cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
DEGRE: Inferring Differentially Expressed Genes using Generalized Linear Mixed Models
Creators: name: Machado, Douglas Terra
name: Brustolini, Otávio José Bernardes
name: Martins, Yasmmin Côrtes
name: Maia, Marco Antonio Grivet Mattoso
name: De Vasconcelos, Ana Tereza Ribeiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: differentially expressed genes
random effects
generalized linear mixed model
preprocessing
gene dispersion
DEGRE package

description: Genes that are differentially expressed between two or more experimental conditions can be detected in RNA-Seq. A high biological variability may impact the discovery of these genes once it may be divergent between the fixed effects. However, this variability can be covered by the random effects. 'DEGRE' was designed to identify the differentially expressed genes considering fixed and random effects on individuals. These effects are identified earlier in the experimental design matrix. 'DEGRE' has the implementation of preprocessing procedures to clean the near zero gene reads in the count matrix, normalize by 'RLE' published in the 'DESeq2' package, 'Love et al. (2014)'  and it fits a regression for each gene using the Generalized Linear Mixed Model with the negative binomial distribution, followed by a Wald test to assess the regression coefficients.
description: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/DEGRE/index.html
Optimal control of fed-batch fermentation processes
Creators: name: Vanichsriratana, Wirat
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 1996

description: Optimisation of a fed-batch fermentation process typically uses the calculus of variations or Pontryagin's maximum principle to determine an optimal feed rate profile. This often results in a singular control problem and an open loop control structure. The singular feed rate is the optimal feed rate during the singular control period and is used to control the substrate concentration in the fermenter at an optimal level. This approach is supported by biological knowledge that biochemical reaction rates are controlled by the environmental conditions in the fermenter; in this case, the substrate concentration. Since an accurate neural net-based on-line estimation of the substrate concentration has recently become available and is currently employed in industry, we are therefore able to propose a method which makes use of this estimation. The proposed method divides the optimisation problem into two parts. First, an optimal substrate concentration profile which governs the biochemical reactions in the fermentation process is determined. Then a controller is designed to track the obtained optimal profile. Since the proposed method determines the optimal substrate concentration profile, the singular control problem is therefore avoided because the substrate concentration appears nonlinearly in the system equations. Also, the process is then operated in closed loop control of the substrate concentration. The proposed method is then called "closed loop optimal control". The proposed closed loop optimal control method is then compared with the open loop optimal feed rate profile method. The comparison simulations from both primary and secondary metabolite production processes show that both methods give similar performance in a case of perfect model while the closed loop optimal control provides better performance than the open loop method in a case of plant/model mismatch. The better performance of the closed loop optimal control is due to an ability to compensate for the modelling errors using feedback.
Phase diagram of the system with the repulsive shoulder potential in two dimensions: density functional approach
Creators: name: Chumakov, E. S.
name: Fomin, Yu. D.
name: Shangina, E. L.
name: Tareyeva, E. E.
name: Tsiok, E. N.
name: Ryzhov, V. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the density functional theory of freezing proposed in our previous works, we calculate the phase diagram of two-dimensional system of particles interacting through the repulsive shoulder potential. This potential consists of the hard core and repulsive shoulder of the larger radius. It is shown that at low densities the system melts through the continuous transition in accordance with the Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young (KTHNY) scenario, while at high densities the conventional first order transition takes place.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
White fears and fantasies: writing the nation in post-abolition Brazil and Cuba
Creators: name: Nash, Lyle Scott
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation discusses the literary representations of Afro-descendants in mid- to late-nineteenth century Cuba and Brazil, and how these representations impacted the development of the national narratives and mapped out the future social terrain for blacks and whites in both countries. This work evaluates Doris Sommer’s assertion that novels can serve as attempts to consolidate national identity, and that they help bind disparate groups in the formation of new nations. I use her model of “Foundational Fictions” to analyze the development of the national narratives in Cuba and Brazil, two nations with deeply-rooted histories of slavery, large slave populations, and late abolition of slavery. Novels by Cirilo Villaverde and Aluísio Azevedo were chosen as representative examples because of the dominant roles that Afro-Cubans and Afro-Brazilian play in their narratives. If literary unions symbolized unions between antagonistic social cadres, erasing social distinctions, then testing the model’s ability would be most useful in nations with large Afro-descent populations; the results of the analysis were negative. All unions between whites and Afro-descendants delineated in the novels were marked with tragedy and death, resulting in failures I call “Foundering Fictions.” These novels accentuated differences between Afro-descendants and whites and ideologically informed the nascent social institutions of the new republics. Therein, they served to attenuate the oppression of Afro-descendants in both countries.This work discusses the deployment of stereotypes in the corpus novels, and the key role they play in the formation of prejudice, by arguing that prejudicial treatment is less motivated by belief than by practical benefits such as power and wealth. It also considers the historical development of race thinking and its relation to the justification of slavery in the corpus texts. Additionally, the thesis focuses on the social role of the mulatto during this period of shifting narrative perspectives discusses the multifaceted representation of the mulatto. Finally, it analyzes the ironic tendency of white writers to depict the white population as victims of slavery and the efforts of those writers to rewrite the history of slavery in order to inhibit the social progress of their Afro-descent contemporaries.
