cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Relationships among soil carbon, nitrogen, climate, and vegetation in forests of British Columbia
Creators: name: Araghi-Rahi, Alireza
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: More than two-thirds of the terrestrial carbon is found within the first meter of the soils, which is determined by the imbalance between fraction of net primary production entering soil and decomposition of organic matter. Changes in soil C contents in response to climate change may trigger a feedback that can influence the trend and scale of the climate change. Nitrogen can also limit primary production and influence decomposition of organic matter. In this thesis, I assess the relationships of soil C and N with measures of aboveground productivity, abundances of vegetation and climate in conifer-dominated forests across regional climates in British Columbia and Alberta. I also evaluate the variation in aboveground productivity with respect to climate and N availability. Soil samples were collected from the F, H , 0-30 (M1), and 30-60 cm (M2) layers at each study site. The concentrations of organic C and its fractions, and available N pools including inorganic, organic and microbial N, and potential rates of net nitrogen mineralization were measured. Fine-litter mass production was used as an estimate of productivity. The vertical projection of understory vegetation types including herbs, bryophytes, and shrubs were measured and used as abundances of understory vegetation types. Climatic factors were estimated using the ClimateBC model. In Chapter 2, Climate factors representing precipitation and heat-to-moisture indices combined with litter production explained 60 and 50% of the variations in C contents in organic and mineral layers, respectively. The potential net N mineralization rate was primarily related to the quality of organic C and concentrations of soluble organic (SON) and microbial N. Results indicated accumulation of SON in mineral layers with increased precipitation, and influence of the shrub abundance on available N in all layers. Fine-litter production was positively correlated with precipitation and heat-to-moisture indices, but was not consistently correlated with available N pools. The results indicated an overriding influence of precipitation and water availability on productivity and accumulation of C in soil in forests across BC. The abundances of herbs and shrubs were also related to soil C and N availability.
Polynilpotent Capability of Finitely Generated Abelian Groups
Creators: name: Mashayekhy, Behrooz
name: Parvizi, Mohsen
name: Kayvanfar, Saeed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20E34, 20E10, 20K01

description: In this paper we determine all finitely generated abelian groups which are varietal capable with respect to the variety of polynilpotent groups. This result is a vast generalization of the famous Baer's result about capability of finitely generated abelian groups.
description: 6 pages
Additional file 10 of A hypolipoprotein sepsis phenotype indicates reduced lipoprotein antioxidant capacity, increased endothelial dysfunction and organ failure, and worse clinical outcomes
Creators: name: Guirgis, Faheem W.
name: Black, Lauren Page
name: Henson, Morgan
name: Labilloy, Guillaume
name: Smotherman, Carmen
name: Hopson, Charlotte
name: Tfirn, Ian
name: DeVos, Elizabeth L.
name: Leeuwenburgh, Christiaan
name: Moldawer, Lyle
name: Datta, Susmita
name: Brusko, Todd M.
name: Hester, Alexis
name: Bertrand, Andrew
name: Grijalva, Victor
name: Arango-Esterhay, Alexander
name: Moore, Frederick A.
name: Reddy, Srinivasa T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 10: Supplemental Table 3. Top features contributing to cluster discrimination between Hypolipoprotein and Normolipoprotein Cluster.
“Boyish and Almost Gay”: Celibate Men and Fathers in Sherwood Anderson’s “The Triumph of the Egg”
Creators: name: Iuliano, Fiorenzo
Publisher: name: Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2018
Subjects: Sherwood Anderson, The Triumph of the Egg, modernism and sexuality, celibacy, modernism and masculinity

description: Benjamin Kahan’s 2013 book on celibacy and modernism investigates celibacy in early 20th century United States as a prominently urban issue, questioning and to some degree discarding the commonplace of a sexually saturated modernism. This article aims at broadening up the scope of this analysis by investigating celibacy and sexuality in Sherwood Anderson’s short stories, mostly set in small provincial towns. The main contention of the article is that in Anderson’s stories male celibacy questions the social and symbolic order sanctioned by the typical nuclear family of rural and peripheral towns of the United States. More specifically, the stories discussed here and collected in The Triumph of the Egg overthrow the traditional attribution of sexual roles within the nuclear family, thus subverting the usual representations of both masculinity and fatherhood.
description: COSMO | Comparative Studies in Modernism | Rivista del Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | centroartidellamodernita.it, N. 12 (2018): Family Matters 2.0: Literary and Cultural Representations of the (American) Family in Transition
Religion, Gender Inequality, and Surrogate Motherhood in Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”
Creators: name: Miceli, Barbara
Publisher: name: Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2018
Subjects: Atwood, surrogacy, religion, gender, Handmaid's tale, Trump, America

description: Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), is the account of an imaginary future State, the Republic of Gilead, based on strict biblical values where men take back their place as head of the family (and the State), and women go back to their original ancillary position, both in society and at home. Gilead was indeed created to solve problems such as the extinction of the human race, due to a diffused infertility, using fertile women, the Handmaids, as surrogate mothers for the families of the Commanders, those who rule it. This creates, in fact, a new model of family, where the Commander and his wife host another woman in their house, hoping that, through the monthly “Ceremonies” (the intercourse between the Commander and the Handmaid), theirs can become a traditional family with children. Yet, the novel shows how a true balance, even between the sexes, is impossible to reach.

The aim of this analysis is to show how the author has fractioned all the elements that form a family, as a small version of society itself, to foretell a possible outcome of many matters of debate, especially the role of women. The continuous comparisons that the narrator, a handmaid, does between her previous life, where she had a husband and a daughter, hence a family, are a way to warn about the possibility that, in the future, everything that seems normal might become obsolete and considered almost “wrong”, in the light of a new normality made of strict rules that are justified as an extreme measure to save the very institution of family, the human race itself, and to protect women.

The novel, although written in the 80’s, turns out to be a reflection upon current issues about family and the role of women as “carriers of life”, suggesting how the most extreme wing of the debate might, one day, bring to a familiar model that dates back to the Bible, since, as one of the Commander claims, the freedom to marry for love and create a family was “just an anomaly […]. All we’ve done is return things to Nature’s norm”.
description: COSMO | Comparative Studies in Modernism | Rivista del Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | centroartidellamodernita.it, N. 12 (2018): Family Matters 2.0: Literary and Cultural Representations of the (American) Family in Transition
Like Mother like Daughter, like Father like Son: The Spell of Youth on “The O.C.”
Creators: name: Morello, Stefano
Publisher: name: Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2018
Subjects: teen drama; cultura giovanile; serie televisive

description: This essay aims to shed light on the purposes served by parental figures in the television series The O.C. (2003-2007). For the teen-drama genre, Josh Schwartz’s creation set a new trend of intergenerational narratives and shifted the perspectives among young and adult, and female and male characters. In addition to being functional to the plot and legitimizing the problems experienced by young viewers, parental figures serve at least two additional purposes on The O.C.. First, I posit that adults act as positive and negative role models that allow Schwartz’s show to function as a cautionary tale for its young viewers. Second, I propose that subplots revolving around parents allowed the showrunner to broaden the potential audience of the series, by targeting adults in addition to teen viewers. I finally suggest that, as most of the show’s characters – parents and children alike - engage in youthful behavior, the series also seems to promote and perpetuate what sociologist Marcel Danesi has defined the “Forever Young Syndrome” – a kind of society where the generational gap is almost nonexistent and adults systematically behave, and inevitably consume, like teenagers.
description: COSMO | Comparative Studies in Modernism | Rivista del Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | centroartidellamodernita.it, N. 12 (2018): Family Matters 2.0: Literary and Cultural Representations of the (American) Family in Transition
Eugenia lotoides (Guillaumin) J.W. Dawson & N. Snow
Creators: name: Neil Snow
name: John W. Dawson
name: Martin W. Callmander
name: Kanchi Gandhi
name: Jérôme Munzinge
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Myrtaceae
Eugenia
Eugenia lotoides

description: Eugenia lotoides (Guillaumin) J.W. Dawson & N. Snow, comb. nova.
 ≡ Myrtus lotoides Guillaumin in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 85: 632. 1939.
 ≡ Austromyrtus lotoides (Guillaumin) Burret in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 504. 1941.
 Typus: New CaledoNia. Prov. Nord: Montagnes de Oua Tendé près Gatope, 1861-1867, Vieillard 2616 (holo-: P [P02428351]!; iso:- P [P 00543872]!).
 Note. ‒ Eugenia lotoides is one of several species with small leaves and flowers. As currently understood, specimens often have three leaves per node.
description: Published as part of Neil Snow, John W. Dawson, Martin W. Callmander, Kanchi Gandhi & Jérôme Munzinge, 2016, New Species, New Combinations, and Lectotypifications in New Caledonian Eugenia L. (Myrtaceae), pp. 67-81 in Candollea 71 (1) on page 78, DOI: 10.15553/c2016v711a9, http://zenodo.org/record/168255
Lifespace tracking and activity monitoring on mobile phones
Creators: name: Dewancker, Ian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Daily patterns of behaviour are a rich source of information and play an important role in establishing a person’s quality of life. Lifespace refers to measurements of the frequency, geographic extent and independence of an individual’s travels. While difficult to measure and record automatically, lifespace has been shown to correlate to important metrics relating to physical performance, nutritional risk, and community engagement. MobiSense is a mobile health research platform that aims to improve mobility analysis for both ambulating and wheelchair users. The goals of the system were to be simple for users to collect mobility data, provide accessible summaries of daily behaviours and to enable further research and development in this area. The system is capable of lifespace summaries relating to indoor and outdoor mobility as well as activity trends and behaviours. For indoor reporting, we investigated robust classification algorithms for room level indoor localization using WiFi signal strengths. We pursue topological map localization as it requires simpler map models while preserving useful semantic information associated with location. Personalized maps are easy to create by capturing training observations in areas of interest. Outdoor summaries are captured by periodically recording GPS fixes. For activity monitoring, a decision tree classifier was learned using a combination of accelerometer and GPS features. The classifier can differentiate between stationary, wheeling (in a wheelchair), walking or vehicle motion. To capture the relevant sensor data, we extended an open source logging application which records data streams locally before uploading data to a web service to process and visualize results. The custom web service processes the data and generates summary files which can then be visualized either for each individual day or over a user selected date range. We employed a heat map visualization for outdoor lifespace to understand the geographic extent of a user’s mobility. For indoor and activity summaries, we employed temporal line charts to understand trends in a user’s mobility.
Clone Families and Zombie Children: The Demise of the Nuclear Family in Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Narratives
Creators: name: Gymnich, Marion
Publisher: name: Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2018

description: Although dystopian and postapocalyptic narratives tend to be discussed primarily in terms of their exploration of society, they also prove to be an interesting, so far largely underestimated, context for examining cultural responses to fluctuating discourses on the family. Due to their characteristic range of themes and premises, both dystopian and postapocalyptic narratives may challenge notions of what “normal” family life looks like and what “family” means in the face of changing social realities, legal frameworks and reproductive technologies. The article discusses (re-)interpretations of what families may mean in a number of British and American dystopian and postapocalyptic novels (in particular recent ones) as well as in the successful TV series The Walking Dead.
description: COSMO | Comparative Studies in Modernism | Rivista del Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | centroartidellamodernita.it, N. 12 (2018): Family Matters 2.0: Literary and Cultural Representations of the (American) Family in Transition
“I Am The New America”: Representing and Negotiating American Families in Mixed Race Memoirs
Creators: name: Sattler, Julia
Publisher: name: Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2018
Subjects: Family, Slavery, History

description: This article provides an analysis of two mixed race memoirs from the 1990s/ 2000s. It looks at the establishment of mixed race families and mixed race history by these texts and contextualizes them in the larger process of the American nation coming to terms with its past.
description: COSMO | Comparative Studies in Modernism | Rivista del Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | centroartidellamodernita.it, N. 12 (2018): Family Matters 2.0: Literary and Cultural Representations of the (American) Family in Transition
AIS-BN: An Adaptive Importance Sampling Algorithm for Evidential Reasoning in Large Bayesian Networks
Creators: name: Cheng, J.
name: Druzdzel, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Stochastic sampling algorithms, while an attractive alternative to exact algorithms in very large Bayesian network models, have been observed to perform poorly in evidential reasoning with extremely unlikely evidence. To address this problem, we propose an adaptive importance sampling algorithm, AIS-BN, that shows promising convergence rates even under extreme conditions and seems to outperform the existing sampling algorithms consistently. Three sources of this performance improvement are (1) two heuristics for initialization of the importance function that are based on the theoretical properties of importance sampling in finite-dimensional integrals and the structural advantages of Bayesian networks, (2) a smooth learning method for the importance function, and (3) a dynamic weighting function for combining samples from different stages of the algorithm. We tested the performance of the AIS-BN algorithm along with two state of the art general purpose sampling algorithms, likelihood weighting (Fung and Chang, 1989; Shachter and Peot, 1989) and self-importance sampling (Shachter and Peot, 1989). We used in our tests three large real Bayesian network models available to the scientific community: the CPCS network (Pradhan et al., 1994), the PathFinder network (Heckerman, Horvitz, and Nathwani, 1990), and the ANDES network (Conati, Gertner, VanLehn, and Druzdzel, 1997), with evidence as unlikely as 10^-41. While the AIS-BN algorithm always performed better than the other two algorithms, in the majority of the test cases it achieved orders of magnitude improvement in precision of the results. Improvement in speed given a desired precision is even more dramatic, although we are unable to report numerical results here, as the other algorithms almost never achieved the precision reached even by the first few iterations of the AIS-BN algorithm.
Additional file 11 of A hypolipoprotein sepsis phenotype indicates reduced lipoprotein antioxidant capacity, increased endothelial dysfunction and organ failure, and worse clinical outcomes
Creators: name: Guirgis, Faheem W.
name: Black, Lauren Page
name: Henson, Morgan
name: Labilloy, Guillaume
name: Smotherman, Carmen
name: Hopson, Charlotte
name: Tfirn, Ian
name: DeVos, Elizabeth L.
name: Leeuwenburgh, Christiaan
name: Moldawer, Lyle
name: Datta, Susmita
name: Brusko, Todd M.
name: Hester, Alexis
name: Bertrand, Andrew
name: Grijalva, Victor
name: Arango-Esterhay, Alexander
name: Moore, Frederick A.
name: Reddy, Srinivasa T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 11: Supplemental Table 4. Demographics and disease severity for the replication cohort.
Eugenia mendute Guillaumin in Bull. Soc. Bot.
Creators: name: Neil Snow
name: John W. Dawson
name: Martin W. Callmander
name: Kanchi Gandhi
name: Jérôme Munzinge
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Myrtaceae
Eugenia
Eugenia mendute

description: Eugenia mendute Guillaumin in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 85: 638. 1939.
 ≡ Austromyrtus mendute (Guillaumin) Burret in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 505. 1941.
 Lectotypus (here designated): New CaledoNia. Prov. îles- Loyauté: Lifou, VII.1869, Balansa 2083 (P [P02428359]!; isolecto-: P [P00543864, P00543865]!). Syntypi: New CaledoNia. Prov. îles-Loyauté: am Ostrand des Plateau, Ouvéa, 7.VIII.1925, Däniker 1969 (Bogen 2) (Z [Z-000092725] image seen); an der Ostküste von Ouvéa, 22.IX.1925, Däniker 1969 (Bogen 1) (Z [Z-000092724] image seen); Südküste von Muli, Ouvéa, 3.X.1925, Däniker 1969a (Z [Z-000092727] image seen); am Cap Bernard auf Lifou, 2.XI.1925, Däniker 1969b (Z [Z-000092726] image seen); Lifou, comm. 1861, Deplanche 7 (P [P00543866, P00696288]!).
 Notes. ‒ Five syntypes are cited in the protologue, three of which were collected by Albert Ulrich Däniker (1894-1957) that are deposited at Z. One if these collections, Däniker 1969 clearly represent two gatherings collected at different dates and localities and is here cited as two separate syntypes, making a total of five remaining syntypes. The designated lectotype [P02428359] has mature or nearly mature fruits, whereas the indicated isolectotypes at P are sterile [P00543864, P00543865].
description: Published as part of Neil Snow, John W. Dawson, Martin W. Callmander, Kanchi Gandhi & Jérôme Munzinge, 2016, New Species, New Combinations, and Lectotypifications in New Caledonian Eugenia L. (Myrtaceae), pp. 67-81 in Candollea 71 (1) on page 78, DOI: 10.15553/c2016v711a9, http://zenodo.org/record/168255
A note on q-Bernstein polynomials
Creators: name: Kim, Taekyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11B68, 11S80, 60C05

description: In this paper we constructed new q-extension of Bernstein polynomials. Fron those q-Berstein polynomials, we give some interesting properties and we investigate some applications related this q-Bernstein polynomials.
description: 13 pages
Selling the Nuclear Family: Social Order, Gender and Consumption in Magazine Advertising in the US since World War II
Creators: name: Heinemann, Isabel
Publisher: name: Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2018
Subjects: FAMILY, MAGAZINES, PICTURE ADS, GENDER ROLES, CONSUMERISM, 1960S, 1970S, 1980S

description: Modern Western societies have always considered the family as the central unit of state and nation beyond the individual. Also, the family, especially the nuclear family concept, has been used in magazine advertising to sell products and to convey certain images of “modernity” and “consumerism” – especially since the second half of the 20th century. But how did the depiction of the family, the constellation displayed (mothers and children, fathers active or distanced, nuclear families or extended ones…) and the gender roles suggested change over time? Here, advertising seems of crucial importance – as the companies that commissioned the ads sought to appeal to customers for the sake of material gain, thus linking cultural values and economic interest. Mainline magazines provide an important source, as they widely used picture ads and attracted a large readership. Interestingly, historical research in this field still is relatively scarce – especially when it comes to a long-term perspective.

 Thus, the proposed contribution will seek to analyze how mainline magazines in the US („Time“, „Life“, “Good Housekeeping”) used images of “the modern family” in picture adds to attract consumers and gain acceptance for their products. Special emphasis will be placed on the question how notions of the family and the embedded gender norms did change (or were preserved or reaffirmed) in the course of the social transformations of the second half of the 20th century. It is the objective of the paper to provide a fresh look at accepted models of social and normative change in the United States by investigating a largely neglected set of sources that had to reconcile modernity, readers’ values and economic interest.
description: COSMO | Comparative Studies in Modernism | Rivista del Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | centroartidellamodernita.it, N. 12 (2018): Family Matters 2.0: Literary and Cultural Representations of the (American) Family in Transition
An analytic model of plasma-neutral coupling in the heliosphere plasma
Creators: name: Shaikh, Dastgeer
name: Dasgupta, B
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed an analytic model to describe coupling of plasma and neutral fluids in the partially ionized heliosphere plasma medium. The sources employed in our analytic model are based on a $κ$-distribution as opposed to the Maxwellian distribution function. Our model uses the $κ$-distribution to analytically model the energetic neutral atoms that result in the heliosphere partially ionized plasma from charge exchange with the protons and subsequently produce a long tail which is otherwise not describable by the Maxwellian distribution. We present our analytic formulation and describe major differences in the sources emerging from these two distinct distributions.
description: This paper has been accepted in Journal of Plasma Physics. It is in press
“Radiant Darkness Leaked out Through Her Crack”: Cracked Families and Leaking Trauma in Michael Chabon's “Moonglow”
Creators: name: Balestrino, Alice
Publisher: name: Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2018
Subjects: 21st century fiction, Jewish-American literature, Holocaust literature, postmemory

description: This paper looks at the way in which Holocaust narratives explore the entity of the family as space of memory repository and, more specifically, as time-space of trans-generational transmission of traumatic memories. It focuses on Michael Chabon’s novel Moonglow as main case study and, to some extent, Art Spiegelman’s MAUS as illustrative and visual model of these mechanisms. This analysis will dwell on families of Holocaust survivors as epitome of families having to deal and come to grips with a traumatic past; a bulky heritage that permeates the everyday life of all the members, not only of those who directly experienced the tragic event. How do traumatized individuals – often suffering from PTSD, “post-traumatic stress disorder,” provoked by their involvement (in several and differing forms) in the Holocaust – relate to their kin and, especially, to their offspring? In this context, to what extent are family dynamics affected, twisted, and eventually turned dysfunctional? In what terms is the present (as well as the future) of a household shaped by, negotiated in the light of its past? These subjects will be investigated against the background of the category of “postmemory” elaborated in the 1990s by Marianne Hirsch and systematized in her seminal The Generation of Postmemory, Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (2012).
description: COSMO | Comparative Studies in Modernism | Rivista del Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | centroartidellamodernita.it, N. 12 (2018): Family Matters 2.0: Literary and Cultural Representations of the (American) Family in Transition
Eugenia ovigera Brongn. & Gris
Creators: name: Neil Snow
name: John W. Dawson
name: Martin W. Callmander
name: Kanchi Gandhi
name: Jérôme Munzinge
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Myrtaceae
Eugenia
Eugenia ovigera

description: Eugenia ovigera Brongn. & Gris in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 12: 179. 1865.
 ≡ Calycorectes ovigera (Brongn. & Gris) Guillaumin in Bull. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat. 25: 503. 1919.
 ≡ Stereocaryum ovigerum (Brongn. & Gris) Burret in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Mus. Berlin - Dahlem 15: 547. 1941.
 Lectotypus (here designated): New CaledoNia. Prov. Sud: Bord de la Rivière d’Unia, 1855-1860, Vieillard 473 (P [P00402692]!; isolecto-: P [P 00402773, P 00402774]!). Syntypus: New CaledoNia. Prov. Sud: île des Pins, 1861, Pancher s.n. (P [P00402713]!)
 Notes. ‒ The two syntypes indicated in the protologue are represented by four sheets at P. Although the selected lectotype has only one mature fruit, it exhibits the floral and young fruiting morphology.
 Eugenia ovigera is one of several species in New Caledonia in which the calyx lobes split radially during anthesis towards and often beyond the staminal disc.
description: Published as part of Neil Snow, John W. Dawson, Martin W. Callmander, Kanchi Gandhi & Jérôme Munzinge, 2016, New Species, New Combinations, and Lectotypifications in New Caledonian Eugenia L. (Myrtaceae), pp. 67-81 in Candollea 71 (1) on pages 78-79, DOI: 10.15553/c2016v711a9, http://zenodo.org/record/168255
Self-Explorations of Mothering and Family Life in Maggie Nelson’s “The Argonauts”, Sarah Manguso’s “Ongoingness”, and Heidi Julavits’s “The Folded Clock”
Creators: name: Pignagnoli, Virginia
Publisher: name: Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2018
Subjects: autofiction; contemporary literature; motherhood; family; women's studies

description: This essay explores mothering and family life in three twenty-first-century literary narratives: Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, Sarah Manguso's Ongoingness, and Heidi Julavits's The Folded Clock. These texts, through an autofictional account of their authors’ experiences with family making, call attention to the challenges contemporary American families face vis à vis traditional roles, mainstream assumptions, heteronormativity, and maternal roles. By voicing a critique to today’s “impossible standards” (O’Reilly 2010) for families and mothers, these narratives are challenging traditional images of “feminine selflessness” (Willett, Anderson, and Meyers 2016) and address cultural and ethical issues concerning current family models still unable to recognize queer family making and the idea that families are a dynamic process.  The narratives’ combined interest in self- and family-making is reflected in their fluid generic status. In our post-postmodern literary period, these authors’ life writing is not only an attempt at postirony (see Konstantinou 2017). Rather, these narratives respond to the affective logic of contemporary autofiction (Gibbons 2017) portraying relational identities of the self. Nelson, Manguso and Julavits represent motherhood as a transformative, all-encompassing and bodily experience and choose to rely on “unfinished” genres (half-memoirs, half-essays, half-fiction) to reflect the idea of incompleteness around today’s motherhood and family matters.
description: COSMO | Comparative Studies in Modernism | Rivista del Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | centroartidellamodernita.it, N. 12 (2018): Family Matters 2.0: Literary and Cultural Representations of the (American) Family in Transition
Additional file 8 of A hypolipoprotein sepsis phenotype indicates reduced lipoprotein antioxidant capacity, increased endothelial dysfunction and organ failure, and worse clinical outcomes
Creators: name: Guirgis, Faheem W.
name: Black, Lauren Page
name: Henson, Morgan
name: Labilloy, Guillaume
name: Smotherman, Carmen
name: Hopson, Charlotte
name: Tfirn, Ian
name: DeVos, Elizabeth L.
name: Leeuwenburgh, Christiaan
name: Moldawer, Lyle
name: Datta, Susmita
name: Brusko, Todd M.
name: Hester, Alexis
name: Bertrand, Andrew
name: Grijalva, Victor
name: Arango-Esterhay, Alexander
name: Moore, Frederick A.
name: Reddy, Srinivasa T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 8: Supplemental Table 1. Presenting features and infectious source for derivation cohort.
A Superspace Formulation of The BV Action for Higher Derivative Theories
Creators: name: Faizal, Mir
name: Khan, Mozzam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We first analyze the anti-BRST and double BRST structures of a certain higher derivative theory that has been known to possess BRST symmetry associated with its higher derivative structure. We discuss the invariance of this theory under shift symmetry in the Batalin Vilkovisky (BV) formalism. We show that the action for this theory can be written in a manifestly extended BRST invariant manner in superspace formalism using one Grassmann coordinate. It can also be written in a manifestly extended BRST invariant manner and on-shell manifestly extended anti-BRST invariant manner in superspace formalism using two Grassmann coordinates.
description: accepted for publication in EPJC
Conflict-Directed Backjumping Revisited
Creators: name: Chen, X.
name: van Beek, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, many improvements to backtracking algorithms for solving constraint satisfaction problems have been proposed. The techniques for improving backtracking algorithms can be conveniently classified as look-ahead schemes and look-back schemes. Unfortunately, look-ahead and look-back schemes are not entirely orthogonal as it has been observed empirically that the enhancement of look-ahead techniques is sometimes counterproductive to the effects of look-back techniques. In this paper, we focus on the relationship between the two most important look-ahead techniques---using a variable ordering heuristic and maintaining a level of local consistency during the backtracking search---and the look-back technique of conflict-directed backjumping (CBJ). We show that there exists a "perfect" dynamic variable ordering such that CBJ becomes redundant. We also show theoretically that as the level of local consistency that is maintained in the backtracking search is increased, the less that backjumping will be an improvement. Our theoretical results partially explain why a backtracking algorithm doing more in the look-ahead phase cannot benefit more from the backjumping look-back scheme. Finally, we show empirically that adding CBJ to a backtracking algorithm that maintains generalized arc consistency (GAC), an algorithm that we refer to as GAC-CBJ, can still provide orders of magnitude speedups. Our empirical results contrast with Bessiere and Regin's conclusion (1996) that CBJ is useless to an algorithm that maintains arc consistency.
“IP Memoirs”: Motherhood in the Age of Surrogacy
Creators: name: Zehelein, Eva-Sabine
Publisher: name: Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2018
Subjects: surrogacy, memoir, life writing, autopathography, scriptotherapy

description: IP Memoirs - memoirs by women who have become mothers via a gestational surrogate's contractual labor which turns them into IPs (Intended Parents) - are a recent literary phenomenon situated in a particular forcefield of morally charged, legally contested and socially tested debates and discourses. The contribution looks at select examples of "IP memoirs" and analyzes the narrative and argumentative strategies employed to explain, illustrate and justify the road taken towards motherhood.
description: COSMO | Comparative Studies in Modernism | Rivista del Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | centroartidellamodernita.it, N. 12 (2018): Family Matters 2.0: Literary and Cultural Representations of the (American) Family in Transition
Micro-electro-discharge machining of carbon-nanotube forests and its application
Creators: name: Dahmardeh, Masoud
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are relatively new materials with exceptional properties which have attracted significant interest in the past two decades. The ability to grow arrays of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, so called CNT forest, opened up opportunities to develop different types of novel devices enabled by the material. A key in facilitating micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) applications of the material is the ability to pattern the material in a batch mode with high precision and high reproducibility. Patterning CNT forests prior to, during or after the growth is reported. The mentioned techniques are, however, primarily for the formation of two-dimensional types of patterns (with uniform heights). Laser micromachining is reported to shape CNT forests for different applications while exhibiting its inherent limitations including tapered sidewalls, lack of high-precision depth control, and thermal damages. Hence, there is a need to develop machining techniques to fabricate CNT forests in any shape for MEMS and other applications. This thesis is based on the idea that a powerful micromachining technique is a path that should be taken to reach a successful integration of smart materials such as nanotubes and MEMS (and other) devices to achieve more complex and improved devices. This work develops an effective micromachining technique based on dry micro-electro-discharge machining (µEDM) to produce free-form, three-dimensional (3D) patterns out of CNT forests with high precision (~2-µm machining tolerance), high-aspect-ratios (of about 20), high reproducibility, and at very small machining voltages (~10 V) which corresponds to several orders of magnitude smaller discharge energy (0.5 nJ compared to 15 µJ). The machining mechanism has been found to be different from the one in typical µEDM. Furthermore, techniques to achieve high removal precision with tighter tolerance are investigated. Also, elemental and molecular analysis of the machined structures is carried out to observe the level of cross-contamination of the process. To demonstrate an application of the processed nanotubes, high-power MEMS switches that integrate micropatterned CNT forests as electrical contact have been developed. Micropatterned CNT forests as field emitters and atomic force microscopy (AFM) probe tips are also demonstrated.
Eugenia poimbailensis (Guillaumin) J.W. Dawson & N. Snow
Creators: name: Neil Snow
name: John W. Dawson
name: Martin W. Callmander
name: Kanchi Gandhi
name: Jérôme Munzinge
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Myrtaceae
Eugenia
Eugenia poimbailensis

