cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Leuchtendes Löffeln in Leipzig. Design als kulturelle Praxis im öffentlichen Raum
Creators: name: Meier, Stefan
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Semiotik
Year: 2023

description: Zusammenfassung. Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert die gesellschaftliche Funktion von Design als öffentlicher wahrnehmbarer Zeichenpraxis und verdeutlicht, inwiefern Designobjekte ihre Funktion und Bedeutung durch Handlungs- und Diskurskontexte erhalten. Ihre Zeichenhaftigkeit wird hierdurch von einer vermeintlichen Deutungsoffen­heit auf konkrete Bedeutungspotenziale reduziert. Kulturelle und soziale Kontexte schaf­fen im interpretativen Zusammenspiel mit Materie, Farbe und Form Identität, die sich auf der Ausdrucksebene in Form von Stil darstellt. Stil stellt sich somit im schöpferischen Akt durch Stil-Praktiken her, die sich als Auswahl, Formung und Komposition von semiotischen Ressourcen bestimmen lassen. Exemplarisch verdeutlicht werden diese Praktiken anhand einer aus den 1970er Jahren stammenden, unter Denkmalschutz ste­henden Leuchtreklame, der sogenannten „Leipziger Löffelfamilie“.
description: Zeitschrift für Semiotik, Bd. 38 Nr. 1-2 (2016): Zeichen im öffentlichen Raum: Funktionalisierung, Ästhetisierung und Mediatisierung
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome V, Cart. 189 (11 H 74), 316 folios, f. 0196v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome V, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 189 (11 H 74), 316 folios, f. 0196v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome V, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 189 (11 H 74), 316 folios, f. 0196v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Engineering Polysialylation of scFvs and its effects on Function
Creators: name: Vyas, Bijal
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Antibody engineering for drug therapy has become a major industry in recent years, with much work focussed on the development of recombinant antibody fragments in therapeutic and diagnostic applications. An important consideration when engineering antibodies, especially rapidly clearing fragments is its pharmacokinetic properties. Several strategies have been adopted to increase blood half-life and bioavailability, which include chemical conjugation and recombinant modulation. The most successful to date, is the chemical conjugation of poly(ethylene glycol) polymers, known as PEGylation. However, due to its non-biodegradable nature, the limitations associated with PEG polymers have prompted the development of natural alternatives. Polysialic acid (PSA) has been shown to be a favourable alternative to PEG with recent studies showing that recombinant polysialylation using human neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) domain carriers can significantly improve pharmacokinetics. This study looks at targeting a well-suited application to inhibit or antagonize blood-borne factors, such as Interluekin-6, by focussing on applying the recombinant polysialylation technology to anti-IL-6 single chain variable fragments (scFv) to exemplify the therapeutic benefits of blocking this cytokine expressed in many cancers. Here, a range of novel NCAM fusion proteins are presented which aim to refine the technological approach and demonstrate the relation of structural and functional properties. The findings support the requirement for proper spacing between the NCAM domains to allow polysialylation to occur and show when in space and sequence their application to a range of scFv fragments improve serum half-life by up to 7- fold. By targeting a soluble factor, the antibody derivative shows a blood exposure rate equal to that of a membrane bound target, illustrating the recombinant polysiaylation technique can be applied to a range of targets. Anti-IL-6 effects in vitro have also been shown in this study, suggesting potential for inhibiting pro-inflammatory cytokines in a therapeutic application.