The fate of the cyanide ion in the aquatic environment
Creators: name: Paulson, Tracie Lee
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The fate of the cyanide ion in aqueous environments is an area of concern as exampled by an accident on the Danube River in 2000. A mining company accident in Romania spilled thousands of cubic meters of waste slurry that included cyanide and unspecified heavy metals into the Sasar River in Romania, which eventually flowed into the Danube River in Hungary. Thousands of fish died in the incident and agriculture was damaged. The population that depended on the rivers for their livelihood was devastated. There was no investigation into the fate of the spill, and eventually life forms near the origination of the spill began to re-emerge. This thesis investigates hydrolysis and volatilization as possible fates of the cyanide ion in the aqueous environment. Ion selective electrodes were used to analyze the disappearance of cyanide and the appearance of ammonia (the end product of hydrolysis). If these could be measured simultaneously the rate of the hydrolysis of cyanide in a neutral aqueous environment could be determined.The hydrolytic pathway for the cyanide ion has been investigated for the reaction catalyzed with cyanidase, and enzyme found in some bacteria and fungi. The products of the enzyme-catalyzed hydrolysis are formate and carbon dioxide or formate and ammonia, depending on the organism. A two-step reaction has been proposed for cyanide hydrolysis without a catalyst in which formamide is an intermediate. The limiting step in this reaction is the initial hydrolysis of cyanide to formamide and investigations into the appearance of ammonia were used as a surrogate to the formation of this intermediate.Hydrogen cyanide gas is extremely volatile and will escape into the environment at room temperature. The experiments conducted for this thesis showed a consistent loss of cyanide during a timed reaction from an aqueous solution without a corresponding increase in an equivalent amount of ammonia. From additional experiments on the effects of temperature, ultraviolet radiation and aeration, it was concluded that volatilization was the most probable fate of cyanide in these investigations. Confirmation of volatilization was achieved by infrared spectrometry of the vapor phase above aqueous potassium cyanide solutions.
Tafeln
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2022

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 7 Nr. 7 (1954): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
The problems of shame in guilt in Sartre's The flies
Creators: name: Panichella, Noelle
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The paper discusses the theme of shame in his play The Flies. The people of Argos allow themselves to be manipulated by religious and political forces, who play on the Argives' personal feelings of shame. Orestes, on the other hand, feels no shame, but also behaves rashly and alienates himself. Sartre's philosophical works and Erich Fromm's psychoanalytic theories are consulted as a means of discovering some balance between the two extremes.
Efficacy, Feasibility, and Acceptability of Perinatal Yoga on Women’s Mental Health and Well-Being: A Systematic Literature Review
Creators: name: Sheffield, K.M.
name: Woods-Giscombé, C.L.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: Perinatal major depressive disorder affects 20% of women, while perinatal anxiety affects 10% of women. Although pharmacological treatment has shown effectiveness, many pregnant women are concerned about potential adverse effects on the fetus, maternal–infant bonding, and child development. Approximately 38% of American adults use complementary and alternative medicine, including yoga and other mind–body strategies. Although complementary and alternative medicine has been less studied in the perinatal population, it potentially offers women and their providers alternatives to traditional medication for treatment of perinatal depression and anxiety. Thus, the purpose of this systematic review was to examine existing empirical literature on yoga and its effects on women’s health and well-being during the perinatal period. Method: Following PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines for systemic literature reviews, literature searches using relevant search terms were performed in four major electronic databases: CINAHL, PubMed, PsycINFO, and EMBASE. Thirteen publications met inclusion criteria. Results: Results indicated that yoga interventions are generally effective in reducing anxiety and depression in pregnant women. Discussion: The use of yoga in the perinatal period shows promise in improving mental health and well-being for women and infants. This review can inform future yoga intervention studies and clinical practice with the perinatal population.
