cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pharmacokinetics and Safety of Micafungin in Infants Supported With Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Creators: name: Watt, Kevin M.
name: Benjamin, Daniel K.
name: Brouwer, Kim L.R.
name: Hornik, Christoph P.
name: Hupp, Susan R.
name: Autmizguine, Julie
name: Cohen-Wolkowiez, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Candida is a leading cause of infection in infants on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Optimal micafungin dosing is unknown in this population because ECMO can alter drug pharmacokinetics (PK).
title: Slow Design and the Lost Art of Shifting Gears
Creators: name: Hay, Sarah Catherine
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Design
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037197
subject: Industrial design
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037199
subject: Sustainable design
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007001468
subject: Time perception
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85135422

description: This paper is a contribution to the growing discourse around the transformations taking place at the intersections of design, ecology and culture. It is about slow design and the lost art of shifting gears. It embraces ‘Festina lente’ from the Latin, which means ‘make haste slowly’. The phrase and its implied meaning is central to a new interpretation of slow design, espousing the philosophies of ‘slow’ and a method that puts them into practice. Slow design does not imply idleness, but rather taking the necessary time to consider and visualize unintended consequences and actively seeking out ways to not only avoid these but to find better alternatives. Long term thinking (ex. Seven Generation Theory) and the notion of sustainments frame and orient the overall intention while new social processes transpire. This thesis describes in detail a new design methodology that is possible if designers focus first on one conceptual variable – time. The focus on time enables designers to recognize variations in physical and temporal scales (i.e. context), expanding one’s temporal horizon and building capacity to respond quickly to changing conditions. This is the true challenge for the designer working towards socio-cultural and ecological regeneration. Questions that will be answered in the paper are as follows: What is slow design? How does it differ from conventional design? What are the criteria? What are the precedents? What is the methodology and how is it applied? Conceived as a floating structure, built mostly of salvaged materials, the project component of my thesis (RAFT) is used as a way to test and work through the creative possibilities that surround slow design. I use RAFT as a research tool – a conceptual and physical sounding board to uncover and develop a template for practicing slow design. The method was conceived primarily for industrial designers, and therefore more often than not includes a physical product output. It has the ability to transfer to other forms of sustainable design and production.
Adiantopsis recurvata Ponce & Scataglini
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Pteridaceae
Adiantopsis
Adiantopsis recurvata

description: Adiantopsis recurvata (Baker) Ponce & Scataglini
Distribution: Argentina, Paraguay
Source: Ponce & Scataglini 2012.
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Model-independent distance calibration of high-redshift gamma-ray bursts and constrain on the $Λ$CDM model
Creators: name: Lin, Hai-Nan
name: Li, Xin
name: Chang, Zhe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are luminous enough to be detectable up to redshift $z\sim 10$. They are often proposed as complementary tools to type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in tracing the Hubble diagram of the Universe. The distance calibrations of GRBs usually make use one or some of the empirical luminosity correlations, such as $τ_{\rm lag}-L$, $V-L$, $E_p-L$, $E_p-E_γ$, $τ_{\rm RT}-L$ and $E_p-E_{\rm iso}$ relations. These calibrating methods are based on the underling assumption that the empirical luminosity correlations are universal over all redshift range. In this paper, we test the possible redshift dependence of six luminosity correlations by dividing GRBs into low-$z$ and high-$z$ classes according to their redshift smaller or larger than 1.4. It is shown that the $E_p-E_γ$ relation for low-$z$ GRBs is consistent with that for high-$z$ GRBs within $1σ$ uncertainty. The intrinsic scatter of $V-L$ relation is too larger to make a convincing conclusion. For the rest four correlations, however, low-$z$ GRBs differ from high-$z$ GRBs at more than $3σ$ confidence level. As such, we calibrate GRBs using the $E_p-E_γ$ relation in a model-independent way. The constraint of high-$z$ GRBs on the $Λ$CDM model gives $Ω_M=0.302\pm 0.142(1σ)$, well consistent with the Planck 2015 results.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables
Predictors Of Non-Escherichia Coli Urinary Tract Infection
Creators: name: Moxey-Mims, Marva
name: Keren, Ron
name: Shaikh, Nader
name: Hoberman, Alejandro
name: Carpenter, Myra A.
name: Wald, Ellen R.
name: Ivanova, Anastasia
name: Gotman, Nathan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: We aimed to determine which children are prone to non-Escherichia coli coli UTIs. We included 769 children with UTI. We found that circumcised males, Hispanic children, children without fever, and children with Grade 3–4 VUR were more likely to have a UTI caused by organisms other than E. coli. This information may guide clinicians in their choice of antimicrobial therapy.
Flat-band ferromagnetism in a topological Hubbard model
Creators: name: Doretto, R. L.
name: Goerbig, M. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the flat-band ferromagnetic phase of a topological Hubbard model within a bosonization formalism and, in particular, determine the spin-wave excitation spectrum. We consider a square lattice Hubbard model at 1/4-filling whose free-electron term is the π-flux model with topologically nontrivial and nearly flat energy bands. The electron spin is introduced such that the model either explicitly breaks time-reversal symmetry (correlated flat-band Chern insulator) or is invariant under time-reversal symmetry (correlated flat-band $Z_2$ topological insulator). We generalize for flat-band Chern and topological insulators the bosonization formalism [Phys. Rev. B 71, 045339 (2005)] previously developed for the two-dimensional electron gas in a uniform and perpendicular magnetic field at filling factor ν=1. We show that, within the bosonization scheme, the topological Hubbard model is mapped into an effective interacting boson model. We consider the boson model at the harmonic approximation and show that, for the correlated Chern insulator, the spin-wave excitation spectrum is gapless while, for the correlated topological insulator, gapped. We briefly comment on the possible effects of the boson-boson (spin-wave--spin-wave) coupling.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures
title: Shahr-e farang: An Exploration of Spatial Dimension of an Iranian Peepshow Box
Creators: name: Sanjari, Pooya
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: This city is the foreign city! It is all colourful! Watch it very carefully... These are the melodic lines of a man walking with a peculiar metal box on his shoulder through Tehran alleys in the late nineteen century. The showman invites the children to come and join him on a journey to faraway lands of the unknown by gazing through the lenses of his peepshow box. This thesis investigates the spatial aspects of Shahr-e farang, a unique peepshow box in Iran during the late 19th and early 20th century, by examining how emerging technologies historically shaped our understanding of physical, mental, and social spaces through mediated representations. Shahr-e farang is situated as an Iranian peepshow box within outdoor urban entertainment devices by analysing historical global media devices, including peepshows, moving panoramas, and magic lanterns. The research utilizes primary quantitative data, such as a physical examination of the device, to explore its undocumented functions and uses secondary data to trace any related materials to the device. By incorporating data from various media devices worldwide, the study establishes a comprehensive framework despite lacking extensive academic and historical sources specific to Shahr-e farang. Drawing from primary sources and empirical analysis, the thesis presents an alternative perspective on its emergence, proposing that it was informally introduced by city vendors and showmen and evolved into a pre-cinematic entertainment device for children and adults, challenging the notions of its emergence. This research sheds light on Shahr-e farang's origin, function, and cultural significance within the global context of space, image, and entertainment media. The proposed methodological framework contributes to Iranian media archaeology and extends its relevance to urban studies, architecture, and social sciences, highlighting the impact of early image-based devices on collective spatial perception.
Il fascino discreto delle famiglie omogenitoriali: dilemmi e responsabilità della ricerca
Creators: name: Bertone, Chiara
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: Facing the deep changes in the visibility and recognition of experiences of non-heterosexual parenthood in Italy, and the growing attention research has been devoting to them, this article proposes a sociological contribution to a needed reflection about dilemmas and responsibilities regarding the definition of the object of research, and the frames provided in the training of workers and volunteers in addressing these experiences. Prompted by an experience of training on family diversity in Torino, these reflections focus on how to recognize and avoid the risks of a categorising approach. The perspective of family practices is proposed as a possible analytical strategy to give account of the plural and situational ways by which actors give sense to their doing family in everyday life, without refraining from dealing with the symbolic and institutional weight of this term.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 5 No. 9 (2015)
Same-Sex Families e genitorialità omosessuale. Controversie internazionali e spazi di riconoscimento in Italia
Creators: name: Trappolin, Luca
name: Tiano, Angela
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: Lesbian and gay parenthood is the most adversed topics of the recognition of lesbian and gay families, both from the point of view of the concession of rights and the one of social legitimation. In Italy, the sociological research on the recognition of lesbian and gay families with children is not comparable to the international one. Nevertheless, the development of a political discourse on the rights of lesbian and gay people – with or without families, with or without children - by European institutions is broadening the interest of Italian sociologists. The article analyses the experiences of 12 gay Italian lesbian and gay parents in order to understand how they negotiate and achieve social legitimation in front of their families of origin, local institutions and neighbours. Results show that lesbian and gay families with children give an important contribution for the pluralization of practices and meanings related to the family. At the same time, they reproduce some crucial features supporting the hegemonic interpretation of the family: the centrality of the couple and the importance of blood ties for the definition of kinship.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 5 No. 9 (2015)
Early Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation and Mortality Among Infants Diagnosed With HIV in the First 12 Weeks of Life: Experiences From Kinshasa, DR Congo and Blantyre, Malawi
Creators: name: Dube, Queen
name: Van Rie, Annelies
name: Chirambo, Chawanangwa Mahebere
name: Heyderman, Robert
name: Edmonds, Andrew
name: Feinstein, Lydia
name: Sheahan, Anna
name: Behets, Frieda
name: Smith, Emily
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: AB Background: Based on clinical trial results, the WHO recommends infant HIV testing at age 4-6 weeks and immediate antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation in all HIV-infected infants. Little is known about the outcomes of HIV infected infants diagnosed with HIV in the first weeks of life in resource-limited settings. We assessed ART initiation and mortality in the first year of life among infants diagnosed with HIV by 12 weeks of age. Methods: Cohort of HIV-infected infants in Kinshasa and Blantyre diagnosed before 12 weeks to estimate 12-month cumulative incidences of ART initiation and mortality, accounting for competing risks. Multivariate models were used to estimate associations between infant characteristics and timing of ART initiation. Results: 121 infants were diagnosed at a median age of 7 weeks (interquartile range 6-8). The cumulative incidence of ART initiation was 46% (95% CI: 36%, 55%) at 6 months and 70% (95% CI: 60%, 78%) at 12 months. Only age at HIV diagnosis was associated with ART initiation by age 6 months, with a subdistribution hazard ratio of 0.70 (95% CI: 0.52, 0.91) for each week increase in age at DNA PCR test. The 12-month cumulative incidence of mortality was 20% (95% CI: 13%, 28%). Conclusions: Despite early diagnosis of HIV, ART initiation was slow and mortality remained high, underscoring the complexity in translating clinical trial findings and WHO guidance into real-life practice. Novel and creative health system interventions will be required to ensure that all HIV infected infants achieve optimal treatment outcomes under routine care settings.
The Formation of the "Figurational Family": Generational Chains of Process-Sociological Thinking in Europe
Creators: name: Ernst, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: Norbert Elias explained that «there are more generations needed to fulfil» the aim of establishing process theoretical thinking. Now we realize that in fact it was and still is continued. Having been embedded in a specific phase of modernisation after World War Two the scientific reception of Norbert Elias’s work impressed a whole generation. Elias had an enormous impact and meaning for a generation that is now in retirement: whilst he was a «grandfatherly teacher», an «intellectual grandfather» or friend for the ones he was also a «sparring partner», «window opener» and «giant» of Sociology for others. By interviewing ten of his scholars, assistants and colleagues I therefore ask for the fascination of Norbert Elias as a person and as a scientist embedded both in changing international and national scientific communities. Focusing his oeuvre and biography the conditions of reception and interpretation of sociology from exile became clear within a European carrier group of the «second generation» of process sociological thinking. «In- and Out-group» relations, «Master-Scholar» relations developed in a continuously ambivalence of intellectual friendship, competition, recognition as well as rivalry.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 5 No. 9 (2015)
Extended spectrum and extended eigenspaces of quasi-normal operators
Creators: name: Cassier, Gilles
name: Alkanjo, Hasan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We say that a complex number $λ$ is an extended eigenvalueof a bounded linear operator T on a Hilbert space H if there exists anonzero bounded linear operator X acting on H, called extended eigen-vector associated to $λ$, and satisfying the equation T X = $λ$XT . In thispaper we describe the sets of extended eigenvalues and extended eigen-vectors for the product of a positive and a self-adjoint operator whichare both injective. We also treat the case of normal operators.
Matelea balansae Morillo & Fontella
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Matelea
Matelea balansae

description: Matelea balansae Morillo & Fontella
Distribution: Argentina & Paraguay.
Source: Keller, 2018.
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
title: Adsorption and desorption isotherms from shales in NDI Carrara 1, Northern Territory
Creators: name: A., Bailey
name: N., Lupton
name: D., Heryanto
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: EFTF – Exploring for the Future
subject: MinEx CRC – Mineral Exploration Cooperative Research Centre
subject: NDI Carrara 1
subject: Minex CRC
subject: methane adsorption
subject: methane desorption
subject: shale
subject: Petrophysics and rock mechanics
subject: Published_External

description: This study was commissioned by Geoscience Australia (GA) to produce a report on methane adsorption and desorption of select samples from the deep stratigraphic drill hole NDI Carrara 1, located in the Proterozoic Carrara Sub-basin in the Northern Territory. Plugs were taken from depths of interest and analysed via adsorption and desorption isotherm testing at the CSIRO laboratories in Clayton, Victoria.
Carboplatin/taxane-induced gastrointestinal toxicity: a pharmacogenomics study on the SCOTROC1 trial
Creators: name: Motsinger-Reif,
name: McLeod,
name: Brown,
name: Glass,
name: Winham,
name: Paul,
name: He,
name: Hoskins,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Carboplatin/taxane combination is first-line therapy for ovarian cancer. However, patients can encounter treatment delays, impaired quality of life, even death because of chemotherapy-induced gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity. A candidate gene study was conducted to assess potential association of genetic variants with GI toxicity in 808 patients who received carboplatin/taxane in the Scottish Randomized Trial in Ovarian Cancer 1 (SCOTROC1). Patients were randomized into discovery and validation cohorts consisting of 404 patients each. Clinical covariates and genetic variants associated with grade III/IV GI toxicity in discovery cohort were evaluated in replication cohort. Chemotherapy-induced GI toxicity was significantly associated with seven single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the ATP7B, GSR, VEGFA and SCN10A genes. Patients with risk genotypes were at 1.53 to 18.01 higher odds to develop carboplatin/taxane-induced GI toxicity (P<0.01). Variants in the VEGF gene were marginally associated with survival time. Our data provide potential targets for modulation/inhibition of GI toxicity in ovarian cancer patients.
The twisted inverse image pseudofunctor over commutative DG rings and perfect base change
Creators: name: Shaul, Liran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16E45 (Primary), 18E30 (Secondary)

description: Let $K$ be a Gorenstein noetherian ring of finite Krull dimension, and consider the category of cohomologically noetherian commutative differential graded rings $A$ over $K$, such that $H^0(A)$ is essentially of finite type over $K$, and $A$ has finite flat dimension over $K$. We extend Grothendieck's twisted inverse image pseudofunctor to this category by generalizing the theory of rigid dualizing complexes to this setup. We prove functoriality results with respect to cohomologically finite and cohomologically essentially smooth maps, and prove a perfect base change result for $f^{!}$ in this setting. As application, we deduce a perfect derived base change result for the twisted inverse image of a map between ordinary commutative noetherian rings. Our results generalize and solve some recent conjectures of Yekutieli.
description: 38 pages. Final version, to appear in Advances in Mathematics
Il mutevole equilibrio di potere tra i sessi. Uno studio di sociologia processuale: l'esempio dell'antico Stato romano
Creators: name: Elias, Norbert
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 5 No. 9 (2015)
Attalea geraensis Barb. Rodr.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Arecales
Arecaceae
Attalea
Attalea geraensis

description: Attalea geraensis Barb.Rodr.
Distribution: Brazil, NE Paraguay.
Source: Govaerts & Dransfield 2005.
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Clinical validity of new genetic biomarkers of irinotecan neutropenia: an independent replication study
Creators: name: Ramirez,
name: Innocenti,
name: Qiao,
name: Mathijssen,
name: Crona,
name: De Graan,
name: Rosner,
name: Van Schaik,
name: Ratain,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The overall goal of this study was to provide evidence for the clinical validity of nine genetic variants in five genes previously associated with irinotecan neutropenia and pharmacokinetics. Variants associated with absolute neutrophil count (ANC) nadir and/ or irinotecan pharmacokinetics in a discovery cohort of cancer patients were genotyped in an independent replication cohort of 108 cancer patients. Patients received single-agent irinotecan every 3 weeks. For ANC nadir, we replicated UGT1A1*28, UGT1A1*93 and SLCO1B1*1b in univariate analyses. For irinotecan area under the concentration–time curve (AUC0-24), we replicated ABCC2 -24C>T; however, ABCC2 -24C>T only predicted a small fraction of the variance. For SN-38 AUC0-24 and the glucuronidation ratio, we replicated UGT1A1*28 and UGT1A1*93. In addition to UGT1A1*28, this study independently validated UGT1A1*93 and SLCO1B1*1b as new predictors of irinotecan neutropenia. Further demonstration of their clinical utility will optimize irinotecan therapy in cancer patients.
Reducibility of Valence-3 Killing Tensors in Weyl's Class of Stationary and Axially Symmetric Space-Times
Creators: name: Vollmer, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53-02, 53Z05

description: Stationary and axially symmetric space-times play an important role in astrophysics, particularly in the theory of neutron stars and black holes. The static vacuum sub-class of these space-times is known as Weyl's class, and contains the Schwarzschild space-time as its most prominent example. This paper is going to study the space of Killing tensor fields of valence 3 for space-times of Weyl's class. Killing tensor fields play a crucial role in physics since they are in correspondence to invariants of the geodesic motion (i.e. constants of the motion). It will be proven that in static and axially symmetric vacuum space-times the space of Killing tensor fields of valence 3 is generated by Killing vector fields and quadratic Killing tensor fields. Using this result, it will be proven that for the family of Zipoy-Voorhees metrics, valence-3 Killing tensor fields are always generated by Killing vector fields and the metric.
description: 22 pages, no figures
Are Young Female Doctors Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling in Italy?
Creators: name: Spina, Elena
name: Vicarelli, Giovanna
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: In the second half of the twentieth century, the feminization of medicine increased in large part of Western Europe. Due both to cultural and social models and to welfare policies, there was a very limited increase in the female medical profession throughout the first half of the 1900s in Italy, and a relatively larger one in the second half. Currently, the female incidence is 39.8%, placing Italy among the last positions in Europe. The results of a pilot project research, carried out on a sample of 131 young physicians enrolled with the order of doctors of Ancona, seem to confirm that some changes are currently taking place. Internalizing managerial outlook, showing high degree of self-confidence, balancing work and private life as well as creating good relational and social networks, the women doctors’ behaviour allows us to imagine that the future scenario could be very different, although gender discrimination still persists.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 5 No. 9 (2015)
The Study of Exception: A methodological reflection on Agamben’s problematisation of the relation between law and life
Creators: name: Forzani, Francesco
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2022

description: This thesis engages, from a methodological perspective, with Agamben’s problematisation of the relation between law and life. More specifically, Agamben’s work on law is here considered as a veiled reflection on the potentiality of study as a form of non-instrumental praxis, i.e. study as a means without ends. The political element of Agamben’s critique of law, it is suggested, resides in his attempt at developing a method to reflect on the conditions of possibility of power, to be understood as a form of thought – i.e. the power of thought – which has left its mark, or better, its signature, on the politico-juridical tradition of the West, determining the ways in which life has been conceptualised and, eventually, lived by the subjects who have inhabited this tradition. This signature, practically, is a signature of instrumental-exceptionality which performs a fundamental biopolitical-anthropogenetic function: it allows to functionally relate an ‘inside’ and an ‘outside’ of man, for the purpose of constituting (and preserving) the world as a governable space, a space in which life could be made (and thought as) governable. The law has played, and still plays, a fundamental role in producing this space and, in fact, it can be studied as a priviledged field in which this signature of exceptionality/instrumentality has organised the governability of life through the functional articulation of a form (of law) separated from life and a force (of life) which animates it from the outside (in pseudo-immanent or pseudo-transcendental terms). This considerations ground the experience of study as a sort of wandering among the ruins of legal thought, a virtual space in which power finds its expression precisely in the endless attempt at producing an articulation of form and force of both law and life. The (dis)function of the student, from this perspective, is to expose this articulating practice without partaking (uncritically, i.e. by presupposing it) to the process of its reproduction. As a result, Agamben’s work provides a critique of legal theorising itself as an articulating practice and, therefore, also the possibility to study the law anew, an experience of study as a means without end. But this also means that the signature of power is, at the same time, a signature of study: in other words, a means of both constitution and destitution.
Inner structure of vehicular ensembles and random matrix theory
Creators: name: Krbalek, Milan
name: Hobza, Tomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a special class of random matrices (DUE) whose spectral statistics corresponds to statistics of microscopical quantities detected in vehicular flows. Comparing the level spacing distribution (for ordered eigenvalues in unfolded spectra of DUE matrices) with the time-clearance distribution extracted from various areas of the flux-density diagram (evaluated from original traffic data measured on Czech expressways with high occupancies) we demonstrate that the set of classical systems showing an universality associated with Random Matrix Ensembles can be extended by traffic systems.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures
Licensing Open Government Data
Creators: name: Lee, Jyh-An
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This article focuses on the legal issues associated with open government data licenses. This study compares current open data licenses and argues that licensing terms reflect policy considerations, which are quite different from those contemplated in business transactions or shared in typical commons communities. This article investigates the ambiguous legal status of data together with the new wave of open government data, which concerns some fundamental intellectual property (IP) questions not covered by, or analyzed in depth in, the current literature. Moreover, this study suggests that government should choose or adapt open data licenses according to their own IP regimes. In the end, this article argues that the design or choice of open government data license forms an important element of information policy; government, therefore, should make this decision in accordance with their policy goals and in compliance with their own jurisdictions' IP laws.
Blood gene expression profiling of an early acetaminophen response
Creators: name: Paules,
name: Watkins,
name: Bushel,
name: Fannin,
name: Gerrish,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Acetaminophen can adversely affect the liver especially when overdosed. We used whole blood as a surrogate to identify genes as potential early indicators of an acetaminophen-induced response. In a clinical study, healthy human subjects were dosed daily with 4g of either acetaminophen or placebo pills for 7 days and evaluated over the course of 14 days. Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels for responders to acetaminophen increased between days 4 and 9 after dosing and 12 genes were detected with expression profiles significantly altered within 24 hrs. The early responsive genes separated the subjects by class and dose period. In addition, the genes clustered patients who overdosed on acetaminophen apart from controls and also predicted the exposure classifications with 100% accuracy. The responsive genes serve as early indicators of an acetaminophen exposure and their gene expression profiles can potentially be evaluated as molecular indicators for further consideration.
General U(1)xU(1) F-theory Compactifications and Beyond: Geometry of unHiggsings and novel Matter Structure
Creators: name: Cvetic, Mirjam
name: Klevers, Denis
name: Piragua, Hernan
name: Taylor, Washington
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the general form of an F-theory compactification with two U(1) factors based on a general elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau manifold with Mordell-Weil group of rank two. This construction produces broad classes of models with diverse matter spectra, including many that are not realized in earlier F-theory constructions with U(1)xU(1) gauge symmetry. Generic U(1)xU(1) models can be related to a Higgsed non-Abelian model with gauge group SU(2)xSU(2)xSU(3), SU(2)^3xSU(3), or a subgroup thereof. The nonlocal horizontal divisors of the Mordell-Weil group are replaced with local vertical divisors associated with the Cartan generators of non-Abelian gauge groups from Kodaira singularities. We give a global resolution of codimension two singularities of the Abelian model; we identify the full anomaly free matter content, and match it to the unHiggsed non-Abelian model. The non-Abelian Weierstrass model exhibits a new algebraic description of the singularities in the fibration that results in the first explicit construction of matter in the symmetric representation of SU(3). This matter is realized on double point singularities of the discriminant locus. The construction suggests a generalization to U(1)^k factors with k>2, which can be studied by Higgsing theories with larger non-Abelian gauge groups.
description: 83 pages, 10 figures; v2: minor corrections
Scaling It Up: Stochastic Search Structure Learning in Graphical Models
Creators: name: Wang, Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Gaussian concentration graph models and covariance graph models are two classes of graphical models that are useful for uncovering latent dependence structures among multivariate variables. In the Bayesian literature, graphs are often determined through the use of priors over the space of positive definite matrices with fixed zeros, but these methods present daunting computational burdens in large problems. Motivated by the superior computational efficiency of continuous shrinkage priors for regression analysis, we propose a new framework for structure learning that is based on continuous spike and slab priors and uses latent variables to identify graphs. We discuss model specification, computation, and inference for both concentration and covariance graph models. The new approach produces reliable estimates of graphs and efficiently handles problems with hundreds of variables.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-BA916 in the Bayesian Analysis (http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ba) by the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (http://bayesian.org/)
Weak separation condition, Assouad dimension, and Furstenberg homogeneity
Creators: name: Käenmäki, Antti
name: Rossi, Eino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 28A80, Secondary 37C45, 28D05, 28A50

description: We consider dimensional properties of limit sets of Moran constructions satisfying the finite clustering property. Just to name a few, such limit sets include self-conformal sets satisfying the weak separation condition and certain sub-self-affine sets. In addition to dimension results for the limit set, we manage to express the Assouad dimension of any closed subset of a self-conformal set by means of the Hausdorff dimension. As an interesting consequence of this, we show that a Furstenberg homogeneous self-similar set in the real line satisfies the weak separation condition. We also exhibit a self-similar set which satisfies the open set condition but fails to be Furstenberg homogeneous.
description: 22 pages, 2 figures
Metabolic characterization of overweight and obese adults
Creators: name: Ondrak, Kristin S.
name: Mock, Meredith G.
name: Blue, Malia N. M.
name: Smith-Ryan, Abbie E.
name: Trexler, Eric T.
name: Hirsch, Katie R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Traditional evaluations of metabolic health may overlook underlying dysfunction in individuals who show no signs of insulin resistance or dyslipidemia. The purpose of this study was to characterize metabolic health in overweight and obese adults using traditional and non-traditional metabolic variables. A secondary purpose was to evaluate differences between overweight/obese and male/female cohorts, respectively.
Butia campicola Noblick
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Arecales
Arecaceae
Butia
Butia campicola

description: Butia campicola (Barb.Rodr.) Noblick
Distribution: Brazil, E Paraguay.
 Source: WCSP 2018, Leitman et al. 2015.
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Low water availability enhances volatile-mediated direct defenses but disturbs indirect defenses against herbivores
Creators: name: Lin, Po-An
name: Paudel, Sulav
name: Bin Zainuddin, Nursyafiqi
name: Tan, Ching-Wen
name: Helms, Anjel
name: Ali, Jared
name: Felton, Gary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Solanum lycopersicum L.
Podisus maculiventris
Helicoverpa zea
GCMS
random forest
PCA
ANOVA
GLM
drought
plant volatile
herbivore induced plant volatiles
Antiherbivore defense
tritrophic interactions

description: 1. Interactions between plants and natural enemies of insect herbivores influence plant productivity and survival by reducing herbivory. Plants attract natural enemies via herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs), but how water availability (WA) influences HIPV-mediated defenses is unclear. 2. We use tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), tomato fruitworm (Helicoverpa zea), and two natural enemies, the parasitoid wasp (Microplitis croceipes) and the predator spined soldier bug (Podisus maculiventris), to investigate the effect of WA on HIPV emission dynamics and associated plant defense. 3. We show that low WA initially increases total HIPV emission by tomatoes on the first day of herbivore exposure and, in contrast, reduces HIPV emission on the second day. Low WA enhances HIPVs that are mostly found in tomato trichomes. Notably, some volatiles inhibited by low WA are known attractants of natural enemies. Evidence from Y-tube and in-cage behavioral assays indicates that changes in HIPV emissions by low WA compromise the ability of tomato plants to attract natural enemies. 4. Synthesis: Based on our results, we propose a hypothesis where plants respond to low WA by enhancing repellent HIPV emissions and reducing the emission of HIPVs that attract natural enemies, which disrupts natural enemy-mediated plant indirect defenses but enhances plant direct defense against herbivores.
description: To open the data files, please install R language and R studio for R-related files (R markdown files and RData). You need Excel to open raw data files, and any website software to read to HTML files for analytical results.
description: This dataset contains two main parts. The first half is GCMS data of plant volatiles collected under different treatments. The data were analyzed using the R code developed by us. The second part contains multiple behavioral data that were collected by human observation. The data were analyzed using the R code developed by us. Regarding detailed methodology, we refer the reader to the associated publication in the Journal of Ecology: Low water availability enhances volatile-mediated direct defenses but disturbs indirect defenses against herbivores.
Accounting for planetary boundaries in health economic evaluation: the CHEERS PlanetE checklist
Creators: name: Lange, Oliver
name: Mattis Keil
name: Oldenburg, Jule
name: Rogowski, Wolf
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health Economics
subject: Environmental Public Health
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Economics
subject: Environmental Studies
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Economic Evaluation
subject: cost-benefit
subject: cost-effectiveness
subject: cost-utility
subject: ecological economics
subject: environmental economics
subject: external costs
subject: life cycle analysis
subject: planetary health

description: Given the call for planetary health and healthcare that is more responsive to planetary boundaries, decision-makers need to consider the external costs of environmental damages resulting from health interventions. In addition to standards of health economic evaluation (HEE), there are established standards of life cycle analysis (LCA) for estimating environmental impacts. To include these impacts in HEE, we extend the Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) to CHEERS Planet Extension (CHEERS PlanetE). Based on the identified literature, we map relevant items of LCA to CHEERS. We search for synergies between LCA and HEE methods and add missing methodological items to CHEERS if necessary to integrate environmental impacts into the economic evaluation. Further, we add a “how to apply”-guidance and an exemplary application to a digital weight loss case study. Our approach demonstrates to researchers and decision-makers where HEE provides information for estimating environmental impacts and which data and methodological information is additionally required. Further research is required to apply and validate Cheers PlanetE.
Direct determination of oxygen abundances in line emitting star-forming galaxies at intermediate redshift
Creators: name: Pérez, José M.
name: Hoyos, Carlos
name: Díaz, Ángeles I.
name: Koo, David C.
name: Willmer, Christopher N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a sample of 22 blue ($(B-V)_{AB}<0.45$), luminous ($M_{B,AB}
description: Accepted
A non-linear approach for pattern recognition in networks
Creators: name: Machicao, Jeaneth
name: Martinez, Odemir Bruno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Complex systems
Network-automata
Pattern recognition

description: Abstract can also be found here (page 249) The combination of pattern recognition and networks emerges as an important approach to the high demand for methods that handle in a big data scenario. Thus, pattern recognition in networks aims to characterize networks by extracting information from the correlation between vertices and their relationship to the network topology. While studies have tended to focus on structural measurements, which are commonly used for the characterization of networks (1), recently, there have been some attempts to use non-linear methods, such as random walks. (2) Thus, we proposed a cellular automata model that embeds its dynamics over a network topology aiming to produce their intrinsic spatio-temporal patterns from them. Inspired by the rules of an artificial life model, here we introduce the life-like network automata (LLNA) (3) as a tool for network analysis in the context of pattern recognition applications. The LLNA method performances was explored into four classification tasks that use networks as data representation for pattern recognition purposes: (i) to infer the authorship of disputed documents in multiple contexts; (ii) identifying organisms from distinct domains of life, Archaea, Bacteria and Eukaryota, through their metabolic networks; (iii) identifying structural patterns in two online social networks, Twitter and Google+, and, finally, (iv) classifying stomata distribution patterns varying according to different lighting conditions. The proposed method has made significant progress in real-world pattern recognition applications from a wide branch of fields. 1 COSTA, L. F. et al. A pattern recognition approach to complex networks. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: theory and experiment, v. 2010, p.1015-1-11015-24, 2010. doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/2010/11/P11015. 2 GONÇALVES, W. N.; MARTINEZ, A. S.; BRUNO, O. M. Complex network classification using partially self-avoiding deterministic walks. Chaos, v. 22, n. 3, p. 033139-1-033139-13 , 2012. 3 MIRANDA, G. H. B.; MACHICAO, J.; BRUNO, O. M. Exploring spatio-temporal dynamics of cellular automata for pattern recognition in networks. Scientific Reports, v. 6, p. 37329-1-37329-15, 2016. doi: 10.1038/srep37329.
description: Presentation given during the Semana integrada da graduação e pós-graduação do Instituto de Física de São Carlos, 2017, São Carlos, Brasil.
La Spagna dalla Prima alla Seconda Transizione: un'intervista a Fausto Miguelez
Creators: name: Giovannini, Paolo
name: Mascagni, Giulia
name: Perulli, Angela
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 5 No. 9 (2015)
Le ragioni degli altri. Mediazione e famiglia tra conflitto e dialogo di Elena Urso (a cura di)
Creators: name: Gherardini, Valeria
name: Grippo, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 5 No. 9 (2015)
A New Lecture-Tutorial for Teaching about Molecular Excitations and           Synchrotron Radiation
Creators: name: Hornstein, Seth D.
name: Schlingman, Wayne M.
name: Burns, Jack O.
name: Chambers, Timothy G.
name: Wallace, Colin S.
name: Prather, Edward E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Light and spectroscopy are among the most important and frequently taught topics in introductory college-level general education astronomy courses (hereafter Astro 101). This is due to the fact that the vast majority of observational data studied by astronomers arrives at Earth in the form of light. While there are many processes by which matter can emit and absorb light, Astro 101 courses typically limit their instruction to the Bohr model of the atom and electron energy level transitions. In this paper, we report on the development of a new "Lecture-Tutorial" to help students learn about other processes that are responsible for the emission and absorption of light, namely molecular rotations, molecular vibrations, and the acceleration of charged particles by magnetic fields. Note that this paper primarily focuses on describing the variety of representations and reasoning tasks designed for this "Lecture-Tutorial"; while the end of this paper highlights some data
Anisotropic effect of warping on the lifetime broadening of topological surface states in angle-resolved photoemission from Bi$_2$Te$_3$
Creators: name: Sánchez-Barriga, J.
name: Scholz, M. R.
name: Golias, E.
name: Rienks, E.
name: Marchenko, D.
name: Varykhalov, A.
name: Yashina, L. V.
name: Rader, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the strong hexagonal warping of the Dirac cone of Bi$_2$Te$_3$ by angle-resolved photoemission. Along $\overlineΓ$$\overline{\rm M}$, the dispersion deviates from a linear behavior meaning that the Dirac cone is warped outwards and not inwards. We show that this introduces an anisotropy in the lifetime broadening of the topological surface state which is larger along $\overlineΓ$$\overline{\rm K}$. The result is not consistent with nesting. Based on the theoretically predicted behavior of the ground-state spin texture of a strongly warped Dirac cone, we propose spin-dependent scattering processes as explanation for the anisotropic scattering rates. These results could help paving the way for optimizing future spintronic devices using topological insulators and controlling surface-scattering processes via external gate voltages.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures