cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
L’Intelligenza Artificiale per l’apprendimento dell’italiano L2/LS. Risultati preliminari di una sperimentazione
Creators: name: Cinganotto, Letizia
name: Montanucci, Giorgia
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2024

description: The paper presents the preliminary results of an experimentation conducted by a research group at the University for Foreigners of Perugia as part of a project on the use of Artificial Intelligence-based technologies in an online course of Italian language and culture, with a CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) approach, aimed at a sample of Chinese university students. The Artificial Intelligence system, specially created by the research team, is trained on a corpus based on the "Italian Language Profile," with the aim of facilitating the learning of Italian as a second or foreign language. The dialogue systems developed, which are being tested and validated, allow interactive and personalized opportunities for language practice, immediate feedback and immersive conversational scenarios. Positive student feedback on the use of Artificial Intelligence for learning Italian as a foreign language, particularly for the development of written receptive and productive skills, is collected in the paper. The experimentation is part of a larger research project that aims to explore the potential of Artificial Intelligence in online language learning environments and its effects in terms of motivation, participation, interest and educational success.
description: Status Quaestionis, N. 26 (2024): Teoria/Theory. Perspectives on Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature
The Gospel According to Q: Understanding the QAnon Conspiracy from the Perspective of Canonical Information
Creators: name: Papasavva, Antonis
name: Aliapoulios, Max
name: Ballard, Cameron
name: De Cristofaro, Emiliano
name: Stringhini, Gianluca
name: Zannettou, Savvas
name: Blackburn, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The QAnon conspiracy theory claims that a cabal of (literally) blood-thirsty politicians and media personalities are engaged in a war to destroy society. By interpreting cryptic "drops" of information from an anonymous insider calling themself Q, adherents of the conspiracy theory believe that Donald Trump is leading them in an active fight against this cabal. QAnon has been covered extensively by the media, as its adherents have been involved in multiple violent acts, including the January 6th, 2021 seditious storming of the US Capitol building. Nevertheless, we still have relatively little understanding of how the theory evolved and spread on the Web, and the role played in that by multiple platforms. To address this gap, we study QAnon from the perspective of "Q" themself. We build a dataset of 4,949 canonical Q drops collected from six "aggregation sites," which curate and archive them from their original posting to anonymous and ephemeral image boards. We expose that these sites have a relatively low (overall) agreement, and thus at least some Q drops should probably be considered apocryphal. We then analyze the Q drops' contents to identify topics of discussion and find statistically significant indications that drops were not authored by a single individual. Finally, we look at how posts on Reddit are used to disseminate Q drops to wider audiences. We find that dissemination was (initially) limited to a few sub-communities and that, while heavy-handed moderation decisions have reduced the overall issue, the "gospel" of Q persists on the Web.
title: Ausweispflicht per Corona-Verordnung?
Creators: name: Fährmann, Jan
name: Arzt, Clemens
name: Aden, Hartmut
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Creation, Chaos, Imagers, and the Flood
Creators: name: Daniels, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Flood, Genesis, Global Flood, Ancient Near East Flood,Noah

description: A look at the role of both human and spiritual imagers in the Flood story of Genesis. This paper makes use of Second Temple Period texts as well as other texts from the Ancient Near East.
Innovative mini ultralight radiosondes to track Lagrangian turbulence fluctuations within warm clouds: electronic design
Creators: name: Quintanilla, Miryam E. Paredes
name: Abdunabiev, Shahbozbek
name: Allegretti, Marco
name: Merlone, Andrea
name: Musacchio, Chiara
name: Pasero, Eros G. A.
name: Tordella, Daniela
name: Canavero, Flavio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Characterization of cloud properties remains a challenging task for weather forecasting and climate modelling as cloud properties depend on interdependent natural processes at micro and macro scales. Turbulence plays an important role in particle dynamics inside clouds; however, turbulence mechanisms are not yet fully understood partly due to the difficulty of measuring clouds at the smallest scales. To address these knowledge gaps, an experimental method for measuring the influence of fine-scale turbulence in cloud formation in-situ and producing an in-field cloud Lagrangian dataset is being developed by means of innovative ultra-light radioprobes. This paper presents the electronic system design along with the obtained results from laboratory and field experiments regarding these compact (diameter about 30 cm), light-weight (about 20 g), and expendable devices designed to passively float and track small-scale turbulence fluctuations inside warm clouds. The fully customized mini radioprobe board (5 cm x 5 cm) embeds sensors to measure local fluctuations and transmit data to the ground in near real-time. The tests confirm that the newly developed probes perform well providing accurate information about atmospheric variables, referenced in space. The integration of multiple radioprobes allows for a systematic and accurate monitoring of atmospheric turbulence and its impact on cloud formation.
Contributi sullo stile e sul realismo magico latino-americano in Die Vermessung der Welt di Daniel Kehlmann
Creators: name: Esposito, Gianluca
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2024

description: The paper outlines some essential features of Daniel Kehlmann’s production, focusing on his most famous work, the novel Die Vermessung der Welt (Measuring the World, 2005). Specifically, the focus is placed on the author’s ability to achieve both wide public and critical acclaim on an international scale, thus also arousing scholarly interest in his production. Moving on from the study of the reception of the work, the essay then highlights the most important characteristics of the text, such as the skilful mixture of irony and melancholy, and its playing with stereotypes about Germans, while also tracing the sources underlying the book, starting from the connections to classical antiquity, to Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, highlighting also contemporary inspirations, in particular Thomas Pynchon’s Mason Dixon. Special attention is given to the work’s references to Latin American literature and its magic realism, showing the text’s connection to authors such as Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Julio Cortázar, and to the spirituality of the protagonists, related to this potentially fantastic dimension.
description: Status Quaestionis, N. 26 (2024): Teoria/Theory. Perspectives on Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature
Inclusion complexation of 4,4′-dihydroxybenzophenone and 4-hydroxybenzophenone with α- and β-cyclodextrins
Creators: name: N. Rajendiran
name: G. Venkatesh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Physics
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: The inclusion complexation behaviours of 4,4′-dihydroxybenzophenone (DHBP) and 4-hydroxybenzophenone (HBP) with α-cyclodextrin (α-CD) and β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) were investigated using UV–visible fluorescence, time-resolved fluorescence, molecular modelling, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), FTIR, differential scanning calorimeter, X-ray diffraction, 1H NMR and molecular modelling techniques. In both molecules, biexponential decay was observed in water, whereas triexponential decay was observed in the CD medium. The DSC thermogram of the DHBP/α-CD and DHBP/β-CD inclusion complex nanomaterials shows the endothermic peak at 60.8, 101.9, 119.6 and 112.8°C. The upfield chemical shift observed for HBP protons reveal that the phenyl ring (without hydroxyl substitution) entered the CD cavity and the hydroxyl group of HBP is exposed outside the CD cavity. The SEM image of DHBP appears as needle-shaped crystals on the micrometre scale, whereas the irregular bar shape was observed for HBP. Transmission electron microscopy images show that both guest molecules formed nano vesicles with α-CD and formed nano rods with β-CD.
MPEC 2024-P43 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 August 3)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
HSO4− sensing based on proton transfer in H-bonding complexes
Creators: name: Alešković, Marija
name: Basarić, Nikola
name: Nađa Došlić
name: Tomišić, Vladislav
name: Mlinarić-Majerski, Kata
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Chemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry

description: Aminophenyl-substituted adamantane-dipyrromethane receptors 1 and 2 and aminophenylpyrrole 3 showed a very pronounced and unique UV spectral response with in aprotic as well as in aqueous media. The fitting of the binding isotherms with indicated formation of the complexes with the 1:2 (host–anion) stoichiometry. ESI-MS study with mixtures of receptor 3 and tetrabutylammonium hydrogensulfate of different ratios indicated an association of the and receptor 3, as well as association of the species into dimers. The unique UV spectral response with is proposed to be due to proton transfer from to the amino group of the receptor, which in an aprotic solvent probably takes place in the corresponding H-bonded complexes. The assignations of the spectral changes were corroborated by computation. Moreover, theoretical study indicated that ‘intra-supramolecular’ proton transfer took place, whereas the presence of the second was required to enhance the acidity of the first H-bonded anion.
Guest loading, chromatographic purification and controlled release from kinetically trapped, hydrogen-bonded pyrogallol[4]arene capsules
Creators: name: Chapin, Jennifer C.
name: Purse, Byron W.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Pyrogallol[4]arene and hydrocarbon guest molecules form kinetically trapped encapsulation complexes when assembled in the absence of solvent. While solvent encapsulation complexes are more stable, these pre-loaded capsules can be purified by gel permeation chromatography and guest release can be induced later, at a chosen time, by heating. This result is the first example of chromatographic purification and subsequent guest release from kinetically trapped, artificial, hydrogen-bonded molecular capsules.
Selective recognition and discrimination of H2PO4−  and F−  based on a cleft-shaped anion receptor incorporating bisamide and bispyrrole groups
Creators: name: Zhou, Yu-Hui
name: Zheng, Peng-Cheng
name: Bao, Xiao-Ping
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Cell Biology
Engineering
Biochemistry

description: A simple anion receptor incorporating bisamide and bispyrrole groups as recognition sites was synthesised, and its binding properties towards anions were studied by UV–vis, 1H NMR, ESI-MS spectra and theoretical calculations. This receptor exhibited a selective complexation with biologically important and F−  over other anions tested in dry CH3CN. Significantly, the discrimination of these two anions could be realised via the obviously different UV–vis readouts of the receptor.
I “muri di lava”: architetture e tecniche repressive ne L’arte della gioia
Creators: name: Muraglia, Giulia
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2024

description: This article is focused on the repressive architectures and techniques adopted by Power in Goliarda Sapienza’s L’arte della gioia in order to reveal the social content of her poetics. The interpretation of the novel has been influenced by Michel Foucault’s and Erving Goffman’s theories about institutions and their forms of oppression. But I want to emphasize how Sapienza’s heroine Modesta has been represented: she is a fleeing subject who can even escape from subjugation by power, thanks to her anarchic soul, free to take a stand against every form of violence.
description: Status Quaestionis, N. 26 (2024): Teoria/Theory. Perspectives on Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature
The polychaete Lygdamis wirtzi at Ascension and St Helena Islands (Annelida, Polychaeta, Sabellariidae)
Creators: name: Brown, Judith
name: Nishi, Eijiroh
name: Wirtz, Peter
Publisher: name: Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences
Year: 2019

description: Little is known about the polychaete fauna of the two mid-Atlantic Islands, Ascension and St Helena. Baird (1864), Monro (1930), and Hartmann-Schröder (1992) documented the polychaetes from Ascension Island while Day (1946) reported polychaetes from St Helena Island. Lastly, Yáñez-Rivera & Brown (2015) reported on Hermodice and Eurythoe from both Ascension and St Helena Islands. We do not know any other publications on polychaetes for these two remote islands.
description: Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences, vol. 1 n.º 36 (2019): Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences
A novel fluorescent sensor for hydrophobic amines in aqueous solution
Creators: name: Ren, Chun
name: Lee, Jae Seung
name: Glass, Timothy E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: A novel fluorescent tweezer was designed and synthesised to sense hydrophobic amines in aqueous solution. Association of the guest was driven by both hydrophobic effect and electrostatic interactions, with the hydrophobic interactions being dominant. The affinity and selectivity of the sensor for amine-based stimulants are reported.
A first assessment of operator compliance and dolphin behavioural responses during swim-with-dolphin programs for three species of Delphinids in the Azores
Creators: name: Cecchetti, Arianna
Publisher: name: Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences
Year: 2019

description: The popularity of swim-with wild dolphin programs around the world is fast growing, with the studies required to investigate their impact lagging behind. In the Azores, species targeted include the short-beaked common (Delphinus delphis), the bottlenose (Tursiops truncatus) and the Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis). To evaluate the effects of this activity on local dolphin populations, and thus provide support for management decisions, dolphin response data were collected onboard commercial boats off São Miguel Island between 2013 and 2015. All three species revealed high degree of neutral and avoidance behaviours, and very low approach rates. Tursiops showed higher frequency of neutral responses than Delphinus, while Stenella both avoided and approached more frequently than the other species. When boats intersected the path of dolphin groups, avoidance responses were more likely and the duration of swims was shorter. Swims were also shorter when animals were resting and travelling, and when groups were smaller. The operators generally complied with the legislation, except in respect to the number of swim attempts per dolphin group, which was higher than the legal maximum. Improvement of the current legislation and concurrent reinforcement of controls is essential to avoid detrimental long-term effects of this activity on dolphin populations in the Azores.
description: Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences, vol. 1 n.º 36 (2019): Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences
The marine macroalgae of Cabo Verde archipelago: an updated checklist
Creators: name: Gabriel, Daniela
Publisher: name: Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences
Year: 2019

description: An updated list of the names of the marine macroalgae of Cabo Verde, an archipelago of ten volcanic islands in the central Atlantic Ocean, is presented based on existing reports, and includes the addition of 36 species. The checklist comprises a total of 372 species names, of which 68 are brown algae (Ochrophyta), 238 are red algae (Rhodophyta) and 66 green algae (Chlorophyta). New distribution records reveal the existence of 10 putative endemic species for Cabo Verde islands, nine species that are geographically restricted to the Macaronesia, five species that are restricted to Cabo Verde islands and the nearby Tropical Western African coast, and five species known to occur only in the Maraconesian Islands and Tropical West Africa. Two species, previously considered invalid names, are here validly published as Colaconema naumannii comb. nov. and Sebdenia canariensis sp. nov.
description: Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences, vol. 1 n.º 36 (2019): Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences
A full order, reduced order and machine learning model pipeline for efficient prediction of reactive flows
Creators: name: Gavrilenko, Pavel
name: Haasdonk, Bernard
name: Iliev, Oleg
name: Ohlberger, Mario
name: Schindler, Felix
name: Toktaliev, Pavel
name: Wenzel, Tizian
name: Youssef, Maha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present an integrated approach for the use of simulated data from full order discretization as well as projection-based Reduced Basis reduced order models for the training of machine learning approaches, in particular Kernel Methods, in order to achieve fast, reliable predictive models for the chemical conversion rate in reactive flows with varying transport regimes.
description: 9 pages, 1 table; Previously this version appeared as arXiv:2110.12388v2 which was submitted as a new work by accident
Ordered nanostructures from self-assembly of rod–coil oligomers with n-shaped rod and dendritic poly(ethylene oxide) coil segment
Creators: name: Zhong, Ke-Li
name: Zhuoshi Wang
name: Yongri Liang
name: Chen, Tie
name: Bingzhu Yin
name: Jin, Long Yi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physiology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Physics
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: The n-shaped rod–coil molecules consisting of an anthracene unit and two biphenyl groups connected by acetylenyl bonds as a conjugated rod segment and dendritic poly(ethylene oxide)s with different cross-sectional areas were synthesised. These new molecular structures were characterised by using 1H NMR and MALDI-TOF-MS. The self-assembly of these molecules in the bulk state and in aqueous solution was investigated using differential scanning calorimetry, X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). In the bulk state, molecule 1a with a linear coil segment, self-organised into lamellar crystalline structures, whereas molecules 1b and 1c with di- and tetra-branched dendritic wedges did not solidify at room temperature. Dynamic light scattering and TEM experiments reveal that in aqueous solution, the molecules exhibit a strong tendency to organise into the thread-like fibres along the axial direction of cylindrical micelles or into the wide fibroid bundles via the aggregation of cylindrical micelles as the cross-sectional area of the dendritic coil segments increases.
I classici in partibus infidelium. Carena traduttore tra felicità e peccato
Creators: name: Padovani, Francesco
name: Parodi, Jacopo
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2024

description: Carlo Carena was the translator of Einaudi classical texts for decades. Despite his assertion that the translated work matters more than the translator, his choice of authors to translate (mainly Plutarch and Augustine) outlines the development of a very personal trajectory. In fact, ancient authors are read in the light of a restless Christianity, nourished by the reading of Augustine, Montaigne, and Pascal. This essay investigates the first half of Carena’s production as a translator (1956-1992), highlighting the cultural project that ambitiously integrates the ancient world and the modern world in the name of profound ethical and spiritual values. Through the translation of ancient biographies, the translator also speaks of himself and his worldview.
description: Status Quaestionis, N. 26 (2024): Teoria/Theory. Perspectives on Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature
VTGAN: Semi-supervised Retinal Image Synthesis and Disease Prediction using Vision Transformers
Creators: name: Kamran, Sharif Amit
name: Hossain, Khondker Fariha
name: Tavakkoli, Alireza
name: Zuckerbrod, Stewart Lee
name: Baker, Salah A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In Fluorescein Angiography (FA), an exogenous dye is injected in the bloodstream to image the vascular structure of the retina. The injected dye can cause adverse reactions such as nausea, vomiting, anaphylactic shock, and even death. In contrast, color fundus imaging is a non-invasive technique used for photographing the retina but does not have sufficient fidelity for capturing its vascular structure. The only non-invasive method for capturing retinal vasculature is optical coherence tomography-angiography (OCTA). However, OCTA equipment is quite expensive, and stable imaging is limited to small areas on the retina. In this paper, we propose a novel conditional generative adversarial network (GAN) capable of simultaneously synthesizing FA images from fundus photographs while predicting retinal degeneration. The proposed system has the benefit of addressing the problem of imaging retinal vasculature in a non-invasive manner as well as predicting the existence of retinal abnormalities. We use a semi-supervised approach to train our GAN using multiple weighted losses on different modalities of data. Our experiments validate that the proposed architecture exceeds recent state-of-the-art generative networks for fundus-to-angiography synthesis. Moreover, our vision transformer-based discriminators generalize quite well on out-of-distribution data sets for retinal disease prediction.
description: Accepted to ICCV 2021 Workshop on Computer Vision for Automated Medical Diagnosis
Snake eels (Ophichthidae) of the remote St. Peter and St. Paul’s Archipelago (Equatorial Atlantic): Museum records after 37 years of shelf life
Creators: name: LUIZ, OSMAR J.
Publisher: name: Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences
Year: 2018

description: Despite of its major zoogeographical interest, the biological diversity of central Atlantic oceanic islands are still poorly known because of its remoteness. Incomplete species inventories are a hindrance to macroecology and conservation because knowledge on species distribution are important for identifying patterns and processes in biodiversity and for conservation planning. Records of the snake-eel family Ophichthidae for the St. Peter and St. Paul’s Archipelago, Brazil, are presented for the first time after revision of material collected and deposited in a museum collection 37 yrs ago. Specimens of Apterichtus kendalli and Herpetoichthys regius were collected using rotenone on sand bottoms and one Myrichthys sp. was observed and photographed swimming over a rocky reef. Remarkably, these species were not seen or collected in the St. Peter and St. Paul’s Archipelago ever since despite the substantial increase of biological expeditions over the past two decades, suggesting that the unjustified rotenone sampling prohibition in Brazil is hindering advancement of the nation’s biological diversity knowledge.
description: Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences, vol. 1 n.º 36 (2019): Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences
Linguistic Dependencies and Statistical Dependence
Creators: name: Hoover, Jacob Louis
name: Sordoni, Alessandro
name: Du, Wenyu
name: O'Donnell, Timothy J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Are pairs of words that tend to occur together also likely to stand in a linguistic dependency? This empirical question is motivated by a long history of literature in cognitive science, psycholinguistics, and NLP. In this work we contribute an extensive analysis of the relationship between linguistic dependencies and statistical dependence between words. Improving on previous work, we introduce the use of large pretrained language models to compute contextualized estimates of the pointwise mutual information between words (CPMI). For multiple models and languages, we extract dependency trees which maximize CPMI, and compare to gold standard linguistic dependencies. Overall, we find that CPMI dependencies achieve an unlabelled undirected attachment score of at most $\approx 0.5$. While far above chance, and consistently above a non-contextualized PMI baseline, this score is generally comparable to a simple baseline formed by connecting adjacent words. We analyze which kinds of linguistic dependencies are best captured in CPMI dependencies, and also find marked differences between the estimates of the large pretrained language models, illustrating how their different training schemes affect the type of dependencies they capture.
description: EMNLP2021 camera-ready version. 9 pages, plus references and appendices
First record of the Sculptured Mitten Lobster Parribacus antarcticus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Scyllaridae) from the Cabo Verde Islands (eastern Atlantic)
Creators: name: Freitas, Rui
name: Wirtz, Peter
Publisher: name: Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences
Year: 2019

description: The lobster genus Parribacus contains six living and one fossil species (Holthuis 1991; Chan 2010; Nyborg & Garassino 2017). In the Atlantic Ocean, only one living species is known, Parribacus antarcticus (Lund, 1793); it has been recorded in the western Atlantic from Florida to Brazil and recently also from the mid-Atlantic island of Ascension (Brown et al. 2016). It is nocturnal and is often found hiding in crevices during daytime (Holthuis 1991). We here note the presence of Parribacus antarcticus at the Cabo Verde Islands, the first record of the species from the eastern Atlantic.
description: Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences, vol. 1 n.º 36 (2019): Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences
Synthesis and metal complexation studies of [2n]thiacalix[m]arene[m]pyrazine
Creators: name: Sonawane, Mahendra P.
name: Boodts, Stijn
name: Thomas, Joice
name: Dehaen, Wim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Novel [2n]thiacalixarenepyrazine and [2n]thiacalixarenetriazine systems were synthesised by one-pot SNAr reactions. A screening of the metal-complexing ability of [26]hexathiacalix[3]arene[3]pyrazine revealed its affinity for CuI, CuII and AgI metal salts.
Improved Standard-Model prediction for $π^0\to e^+e^-$
Creators: name: Hoferichter, Martin
name: Hoid, Bai-Long
name: Kubis, Bastian
name: Lüdtke, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an improved Standard-Model (SM) prediction for the dilepton decay of the neutral pion. The loop amplitude is determined by the pion transition form factor for $π^0\toγ^*γ^*$, for which we employ a dispersive representation that incorporates both space-like and time-like data as well as short-distance constraints. The resulting SM branching fraction, $\text{BR}[π^0\to e^+e^-]=6.25(3)\times 10^{-8}$ , sharpens constraints on physics beyond the SM, including pseudoscalar and axial-vector mediators.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures; journal version
Apletodon gabonensis, a new species of clingfish (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from Gabon, eastern Atlantic Ocean
Creators: name: Fricke, Ronald
name: Wirtz, Peter
Publisher: name: Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences
Year: 2018

description: The clingfish Apletodon gabonensis sp. nov. is described on the basis of seven specimens and colour photographs from Gabon, eastern Atlantic Ocean. The species is small, apparently not exceeding 20 mm total length; it is characterized by having 5 dorsal-fin rays, 4-5 anal-fin rays, 25-27 pectoral-fin rays, head width in males 2.6-4.7 in SL, anus in males with urogenital papilla present but not pronounced; snout long, broad, anteriorly truncate in male, narrower and rather pointed in female; preorbital length 1.8-3.8 in head length; conspicuous maxillary barbel absent in both sexes; disc with 10-12 rows of papillae in region A, 5 rows of papillae in region B, and 5-7 rows of papillae in region C. The new species is compared with the other species of the genus; a key to the males of the 6 known species of the eastern Atlantic genus Apletodon is presented.
description: Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences, vol. 1 n.º 36 (2019): Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences
How Resilience Management Principles could help in addressing the COVID-19 Crisis: Hints from a pilot exercise of the DARWIN H2020 Project
Creators: name: Save, Luca
name: Ruscio, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Resilience
Coronavirus
Resilience Engineering
Critical Infrastructure
Preparedness

description: DARWIN was an EU funded research project under the Horizon 2020 research programme focusing on improving responses to expected and unexpected crises affecting critical societal structures. The project developed Resilience Management Guidelines (DRMG) that were tested in different pilot exercises at different locations in Europe. One of the pilot exercises organized in Italy in June 2017 offered the opportunity to address issues related to the resilience of the organizations that have many aspects in common with those experienced in the current worldwide COVID-19 crisis. Examples of such issues are: the need to establish a common ground among the different organizations cooperating in the management of a crisis; the importance of anticipating and managing trade-offs and conflicting goals during the disease outbreak; as well as the importance of coordinating communication activities to improve the effectiveness of the containment measures applied by the citizens. The severity and magnitude of the COVID-19 crisis has shown to be greater than the crisis and emergency situations imagined during the DARWIN pilot exercise. However, the results from the project show that decision makers and managers at different levels in first responder organizations can benefit from the adoption the DRMG principles and translate them into policies or procedures for front line operators that are useful also to address the COVID-19 global pandemics.
Hybrid Encoding For Generating Large Scale Game Level Patterns With Local Variations
Creators: name: Schrum, Jacob
name: Capps, Benjamin
name: Steckel, Kirby
name: Volz, Vanessa
name: Risi, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a powerful indirect genotype-to-phenotype mapping for evolutionary search. Much previous work applying GANs to level generation focuses on fixed-size segments combined into a whole level, but individual segments may not fit together cohesively. In contrast, segments in human designed levels are often repeated, directly or with variation, and organized into patterns (the symmetric eagle in Level 1 of The Legend of Zelda, or repeated pipe motifs in Super Mario Bros). Such patterns can be produced with Compositional Pattern Producing Networks (CPPNs). CPPNs define latent vector GAN inputs as a function of geometry, organizing segments output by a GAN into complete levels. However, collections of latent vectors can also be evolved directly, producing more chaotic levels. We propose a hybrid approach that evolves CPPNs first, but allows latent vectors to evolve later, combining the benefits of both approaches. These approaches are evaluated in Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. We previously demonstrated via a Quality-Diversity algorithm that CPPNs better cover the space of possible levels than directly evolved levels. Here, we show that the hybrid approach (1) covers areas that neither of the other methods can, and (2) achieves comparable or superior QD scores.
description: Journal length extension of arXiv:2004.01703
Quantum holography with undetected light
Creators: name: Töpfer, Sebastian
name: Basset, Marta Gilaberte
name: Fuenzalida, Jorge
name: Steinlechner, Fabian
name: Torres, Juan P.
name: Gräfe, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Holography exploits the interference of light fields to obtain a systematic reconstruction of the light fields wavefronts. Classical holography techniques have been very successful in diverse areas such as microscopy, manufacturing technology, and basic science. Extending holographic methods to the level of single photons has been proven challenging, since applying classical holography techniques to this regime pose technical problems. Recently the retrieval of the spatial structure of a single photon, using another photon under experimental control with a well-characterized spatial shape as reference, was demonstrated using the intrinsically non-classical Hong-Ou-Mandel interference on a beam splitter. Here we present a method for recording a hologram of single photons without detecting the photons themselves, and importantly, with no need to use a well-characterized companion reference photon. Our approach is based on quantum interference between two-photon probability amplitudes in a nonlinear interferometer. As in classical holography, the hologram of a single photon allows retrieving the complete information about the "shape" of the photon (amplitude and phase) despite the fact that the photon is never detected.
description: 29 pages with 11 figures
Trichomyia cerdosa Araujo & Bravo 2016
Creators: name: Araújo, Maíra Xavier
name: Aragão, Marcos
name: Cordeiro, Danilo
name: Bravo, Freddy
name: Carvalho, Claudio José Barros de
name: Andena, Sergio R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Psychodidae
Trichomyia
Trichomyia cerdosa

description: Trichomyia cerdosa Araújo & Bravo, 2016: 39–40, figs. 20A–H.
 Comments. Males of T. cerdosa are recognized by the genitalia, with an elongate arm of gonocoxite with elongate apical bristles. The cercus has four apical bristles rod-like.
Material examined. Brazil, Bahia, Igrapiuna, Reserva Ecológica Michelin, Pancada Grande, 15. VI.2013 (light trap), M. Aragão & E. Menezes cols., 2 #m (MZFS).
Distribution. Brazil (Bahia).
description: Published as part of Araújo, Maíra Xavier, Aragão, Marcos, Cordeiro, Danilo, Bravo, Freddy, Carvalho, Claudio José Barros de & Andena, Sergio R., 2018, Male and female association in Trichomyia Haliday in Curtis, 1839 using a molecular approach (Diptera, Psychodidae, Trichomyiinae), and description of new species from Brazil, pp. 283-287 in Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 62 (4) on page 286, DOI: 10.1016/j.rbe.2018.08.004, http://zenodo.org/record/13198247
Effects of sorbent materials on the cryofocusing analysis of gaseous reduced sulphur compounds
Creators: name: Kim, Ki-Hyun
name: Pandey, Sudhir Kumar
name: J.H. Ahn
name: J.E. Szulejko
name: Sohn, Jong Ryeul
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: The relative performance of different sorbent materials employed in the cryofocusing (e.g. in cold trap (CT) unit) stage was investigated at sub-ambient temperature by the thermal desorption (TD)–gas chromatography (GC)–pulsed flame photometric detector. To this end, the TD-based calibration of five reduced sulphur compounds (RSC: H 2S, CH 3SH, CS 2, DMS and DMDS) and SO 2 was carried out via the Peltier cooling system with five types of sorbent combinations such as two single-bed (Tenax TA and Silica gel) plus three multibed types (a combination of either two from the following three sorbents: Tenax TA, Silica gel and Carbopack B). Relative performance of each of all five CT options, if evaluated in terms of response factors for each compound, demonstrated that each CT composition acts as an important criterion to distinguish detection properties between light and heavy sulphur species. Although the relative response of H 2S and CH 3SH was systematically distinguishable between the CT types, that of SO 2 was the most complicated to interpret. According to this study, the two CT types consisting of Carbopack B and Silica gel (CS-0.4 and CS-0.6) were the optimum choices for sulphur gas analysis in terms of basic QA parameters (sensitivity, reproducibility and linearity).
Anwenden von Knowledge Co Creation Methoden zum Aufbau von Communities am Beispiel von ProvideDH
Creators: name: Senabre, Enric
name: Dorn, Amelie
name: Wandl-Vogt, Eveline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Anwenden von Knowledge Co Creation Methoden zum Aufbau von Communities am Beispiel von ProvideDH
Allocating Stimulus Checks in Times of Crisis
Creators: name: Papachristou, Marios
name: Kleinberg, Jon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the problem of allocating bailouts (stimulus, subsidy allocations) to people participating in a financial network subject to income shocks. We build on the financial clearing framework of Eisenberg and Noe that allows the incorporation of a bailout policy that is based on discrete bailouts motivated by the types of stimulus checks people receive around the world as part of COVID-19 economical relief plans. We show that optimally allocating such bailouts on a financial network in order to maximize a variety of social welfare objectives of this form is a computationally intractable problem. We develop approximation algorithms to optimize these objectives and establish guarantees for their approximation rations. Then, we incorporate multiple fairness constraints in the optimization problems and establish relative bounds on the solutions with versus without these constraints. Finally, we apply our methodology to a variety of data, both in the context of a system of large financial institutions with real-world data, as well as in a realistic societal context with financial interactions between people and businesses for which we use semi-artificial data derived from mobility patterns. Our results suggest that the algorithms we develop and study have reasonable results in practice and outperform other network-based heuristics. We argue that the presented problem through the societal-level lens could assist policymakers in making informed decisions on issuing subsidies.
description: Accepted at WWW 2022 (Proceedings of the Web Conference)
L’apocalisse dell’identità bianca: una lettura decoloniale di July’s People di Nadine Gordimer
Creators: name: Mussi, Francesca
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2024

description: This article aims to provide a decolonial reading of Nadine Gordimer’s apocalyptic novel July’s People (1981). Through the analysis of the collapse of the concept of whiteness at a spatial, identity, and linguistic level, this article demonstrates that Gordimer challenges mainstream futuristic apocalyptic narratives, which tend to celebrate white characters as saviours of the world, while casting Indigenous characters either in the background without a voice or as “a threat demanding to be contained”. By focusing on an imaginary period of interregnum, Gordimer also foregrounds new pathways for the white subject who must prepare to embrace the uncertain future of the black indigenous new political order.
description: Status Quaestionis, N. 26 (2024): Teoria/Theory. Perspectives on Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature
Biological removal of methanethiol from gas and water streams by using Thiobacillus thioparus: investigation of biodegradability and optimization of sulphur production
Creators: name: Kiumars Badr
name: Bahmani, Mahmoud
name: Abdolhossein Jahanmiri
name: Mowla, Dariush
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: The present work mainly deals with biological oxidation, which was tested using the bacterium Thiobacillus thioparus in semi-batch bioreactor systems to evaluate the removal efficiencies and optimal conditions for the biodegradation of methanethiol (MT) in order to treat the natural gas and refinery output streams. The efficiency of this method is analysed by evaluating the concentration of MT in a bioreactor. The effect of operational parameters, such as initial concentration of MT, pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen (DO), initial concentration of bacteria and reaction time on the degradation of MT, were studied. In this process, MT is converted into elemental sulphur particles as an intermediate in the oxidation process of MT to sulphate. The obtained results showed that the highest degradation rate occurred during the first 300 minutes of reaction time. The optimal conditions of the different initial MT concentrations with 0.3–0.6 bacteria OD, DO of 0.5 ppm, acidic pH value of 6.2 and temperature of 30°C are obtained. Acidic pH and oxygen-limiting conditions were applied to obtain 80–85% selectivity for elemental sulphur formation in products. Under the optimal conditions, and for the highest (8.51 mM) and the lowest (0.53 mM) concentration of MT, the biological removal was about 89% and 94%, respectively.
Synthetic protocols towards homodithiacalix[n]arenes
Creators: name: Thomas, Joice
name: Dobrzańska, Liliana
name: Sonawane, Mahendra Punjaji
name: Smet, Mario
name: Maes, Wouter
name: Dehaen, Wim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Synthetic procedures towards homodithiacalix[n]arenes are developed, starting from simple and readily available bifunctional aryl building blocks, by a dynamic covalent chemistry approach. Reaction of 1,3-bis(mercaptomethyl)-5-tert-butyl-2-methoxybenzene under basic conditions leads to a mixture of trimeric, tetrameric and pentameric dimethylenedithia-bridged cyclooligomers, whereas reaction of 5-tert-butyl-2-methoxy-1,3-bis(thiocyanatomethyl) benzene under reducing conditions (and subsequent oxidation) affords the homodithiacalix[4]arene macrocycle in a very selective fashion through efficient disulphide exchange chemistry.
Logarithmic Corrections to the Entropy of Rotating Black Holes and Black Strings in AdS$_5$
Creators: name: David, Marina
name: Lezcano, Alfredo González
name: Nian, Jun
name: Zayas, Leopoldo A. Pando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate logarithmic corrections to the entropy of supersymmetric, rotating, asymptotically AdS$_5$ black holes and black strings. Within the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence, the entropy of these black objects is determined, on the field theory side, by the superconformal index and the refined topologically twisted index of $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, respectively. We read off the logarithmic correction from those field-theoretic partition functions. On the gravity side, we take the near-horizon limit and apply the Kerr/CFT correspondence whose associated charged Cardy formula describes the degeneracy of states at subleading order and determines the logarithmic correction to the entropy. We find perfect agreement between these two approaches. Our results provide a window into precision microstate counting and demonstrate the efficacy of low-energy, symmetry-based approaches such as the Kerr/CFT correspondence for asymptotically AdS black objects under certain conditions.
description: 31 pages, no figures; v2: published version in JHEP, more details added in Sec. 2.2, 2.4, and 2.5, the main results updated
Iron chemistry of an asymmetrically substituted, triazole-functionalised calixarene ligand
Creators: name: Ritter, Michaela
name: Molad, Anat
name: Varun Rawat
name: Vigalok, Arkadi
name: Limberg, Christian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: The synthesis and characterisation of an asymmetrically substituted calix-triazole ligand are reported. The ligand reacts with the Fe(II) precursor Fe2Mes4 to yield an iron(II) calixarene complex that is oxidised by dioxygen to provide a dinuclear Fe(III) compound featuring an oxido bridge.
THE TRENDS OF MODERN PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY: A DISCLOSURE
Creators: name: DATTA, JAYDIP
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 30704 Statistical Mechanics in Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: It is a link file to Refer - THE TRENDS OF MODERN PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY: A DISCLOSURE ie to highlight the advanced feature of Physical chemistry .
Stefano Villani, Making Italy Anglican. Why the Book of Common Prayer Was Translated into Italian, New York, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. xiv, 292, £74.00
Creators: name: Andreani, Angela
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2024

description: Status Quaestionis, N. 26 (2024): Teoria/Theory. Perspectives on Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature