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Promyelocytic Leukemia Protein Is a Cell-Intrinsic Factor Inhibiting Parvovirus DNA Replication
Creators: name: Li, Chengwen
name: Jude Samulski, R.
name: Hirsch, Matthew L.
name: Mitchell, Angela M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Tripartite motif proteins are important viral restriction factors and affect processes ranging from uncoating to transcription to immune signaling. Specifically, the promyelocytic leukemia protein (TRIM19; also called PML) is a viral restriction factor inhibiting processes from uncoating to transcription to cell survival. Here we investigated PML's effect on adeno-associated virus (AAV), a parvovirus used for gene delivery. Although dependovirus (AAV) and autonomous parvovirus (minute virus of mice) replication centers can colocalize with PML, PML's functional effect on parvoviruses is unknown. Using PML knockout mice, we determined that PML knockout enhances recombinant AAV2 (rAAV2) transduction at a range of vector doses in both male and female mice. In fact, male and female PML knockout mice exhibited up to 56-fold and 28-fold increases in transduction, respectively. PML inhibited several rAAV serotypes, suggesting a conserved mechanism, and organ specificity correlated with PML expression. Mechanistically, PML inhibited rAAV second-strand DNA synthesis, precluding inhibition of self-complementary rAAV, and did not affect the prior steps in transduction. Furthermore, we confirmed the effect of human PML on rAAV transduction through small interfering RNA (siRNA)-mediated knockdown in HuH7 cells and determined that the highest level of inhibition was due to effects of PML isoform II (PMLII). Overexpression of PMLII resulted in inhibition of second-strand synthesis, vector production, and genome replication. Moreover, wild-type AAV2 production and infectivity were also inhibited by PMLII, demonstrating a PML interaction with wild-type AAV. These data have important implications for AAV-mediated gene therapy. Additionally, PMLII inhibition of AAV second-strand synthesis and replication, which are processes necessary for all parvoviruses, suggests implications for replication of other parvoviruses.
A cross-cultural analysis of disagreement strategies in Algerian and Jordanian Arabic
Creators: name: Benyakoub, Nour El Houda
name: Alghazo, Sharif
name: Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib
name: Rabab’ah, Ghaleb
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: This study aims to explore the use of disagreement strategies in two Arabic dialects: Jordanian and Algerian Arabic. It also investigates the effect of social status on the choice of disagreement strategies adopting Muntigl’s and Turnbull’s (1998) taxonomy. To achieve these objectives, 40 participants (20 Jordanians and 20 Algerians) were randomly recruited to respond to a discourse completion task (DCT). The participants were requested to read six situations and to react to them by making disagreements with people of higher, equal and lower statuses. A mixed-method approach was used to analyse the data. The results showed that the participants in the two study groups share similar preferences in the use of two main disagreement strategies that scored the highest in High to Low, Low to High, and in Equal statuses. The findings are discussed in the light of (im)politeness and provide implications for socio-pragmatic research in Arabic linguistics.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 26 N. 1 (2022): Kervan 26 (2022)
Supp File 7 from RNA sequencing reveals a complete but an unconventional type of dosage compensation in the domestic silkworm Bombyx mori
Creators: name: Gajula Gopinath
name: Kuchi Srikeerthana
name: Tomar, Archana
name: Srikakolapu M. Ch. Sekhar
name: Kallare P. Arunkumar
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: This file contains the scripts used for the TMM normalization of the raw read counts and the R-scripts used for the quartile analysis.
Effect of Aspect Ratio and Deformability on Nanoparticle Extravasation through Nanopores
Creators: name: Perry, Jillian L.
name: Kersey, Farrell R.
name: Napier, Mary E.
name: Merkel, Timothy J.
name: Desimone, Joseph M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: We describe the fabrication of filamentous hydrogel nanoparticles using a unique soft lithography based particle molding process referred to as PRINT (Particle Replication in Non-wetting Templates). The nanoparticles possess a constant width of 80 nm, and we varied their lengths ranging from 180 nm to 5000 nm. In addition to varying the aspect ratio of the particles, the deformability of the particles was tuned by varying the cross-link density within the particle matrix. Size characteristics such as hydrodynamic diameter and persistence length of the particles were analyzed using dynamic light scattering and electron microscopy techniques, respectively, while particle deformability was assessed by atomic force microscopy. Additionally, the ability of the particles to pass through membranes containing 0.2 μm pores was assessed by means of a simple filtration technique, and particle recovery was determined using fluorescence spectroscopy. The results show that particle recovery is mostly independent of aspect ratio at all cross-linker concentrations utilized, with the exception of 96 wt% PEG diacrylate 80 × 5000 nm particles, which showed the lowest percent recovery.
Accretion kinematics through the warped transition disk in HD142527 from resolved CO(6-5) observations
Creators: name: Casassus, Simon
name: Marino, Sebastian
name: Perez, Sebastian
name: Roman, Pablo
name: Dunhill, Alex
name: Armitage, Philip
name: Cuadra, Jorge
name: Wootten, Al
name: van der Plas, Gerrit
name: Cieza, Lucas
name: Moral, Victor
name: Christiaens, Valentin
name: Montesinos, Matias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The finding of residual gas in the large central cavity of the HD142527 disk motivates questions on the origin of its non-Keplerian kinematics, and possible connections with planet formation. We aim to understand the physical structure that underlies the intra-cavity gaseous flows, guided by new molecular-line data in CO(6-5) with unprecedented angular resolutions. Given the warped structure inferred from the identification of scattered-light shadows cast on the outer disk, the kinematics are consistent, to first order, with axisymmetric accretion onto the inner disk occurring at all azimuth. A steady-state accretion profile, fixed at the stellar accretion rate, explains the depth of the cavity as traced in CO isotopologues. The abrupt warp and evidence for near free-fall radial flows in HD 142527 resemble theoretical models for disk tearing, which could be driven by the reported low mass companion, whose orbit may be contained in the plane of the inner disk. The companion's high inclination with respect to the massive outer disk could drive Kozai oscillations over long time-scales; high-eccentricity periods may perhaps account for the large cavity. While shadowing by the tilted disk could imprint an azimuthal modulation in the molecular-line maps, further observations are required to ascertain the significance of azimuthal structure in the density field inside the cavity of HD142527.
description: Submitted to ApJ
Experimental determination of the energy dependence of the rate of the muon transfer reaction from muonic hydrogen to oxygen for collision energies up to 0.1 eV
Creators: name: Stoilov, M.
name: Adamczak, A.
name: Bakalov, D.
name: Danev, P.
name: Mocchiutti, E.
name: Pizzolotto, C.
name: Baldazzi, G.
name: Baruzzo, M.
name: Benocci, R.
name: Bonesini, M.
name: Cirrincione, D.
name: Clemenza, M.
name: Fuschino, F.
name: Hillier, A. D.
name: Ishida, K.
name: King, P. J. C.
name: Menegolli, A.
name: Monzani, S.
name: Ramponi, R.
name: Rignanese, L. P.
name: Sarkar, R.
name: Sbrizzi, A.
name: Tortora, L.
name: Vallazza, E.
name: Vacchi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first experimental determination of the collision-energy dependence of the muon transfer rate from the ground state of muonic hydrogen to oxygen at near-thermal energies. A sharp increase by nearly an order of magnitude in the energy range 0 - 70 meV was found that is not observed in other gases. The results set a reliable reference for quantum-mechanical calculations of low-energy processes with exotic atoms, and provide firm ground for the measurement of the hyperfine splitting in muonic hydrogen and the determination of the Zemach radius of the proton by the FAMU collaboration.
description: 30 pages, 10 figures
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Creators: name: Hoskens, Hanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60412 Quantitative Genetics (incl. Disease and Trait Mapping Genetics)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60401 Anthropological Genetics
subject: 60411 Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics
subject: Anatomy
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

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Hoskens H. The complex facial phenotype: new approaches in family-based studies
Laboratory rotational spectroscopy of acrylamide and search for acrylamide and propionamide toward Sgr B2(N) with ALMA
Creators: name: Kolesniková, L.
name: Belloche, A.
name: Koucký, J.
name: Alonso, E. R.
name: Garrod, R. T.
name: Luková, K.
name: Menten, K. M.
name: Müller, H. S. P.
name: Kania, P.
name: Urban, Š.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerous complex organic molecules have been detected in the universe among which amides are considered as models for species containing the peptide linkage. Acrylamide bears in its backbone not only the peptide bond, but also the vinyl functional group which is a common motif in many interstellar compounds. This makes acrylamide an interesting target for a search in space. In addition, a tentative detection of the related molecule propionamide has been recently claimed toward Sgr B2(N). We report accurate laboratory measurements and analyses of thousands rotational transitions for the syn and skew forms of acrylamide between 75 and 480 GHz. Tunneling through a low energy barrier between two symmetrically equivalent configurations has been revealed for the higher-energy skew species. We searched for emission of acrylamide in the imaging spectral line survey ReMoCA performed with ALMA toward Sgr B2(N). We also searched for propionamide in the same source. Neither acrylamide nor propionamide were detected toward the two main hot molecular cores of Sgr B2(N). We did not detect propionamide either toward a position located to the east of the main hot core, thereby not confirming the recent claim of its interstellar detection toward this position. We find that acrylamide and propionamide are at least 26 and 14 times, respectively, less abundant than acetamide toward the main hot core Sgr B2(N1S), and at least 6 and 3 times, respectively, less abundant than acetamide toward the secondary hot core Sgr B2(N2). A comparison with results of astrochemical kinetics model for related species suggests that acrylamide may be a few hundred times less abundant than acetamide, corresponding to a value at least an order of magnitude lower than the observational upper limits. Propionamide may be as little as only a factor of two less abundant than the upper limit derived toward Sgr B2(N1S).
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Supplement 1: Additional tables and figures from Chronic exposure to a glyphosate-based herbicide makes toad larvae more toxic.
Creators: name: Bókony, Veronika
name: Mikó, Zsanett
name: Móricz, Ágnes M.
name: Krüzselyi, Dániel
name: Hettyey, Attila
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Contains table S1, table S2, table S3 and figure S1.
Two-dimensional XY-type Magnetic Properties of Locally Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor CeRh$_2$As$_2$
Creators: name: Kitagawa, Shunsaku
name: Kibune, Mayu
name: Kinjo, Katsuki
name: Manago, Masahiro
name: Taniguchi, Takanori
name: Ishida, Kenji
name: Brando, Manuel
name: Hassinger, Elena
name: Geibel, Christoph
name: Khim, Seunghyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed $^{75}$As-NMR measurements to investigate the normal-state magnetic properties of CeRh$_2$As$_2$, a recently-discovered heavy-fermion superconductor. The magnitude and temperature dependence of the Knight shift at the As(2) site indicate easy-plane-type magnetic anisotropy in CeRh$_2$As$_2$. With regard to spin fluctuations, the temperature dependence of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate $1/T_1$ arising from the 4$f$ electrons decreases from high-temperature constant behavior on cooling at $\sim$ 40~K, which is typical behavior of heavy-fermion systems. In addition, $1/T_1$ becomes constant at low temperatures, suggesting spatially two-dimensional antiferromagnetic fluctuations. Two-dimensional magnetic correlations in the real space are quite rare among heavy-fermion superconductors, and they may be a key factor in the unique superconducting multi-phase in CeRh$_2$As$_2$.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Noncoplanar magnetic orders and gapless chiral spin liquid on the kagome lattice with staggered scalar spin chirality
Creators: name: Oliviero, Fabrizio
name: Sobral, João Augusto
name: Andrade, Eric C.
name: Pereira, Rodrigo G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chiral three-spin interactions can suppress long-range magnetic order and stabilize quantum spin liquid states in frustrated lattices. We study a spin-1/2 model on the kagome lattice involving a staggered three-spin interaction $J_χ$ in addition to Heisenberg exchange couplings $J_1$ on nearest-neighbor bonds and $J_d$ across the diagonals of the hexagons. We explore the phase diagram using a combination of a classical approach, parton mean-field theory, and variational Monte Carlo methods. We obtain a variety of noncoplanar magnetic orders, including a phase that interpolates between cuboc-1 and cuboc-2 states. In the regime of dominant $J_χ$, we find a classically disordered region and argue that it may harbor a gapless chiral spin liquid with a spinon Fermi surface. Our results show that the competition between the staggered three-spin interaction and Heisenberg exchange interactions gives rise to unusual ground states of spin systems.
description: Final version submitted to SciPost. New appendix about the nature of the classical ground state degeneracy
In Situ Modulation of Cell Behavior via Smart Dual-Ligand Surfaces
Creators: name: Dutta, Debjit
name: Yousaf, Muhammad N.
name: Pulsipher, Abigail
name: Luo, Wei
name: Park, Sungjin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Due to the highly complex nature of the extracellular matrix (ECM), the design and implementation of dynamic, stimuli-responsive surfaces that present well-defined ligands and serve as model ECM substrates have been of tremendous interest to biomaterials, biosensor, and cell biology communities. Such tools provide strategies for identifying specific ligand–receptor interactions that induce vital biological consequences. Herein, we report a novel dual-ligand-presenting surface methodology that modulates dynamic ECM properties to investigate various cell behaviors. Peptides PHSRN, cRGD, and KKKTTK, which mimic the cell- and heparan sulfate-binding domains of fibronectin, and carbohydrates Gal and Man were combined with cell adhesive RGD to survey possible synergistic or antagonist ligand effects on cell adhesion, spreading, growth, and migration. Soluble molecule and enzymatic inhibition assays were also performed, and the levels of focal adhesion kinase in cells subjected to different ligand combinations were quantified. A redox-responsive trigger was incorporated into this surface strategy to spontaneously release ligands in the presence of adhered cells, and cell spreading, growth, and migration responses were measured and compared. The identity and nature of the dual-ligand combination directly influenced cell behavior.
Impoliteness strategies at a Jordanian hospital Emergency Room
Creators: name: Rabab’ah, Ghaleb
name: Al-Khanji, Rajai R.
name: Bataineh, Muradi
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: Impoliteness as a natural phenomenon is observed in many face-to-face encounters. It is employed to cause offense and attack the face of the hearer and sometimes over-hearers. One of the researchers who was working at the University of Jordan Hospital noticed that patients and/or their relatives use verbal and nonverbal impolite behaviour when addressing the hospital staff and doctors. In order to investigate the various strategies utilised by Arabic speaking patients and/or their relatives to express impoliteness towards the Emergency Room (ER) staff at a Jordanian hospital, observation and note-taking were used to collect the impolite instances for a period of 30 days during April 2014. A total of 100 face-to-face interactions, which included impolite expressions were collected. The results of the study showed that the patients and their relatives used 208 impoliteness instances while interacting with the admin staff, nurses and doctors. The most used strategy of impoliteness was ‘bald on record impoliteness’ followed by ‘negative impoliteness’, ‘positive impoliteness’, ‘sarcasm or mock politeness’ and ‘withhold politeness’. The study concludes that the various types and strategies of impoliteness used by the patients and/or their relatives were aiming at offending and threatening the face of the hospital staff and doctors, and this behaviour, as observed in the various interactions that took place, could be attributed to their dissatisfaction of the health care services provided.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 26 N. 1 (2022): Kervan 26 (2022)
Affine connections on complex manifolds of algebraic dimension zero
Creators: name: Dumitrescu, Sorin
name: McKay, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53B21, 53C56, 53A55

description: We prove that any compact complex manifold with finite fundamental group and algebraic dimension zero admits no holomorphic affine connection.
description: 12 pages
[Pdf/ePub/Mobi] A LA CAZA DEL PRINCIPE DRACULA - KERRI MANISCALCO descargar ebook gratis
Creators: name: Gannon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: A LA CAZA DEL PRINCIPE DRACULA de KERRI MANISCALCO

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KERRI MANISCALCO

Número de páginas: 480

Idioma: CASTELLANO

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En la esperada secuela del best seller «A la caza de Jack el Destripador», se descubren extraños asesinatos en el castillo del Príncipe Vlad el Empalador, también conocido como Drácula. ¿Podría ser un simple farsante quien está cometiendo los crímenes... o el príncipe ha vuelto a la vida? Tras el dolor y el horror que le ha causado descubrir la verdadera identidad de Jack el Destripador, Audrey Rose Wadsworth no tiene otra opción más que huir de Londres y de sus recuerdos junto con el arrogante y encantador Thomas Cresswell.Rose viaja al corazón oscuro de Rumania, hogar de una de las mejores escuelas de medicina forense de Europa... y de otro asesino de renombre: Vlad el Empalador, cuya sed de sangre se convirtió en leyenda. Pero el sueño de la vida de Rose, pronto se ve frustrado por los sangrientos descubrimientos en los pasillos del imponente castillo de la escuela, y se ve obligada a investigar asesinatos que le resultan extrañamente familiares. Quizás, lo que encuentre despierte sus temores más profundos.
Does discourse congruence influence spoken language comprehension before lexical association? Evidence from event-related potentials
Creators: name: Long, Debra
name: Boudewyn, Megan A.
name: Polse, Lara
name: Swaab, Tamara Y.
name: Gordon, Peter C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The goal of this study was to examine how lexical association and discourse congruence affect the time course of processing incoming words in spoken discourse. In an ERP norming study, we presented prime-target pairs in the absence of a sentence context to obtain a baseline measure of lexical priming. We observed a typical N400 effect when participants heard critical associated and unassociated target words in word pairs. In a subsequent experiment, we presented the same word pairs in spoken discourse contexts. Target words were always consistent with the local sentence context, but were congruent or not with the global discourse (e.g., “Luckily Ben had picked up some salt and pepper/basil”, preceded by a context in which Ben was preparing marinara sauce (congruent) or dealing with an icy walkway (incongruent). ERP effects of global discourse congruence preceded those of local lexical association, suggesting an early influence of the global discourse representation on lexical processing, even in locally congruent contexts. Furthermore, effects of lexical association occurred earlier in the congruent than incongruent condition. These results differ from those that have been obtained in studies of reading, suggesting that the effects may be unique to spoken word recognition.
ORCLSim: A System Architecture for Studying Bicyclist and Pedestrian Physiological Behavior Through Immersive Virtual Environments
Creators: name: Guo, Xiang
name: Angulo, Austin
name: Robartes, Erin
name: Chen, T. Donna
name: Heydarian, Arsalan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: J.4

description: Injuries and fatalities for vulnerable road users, especially bicyclists and pedestrians, are on the rise. To better inform design for vulnerable road users, we need to conduct more studies to evaluate how bicyclist and pedestrian behavior and physiological states change in different roadway designs and contextual settings. Previous research highlights the advantages of Immersive Virtual Environment (IVE) in conducting bicyclist and pedestrian studies. These environments do not put participants at risk of getting injured, are low-cost compared to on-road or naturalistic studies and allow researchers to fully control variables of interest. In this paper, we propose a framework ORCLSim, to support human sensing techniques within IVE to evaluate bicyclist and pedestrian physiological and behavioral changes in different contextual settings. To showcase this framework, we present two case studies where we collect and analyze pilot data from five participants' physiological and behavioral responses in an IVE setting, representing real-world roadway segments and traffic conditions. Results from these case studies indicate that physiological data is sensitive to road environment changes and real-time events, especially changes in heart rate and gaze behavior. Additionally, our preliminary data indicates participants may respond differently to various roadway settings (e.g., intersections with or without traffic signal). By analyzing these changes, we can identify how participants' stress levels and cognitive load is impacted by the simulated surrounding environment. The ORCLSim system architecture can be further utilized for future studies in users' behavioral and physiological responses in different virtual reality settings.
description: 36 pages, 7 figures
Congruities and incongruities in Arabic literary translation: A contrastive linguistic analysis of “The Prophet” by Khalil Gibran
Creators: name: Ennasser, Narjes
name: Al-Khanji, Rajai R.
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: Three Arabic translations of Khalil Gibran’s “The Prophet” are chosen among other available Arabic translations. Fifteen translated texts from the book were included for the analysis in this study. The three translations are by Basheer (1934), Abdelahad (1993), and Okasha (2008). The study investigates and analyzes different linguistic levels: discourse, stylistic, semantic, syntactic, and lexical among others as well as different choices made by the translators in rendering the same source text (ST) elements. The study found out that adopting different translation strategies by the translators led to different versions of the same ST. These strategies are based on the aesthetic ornamentation approach by As-Safi (2016). They include idiomaticity, stylistic considerations, cultural orientation, semantic/lexical accuracy, and syntactic accuracy.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 26 N. 1 (2022): Kervan 26 (2022)
[download pdf] The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now by Hilke Schellmann
Creators: name: Mckay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

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Based on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents, and real world test results, Emmy‑award winning Wall Street Journal contributor Hilke Schellmann delivers a shocking and illuminating expose on the next civil rights issue of our time: how AI has already taken over the workplace and shapes our future.   Hilke Schellmann, is an Emmy‑award winning investigative reporter, Wall Street Journal and Guardian contributor and Journalism Professor at NYU. In The Algorithm, she investigates the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in the world of work. AI is now being used to decide who has access to an education, who gets hired, who gets fired, and who receives a promotion. Drawing on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents and real‑world tests, Schellmann discovers that many of the algorithms making high‑stakes decisions are biased, racist, and do more harm than good. Algorithms are on the brink of dominating our lives and threaten our human future—if we don't fight back.    Schellmann takes readers on a journalistic detective story testing algorithms that have secretly analyzed job candidates' facial expressions and tone of voice. She investigates algorithms that scan our online activity including Twitter and LinkedIn to construct personality profiles à la Cambridge Analytica. Her reporting reveals how employers track the location of their employees, the keystrokes they make, access everything on their screens and, during meetings, analyze group discussions to diagnose problems in a team. Even universities are now using predictive analytics for admission offers and financial aid.
Non-planar elliptic vertex
Creators: name: Bezuglov, M. A.
name: Onishchenko, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the problem of obtaining higher order in regularization parameter $ε$ analytical results for master integrals with elliptics. The two commonly employed methods are provided by the use of differential equations and direct integration of parametric representations in terms of iterated integrals. Taking non-planar elliptic vertex as an example we show that in addition to two mentioned methods one can use analytical solution of differential equations in terms of power series. Moreover, in the last case it is possible to obtain the exact in $ε$ results expressible either in terms of generalized hypergeometric or Kampé de Fériet functions
description: 29 pages, 4 figures, representations of the obtained results in the form of hypergeometry were added
Prophet Muḥammad in Dante’s Divine Comedy: An anxiety of influence
Creators: name: Al-Karaki, Balqis
name: Jaran, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: This article explores the century-long topic ‘Dante and Islam’ from the perspective of Harold’s Bloom’s theory of influence. It argues that Dante’s placement of Muḥammad in Inferno 28 could have been caused by an ‘anxiety’ incited by the Islamic influence on the Commedia as first suggested by Miguel Asín Palacios in 1919. With the intention of complementing the close readings of Maria Corti and Karla Mallette, the article’s analysis of the relevant verses in Inferno in light of Bloom’s theory reveals that there could be more to the famous scene of torture than the medieval antagonistic or ambivalent positions from Islam. The article also tackles the history of European and Arab scholarship dealing with the topic, showing that it has been filled with religious, political and nationalistic anxieties, not ending with the censorship of the scene in most contemporary Arabic translations of Dante’s Commedia.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 26 N. 1 (2022): Kervan 26 (2022)
Synthesising meaning and processing approaches to prosody: performance matters
Creators: name: Arnold, Jennifer E.
name: Watson, Duane G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Words vary in acoustic prominence; for example repeated words tend to be reduced, while focused elements tend to be acoustically prominent. We discuss two approaches to this phenomenon. On the message-based view, acoustic choices signal the speaker’s meaning or pragmatics, or are guided by syntactic structure. On the facilitation-based view, reduced forms reflect facilitation of production processing mechanisms. We argue that message-based constraints correlate systematically with production facilitation. Moreover, we argue that discourse effects on acoustic reduction may be at least partially mediated by processing facilitation. Thus, research needs to simultaneously consider both competence (message) and performance (processing) constraints on prosody, specifically in terms of the psychological mechanisms underlying acoustic reduction. To facilitate this goal, we present preliminary processing models of message-based and facilitation-based approaches, and outline directions for future research.
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Year: 2024

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Rowan I'm in the business of creating fairy tales. Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels. Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland. My initial idea of hiring Zahra was good in theory, but then I kissed her. Things spiraled out of control once I texted her using an alias. By the time I realized where I went wrong, it was too late. People like me don't get happy endings. Not when we're destined to ruin them. Zahra After submitting a drunk proposal criticizing Dreamland's most expensive ride, I should have been fired. Instead, Rowan Kane offered me a dream job. The catch? I had to work for the most difficult boss I'd ever met. Rowan was rude and completely off-limits, but my heart didn't care. At least not until I discovered his secret. It was time to teach the billionaire that money couldn't fix everything. Especially not us. The Fine Print is the first book in a series of interconnected standalones following three billionaire brothers.
Well funneled nuclear structure landscape: renormalization
Creators: name: Idini, A.
name: Potel, G.
name: Barranco, F.
name: Vigezzi, E.
name: Broglia, R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A complete characterization of the structure of nuclei can be obtained by combining information arising from inelastic scattering, Coulomb excitation and $γ-$decay, together with one- and two-particle transfer reactions. In this way it is possible to probe the single-particle and collective components of the nuclear many-body wavefunction resulting from their mutual coupling and diagonalising the low-energy Hamiltonian. We address the question of how accurately such a description can account for experimental observations. It is concluded that renormalizing empirically and on equal footing bare single-particle and collective motion in terms of self-energy (mass) and vertex corrections (screening), as well as particle-hole and pairing interactions through particle-vibration coupling allows theory to provide an overall, quantitative account of the data.
Polynomials defined by tableaux and linear recurrences
Creators: name: Alexandersson, Per
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E10, 05E05

description: We show that several families of polynomials defined via fillings of diagrams satisfy linear recurrences under a natural operation on the shape of the diagram. We focus on key polynomials, (also known as Demazure characters), and Demazure atoms. The same technique can be applied to Hall-Littlewood polynomials and dual Grothendieck polynomials. The motivation behind this is that such recurrences are strongly connected with other nice properties, such as interpretations in terms of lattice points in polytopes and divided difference operators.
description: 19 pages
A divisive disease: Clashing treatments for HIV/AIDS in Swahili literature
Creators: name: Nicolini, Cristina
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: The aim of this paper is to illustrate the historical evolution of the “clashes between epistemes in relation to the treatment of illness”, which characterize Swahili literary genres on HIV/AIDS (Nicolini 2022) through an exploration of Swahili novels. Therefore, I will investigate the epistemologies of a pandemic both analytically, by investigating both the knowledge of HIV/AIDS and the plural ways of treatment involved, as well as aesthetically and linguistically, by examining the metaphorical doubles of HIV/AIDS. Moreover, I will compare the metaphorical doubles of HIV/AIDS in Swahili literature to the metaphors in Anglophone literature from East Africa. Finally, I will conclude the study with a glance at the recent Covid-19 pandemic. The clash, between modern medicine and non-scientific knowledge(-s) in relation to the treatment of illnesses, seems also to be a continuous feature in the contemporary discussions dealing with Covid-19 circulating in the social media.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 26 N. 1 (2022): Kervan 26 (2022)
ASCEND: A Spontaneous Chinese-English Dataset for Code-switching in Multi-turn Conversation
Creators: name: Lovenia, Holy
name: Cahyawijaya, Samuel
name: Winata, Genta Indra
name: Xu, Peng
name: Yan, Xu
name: Liu, Zihan
name: Frieske, Rita
name: Yu, Tiezheng
name: Dai, Wenliang
name: Barezi, Elham J.
name: Chen, Qifeng
name: Ma, Xiaojuan
name: Shi, Bertram E.
name: Fung, Pascale
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Code-switching is a speech phenomenon occurring when a speaker switches language during a conversation. Despite the spontaneous nature of code-switching in conversational spoken language, most existing works collect code-switching data from read speech instead of spontaneous speech. ASCEND (A Spontaneous Chinese-English Dataset) is a high-quality Mandarin Chinese-English code-switching corpus built on spontaneous multi-turn conversational dialogue sources collected in Hong Kong. We report ASCEND's design and procedure for collecting the speech data, including annotations. ASCEND consists of 10.62 hours of clean speech, collected from 23 bilingual speakers of Chinese and English. Furthermore, we conduct baseline experiments using pre-trained wav2vec 2.0 models, achieving a best performance of 22.69\% character error rate and 27.05% mixed error rate.
Untying the Grotian Knot: How Tanaka Kōtarō’s Christian approach to international law disentangled the moral quandary of the South West Africa Cases
Creators: name: Morgan, Jason
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: The South West Africa Cases presented the International Court of Justice (ICJ) with a seemingly intractable problem. The Petitioners in the Cases, Ethiopia and Liberia, alleged that the Respondent, the Union of South Africa, was failing to abide by the Mandate System under which South Africa had come into possession of the former German territory of South West Africa (today, Namibia). South Africa, however, argued that the way in which the mandate was governed was essentially no concern of other states. This argument presented a serious, and seemingly unresolvable, problem for the ICJ. South Africa displayed flagrant disregard for human dignity in planning and enforcing a system of racial segregation, apartheid, which relegated millions of people to lower social strata. However, the secularized international law paradigm on which the ICJ relied had no way to counter South Africa’s arguments. While it was clear that South Africa was acting unjustly, the deracinated natural law system of Hugo de Grotius (1583-1645) on which international law was premised had no way to untie this Grotian knot and permit of more substantive legal arguments on the grounds of the dignity of the human person or human rights. Procedure, in other words, trumped morality. The case seemed stuck. However, ICJ jurist Tanaka Kōtarō (1890-1974), a practicing Catholic, deployed strongly metaphysical—that is, Christian—natural law reasoning in his dissenting South West Africa Cases judgment to untie the Grotian knot and solve the moral dilemma of apartheid within an international law framework. In this paper, I examine Tanaka’s rulings (in particular his now-classic 1966 dissent) and show that his application of Catholic natural law in the South West Africa Cases not only solved the problem at hand, but also allowed for a much more robust vision of the moral law to prevail in international relations in the future.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 26 N. 1 (2022): Kervan 26 (2022)
Probing ultra-light axions with the 21-cm Signal during Cosmic Dawn
Creators: name: Hotinli, Selim C.
name: Marsh, David J. E.
name: Kamionkowski, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultra-light axions (ULAs) are a promising and intriguing set of dark-matter candidates. We study the prospects to use forthcoming measurements of 21-cm fluctuations from cosmic dawn to probe ULAs. We focus in particular on the velocity acoustic oscillations (VAOs) in the large-scale 21-cm power spectrum, features imprinted by the long-wavelength ($k\sim0.1\,{\rm Mpc}^{-1}$) modulation, by dark-matter--baryon relative velocities, of the small-scale ($k\sim 10-10^3\, {\rm Mpc}^{-1}$) power required to produce the stars that heat the neutral hydrogen. Damping of small-scale power by ULAs reduces the star-formation rate at cosmic dawn which then leads to a reduced VAO amplitude. Accounting for different assumptions for feedback and foregrounds, experiments like HERA may be sensitive to ULAs with masses up to $m_α\approx 10^{-18}\text{eV}$, two decades of mass higher than current constraints.
description: version 2: Initial conditions improved, qualitative results unchanged, manuscript matches the published PRD version. version 1: 8 pages, 7 figures, comments welcome. Sec. II covers some pedagogical information similar to arXiv:2106.11979
Unconventional spin texture in a non-centrosymmetric quantum spin Hall insulator
Creators: name: Acosta, Carlos Mera
name: Babilonia, O.
name: Abdalla, L. B.
name: Fazzio, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We proposed that the simultaneous presence of both Rashba and band inversion can lead to a Rashba-like spin-splitting formed by two bands with the same in-plane helical spin texture. Because of this unconventional spin texture, the backscattering is forbidden in edge and bulk conductivity channels. We propose a new non-centrosymmetric honeycomb-lattice quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator family formed by the IV, V, and VII elements with this property. The system formed by Bi, Pb and I atoms is mechanically stable and has both a large Rashba spin-splitting of 60 meV and a large nontrivial band gap of 0.14 eV. Since the edge and the bulk states are protected by the TR symmetry, contrary to what happens in most doped QSH insulators, the bulk states do not contribute to the backscattering in the electronic transport, allowing the construction of a spintronic device with less energy loss.
Ising-like and Fibonacci-Anyons from KZ-equations
Creators: name: Gu, Xia
name: Haghighat, Babak
name: Liu, Yihua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present solutions to Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov (KZ) equations corresponding to conformal block wavefunctions of non-Abelian Ising- and Fibonacci-Anyons. We solve these equations around regular singular points in configuration space in terms of hypergeometric functions and derive explicit monodromy representations of the braid group action. This confirms the correct non-Abelian statistics of the solutions. One novelty of our approach is that we explicitly keep track of spin basis states and identify conformal blocks uniquely with such states at relevant points in moduli space.
description: 39 pages, 3 figures
Investigating the readability of literary texts translations: A step towards formulating the ‘Nativity Hypothesis’
Creators: name: Afrouz, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: The present study aims at formulating a tentative hypothesis for the issue of ‘Nativity’. It focuses on the readability level of the translations by source-language native and target-language native translators. The corpus selected for analysis was the Persian Modern novella The Blind Owl. The original work was written by the most widely-known Persian short-story writer Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951) and it was translated by Bashiri (the SL native translator) in 2016 and Costello (the TL native translator) in 1957. The corpus was investigated in terms of total word number, ‘Long Words’ number, ‘Hard Words,’ ‘Gunning Fog Index’ and ‘Lexical Density’ in order to give a clear picture of the readability of the two translations. One principle in favour of the tentative ‘Nativity Hypothesis’ was found to be that TL native translators produce a wider, more domesticated, more target-reader friendly, more fluent and more readable translation than SL native translators.’ The study was just a single and humble step towards formulating the NH. Prospective researchers are encouraged to conduct confirmatory research focusing on different text-types, such as classical literary texts, and sacred texts. A researcher working on such subjects would hopefully take a further step towards the formulation of a somehow reliable ‘Nativity Hypothesis.’
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 26 N. 1 (2022): Kervan 26 (2022)