description: Eugenia poimbailensis (Guillaumin) J.W. Dawson & N. Snow, comb. nova.
 ≡ Myrtus poimbailensis Guillaumin in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 85: 633. 1939.
 ≡ Austromyrtus poimbailensis (Guillaumin) Burret in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 505. 1941.
 Typus: New CaledoNia. Prov. Nord: Wagap, bord des torrents à «Poimbeilla», 1861 - 1867, Vieillard 2605 (holo-: P [P00632556]!).
 Note. ‒ The 4-merous flowers, globular seeds, dibrachiate hairs on the emerging foliage, and the relatively new understanding that Myrtus L. is confined to Europe and North Africa (Snow et al., 2003), support the transfer of this taxon into Eugenia.
description: Published as part of Neil Snow, John W. Dawson, Martin W. Callmander, Kanchi Gandhi & Jérôme Munzinge, 2016, New Species, New Combinations, and Lectotypifications in New Caledonian Eugenia L. (Myrtaceae), pp. 67-81 in Candollea 71 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.15553/c2016v711a9, http://zenodo.org/record/168255
The effect of hyperfine mixing in electromagnetic and semileptonic decays of doubly heavy baryons
Creators: name: Albertus, C.
name: Hernandez, E.
name: Nieves, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the role played by hyperfine mixing in electromagnetic and semileptonic decays of doubly heavy baryons, which give rise to large corrections to the decay widths in both cases.
description: Talk given in Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum IX, Madrid September 2010
“Happy Together?”: Envisioning the American Family in the Long 1950s
Creators: name: Carosso, Andrea
Publisher: name: Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2018
Subjects: Cultura nord-americana

description: As the nuclear, middle-class American family reached its apotheosis in what I call "the Long 1950s", an almost mythical period of post-war national prosperity, it became the bedrock of the Cold War consensus, charged with political and symbolic values that were often at odds with its realities. This paper first analyzes the forces at play in shaping the myth of family as "happy home corporation" in America, which included media pressure, changing social, demographic and economic conditions as well regressive views of gender and sexual roles, especially as emerging from bestselling marriage and child-care manuals. It then looks at the way in which dissenting evidence from those Long 1950s, especially in the area of sexual behaviors as well as juvenile rebellion, showed the American family caught in a state of flux, which was at odds with the imperatives of the Cold War consensus.
description: COSMO | Comparative Studies in Modernism | Rivista del Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | centroartidellamodernita.it, N. 12 (2018): Family Matters 2.0: Literary and Cultural Representations of the (American) Family in Transition
Additional file 9 of A hypolipoprotein sepsis phenotype indicates reduced lipoprotein antioxidant capacity, increased endothelial dysfunction and organ failure, and worse clinical outcomes
Creators: name: Guirgis, Faheem W.
name: Black, Lauren Page
name: Henson, Morgan
name: Labilloy, Guillaume
name: Smotherman, Carmen
name: Hopson, Charlotte
name: Tfirn, Ian
name: DeVos, Elizabeth L.
name: Leeuwenburgh, Christiaan
name: Moldawer, Lyle
name: Datta, Susmita
name: Brusko, Todd M.
name: Hester, Alexis
name: Bertrand, Andrew
name: Grijalva, Victor
name: Arango-Esterhay, Alexander
name: Moore, Frederick A.
name: Reddy, Srinivasa T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 9: Supplemental Table 2. Clinical management and outcomes for the derivation cohort.
Kinship, Affiliation and Adoption in Nineteenth Century American Literature
Creators: name: Di Loreto, Sonia
Publisher: name: Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2018

description: In the article I consider the status of various forms of affiliation and adoption narratives and practices  as depicted in early American texts, in order to survey a cultural landscape where different possibilities were still viable, prior to the end of the nineteenth century, when we get to the discouraging alternative Huck Finn faces in Mark Twain's novel: either conform to sentimental topoi of domestic assimilation, or live a rough life on the frontier.
description: COSMO | Comparative Studies in Modernism | Rivista del Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | centroartidellamodernita.it, N. 12 (2018): Family Matters 2.0: Literary and Cultural Representations of the (American) Family in Transition
Exploring the Environments and Host Galaxies of SGRB Progenitors in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy
Creators: name: Mandhai, Soheb
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The in-spiral of compact binary systems consisting of a neutron star paired with either a black-hole or another neutron star produces distortions in space-time known as gravitational waves (GW). In the presence of sufficient ejecta, electromagnetic phenomena such as short-duration gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) or kilonovae can be produced. In this thesis, I explore the environments, redshifts, and host galaxy demographics of these compact binaries. Using my Redshift Electromagnetic Localisation and Deduction Algorithm (zELDA), I seed BPASS and COSMIC evolved binaries into hydro-dynamical galaxies from the EAGLE simulation. I then trace the orbits of the binaries until they merge. I apply a selection criterion to a simulated SGRB sample to gauge the consistency with observations. I find agreements with the observed redshifts, host galaxy demographics, and offsets. I predict 16 -40% of SGRB events would appear \host-less", i.e. sources that merge with high impact parameters or have faint hosts (H > 26). Given the close proximity of GW170817 at ~ 40Mpc, I consider the constraints on a local population of low-luminosity SGRBs. I gauge the likelihood of SGRBs with host galaxies within < 200Mpc. I get an all-sky rate of < 6 yr-1 using well-localised bursts (with precisions of ~ arcmin - arcsec) from Swift/BAT, corresponding to ~ 8% of Swift SGRBs. By cross-correlating poorly localised bursts from the CGRO/BATSE and Fermi/GBM with galaxies within < 100Mpc, I find a weaker constraint of £ 12 yr-1 for the all-sky rate. I conduct a separate search to constrain the rate of nearby (d < 11Mpc) giant flares from Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters (SGRs) and place an upper limit of < 3 yr-1. I conclude this thesis by commenting on the implications of our findings on future studies.
Neural-Powered Real-Time Air Quality Forecasting and Pollution Surveillance
Creators: name: Mrs.M.Saranya, Kondumahanthi Usha Sree Lakshmi, Bejavada Sri Krishna Tarun, Penumarthi Santhi Meghana, Revuri Pavan Satya Pranudh, Yarra Thanusha Devi Sharmista
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This research introduces a novel methodology for air quality prediction that addresses thelimitations of traditional Air Quality Index (AQI) forecasting models by leveraging machine learning andenhanced secondary data modeling. The dataset utilized includes both forecast and actual measurements ofprimary pollutant concentrations and meteorological conditions, collected from monitoring stations inJinan, China, from July 23, 2020, to July 13, 2021. A comprehensive correlation analysis identified tenkey meteorological factors influencing pollutant concentrations, assessed through univariate andmultivariate techniques. Performance evaluation of various machine learning algorithms revealed theDecision Tree and Random Forest models achieving high accuracies of 99%. Additionally, the K-NearestNeighbors (KNN) classifier also demonstrated an accuracy of 99%, while Logistic Regression showed atraining accuracy of 72%. These findings affirm the reliability and efficacy of machine learning techniquesin enhancing air quality forecasting and underscore the importance of selecting appropriate algorithms foraccurate predictions.
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Creators: name: Marfè, Luigi
Publisher: name: Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2018

description: CoSMo | Comparative Studies in Modernism, N. 12 (2018): Family Matters 2.0: Literary and Cultural Representations of the (American) Family in Transition
Introduction
Creators: name: Carosso, Andrea
name: Zehelein, Eva Sabine
Publisher: name: Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2018

description: Focus introduction
description: COSMO | Comparative Studies in Modernism | Rivista del Centro Studi Arti della Modernità | centroartidellamodernita.it, N. 12 (2018): Family Matters 2.0: Literary and Cultural Representations of the (American) Family in Transition
Eugenia styphelioides (Schltr.) J.W. Dawson & N. Snow
Creators: name: Neil Snow
name: John W. Dawson
name: Martin W. Callmander
name: Kanchi Gandhi
name: Jérôme Munzinge
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Myrtaceae
Eugenia
Eugenia styphelioides

description: Eugenia styphelioides (Schltr.) J.W. Dawson & N. Snow, comb. nova.
 ≡ Myrtus styphelioides Schltr. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 40 (Beibl. 92): 31. 1908.
 ≡ Austromytrus styphelioides (Schltr.) Burret in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 504. 1941.
 Lectotypus (here designated): New CaledoNia.
 Prov. Sud: Bord Dumbea, Le Rat & Le Rat 166 (P [P00637568]!).
 Note. ‒ The holotype of Myrtus styphelioides has been destroyed at B and the isotype at P is here designated as the lectotype.
description: Published as part of Neil Snow, John W. Dawson, Martin W. Callmander, Kanchi Gandhi & Jérôme Munzinge, 2016, New Species, New Combinations, and Lectotypifications in New Caledonian Eugenia L. (Myrtaceae), pp. 67-81 in Candollea 71 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.15553/c2016v711a9, http://zenodo.org/record/168255
Additional file 1 of Acute relaxation during pregnancy leads to a reduction in maternal electrodermal activity and self-reported stress levels
Creators: name: Bauer, Ilena
name: Hartkopf, Julia
name: Wikström, Anna-Karin
name: Schaal, Nora K.
name: Preissl, Hubert
name: Derntl, Birgit
name: Schleger, Franziska
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Fig. 1. Maternal Heart Rate (HR): Overview of maternal HR (bpm) over all time points: Music Group, Guided Imagery Group, Resting Group. Supplementary Fig. 2. Skin conductance level (SCL): Baseline corrected SCL (microsiemens) over all timepoints for the three groups separately.