cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the Origin and End of Sex: Language, science and social construction in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Monique Wittig
Creators: Burton, William Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: French literature
History
Gender identity
Sex role
Sex differences
Lesbians

description: This dissertation explores the history of social-constructionist theories of sexual difference through the surprising connection between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the lesbian-feminist writer and theorist Monique Wittig. Wittig developed a social contract theory that radically denaturalized sexual difference, an approach she credited to Rousseau. I offer an interpretation of her appropriation of Rousseau that frames it within the French women’s liberation movement. Then, re-reading him through her lens, I argue that Rousseau too viewed sexual difference as a social construction. Chapter 1 argues that Wittig’s concept of “the lesbian” is modeled after Rousseau’s “natural man.” Wittig used this notion in the “lesbian question” quarrel in the women’s movement to depict human freedom after the abolition of sexual difference. In chapter 2, I show how Wittig interprets the social contract as a political and epistemological concept that encodes the presuppositions, like heterosexuality or race, which shape the social order and knowledge production. Through this concept, she engages in a debate with the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss over Rousseau’s legacy. Chapter 3 demonstrates that Rousseau retooled the naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon’s methodology and data in order to denaturalize sexual difference. From there, he posited that sex originates in the transition from proper nouns to common nouns, and is therefore a linguistic construction. This construction allows humans to understand virtue, because without it, humans are unable to access their moral sense. In chapter 4, I argue that his novel Julie represents his most sustained effort to harness material science to favor the development of moral sense. The novel synthesizes spiritual exercises’ emphasis on linguistic representations with materialist ideas about language’s influence on the body. It calls on readers to use spiritual exercises to shape their sexual identities in order to conform with rigidly defined gender roles. In the conclusion, I bring Wittig and Rousseau together within a loosely existentialist framework. I argue that by severing the chain of necessity between biology and sex, they posit a meaninglessness underlying our sexual identities; they react differently to this abyss, but it is in their realization of it that their work has a striking relevance today.
Ophioglossum vulgatum subsp. africanum J. E. Burrows
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Ophioglossales
Ophioglossaceae
Ophioglossum
Ophioglossum vulgatum
Ophioglossum vulgatum l. subsp. africanum j.e.burrows

description: Ophioglossum vulgatum L. subsp. africanum J.E.Burrows  —
Habit: Fern.
Habitat: UMWF; up to 3 300 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Castle Forest Station, Alt. 2080 m, 30 Nov. 1971, Faden et al. 71/901 (EA).
References: Schelpe (1951), Burrows & Johns (2001), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
title: Basenreiche Pfeifengras-Streuewiesen des Molinietum caeruleae W. Koch 1926, ihre Brachestadien und ihre wichtigsten Kontaktgesellschaften in Südost-Niedersachsen
Creators: name: Zacharias, Dietmar
name: Janßen, Christiane
name: Brandes, Dietmar
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: 58

description: Im Übergangsbereich des Hügellandes zum Flachland in Südost-Niedersachsen werden 14 Waldwiesenkomplexe östlich von Braunschweig floristisch und pflanzensoziologisch untersucht. Sie weisen Restbestände des in Niedersachsen sehr seltenen und bisher erst durch wenige Vegetationsaufnahmen belegten
Molinietum caeruleae W. Koch 1926 auf (Tabelle 1). Dieses gliedert sich im Untersuchungsgebiet in eine Ausbildung von Thalictrum lucidum, z. T. mit Iris sibirica, der sehr extensiv genutzten Wiesenrandbereiche, eine Ausbildung von Trollius europaeus basenärmerer Standorte, eine Ausbildung von Serratula tinctoria
basenreicherer Standorte und eine Typische Ausbildung. Neben den Pfeifengras-Streuewiesen werden deren Brachestadien und wichtigste Kontaktgesellschaften
belegt. Auf der Basis vollständiger Sippenlisten der Gefäßpflanzen werden das floristische Potential der 14 Wiesenkomplexe verglichen und die Ursachen für dessen Heterogenität diskutiert. Aufgrund floristischer Besonderheiten werden darüberhinaus die Molinion-Bestände und deren Brachestadien eines von Äckern
umgebenen Wiesenkomplexes westlich von Braunschweig dokumentiert.
description: Fourteen plots in forest meadows in southeastern Lower Saxony where hilly country meets the plain, were studied floristically and phytosociologically. The Molinietum caeruleae W. Koch 1926 (table 1), which occurs on these meadows, is very rare in Lower Saxony and up to now only poorly documented by relevés. In the investigated area the Molinietum caeruleae is divided into a Thalictrum lucidum formation growing at the little-used edge of meadows; a Trollius europaeus formation on sites of low alcalinity, a Serratula tinctoria formation on sites providing a higher alkalinity, and a typical formation. The present state of unused Molinion meadows is documented as well as the most important plant communities growing adjacent to the forest meadows. Floristic aspects are discussed, based on complete lists of the vascular plants of the fourteen plots. In addition, the Molinion stands of a single meadow located in the west of Brunswick are described.
Atrial fibrillation is frequent but does not affect risk stratification in pulmonary embolism
Creators: name: Ebner, Matthias
name: Rogge, Nina I. J.
name: Parwani, Abdul S.
name: Sentler, Carmen
name: Lerchbaumer, Markus H.
name: Pieske, Burkert
name: Konstantinides, Stavros V.
name: Hasenfuß, Gerd
name: Wachter, Rolf
name: Lankeit, Mareike
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: atrial fibrillation
subject: MR-proANP
subject: prognosis
subject: pulmonary embolism
subject: risk stratification
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Although prior studies indicate a high prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with pulmonary embolism (PE), the exact prevalence and prognostic impact are unknown. Methods: We aimed to investigate the prevalence, risk factors and prognostic impact of AF on risk stratification, in-hospital adverse outcomes and mortality in 528 consecutive PE patients enrolled in a single-centre registry between 09/2008 and 09/2017. Results: Overall, 52 patients (9.8%) had known AF and 57 (10.8%) presented with AF on admission; of those, 34 (59.6%) were newly diagnosed with AF. Compared to patients with no AF, overt hyperthyroidism was associated with newly diagnosed AF (OR 7.89 [2.99–20.86]), whilst cardiovascular risk comorbidities were more frequently observed in patients with known AF. Patients with AF on admission had more comorbidities, presented more frequently with tachycardia and elevated cardiac biomarkers and were hence stratified to higher risk classes. However, AF on admission had no impact on in-hospital adverse outcome (8.3%) and in-hospital mortality (4.5%). In multivariate logistic regression analyses corrected for AF on admission, NT-proBNP and troponin elevation as well as higher risk classes in risk assessment models remained independent predictors of an in-hospital adverse outcome. Conclusion: Atrial fibrillation is a frequent finding in PE, affecting more than 10% of patients. However, AF was not associated with a higher risk of in-hospital adverse outcomes and did not affect the prognostic performance of risk assessment strategies. Thus, our data support the use of risk stratification tools for patients with acute PE irrespective of the heart rhythm on admission.
On the Performance and Financing of Nascent Entrepreneurs
Creators: Huang, Jun
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Management
Economics

description: In this dissertation, three stand-alone studies are presented under a common theme: how do nascent entrepreneurs benefit from knowledge transfer? In the first study, I show that entrepreneurs reinforced their prudence by taking basic business training. Training reduced their financing, employment and business growth, but increased their profit. In the second study, entrepreneurs with high risk tolerance are found to operate larger businesses but suffer worse financial performance. Collectively, those two studies highlight the benefits of knowledge transfer in reinforcing discipline. The third study finds knowledge inherited from working at a prominent company helps entrepreneurs with managing their ventures. The benefits, however, diminish if the entrepreneurs deviate from the line of business that they used to work in.
title: Jahrbuch des Geschichtsvereins für das Herzogtum Braunschweig Jg. 1. 1902
Creators: name: Braunschweig, Geschichtsverein
Publisher: name: Zwissler
Year: 1902
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch
subject: 90

description: Jahrbücher des Braunschweigischen Geschichtsvereins, vol. 1. 1902
Hypoxia‐inducible factors not only regulate but also are myeloid‐cell treatment targets
Creators: name: Kling, Lovis
name: Schreiber, Adrian
name: Eckardt, Kai‐Uwe
name: Kettritz, Ralph
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: hypoxia-inducible factor
subject: hypoxia
subject: innate immunity
subject: myeloid cells
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Hypoxia describes limited oxygen availability at the cellular level. Myeloid cells are exposed to hypoxia at various bodily sites and even contribute to hypoxia by consuming large amounts of oxygen during respiratory burst. Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) are ubiquitously expressed heterodimeric transcription factors, composed of an oxygen-dependent α and a constitutive β subunit. The stability of HIF-1α and HIF-2α is regulated by oxygen-sensing prolyl-hydroxylases (PHD). HIF-1α and HIF-2α modify the innate immune response and are context dependent. We provide a historic perspective of HIF discovery, discuss the molecular components of the HIF pathway, and how HIF-dependent mechanisms modify myeloid cell functions. HIFs enable myeloid-cell adaptation to hypoxia by up-regulating anaerobic glycolysis. In addition to effects on metabolism, HIFs control chemotaxis, phagocytosis, degranulation, oxidative burst, and apoptosis. HIF-1α enables efficient infection defense by myeloid cells. HIF-2α delays inflammation resolution and decreases antitumor effects by promoting tumor-associated myeloid-cell hibernation. PHDs not only control HIF degradation, but also regulate the crosstalk between innate and adaptive immune cells thereby suppressing autoimmunity. HIF-modifying pharmacologic compounds are entering clinical practice. Current indications include renal anemia and certain cancers. Beneficial and adverse effects on myeloid cells should be considered and could possibly lead to drug repurposing for inflammatory disorders.
STM Imaging of Flux Line Arrangements in the Peak Effect Regime
Creators: name: Troyanovski, A. M.
name: van Hecke, M.
name: Saha, N.
name: Aarts, J.
name: Kes, P. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a study of vortex arrangements in the peak-effect regime of 2H-NbSe_2 by scanning tunneling microscopy. By slowly increasing the temperature in a constant magnetic field, we observed a sharp transition from collective vortex motion to positional fluctuations of individual vortices at the temperature which coincides with the onset of the peak effect in ac-susceptibility. We conclude that the peak effect is a disorder driven transition, with the pinning energy winning from the elastic energy.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures included Manuscript has been submitted
Implementing programs to improve gold recovery and reduce environmental impacts by artisanal gold mining in Brazil
Creators: name: Sousa, Rodolfo N.
name: Veiga, Marcello M. (Marcello Mariz)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASM) is the largest source of mercury release into the environment from intentional use sources. One of the largest sites is located in the Tapajos River Basin region, in the Brazilian Amazon. In 2002 GEF/UNDP/UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) implemented the GMP (Global Mercury Project) in Brazil, aiming at the reduction of mercury emissions through the introduction of simple technologies, as well as the implementation of health and environmental awareness. The program trained 4,200 miners in 115 mining sites in Brazil. The main highlights are the improvement of gold concentration by the use of “zig-zag” sluice boxes with better carpets, demonstration of closed-circuit amalgamation conducted in excavated lined pools, introduction of an electrolytic mercury activation process, introduction home-made retorts, refilling of old pits with tailings as a step to reclaim degraded areas. The original survey has shown 64.6% of miners in selected areas refilling old pits, 58.3% retaining sediments, 12.5% recycling mercury, 35.4% conducting amalgamation in lined pools, 43.8% using latrines, 20.8% drinking filtered water and 43.8% collecting their garbage. These numbers escalated to 100.0, 91.7, 91.7, 75.0, 100.0, 81.3 and 100.0% respectively, 90 days after the GMP training program and awareness campaign.
Ptisana fraxinea Murdock
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Marattiales
Marattiaceae
Ptisana
Ptisana fraxinea

description: Ptisana fraxinea (Sm.) Murdock  —
Habit: Fern.
Habitat: LMWF; up to 2 600 m. Distribution: I.
 Voucher: Meru Track, Alt. 2 148 m, 10 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003930 (HIB).
 References: Fries et al. (1924b), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a, 1998, 1999), Verdcourt (1999a), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Solutions of the Regge Equations on some Triangulations of CP^2
Creators: name: Hartle, James B.
name: Perjes, Zoltan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simplicial geometries are collections of simplices making up a manifold together with an assignment of lengths to the edges that define a metric on that manifold. The simplicial analogs of the Einstein equations are the Regge equations. Solutions to these equations define the semiclassical approximation to simplicial approximations to a sum-over-geometries in quantum gravity. In this paper, we consider solutions to the Regge equations with cosmological constant that give Euclidean metrics of high symmetry on a family of triangulations of CP^2 presented by Banchoff and Kuhnel. This family is characterized by a parameter p. The number of vertices grows larger with increasing p. We exhibit a solution of the Regge equations for p=2 but find no solutions for p=3. This example shows that merely increasing the number of vertices does not ensure a steady approach to a continuum geometry in the Regge calculus.
description: 11 pages, uuencoded revtex w/ embedded ps figure. Replaces a submission which had corrupted ps file
Unveiling the political economy of fossil fuel extractivism in Colombia: Tracing the processes of phase-in, entrenchment, and lock-in
Creators: name: Corral-Montoya, Felipe
name: Telias, Max
name: Malz, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Political economy
subject: Colombia
subject: Coal
subject: Carbon lock-in
subject: Incumbency
subject: State-capture
subject: Entrenchment
subject: Extractivism
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft::320 Politikwissenschaft

description: To increase the ambition and effectiveness of a global coal phase-out, it is central to understand how one extraction regime – fossil fuel extractivism (FE) — was phased in. Doing so may make it possible to confront the actors dependent on and strengthened by the associated natural resource rents. Characterized by the large-scale, high-impact, export-oriented extraction of fossil fuels such as steam coal, the present paper traces the processes that led first to the phase-in and then to the entrenchment of FE in Colombia. Taking the case of large-scale coal extraction (LSCE) as an example, the paper analyzes the causal mechanisms allowing this activity to take deep roots in politics, society and the economy, with grave implications for the environment and culture of affected communities and the country as a whole. Drawing on different data sources (20 stakeholder interviews, policy and press documents, scholarly research, etc.), the paper adapted Palley’s (2017) notion of policy lock-in and lock-out via hysteresis to propose an entrenchment spiral as a potential mechanism leading to the current degree of coal and fossil fuel extraction entrenchment in Colombia. The paper concludes that the phase-in of LSCE and FE was facilitated by the combination of masking and securitization strategies used by an incumbency regime closely associated with state capture. As power dynamics shifted, asymmetric dependency relationships between mining companies and affected individuals, communities and governments at local, regional and national levels were gradually generated, leading to this sector’s seemingly inexpugnable position. That said, knowledge is power. Knowing how phase-in and entrenchment occurred and still happens can be an initial step towards confronting and even reversing it.
On the Picard functor in formal-rigid geometry
Creators: Li, Shizhang
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Picard groups
subject: Geometry, Algebraic
subject: Hodge theory
subject: p-adic analysis

description: In this thesis, we report three preprints [Li17a] [Li17b] and [HL17] the author wrote (the last one was written jointly with D. Hansen) during his pursuing of PhD at Columbia.
      We study smooth proper rigid varieties which admit formal models whose special fibers are projective. The main theorem asserts that the identity components of the associated rigid Picard varieties will automatically be proper. Consequently, we prove that non-archimedean Hopf varieties do not have a projective reduction. The proof of our main theorem uses the theory of moduli of semistable coherent sheaves.
      Combine known structure theorems for the relevant Picard varieties, together with recent advances in p-adic Hodge theory, We then prove several related results on the low-degree Hodge numbers of proper smooth rigid analytic varieties over p-adic fields.
Multiscaling in passive scalar advection as stochastic shape dynamics
Creators: name: Gat, Omri
name: Zeitak, Reuven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kraichnan rapid advection model is recast as the stochastic dynamics of tracer trajectories. This framework replaces the random fields with a small set of stochastic ordinary differential equations. Multiscaling of correlation functions arises naturally as a consequence of the geometry described by the evolution of N trajectories. Scaling exponents and scaling structures are interpreted as excited states of the evolution operator. The trajectories become nearly deterministic in high dimensions allowing for perturbation theory in this limit. We calculate perturbatively the anomalous exponent of the third and fourth order correlation functions. The fourth order result agrees with previous calculations.
description: 14 pages, LaTeX
Osmunda regalis L.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Osmundales
Osmundaceae
Osmunda
Osmunda regalis

description: Osmunda regalis L.  —
Habit: Fern.
Habitat: LMWF; 1 300–2 600 m. Distribution: I.
Voucher: N/A.
References: Verdcourt (1999b), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
A classification of classical representations for quantum-like systems
Creators: name: Coecke, Bob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For general non-classical systems, we study the different classical representations that fulfill the specific context dependence imposed by the hidden measurement system formalism introduced in quant-ph/0008061. We show that the collection of non-equivalent representations has a poset structure. We also show that in general, there exists no 'smallest' representation, since this poset is not a semi-lattice. Then we study the possible representations of quantum-like measurement systems. For example, we show that there exists a classical representation of finite dimensional quantum mechanics with ${\Bbb N}$ as a set of states for the measurement context, and we build an explicit example of such a representation.
description: 13 pages; 2 figs
Additional file 10 of Transcriptome-based biomarker gene screening and evaluation of the extracellular fatty acid-binding protein (Ex-FABP) on immune and angiogenesis-related genes in chicken erythrocytes of tibial dyschondroplasia
Creators: name: Jahejo, Ali Raza
name: Bukhari, Sayyad Ali Raza
name: Rajput, Nasir
name: Kalhoro, Nazeer Hussain
name: Leghari, Imdad Hussain
name: Raza, Sayed Haidar Abbas
name: Li, Zhen
name: Liu, Wen-zhong
name: Tian, Wen-xia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 10.
The inflammation in cutaneous lichen planus is dominated by IFN‐ϒ and IL‐21—A basis for therapeutic JAK1 inhibition
Creators: name: Pietschke, Katharina
name: Holstein, Julia
name: Meier, Katharina
name: Schäfer, Iris
name: Müller‐Hermelink, Eva
name: Gonzalez‐Menendez, Irene
name: Quintanilla‐Martinez, Leticia
name: Ghoreschi, Franziska C.
name: Solimani, Farzan
name: Ghoreschi, Kamran
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: IL-17
subject: immune signature
subject: JAK inhibitors
subject: lichen planus
subject: psoriasis
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Cutaneous lichen planus (CLP) and psoriasis (PSO) are both common chronic inflammatory skin diseases for which development of new treatments requires the identification of key targets. While PSO is a typical Th17/IL-17-disorder, there is some evidence that Th1/IFN-ɣ dominate the inflammatory process in CLP. Nonetheless, the immunopathogenesis of CLP is not fully explained and key immunological factors still have to be recognized. In this study, we compared the immune signature of CLP lesions with the well-characterized inflammation present in PSO skin. First, we analysed the histological and immunohistological characteristics of CLP and PSO. Second, we assessed the cytokine expression (IL1A, IL1B, IL4, IL6, IL8, IL10, IL17A, IL19, IL21, IL22, IL23A, IL13, IFNG, TNF, IL12A, IL12B and IL36G) of lesional skin of CLP with PSO by qPCR. Histology revealed a similar epidermal thickness in CLP and PSO. Immunohistochemically, both diseases presented with an inflammatory infiltrate mainly composed by CD3+CD4+ T cells rather than CD3+CD8+. Importantly, mRNA analysis showed a distinct cytokine signature: while levels of IL12B, IL1A, IL6 and IL23 were similar between the two groups, the characteristic PSO-associated cytokines IL8, IL17A, IL22, IL19 and IL36G were expressed at very low levels in CLP. In contrast, CLP lesional skin was dominated by the expression of IFNG, IL21, IL4, IL12A and TNF. Immunohistochemistry confirmed the dominance of IL-21, IFN-ɣ and also pSTAT1 in the dermal infiltrate of CLP, while IL-17A was more present in PSO. Collectively, this study improves our understanding of the immunological factors dominating CLP. The dominating cytokines and signalling proteins identified suggest that anti-cytokine therapeutics like JAK inhibitors may be beneficial in CLP.
On the Periphery of a Great "Empire": Secondary Formation of States and Their Material Basis in the Shandong Peninsula during the Late Bronze Age, ca. 1000-500 B.C.E
Creators: Wu, Minna
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: History

description: The Shandong region has been of considerable interest to the study of ancient China due to its location in the eastern periphery of the central culture.  For the Western Zhou state, Shandong was the "Far East" and it was a vast region of diverse landscape and complex cultural traditions during the Late Bronze-Age (1000-500 BCE). In this research, the developmental trajectories of three different types of secondary states are examined. The first type is the regional states established by the Zhou court; the second type is the indigenous Non-Zhou states with Dong Yi origins; the third type is the states that may have been formerly Shang polities and accepted Zhou rule after the Zhou conquest of Shang.  On the one hand,  this dissertation examines the dynamic social and cultural process in the eastern periphery in relation to the expansion and colonization of the Western Zhou state; on the other hand, it emphasizes the agency of the periphery during the formation of secondary states by examining how the polities in the periphery responded to the advances of the Western Zhou state and how local traditions impacted the composition of the local material assemblage which lay the foundation for the future prosperity of the regional culture. By utilizing the rich archaeological data, epigraphic evidence and textual sources, the dissertation focuses on two research questions: First, how did cultural interactions play out in the region through possible processes of cultural adaption, assimilation, persistence, and resistance, and what are their material manifestations in the archaeological record? Second, how did the political relationship between the peripheral states and the dynastic center change in variable degrees of dependency or autonomy? This study provides important insight into the issue of cultural interaction and secondary state formation and, by extension, into the social evolution of the Shandong area.
Hymenophyllum capillare Desv.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Hymenophyllales
Hymenophyllaceae
Hymenophyllum
Hymenophyllum capillare

description: Hymenophyllum capillare Desv.  —
Habit: Fern.
Habitat: UMWF, BZ, UMF; 1 600–3 200 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Castle Forest Station, Alt. 2050 m, 20 Oct. 1979, Gilbert 5781 (EA).
References: Schelpe (1951), Bussmann (1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a), Beentje (2008b), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
On the Role of Sensory Cancellation and Corollary Discharge in Neural Coding and Behavior
Creators: Enikolopov, Armen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biology
subject: Sensory stimulation
subject: Cochlear nucleus

description: Studies of cerebellum-like circuits in fish have demonstrated that synaptic plasticity shapes the motor corollary discharge responses of granule cells into highly-specific predictions of self- generated sensory input. However, the functional significance of such predictions, known as negative images, has not been directly tested. Here we provide evidence for improvements in neural coding and behavioral detection of prey-like stimuli due to negative images. In addition, we find that manipulating synaptic plasticity leads to specific changes in circuit output that disrupt neural coding and detection of prey-like stimuli. These results link synaptic plasticity, neural coding, and behavior and also provide a circuit-level account of how combining external sensory input with internally-generated predictions enhances sensory processing. In addition, the mammalian dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN) integrates auditory nerve input with a diverse array of sensory and motor signals processed within circuity similar to the cerebellum. Yet how the DCN contributes to early auditory processing has been a longstanding puzzle. Using electrophysiological recordings in mice during licking behavior we show that DCN neurons are largely unaffected by self-generated sounds while remaining sensitive to external acoustic stimuli. Recordings in deafened mice, together with neural activity manipulations, indicate that self-generated sounds are cancelled by non-auditory signals conveyed by mossy fibers. In addition, DCN neurons exhibit gradual reductions in their responses to acoustic stimuli that are temporally correlated with licking. Together, these findings suggest that DCN may act as an adaptive filter for cancelling self-generated sounds. Adaptive filtering has been established previously for cerebellum-like sensory structures in fish suggesting a conserved function for such structures across vertebrates.
Geochemical data Irbit borehole 1 PETM section Trans-Urals
Creators: name: Smirnov, Pavel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geology

description: Chemical data - ICP-MS and XRF - for 70 m borehole section of Paleocene-Eocene boundary
Modular Constructions of Quantum Field Theories with Interactions
Creators: name: Schroer, B.
name: Wiesbrock, H. -W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the previously introduced constructive modular method to nonperturbative QFT. In particular the relevance of the concept of ``quantum localization'' (via intersection of algebras) versus classical locality (via support properties of test functions) is explained in detail, the wedge algebras are constructed rigorously and the formal aspects of double cone algebras for d=1+1 factorizing theories are determined. The well-known on-shell crossing symmetry of the S-Matrix and of formfactors (cyclicity relation) in such theories is intimately related to the KMS properties of new quantum-local PFG (one-particle polarization-free generators) of these wedge algebras. These generators are ``on-shell'' and their Fourier transforms turn out to fulfill the Zamolodchikov-Faddeev algebra. As the wedge algebras contain the crossing symmetry informations, the double cone algebras reveal the particle content of fields. Modular theory associates with this double cone algebra two very useful chiral conformal quantum field theories which are the algebraic versions of the light ray algebras.
description: 25 pages tcilatex, errors corrected and the relation of light ray reductions of factorizable models explained in more details
Fish aggregating devices drift like oceanographic drifters in the near-surface currents of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Creators: name: Imzilen, Taha
name: Chassot, Emmanuel
name: Barde, Julien
name: Demarcq, Hervé
name: Maufroy, Alexandra
name: Roa-Pascuali, Liliana
name: Ternon, Jean François
name: Lett, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Knowledge of ocean surface dynamics is crucial for oceanographic and climate research. The satellite-tracked movements of hundreds of drifters deployed by research and voluntary observing vessels provide high-frequency and high-resolution information on near-surface currents around the globe. Consequently, they constitute a major component of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS). However, maintaining this array is costly and in some oceanic regions such as the tropics, spatio-temporal coverage is limited. Here, we demonstrate that the GPS-buoy equipped fish aggregating devices (FADs) used in tropical tuna fisheries to increase fish catchability are also capable of providing comparable near-surface current information. We analyzed millions of position data collected between 2008 and 2014 from more than 15,000 FADs and 2,000 drifters, and combined this information with remotely-sensed near-surface current data to demonstrate that the surface velocity components of FADs and drifters are highly correlated in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. While it was noted that the subsurface structures of FADs (typically made of recycled fishing nets) did slow them down relative to the drifters, particularly in the Atlantic Ocean, this bias was measurable and could be accounted for in future studies. Our findings show that the physical meteorological and oceanographic data collected by fishermen could provide an invaluable source of information to the GOOS. Furthermore, by forging closer collaborations with the fishing industry and ensuring their contributions to global ocean databases are properly acknowledged, there is significant scope to capture this data more effectively.
The Large Time Behaviour in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Chaos
Creators: name: Aref'eva, I. Ya.
name: Volovich, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An exact general formula for the matrix elements of the evolution operator in quantum theory is established. The formul ("ABC-formula") has the form =exp(At+B+C(t)). The constants A and B and the decreasing function C(t) are computed in perturbation theory. The ABC-formula is valid for a general class of Hamiltonians used in statistical physics and quantum field theory. The formula includes the higher order corrections to the well known Weisskopf-Wigner approximation and to the stochastic (van Hove) limit which are widely used in considerations of problems of radiation, decay, quantum decoherence, derivation of master and kinetic equations etc. The function C(t) admits an interpretation as an analogue of the autocorrelation function describing quantum chaos for the quantum baker's map.
description: 15 pages, latex
Correlation effects on the Fermi surface of the two-dimensional Hubbard model
Creators: name: Otsuka, Y.
name: Morita, Y.
name: Hatsugai, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effects of electron correlation on the Fermi surface is investigated for the two-dimensional Hubbard model by the quantum Monte Carlo method. At first, an infinitesimal doping from the half filling is focused on and the momentum dependent charge susceptibility $κ(k)=\frac {dn(k)}{dμ}$ is calculated at a finite temperature. At the temperature $T \sim \frac {t^2} U$, it shows peak structure at $(\pm π/2,\pm π/2)$ on the Fermi surface (line). It is consistent with the mean-field prediction of the d-wave pairing state or the staggerd flux state. This momentum dependent structure disappears at the high temperature $T \approx U$. After summarizing the results of the half filling case, we also discuss the effects of the doping on the momentum dependent charge susceptibility. The anisotropic structure at half filling fades out with sufficient doping.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures; proceedings of ISSP8
Wave Packet in Quantum Cosmology and Definition of Semiclassical Time
Creators: name: Ohkuwa, Yoshiaki
name: Kitazoe, Tetsuro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a quantum cosmology with a massless background scalar field $\pb$ and adopt a wave packet as the wave function. This wave packet is a superposition of the WKB form wave functions, each of which has a definite momentum of the scalar field $\pb$. In this model it is shown that to trace the formalism of the WKB time is seriously difficult without introducing a complex value for a time. We define a semiclassical real time variable $\tp$ from the phase of the wave packet and calculate it explicitly. We find that, when a quantum matter field $\pq$ is coupled to the system, an approximate Schrödinger equation for $\pq$ holds with respect to $\tp$ in a region where the size $a$ of the universe is large and $|\pb|$ is small.
description: 20 pages, latex, no figures
On the Trade-oﬀs between Modeling Power and Algorithmic Complexity
Creators: Ye, Chun
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Operations research
Multiagent systems
Mathematical optimization
Approximation algorithms
Mathematical models

description: Mathematical modeling is a central component of operations research. Most of the academic research in our field focuses on developing algorithmic tools for solving various mathematical problems arising from our models.  However, our procedure for selecting the best model to use in any particular application is ad hoc. This dissertation seeks to rigorously quantify the trade-offs between various design criteria in model construction through a series of case studies. The hope is that a better understanding of the pros and cons of different models (for the same application) can guide and improve the model selection process.
      In this dissertation, we focus on two broad types of trade-offs. The first type arises naturally in mechanism or market design, a discipline that focuses on developing optimization models for complex multi-agent systems. Such systems may require satisfying multiple objectives that are potentially in conflict with one another. Hence, finding a solution that simultaneously satisfies several design requirements is challenging. The second type addresses the dynamics between model complexity and computational tractability in the context of approximation algorithms for some discrete optimization problems. The need to study this type of trade-offs is motivated by certain industry problems where the goal is to obtain the best solution within a reasonable time frame. Hence, being able to quantify and compare the degree of sub-optimality of the solution obtained under different models is helpful. Chapters 2-5 of the dissertation focus on trade-offs of the first type and Chapters 6-7 the second type.
On the Shores of Education: Urban Bodies, Architectural Repetitions, and the Mythic Space of End Times
Creators: Moffett, Christopher
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Education--Philosophy
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: City planning

description: Orienting around Plato's allegory of the cave, this dissertation looks back to earlier mythological and historical roots and forward to the spatial aesthetics of "occupation" and "No Child Left Behind," to trace the enduring connection between philosophies and practices of education and sacrificial journeys of descent and emergence. This thematic work of repetition, birth and death, is not so much knowable as it is the privileged way in which we enact and recognize knowing itself. Education, as a spatial practice and a narrative rehearsal, is a way of situating ourselves and organizing our places. Urban Education, rather than being a beleaguered branch of Education proper, cleaves to the very project of Education, emerging as it does out of cities. This is an examination of the philosophical, architectural, urban, aesthetic, and embodied conditions and strategies by which we learn to remember and forget ourselves.
Additional file 1 of A competitive ligand-binding assay for the detection of neutralizing antibodies against dostarlimab (TSR-042)
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaolong Tom
name: Chen, Hong
name: Shao, Weiping
name: Lin, Zhongping John
name: Melhem, Murad
name: Lu, Sharon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Validation of Assay’s Robustness. Table S2. Hook Effect. Table S3. Assay’s Robustness. Table S4. Assay Stability
Effects of 2.45 GHz Wi‐Fi exposure on sleep‐dependent memory consolidation
Creators: name: Bueno‐Lopez, Ana
name: Eggert, Torsten
name: Dorn, Hans
name: Schmid, Gernot
name: Hirtl, Rene
name: Danker‐Hopfe, Heidi
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: declarative memory
subject: EEG power
subject: emotional memory
subject: procedural memory
subject: sleep spindles
subject: slow oscillations
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Studies have reported that exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) emitted by mobile telephony might affect specific sleep features. Possible effects of RF-EMF emitted by Wi-Fi networks on sleep-dependent memory consolidation processes have not been investigated so far. The present study explored the impact of an all-night Wi-Fi (2.45 GHz) exposure on sleep-dependent memory consolidation and its associated physiological correlates. Thirty young males (mean ± standard deviation [SD]: 24.1 ± 2.9 years) participated in this double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled crossover study. Participants spent five nights in the laboratory. The first night was an adaptation/screening night. The second and fourth nights were baseline nights, each followed consecutively by an experimental night with either Wi-Fi (maximum: psSAR10g = <25 mW/kg; 6 min average: <6.4 mW/kg) or sham exposure. Declarative, emotional and procedural memory performances were measured using a word pair, a sequential finger tapping and a face recognition task, respectively. Furthermore, learning-associated brain activity parameters (power spectra for slow oscillations and in the spindle frequency range) were analysed. Although emotional and procedural memory were not affected by RF-EMF exposure, overnight improvement in the declarative task was significantly better in the Wi-Fi condition. However, none of the post-learning sleep-specific parameters was affected by exposure. Thus, the significant effect of Wi-Fi exposure on declarative memory observed at the behavioural level was not supported by results at the physiological level. Due to these inconsistencies, this result could also be a random finding.
Noise induced transport at zero temperature
Creators: name: Kohler, Heiner
name: Mielke, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a particle in the over-damped regime at zero temperature under the influence of a sawtooth potential and of a noisy force, which is correlated in time. A current occurs, even if the mean of the noisy force vanishes. We calculate the stationary probability distribution and the stationary current. We discuss, how these items depend on the characteristic parameters of the underlying stochastic process. A formal expansion of the current around the white-noise limit not always gives the correct asymptotic behaviour. We improve the expansion for some simple but representative cases.
description: LaTeX, 19 pages, 9 eps-figures included, accepted for publication in J. Phys. A
Interpretation of quasi-periodic frequency sweeping in electron cyclotron emission of nonequilibrium mirror-confined plasma sustained by high-power microwaves
Creators: name: Shalashov, A. G.
name: Gospodchikov, E. D.
name: Viktorov, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In [Viktorov M. E. et al., Eur. Phys. Lett., V.116, P.55001, 2016] we reported on chirping frequency patterns that have been observed in the electron cyclotron emission from strongly nonequilibrium plasma confined in a table-top mirror magnetic trap. These patterns were interpreted qualitatively as the first experimental evidence for so-called "holes and clumps" mechanism acting at such high frequencies (1-10 GHz). In the present paper, we prove this statement on a more rigorous basis, considering the formation of nonlinear phase space structures in proximity of the wave-particle resonances within the framework of the Berk-Breizman theory adopted for a kinetically unstable mirror-confined plasma.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Entire Linux Network stack diagram
Creators: name: Hrvoje, Horvat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Diagram of entire Linux Network Stack, including:

Virtualization and Linux containers:

Emulation and Paravirtualization.

Network sockets.

Network stack:

Upper layer of Network stack (TCP, UDP).

Low layer of Network stack with GRO, RPS, RFS and GSO.

Network Scheduler.

NetFilter and traffic controll:

Bridge and Bond interfaces.

Tap interface, ...

Device Driver:

Queue.

NAPI.

IRQ handler.

Network functions accelerated by NIC:

Checksum offload, VLAN, VxLAN, GRE, TSO, LRO, RSS, ...

Network card.

All (above) sections (layers) include tips for optimizations and/or statistics.

 

This diagram is part of the book: 

Operativni sustavi i računalne mreže - Linux u primjeni

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8119310