cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
"Thy registers and thee I both defy": Shakespeare and the play of history and justice
Creators: name: Britton, Amy Jean
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2004

description: Bibliography: p. 139-145
description: In this thesis I apply Shakespeare's critique of historical judgment, a critique that anticipates the post-modern re-evaluation of the relationship between history and language, to his own body of plays devoted to the dramatization of English history. If one considers Sonnet 123 a problem that the history plays attempt to resolve (although there is no reason to believe this was ever a conscious formula on Shakespeare's part) then one can observe a shift in Shakespeare's approach to history and historiography as evidenced in his early to late history plays. In order to demonstrate this shift I analyze his early Henry VI plays (1589-1594) alongside Shakespeare's final play, Henry VIII (1613), to discover if and how Shakespeare represents the epistemological challenges associated with history-making and to isolate moments of historical judgment as well as the moments that appear to call for the suspension of the desire to know and judge.
Comparative Evaluation of Metaheuristic Algorithms for Hyperparameter Selection in Short-Term Weather Forecasting
Creators: name: Sen, Anuvab
name: Mazumder, Arul Rhik
name: Dutta, Dibyarup
name: Sen, Udayon
name: Syam, Pathikrit
name: Dhar, Sandipan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Weather forecasting plays a vital role in numerous sectors, but accurately capturing the complex dynamics of weather systems remains a challenge for traditional statistical models. Apart from Auto Regressive time forecasting models like ARIMA, deep learning techniques (Vanilla ANNs, LSTM and GRU networks), have shown promise in improving forecasting accuracy by capturing temporal dependencies. This paper explores the application of metaheuristic algorithms, namely Genetic Algorithm (GA), Differential Evolution (DE), and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), to automate the search for optimal hyperparameters in these model architectures. Metaheuristic algorithms excel in global optimization, offering robustness, versatility, and scalability in handling non-linear problems. We present a comparative analysis of different model architectures integrated with metaheuristic optimization, evaluating their performance in weather forecasting based on metrics such as Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). The results demonstrate the potential of metaheuristic algorithms in enhancing weather forecasting accuracy \& helps in determining the optimal set of hyper-parameters for each model. The paper underscores the importance of harnessing advanced optimization techniques to select the most suitable metaheuristic algorithm for the given weather forecasting task.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, 2 Tables, Accepted by the 15th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA 2023) to be held as part of IJCCI 2023, November 13-15, 2023, Rome, Italy
A Nakedness Rejected: Inverting Paradigms of Sovereignty between 'Breaking Bad' and 'Macbeth'
Creators: name: Fusco, Gianna
Publisher: name: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies
Year: 2021

description: The present essay traces the intertextual relationship between Breaking Bad and Macbeth looking at two main areas of structural correspondence. The first one consists in issues of rhythm, pace, and textual overlapping, with regard to which specific attention is given to scenes from the TV series that echo moments in the Shakespearean tragedy. The second area of analysis is constituted by the focus both works bring on the question of sovereign power. Through the lens offered by Agamben’s theory of the perturbing similarities between the structural positioning of the sovereign and the homo sacer at the margin of the law, the article looks at Macbeth’s and Walter White’s respective parabolas as attempts to attain sovereign power, while at the same time rejecting the inevitable implications such positioning brings with it.
description: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies, Vol. 8 (2021): American Shakespeare
Thüringische Residenzen
Creators: name: Wirth, Hermann
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: -
description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 35 Nr. 1 (1994): Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Current Methods for Hyperpolarized [1-13C]pyruvate MRI Human Studies
Creators: name: Larson, Peder EZ
name: Bernard, Jenna ML
name: Bankson, James A
name: Bøgh, Nikolaj
name: Bok, Robert A
name: Chen, Albert P.
name: Cunningham, Charles H
name: Gordon, Jeremy
name: Hövener, Jan-Bernd
name: Laustsen, Christoffer
name: Mayer, Dirk
name: McLean, Mary A
name: Schilling, Franz
name: Slater, James
name: Vanderheyden, Jean-Luc
name: von Morze, Cornelius
name: Vigneron, Daniel B
name: Xu, Duan
name: Group, the HP 13C MRI Consensus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MRI with hyperpolarized (HP) 13C agents, also known as HP 13C MRI, can measure processes such as localized metabolism that is altered in numerous cancers, liver, heart, kidney diseases, and more. It has been translated into human studies during the past 10 years, with recent rapid growth in studies largely based on increasing availability of hyperpolarized agent preparation methods suitable for use in humans. This paper aims to capture the current successful practices for HP MRI human studies with [1-13C]pyruvate - by far the most commonly used agent, which sits at a key metabolic junction in glycolysis. The paper is divided into four major topic areas: (1) HP 13C-pyruvate preparation, (2) MRI system setup and calibrations, (3) data acquisition and image reconstruction, and (4) data analysis and quantification. In each area, we identified the key components for a successful study, summarized both published studies and current practices, and discuss evidence gaps, strengths, and limitations. This paper is the output of the HP 13C MRI Consensus Group as well as the ISMRM Hyperpolarized Media MR and Hyperpolarized Methods & Equipment study groups. It further aims to provide a comprehensive reference for future consensus building as the field continues to advance human studies with this metabolic imaging modality.
description: Accepted at Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Additional file 3 of Management of obstructive sleep apnea in children: a Canada-wide survey
Creators: name: Cousineau, J.
name: Prévost, A.-S.
name: Battista, M.-C.
name: Gervais, M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Explanation page.
Schloß Monaise - Wiederherstellung eines nationalen Kulturdenkmals
Creators: name: Nebe, Johannes Michael
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: -
description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 35 Nr. 1 (1994): Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
[Annoncen]
Creators: name: Die Redaktion
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: -
description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 39 Nr. 1 (1998): Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
“You Dare to Compare Yourself to Shakespeare?”: Philip Roth, American Bard
Creators: name: Simonetti, Paolo
Publisher: name: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies
Year: 2021

description: Philip Roth’s writing has been consistently inspired and influenced by Shakespeare’s theater on multiple levels. This essay aims to investigate Roth’s Shakespearean imagination by tracing the evolution of characters, themes, symbolism, and motifs derived from the Bard’s plays, focusing in particular on Operation Shylock and Sabbath’s Theater. Throughout his career, Roth’s negotiations with Shakespeare were often antagonistic and competitive, but, as time passed, allusions to the Bard in his novels became more accurate, while Roth’s writing took on a strong performative vein. In his most accomplished works, Roth ‘invented’ (or reinvented) the character of “the author” – the writer, the playwright, the artist – and set a pseudo-autobiographic alter-ego on the stage of contemporary America. For a writer who continually performed the character of “the author” in his texts as well as outside (in interviews, essays etc.), it is only natural to model his public persona on the English playwright, eventually impersonating the role of “American bard”.
description: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies, Vol. 8 (2021): American Shakespeare
Anisotropic Compactification of Nonrelativistic M-Theory
Creators: name: Ebert, Stephen
name: Yan, Ziqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a decoupling limit of M-theory where the three-form gauge potential becomes critical. This limit leads to nonrelativistic M-theory coupled to a non-Lorentzian spacetime geometry. Nonrelativistic M-theory is U-dual to M-theory in the discrete light cone quantization, a non-perturbative approach related to the Matrix theory description of M-theory. We focus on the compactification of nonrelativistic M-theory over a two-torus that exhibits anisotropic behaviors due to the foliation structure of the spacetime geometry. We develop a frame covariant formalism of the toroidal geometry, which provides a geometrical interpretation of the recently discovered polynomial realization of SL(2,Z) duality in nonrelativistic type IIB superstring theory. We will show that the nonrelativistic IIB string background fields transform as polynomials of an effective Galilean "boost velocity" on the two-torus. As an application, we construct an action principle describing a single M5-brane in nonrelativistic M-theory and study its compactification over the anisotropic two-torus. This procedure leads to a D3-brane action in nonrelativistic IIB string theory that makes the SL(2,Z) invariance manifest in the polynomial realization.
description: 44 pages; v2:published version, typos fixed, references added
Role of zincergic neurons in cortical function and plasticity
Creators: name: Brown, Craig E.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2004

description: Bibliography: p. 155-184
description: Zinc ions are essential for life as they regulate the function of numerous structural, transcriptional and enzymatic proteins. In addition to its role in basic cellular functioning, zinc is contained within and released from the nerve terminals of a subset of glutamatergic neurons in the central nervous system. Physiological studies have shown that synaptically-released zinc can powerfully modulate synaptic transmission by regulating the activation of numerous voltage and ligand gated ion channels and intracellular signaling proteins. Consequently, the goal of this thesis was elucidate the anatomical organization and functional significance of zinc-releasing (ie. zincergic) neurons in the mammalian forebrain, particularly within the cerebral cortex. To do this, we first describe a novel procedure for staining the cell bodies of zincergic neurons that eliminates background staining of zinc within synaptic terminals, thereby enabling a clear and accurate description of these neurons. Using this method, we found that zincergic neurons were typically pyramidal in shape and densely populated telencephalic structures such as the cerebral cortex, hippocampus and amygdala. In addition, labeled neurons were found in the lateral ventricle, lateral septum, zona incerta, as well as select regions of the hypothalamus, a region previously thought to be devoid of neurons with a zincergic phenotype. In order to implicate zincergic neurons in cerebral cortical plasticity, we characterized zincergic innervation of the mouse barrel cortex, our model system. Utilizing a zinc-specific retrograde labeling method, we found that the majority of zincergic projections to the barrel cortex originated from ipsilateral and callosal neurons situated within layers 2/3 and 6 of the cerebral cortex. Given that zinc is potent modulator of synaptic transmission, and that intracortical circuits drive experience-dependent reorganizations in the adult cortex, we then examined the effect of tactile stimulation or deprivation on the homeostatic regulation of zinc within barrel cortex synapses. Our data indicate that levels of synaptic zinc in layer 4 were rapidly and bi-directionally regulated by tactile experience. Furthermore, we found that the experience-dependent regulation of synaptic zinc was highly dependent on age, with aged animals no longer showing this capability. In summary, these results suggest that zincergic circuits comprise a chemospecific associative network that reciprocally interconnects telencephalic structures. Furthermore, our data implicate zincergic circuits in rapid, experience-dependent plasticity in the adult cerebral cortex, as well decrements in this plasticity that accompany senescence.
The Guise of Friendship: Orson Welles and the Soliloquy on Film
Creators: name: Yoo, Jeewon
Publisher: name: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies
Year: 2021

description: This essay discusses how Orson Welles uses the soliloquy to explore modes of social isolation in Shakespeare’s plays. In Welles’s Shakespeare films, the soliloquizer does not withdraw from the scene of social interaction. Other characters can, and often do, overhear the speech, though they do not respond to it. The Wellesian soliloquy is neither a monologue nor a conversation, and its performers run the risk of being ignored even when they wish to be heard. Through readings of Welles’s Othello and Chimes at Midnight, the essay shows how Welles uses the filmed soliloquy to represent the sovereign and the black man as socially isolated figures. The essay also examines how Welles translates the language of the soliloquy into a film’s visual style. Like a soliloquy, the expressionist distortions of the film world reflect the interiority of the characters, but these shifts in scale, color, and time go unacknowledged by other characters in the film and are only noticed by the viewer. This soliloquized style, the essay goes on to suggest, is a general feature of Welles’s films, which offers the viewer a temporary intimacy with the film world.
description: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies, Vol. 8 (2021): American Shakespeare
Accessibility of the Gravitational-Wave Background due to Binary Coalescences to Second and Third Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors
Creators: name: Wu, Chengjian
name: Mandic, Vuk
name: Regimbau, Tania
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Compact binary coalescences, such as binary neutron stars or black holes, are among the most promising candidate sources for the current and future terrestrial gravitational-wave detectors. While such sources are best searched using matched template techniques and chirp template banks, integrating chirp signals from binaries over the entire Universe also leads to a gravitational-wave background (GWB). In this paper we systematically scan the parameter space for the binary coalescence GWB models, taking into account uncertainties in the star formation rate and in the delay time between the formation and coalescence of the binary, and we compare the computed GWB to the sensitivities of the second and third generation gravitational-wave detector networks. We find that second generation detectors are likely to detect the binary coalescence GWB, while the third generation detectors will probe most of the available parameter space. The binary coalescence GWB will, in fact, be a foreground for the third-generation detectors, potentially masking the GWB background due to cosmological sources. Accessing the cosmological GWB with third generation detectors will therefore require identification and subtraction of all inspiral signals from all binaries in the detectors' frequency band.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Orson Welles’s Caesars
Creators: name: Wilkinson, Jane
Publisher: name: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies
Year: 2021

description: This essay examines Welles’s multiple, unstable versions of Julius Caesar: a work in progress in which the director-illustrator-actor-designer never ceased returning to and rethinking Shakespeare’s play and his own earlier conceptions, adaptations, research and creations, remediating them for new contexts, channels and audiences. Welles’s drawings integrate the words of the Everybody’s Shakespeare adaptations (1934), telling the Caesar story differently and gesturing towards possible future realizations. In New York, in 1937, his Mercury Theatre Caesar plays on associations with contemporary events through its casting, set design, music and lighting (inspired by the scenography and ‘cathedrals of light’ of the Nuremberg rallies). The orchestration of sound effects and voices in phonograph recordings and of music, narrative and acting in radio broadcasts translates the visual and kinetic vocabulary of his previous engagements into a choreography of sound. Juxtaposing the radio actors’ voices and the narration of Plutarch by a CBS news reporter brings different styles, tones and temporalities into uneasy contact. Placing Welles’s work in the context of earlier U.S. reception of Julius Caesar, I examine its dialectical relation with Shakespeare’s words and imagery and focus on the metatheatrical – or metacommunicative – aspects of his creations: spectacles of power for American audiences of the 1930s and early 1940s.
description: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies, Vol. 8 (2021): American Shakespeare
Robust Detection of Hierarchical Communities from Escherichia coli Gene Expression Data
Creators: name: Treviño, Santiago
name: Sun, Yudong
name: Cooper, Tim F.
name: Bassler, Kevin E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Determining the functional structure of biological networks is a central goal of systems biology. One approach is to analyze gene expression data to infer a network of gene interactions on the basis of their correlated responses to environmental and genetic perturbations. The inferred network can then be analyzed to identify functional communities. However, commonly used algorithms can yield unreliable results due to experimental noise, algorithmic stochasticity, and the influence of arbitrarily chosen parameter values. Furthermore, the results obtained typically provide only a simplistic view of the network partitioned into disjoint communities and provide no information of the relationship between communities. Here, we present methods to robustly detect coregulated and functionally enriched gene communities and demonstrate their application and validity for Escherichia coli gene expression data. Applying a recently developed community detection algorithm to the network of interactions identified with the context likelihood of relatedness (CLR) method, we show that a hierarchy of network communities can be identified. These communities significantly enrich for gene ontology (GO) terms, consistent with them representing biologically meaningful groups. Further, analysis of the most significantly enriched communities identified several candidate new regulatory interactions. The robustness of our methods is demonstrated by showing that a core set of functional communities is reliably found when artificial noise, modeling experimental noise, is added to the data. We find that noise mainly acts conservatively, increasing the relatedness required for a network link to be reliably assigned and decreasing the size of the core communities, rather than causing association of genes into new communities.
description: Due to appear in PLoS Computational Biology. Supplementary Figure S1 was not uploaded but is available by contacting the author. 27 pages, 5 figures, 15 supplementary files
A framework: Cluster detection and multidimensional visualization of automated data mining using intelligent agents
Creators: name: Jayabrabu, R.
name: Saravanan, V.
name: Vivekanandan, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Data Mining techniques plays a vital role like extraction of required knowledge, finding unsuspected information to make strategic decision in a novel way which in term understandable by domain experts. A generalized frame work is proposed by considering non - domain experts during mining process for better understanding, making better decision and better finding new patters in case of selecting suitable data mining techniques based on the user profile by means of intelligent agents. KEYWORDS: Data Mining Techniques, Intelligent Agents, User Profile, Multidimensional Visualization, Knowledge Discovery.
description: 15 pages
Learning Exceptional Subgroups by End-to-End Maximizing KL-Divergence.
Creators: name: Xu, Sascha
name: Walter, Nils
name: Kalofolias, Janis
name: Vreeken, Jilles
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2024

description: Finding and describing sub-populations that are exceptional in terms of a target property has important applications in many scientific disciplines, from identifying disadvantaged demographic groups in census data to finding conductive molecules within gold nanoparticles. Current approaches to finding such subgroups require pre-discretized predictive variables, do not permit non-trivial target distributions, do not scale to large datasets, and struggle to find diverse results. To address these limitations, we propose SYFLOW, an end-to-end optimizable approach in which we leverage normalizing flows to model arbitrary target distributions and introduce a novel neural layer that results in easily interpretable subgroup descriptions. We demonstrate on synthetic data, real-world data, and via a case study, that SYFLOW reliably finds highly exceptional subgroups accompanied by insightful descriptions.
Pavel Kouřil/Dalibor Prix/Martin Wihoda, Hrady českého Slezska
Creators: name: Durdík, Tomáš
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Pavel Kouřil/Dalibor Prix/Martin Wihoda, Hrady českého Slezska (The Castles of Czech Silesia - Die Burgen Böhmisch-Schlesiens) Brno/Opava: Archeologicky ústav AV ČR Brno 2000, 645 Seiten mit Abbildungen, englische und deutsche Zusammenfas sung, ISBN 80-86023-22 -2 .
description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 42 Nr. 1 (2001): Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
“He Isn’t Exactly My Brother”: Shakespearean Illogic in 'The Palm Beach Story'
Creators: name: Sternlieb, Lisa
Publisher: name: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies
Year: 2021

description: Although Stanley Cavell disparaged The Palm Beach Story, this article argues that the film epitomizes a Cavellian comedy of remarriage. More than any of the screwball comedies in Cavell’s classic study, The Palm Beach Story borrows its madcap plot twists from Shakespearean comedies. While Preston Sturges pays homage to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and The Comedy of Errors, he also exposes the illogic of plots built on interchangeable characters. Both Shakespeare and Sturges rely on impersonation and disguise, but while Shakespeare uses them to unite his men and women in matrimony, Sturges uses them to distinguish between the authentic experience and the performance of love.
description: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies, Vol. 8 (2021): American Shakespeare
Additional file 3 of Single-cell analysis of cell fate bifurcation in the chordate Ciona
Creators: name: Winkley, Konner M.
name: Reeves, Wendy M.
name: Veeman, Michael T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional File 3: Figure S2. Adult of origin effect correction using SNPs. A-C) First-pass UMAP plots at the 64-cell (A), 112-cell (B), and mid-gastrula (C) stages where the animal lineages are colored in red. D-F) Dendrograms of heterarchical clustering of genetic relatedness of STAMPs in the 64-cell (D), 112-cell (E), and mid-gastrula (F) stages using SNPs. G-I) UMAP plots at the 64-cell (G), 112-cell (H), and mid-gastrula (I) stages where STAMPs have been colored by the putative adult-of-origin using the clustering in D-F. UMAP space is identical to A-C.
Observation of chi_c and chi_b nuclear suppression via dilepton polarization measurements
Creators: name: Faccioli, Pietro
name: Seixas, Joao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that it is possible to use the polarization of vector quarkonia, measured from dilepton event samples, as an instrument to study the suppression of chi_c and chi_b in heavy-ion collisions, where a direct determination of signal yields involving the identification of low-energy photons is essentially impossible. A change of the observed J/psi and Upsilon(1S) polarizations from proton-proton to central nucleus-nucleus collisions would directly reflect differences in the nuclear dissociation patterns of S and P states and may provide a strong indication for quarkonium sequential suppression in the quark-gluon plasma.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
A twisted spectral triple for quantum SU(2)
Creators: name: Kaad, Jens
name: Senior, Roger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58B32

description: We initiate the study of a q-deformed geometry for quantum SU(2). In contrast with the usual properties of a spectral triple, we get that only twisted commutators between algebra elements and our Dirac operator are bounded. Furthermore, the resolvent only becomes compact when measured with respect to a trace on a semifinite von Neumann algebra which does not contain the quantum group. We show that the zeta function at the identity has a meromorphic continuation to the whole complex plane and that a large family of local Hochschild cocycles associated with our twisted spectral triple are twisted coboundaries.
description: 14 pages
Effects of fat tissue-derived hormones and cytokines on leptin gene expression and leptin secretion in differentiating preadipocytes
Creators: name: Abdel-Hafez, Mohammed S.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2004

description: Bibliography: p. 64-80
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: Adipocytes have been shown to release an ever-increasing number of biomediators. However the role of these mediators in adipose tissue development remains unclear. The present study investigated the direct effects of exogenous leptin and other adipose tissue-derived cytokines (TNFoc, IL-I p, IL-6, and TGFP) on preadipocyte differentiation and leptin production in vitro. To determine the role of these agents, rat preadipocytes were induced to differentiate with a hormonal cocktail in the absence or presence of cytokines. Addition of leptin to the hormonal cocktail exerted two significant opposing effects on differentiating preadipocytes, depending on the dose used. TNFa, TGFp and IL-IP exerted significant inhibitory effects on preadipocyte differentiation and leptin production, even in the presence of a stimulatory dose of leptin. IL-6 exerted a significant stimulatory effect on preadipocyte differentiation and leptin production, and enhanced the stimulatory effects of leptin. In summary, the present data suggest that adipose tissue-derived hormones and cytokines may play an important role in regulating adipose tissue development.
A consistent resummation of mass and soft logarithms in processes with heavy flavours
Creators: name: Ghira, Andrea
name: Marzani, Simone
name: Ridolfi, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Perturbative calculations for processes that involve heavy flavours can be performed in two approaches: the massive scheme and the massless one. The former enables one to fully account for the heavy-quark kinematics, while the latter allows one to resum potentially-large mass logarithms. Furthermore, the two schemes can be combined to take advantage of the virtues of each of them. Both massive and massless calculations can be supplemented by soft-gluon resummation. However matching between massive and massless resummed calculations is difficult, essentially because of the non-commutativity of the soft and massless limits. In this paper, we develop a formalism to combine resummed massless and massive calculations. We obtain an all-order expression that consistently resums both mass and soft logarithms to next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. We perform detailed calculations for the decay of the Higgs into a heavy-quark pair and discuss the applications of this formalism to different processes.
description: 46 pages, 7 figures; version to be published in JHEP
Henry James, George Santayana, H. D., W. H. Auden: Four Versions of Shakespeare Out of Context
Creators: name: Caserio, Robert L.
Publisher: name: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies
Year: 2021

description: Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro’s Shakespeare in a Divided America, a study of Shakespeare’s impact in the U.S. since the 1830s, issues in Shapiro’s sympathetic account of a 2017 production of Julius Caesar in New York. That production staged the play in terms of up-to-date conflict between Trump-allied Republicans and Clinton-allied Democrats. Shapiro’s attachment of Shakespeare to current events is a sterling example of a prevailing mode of literary criticism, which ties the worth and relevance of literary art to its historical contexts, whether those contexts be present-day or historically past. But an alternative to the dominant critical mode is discoverable in meditations on Shakespeare by Henry James, George Santayana, H. D., and W. H. Auden. Although each author solicits contextual and historical dimensions of Shakespeare, each foregrounds Shakespeare’s withdrawal from those dimensions. Perhaps these writers’ emphasis on a de-contextualizing, de-historicizing component in Shakespeare – amounting to a retreat to what James calls “the blessed fictive world” – ought not to be overlooked or undervalued by literary and cultural criticism.
description: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies, Vol. 8 (2021): American Shakespeare
Universality in Bacterial Colonies
Creators: name: Bonachela, Juan A.
name: Nadell, Carey D.
name: Xavier, Joao B.
name: Levin, Simon A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The emergent spatial patterns generated by growing bacterial colonies have been the focus of intense study in physics during the last twenty years. Both experimental and theoretical investigations have made possible a clear qualitative picture of the different structures that such colonies can exhibit, depending on the medium on which they are growing. However, there are relatively few quantitative descriptions of these patterns. In this paper, we use a mechanistically detailed simulation framework to measure the scaling exponents associated with the advancing fronts of bacterial colonies on hard agar substrata, aiming to discern the universality class to which the system belongs. We show that the universal behavior exhibited by the colonies can be much richer than previously reported, and we propose the possibility of up to four different sub-phases within the medium-to-high nutrient concentration regime. We hypothesize that the quenched disorder that characterizes one of these sub-phases is an emergent property of the growth and division of bacteria competing for limited space and nutrients.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
Mobile Manipulation Platform for Autonomous Indoor Inspections in Low-Clearance Areas
Creators: name: Pearson, Erik
name: Szenher, Paul
name: Huang, Christine
name: Englot, Brendan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mobile manipulators have been used for inspection, maintenance and repair tasks over the years, but there are some key limitations. Stability concerns typically require mobile platforms to be large in order to handle far-reaching manipulators, or for the manipulators to have drastically reduced workspaces to fit onto smaller mobile platforms. Therefore we propose a combination of two widely-used robots, the Clearpath Jackal unmanned ground vehicle and the Kinova Gen3 six degree-of-freedom manipulator. The Jackal has a small footprint and works well in low-clearance indoor environments. Extensive testing of localization, navigation and mapping using LiDAR sensors makes the Jackal a well developed mobile platform suitable for mobile manipulation. The Gen3 has a long reach with reasonable power consumption for manipulation tasks. A wrist camera for RGB-D sensing and a customizable end effector interface makes the Gen3 suitable for a myriad of manipulation tasks. Typically these features would result in an unstable platform, however with a few minor hardware and software modifications, we have produced a stable, high-performance mobile manipulation platform with significant mobility, reach, sensing, and maneuverability for indoor inspection tasks, without degradation of the component robots' individual capabilities. These assertions were investigated with hardware via semi-autonomous navigation to waypoints in a busy indoor environment, and high-precision self-alignment alongside planar structures for intervention tasks.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures, to be published in IDETC-CIE 2023
Deliverable 2.5: Copyright Chart Model
Creators: name: Duque Lima, Francisco
name: Matas, Ariadna
name: Petrasova, Kristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This deliverable describes the work lead by WP2 and developed in collaboration with multiple WPs to develop a model for an informational tool denominated as the “Copyright Chart”. The process of designing the tool, refining user specifications, selecting content, and outlining relevant information is described in detail.
Experimental preparation of eight-partite linear and two-diamond shape cluster states for photonic qumodes
Creators: name: Su, Xiaolong
name: Zhao, Yaping
name: Hao, Shuhong
name: Jia, Xiaojun
name: Xie, Changde
name: Peng, Kunchi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The preparation of multipartite entangled states is the prerequisite for exploring quantum information networks and quantum computation. In this letter, we present the first experimental demonstration of eight-partite spatially separated CV entangled states. The initial resource quantum states are eight squeezed states of light, through the linearly optical transformation of which two types of the eight-partite cluster entangled states are prepared, respectively. The generated eight entangled photonic qumodes are spatially separated, which provide valuable quantum resources to implement more complicated quantum information task.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
VALID: A perceptually validated Virtual Avatar Library for Inclusion and Diversity
Creators: name: Do, Tiffany D.
name: Zelenty, Steve
name: Gonzalez-Franco, Mar
name: McMahan, Ryan P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As consumer adoption of immersive technologies grows, virtual avatars will play a prominent role in the future of social computing. However, as people begin to interact more frequently through virtual avatars, it is important to ensure that the research community has validated tools to evaluate the effects and consequences of such technologies. We present the first iteration of a new, freely available 3D avatar library called the Virtual Avatar Library for Inclusion and Diversity (VALID), which includes 210 fully rigged avatars with a focus on advancing racial diversity and inclusion. We present a detailed process for creating, iterating, and validating avatars of diversity. Through a large online study (n=132) with participants from 33 countries, we provide statistically validated labels for each avatar's perceived race and gender. Through our validation study, we also advance knowledge pertaining to the perception of an avatar's race. In particular, we found that avatars of some races were more accurately identified by participants of the same race.
The relative cost-effectiveness of policies to reduce nitrate contamination of groundwater from agricultural sources in southern Ontario
Creators: name: Wiles, Brett William
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2005

description: Bibliography: p. 122-127
description: The pollution of groundwater as a result of intensive agriculture has become a major concern for rural areas. This thesis examines the relative cost-effectiveness of implementing a buy and lease policy and a nitrogen standard policy as a means of reducing nitrate concentration from agricultural sources at the Thornton production wells, located in the County of Oxford, Ontario. In order to find the minimum social cost of implementing these two policies, two models are developed, the buy and lease model and the nitrogen standard model. Both models involve a linear programming technique. After simulating each policy for the Thornton Well Field and applying the two models it is evident that the buy and lease policy is more cost-effective. The results also show how optimal implementation of each policy reflects the agricultural productivity of various fields along with physical parameters of the aquifer, such as time of travel and infiltration rates.
Dynamics of Atom-Atom Correlations in the Fermi problem
Creators: name: Borrelli, Massimo
name: Sabín, Carlos
name: Adesso, Gerardo
name: Plastina, Francesco
name: Maniscalco, Sabrina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed perturbative study of the dynamics of several types of atom-atom correlations in the famous Fermi problem. This is an archetypal model to study micro-causality in the quantum domain where two atoms, the first initially excited and the second prepared in its ground state, interact with the vacuum electromagnetic field. The excitation can be transferred to the second atom via a flying photon and various kinds of quantum correlations between the two are generated during this process. Among these, prominent examples are given by entanglement, quantum discord and nonlocal correlations. It is the aim of this paper to analyze the role of the light cone in the emergence of such correlations.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
A CONVERT compiler of REC for PDP-8
Creators: name: McIntosh, Harold V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: REC (REGULAR EXPRESSION COMPILER) is a programming language of simple structure developed originally for the PDP-8 computer of the Digital Equipment, Corporation, but readily adaptable to any other general purpose computer. It has been used extensively in teaching Algebra and Numerical Analysis in the Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Moreover, the fact that the same control language, REC, is equally applicable and equally efficient over the whole range of computer facilities available to the students gives a very welcome coherence to the entire teaching program, including the course of Mathematical Logic which is devoted to the theoretical aspects of such matters. REC; derives its appeal from the fact that computers can be regarded reasonably well as Turing Machines. The REC notation is simply a manner of writing regular expression, somewhat more amenable to programming the Turing Machine which they control. If one does not wish to think so strictly in terms of Turing Machines, REC expressions still provide a means of defining the flow of control in a program which is quite convenient for many applications.
description: This paper is seminal formal definition for REC language was published in "Acta Mexicana de Ciencia y Tecnolog\'ia" of IPN, Jan-April 1968. REC is a programming language of extremely simple structure and what it was proved that the well publicized inconvenience of programming without a goto was a myth in Sixties endings
Henry James and the Better Part of Discretion
Creators: name: Zimmern, Arnaud
Publisher: name: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies
Year: 2021

description: This article begins with the realization that American students today experience Shakespeare’s dramas in one of two predominant ways, both of which are informed by a scholarly ethos of discretion. One invokes the imperative to set aside any foolhardy desire to pin down the biography of the Bard, unknowable as it is. The other insists on travelling abroad to get to know, if not the man himself, then at least his umwelt, breathe the air he breathed, walk the streets he walked, and dive deeper into ever-frustrated intimacy. Both approaches promote a form of discretion that has little to do with withholding what we do know and everything to do with disclosing what we might know despite all the things we know we cannot know. The trials and opportunities, the acts of courage and cowardice which such discretion imposes upon readers were well-known to Henry James. Scholars have paid due attention to his introduction to The Tempest or his famous short story The Birthplace. But one must also revisit The Jolly Corner through the lens of that champion of discretion, Sir John Falstaff, to better glimpse James’s critique of a trending pusillanimity.
description: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies, Vol. 8 (2021): American Shakespeare
Additional file 4 of Management of obstructive sleep apnea in children: a Canada-wide survey
Creators: name: Cousineau, J.
name: Prévost, A.-S.
name: Battista, M.-C.
name: Gervais, M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Email Invitation Letter.
Semi-automatic staging area for high-quality structured data extraction from scientific literature
Creators: name: Foppiano, Luca
name: Mato, Tomoya
name: Terashima, Kensei
name: Suarez, Pedro Ortiz
name: Tou, Taku
name: Sakai, Chikako
name: Wang, Wei-Sheng
name: Amagasa, Toshiyuki
name: Takano, Yoshihiko
name: Ishii, Masashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a semi-automatic staging area for efficiently building an accurate database of experimental physical properties of superconductors from literature, called SuperCon2, to enrich the existing manually-built superconductor database SuperCon. Here we report our curation interface (SuperCon2 Interface) and a workflow managing the state transitions of each examined record, to validate the dataset of superconductors from PDF documents collected using Grobid-superconductors in a previous work. This curation workflow allows both automatic and manual operations, the former contains ``anomaly detection'' that scans new data identifying outliers, and a ``training data collector'' mechanism that collects training data examples based on manual corrections. Such training data collection policy is effective in improving the machine-learning models with a reduced number of examples. For manual operations, the interface (SuperCon2 interface) is developed to increase efficiency during manual correction by providing a smart interface and an enhanced PDF document viewer. We show that our interface significantly improves the curation quality by boosting precision and recall as compared with the traditional ``manual correction''. Our semi-automatic approach would provide a solution for achieving a reliable database with text-data mining of scientific documents.
description: 5 tables, 6 figures, 18 pages
“Hamlet Wavered for All of Us”: Notes on Emily Dickinson as a Reader of Shakespeare
Creators: name: Lanati, Barbara
Publisher: name: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies
Year: 2021

description: In New England, Shakespeare’s work was welcomed with alternating success. It was censored at first for several reasons: the Puritan law found his stories too sensuous and indecorous and his language was considered foreign to the New World. Even Emerson, despite his wide culture, objected to the fact that his contemporaries should consider Shakespeare immortal, claiming that he embodied a past that needed to be left behind. If Shakespeare was frowned upon by the supercilious older generations, troubled by his moral and linguistic ambiguity, Emily Dickinson and her young contemporaries devotedly admired his work and read about it. The environment Emily Dickinson grew up in refined her taste vis à vis her readings and led her to an idea of drama as a possible and less intimidating double for real life. Drawing on hidden and more overt allusions, this essay explores the ways in which Shakespeare’s dramatic voice offered her the opportunity of interweaving fancy and daily life, imagination and real events.
description: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies, Vol. 8 (2021): American Shakespeare
Classification of singular Q-homology planes. II. C^1- and C*-rulings
Creators: name: Palka, Karol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14R05, 14J17, 14J26

description: A Q-homology plane is a normal complex algebraic surface having trivial rational homology. We classify singular Q-homology planes which are C^1- or C*-ruled. We analyze their completions, the number of different rulings, the number of affine lines on it and we give constructions. Together with previously known results this completes the classification of Q-homology planes with smooth locus of non-general type. We show also that the dimension of a family of homeomorphic but non-isomorphic singular Q-homology planes having the same weighted boundary, singularities and Kodaira dimension can be arbitrarily big.
description: 32 pages, to appear in Pacific J.M