Dynamics of Ultracold Quantum Gases in the Dissipative Fermi-Hubbard Model
Creators: name: Sponselee, Koen
name: Freystatzky, Lukas
name: Abeln, Benjamin
name: Diem, Marcel
name: Hundt, Bastian
name: Kochanke, André
name: Ponath, Thomas
name: Santra, Bodhaditya
name: Mathey, Ludwig
name: Sengstock, Klaus
name: Becker, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ metastable ultracold $^{173}$Yb atoms to study dynamics in the 1D dissipative Fermi-Hubbard model experimentally and theoretically, and observe a complete inhibition of two-body losses after initial fast transient dynamics. We attribute the suppression of particle loss to the dynamical generation of a highly entangled Dicke state. For several lattice depths and for two- and six-spin component mixtures we find very similar dynamics, showing that the creation of strongly correlated states is a robust and universal phenomenon. This offers interesting opportunities for precision measurements.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
Oral history interview with Marjorie Swann Edwin, 2000
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Civil rights movements--History--20th century.--United States
Civil rights demonstrations--United States
Pacifism
Imprisonment--United States

description: Edwin discusses her childhood, including: her father's service in World War I; generational attitudes towards war; her parents' abusive tendencies; her grandmother; Methodist Sunday school; encounters with racism; and the influence of Social Gospel theologian Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle. Edwin describes her nonviolent and anti-war doctrine. She talks about her activism at Northwestern University, particularly with the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and the Hull House. She discusses the origins of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and her introduction to the organization by George Houser. Edwin recalls: the War Resisters League; Bayard Rustin; her participation in the Quebec-Guantanamo Walk; her encounter with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at a nonviolent vigil in response to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; her work integrating restaurants, barber shops, Greyhound buses, and drugstores with CORE; her 22 month-long fast; and her time with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). She discusses the CORE chapter in Yellow Springs, Ohio, her work at Antioch College, and her relationship with Coretta Scott King. Other topic of discussion include: her time in prison and the reunion with her children upon release; her support of her husband's, Robert Swann's, ambitions to create interracial housing communities; Swann's work with Morris Milgram on the Concord Park community in Pennsylvania; and Swann's work with Ralph Borsodi to establish New Communities, a community land trust and farm collective of black farmers in Southwest Georgia. Edwin describes segregation in Levittown, Pennsylvania, and the experiences of Will and Daisy Myers. Edwin discusses American denial of racism; gender discrimination in the nonviolence movement; the treatment of Native Americans in the US; the impact of Dr. King's death; the controversial leadership of Roy Innis; and CORE's movement towards Black Power. Edwin also discusses her marriage to Robert Swann and its eventual end, as well as her marriage to John F. Edwin, a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Ghana. She characterizes her relationship with her children and their various career paths and involvements with activism. Edwin also discusses her work at St. Mary's Center in Oakland, California
Additional file 2: of The long non-coding RNA Snhg3 is essential for mouse embryonic stem cell self-renewal and pluripotency
Creators: name: Lu, Weisi
name: Yu, Jianping
name: Shi, Fengtao
name: Zhang, Jianing
name: Huang, Rui
name: Yin, Shanshan
name: Songyang, Zhou
name: Huang, Junjiu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: siRNAs and primer sequences. (DOCX 18 kb)
The Voigt and complex error function: Humlíček's rational approximation generalized
Creators: name: Schreier, Franz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accurate yet efficient computation of the Voigt and complex error function is a challenge since decades in astrophysics and other areas of physics. Rational approximations have attracted considerable attention and are used in many codes, often in combination with other techniques. The 12-term code "cpf12" of Humlíček (1979) achieves an accuracy of five to six significant digits throughout the entire complex plane. Here we generalize this algorithm to a larger (even) number of terms. The $n=16$ approximation has a relative accuracy better than $10^{-5}$ for almost the entire complex plane except for very small imaginary values of the argument even without the correction term required for the cpf12 algorithm. With 20 terms the accuracy is better than $10^{-6}$. In addition to the accuracy assessment we discuss methods for optimization and propose a combination of the 16-term approximation with the asymptotic approximation of Humlíček (1982) for high efficiency.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
One-shot information-theoretical approaches to fluctuation theorems
Creators: name: Garner, Andrew J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Traditional thermodynamics governs the behaviour of large systems that evolve between states of thermal equilibrium. For these large systems, the mean values of thermodynamic quantities (such as work, heat and entropy) provide a good characterisation of the process. Conversely, there is ever-increasing interest in the thermal behaviour of systems that evolve quickly and far from equilibrium, and that are too small for their behaviour to be well-described by mean values. Two major fields of modern thermodynamics seek to tackle such systems: non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and the nascent field of one-shot statistical mechanics. The former provides tools such as fluctuation theorems, whereas the latter applies "one-shot" Rényi entropies to thermal contexts. In this chapter to the upcoming book "Thermodynamics in the quantum regime - Recent progress and outlook" (Springer International Publishing), I provide a gentle introduction to recent research that draws from both fields: the application of one-shot information theory to fluctuation theorems.
description: As a chapter of: F. Binder, L. A. Correa, C. Gogolin, J. Anders, and G. Adesso (eds.), "Thermodynamics in the quantum regime - Recent progress and outlook", (Springer International Publishing)
Das Meer der Zeichen. Zur Lesbarkeit urbaner Räume als kollektive Gedächtnis-Texte
Creators: name: Stachel, Peter
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Semiotik
Year: 2023

description: Zusammenfassung. Städte sind Orte einer extrem verdichteten Vielfalt unterschiedlicher, sich teilweise überlappender Zeichensysteme und lassen sich daher als Texte – Gefüge von Bedeutungen – analysieren. Durch die sinnhafte Strukturierung und Markierung durch eine oder mehrere sozio-kulturelle Gruppen wird der physische Raum zur sozialen und kulturellen Räumlichkeit. In einer geschichteten Architektur kollektiver Gedächtnisse ste­hen nicht selten unterschiedliche Erinnerungskulturen und -gemeinschaften miteinander in Konkurrenz. Dies lässt sich mit Hilfe einer kultursemiotischen Herangehensweise gut analysieren. Eine generelle Systematisierung einer Teildisziplin „Stadtsemiotik“ ist demge­genüber angesichts der Vielfalt unterschiedlicher Zeichensysteme im urbanen Raum weder sinnvoll möglich, noch für empirische Untersuchungen notwendig.
description: Zeitschrift für Semiotik, Bd. 38 Nr. 1-2 (2016): Zeichen im öffentlichen Raum: Funktionalisierung, Ästhetisierung und Mediatisierung
An Unusual Power: Personality Disorder, Truth and Deceit
Creators: name: Wilkin, Stanley
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 111005 Mental Health Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences
subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: 111712 Health Promotion
subject: 111710 Health Counselling

description: A look at personality disorders: genuine illness or genuine construct?
Pinel, Foucault, Porter, Huneman.
Transmission investment, access and pricing in bilateral electricity markets with significant intermittent generation
Creators: name: Vasilakos Konstantinidis, Christos
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: In order to achieve the European and national decarbonization targets and ensure the development of a flexible and secure electricity system significant grid expansion will be necessary so as to connect the usually remotely located renewable generation and geographically optimize access to flexible generation. However, the current technical, market and regulatory frameworks that support the investment and operation of the transmission system both in Great Britain and continental Europe were devised for a system without this significant penetration of intermittent generation. This thesis focuses on the necessary changes of the transmission investment, access and pricing arrangements of bilateral electricity markets, as opposed to centralized pools, so as to facilitate the triptych of decarbonization, security of supply and cost efficiency. The main research topics are: 1) Short term transmission access pricing 2) Transmission tariff design 3) Transmission rights market design 4) Transmission investment pricing signals This analysis has resulted for the first time in the development of a theoretically optimum set of arrangements for short term transmission access pricing in bilateral electricity markets, which is compatible with the markets found in Great Britain and Europe. Furthermore, a complete modelling framework has been developed for evaluating the long-term welfare effects of different transmission tariff designs capturing the dynamic relationship between transmission and generation investment through transmission pricing. An extensive analysis is carried out on transmission rights market design options for cross-border power trading and a set of policy proposals is presented. Lastly, the transmission investment pricing signals in bilateral electricity markets are examined and it is proved that transmission planning based on a Cost Benefit Analysis between balancing mechanism and transmission investment cost, as is currently the practice, will lead to sub-optimal system expansion. Based on this conclusion a number of policy proposals are put forward.
Zeichen im öffentlichen Raum. Zur Relevanz eines vertrauten Themas aus neuer Perspektive
Creators: name: Domke, Christine
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Semiotik
Year: 2023

description: Zeitschrift für Semiotik, Bd. 38 Nr. 1-2 (2016): Zeichen im öffentlichen Raum: Funktionalisierung, Ästhetisierung und Mediatisierung
Multipartite state generation in quantum networks with optimal scaling
Creators: name: Wallnöfer, Julius
name: Pirker, Alexander
name: Zwerger, Michael
name: Dür, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a repeater scheme to efficiently distribute multipartite entangled states in a quantum network with optimal scaling. The scheme allows to generate graph states such as 2D and 3D cluster states of growing size or GHZ states over arbitrary distances, with a constant overhead per node/channel that is independent of the distance. The approach is genuine multipartite, and is based on the measurement-based implementation of multipartite hashing, an entanglement purification protocol that operates on a large ensemble together with local merging/connection of elementary building blocks. We analyze the performance of the scheme in a setting where local or global storage is limited, and compare it to bipartite and hybrid approaches that are based on the distribution of entangled pairs. We find that the multipartite approach offers a storage advantage, which results in higher efficiency and better performance in certain parameter regimes. We generalize our approach to arbitrary network topologies and different target graph states.
description: 16 pages, 16 figures
Standardizing industrial hygiene data collection forms used by workers’ compensation insurers
Creators: name: Babik, Kelsey R.
name: Shockey, Taylor M.
name: Moore, Libby L.
name: Wurzelbacher, Steven J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Workers’ compensation (WC) insurers collect large amounts of industrial hygiene (IH) data in the United States. The data collected is not easily accessible for research or surveillance purposes. Individual WC insurers are using computerized systems to standardize and store the IH data, leaving a gap in standardization among the different WC insurers. This study sought to standardize IH data collection among WC insurers and to determine the feasibility of pooling collected IH data. IH air and noise survey forms were collected from WC insurers. Data fields on the forms were evaluated for importance and a study list of core fields was developed. The core study list was presented to an IH review panel for review before finalization. The final core study list was compared to recommendations published by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) and the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA). Fifty-nine forms from 10 organizations were collected. Industrial hygienists from research organizations, state-based WC insurers, and private WC insurers participated in the data field evaluation and on the review panel. For both air and noise survey forms, more than half the data fields (55% and 54%, respectively) were ranked as “essential.” Three of the four fields in the worker and control observations category ranked “essential” were found less than half of the time on both types of survey forms. The study list of core data elements consisted of more than half of the data fields from both the air and noise survey forms. Three additional fields were added based on the comparison to the ACGIH-AIHA recommendations. Data fields essential to standardizing IH data collection were identified and verified. The “essential” data fields will be made available and have the potential to be incorporated into WC insurers electronic IH data management systems. Future research should focus on other IH survey forms, such as those used in ergonomic assessments and specific chemical exposures, and methods to transfer data fields to electronic platforms.
A mob of MeerKAT FRBs and Galactic transients found with MeerTRAP
Creators: name: Stappers, Ben
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: MeerTRAP is a commensal project which searches for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) and Galactic transients while piggybacking on MeerKAT observations. The exceptional sensitivity of MeerKAT combined with the power of the user supplied equipment (FBFUSE and TUSE) to form hundreds of coherent beams and search them in real time is revealing interesting populations of both extragalactic FRBs and radio emitting neutron stars in our own galaxy. This talk will present the MeerTRAP project and describe results of both searches. It will present the population of more than 45 FRBs found to date and compare them to the known population. It will show how the combination of searches with a wide field through the incoherent beam (probing the higher luminosity regime) and coherent beams represents two separate samples of he population. The multi-frequency capabilities of MeerKAT mean MeerTRAP is also probing the frequency dependence of FRBs and we will report the first FRB ever discovered in S-band. MeerTRAP has also discovered almost 100 new Galactic sources and we will present the nature of this population which is revealing a long-period population. With repeat visits to many of the fields we have been able to measure periods and period derivatives and so are able to show how these sources are extending and filling in gaps in the period-period derivative graph. This has important implications for the spin and emission evolution of radio emitting neutron stars.
Brane-World Cosmology in Higher Derivative Gravity or Warped Compactification in the Next-to-leading Order of AdS/CFT Correspondence
Creators: name: Nojiri, Shin'ichi
name: Odintsov, Sergei D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The general model of higher derivative (HD) gravity is considered. The search of brane-world cosmology in such theory is presented when bulk is d5 AdS and boundary is spherical, hyperbolic or flat (single) brane. It is found the wide range of theory parameters where such cosmology may be realized. Special attention is paid to the version of HD theory representing SG dual of ${\cal N}=2$ $Sp(N)$ SCFT (in next-to-leading order of large $N$ expansion). In particular, it is shown that inflationary brane Universe does not occur for SG dual while hyperbolic brane occurs (which was not possible in leading order). The quantum effects of CFT living on the brane (via the corresponding conformal anomaly induced effective action) may qualitatively change the results of classical analysis. There appears inflationary (or hyperbolic) brane Universe induced by only quantum effects. In AdS/CFT correspondence (next-to-leading order) the addition of such CFT effective action (in some energy region) is naturally explained in terms of holographic renormalization group. It results in the possibility of quantum creation of inflationary brane Universe (with small rate) even for SG dual.
description: LaTeX file, 23 pages, introduction is modified
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Chaugey et Maison-Dieu (Fin XVe siècle), Cart. 181 (11 H 754), 165 folios, f. 0298
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2017
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Chaugey et Maison-Dieu (Fin XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 181 (11 H 754), 165 folios, f. 0298, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Chaugey et Maison-Dieu (Fin XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 181 (11 H 754), 165 folios, f. 0298, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Mixtures of Ionic Liquids
Creators: name: Niedermeyer, Heiko Jannes
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2011

description: Ionic liquids have gained a reputation as ‘designer solvents’ due to the wide range of properties that are accessible and the fine degree of ‘tuning’ allowed by varying the constituting ions. To further widen the parameter space, yet allow the prediction of properties, mixtures of ionic liquids are analysed in this project. An extensive literature review is performed, covering the full range of available publications on this subject at the time of writing. The available literature is extended by original research on mixtures covering a range of structurally different anions and cations that have not been reported in mixtures before. Chemical and physical properties such as conductivity, viscosity, density and solvent properties are evaluated. The physical properties are found to behave largely ideally with few exceptions, while the solvent properties of mixtures are found to behave in a systematic manner according to simple equilibrium laws. A potential explanation for the dependence of the H-bond acidity of ionic liquid cations on the basicity of the corresponding anion based on multiple available acidic protons of the cation is discussed and evaluated. Computational methods to predict the acidity and basicity parameters α and β of pure ionic liquids are developed and evaluated. For the H-bond acidity α the electrostatic potential, complex formation with NCH and electronic excitations of the complex with Reichardt’s Dye are found successful. For β, properties of the complex with HF are found to correlate well with the H-bond basicity. The properties of a siloxane substituted cation are analysed by DFT calculations to explain the low viscosity of the corresponding ionic liquids. The cation is found to form intramolecular interactions and have lowered barriers for the movement of the substituent, thus minimising cation–cation interactions, increasing entropy and facilitating the movement of anions.
Import Bans on Products from Forced Labor in the Trump Era
Creators: name: Nissen, Aleydis
Publisher: name: University of Bologna Law Review
Year: 2022

description: On 30 September 2019, the United States prohibited the imports of five products suspected of being made with forced labor from companies all over the world. This article contextualizes these Withhold Release Orders from the perspective of international law and politics. While the Trump Administration’s blunt and protectionist trade policy has been widely criticized, this article argues that it might also have created an opening to rethink the multilateral trade regime that prioritizes free trade over the abolishment of forced labor.
description: University of Bologna Law Review, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2021)
The Hasse norm principle for $A_n$-extensions
Creators: name: Macedo, André
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14G05 (primary), 11E72, 11R37, 20D06 (secondary)

description: We prove that, for every $n \geq 5$, the Hasse norm principle holds for a degree $n$ extension $K/k$ of number fields with normal closure $F$ such that $\operatorname{Gal}(F/k) \cong A_n$. We also show the validity of weak approximation for the associated norm one tori.
description: 14 pages, comments welcome
Internal hernia following laparoscopic gastric bypass
Creators: name: Ahmed, Ahmed Rashid
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Obesity is increasingly recognised as a major health threat in the developed world, with more than 120 million people worldwide classified as clinically obese. Increased weight causes increased morbidity and mortality due to its association with cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers. Bariatric surgery is currently the most efficacious treatment for morbid obesity and has the best long-term outcomes. Bariatric surgery is not without risks. Some of the early risks include postoperative bleeding, anastomotic leaks, and venous thromboembolism. Late complications include marginal ulcer formation, nutritional deficiencies and small bowel obstruction. The latter may be caused by internal hernia formation. In this thesis, an analysis of the causes of small bowel obstruction after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) is presented, looking specifically at internal hernia formation. A detailed account of the presentation and radiological findings of internal hernia following laparoscopic gastric bypass is provided. The impact of altering surgical technique on the occurrence of internal hernia is analysed: an Observational Clinical Human Reliability Assessment (OCHRA) tool was used for root cause analysis of internal hernia following gastric bypass and in the final study, the employment of a new technique demonstrated significant reduction in the incidence of internal hernia.
