach behaviour ethogram, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique ",
 author = "Muschinski, Jana and Carvalho, Susana",
 organization = "Paleo-Primate Project, Gorongosa National Park",
 address = "Gorongosa National Park, Sofala, Mozambique",
 edition = "1",
 month = "11",
 year = "2022",
 note = "Ethogram used for data collection on approach behaviour in chacma baboons",
 doi = "10.5281/zenodo.7314291"
 }
description: Organization: Paleo-Primate Project, Gorongosa National Park
title: Populism at the Limits of Democracy: The Case of Turkey
Creators: name: Tascioglu, Irem
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2022

description: Populism’s polemical nature makes it susceptible to negative and positive attributions, based on the interpreter’s stance with regards to the question of liberalism and democracy. The problem in both pejorative and emancipatory readings of populism lies in presupposing the ‘liberal’ and ‘democratic’ pillars as separate, contradictory or, at best, ‘paradoxically combined’. The theoretical departure point of this thesis is that liberalism cannot be strictly separated from democracy, as both rely on and presuppose the modern imaginary of ‘the people’ and popular sovereignty. This thesis argues that populism shares this imaginary with liberalism and democracy, but contains a more expansive agenda aimed at ‘stretching’ the limits imposed by the representative and constitutional dimensions of liberal democracies. To contextualise and substantiate this perspective on populism, this thesis deploys the Gramscian concept of passive revolution to critically analyse the trajectory of populism in Turkey, specifically in terms of the Justice and Development Party (AKP)’s policies and discourse in the period before and after the 2010 Constitutional Referendum. The thesis argues that the concept of passive revolution makes possible a contextual analysis that not only fits the Turkish case historically but complicates the question of populism’s relation with liberal democracy. Turkey’s recent political history offers a unique and controversial testing ground for a novel interpretation of populism, especially insofar as it exceeds the normatively-infused Western imaginary linking together populism, liberalism and democracy. Bridging the historically-sensitive analytical framework of passive revolution and a strictly theoretical understanding of populism as an internal periphery of democracy, this thesis seeks to elucidate the intricate ways in which populism plays itself out in the context of the AKP’s rule in Turkey, specifically focusing on the AKP’s antagonistic use of the ‘empty-signifier’ of the coup, first in the 2010 Constitutional Referendum and later in the political trials against the junta that had ruled over Turkey in the early 1980s.  These two cases reveal the AKP’s populist constitutional and legal politics but also mark a particular moment in the continuum of populist expansionism, which paradoxically unfolds through the rhetoric of upholding the ‘rule of law’.
d-Wave superconductivity on the checkerboard Hubbard model at weak and strong coupling
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Shiladitya
name: Sénéchal, David
name: Tremblay, A. -M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been argued that inhomogeneity generally can enhance superconductivity in the cuprate high-Tc materials. To check the validity of this claim, we study d-wave superconductivity on the checkerboard Hubbard model on a square lattice using the Cellular Dynamical Mean Field theory method with an exact diagonalization solver at zero temperature. The d-wave order parameter is computed for various inhomogeneity levels over the entire doping range of interest in both strong and weak coupling regimes. At a given doping, the size of the d-wave order parameter manifests itself directly in the height of the coherence peaks and hence is an appropriate measure of the strength of superconductivity. The weak coupling results reveal a suppression of the order parameter in the presence of inhomogeneity for small to intermediate hole dopings, while it is enhanced for large dopings. In contrast, for strong coupling there is a monotonic decrease in the maximum amplitude of the superconducting order parameter with inhomogeneity over the entire doping range of interest. Furthermore, at moderately high inhomogeneity, the system undergoes a first-order transition from the superconducting to the normal state in the underdoped regime. In the overdoped regime, the change in the value of the superconducting order parameter correlates with the height of the lowest energy peak in the spectral weight of antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations, confirming the connection between antiferromagnetic fluctuations and d-wave superconductivity found in earlier studies on the homogeneous case. Our results are benchmarked by comparisons with numerically exact results on the checkerboard Hubbard ladder.
description: Expanded version includes results on checkerboard Hubbard ladder: 10 pages, 12 figures
Dynamical Evolution of an Unstable Gravastar with Zero Mass
Creators: name: Chan, R.
name: da Silva, M. F. A.
name: da Rocha, Jaime F. Villas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the conventional gravastar model, that is, an object constituted by two components where one of them is a massive infinitely thin shell and the other one is a de Sitter interior spacetime, we physically interpret a solution characterized by a zero Schwarzschild mass. No stable gravastar is formed and it collapses without forming an event horizon, originating what we call a massive non-gravitational object. The most surprise here is that the collapse occurs with an exterior de Sitter vacuum spacetime. This creates an object which does not interact gravitationally with an outside test particle and it may evolve to a point-like topological defect.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures, to appear in Astrophysics and Space Science
Additional file 1 of Low birth weight trends in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, 2000–2015: economic, health system and demographic conditionings
Creators: name: Erasun, Diego
name: Alonso-Molero, Jéssica
name: Gómez-Acebo, Inés
name: Dierssen-Sotos, Trinidad
name: Llorca, Javier
name: Schneider, José
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. List of countries in the OECD and region assigned for the purpose of this paper.
Ramification correspondence of finite flat group schemes over equal and mixed characteristic local fields
Creators: name: Hattori, Shin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11S15

description: Let p>2 be a rational prime, k be a perfect field of characteristic p and K be a finite totally ramified extension of the fractional field of the Witt ring of k. Let G and H be finite flat commutative group schemes killed by p over O_K and k[[u]], respectively. In this paper, we show the upper and the lower ramification subgroups of G and H in the sense of Abbes-Saito are naturally isomorphic to each other when they are associated to the same Kisin module.
description: 22 pages; refereed version; Lemma 4.2 corrected; proof of Proposition 4.4 simplified; Remark 4.7 added; other minor revisions
Reproductive justice and abolition : an intersectional analysis of sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) in the Canadian carceral system
Creators: name: Stanley, Hannah
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Abolition and abolitionist movements have the ability to address the dismantling of multiple oppressive structures and institutions, including slavery, policing, prisons, detention centres, and borders. The scope of this paper focusses on the prison and carceral aspects of abolition in an effort to provide an anti-colonial, intersectional analysis of Canadian prisons. In addition to a general intersectional analysis of the Canadian carceral system, this thesis specifically examines sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) violations in Canadian prisons and the lack of Reproductive Justice (RJ) for those who are incarcerated. This paper ultimately argues that if we take the meaning of intersectionality seriously, recognizing that colonial violence, criminalization and incarceration, and reproductive violence are interconnected and reinforcing forms of oppression, we understand that there can be no Reproductive Justice without abolition. Abolition is a crucial step in the fight for Reproductive Justice in Canada because the Canadian carceral system not only jeopardizes the self-governance and body sovereignty of individuals, but also the self-governance, self-determination and sovereignty of Indigenous peoples on their own territories, acting as a continuation of genocide. The Reproductive Justice framework and subsequent movement(s) can help us address SRHR in Canadian prisons from an intersectional standpoint. Dismantling the carceral system — a key “actor” in the settler state of Canada — is a crucial point on the path to intersectional, decolonial Reproductive Justice for all people.
A multidisciplinary approach to the comparison of three contrasting treatments on both lampenflora community and underlying rock surface
Creators: name: Addesso, Rosangela
name: Baldantoni, Daniela
name: Cubero, Beatriz
name: De La Rosa, José Maria
name: Pérez, José Antonio González
name: Tiago, Igor
name: Caldeira, Ana Teresa
name: De Waele, Jo
name: Miller, Ana Z.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Removing lampenflora, phototrophic organisms developing on rock surfaces in tourist cavities due to the artificial lighting, is a challenge for sustainable and appropriate long-term management of caves. Photosynthetic-based biofilms usually cause rock biodeterioration and an ecological imbalance in cave ecosystems. In this work, a detailed investigation of the effects of the 3 most commonly used lampenflora cleaning operations (NaClO, H2O2 and UVC) was carried out in Pertosa-Auletta Cave (Italy). The application of NaClO showed good disinfection capability over extended periods of time without causing any appreciable rock deterioration. The H2O2 treatment showed to be corrosive for the rock surfaces covered with vermiculation deposits. The chemical alteration of organic and inorganic compounds by H2O2 did not remove biomass, favoring biofilm recovery after three months of treatment. Both NaClO and H2O2 treatments were effective at removing photoautotrophs, although the bacterial phyla Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes as well as Apicomplexa and Cercozoa among the Eukaryotes, were found to be resistant to these treatments. The UVC treatments did not show any noticeable effect on the biofilms.
Bianchi type I cyclic cosmology from Lie-algebraically deformed phase space
Creators: name: Vakili, Babak
name: Khosravi, Nima
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of noncommutativity, in the form of a Lie-algebraically deformed Poisson commutation relations, on the evolution of a Bianchi type I cosmological model with a positive cosmological constant. The phase space variables turn out to correspond to the scale factors of this model in $x$, $y$ and $z$ directions. According to the conditions that the structure constants (deformation parameters) should satisfy, we argue that there are two types of noncommutative phase space with Lie-algebraic structure. The exact classical solutions in commutative and type I noncommutative cases are presented. In the framework of this type of deformed phase space, we investigate the possibility of building a Bianchi I model with cyclic scale factors in which the size of the universe in each direction experiences an endless sequence of contractions and re-expansions. We also obtain some approximate solutions for the type II noncommutative structure by numerical methods and show that the cyclic behavior is repeated as well. These results are compared with the standard commutative case, and similarities and differences of these solutions are discussed.
description: 13 pages, to appear in PRD, typos corrected, Refs. added
One-photon decay of the tetraquark state $X(3872) \to γ+ J/ψ$ in a relativistic constituent quark model with infrared confinement
Creators: name: Dubnicka, Stanislav
name: Dubnickova, Anna Z.
name: Ivanov, Mikhail A.
name: Korner, Jurgen G.
name: Santorelli, Pietro
name: Saidullaeva, Gozyal G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We further explore the consequences of treating the X(3872) meson as a tetraquark bound state by analyzing its one-photon decay X => γ+ J/psi in the framework of our approach developed in previous papers which incorporates quark confinement in an effective way. To introduce electromagnetism we gauge a nonlocal effective Lagrangian describing the interaction of the X(3872) meson with its four constituent quarks by using the P-exponential path-independent formalism. We calculate the matrix element of the transition X => γ+ J/psi and prove its gauge invariance. We evaluate the X=> γ+ J/psi decay width and the longitudinal/transverse composition of the J/psi in this decay. For a reasonable value of the size parameter of the X(3872) meson we find consistency with the available experimental data. We also calculate the helicity and multipole amplitudes of the process, and describe how they can be obtained from the covariant transition amplitude by covariant projection.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures. Typos corrected, version matching the one published in PRD
Bioprospecting of aqueous phase from pyrolysis of plant waste residues to disrupt MRSA biofilms
Creators: name: Krishnan, Srividhya
name: Sivaraman, Subramaniyasharma
name: Jothipandiyan, Sowndarya
name: Venkatachalam, Ponnusami
name: Shanmugam, Saravanan Ramiah
name: Paramasivam, Nithyanand
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections have increased at an alarming rate, recently. In India, stubble burning and air pollution due to the burning of agricultural and forest residues have also increased over the past decade causing environmental and health hazards. This work evaluates the anti-biofilm property of the aqueous phase obtained from pyrolysis of wheat straw (WS AQ) and pine cone (PC AQ) against an MRSA isolate. The WS AQ and PC AQ compositions were determined by GC-MS analysis. The minimum inhibitory concentration was found to be 8% (v v−1) and 5% (v v−1) for WS AQ and PC AQ, respectively. The eradication of biofilms was performed on hospital contact surfaces namely, stainless steel and polypropylene and found to be 51% and 52% for WS AQ and PC AQ, respectively. Compounds identified from the aqueous phase of WS and PC docked against AgrA protein showed good binding scores.
Secondary instability of electromagnetic ion-temperature-gradient modes for zonal flow generation
Creators: name: Anderson, Johan
name: Nordman, Hans
name: Singh, Rameswar
name: Singh, Raghvendra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analytical model for zonal flow generation by toroidal ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) modes, including finite $β$ electromagnetic effects, is derived. The derivation is based on a fluid model for ions and electrons and takes into account both linear and nonlinear $β$ effects. The influence of finite plasma $β$ on the zonal flow growth rate ($γ_{ZF}$) scaling is investigated for typical tokamak plasma parameters. The results show the importance of the zonal flows close to marginal stability where $γ_{ZF}/γ_{ITG}>>1$ is obtained. In this region the parameter $γ_{ZF}/γ_{ITG}$ increases with $β$, indicating that the ITG turbulence and associated transport would decrease with $β$ at a faster rate than expected from a purely linear or quasi-linear analysis.
description: RevTex 17 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Physics of Plasmas
Mixed-music theory and the Philosophy of Language
Creators: name: Danieli, Luca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: music theory, experimental music, mixed-music, philosophy of language, spatial cadence, mimesis

description: Music theory has to reinvent itself. Century-long paradigms have to be revisited, and recent terminologies and concepts coming from other fields of music have to find room within the traditional frameworks, particularly in connection with electronic music. In this work, I make an attempt at depicting a framework that might turn useful to further advancements in music theory, by representing the relation between electroacoustic and traditional musics within a scenario dominated by the Philosophy of Language. The Philosophy of Language is herein proposed as a possible philosophical asset to counterbalance some limits of Phenomenology, which has dominated the field of electroacoustic music since its appearance. Within this scenario, the work suggests the notions of "mimesis" and "cadence" as two valid terms to help creating a common ground between the two genres, discussing them in detail and proposing new interpretations for both concepts.
Signals of the cosmological reionization in the radio sky through C and O fine structure lines
Creators: name: Kusakabe, Motohiko
name: Kawasaki, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the excitation of fine structure levels of C I, C II and O I by ultraviolet (UV) photons around strong UV sources which are also ionizing sources of the cosmological reionization at redshift of $\sim 10$. The evolutions of ionized regions around a point source are calculated by solving rate equations for non-equilibrium chemistry. Signals of UV photons through the fine structure lines are considered to be stronger at locations of more abundant chemical species of C I, C II and O I. Such environments would be realized where strong fluxes of non-ionizing UV line photons available for the pumping up of fine structure levels exist, and simultaneously ionizing UV photons are effectively shielded by dense H I regions. Signals from H I regions of moderately large densities induced by redshifted UV photons emitted at the point sources are found to be dominantly large over those of others. We discuss the detectability of the signals, and show that signals from idealized environments will be possibly detected by radio observations with next-generation arrays to come after the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).
description: 23 pages, 21 figures, significant revisions in Secs. 2, 3, and 4, and Appendix, main conclusions unchanged, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Additional file 1 of Gastroesophageal reflux disease is a risk factor for sputum production in the general population: the Nagahama study
Creators: name: Morimoto, Chie
name: Matsumoto, Hisako
name: Nagasaki, Tadao
name: Kanemitsu, Yoshihiro
name: Ishiyama, Yumi
name: Sunadome, Hironobu
name: Oguma, Tsuyoshi
name: Ito, Isao
name: Murase, Kimihiko
name: Kawaguchi, Takahisa
name: Tabara, Yasuharu
name: Niimi, Akio
name: Muro, Shigeo
name: Matsuda, Fumihiko
name: Chin, Kazuo
name: Toyohiro Hirai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Frequency Scale for the Symptoms of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (FSSG) questionnaire (adapted from references [15, 16]). Table S2. Factors associated with sputum production at follow-up assessment: multivariable analysis.
Nanogel-based coating as an alternative strategy for biofilm control in drinking water distribution systems
Creators: name: Sójka, Olga
name: Keskin, Damla
name: van der Mei, Henny C.
name: van Rijn, Patrick
name: Gagliano, Maria Cristina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Biofilm formation and detachment in drinking water distribution systems (DWDS) can lead to several operational issues. Here, an alternative biofilm control strategy of limiting bacterial adhesion by application of a poly(N-isopropylmethacrylamide)-based nanogel coating on DWDS pipe walls was investigated. The nanogel coatings were successfully deposited on surfaces of four polymeric pipe materials commonly applied in DWDS construction. Nanogel-coated and non-coated pipe materials were characterized in terms of their surface hydrophilicity and roughness. Four DWDS relevant bacterial strains, representing Sphingomonas and Pseudomonas, were used to evaluate the anti-adhesive performance of the coating in 4 h adhesion and 24 h biofilm assays. The presence of the nanogel coating resulted in adhesion reduction up to 97%, and biofilm reduction up to 98%, compared to non-coated surfaces. These promising results motivate further investigation of nanogel coatings as a strategy for biofilm prevention in DWDS.
Coulomb Oscillations of Indium-doped ZnO Nanowire Transistors in a Magnetic Field
Creators: name: Xu, Xiulai
name: Irvine, Andrew C.
name: Yang, Yang
name: Zhang, Xitian
name: Williams, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the observation of Coulomb oscillations from localized quantum dots superimposed on the normal hopping current in ZnO nanowire transistors. The Coulomb oscillations can be resolved up to 20 K. Positive anisotropic magnetoresistance has been observed due to the Lorentz force on the carrier motion. Magnetic field-induced tunneling barrier transparency results in an increase of oscillation amplitude with increasing magnetic field. The energy shift as a function of magnetic field indicates electron wavefunction modification in the quantum dots.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures
Nashville State Community College Digitization and Accessibility Pilot
Creators: name: Ford, Deidre C.
name: Graham, Kashif A.
name: Lyons, Frances C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Digitization
Accessibility
Digital Preservation
Open Access
Equity
Diversity
Inclusion

description: The Nashville State Community College (NSCC) seeks $5,000 to embark on a digitization pilot project that will increase accessibility to library collections. The goal of this project is to digitize text materials with an emphasis on 508 compliance (Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act - 29 U.S.C. § 798.) The project aims to digitize 100 titles and the use of specialized technology to process and enhance materials to improve collection access for all users with a focus on the print-disabled community.
	The results derived from this project will inform future policy and assist with requirements on upcoming requests for proposal. Best practices and workflows developed during the pilot program will support future digitization initiatives at the NSCC libraries.
Digital diaries and documenting queer lives in social isolation during covid-19
Creators: name: Stehr, Rodney Epeli
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Background: Physical distancing measures implemented to address the spread of COVID-19 between 2020 and 2021 introduced challenges for accessing mental healthcare and social support for queer youth. COVID-19 disrupted the provision of mental healthcare, social support, and in-person approaches to qualitative research. Thus, there is a critical need to understand how queer youth’s experiences of mental health have been impacted by COVID-19 and the associated with pivoting from in-person to virtual data collection methods to study these impacts. Therefore, the objectives of this thesis are to: 1) Document my experiences pivoting from an in-person to virtual data collection methods, and 2) Identify how evolving experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic impact the mental health experiences of queer youth. Methods: Using a social constructivist framework, I thematically analyze digital diary entries and data from semi-structured interviews collected between November 2020 and June 2021 in Vancouver, Canada, from a sample (n=15) of queer youth recruited using purposeful and snowball sampling. Findings: The findings of this thesis describe how digital diary methods and remote semi-structured interviews provided opportunities for exploring unanticipated areas of inquiry and opportunities for participants previously experiencing barriers to in-person research. However, this approach also featured several limitations, including instances where poor internet connectivity resulted in Zoom calls being cut off multiple times and difficulty in maintaining private space during remote interviews where guardians interrupted interviews. Physical distancing measures had unintended negative effects on the mental health experiences of queer youth by interrupting processes of identity-development, isolating queer youth and leading them to rely on limited in-person social supports and introducing barriers to virtual mental health support for queer disabled youth. Conclusion: These findings show how combining remote interviewing and digital diary methods provide equity-enhancing opportunities for disabled and immunocompromised queer youth, how queer social capital plays an important role in queer youth’s ability to transition their mental healthcare and social lives online, and the necessity of accessibility being built-in at each point of virtual clinical care. Finally, they highlight how moralizing discourses around COVID-19 guideline compliance entrench existing mental health inequities by isolating them and subjecting them to discrimination.