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Understanding late antique top-down communication: a study of imperial constitutions

The genre of late antique law texts, “constitutions”, appears puzzling to the modern observer: contrary to our expectations of clarity and brevity, they are astoundingly voluminous, hiding away the actual legal core—which can be quite short—in a lengthy and elaborate text. They are composed in an accomplished style, and we actually know that their authorship was entrusted to some of the best contemporary literati. Thanks to a sophisticated system of transmission, these texts would reach each and every town in the area of their intended diffusion. Eagerly attended public readings as well as postings at well-frequented places (sometimes permanently as inscriptions) ensured that vast portions of the population would come to know their contents.
	These texts’ importance in Late Antiquity contrasts starkly with the current state of research. Nobody has investigated the full imperial constitutions as prime examples of late antique Kunstprosa, nor has much effort been put into appreciating the various subjects raised in their complex introductions. Their communicative role, spanning huge geographic as well as social distances from the very center of power to the remotest corners of the vast empire, has been tentatively interpreted by some scholars as “propaganda”, a simplistic explanation which fails to convince. Clearly, these extraordinary texts are in dire need of reassessment.
	This project has a twofold purpose: first, on the basis of the evidence from the full constitutions, it will yield the methodically most sophisticated study of top-down communication in Late Antiquity, embracing important conclusions and methods of modern communication theory. Second, in order to obtain reliable results, the full constitutions must be collected, sorted, verified, emended, and published anew. Both the resulting collection itself as well as the completely novel methodology employed to ensure its soundness will have a major impact on other research in Classics, Law, and beyond.
What's Up with the Phillips Curve?

U.S. inflation used to rise during economic booms, as businesses charged higher prices to cope with increases in wages and other costs. When the economy cooled and joblessness rose, inflation declined. This pattern changed around 1990. Since then, U.S. inflation has been remarkably stable, even though economic activity and unemployment have continued to fluctuate. For example, during the Great Recession unemployment reached 10 percent, but inflation barely dipped below 1 percent. More recently, even with unemployment as low as 3.5 percent, inflation remained stuck under 2 percent. What explains the emergence of this disconnect between inflation and unemployment? This is the question we address in “What’s Up with the Phillips Curve?,” published recently in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.
Use of SUS2 appliance in orthodontic treatment of Angle II malocclusion at early stage of permanent dentition

Objective To analyze the curative effect and characteristics of SUS2 appliance in the orthodontic treatment of Angle II malocclusion at early stage of permanent dentition.Methods 20 cases of skeletal Angle II with mandibular deficiency,aged 12 to 15 years old,were selected.All the patients were treated with the combination of SUS2 appliance and bracket fixed appliance.Lateral cephalogram measurement was carried out before and after treatment,and the results were statistically analyzed.Results 20 patients achieved remarkable improvement in the profiles,normal overbite and overjet in teeth and Class I in molar relationship after treatment.The cephalometric analysis showed that ANB,U1/SN,U1-NA,U6-PP,L1-MP,UL-E,OB,OJ were decreased,while SNB,L1/MP,L1-NB,Co-Go,Co-Gn,Go-Po,U1-PP,L6-MP,LL-B'-Pos were increased after treatment,both with significant statistical difference.There was no significant change in MP-SN and Y-axis before and after treatment.Conclusion The combination use of SUS2 appliance and fixed appliance can be used efficiently in the orthodontic treatment of Angle II malocclusion at an early stage of permanent dentition because it can reduce overbite and overjet,correct molar relationship and improve the patients' facial outline.
Enamel erosion and mechanical tooth wear in medieval Icelanders

The Icelandic Sagas are an important source of information on the way of life and diet habits in Iceland and possibly other Nordic countries 1000 years ago. Archaeological human skull material worldwide has revealed extensive tooth wear, with the main cause believed to be coarse diet. From a graveyard near volcano Hekla, 66 skeletons dated from before 1104 were excavated. The purpose of this study was to determine the main causes of tooth wear in Icelanders 1000 years ago.Forty-nine skulls were available for research. Two methods were used to evaluate tooth wear and seven for age estimation. An attempt was made to determine the main causes of tooth wear in the light of likely diet and beverage consumption according to a computer search on food and drink customs described in the Icelandic Sagas.Tooth wear was extensive in all groups, increasing with age. The highest score was on first molars, with no difference between sexes. It had all the similarities seen in wear from coarse diet. In some instances it had similar characteristics to those seen in erosion in modern Icelanders consuming excessive amounts of soft drinks. According to the Sagas, acidic whey was a daily drink and used for preservation of food in Iceland until recently.Since acidic whey has considerably high dental erosive potential, it is postulated that consumption of acidic drinks and food, in addition to a coarse and rough diet, played a significant role in the dental wear of ancient Icelanders.
Effect of Rhizobium inoculation on the growth and yield of soybean varieties.

[Objective]The effect of Rhizobium inoculation on the growth of soybean has been studied in order to provide foundation for popularization of Rhizobium inoculation technology for soybean production system.[Method]Four major soybean varieties,viz.,Guichun 8,Guixia 3,Huachun 6 and Huaxia 3 were planted after inoculation with Rhizobium in Yizhou and Du'an areas of Guangxi.The quantity of Rhizobium and plant fresh weight were investigated at the seedling,branching,flowering,filling and maturity stages in five randomly plants and the yield was recorded at harvest.[Result]Rhizobium inoculation increased soybean yield in the range of 1.06-8.74%.This increase was higher in Guichun 8 in comparison to Huachun 6 in Yizhou and Du'an sites.After inoculation of Rhizobium,both the quantity of Rhizobium and fresh weight of above ground parts increased in different soybean varieties planted in different planting areas.[Conclusion]The results revealed feasibility of Rhizobium inoculation technique for yield increase in soybean,however,selection of suitable Rhizobium species and its compatibility with soybean varieties need to be taken into account,depending on the local entironmental conditions.
Molecular origins of aneuploidies in healthy and diseased human tissues

Chromosome segregation errors cause aneuploidy, a state of karyotype imbalance that accelerates tumor formation and impairs embryonic development. Even though mitotic errors have been studied extensively in cell cultures, the mechanisms generating various errors, their propagation and effects on genome integrity are not well understood. Moreover, very little is known about mitotic errors in complex tissues. The main goal of this project is to uncover the molecular origins of mitotic errors and their contribution to karyotype aberrations in healthy and diseased tissues. To achieve our goal, we have assembled an interdisciplinary team of experts in molecular and cell biology, cell biophysics, chromosomal instability in cancer, and theoretical physics. Our team will introduce novel approaches to study aneuploidy (superresolution microscopy, optogenetics, laser ablation, single cell karyotype sequencing) and apply them to state-of-the-art tissue cultures (mammalian organoids and tumoroids). In close collaboration, Tolić will establish assays to detect and quantify error types in cells, and Kops and Amon will use the assays on various healthy and cancer tissues. Tolić and Kops will uncover the molecular origins of errors, their propagation and impact on genome integrity, while Amon will lead the investigation of the mechanisms that ensure high chromosome segregation fidelity in healthy tissues. Interwoven in these collaborations are the efforts of Pavin, who will develop a theoretical model to describe the origin of errors and to quantitatively link chromosome segregation fidelity in single cells and tissues. Model and experiment will continuously inspire each other, to achieve deep understanding of how mitotic errors arise, how they propagate and how they impact on cell populations. Thus, the extensive sets of expertise present in our team will be combined and expanded with novel technologies to tackle the big challenge of the origins of aneuploidy in humans.
THE BIRTH OF THE ESTONIAN OIL SHALE INDUSTRY – LINKS TO RUSSIA AND SCOTLAND

Oil shale is considered the most important natural resource of Estonia and its role in energy production and chemical industry has been pointed out in numerous papers. But there are no special publications about the history of the Estonian oil shale industry in English. This article tries to fulfil the gap relying on numerous archival documents and literature sources which have remained out of the attention of scientists up till now. It follows from the article that without the studies carried out by Russian researchers in 1916-1920 the Estonian oil shale industry may not have been born. Using the results of Russian investigators, the Estonians hoped to set up their own oil shale industry applying Scottish experience. This hope failed, however, and thus the Estonians had to elaborate their own methods for the development of oil shale chemistry.
Ontogenetic shifts in brain scaling reflect behavioral changes in the life cycle of the pouched lamprey Geotria australis

Very few studies have described brain scaling in vertebrates throughout ontogeny and none in lampreys, one of the two surviving groups of the early agnathan (jawless) stage in vertebrate evolution. The life cycle of anadromous parasitic lampreys comprises two divergent trophic phases, firstly filter-feeding as larvae in freshwater and secondly parasitism as adults in the sea, with the transition marked by a radical metamorphosis. We characterized the growth of the brain during the life cycle of the pouched lamprey Geotria australis, an anadromous parasitic lamprey, focusing on the scaling between brain and body during ontogeny and testing the hypothesis that the vast transitions in behavior and environment are reflected in differences in the scaling and relative size of the major brain subdivisions throughout life. The body and brain mass and the volume of six brain structures of G. australis, representing six points of the life cycle, were recorded, ranging from the early larval stage to the final stage of spawning and death. Brain mass does not increase linearly with body mass during the ontogeny of G. australis. During metamorphosis, brain mass increases markedly, even though the body mass does not increase, reflecting an overall growth of the brain, with particularly large increases in the volume of the optic tectum and other visual areas of the brain and, to a lesser extent, the olfactory bulbs. These results are consistent with the conclusions that ammocoetes rely predominantly on non-visual and chemosensory signals, while adults rely on both visual and olfactory cues.
Knowledge-enabled Access of Central Europe SMEs to Efficient Transnational Transport Solutions

The KASSETTS regions strongly base their future development on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) systems and on their transnational trade relations. Transport, logistics and related ICT services play a fundamental role for SMEs as they represent the strategic leverages to be on the Central Europe markets and to be integrated in procurement and distribution chains. Nevertheless, SMEs EU logistics management is far from being optimal and SMEs can hardly access optimised transnational transport solutions because of small shipping and low frequency of their transports and their low level of ICT endowment limiting their accessibility to the logistic supply. These obstacles finally result in a scattered transport demand and a large number of non-saturated running vehicles together with a low use of intermodal transport, producing increasing transport emissions at the same time.
The project was developed to overcome these problems and to answer the need of ICT tools to help manufacturing companies, in particular SMEs, optimising their transnational logistic traffics. Recent results of broker demonstrations which were done on regional level showed that cost savings of more than 20 percent for involved SMEs, a decrease of 30 percent of kilometers per vehicle and a reduction in the number of transport routes by 37 percent are possible. In order to even improve these numbers and to transmit the idea on a transnational level, the project aims to create a stable EU operative ICT network of logistics brokers, based on open source policy, in which every broker is a joint logistic office among SMEs.
Understanding the role of environmental and climatic changes in shaping subterranean diversity to preserve europe’s unique hidden biodiversity

Climate warming and other anthropogenic perturbations are affecting ecosystems worldwide, contributing to the sixth mass extinction. Documenting and explaining a vanishing biodiversity are major challenges in evolutionary and ecological research, but understanding biodiversity is an essential step towards halting its loss and the degradation of ecosystem services, a headline target of EU 2020 biodiversity strategy. Caves are isolated and extreme habitats that, like oceanic islands, offer unparalleled opportunities for biodiversity research. Subterranean ecosystems are simpler than surface ones. Their stable climatic conditions, scarcity of food and absence of light drive the evolution of highly adapted fauna. Because of the difficulty to access and explore caves and the rarity of cave dwelling organisms, the study of the subterranean realm has lagged behind the research conducted in other experimental ecosystems. Despite of their reputedly stable climatic conditions, recent studies show that global warming may impact subterranean habitats by rising temperatures and, consequently, threatening troglobionts, which have low tolerance to temperature variations, causing the reduction of optimal habitat and driving narrowly distributed species to extinction. HIDDENLIFE project aims to improve our understanding of one of the top biodiversity hotspots in Europe–the Dinarides, and its unique cave fauna, to ensure its conservation and future well-being. Through a multidisciplinary approach that combines state of the art molecular and statistical tools, I will investigate the systematics, phylogeography, and environmental preferences of three independent lineages of cave spiders. This will contribute to untangling the mechanisms that shaped their origin and present day diversity and distribution. By projecting potential distributions under predicted scenarios of global warming, I will predict future habitat suitability and assess vulnerability of this unique and fragile fauna.
A LAUNDRY WASHING-DRYING MACHINE WITH IMPROVED DRYING PERFORMANCE

The present invention relates to a laundry washing-drying machine (1) comprising a cabin (2); a tub (3) that is disposed in the cabin (2) and wherein the washing and drying processes are performed; a circulation duct (4) that is connected to the tub (3) and wherein the drying air circulation is performed; a fan (5) that is disposed on the circulation duct (4) and that enables the drying air to be circulated; a condenser (9) that is disposed on the circulation duct (4), that has an air inlet (6) and an air outlet (7) that open into the circulation duct (4) and wherein at least one drying channel (8) in which the humid drying air is condensed is provided; and at least one nozzle (10) that is disposed on the condenser (9) and that enables the condenser (9) to be cooled by spraying water onto the drying channel (8).
Cosmopolitanism revisited: afro-european mobilities in contemporary african diasporic literatures

African literatures attest not only to the diversity of mobilities typical of the global era, but also to the fact that Europe continues to occupy a special place in the African literary imaginary. This study analyses the ways in which African Franco- and Anglophone diasporic literatures address the idea(l) of a cosmopolitan world citizenry in varied Afro-European contexts of mobility. In order to do so, the study critically revisits the concept of cosmopolitanism and, by drawing on theory and readings of African fiction, develops a new analytical pattern reflecting the privileged, practical and critical dimensions of the concept. The study’s interdisciplinary theoretical framework consists of postcolonial theory, cosmopolitanism, mobility studies and diaspora studies, and it applies a method of contextual close-reading which is motivated by a transnational impulse. By focusing on Afro-European mobilities, the study contributes to the topical scholarly endeavour of analysing the intertwinement of the two continents in a way that exceeds national boundaries. Studying fictional African cosmopolitanisms enhances our understanding of Europe in a changing global setting in terms of cultural encounters viewed from an Afro-European perspective, providing a literary articulation of the social exclusion that people with African origins often face in their attempt to claim cosmopolitan world citizenry in Europe. Fictive African mobile narratives are informed by such intersecting markers of difference as class, gender, nationality, and race. The study draws attention to how the universalising tendencies of traditional cosmopolitanisms and the elitism of some recently formulated Afropolitanisms are challenged in this setting. By developing and applying an analytical pattern of cosmopolitanisms, the study responds to the urgent call to revisit the slippery concept of cosmopolitanism by exploring its limits and potentials within the African literary context.
Medieval publishing from c. 1000 to 1500

Without written transmission, the communication of any learned topic from ancient and medieval times, from theology and philosophy to medicine, science and history, would be snapped and broken. Transmission relies on the fact of ‘publication’. But what does ‘publishing’ mean in the context of a manuscript culture, in which books were copied slowly and singly by hand? What did it mean to ‘publish’ a book in Western Europe in the Middle Ages? 

MedPub attempts to understand in breadth and depth, for the first time, the medieval act of publishing. The question it seeks to answer is how did Latin authors publish original works during the period from c. 1000 to 1500. The project’s research hypothesis is that publication strategies were not a constant but were liable to change, and that different social, literary, institutional, and technical milieux fostered different approaches to publishing. The act of publishing, therefore, evolved over time, reacting to changes in the wider world. This is a new proposition and opens a new field of study. Results from the project will make a major contribution to our perception of medieval Latin literature—which is the largest surviving body of evidence for the Middle Ages—and even medieval European societal dynamics. The time-frame, c. 1000–1500, embraces Latin literary culture in its high-medieval maturity and its more complex late-medieval developments, ending with a transitional period characterized by the co-existence of the manuscript book and the printed book and witnessing the emergence in Europe of what was to become modern publishing.
International cooperation on quantum technologies

International competition in Quantum Technologies has become a major challenge in the recent years. Europe has world-leading researchers in all Quantum Science areas: Communication; Sensing; Metrology; Computing; and, Simulation. However, it would be unrealistic to maintain such a strong position without considering the worldwide battle of communication launched by private and public companies on quantum technologies. 
To take advantage of such international competition, the InCoQFlag project proposes to provide a roadmap to international partnerships, which can be used by the EU to set up winning partnerships with countries that are massively investing in Quantum Science and Technologies.   This would strengthen Europe’s position at an upper level, avoid brain drain and favour IP protection to support Member States’ economic growth. 
Within the InCoQFlag project, we will assess quantum standardization, infrastructures and IP protection issues. Furthermore, the necessity of an innovative framework to take advantage of Quantum Technologies is assessed by a global policy. 
Most of the InCoQFlag members are involved in the current QFlag coordination and support action. Hence, they will benefit from their experience in the QFlag project to elaborate new actions related to International Collaborations in the scope of targeted countries efficiently. These targeted countries  are the USA, Japan and Canada. To this end, InCoQFlag will ensure a smooth communication and coordination between both projects in order to maximize their impact and favour European academic and public/private research organisations with their top-level counterparts outside Europe.
CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT OF TRIPOD TYPE

The object of the invention is to provide a constant velocity joint (1) of tripod type which is both highly strong and durable, and which can maintain a low axial force and low shudder when transmitting torque at a joint angle. The constant velocity joint (1) of tripod type comprises a roller assembly including an outer roller (16), an inner roller (12) and a needle bearing (10) located therebetween. The outer roller (16) is provided with needle bearing retaining rings (15) and needle bearing stop rings (24), at each of its upper and lower ends, respectively. The inner roller (12) moves relative to the outer roller (16) in the axial direction. The outer face of the inner roller (12) and the inner face of the outer roller (16) have generally spherical shapes of dimensions similar to each other to freely engage, respectively. The outer face of the trunnion (8) is provided with a partially cylindrical portion (13) with inclined relative to a trunnion centerline (Q).
Synthetic molecular spring device

Synthetic molecular spring device featuring: (a) a synthetic molecular assembly, SMA, each scalable chemical module including: (i) at least one atom, M, (ii) at least one complexing group, CG, complexed to an atom, M, (iii) at least one axial ligand, AL, reversibly physicochemically paired with at least one atom, M, complexed to a complexing group, CG, (iv) at least one substantially elastic molecular linker, ML, having body and two ends with at least one chemically bonded to another component of SMA; (b) activating mechanism, AM, operatively directed to an atom-axial ligand pair, whereby following activating mechanism, AM, sending activating signal, AS/AS′, to an atom-axial ligand pair for physicochemically modifying the atom-axial ligand pair, there is activating at least one cycle of spring-type elastic reversible transitions between contracted and expanded linear conformational states of molecular linker, ML. Optionally includes (v) chemical connectors, CC, and/or, (vi) binding sites, BS.