On the quantization of isomonodromic deformations on the torus
Creators: name: Korotkin, D. A.
name: Samtleben, J. A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantization of isomonodromic deformation of a meromorphic connection on the torus is shown to lead directly to the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov-Bernard equations in the same way as the problem on the sphere leads to the system of Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations. The Poisson bracket required for a Hamiltonian formulation of isomonodromic deformations is naturally induced by the Poisson structure of Chern-Simons theory in a holomorphic gauge fixing. This turns out to be the origin of the appearance of twisted quantities on the torus.
description: 13 pages, LaTex2e
INTERPLAY OF MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCY AND OXIDATIVE STRESS IN ATHEROGENICITY AMONG METABOLIC SYNDROME PATIENTS
Creators: name: Khaleel Ahmed Manik
name: P P Sheela Joice
name: Leena S Hiremath
name: Riyaz Ahamed Shaik
name: Imran A Jagadal
name: S. Bethiun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Metabolic Syndrome, Micronutrient Deficiency, Oxidative Stress, Cardiovascular Risk, Dietary Habits, Northern Kerala, Oxidative Stress Markers, Lp-PLA2.

description: Abstract

Background: Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is a multifactorial condition described by the presence of hypertension, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and obesity, all of which raise an individual’s risk of developing cardiovascular diseases. Despite a plethora of data, the implications of micronutrient deficiencies and oxidative stress in MetS pathogenesis have not been adequately investigated. These factors are of particular concern in the context of regional nutrition, such as that of Northern Kerala – despite the high consumption of red meat and fried foods, these diets will often be low in the above-mentioned micronutrients. Methodology: a cross-sectional study involving 200 participants, half of MetS patients and half were healthy controls matched by sex and age. Measured parameters consumed of Micronutrients, Mg, Zn, Cu, and oxidative stress markers of MDA, Vitamin C, and cardiovascular risk markers; Apo-B, Lp-PLA2, and Ox-LDL. The study was conducted at MES Medical College and Hospital, Kerala, from January 2021 to December 2022. Statistical methods involved t-tests and Pearson’s correlation analysis between biochemical markers and MetS traits. Results: significantly higher zinc and copper levels in MetS patients and lower levels of MDA and vitamin C have been shown, which reveals higher oxidative stress. Furthermore, Apo-B, Lp-PLA2, and Ox-LDL were also increased in MetS patients, which proves high cardiovascular complications. Also, the correlation analyzed treatment revealed an excellent, significant, perfect correlation between Zn and the oxidative stress markers. Conclusion: The study concluded that micronutrient deficiencies and high oxidative stress have a definitive relationship with MetS and cardio pathologies, which can be improved with proper dietary behavior, especially related to northern Kerala residents and other dietary habits. Future studies should focus on longitudinal follow-up studies and interventional trials.
The value of regionalised information for hydrological modelling
Creators: name: Cardoso Lopes De Almeida, Susana Margarida
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: In many areas of the world, the absence of streamflow data to calibrate hydrological models limits the ability to make reliable streamflow predictions. Whilst a large and increasing number of regions are insufficiently gauged, there are also many highly monitored catchments. Transferring the knowledge gained in data-rich areas to data-scarce regions offers possibilities to overcome the absence of streamflow observations. In this thesis knowledge is transferred in the form of signatures, which reflect hydrological response characteristics of a particular catchment. Several signatures may be required to capture different aspects of catchment functional behaviour. Using a large dataset of catchments, observed signatures are regressed against physical and climatic catchment descriptors. Signatures for an ungauged location with known descriptors are then estimated utilising the derived relationships. A Bayesian procedure is subsequently used to condition a conceptual model for the ungauged catchment on the estimated signatures with formal uncertainty estimation. Particular challenges related to the Bayesian approach include the selection of signatures, and specification of the prior distribution and the likelihood functions. A methodological development is based on an initial transformation of the commonly adopted uniform parameter prior into a prior that maps to a uniform signature distribution, aimed at cases where limited prior knowledge regarding the model structure adequacy and the parameters distribution exist. The suggested methodology contributes to improved estimation of response signatures, and is particularly relevant when regionalised information is highly uncertain. A further contribution of this thesis refers to the integration of several regionalised signatures into the model, accounting for the inter-signature error covariance structure. By increasing the number and regionalisation quality of signatures in the conditioning process, better predictions are obtained. Additionally, the consideration of the inter-signature error structure may improve the results when correlations between errors are shown to be strong. When regionalised signatures are integrated into the model, it is shown that model structural inadequacy has a strong effect on the prediction quality.
CFH Y402H polymorphism in Italian patients with age-related macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, and Stargardt disease
Creators: name: Sodi, Andrea
name: Passerini, Ilaria
name: Bacherini, Daniela
name: Boni, Luca
name: Palchetti, Simona
name: Murro, Vittoria
name: Caporossi, Orsola
name: Mucciolo, Dario Pasquale
name: Franco, Fabrizio
name: Vannozzi, Lorenzo
name: Torricelli, Francesca
name: Pelo, Elisabetta
name: Rizzo, Stanislao
name: Virgili, Gianni
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Background: The complement system has been implicated in the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and the CFH Y402H polymorphism has been suggested as a major risk factor for AMD. Recent evidences supported the role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of some retinal dystrophies. Aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of CFHY402H polymorphism in a group of Italian patients affected by atrophic AMD, Stargardt disease (STGD), or retinitis pigmentosa(RP). Materials and Methods: Our case–control association study included 116 patients with atrophic AMD, 77 with RP, 86 with STGD, and 100 healthy controls. All the patients were evaluated by a standard ophthalmologic examination and OCT. ERG was performed on STGD and RP patients. All the subjects underwent a blood drawing for genetic testing and the CFHY402H polymorphism was genotyped with the TaqMan real-time polymerase chain reaction single nucleotide polymorphism assay. Results: The prevalence of the risk genotype C/C was higher in the AMD group than in controls (p p p p = 0.008). The CFHY402H genotype distribution was not different between patients with STGD and the controls, for the biallelic (p = 0.531) and for the monoallelic (p = 0.318) evaluation. Conclusions: In our series of Italian patients, the CFHY402H genotype is associated with atrophic AMD and RP, but not with STGD. This result may support the hypothesis of a complement system dysregulation in the pathogenesis of AMD and RP
Insights into the tuberculosis diagnostic pathway
Creators: name: Martin, Laura
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Background: Early identification of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is important. Existing first and second-line drug (SLD) susceptibility testing (DST) strategies can be slow, unreliable and inaccessible. Methods and Findings: SLD DST on the MODS platform (MODS+): 97 drug-naïve and on-treatment patients provided sputum samples for analysis by MODS+ for SLDs. Agreement of MODS+ results with proportions method was >80% for fluoroquinolones and second-line injectables but suboptimal for ethambutol, pyrazinamide, streptomycin, cycloserine, ciprofloxacin and ethionamide. Performance of MODS kit for TB and multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) diagnosis: Sputum samples (N=2446) were cultured in parallel by standard methods and MODS kit. Compared to conventional MODS, MODS kit sensitivity and specificity for TB detection was 99.3% (95%CI:98.3-99.8%) and 99.0% (95%CI:97.8-99.6%) respectively, for detection of rifampicin resistance 98.9% (95%CI:94.2-100.0%) and 99.0% (95%CI:97.8-99.6%) respectively and for detection of isoniazid resistance 96.0% (95%CI:90.8-98.7%) and 99.5% (95%CI:98.4-99.9%) respectively. Can changes in culture time to detection of TB (TTD-TB) predict MDR-TB? 95 patients provided sequential sputum samples before and during treatment for culture by MODS. TTD-TB increased during treatment but TTD-TB distribution at each time point did not differ between MDR and drug-susceptible strains (p=0.4, during eight weeks first-line treatment). Should TB DSTs be rationed to “high risk” TB suspects? Clinico-epidemiological data from TB suspects (N=1545) underwent multivariate analysis for DR-TB predictors. 17 selective testing strategies were based on significant predictors and international guidelines. The proportions of DR-TB patients captured by each strategy were calculated. 147 patients had culture-positive TB (DR-TB, n=31). If only those with a MDR-TB risk factor were tested 53·1% of DR-TB patients would not have undergone DST. Most strategies performed similarly poorly or tested 80% of the population to detect 90% of DR-TB patients. Conclusion: The MODS+ assay and MODS kit are promising diagnostic tools, likely to aid important universal access to early TB DST.
Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography for Determination of Retinal Thickness in Pediatric Patients with Mild-To-Moderate Chronic Kidney Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study
Creators: name: Prakasam, Ruby K.
name: Götze, Aline
name: Keyserlingk, Sophie Von
name: Jünemann, Anselm
name: Röhlig, Martin
name: Stachs, Oliver
name: Dagmar-C. Fischer
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology

description: Objective: Children with chronic kidney diseases (CKD) are at risk for neurological diseases at early adulthood. Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) of the retina is especially suitable for determination of intraretinal layer thickness. We wonder whether retinal thinning is already present in pediatric patients with mild-to-moderate CKD. Patients and Methods: Children (n = 15; 14.9 ± 2.4 years) with mild-to-moderate CKD (median eGFR of 95ml/min/1.73m2; range: 28–187ml/min/1.73m2) due to glomerulopathy, congenital anomalies of kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT), or haemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) underwent a detailed ophthalmologic examination including high-resolution SD-OCT. Three OCT scans were obtained from the right eyes of all patients. Within each scan, retinal layers were separated and the mean thickness was determined at the foveal, parafoveal, and perifoveal area. The results were compared to those we obtained previously from healthy children. Results: At the parafoveal area, thickness (median, range) of the total retina (ALL), ganglion cell layer (GCL), and inner plexiform layer (IPL) were reduced compared to healthy volunteers (339µm, (288–361µm) vs. 348µm, (320–385µm); 49.8µm (30.5–56.6µm) vs. 53.5μm (49.5–60.5µm) and 41.0µm (29.4–43.7µm) vs. 43.46µm (39.5–46.3μm); each p Conclusion: Distinct changes within the parafoveal area of the total retina, GCL, and IPL are present in children with mild-to-moderate CKD. Prospective studies are required to assess the clinical significance of our findings.
Suppression of von Kármán vortex streets past porous rectangular cylinders
Creators: name: Ledda, Pier Giuseppe
name: Siconolfi, Lorenzo
name: Viola, Francesco
name: Gallaire, François
name: Camarri, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although the stability properties of the wake past impervious bluff bodies have been widely examined in the literature, similar analyses regarding the flow around and through porous ones are still lacking. In this work, the effect of the porosity and permeability on the wake patterns of porous rectangular cylinders is numerically investigated at low to moderate Reynolds numbers in the framework of direct numerical simulation combined with local and global stability analyses. A modified Darcy-Brinkman formulation is employed here so as to describe the flow behavior inside the porous media, where also the convective terms are retained to correctly account for the inertial effects at high values of permeability. Different aspect ratios of the cylinder are considered, varying the thickness-to-height ratios, t/d, from 0.01 (flat plate) to 1.0 (square cylinder). The results show that the permeability of the bodies has a strong effect in modifying the characteristics of the wakes and of the associated flow instabilities, while the porosity weakly affects the resulting flow patterns. In particular, the fluid flows through the porous bodies and, thus, as the permeability is progressively increased, the recirculation regions, initially attached to the rear part of the bodies, at first detach from the body and, eventually, disappear even in the near wakes. Global stability analyses lead to the identification of critical values of the permeability above which any linear instability is prevented. Moreover, a different scaling of the non-dimensional permeability allows to identify a general threshold for all the configurations here studied that ensures the suppression of vortex shedding, at least in the considered parameter space.
description: 31 pages and 17 figures
Additional file 1: of Correlation of retinal layer changes with vision gain in diabetic macular edema during conbercept treatment
Creators: name: Xu, Yupeng
name: Qu, Yuan
name: Suo, Yan
name: Gao, Jian
name: Chen, Xia
name: Liu, Kun
name: Xu, Xun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Individual layers thickness changes in study eye from baseline (BL) to 1 year follow-up. Figure S2. Individual layersthickness changes in study eye from baseline (BL) to 1 year follow-up. Figure S3. Individual layer thickness changes in fellow eye from baseline (BL) to 1-year follow-up. (DOCX 823 kb)
title: AN, Registre des écrous du Châtelet, Y5266, f. p1000887
Creators: name: Claustre, Julie
name: Nationales, Archives
name: ArchivesNationales/J.CLAUSTRE/H.REGAZZI/2020
name: Archives Nationales
name: Claustre, Julie
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Châtelet
subject: registre

description: Registre des écrous du Châtelet, Archives Nationales, Y5266. Numérisation en mode image.
description: Bibliographic citation: Archives Nationales, Registre des écrous du Châtelet, Y5266, f. p1000887
Oral history interview with Mark Rudd, 1987
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962--Public opinion
Student movements--United States
Students--Political activity

description: Background and childhood: Born 1947, Newark, New Jersey, hometown Maplewood, New Jersey, Jewish, Democrat household; education: Maplewood High School, Columbia University; themes: Cuban missile crisis as an inspiration for political activism, high school relationships, Freudian therapy during college, involvement with Independent Committee on Vietnam, Students for a Democratic Society [SDS], 1967 student demonstrations at Columbia University, tensions regarding ROTC, CIA recruitment on campus, relationship between Progressive League [PL] and SDS, family reminiscences, colleague reminiscences