cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
La ficción entre trauma real e imaginario: “Shelter” de José Emilio Pacheco
Creators: name: Cannavacciuolo, Margherita
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: lJosé Emilio Pacheco; apocalissi nucleare; trauma immaginario; principio di realtà.

description: The study analyzes the short story “Shelter” (1964) by José Emilio Pacheco (México D.F., 1939), published in the volume La sangre de Medusa y otros cuentos marginales (1991). The apocalypse marks the narrative construction of a traumatic imaginary related with dichotomy between real and imaginary trauma. The protagonist’s fear of a Third World War produces a suspension of reality’s principle and the projection of his interiority, leading to a fracture into the story between the level of imagination and the real experience. The texts reflects the configuration of a discourse where trauma plays as the significant in the organization of subjectivity and fiction.
description: Altre Modernità, 2013: NUMERO SPECIALE Apocalipsis 2012
Additional file 2 of On the timing of interventions to preserve hospital capacity: lessons to be learned from the Belgian SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in 2020
Creators: name: Faes, Christel
name: Hens, Niel
name: Gilbert, Marius
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 2.
Gravitational waves from the electroweak phase transition
Creators: name: Leitao, Leonardo
name: Megevand, Ariel
name: Sanchez, Alejandro D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the generation of gravitational waves in the electroweak phase transition. We consider a few extensions of the Standard Model, namely, the addition of scalar singlets, the minimal supersymmetric extension, and the addition of TeV fermions. For each model we consider the complete dynamics of the phase transition. In particular, we estimate the friction force acting on bubble walls, and we take into account the fact that they can propagate either as detonations or as deflagrations preceded by shock fronts, or they can run away. We compute the peak frequency and peak intensity of the gravitational radiation generated by bubble collisions and turbulence. We discuss the detectability by proposed spaceborne detectors. For the models we considered, runaway walls require significant fine tuning of the parameters, and the gravitational wave signal from bubble collisions is generally much weaker than that from turbulence. Although the predicted signal is in most cases rather low for the sensitivity of LISA, models with strongly coupled extra scalars reach this sensitivity for frequencies $f\sim 10^{-4}\,\mathrm{Hz}$, and give intensities as high as $h^2Ω_{\mathrm{GW}}\sim 10^{-8}$.
description: 41 pages, 11 figures. v3: The formulas for GWs have been updated. Discussions on the collision mechanism and the possibility of runaway solutions have been added, as well as discussions on the time scales, bubble sizes, and other aspects of phase transition dynamics
El caos en los barrios de la frontera en la obra narrativa de L. H. Crosthwaite
Creators: name: Donat, Mara
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Frontera; narrativa; literatura mexicana; cultura urbana

description: If apocalypse is a metaphor of the end and the beginning of an age, collapse of cultural, political and social concepcions, construction of new identities and social realities, literature of “frontera norte de México” is good to realize an investigation of the biblical and mythical theme in postmodern sence. Colapsing any idea of legal and civil life in a national State, urban culture of “la Frontera” presents the social caos of ilegal and criminal conducts, as much es gendre violence and the political idea of national identity in crisis. México protagonize a contradiction between nacionalist pride, frontier defence and emigration to the Unites States, with apocalyptical implication these days. The narrative of Luis Humberto Crosthwaite permit to analyze the different representations of broken identity in the social caos of the frontier. The apocalypsis as inminent catastrophe, social insicurity and uncertain identity leads the individual to new urban and social representations.
description: Altre Modernità, 2013: NUMERO SPECIALE Apocalipsis 2012
Additional file 3 of On the timing of interventions to preserve hospital capacity: lessons to be learned from the Belgian SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in 2020
Creators: name: Faes, Christel
name: Hens, Niel
name: Gilbert, Marius
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 3.
Assessing the keys and barriers to success in the value-added wood product manufacturing sector : a multiple-case study analysis of small and medium-sized enterprises
Creators: name: Grace, Philip Gerald
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the value-added forest products sector play an important role, both socially and economically, in forest dependent communities across Canada, yet the long-touted potential of the sector has not been attained. An assessment of the success factors as well as the barriers to success for SMEs operating in the value-added forest products sector is a key step in ensuring that firms operating in the sector, as well as policy makers at various levels of government are better informed. This will allow the firms in the sector to leverage their strengths and address their weaknesses in order to have a strong contingent of successful value-added forest product SMEs vital to sustaining community wealth. The study is conducted through an in-depth examination of four SMEs in the value-added wood products sector in British Columbia. The four cases represent different types of businesses with varying levels of performance. The results of the study indicate that management skills, access to skilled labour, access to fibre supply, and access to financial capital are fundamental success factors. The entrepreneurs and industry experts involved in the study suggest that for British Columbia’s value-added forest products sector to prosper, the development of management skills and skilled labour requires greater attention. Consequently, increases in the level of investment in skilled labour training and management skill development options that are easily accessible to entrepreneurs in rural communities, in conjunction with the provision of timber at a scale and means that is more suited to small and medium-sized value-added firms were suggested as means to reduce barriers to success faced by SMEs in the value-added sector.
La destrucción de todas las cosas de H. Hiriart: un (nuevo) apocalipsis mexicano
Creators: name: Imbrogno, Mara
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Apocalipsis; ciencia ficción; Ciudad de México; Hugo Hiriart; literatura catastrofista

description: La destrucción de todas las cosas (1992) by Hugo Hiriart belongs to a group of apocalyptic works of fiction easily detectable in the Mexican literary production between the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.

This paper aims at highlighting how the novel, describing the tragic end of the Mexican Civilization caused by an alien attack, blends together science fiction elements with references to the Spanish Conquest and its main events and characters, often adopting ? in a new perspective ? the stylistics and writing techniques of the Sixteenth-Century chronicles.

Further objective of the paper is to analyze Hiriart’s reflections on the present and past condition of Mexico, which show the collapse of the revolutionary dream with irony and dark humor, and identify the decline of values in its political and cultural context as a cause of the new destruction of Mexico City.
description: Altre Modernità, 2013: NUMERO SPECIALE Apocalipsis 2012
A New Multi-Dimensional General Relativistic Neutrino Hydrodynamics Code for Core-Collapse Supernovae II. Relativistic Explosion Models of Core-Collapse Supernovae
Creators: name: Mueller, B.
name: Janka, H. -Th.
name: Marek, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first two-dimensional general relativistic (GR) simulations of stellar core collapse and explosion with the CoCoNuT hydrodynamics code in combination with the VERTEX solver for energy-dependent, three-flavor neutrino transport, using the extended conformal flatness condition for approximating the spacetime metric and a ray-by-ray-plus ansatz to tackle the multi-dimensionality of the transport. For both of the investigated 11.2 and 15 solar mass progenitors we obtain successful, though seemingly marginal, neutrino-driven supernova explosions. This outcome and the time evolution of the models basically agree with results previously obtained with the PROMETHEUS hydro solver including an approximative treatment of relativistic effects by a modified Newtonian potential. However, GR models exhibit subtle differences in the neutrinospheric conditions compared to Newtonian and pseudo-Newtonian simulations. These differences lead to significantly higher luminosities and mean energies of the radiated electron neutrinos and antineutrinos and therefore to larger energy-deposition rates and heating efficiencies in the gain layer with favorable consequences for strong non-radial mass motions and ultimately for an explosion. Moreover, energy transfer to the stellar medium around the neutrinospheres through nucleon recoil in scattering reactions of heavy-lepton neutrinos also enhances the mentioned effects. Together with previous pseudo-Newtonian models the presented relativistic calculations suggest that the treatment of gravity and energy-exchanging neutrino interactions can make differences of even 50-100% in some quantities and is likely to contribute to a finally successful explosion mechanism on no minor level than hydrodynamical differences between different dimensions.
description: 24 pages, 18 figures; improved figures, revised discussion about the impact of neutrino rates, and other minor changes; accepted for publication in ApJ
Una poetica della riduzione e del residuo: l’apocalisse in El obsceno pájaro de la noche di José Donoso
Creators: name: Jossa, Emanuela
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Letteratura cilena; José Donoso; El obsceno pájaro de la noche; apocalisse

description: The hypothesis to be verified in this work is that José Donoso proposes and constructs in El obsceno pájaro de la noche, by means of an accurate use of narrative strategies, an apocalyptic vision of the individual world, as represented by the narrator Mudito, as well as of the social and political context of Chile in the 60s, represented by the more general conflict between power and marginalization. This vision takes its proper center in the spatial dimensions of the characters, by means of two topoi: the house and the body. The progressive disintegration of bodies and places takes control of the narrative and weakens it to the point of excluding any trace of persistence. In the continuous movement between antithesis and connection to the Revelation of St. John the Divine, a poetics of the residual is developed that puts into crisis the power of the word and the power of narration.
description: Altre Modernità, 2013: NUMERO SPECIALE Apocalipsis 2012
Additional file 1 of The genomic profiling and MAMLD1 expression in human and canines with Cushing’s disease
Creators: name: Wang, Andrew
name: Neill, Stewart G.
name: Newman, Scott
name: Tryfonidou, Marianna A.
name: Ioachimescu, Adriana
name: Rossi, Michael R.
name: Meij, Björn P.
name: Oyesiku, Nelson M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Post-agreement Immunohistochemistry Chemistry Scoring. Individualized immunohistochemistry scoring (0 to 3+) of Cushing’s pituitary adenoma human specimens from 7 antibodies (k = 0.87). Fig. S1. Difference in Magnitude of RNA-seq T-test Results. Normalized averaged FPKM values and standard errors are shown for genes suspected to be overexpressed by RNA-seq in human corticotroph pituitary adenomas (HC PA, n = 6) and dog corticotroph pituitary adenomas (DC PA, n = 7). Fig. S2. GeneCards® Summary Characteristics of Highly Expressed Genes in Humans and Dogs with Cushing’s disease. Fig. S3. Theoretical Schematic Representation of the Highly Expressed Genes in Humans and Dogs with Cushing’s disease.
Skyrmions in blue phases of chiral liquid crystals
Creators: name: Pišljar, J.
name: Marinčič, M.
name: Ghosh, S.
name: Turlapati, S.
name: Nandiraju, Rao
name: Nych, A.
name: Škarabot, M.
name: Mertelj, A.
name: Petelin, A.
name: Pusovnik, A.
name: Ravnik, M.
name: Muševič, I.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plasma Physics

description: Using high-resolution microscope observations, we show that both the static cubic (BPI) and the dynamic amorphous (BPIII) blue phases consist of fractional skyrmion filaments that transform into the same quasi two-dimensional structure of ‘baby’ half-skyrmions upon confinement to ultra-thin layers. We confirm this using numerical simulations of BPIII skyrmion structures in confinement combined with optical simulations, which reproduce experimental images, shown to originate at the glass-sample boundaries. Chiral nature of skyrmion filaments is demonstrated through experimental observations and optical simulations using circularly polarised light of opposite handedness producing images that vary strongly in comparative optical contrast. Direct observations and light scattering measurements of BPIII dynamics in bulk reveal that it is a highly dynamic phase, distinguished by two well-separated dynamic regimes, the slower of which can be observed even with a naked eye. We show that the slow dynamics corresponds to the thermally driven collective reshaping of the amorphous structure, while the fast mode is due to the director fluctuations within the filaments. Chirality of the relaxation modes in the bulk isotropic phase is also demonstrated and discussed. We show the dynamics in thinnest layers still show a two phase behaviour, with overall dynamics of half-skyrmions dramatically slowed down.
Additional file 1 of Increased integrated testing for HIV, hepatitis C and sexually transmitted infections in health care facilities: results from the INTEGRATE Joint Action pilots in Lithuania, Romania and Spain
Creators: name: Matulionytė, R.
name: Jakobsen, M. L.
name: Grecu, V. I.
name: Grigaitiene, J.
name: Raudonis, T.
name: Stoniene, L.
name: Olteanu, M.
name: de la Mora, L.
name: Raben, D.
name: Sullivan, A. K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Patient Information Leaflet.pdf on HIV testing for TB patients, distributed in the TB clinic in Romania.
Additional file 1 of Gut microbial determinants of clinically important improvement in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: Gupta, Vinod K.
name: Cunningham, Kevin Y.
name: Hur, Benjamin
name: Bakshi, Utpal
name: Huang, Harvey
name: Warrington, Kenneth J.
name: Taneja, Veena
name: Myasoedova, Elena
name: Davis, John M.
name: Sung, Jaeyun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Stacked bar-plots showing the distribution of relative abundances of taxonomic ranks detected in baseline gut microbiomes. Figure S2. Differences in gut microbiome features between MCII patient groups at follow-up visit. Figure S3. Microbial taxa and biochemical pathways whose change in relative abundance from baseline to follow-up vary differently between MCII patient groups. Figure S4. Performance evaluation of three different classifiers to predict MCII status. Figure S5. Relative abundances of the top 10 highest-ranked features in the deep-learning neural network model.
Vacuum polarization induced by a cosmic string in anti-de Sitter spacetime
Creators: name: de Mello, E. R. Bezerra
name: Saharian, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate the vacuum expectation values (VEVs) of the field squared and the energy-momentum tensor associated with a massive scalar quantum field induced by a generalized cosmic string in D-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime. In order to develop this analysis we evaluate the corresponding Wightman function. As we shall observe, this function is expressed as the sum of two terms: the first one corresponds to the Wightman function in pure AdS bulk and the second one is induced by the presence of the string. The second contribution is finite at coincidence limit and is used to provide closed expressions for the parts in the VEVs of the field squared and the energy-momentum tensor induced by the presence of the string. Because the analysis of vacuum polarizations effects in pure AdS spacetime have been developed in the literature, here we are mainly interested in the investigation of string-induced effects. We show that the curvature of the background spacetime has an essential influence on the VEVs at distances larger than the curvature radius. In particular, at large distances the decay of the string-induced VEVs is power-law for both massless and massive fields. The string-induced parts vanish on the AdS boundary and they dominate the pure AdS part for points near the AdS horizon.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures, discussion and references added, accepted for publication in J. Phys. A
Additional file 2 of Structural equation modeling for identification of patient safety antecedents in primary care
Creators: name: Kosiek, Katarzyna
name: Staniec, Iwona
name: Godycki-Cwirko, Maciej
name: Depta, Adam
name: Kowalczyk, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table A2. Standardised values of the estimated parameters in the structural model.
New Constraints on Isospin-Violating Dark Matter
Creators: name: Kumar, Jason
name: Sanford, David
name: Strigari, Louis E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive bounds on the dark matter annihilation cross-section for low-mass (5-20 GeV) dark matter annihilating primarily to up or down quarks, using the Fermi-LAT bound on gamma-rays from Milky Way satellites. For models in which dark matter-Standard Model interactions are mediated by particular contact operators, we show that these bounds can be directly translated into bounds on the dark matter-proton scattering cross-section. For isospin-violating dark matter, these constraints are tight enough to begin to constrain the parameter-space consistent with experimental signals of low-mass dark matter. We discuss possible models that can evade these bounds.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX, some clarifications and minor errors corrected, citations added
De la Inmaculada a la Mujer Águila del Apocalipsis, imágenes marianas novohispanas 1555-1648
Creators: name: Augier De Moussac, Nathalie
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Tota Pulchra; Inmaculada Concepción; Franciscanos; Milenarismo; Apocalipsis Novohispana; Imagen Virgen de Guadalupe

description: The mid XVI th century marian frescoes of the Franciscan convents of Huejotzingo, Puebla, are visual proves of the Immaculist devotion of the first missionaries. Amongst the numerous engravings from Northern Europe, which invaded New Spain via the Spanish port of Seville from the Conquest onwards, one image depicts the Virgin as the Tota Pulchra. Within the evangelisation of the New world and the intensive reproduction process it involved to impose Christian iconographies onto the American landscape, the type of the Tota pulchra was reinterpreted with an apocalyptic point of view.

The Historia de los Indios de la Nueva España written by one of the first Franciscan friars who came to preach in New Spain, Toribio de Benavente, known as Motolinia, lays the principles of the Franciscan utopia derived from the millenarian theories of Joachim of Fiore, announcing the advent of the Age of the Holy Spirit and the reign of the New Eve.

This particular context fostered new epiphanies around 1555, amongst which the image of the Mexican Guadalupe stands first.

However it would not be until the publication, nearly a century later of Miguel Sánchez’s « Imagen de la Virgen María, Madre de Dios de Guadalupe…»(1648), whose text, largely inspired by the Augustinian exegesis identifies the Virgin of the Guadalupe with the Woman of the Revelation, that the image of the Tepeyac would acquire its canonical status of acheiropoieta and reveals itself as the living symbol of the New American Church.
description: Altre Modernità, 2013: NUMERO SPECIALE Apocalipsis 2012
Lepton Flavor Violation at the Large Hadron Collider
Creators: name: Allahverdi, Rouzbeh
name: Dutta, Bhaskar
name: Kamon, Teruki
name: Krislock, Abram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a potential of discovering lepton flavor violation (LFV) at the Large Hadron Collider. A sizeable LFV in low energy supersymmetry can be induced by massive right-handed neutrinos, which can explain neutrino oscillations via the seesaw mechanism. We investigate a scenario where the distribution of an invariant mass of two hadronically decaying taus ($\tauh\tauh$) from $\schizero{2}$ decays is the same in events with or without LFV. We first develop a transfer function using this ditau mass distribution to model the shape of the non-LFV $\tauhμ$ invariant mass. We then show the feasibility of extracting the LFV $\tauhμ$ signal. The proposed technique can also be applied for a LFV $\tauh e$ search.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publiucation in PRD
Origin of the Heavy Fermion Behavior in Ca_{2-x}Sr_{x}RuO_{4}: Roles of Coulomb Interaction and the Rotation of RuO_{6} octahedra
Creators: name: Arakawa, Naoya
name: Ogata, Masao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the electronic states for Ca_{2-x}Sr_{x}RuO_{4} in $0.5\leq x \leq 2$ within the Gutzwiller approximation (GA) on the basis of the three-orbital Hubbard model for the Ru t_{2g} orbitals. The main effects of the Ca substitution are taken account as the changes of the $dp$ hybridizations between the Ru 4d and O 2p orbitals. Using the numerical minimization of the energy obtained in the GA, we obtain the renormalization factor (RF) of the kinetic energy and total RF, which estimates the inverse of the mass enhancement, for three cases with the effective models of x=2 and 0.5 and a special model. We find that the inverse of the total RF becomes the largest for the case of x=0.5, and that the van Hove singularity, which is located on (below) the Fermi level for the special model (the effective model of x=0.5), plays a secondary role in enhancing the effective mass. Our calculation suggests that the heavy fermion behavior around x=0.5 comes from the cooperative effects between moderately strong Coulomb interaction compared to the total bandwidth and the modification of the electronic structures due to the rotation of RuO_{6} octahedra (i.e., the variation of the $dpπ$ hybridizations and the downward shift for the $d_{xy}$ orbital). We propose that moderately strong electron correlation and the orbital-dependent modifications of the electronic structures due to the lattice distortions play important roles in the electronic states for Ca_{2-x}Sr_{x}RuO_{4}.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in Physical Review B; added the discussions both about the validity of the present treatment and about Hund's metal in this alloy
The complexity of admissible rules of Łukasiewicz logic
Creators: name: Jeřábek, Emil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03B52 (Primary), 68Q17, 08B20 (Secondary)