Ausstellungskalender
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2022

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 7 Nr. 7 (1954): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
title: A Country, but not a State? The Apparent Paradox of International Statehood in Case C-632/20 P, Spain v Commission (Kosovo)
Creators: name: Fedele, Giulio
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Kosovo
subject: recognition
subject: third country
subject: third State
subject: statehood
subject: international legal personality

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2023 8(2), 537-546
description: European Forum Insight of 28 August 2023
description: I. Introduction - II. The recognition and the engagement of the EU with Kosovo - III. The approach of the GC: a country, not a State? - IV. The Paradox created by the CJEU: a Country, but not a State? - V. A sui generis solution? - VI. Conclusion: diluting international statehood?
description: In the case of Spain v Commission the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union had to determine whether Kosovo fell into the scope of the definition “third countries” for the purposes of art. 35 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1971 (the “BEREC Regulation”). Despite offering differing viewpoints, the two courts arrived at the same conclusions. Ultimately, the CJEU ruled that the term “country” is interchangeable with the term “State” and that Kosovo could be treated as a “third country” for the participation in the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC). Nevertheless, the CJEU contended that the treatment of Kosovo as a country, and thus as a State, did not impact the position of Member States towards its recognition in international law. This Insight focuses on this ap-parent paradox and its implications for the construction of the concept of statehood in international law. It is argued that the CJEU appears to imply the potential for multiple definitions of statehood, contingent upon their relevance in different contexts. This perspective faces the risk of contributing to the gradual dilution of this formerly granitic concept.
No to children, yes to childfreedom:
Creators: name: Vesper, Patricia A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: While women are pressured by our culture into believing that motherhood is essential for a woman to live a happy and fulfilling life, in reality most childfree women live happy and fulfilling lives while being free of the many burdens and sacrifices involved in childrearing. In addition, they enjoy many benefits and experiences that women who have children often must forego in order to take on the tremendous responsibilities of motherhood. Despite these benefits and opportunities, our culture treats the childfree lifestyle as one solely of lack and one that is not a viable or acceptable lifestyle option for women. The childfree lifestyle is either ignored or outright condemned by our culture and women who choose the childfree lifestyle are usually perceived as misguided, confused and selfish. My project will expose our culture as rampantly and unnecessarily pronatalist and will argue that such rigid lifestyle requirements for women have no place in a society built on the ideal of self-determinism.
Sweating the small stuff: simulating dwarf galaxies, ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, and their own tiny satellites
Creators: name: Wheeler, Coral
name: Onorbe, Jose
name: Bullock, James S.
name: Boylan-Kolchin, Michael
name: Elbert, Oliver D.
name: Garrison-Kimmel, Shea
name: Hopkins, Philip F.
name: Keres, Dusan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present FIRE/Gizmo hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations of isolated dark matter halos, two each at the mass of classical dwarf galaxies ($M_{\rm vir} \simeq 10^{10} M_{\odot}$) and ultra-faint galaxies ($M_{\rm vir} \simeq 10^9 M_{\odot}$), and with two feedback implementations. The resultant central galaxies lie on an extrapolated abundance matching relation from $M_{\star} \simeq 10^6$ to $10^4 M_{\odot}$ without a break. Every host is filled with subhalos, many of which form stars. Our dwarfs with $M_{\star} \simeq 10^6 M_{\odot}$ each have 1-2 well-resolved satellites with $M_{\star} = 3-200 \times 10^3 M_{\odot}$. Even our isolated ultra-faint galaxies have star-forming subhalos. If this is representative, dwarf galaxies throughout the universe should commonly host tiny satellite galaxies of their own. We combine our results with the ELVIS simulations to show that targeting $\sim 50~ \rm kpc$ regions around nearby isolated dwarfs could increase the chances of discovering ultra-faint galaxies by $\sim 35\%$ compared to random halo pointings, and specifically identify the region around the Phoenix dwarf galaxy as a good potential target. The well-resolved ultra-faint galaxies in our simulations ($M_{\star} \simeq 3 - 30 \times 10^3 M_{\odot}$) form within $M_{\rm peak} \simeq 0.5 - 3 \times 10^9 M_{\odot}$ halos. Each has a uniformly ancient stellar population ($ > 10~ \rm Gyr$) owing to reionization-related quenching. More massive systems, in contrast, all have late-time star formation. Our results suggest that $M_{\rm halo} \simeq 5 \times 10^9 M_{\odot}$ is a probable dividing line between halos hosting reionization "fossils" and those hosting dwarfs that can continue to form stars in isolation after reionization.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, submitted to MNRAS
Mitteilungen des Verbandes Deutscher Kunsthistoriker
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2022

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 7 Nr. 7 (1954): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Organizational stressors and police performance
Creators: name: Shane, Jon M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The evidence on police stress is mixed as to whether or not the nature of police work is inherently stressful. A growing body of research suggests police officers are no more stressed than other groups and police work is not especially stressful. Instead, organizational stressors may be the greatest source of stress in police officers. Various structural arrangements, policies and practices imply police agencies can be inhospitable workplaces, where officers must withstand a variety of daily hassles generated internally by the organization.The purpose of this study is to answer the question: What is the relationship between perceived organizational stressors and police performance? This cross-sectional study pools secondary data collected by the Police Foundation, Washington, D.C. from the Detroit (MI) Police Department (N=113) and primary data collected from the Paterson (NJ) Police Department (N=348) to quantify the level of stress urban police officers may be under. This study uses a non-probability sample of incumbent sworn police officers assigned to the patrol division. Two instruments, the Police Stress Questionnaire (McCreary and Thompson, 2006) and the Daily Hassles and Uplifts Scale (Hart, Wearing and Heady, 1993) are used to measure stress via a composite index (Explanatory variables) extracted from a principle components factor analysis. Internal police data collected from agency records measures performance (Criterion variable) also via a composite index. Controlling for several demographic variables, organizational stressors made a statistically significant contribution to predicting police performance (F=22.316; p
Prey density-dependant protozoan bacterivory
Creators: name: Tuorto, Steven John
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The initial ingestion rates of the marine, bacterivorous ciliates E. vannus, E. plicatum, and Cyclidium sp. were measured as a function of prey concentration. A method was developed using bacteria engineered to express green fluorescent protein (GFP-bacteria) as a naturally cultured tracer to directly measure ingestion rates at bacterial concentrations ranging from 5×104 to 1010 bacteria ml-1. Ingestion rates increased with prey density ranging from 103-105 bacteria ciliate-1 h-1, and maximum ingestion rates were observed at a prey density of 109 bacteria ml-1. Ingestion rate data for all three grazers was best modeled by a Type III functional response equation. In lieu of these results combined with a re-analysis of previous reports of ciliate ingestion, it was concluded that in nature, a traditional Type II response is probably rare and unstable. Next, using GFP-bacteria as prey, ingestion rates, food vacuole formation rates, and the maximum number of food vacuoles were measured over time for the same ciliate species at a low (106-107 bacteria ml-1) and a high (109 bacteria ml-1) prey concentration. The time required to reach steady state maximum food vacuole capacity and digestion rate were subsequently estimated. Food vacuole content and ingestion rates increased with prey concentration. Digestion rate decreased with increasing food vacuole content, refuting the idea that digestion is a rate constant. Estimates of ingestion rate and digestion efficiency suggested that ciliates are capable of exerting substantial top-down control on bacteria at typical water column concentrations. The ingestion rates of each ciliate were next measured as a function of benthic bacterial concentration, by culturing GFP-bacteria directly in sediment microcosms to densities ranging 108-1010 bacteria per milliliter of pore water (ml-1 PW). Ingestion rates increased continually with sediment bacterial concentration, ranging from 102-105 bacteria ciliate-1 h-1. A decrease in ingestion rates below 2×108 bacteria ml-1 PW suggests a possible lower prey concentration threshold for benthic bacterivory. Benthic ingestion rates measured at a typical sediment bacterial concentration (109 bacteria ml-1 PW) were two times higher for both species of Euplotes, and 27 times higher for Cyclidium sp., than those measured for these species when grazing on suspended prey.
Millard Meiss, Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death
Creators: name: Oertel, Robert
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2022

description: Rezension zu: Millard Mess, Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death. Princeton 1951. XIV, 194 S., 169 Abb. in Lichtdruck.
description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 7 Nr. 7 (1954): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Habitat ecology of intertidal nekton in southern New Jersey salt marshes:
Creators: name: Kimball, Matthew Eric
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Intertidal creeks are of particular importance to the nekton community as they represent a critical corridor linking marsh surface and subtidal habitats during periods of tidal inundation. Nekton use of intertidal creeks is controlled by marsh hydroperiod and varies temporally and spatially according to multiple physical and biological factors. Many oligohaline and mesohaline southern New Jersey salt marshes have been altered through anthropogenic disturbance, in the form of salt hay farming, or the invasion and subsequent dominance of Phragmites australis. Intertidal creeks are especially vulnerable to marsh habitat alteration, which may affect creek structure and function, but may be mitigated (or reversed) through habitat restoration efforts. Intertidal creek nekton were sampled in multiple marsh types (i.e., natural, invasive-dominated, and marshes treated either to remove Phragmites or to restore tidal flow to former salt hay farms) using three different sampling gears (i.e., weirs, seines, and underwater video) to compare nekton utilization between marsh types, determine general nekton tidal use patterns, and evaluate overall restoration success. Intertidal creek nekton collections in all marsh types consisted primarily of resident nekton and were dominated by a relatively low number of ubiquitous intertidal species, especially Fundulus heteroclitus. Low tide stages were characterized by resident nekton (dominated by F. heteroclitus), while high tide stages were characterized by a variable mix of transient (dominated by Anchoa mitchilli, Menidia menidia, and Callinectes sapidus) and resident nekton. Examination of intertidal creek nekton at multiple spatial and temporal scales within the tidal cycle (using seines and underwater video) generally found that the tidal use patterns of the most abundant nekton were similar in all marsh types. Most studies found that treated marsh creeks provided enhanced conditions for intertidal nekton, as evidenced by species abundances in treated marshes as compared to natural or invasive-dominated marshes. However, the short and long-term response of intertidal creek nekton suggests that the stage of the restoration may influence the results of comparisons between marsh types and should be considered when evaluating marsh restorations.
A framework for managing contract human capital
Creators: name: Castellano, William G.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: As contract human capital continues to grow and become a powerful force in the economy contributing to the success of many organizations, it is vital for researchers to enhance their understanding of how organizations engage and manage this component of their workforce. The goal of this study is to propose a framework that describes how organizations employ contract workers in terms referred to as contract human capital engagement modes, along with supporting HR configurations that can positively impact the performance of contract workers. A model is proposed that describes the strategic determinants of contract human capital engagement modes, and consists of two dimensions based on the levels of interdependency and criticality of the contract work, which provides a useful two-by-two matrix of four engagement modes called: project-based, knowledge-based, contract work and partnership. A second model consists of four HR configurations that are proposed to maximize the effectiveness of these four contract human capital engagement modes referred to as: productivity-based, knowledge-based, compliance-based, and collaborative-based. A field study was conducted and 26 companies were contacted, in which 9 agreed to participate. In total, 32 work groups were identified consisting of 150 contract workers and their managers. Thus, 300 surveys were distributed (150 contract worker and 150 manager surveys), of which 110 matched pairs (220 surveys) were received for a 73% participation rate. The results of this study indicate that both the levels of interdependency and criticality of contract work were significantly related to how organizations engage contract human capital. In addition, the level of criticality of the work being performed by contract workers was a significant factor impacting how they were managed. Lastly, the alignment of HR configurations and engagement modes had a significant positive impact on performance.
BGLS: A Bayesian formalism for the generalised Lomb-Scargle periodogram
Creators: name: Mortier, A.
name: Faria, J. P.
name: Correia, C. M.
name: Santerne, A.
name: Santos, N. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Frequency analyses are very important in astronomy today, not least in the ever-growing field of exoplanets, where short-period signals in stellar radial velocity data are investigated. Periodograms are the main (and powerful) tools for this purpose. However, recovering the correct frequencies and assessing the probability of each frequency is not straightforward. Aims. We provide a formalism that is easy to implement in a code, to describe a Bayesian periodogram that includes weights and a constant offset in the data. The relative probability between peaks can be easily calculated with this formalism. We discuss the differences and agreements between the various periodogram formalisms with simulated examples. Methods. We used the Bayesian probability theory to describe the probability that a full sine function (including weights derived from the errors on the data values and a constant offset) with a specific frequency is present in the data. Results. From the expression for our Baysian generalised Lomb-Scargle periodogram (BGLS), we can easily recover the expression for the non-Bayesian version. In the simulated examples we show that this new formalism recovers the underlying periods better than previous versions. A Python-based code is available for the community.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in A&A, code online at https://www.astro.up.pt/exoearths/tools.html
Hochschulen und Forschungsinstitute (1. Teil)
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2022

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 7 Nr. 7 (1954): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Social Factors Related to Smoking among Rural, Low-Income Women: Findings from a Systematic Review
Creators: name: Mitchell, S.A.
name: Kneipp, S.M.
name: Giscombe, C.W.
Publisher: name: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
Year: 2016

description: Objective: This systematic review of the literature assesses congruency of findings from descriptive, qualitative, and association studies focusing on factors influencing smoking and smoking cessation with findings from smoking cessation interventions that included low-income rural women. Design and Sample: Six databases relevant to the health and social sciences were searched in this systematic review using combinations of select keyword terms, specific inclusion criteria, and studies between 1997 and 2012. Results: Descriptive studies on this population of smokers provide economic, environmental, and social factors related to smoking patterns. Qualitative studies found social support received from an individual's social network was viewed as most beneficial when considering or maintaining smoking cessation while randomized controlled trials included in this review implemented social support through peripheral resources or resources with little personal connection to the sample and failed to produce significant results. Conclusions: Few studies have focused on the specific needs and difficulties of smoking cessation among rural low-income women and interventions have not targeted the complex social network of this population. Incongruence in study findings supports the need for smoking assessment and cessation interventions that incorporates the unique social and cultural meanings of smoking in rural low-income women.
Europäische Malerei aus Südamerika
Creators: name: Pieper, Paul
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2022

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 7 Nr. 7 (1954): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Whose Stress is Making Me Sick? Network-stress and Emotional Distress in African-American Women
Creators: name: Corbie-Smith, G.
name: Zimmer, C.
name: Woods-Giscombé, C.L.
name: Cené, C.W.
name: Lobel, M.
Publisher: name: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Year: 2015

description: Research on stress-related health outcomes in African-American women often neglects "network-stress": stress related to events that occur to family, friends, or loved ones. Data from the African-American Women's Well-Being Study were analyzed to examine self-stress and network-stress for occurrence, perceived stressfulness, and association with symptoms of psychological distress. Women reported a higher number of network-stress events compared with self-stress events. Occurrences of network-stress were perceived as undesirable and bothersome as self-stress. Both types of stress were significantly associated with psychological distress symptoms. Including network-stress may provide a more complete picture of the stress experiences of African-American women.
Landauer's principle in multipartite open quantum system dynamics
Creators: name: Lorenzo, S.
name: McCloskey, R.
name: Ciccarello, F.
name: Paternostro, M.
name: Palma, G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the link between information and thermodynamics embodied by Landauer's principle in the open dynamics of a multipartite quantum system. Such irreversible dynamics is described in terms of a collisional model with a finite temperature reservoir. We demonstrate that Landauer's principle holds, for such a configuration, in a form that involves the flow of heat dissipated into the environment and the rate of change of the entropy of the system. Quite remarkably, such a principle for {\it heat and entropy power} can be explicitly linked to the rate of creation of correlations among the elements of the multipartite system and, in turn, the non-Markovian nature of their reduced evolution. Such features are illustrated in two exemplary cases.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX4-1; Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
The Cultural Relevance of Mindfulness Meditation as a Health Intervention for African Americans: Implications for Reducing Stress-Related Health Disparities
Creators: name: Gaylord, S.A.
name: Woods-Giscombé, C.L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: African Americans experience a disproportionate rate of stress-related health conditions compared to European Americans. Mindfulness meditation has been shown to be effective for managing stress and various stress-related health conditions. This study explored the cultural relevance of mindfulness meditation training for African Americans adults. Fifteen African American adults with past or current experience with mindfulness meditation training were interviewed. Participants felt that mindfulness meditation helped them with enhanced stress management, direct health improvement, and enhanced self-awareness and purposefulness. They felt that they would recommend it and that other African Americans would be open to the practice but suggested that its presentation may need to be adapted. They suggested emphasizing the health benefits, connecting it to familiar spiritual ideology and cultural practices, supplementing the reading material with African American writers, increasing communication (education, instructor availability, “buddy system,” etc.), and including African Americans as instructors and participants. By implementing minor adaptations that enhance cultural relevance, mindfulness meditation can be a beneficial therapeutic intervention for this population.
Applying the stress and 'strength' Hypothesis to black women's breast cancer screening delays
Creators: name: Black, A.R.
name: Woods-Giscombé, C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Associations between stress and breast cancer highlight stressful life events as barriers to breast cancer screening, increased stress due to a breast cancer scare or diagnosis, or the immunosuppressive properties of stress as a risk factor for breast cancer occurrence. Little is known, however, about how women's reactions to stressful life events impact their breast health trajectory. In this study, we explore how reactions to stressors serve as a potential barrier to breast cancer screening among Black women. We apply a gender-specific, culturally responsive stress-process framework, the Stress and 'Strength' Hypothesis ("strength hypothesis"), to understand links between the 'Strong Black Woman role' role, Black women's stress reactions and their observed screening delays. We conceptualize strength as a culturally prescribed coping style that conditions resilience, self-reliance and psychological hardiness as a survival response to race-related and gender-related stressors. Using qualitative methods, we investigate the potential for this coping mechanism to manifest as extraordinary caregiving, emotional suppression and self-care postponement. These manifestations may result in limited time for scheduling and attending screening appointments, lack of or delay in acknowledgement of breast health symptoms and low prioritization of breast care. Limitations and future directions are discussed.
Behtar Samaj Banane Ke Liye Gandhi ke Sujhaye Upayo Par Gaur Karna Jaroori (2022)
Creators: name: Debnath, Biplab
name: kolge, nishikant
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Political theory and political philosophy
Social and political philosophy

description: Gandhi never claimed to be a visionary who forecasted major global challenges the world will encounter in the future. Neither did he predict the challenges that India was going to face after independence. But he was a multifaceted person with a view on numerous aspects of life that can be practised raging from religion, morality, politics, industrialisation, nonviolence to even love marriages and sex. So, which aspects of his thoughts are relevant today? We argue that those views of Gandhi in which he warned us to stay alert and be watchful about different problems of humanity and prescribed diagnoses to address them are the most relevant in current times. Of them, some of his warnings, diagnosis and methods are as much relevant now as they were during his times, acting like lighthouses to navigate us. Considering the limitations of space, we discuss Gandhi’s four major warming, his diagnosis and methods, two of which has global relevance and the other two more relevant to the Indian context - Environment problem, global peace, communal problem and casteism.
Der späte Fluch des Dritten Reichs: Pfadabhängigkeiten in der Entstehung der bundesdeutschen Wirtschaftsordnung
Creators: name: Ritschl, Albrecht
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 330 Wirtschaft
subject: 940 Geschichte Europas
subject: 943 Deutschland und benachbarte mitteleuropäische Länder

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: According to a popular belief, West Germany's post-war economic system constituted a clean break with the structures of the Third Reich. The present article takes a critical look at this myth, and examines the continuity between the economic framework of the Third Reich and the Social Market Economy. In a whole array of sectors of the German economy, regulations from the Nazi period continued to be in force after the war, or were even reintroduced. To accommodate these regulations, the Anti-Cartel Act of 1957 defined these areas as exempt from its general ban on cartels. In this sense, Germany's current reforms may be viewed as the laborious transformation of an economic system whose substance originated not in the Social Market Economy of the 1950s, but rather in the command economy of the 1930s. The findings of this article confirm that the impact of the Third Reich on the economic policies of post-war Germany was significantly greater than hitherto known.
Static interfacial properties of Bose-Einstein condensate mixtures
Creators: name: Indekeu, Joseph O.
name: Lin, Chang-You
name: Van Thu, Nguyen
name: Van Schaeybroeck, Bert
name: Phat, Tran Huu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interfacial profiles and interfacial tensions of phase-separated binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates are studied theoretically. The two condensates are characterized by their respective healing lengths $ξ_1$ and $ξ_2$ and by the inter-species repulsive interaction $K$. An exact solution to the Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equations is obtained for the special case $ξ_2/ξ_1 = 1/2$ and $K = 3/2$. Furthermore, applying a double-parabola approximation (DPA) to the energy density featured in GP theory allows us to define a DPA model, which is much simpler to handle than GP theory but nevertheless still captures the main physics. In particular, a compact analytic expression for the interfacial tension is derived that is useful for all $ξ_1, ξ_2$ and $K$. An application to wetting phenomena is presented for condensates adsorbed at an optical wall. The wetting phase boundary obtained within the DPA model nearly coincides with the exact one in GP theory.
description: 24 pages, 6 figures
Discover the EMM Survey Registry
Creators: name: Morales, Laura
name: Saji, Ami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The EMM Survey Registry is a free online tool available to anyone interested in doing research or policy-related work using quantitative surveys on EMMs’ integration and inclusion. The tool helps you to discover and learn about existing quantitative surveys undertaken with EMM (sub)populations in Europe and beyond. This tool not only brings together previously scattered information about these surveys but also offers detailed and structured metadata for each of the surveys. The EMM Survey Registry is currently live and available in version 1.0. This version is fully operational and displays metadata for nearly 1700 surveys from 34 different countries. The tool has already welcomed 300-400 unique users each month from all over the globe and from different disciplines, sectors, industries, etc. As a ‘live’ and constantly updated tool, we encourage all survey producers to contribute their own metadata (for free, but with quality supervision) to help expand the metadata collection of the EMM Survey Registry, as well as share their research with an international audience. The tool has been co-created by COST Action 16111 - ETHMIGSURVEYDATA, the H2020 SSHOC project, and the ANR project FAIRETHMIGQUANT.
Behtar Samaj Banane Ke Liye Gandhi ke Sujhaye Upayo Par Gaur Karna Jaroori (Gandhi’s Warnings: Our Present Times)
Creators: name: Debnath, Biplab
name: kolge, nishikant
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Political theory and political philosophy
Social and political philosophy

description: Gandhi never claimed to be a visionary who forecasted major global challenges the world will encounter in the future. Neither did he predict the challenges that India was going to face after independence. But he was a multifaceted person with a view on numerous aspects of life that can be practised raging from religion, morality, politics, industrialisation, nonviolence to even love marriages and sex. So, which aspects of his thoughts are relevant today? We argue that those views of Gandhi in which he warned us to stay alert and be watchful about different problems of humanity and prescribed diagnoses to address them are the most relevant in current times. Of them, some of his warnings, diagnosis and methods are as much relevant now as they were during his times, acting like lighthouses to navigate us. Considering the limitations of space, we discuss Gandhi’s four major warming, his diagnosis and methods, two of which has global relevance and the other two more relevant to the Indian context - Environment problem, global peace, communal problem and casteism.
VEGAS-SSS. A VST survey of elliptical galaxies in the southern hemisphere: analysis of small stellar systems. Testing the methodology on the globular cluster system in NGC3115
Creators: name: Cantiello, Michele
name: Capaccioli, Massimo
name: Napolitano, Nicola
name: Grado, Aniello
name: Limatola, Luca
name: Paolillo, Maurizio
name: Iodice, Enrica
name: Romanowsky, Aaron J.
name: Forbes, Duncan A.
name: Raimondo, Gabriella
name: Spavone, Marilena
name: La Barbera, Francesco
name: Puzia, Thomas H.
name: Schipani, Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of globular clusters (GCs) and other small stellar systems (SSSs) in the field of NGC3115, observed as part of the VEGAS imaging survey, carried out with the VST telescope. We use deep g and i data of NGC3115, a well-studied lenticular galaxy with excellent scientific literature. This is fundamental to test the methodologies, verify the results, and probe the capabilities of the VEGAS-SSS. Leveraging the large field of view of the VST allow us to accurately study of the distribution and properties of SSSs as a function of galactocentric distance Rgc, well beyond ~20 galaxy effective radii, in a way not often possible. Our analysis of colors, magnitudes and sizes of SSS candidates confirms the results from existing studies, some of which carried out with 8-10m class telescopes, and further extends them to unreached Rgc distances, with similar accuracy. We find a color bimodality for the GC population and a r1/4 profile for the surface density of GCs as for the galaxy light profile. The radial color gradient of blue and red GCs previously found, for instance by the SLUGGS survey, is further extended out to the largest Rgc inspected, ~65 kpc. The surface density profiles of blue and red GCs taken separately are well approximated by a r1/4 density profile, with the fraction of blue GCs being slightly larger at larger Rgc. We do not find hints of a trend for the red GC and for the GC turnover magnitude to vary with radius, but we observe a ~0.2 mag difference in the turnover magnitude of the blue and red GCs subpopulations. Inspecting SSS sizes and colors we obtained a list of UCDs and GC candidates suitable for future spectroscopic follow-up. In conclusion, our study shows the reliability of the methodologies developed to study SSSs in the field of bright early-type galaxies, and the great potential of the VEGAS survey to produce original results on SSSs science.
description: 21 pages, 22 figures, A&A accepted
A Model of Visible QCD Axion
Creators: name: Fukuda, Hajime
name: Harigaya, Keisuke
name: Ibe, Masahiro
name: Yanagida, Tsutomu T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We pursue a class of visible axion models where the axion mass is enhanced by strong dynamics in a mirrored copy of the Standard Model in the line of the idea put forward by Rubakov. In particular, we examine the consistency of the models with laboratory, astrophysical, and cosmological constraints. As a result, viable parameter regions are found, where the mass of the axion is of $O(100)$ MeV or above while the Peccei-Quinn breaking scale is at around $10^{3\mbox{-}5}$ GeV.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures