cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Drift Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Walls with Lap Splices
Creators: name: Pollalis, William G
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Structural engineering

description: Twelve large-scale reinforced concrete (RC) specimens were tested at Purdue University’s Bowen Laboratory to evaluate the deformability of structural walls with longitudinal lap splices at their bases. Eight specimens were tested under four-point bending and four specimens were tested as cantilevers under constant axial force and cyclic reversals of lateral displacement. All specimens failed abruptly by disintegration of the lap splice, irrespective of what loading method was used or what splice details were chosen. Previous work on lap splices has focused mainly on splice strength. But, in consideration of demands requiring structural toughness (e.g. blast, earthquake, differential settlement), deformability is arguably more important than strength. Approximations of wall drift-strain relationships are presented in combination with estimates of splice strength and deformability to provide lower-bound drift capacity estimates for RC walls with lap splices at their bases. Deformations in slender structural walls (with aspect ratios larger than 3) are controlled by flexure. Shear deformations must be considered for walls with smaller aspect ratios. For slender walls with lap splices comparable to those tested, the observations collected suggest that drift capacities can be as low as 0.5%. That is: splices with minimum concrete cover, minimum transverse reinforcement (0.25% transverse reinforcement ratio) terminating in hooks, and lap splice lengths selected to reach yielding in the spliced bars (approximately 60 bar diameters for splices of Grade-60 reinforcement) can fail as yield is reached or soon after. For splices of the same length, doubling the amount of hooked transverse reinforcement increases deformation capacity by nearly 50%. By maintaining the same transverse reinforcement ratio but confining splices with closed hoops (instead of hooks), deformation capacity nearly doubles. Increasing splice length increases the expected splice strength but also increases the strain required to reach the same drift ratio. Evidence from this and similar experimental programs suggests that lap splices with minimum cover and confined only by minimum transverse reinforcement terminating in hooks should not be used in critical sections of structural walls when toughness is required. To prevent abrupt failure during events that demand structural toughness, it is recommended that lap splices be shifted away from locations where yielding in structural walls is expected.
Navigating complexity: healthcare providers’ experiences with integrating physical health promotion in psychosis outpatient services in Sweden
Creators: name: Nilsson, Matilde Zerne
name: Sparud-Lundin, Carina
name: Eeg-Olofsson, Katarina
name: Torgerson, Jarl
name: Holmberg, Christopher
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Individuals with psychotic disorders face an increased risk of physical health issues, leading to reduced life expectancy. Despite recommendations to integrate physical health promotion into mental healthcare, challenges persist, and mortality from somatic diseases continues to rise. Understanding healthcare providers’ perspectives is crucial to overcoming these barriers. This study aims to explore the experiences of healthcare providers working in direct patient care and as unit heads regarding factors influencing health promotion in Swedish psychosis outpatient units. A qualitative descriptive study was conducted in two specialized psychosis outpatient units. Thirteen healthcare providers, including clinical case managers and three heads of units, were individually interviewed. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. Three main themes were generated: (1) Health care providers’ attitudes and competence. The health care provider’s values and beliefs influenced the engagement in health promotion. (2) Patient-related aspects. Understanding how different patient life components shaped the physical health and need for measurements (3) Organizational prerequisites. Prioritizing resources and leadership impact the experience of health promotion. Clinical case management appeared as a promising approach to coordinate/integrate physical and mental health care, evident in themes 1 and 3. Beyond organizational factors, healthcare providers’ skills, patient understanding, and ethical reflection influence their motivation to engage in physical health promotion. The study included only 13 participants, representing various professions, including managers who provided specific leadership perspectives. Clinical case managers appear well-suited to address physical health promotion due to their proficiency in shared decision-making and coordination.
sj-pdf-10-hss-10.1177_15563316211039509 – Supplemental material for Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Overlay in the Spine for Surgical Planning: A Technical Report
Creators: name: Perez, Alberto A.
name: Yoon, Edward S.
name: Iyer, Sravisht
name: Lafage, Virginie
name: Sandhu, Harvinder
name: Schwab, Frank
name: Albert, Todd J.
name: Qureshi, Sheeraz
name: Kim, Han Jo
name: Katsuura, Yoshihiro
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-10-hss-10.1177_15563316211039509 for Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Overlay in the Spine for Surgical Planning: A Technical Report by Alberto A. Perez, Edward S. Yoon, Sravisht Iyer, Virginie Lafage, Harvinder Sandhu, Frank Schwab, Todd J. Albert, Sheeraz Qureshi, Han Jo Kim and Yoshihiro Katsuura in HSS Journal®: The Musculoskeletal Journal of Hospital for Special Surgery
Unravelling the complexity of suicidality: a network analysis of theory-driven and culturally relevant suicide risk factors in a country with high suicide rates
Creators: name: Rimkevičienė, Jurgita
name: Grigienė, Dovilė
name: Dadašev, Said
name: Skruibis, Paulius
name: Gailienė, Danutė
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: This study aimed to explore whether individual theory-based constructs are sufficient in explaining suicidality in a culture marked by high suicide rates and whether, if any, culturally relevant factors need to be considered additionally. The study used a community sample of 1873 Lithuanian adults (age M = 43.61 SD = 16.96, 69.1% female). A survey using online and pen-and-paper formats was conducted, measuring suicidality, the main constructs from two predominant theories of suicide (thwarted belongingness, perceived burdensomeness, acquired capability for suicide, and defeat and entrapment), and culturally relevant factors (gender role expectations, attitudes towards help-seeking, perfectionism, negative social comparisons, alcohol use, child-parent relationships and childhood experiences). Network analysis method was used in the analysis. From the key factors identified in the two theories perceived burdensomeness had stronger links with self-perceived risk for suicide compared to thwarted belongingness and entrapment. Acquired capability to suicide had no direct links with other factors in the network apart from a weak link with history of suicidal behavior. In the network some of the culturally relevant variables (reasons for alcohol use, experience of sexual abuse, emotional neglect, and cultural norms representing restricted emotionality and attitudes towards psychological help) had direct relationships with suicidality, not only via key theory based factors. The results suggest the need to consider cultural context when applying universal suicide theories.
MACHINE LEARNING BASED IDS LOG ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Guan, Tianshuai
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Pattern recognition
Data mining and knowledge discovery

description: With the rapid development of information technology, network traffic is also increasing dramatically. However, many cyber-attack records are buried in this large amount of network trafficking. Therefore, many Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) that can extract those malicious activities have been developed. Zeek is one of them, and due to its powerful functions and open-source environment, Zeek has been adapted by many organizations. Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), which uses Zeek as their IDS, captures netflow logs for all the network activities in the whole campus area but has not delved into effective use of the information. This thesis examines ways to help increase the performance of anomaly detection. As a result, this project intends to combine basic database concepts with several different machine learning algorithms and compare the result from different combinations to better find potential attack activities in log files.
Additional file 1 of Genome-wide association study and development of molecular markers for yield and quality traits in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
Creators: name: Guo, Minjie
name: Deng, Li
name: Gu, Jianzhong
name: Miao, Jianli
name: Yin, Junhua
name: Li, Yang
name: Fang, Yuanjin
name: Huang, Bingyan
name: Sun, Ziqi
name: Qi, Feiyan
name: Dong, Wenzhao
name: Lu, Zhenhua
name: Li, Shaowei
name: Hu, Junping
name: Zhang, Xinyou
name: Ren, Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
sj-pdf-1-sph-10.1177_19417381211043877 – Supplemental material for The Effect of Body Position and the Reliability of Upper Limb Arterial Occlusion Pressure Using a Handheld Doppler Ultrasound for Blood Flow Restriction Training
Creators: name: Karanasios, Stefanos
name: Koutri, Charikleia
name: Moutzouri, Maria
name: Xergia, Sofia A.
name: Sakellari, Vasiliki
name: Gioftsos, George
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-sph-10.1177_19417381211043877 for The Effect of Body Position and the Reliability of Upper Limb Arterial Occlusion Pressure Using a Handheld Doppler Ultrasound for Blood Flow Restriction Training by Stefanos Karanasios, Charikleia Koutri, Maria Moutzouri, Sofia A. Xergia, Vasiliki Sakellari and George Gioftsos in Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach
EFFECTS OF THROMBIN ON THE GROWTH OF PANCREATIC CANCER CELLS AND CANCER ASSOCIATED FIBROBLASTS USING A MICROFLUIDIC MODEL
Creators: name: Gilvey, Jonathan J
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Oncology and carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
Cancer cell biology

description: Thrombotic events are known to be associated with various cancers and recent research has implicated parts of the coagulation systemin promoting cancer progression. In particular, thrombin has been studied for its mitogenic effects in 2D cultures as well as in cancer progression in vivo in animal models however, conflicting results exist. Studies of proliferation in response to thrombin stimulation, of pancreatic cancer cells or pancreatic cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in vitro, that utilize a3D culture platform are significantly limited. In this study, PDAC cancer cells and cancer-associated fibroblast (CAF) cells were exposed to thrombin using a microfluidic device that mimics in vivo conditions. The cells used herein were cultured in a microfluid device, suspended inside of a 3D collagen matrix, and exposed to daily stimulation of 1 U/mL of thrombin in serum-free media for one hour. The findings of this study are that there is no statistically significant effect, promotive or inhibitory, on the proliferation of the cells used in this study, these results were unexpected. At the end of this paper, a review of potential reasons as to why no significant effect was seen on the cells is presented.
Granular Ball Twin Support Vector Machine
Creators: name: Quadir, A.
name: Sajid, M.
name: Tanveer, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: On Efficient and Scalable Computation of the Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimator in Mixture ModelsTwin support vector machine (TSVM) is an emerging machine learning model with versatile applicability in classification and regression endeavors. Nevertheless, TSVM confronts noteworthy challenges: $(i)$ the imperative demand for matrix inversions presents formidable obstacles to its efficiency and applicability on large-scale datasets; $(ii)$ the omission of the structural risk minimization (SRM) principle in its primal formulation heightens the vulnerability to overfitting risks; and $(iii)$ the TSVM exhibits a high susceptibility to noise and outliers, and also demonstrates instability when subjected to resampling. In view of the aforementioned challenges, we propose the granular ball twin support vector machine (GBTSVM). GBTSVM takes granular balls, rather than individual data points, as inputs to construct a classifier. These granular balls, characterized by their coarser granularity, exhibit robustness to resampling and reduced susceptibility to the impact of noise and outliers. We further propose a novel large-scale granular ball twin support vector machine (LS-GBTSVM). LS-GBTSVM's optimization formulation ensures two critical facets: $(i)$ it eliminates the need for matrix inversions, streamlining the LS-GBTSVM's computational efficiency, and $(ii)$ it incorporates the SRM principle through the incorporation of regularization terms, effectively addressing the issue of overfitting. The proposed LS-GBTSVM exemplifies efficiency, scalability for large datasets, and robustness against noise and outliers. We conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the GBTSVM and LS-GBTSVM models on benchmark datasets from UCI, KEEL, and NDC datasets. Our experimental findings and statistical analyses affirm the superior generalization prowess of the proposed GBTSVM and LS-GBTSVM models.
description: Manuscript submitted to IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS: 19 September 2023; revised 13 February 2024 and 14 July 2024; accepted 05 October 2024
title: The Ideal of Ensemble Practice in Twentieth-century British Theatre, 1900-1968.
Creators: name: Burt, Philippa
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ensemble theatre, British theatre, sociology of the theatre, Pierre Bourdieu, theatre directing, rehearsal techniques, Shakespeare, British political ideologies, Anglo-Russian relations

description: The central purpose of this thesis is to chart the ideal of ensemble theatre in Britain and its development in the country throughout the twentieth century, referring specifically to selected directors. The Stanislavskian model of the ensemble, as exemplified by the Moscow Art Theatre, served this ideal, pursued by Edward Gordon Craig, Harley Granville Barker, Theodore Komisarjevsky, Joan Littlewood and Peter Hall, who are the focus of the argument. Craig and Barker’s understanding of ensemble work was significantly influenced by their meetings with Stanislavsky in 1908 and 1914 respectively, while Littlewood and Hall were influenced by his writings on the theatre. Following Stanislavsky, the thesis offers a definition of ensemble as a permanent group based on shared values. The chosen directors are the most representative of attempts to establish ensemble companies in Britain in the twentieth century. They are also landmark cases in the sense that they initiated change in the perception of what a theatre company could be. The thesis argues, however, that the continued domination of the commercial theatre over the art theatre has been an impediment to each director’s attempts. Each chapter of the thesis is dedicated to a specific director, and, with the exception of Craig’s work at the Moscow Art Theatre, analysis is confined to the directors’ work in Britain. 
	Methodologically rooted within the sociology of the theatre, the thesis maps the progression of ensemble practices in British society. It interweaves extensive archival research with an exploration of the sociological, economic and political factors that underpin both the attempts to establish a permanent company and the resistance to it. The thesis explores the pervasive influence of individualism and commercialism in all areas of British life, arguing that their principles generate a theatre climate that was not conducive to the establishment of a permanent ensemble company and was even antithetical to it. Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of culture, and Maria Shevtsova’s development of Bourdieu’s theory in relation to theatre, provides the theoretical frame of the thesis.
O'QUVCHILARNING TEXNIK FIKRLASHINI RIVOJLANTIRISHDA KREATIVLIKNING O'RNI
Creators: name: Imanov, Baxtiyor
name: Jo'rayeva, Baxtiniso
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Maqola texnik fikrlashni rivojlantirish asosida kreativlikka bo’lgan muammolarni tahlil qilishga bag'ishlangan. Tadqiqot texnika fanlari talabalari va maktab o'quvchilarida ijodiy fikrlash ko'nikmalarini shakllantirishda ta'lim muassasalari va o'qituvchilar duch keladigan mavjud qiyinchiliklar va to'siqlarni ta'kidlaydi. Maqola mualliflari o'quv dasturlarini standartlashtirish, ta'limda ijodiy jihatlarni rivojlantirishga etarlicha e'tibor bermaslik va ijodkorlikni baholashning samarali usullarining yo'qligi kabi omillarni ko'rib chiqadilar. Maqolada ushbu muammolarni bartaraf etish va texnik fanlarni o'qitishda ijodiy fikrlashni rag'batlantirish uchun mumkin bo'lgan strategiya va yondashuvlar muhokama qilinadi. Ushbu tahlil texnik fikrlashda o’quvchi kreativligini rivojlantirishni  hisobga olgan holda ta'lim amaliyotini takomillashtirish va o'qitish samaradorligini oshirish bo'yicha muhim ko'rsatmalarni taqdim etadi.
Additional file 2 of Genome-wide association study and development of molecular markers for yield and quality traits in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
Creators: name: Guo, Minjie
name: Deng, Li
name: Gu, Jianzhong
name: Miao, Jianli
name: Yin, Junhua
name: Li, Yang
name: Fang, Yuanjin
name: Huang, Bingyan
name: Sun, Ziqi
name: Qi, Feiyan
name: Dong, Wenzhao
name: Lu, Zhenhua
name: Li, Shaowei
name: Hu, Junping
name: Zhang, Xinyou
name: Ren, Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
title: The musical body : how gender and class are reproduced among young people playing classical music in England
Creators: name: Bull, Anna
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: class, gender, classical music education, youth, body, authority

description: Scholars of western classical music have predominantly studied it as a text and positioned it a site of ‘absolute value’ through which musicians and listeners ‘transcend […] the bodily’ (Johnson 2002). This thesis uses ethnography in order to critique this approach, exploring the experience of young people who participate in classical music ensembles in the south of England. It interrogates the relationship between classical music and the middle classes, asking what classed and gendered dispositions are being (re)produced through this musical practice. The thesis argues that rehearsal processes shape the embodied dispositions of young musicians to cultivate a mode of restraint and gendered control, which is congruent with a particular classed identity. This occurs within a powerful affective group setting, which interpellates participants as subjects of value through the intimate, embodied, non-linguistic call of this music. 

This argument is built through four key claims. First, the boundary-drawing which legitimises the protected status of classical music draws on the classed, gendered history of its institutions in the Victorian period. This camouflages the ways in which musical standards of ‘excellence’ are formed socially, in and between certain bodies. Second, this musical practice simultaneously disciplines but also effaces the body. A major theoretical contribution of this thesis is to argue that the dispositions this produces are audible in the aesthetic of the music. Third, an ethic of correction is central to classical music education. Those in less privileged positions capitalise on this as a route towards classed self-improvement, gaining access to a musical world where they find an expressive voice, a strong sense of identity, and a supportive and intimate social scene.  Fourth, mediated through sound, the sensuous body acts back against its disciplining to share powerful affective states with others, creating a powerful allegiance to bourgeois social norms and values.
title: Incorporeal Punishment : Writing Masochism and the Cruel Woman in English Decadence, 1860-1900
Creators: name: Condé, Alice
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: English Decadence, nineteenth century, fin de siècle, masochism, femme fatale, cruel woman, Pygmalion, A. C. Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, Ernest Dowson, 1860-1900

description: The cruel woman is a recurring trope in Decadent literature and visual art. She is symbolic of the primary Decadent anxieties about nature and male authorship, and, as this thesis aims to show, is distinct from the generic femme fatale, the subject of numerous studies of nineteenth-century literature, most notably by Rebecca Stott and Bram Dijkstra. This thesis is the first full consideration of the cruel woman in English Decadent literature, and comprises an investigation of her appearance in the work of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Arthur Symons (1865-1945) and Ernest Dowson (1867-1900), the principal proponents of English Decadence from 1860-1900. I use the theoretical writings of Gilles Deleuze on masochism to illuminate the control of the masochistic writer over the figure of the written tormentor. Comparing the creation of the Decadent cruel woman to Ovid’s Pygmalion and his sculpture of his ideal female image, I analyse the power of the male masochist over the woman he creates and interrogate her supposed autonomy. In Poems and Ballads (1866), Swinburne’s poems address a series of cruel women as masochistic fantasies formed according to the speaker’s projected desires, whereas Wilde’s Salome (1894) deviates from this masochistic model. Salome is rendered fragile and delicate through the use of symbolic language. The dancing girls of Symons’s Silhouettes (1892, revised 1896) and London Nights (1895, revised 1897), have been miscast as femmes fatales. The dancer’s body is anatomized, never fully realised for the reader. The same is true of Dowson’s Verses (1896) and Decorations (1899), in which the cruel woman is diminished to a girl. Dowson’s poetry represents both the attenuation and refinement of English Decadence. He is a ‘reverse Pygmalion’ whose female figures are either dead or frozen into a perfect yet unreachable state.
Promoting a New Sustainable Metric to Measure Progress: A Data Science Approach
Creators: name: Merli, Matteo
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025

description: This thesis challenges the limitations of using Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the primary indicator of national progress, emphasizing that GDP focuses solely on economic output and overlooks the complexity of sustainable development. Specifically, this study follows the path traced by the Beyond GDP Initiative, and consequently, its central goal is to create a composite index that integrates economic, social, and environmental dimensions. Moreover, the different stages of development of countries are innovatively the focus point of the research. Indeed, the scope of the metric is also to adapt the weighting of its components based on a country’s level of development, ensuring a more accurate and comparable reflection of national progress.
Additionally, this is done in order to allow the new composite metric to promote tailored action plans in order to maximize the economic and ecological country’s performance for each stage of development of a country.
A major contribution of this thesis is the rigorous mathematical analysis of potential bias through the application of machine learning and neural network models. Specifically, machine learning algorithms are fitted to each component of the newly proposed composite metric using independent datasets. This is to ensure that each component (economic, social, ecological)
does not exhibit bias toward any different socio-economic or ecological category and guarantees that their linear combination can allow comparative equity. This approach mirrors what in literature is done in many fields, including finance and healthcare, where machine learning models are fitted on individual components to ensure bias-free results before combining them
into a composite metric.
In the sustainable development context, a comparable evaluation means assessing countries’ performance without favoritism, ensuring that comparisons are based solely on objective and universally accepted criteria. This type of analysis, commonly done in the social domains, is for the first time applied in the sustainable development field, marking another novel aspect of the research.
The bias testing analysis lays the groundwork for applying the metric to rank nations according to a new composite index of sustainable development, offering insights on sustainable trajectories from 1990 to 2020. This research represents the foundation of a broader project. Indeed, the metric evaluation could be expanded by conducting a detailed analysis of how the weighting of its components could change the sustainable progress outcomes.
title: Beyond the Horniman Museum : history, heritage and craftsmanship in the collection of Romanian artefacts
Creators: name: Buchczyk, Magdalena
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Material culture; Heritage; Anthropology of Europe; Museology

description: This thesis provides an exploration and critique of the Horniman Museum’s Romanian collection of folk art through an investigation of the front stage and back stage of the collection. Firstly, the museum’s holdings are unpacked through archival study of the events that led to their collection, including the cultural exchanges of the 1950s and the myriad institutional and personal encounters that informed their collection and original display. Investigation of the historical context of the objects’ arrival in London reveals the importance of their performance on the Cold War cultural stage, where acts of exhibiting and giving away folk art across the Iron Curtain became a pretext for building diplomatic relations and creating particular representations of the state. 

A second form of backstage is explored through a series of ethnographic encounters that generate insights into the afterlives of the art forms represented in the Horniman Museum collection by bringing these objects into dialogue with contemporary craft makers in Romania. Whilst in the context of the museum, the folk art collection appears as a homogenous set of traditional things, in the context of contemporary Romania, different art forms have undergone very divergent histories and hold very different social and economic value and significance. Focusing on the contemporary flourishing of pottery-making and neglect of textile production in Romania today sheds light on the various ways idioms of tradition and modernity, work and heritage are understood in the local context as well as lending insights into transformations in material environments, techniques of making, life histories, and the spaces in which crafts are situated.

An exploration of the past lives and afterlives of craft objects held in the Horniman museum offers a window onto the diversity of modes of production and meaning-making that co-exist in Romania and the embedded historical relations and specific social, economic and political milieus in which different art forms have developed and become valorised. This combination of archival and ethnographic research provides a means of locating the Horniman collection in time and space whilst at the same time recognising the dynamic and ever-changing nature of craft production in Romania. The thesis highlights both the limitations of folk art and heritage discourses within the museum and their contemporary relevance and reinvention beyond the museum.
title: Performative Contradiction and Revolution: Reconsidering Romania
Creators: name: Bogdan, Jolan
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Romania, revolution, Cold War, performative contradiction, continental philosophy, Derrida, Freud, Walter Benjamin, Judith Butler, Spinoza, Alain Badiou, Jean Baudrillard, Bernard Stiegler, Agamben, abortion, media, television, Ceausescu, Citizens United, Iraq War, Saddam Hussein, North Korea, Revolutions of 1989, communism, death of communism, critiques of Marx, Communist Manifesto, nonviolence, Henry David Thoreau, passive resistance, nonviolent resistance, general strike, democracy, dictatorship, totalitarianism, capitalism, socialism

description: This thesis discusses the Romanian Revolution of 1989 through the critiques of its authenticity that have emerged in the field of critical theory over the past twenty-five years. It applies a different theoretical model for interpretation, that of performative contradiction, and reconsiders accusations of inauthenticity through this lens. By introducing this new model, the objective is to liberate this specific political event, and also political events at large, from the burden of authenticity, which amounts to an expectation of adherence to a specific form of identity politics. The end of the Cold War is commemorated and reflected upon alongside, and with as much frequency as, references to the demise of Communism, yet political realities continue to trouble these declarations. For example, the recent annexation of Crimea has once again brought Cold War tensions back into view, and demonstrates that the conflict is perhaps not so easily diagnosable, and its death not quite as finite, as the fall of the Berlin Wall promised. This perpetually returning specter demands further analysis, without which the risk of repetition and escalation increases. In the interrogation of the specific case of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, there is no scholarly work devoted to a thorough reading of the events through a critical lens such as this. All the theoretical work discussing this example is preoccupied with a notion of authenticity, and discusses the revolution exclusively in terms of coups, simulacra, falsifications, and thefts. As the only one of the Easter Bloc nations to violently execute the former head of state, this event remains vexing and resistant to interpretation for many scholars. It is precisely this resistance that calls for a new interpretive model. The application of performative contradiction in this thesis provides a new vocabulary through which to discuss political movements in general, particularly those that appear compromised, at odds with themselves, or otherwise fractured.
A Comparison of Air Flow Simulation Techniques in Architectural Design
Creators: name: Zhao, Yuanpei
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computer graphics

description: The fluid simulation in computer generates realistic animations of fluids by solving Navier-Stokes equation. The methods of simulation are divided into two types. The grid-based methods and particle-based methods. The former one is wildly used for scientific computation because of its precision of simulation while the latter one is used in visual effects, games and other areas requiring real-time simulation because of the less computation time it has. The indoor airflow simulations with HVAC system in construction design is one specific application in scientific computation and uses grid-based simulation as the general-purpose simulation does. This study addresses the problem that this kind of airflow simulations in construction design using grid-based methods are very time consuming and always need designers to do pretreatment of the building model, which takes time, money, and effort. On the other hand, the particle-based methods would have less computation time with an acceptable accuracy in indoor airflow simulations because this kind of simulation does not require very high precision.
Then this study conducts a detailed and practical comparison of different fluid simulation algorithms in both grid-based methods and particle-based ones. This study's deliverable is a comparison between particle-based and grid-based methods in indoor airflow simulations with HVAC system.
The overall methodology used to arrive at the deliverables of this study will need two parts of work. The benchmark data is gathered from a CFD software simulation using FVM with a decent grid resolution. The particle-based data will be generated by simulation algorithms over the same set of room and furniture models implemented by OpenGL and CUDA. After the benchmark FVM simulation being conducted in a CFD software, the temperature field of airflow will be measured. After simulation, the temperature field are gained on each one of 4 particle-based simulation. A comparison standard is set and data will be analyzed to get the conclusion. The result shows that in a short simulation time period, after finding a proper number of particles, the particle-based method will achieve acceptable accuracy of temperature and velocity field while using much less time.
sj-docx-3-hss-10.1177_15563316211040416 – Supplemental material for Bipolar Radiofrequency Neurotomy of the Genicular Nerves for Chronic Pain Due to Knee Osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Singh, Jaspal R.
name: Kwon, Susie S.
name: Schirripa, Frank V.
name: Habibi, Behnum A.
name: Rand, Ethan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-hss-10.1177_15563316211040416 for Bipolar Radiofrequency Neurotomy of the Genicular Nerves for Chronic Pain Due to Knee Osteoarthritis by Jaspal R. Singh, Susie S. Kwon, Frank V. Schirripa, Behnum A. Habibi and Ethan Rand in HSS Journal®: The Musculoskeletal Journal of Hospital for Special Surgery
Pattern Recognition Myoelectric Control: Evaluating Emg Pattern Separability
Creators: name: Franzke, AW; Kristoffersen, MB, Murgia, A; Sluis, CK Van Der; Bongers, RM,
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: machine learning control
pattern recognition control
emg pattern
myoelectric control
upper limb myoelectric prostheses

description: Pattern recognition based myoelectric control for upper limb prostheses has gained increasing attention in the last years as it seems to offer more intuitive control than conventional, direct control. However, for such control to be feasible, the prosthesis user needs to have sufficient control of muscle contractions to create EMG patterns suitable for pattern classification. Few studies have investigated the relation between control ability and EMG pattern characteristics and an evaluation tool for quality of EMG patterns is still missing. We proposed such a tool and investigated whether scores from this tool were related to EMG pattern control ability.

This poster was presented during the 2nd international symposium on innovations in amputations surgery and prosthetic technologies in Vienna, May 10-12, 2018.
Audience-aware argument generation
Creators: name: Alshomary, Milad
Publisher: name: Universität Paderborn
Year: 2023

description: Recent advancements in computational argumentation research led to debate technologies that broaden perspectives and foster critical thinking. However, challenges persist in generating relevant arguments, addressing user beliefs, and countering opposing viewpoints. This research addresses these challenges by proposing methods to identify discussion spaces, model audience beliefs, and generate effective counters. Empirical evidence supports the efficacy of these approaches. Overall, the study enhances debate technologies by improving engagement and effectiveness, ultimately positively impacting discourse and decision-making processes.
description: Recent advancements in computational argumentation research led to debate technologies that broaden perspectives and foster critical thinking. However, challenges persist in generating relevant arguments, addressing user beliefs, and countering opposing viewpoints. This research addresses these challenges by proposing methods to identify discussion spaces, model audience beliefs, and generate effective counters. Empirical evidence supports the efficacy of these approaches. Overall, the study enhances debate technologies by improving engagement and effectiveness, ultimately positively impacting discourse and decision-making processes.
Additional file 3 of Genome-wide association study and development of molecular markers for yield and quality traits in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
Creators: name: Guo, Minjie
name: Deng, Li
name: Gu, Jianzhong
name: Miao, Jianli
name: Yin, Junhua
name: Li, Yang
name: Fang, Yuanjin
name: Huang, Bingyan
name: Sun, Ziqi
name: Qi, Feiyan
name: Dong, Wenzhao
name: Lu, Zhenhua
name: Li, Shaowei
name: Hu, Junping
name: Zhang, Xinyou
name: Ren, Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 3
HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF UZBEK FOLK FOLKLORE MUSIC
Creators: name: Turdiyev, Shavkat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Uzbek folk folk folk music, an integral part of the rich cultural heritage of Uzbekistan, was formed and developed in historical processes. This article provides information about the history of the development of  Uzbek folk  folk music, its main directions, features and its place in the modern era.
Epitaxial aluminum layer on antimonide heterostructures for exploring Josephson junction effects
Creators: name: Pan, W.
name: Sapkota, K. R.
name: Lu, P.
name: Muhowski, A. J.
name: Martinez, W. M.
name: Sovinec, C. L. H.
name: Reyna, R.
name: Mendez, J. P.
name: Mamaluy, D.
name: Hawkins, S. D.
name: Klem, J. F.
name: Smith, L. S. L.
name: Temple, D. A.
name: Enderson, Z.
name: Jiang, Z.
name: Rossi, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we present results of our recent work of epitaxially-grown aluminum (epi-Al) on antimonide heterostructures, where the epi-Al thin film is grown at either room temperature or below zero $^o$C. A sharp superconducting transition at $T \sim 1.3$ K is observed in these epi-Al films. We further show that supercurrent states are realized in Josephson junctions fabricated in the epi-Al/antimonide heterostructures with mobility $μ\sim 1.0 \times 10^6$ cm$^2$/Vs. These results clearly demonstrate we have achieved growing high-quality epi-Al/antimonide heterostructures, a promising platform for the exploration of Josephson junction effects for quantum information science and microelectronics applications.
Additional file 4 of Genome-wide association study and development of molecular markers for yield and quality traits in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
Creators: name: Guo, Minjie
name: Deng, Li
name: Gu, Jianzhong
name: Miao, Jianli
name: Yin, Junhua
name: Li, Yang
name: Fang, Yuanjin
name: Huang, Bingyan
name: Sun, Ziqi
name: Qi, Feiyan
name: Dong, Wenzhao
name: Lu, Zhenhua
name: Li, Shaowei
name: Hu, Junping
name: Zhang, Xinyou
name: Ren, Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 4
sj-pdf-8-hss-10.1177_15563316211039509 – Supplemental material for Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Overlay in the Spine for Surgical Planning: A Technical Report
Creators: name: Perez, Alberto A.
name: Yoon, Edward S.
name: Iyer, Sravisht
name: Lafage, Virginie
name: Sandhu, Harvinder
name: Schwab, Frank
name: Albert, Todd J.
name: Qureshi, Sheeraz
name: Kim, Han Jo
name: Katsuura, Yoshihiro
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-8-hss-10.1177_15563316211039509 for Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Overlay in the Spine for Surgical Planning: A Technical Report by Alberto A. Perez, Edward S. Yoon, Sravisht Iyer, Virginie Lafage, Harvinder Sandhu, Frank Schwab, Todd J. Albert, Sheeraz Qureshi, Han Jo Kim and Yoshihiro Katsuura in HSS Journal®: The Musculoskeletal Journal of Hospital for Special Surgery
What are the strategies & good practices for engaging and sustaining patient communities?
Creators: name: AIM Community
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: AIM Conference 2024

description: The workshop was designed to provide members of the AIM community with an opportunity to discuss key topics shaping the future of AI and MLTC research, aiming to improve lives for those living with or caring for people with Multiple Long-Term Conditions. In collaboration with NIHR, six discussion topics with guiding questions were prepared to explore challenges and potential solutions. The session is part of "Pioneering AI in MLTC: Bridging Research and Practice Conference 2024" that took place on 9-10 Sept 2024 in Manchester.

The event welcomed 80-100 registered attendees, with 12-16 participants engaging in discussions on each topic and eight joining online. A one-hour session included 50 minutes for discussion, focusing on capturing attendees' insights and identifying three key takeaways for feedback.

There were 7 topics discussed in the workshop, this summary includes the discussion and takeaway from the 2nd topic.

Topic 1: How can we mobilise knowledge that has been generated by AIM?

Topic 2: What are the strategies & good practices for engaging and sustaining patient communities?

Topic 3: How can we champion early career researchers in MLTC research?

Topic 4: What technical support is needed for the next stage of translation/impact?

Topic 5: Who do we need to engage to ensure broad collaboration for translating research?

Topic 6: How would we move towards system thinking and transdisciplinary research in MLTC?

Topic 7: What are the strategies & good practices for engaging and sustaining patient communities?

A playlist of the conference recordings can be accessed here

 The AI for Multiple Long Term Conditions Research Support Facility (link to the same archived website) is based at The Alan Turing Institute, in partnership with Swansea University and the University of Edinburgh. The RSF offers AI and advanced data science expertise and support to the eight research consortia, as part of a broader £23M investment in multiple long-term conditions research (the AIM Programme). AIM RSF is funded by the NIHR Artificial Intelligence for Multiple Long-Term Conditions (AIM) programme (NIHR202647).
DISCOVERING THE SPACIAL AND TEMPORAL COMPLEXITY OF INTESTINAL 1ALPHA,25-DIHYDROXYVITAMIN D ACTION
Creators: name: Jiang, Heng
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Nutritional science

description: The primary role of 1,25(OH)2D and the vitamin D receptor (VDR) during growth is to mediate intestinal calcium (Ca) absorption by regulating the expression of genes (e.g., Trpv6, S100g) that control Ca fluxes through enterocyte. In contrast to the well-defined role during rapid growth, the understanding of 1,25(OH)2D signaling in post-growth, mature adult or the elderly is poor. Some observational studies suggest intestinal 1,25(OH)2D signaling is not important to Ca absorption and bone for mature adult. In the elderly, intestine develops resistance to 1,25(OH)2D action which might be due to age-related reductions in intestinal VDR level. In addition, there is lack of evidence that directly tests the role of 1,25(OH)2D action in the distal intestine post-growth. My dissertation research focuses on discovering the importance of 1,25(OH)2D signaling from both the temporal and spatial perspectives. By using 4-month old, whole intestine or large intestine VDR knockout mice, we found that for mature mice, 1,25(OH)2D signaling plays a minimal role in regulating Ca absorption and protecting bone mass when dietary Ca intake is adequate. In contrast, 1,25(OH)2D signaling in the whole intestine, and to a lesser extent the proximal colon, is critical to upregulate Ca absorption and protect bone when dietary Ca intake is low. Next, we proved that the Ca absorptive machinery in the proximal colon can be locally stimulated to enhance the expression of Trpv6 by 1,25(OH)2D released from glycoside and glucuronide forms of calcitriol. Furthermore, our transcriptomic analysis on 1,25(OH)2D-regulated genes in the duodenum of mature (4-month old), middle-aged (11.5-month old), and old (20.5-month old) mice suggest although aging did reduce the induction of some genes by 1,25(OH)2D, this effect is not universally present across the genome and it is not related to intestinal Vdr expression. The findings from my dissertation research serve as a foundation for future research to identify a) the potential of specifically targeting proximal colon to increase intestinal Ca absorption and protect bone in adult; b) the molecular mechanisms that contribute to the aging-associated, non-universal resistance to 1,25(OH)2D action.
EFFECTS OF SHORT COURSE VIRTUAL REALITY OR VIDEO BOX TRAINING FOR LAPAROSCOPIC BASIC SKILLS AND SIMULATED SURGICAL PERFORMANCE IN VETERINARY STUDENTS
Creators: name: Hottmann, Natasha M.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Laparoscopic
Training
Video Box
Virtual Reality

description: Objective: To compare novices’ performance of simulated laparoscopic tasks on a box trainer and VR trainer before and after training on one system, and to compare performance between groups following training.
description: Study Design: Randomized, prospective study
description: Population: Veterinary students without prior hands-on laparoscopic experience were randomly assigned to the box or VR training group.
description: Methods: Performance of basic laparoscopic tasks on box and VR trainers and a simulated surgical task were scored before and after completion of a designated training program. Scores for each task were compared within and between groups.
description: Results: The box group’s post-training scores were higher than pre-training scores for all box tasks. The VR group’s post-training scores were higher than pre-training scores for most VR tasks. Median post-training scores were higher in the box group compared to the VR group for all box tasks. Median post-training scores were higher for the VR group compared to the box group only for VR intracorporeal suturing. Neither program led to significant improvement in simulated surgical task performance.
description: Conclusion: In this study the box trainer seemed advantageous over the VR trainer for training novices to perform most basic tasks. The lack of significant improvement of simulated surgical task performance is likely related to study limitations including small sample size and short training timeline.
description: Impact: Both training systems increase laparoscopic skills in novices. Simulation training of laparoscopic skills may be applicable within veterinary school curricula. Additional studies are warranted to assess these systems with different laparoscopic tasks and trainee skill levels.