description: We investigate the computational complexity of admissibility of inference rules in infinite-valued Łukasiewicz propositional logic (Ł). It was shown in [13] that admissibility in Ł is checkable in PSPACE. We establish that this result is optimal, i.e., admissible rules of Ł are PSPACE-complete. In contrast, derivable rules of Ł are known to be coNP-complete.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures; to appear in Journal of Logic and Computation
Additional file 14 of Evolution of mechanisms controlling epithelial morphogenesis across animals: new insights from dissociation-reaggregation experiments in the sponge Oscarella lobularis
Creators: name: Vernale, Amélie
name: Prünster, Maria Mandela
name: Marchianò, Fabio
name: Debost, Henry
name: Brouilly, Nicolas
name: Rocher, Caroline
name: Massey-Harroche, Dominique
name: Renard, Emmanuelle
name: Le Bivic, André
name: Habermann, Bianca H.
name: Borchiellini, Carole
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 14: Figure S4. Distribution of the transcripts with CAMs conserved domain during dissociation and reaggregation.
Trasformazioni dell’Apocalisse in Mario Vargas Llosa: dal fanatismo de La guerra del fin del mundo al cuore di tenebra de El sueño del celta
Creators: name: Guarnieri Calò Carducci, Luigi
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Mario Vargas Llosa, Perù, Brasile, intellettuali, colonialismo, liberalismo

description: The paper aims to underline that in the Peruvian writer there is a double reading of the apocalypse. In the novel La guerra del fin del mundo the apocalypse is represented as a religious, political, environmental disruption of a world: the apocalypse is caused by ignorance and poverty, wich are the culture media of fanaticism, racism and religious dogmatism. In the last novel El sueño del celta, the apocalypse is instead caused by the lust for power and the abyss of evil present in the human being.
description: Altre Modernità, 2013: NUMERO SPECIALE Apocalipsis 2012
BCS-BEC crossover in three-dimensional Fermi gases with spherical spin-orbit coupling
Creators: name: He, Lianyi
name: Huang, Xu-Guang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a systematic theoretical study of the BCS-BEC crossover problem in three-dimensional atomic Fermi gases at zero temperature with a spherical spin-orbit coupling which can be generated by a synthetic non-Abelian gauge field coupled to neutral fermions. Our investigations are based on the path integral formalism which is a powerful theoretical scheme for the study of the properties of the bound state, the superfluid ground state, and the collective excitations in the BCS-BEC crossover. At large spin-orbit coupling, the system enters the BEC state of a novel type of bound state (referred to as rashbon) which possesses a non-trivial effective mass. Analytical results and interesting universal behaviors for various physical quantities at large spin-orbit coupling are obtained. Our theoretical predictions can be tested in future experiments of cold Fermi gases with three-dimensional spherical spin-orbit coupling.
description: V3: published version in PRB
A queueing model with independent arrivals, and its fluid and diffusion limits
Creators: name: Honnappa, Harsha
name: Jain, Rahul
name: Ward, Amy R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 60K25, 90B15 (Primary) 68M20, 90B22 (Secondary)

description: We introduce the Δ(i)/GI/1 queue, a new queueing model. In this model, customers from a given population independently sample a time to arrive from some given distribution F. Thus, the arrival times are an ordered statistics, and the inter-arrival times are differences of consecutive ordered statistics. They are served by a single server which provides service according to a general distribution G, with independent service times. The exact model is analytically intractable. Thus, we develop fluid and diffusion limits for the various stochastic processes, and performance metrics. The fluid limit of the queue length is observed to be a reflected process, while the diffusion limit is observed to be a function of a Brownian motion and a Brownian bridge process, and is given by a 'netput' process and a directional derivative of the Skorokhod reflected fluid netput in the direction of a diffusion refinement of the netput process. We also observe what may be interpreted as a transient Little's law. Sample path analysis reveals various operating regimes where the diffusion limit switches between a free diffusion, a reflected diffusion process and the zero process, with possible discontinuities during regime switches. The weak convergence is established in the M1 topology, and it is also shown that this is not possible in the J1 topology.
description: Accepted, Queueing Systems
Manipulated deformation of lipid bilayer vesicles in magnetic fields
Creators: name: Shu, Yao-Gen
name: Ou-Yang, Zhong-Can
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: We have extended the Helfrich’s spontaneous curvature model of the equilibrium vesicle by adding the interaction between magnetic field and the constituent molecules to supply an explaination in principle of the emerging manipulated deformation of a magnetic vesicles such as the reversibly deformation of artificial stomatocyte. The small deformation can be measured by birefringence. Here, we present the derivations of formulas in detailed to reveal the perturbation of deformation ψ under two cases. New features, for example, a ‘phase transition’ of shape will occur with increasing of B from B1∗ to B2∗ for Δχ<0, in which the major axis of ellipse was rotated by 90°, have been revealed. It is worthy for experimenter to demonstrate the ‘phase transition’. The significance of imaginary relation (B1∗<B<B2∗) is also waiting to be uncovered.
On Feynman rules for Mellin amplitudes in AdS/CFT
Creators: name: Nandan, Dhritiman
name: Volovich, Anastasia
name: Wen, Congkao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The computation of CFT correlation functions via Witten diagrams in AdS space can be simplified via the Mellin transform. Recently a set of Feynman rules for tree-level Mellin space amplitudes has been proposed for scalar theories. In this note we derive these rules by explicitly evaluating all of the relevant Witten diagram integrals for the scalar phi^n theory. We also check that the rules reduce to the usual Feynman rules in the flat space limit.
description: minor corrections, published version
Secondary Cosmic Ray Nuclei from Supernova Remnants and Constraints to the Propagation Parameters
Creators: name: Tomassetti, N.
name: Donato, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The secondary-to-primary B/C ratio is widely used to study the cosmic ray (CR) propagation processes in the Galaxy. It is usually assumed that secondary nuclei such as Li-Be-B are entirely generated by collisions of heavier CR nuclei with the interstellar medium (ISM). We study the CR propagation under a scenario where secondary nuclei can also be produced or accelerated from galactic sources. We consider the processes of hadronic interactions inside supernova remnants (SNRs) and re-acceleration of background CRs in strong shocks. Thus, we investigate their impact in the propagation parameter determination within present and future data. The spectra of Li-Be-B nuclei emitted from SNRs are harder than those due to CR collisions with the ISM. The secondary-to-primary ratios flatten significantly at ~TeV/n energies, both from spallation and re-acceleration in the sources. The two mechanisms are complementary to each other and depend on the properties of the local ISM around the expanding remnants. The secondary production in SNRs is significant for dense background media, n ~1 cm^-3, while the amount of re-accelerated CRs is relevant for SNRs expanding into rarefied media, n ~0.1 cm-3. Due to these effects, the the diffusion parameter 'delta' may be misunderstood by a factor of ~5-15%. Our estimations indicate that an experiment of the AMS-02 caliber can constrain the key propagation parameters while breaking the source-transport degeneracy, for a wide class of B/C-consistent models. Given the precision of the data expected from on-going experiments, the SNR production/acceleration of secondary nuclei should be considered, if any, to prevent a possible mis-determination of the CR transport parameters.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures; matches the published version
Dall’isola di Solentiname all’isola di Patmos: apocalissi (dis)velate
Creators: name: Nanni, Susanna
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Julio Cortázar, Jorge Volpi, rivelazione, distruzione, dittature latinoamericane.

description: The nineteenth-century Spanish American apocalyptic discourse ñ particularly the one developed after the military dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s ñ is revealed as a language with a strong political connotation, providing alternatives to the dominant logic, and questioning hegemonic spaces of power. Apocalypse, in its double meaning of ìdestructionî of an ancient order and ìunveilingî of hidden truths, does not only characterize the themes of the contemporary literary production, but also its forms. Implying an ìapocalypticî discursive structure, the crisis thus becomes permanent.

Starting from this premise, the essay takes into account some representative Spanish American literary works of the last three decades, paying special attention to Julio Cort·zarís short story ìApocalipsis en Solentiname,î and Jorge Volpiís novel El juego del Apocalipsis. In both texts, the apocalyptic ending is strictly related to the beginning: the incipit inexorably anticipates the conclusion in terms of both the apocalyptic theme and discourse. In Cort·zarís short story, apocalypse does not emerge in the course of the narration but it anticipates the (uncertain) interpretation of the ending, manifesting itself as a ìfantasyî strategy. In Volpiís novel, eschatology as the end of history appears throughout the narration as a pattern forging the charactersí fate. The apocalypse that is inborn in everyone of us (our dark side), is unveiled and represents the end of history.
description: Altre Modernità, 2013: NUMERO SPECIALE Apocalipsis 2012
Look after yourself : an analysis of life skills for preventing HIV/AIDS in sport for development and peace curriculum material
Creators: name: Forde, Shawn Douglas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: HIV/AIDS education and prevention are often described as one way that sport for development and peace (SDP) organizations can contribute to international development through teaching life skills and empowering individuals. However, there has been no critical analysis of how discourses drawn upon within SDP curriculum material construct and legitimize particular conceptions of life skills, representations of SDP participants, and strategies used to teach life skills. The purpose of this study was to conduct a critical discourse analysis of the curriculum manual entitled Live Safe Play Safe (LSPS) that Right to Play (RTP), a large international SDP organization, uses to train facilitators for its HIV/AIDS prevention program. Postcolonial theory and critical and decolonial pedagogy provided a theoretical framework to guide the critical discourse analysis. The findings show that discourses of risk, individualism and deficiency were drawn upon to frame health as a possession of individuals and HIV/AIDS as a threat to individuals’ bodies. Thereby justifying and constructing life skills as attributes that individuals needed to learn in order to protect their health and express their self-interests. These discourses largely emphasized individual responsibility and the management of risk, as opposed to the broader social and political constraints that individuals face. Identities of LSPS participants, particularly girls, were largely constituted through discourses of deficiency that represented them as being passive yet holding the potential to be empowered by learning life skills. Aspects of the manual drew from critical pedagogy; however, the overall approach to teaching life skills was rooted in discourses of deficiency and individualism that underpinned pedagogical strategies focusing on building self-interested and responsible individuals, while neglecting strategies that would engage communities in broader processes of social change. Suggestions for challenging the dominant discourses that structure SDP and decolonizing curriculum is provided in the conclusion.
Additional file 16 of Evolution of mechanisms controlling epithelial morphogenesis across animals: new insights from dissociation-reaggregation experiments in the sponge Oscarella lobularis
Creators: name: Vernale, Amélie
name: Prünster, Maria Mandela
name: Marchianò, Fabio
name: Debost, Henry
name: Brouilly, Nicolas
name: Rocher, Caroline
name: Massey-Harroche, Dominique
name: Renard, Emmanuelle
name: Le Bivic, André
name: Habermann, Bianca H.
name: Borchiellini, Carole
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 16: Figure S5. Domain composition of putative Aggregation Factors in Oscarella lobularis.
Buckling of scroll waves
Creators: name: Dierckx, Hans
name: Verschelde, Henri
name: Selsil, Ozgur
name: Biktashev, Vadim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A scroll wave in a sufficiently thin layer of an excitable medium with negative filament tension can be stable nevertheless due to filament rigidity. Above a certain critical thickness of the medium, such scroll wave will have a tendency to deform into a buckled, precessing state. Experimentally this will be seen as meandering of the spiral wave on the surface, the amplitude of which grows with the thickness of the layer, until a break-up to scroll wave turbulence happens. We present a simplified theory for this phenomenon and illustrate it with numerical examples.
description: 4 pages main text + 5 pages appendix, 4+2 figures and a movie, as accepted by Phys Rev Letters 2012/09/24
Apocalipsis y literatura en Cien años de soledad de Gabriel García Márquez, La guerra del fin del mundo de Mario Vargas Llosa y Estrella distante de Roberto Bolaño
Creators: name: Luche, Laura
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: apocalypse, modernity, memory, cognitive drama, literature, cognitive power

description: The study examines three novels of apocalyptic character, Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez, La guerra del fin del mundo by Mario Vargas Llosa and Estrella distante by Roberto Bolaño.

Both in Cien años de soledad and in La guerra del fin del mundo apocalypse is related to the sudden and forced graft of modernity in a backward society and to the inability of the ruling class to understand the disturbing and devastating aspects of such a graft and, more generally, to understand themselves, their own development, their own history.

Through the metaliterary component that characterizes them, Garcia Marquez’s and Vargas Llosa’ novels represent literature as an instrument that as memory, as a form of processing and understanding of history, can help to prevent the repetition of the apocalypse they narrate.

In Bolaño’s novel, on the contrary, writers seem not to have any cognitive power anymore and their literature not only doesn’t play any salvific role, but rather becomes one of the elements that contributes to the historical catastrophe.
description: Altre Modernità, 2013: NUMERO SPECIALE Apocalipsis 2012
Luminescent DNA-origami nano-rods dispersed in a lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal
Creators: name: Zhang, Bingru
name: Nguyen, Linh
name: Martens, Kevin
name: Heuer-Jungemann, Amelie
name: Philipp, Julian
name: Kempter, Susanne
name: Rädler, Joachim O.
name: Liedl, Tim
name: Kitzerow, Heinz-S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Anisometric DNA nanoparticles with precisely tailored size and shape are prepared by three-dimensional folding of DNA – DNA origami – marked with a fluorescent intercalating dye (YOYO-1), stabilised with silica, and dispersed in a lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal (an aqueous solution of disodium cromoglycate). Observations by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy indicate that the luminescent nanoparticles are stable in the liquid crystal dispersion and accumulate at the positions of point defects in the liquid crystal director field. The observations indicate that silica-stabilisation of the nanoparticles prevents the dye from leaking into the liquid crystal host and that the luminescent particles assemble at disclinations.
Alfabetización en Inglés y Pensamiento Crítico en la Lectura de Canales de Comunicación en Grados 10 y 11
Creators: name: Echavarría Lopera, Diana Patricia
name: Franco Gallego, Darwin Valmore
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: El estudio se enfoca en el desarrollo del pensamiento crítico y la alfabetización en inglés en estudiantes de grados 10 y 11 de la Institución Educativa Madre María Mazzarello, con el objetivo de fomentar su capacidad para analizar y evaluar la información consumida a través de diversos canales de comunicación en un entorno saturado de datos. Utilizando una metodología cualitativa y un muestreo no probabilístico por conveniencia, se aplicaron encuestas y se crearon portafolios como métodos de recolección de datos. Los resultados revelan que, aunque las estudiantes utilizan frecuentemente plataformas digitales como TikTok e Instagram para informarse, solo un 31% verifica la información de manera regular, lo que subraya la necesidad urgente de desarrollar habilidades críticas para discernir la veracidad de la información. Además, se sugiere la creación de una cuenta de TikTok para abordar temas de alfabetización y pensamiento crítico, estrategia que ha demostrado ser efectiva para captar la atención de las estudiantes y fomentar su participación activa en el aprendizaje. En conclusión, el estudio resalta la importancia de integrar el pensamiento crítico en la educación para preparar a las estudiantes ante la manipulación de información.
Unusual mesomorphic behaviour of silyloxy-linked chiral bimesogens
Creators: name: Sia, Susan
name: Saez, Isabel M
name: Cowling, Stephen J
name: Abbott, Laurence C
name: Moore, John N
name: Goodby, John W
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: In this article, we report on the synthesis of chiral bimesogens that possess silyloxy central linking groups. On first examination of the mesomorphic properties of the materials by X-ray diffraction and electrical field studies we came to the conclusion that the materials exhibit ferroelectric and antiferroelectric smectic C* phase behaviour. However, detailed investigations of the bimesogens indicated that the phases were not conventional smectics, but in addition strange phases that exhibited natural helical filaments on cooling from the isotropic liquid were formed. Indications are that these phases are possibly related to twist-bend structures or in-plane, modulated bent-core phases.
Low- and High-Energy Expansion of Heavy-Quark Correlators at Next-To-Next-To-Leading Order
Creators: name: Maier, A.
name: Marquard, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate three-loop corrections to correlation functions of heavy-quark currents in the low- and high-energy regions. We present 30 coefficients both in the low-energy and the high-energy expansion of the scalar and the vector correlator with non-diagonal flavour structure. In addition we compute 30 coefficients in the high-energy expansion of the diagonal vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudo-scalar correlators. Possible applications of our new results are improvements of lattice-based quark-mass determinations and the approximate reconstruction of the full momentum dependence of the correlators.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures; corrected diagram in example and extended discussion