cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Characteristics of the health districts in Italy and their implication in primary health care policies: an analysis of socio‐demographic trends
Creators: name: Gabrielli, Elisa
name: Schenone, Irene
name: Cornio, Alessandro Roberto
name: Cerri, Ambrogio
name: Di Pumpo, Marcello
name: Troia, Anastasia
name: Sciurpa, Elena
name: Fantini, Sara
name: Paladini, Giovanni
name: Sessa, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2024
Subjects: Primary Health Care
Delivery of Healthcare
Population Health Need
demography
Primary Healthcare
healthcare district

description: The Health District (HD) is a critical component of Italy’s National Health Service, responsible for ensuring Primary Health Care (PHC) services in response to community health needs. The Italian government established a national strategic reform program, the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), with a series of health interventions to reorganize the PHC setting (Ministerial Decree 77/2022). Our study aimed to provide a description of socio-demographic data and to assess the correlation between HDs, in order to suggest health intervention priorities in PHC reforms.


We conducted a retrospective analysis using a cross-sectional record linkage of data from multiple sources to compare organizational and socio-demographic variables. A dataset was created with each of the 21 Italian Regions’ HDs data of population, land area, mean age, ageing index, old-age dependency ratio, birth rate and death rate. We then linked the HD data with the Inland Areas Project in order to categorize them from a socio-economic point of view.


Our study identified comparable groups of HDs, considering demographical, socio-economic and geographical aspects.


The study provides a baseline understanding of the Italian situation prior to the implementation of DM77. It also highlights that inhabitants number cannot be the only variable to take into account for the definition of Italian HDs organisation and PHC reform, providing intercorrelated variables that take into account geographic location, demographic data, and socio-economic aspects.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 65 No. 1 (2024):
title: The Kurdistan Women's Liberation : Movement Between Violence and Resistance
Creators: name: Kӓser, Isabel
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: The Kurdistan Women’s Liberation Movement (KWLM) has women at the forefront of its many struggles across the Kurdish Middle East. Amidst ongoing wars and insecurities female fighters, politicians and activists are trying to build a new system based on gender equality, radical democracy, sustainable ecology and selfdefence. According to existing post-colonial and trans-national feminist literature, militarisation of societies not only leads to greater gender-based violence, but also shows how women are pushed back into the private sphere in post-conflict settings. The KWLM claims to be different because its structures and ideology enable it to sustain women’s gains during and ‘post’-conflict. This thesis examines the claim of sustainability by tracing the trajectory of the women behind this movement, as well as their everyday lived experiences. Based on empirical data generated during a multisited ethnography in Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan in 2015-2016, it asks how female politicians and activists in Diyarbakir (Turkey) fight for space, how female fighters in the mountains (Iraqi/Iranian border) learn to become steadfast militants, how martyr mothers in Maxmur (Iraqi Kurdistan) navigate the terrain between life and death, and lastly, unpacks the nexus between the movement’s revolutionary body politics and non-state nationalism. Conceptually, this thesis engages with debates around gender and war, nationalism and feminism, as well as militarism, body politics and sexuality. It introduces the concept of militant femininity, a framework of agency women learn to perform as party subjects. Through the militant femininity lens, this thesis traces the continuum of violence and resistance the women operate in, examining how both militancy and femininity are produced, taught, practised, and policed. It analyses the continuities, contradictions and everyday challenges of this struggle and shows that while the KWLM holds great emancipatory power, it also sets out an undisputed path of what liberation should look like.
Arithmetic Properties of Andrews' Singular Overpartitions
Creators: name: Chen, Shi-Chao
name: Hirschhorn, Michael D.
name: Sellers, James A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A17, 11P83

description: In a very recent work, G. E. Andrews defined the combinatorial objects which he called {\it singular overpartitions} with the goal of presenting a general theorem for overpartitions which is analogous to theorems of Rogers--Ramanujan type for ordinary partitions with restricted successive ranks. As a small part of his work, Andrews noted two congruences modulo 3 which followed from elementary generating function manipulations. In this work, we prove that Andrews' results modulo 3 are two examples of an infinite family of congruences modulo 3 which hold for that particular function. We also expand the consideration of such arithmetic properties to other functions which are part of Andrews' framework for singular overpartitions.
title: Misty Flowers in a Floating World : Images of Courtesans in Ming Dynasty Nanjing
Creators: name: Chen, Jiani
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: The Ming dynasty (1368-1644) witnessed a surge in enthusiasm for anthologizing and compiling courtesans‘ writings, which diversified and vitalized the conventional poetic theme of courtesans by presenting courtesans‘ images from perspectives of both self and other. This dissertation maps the production, circulation, and reception of Ming Nanjing courtesans‘ images in the broader context of a floating world which resulted from the collapse of a fixed social hierarchy and encouraged the communication, appropriation, and adaptation of diverse cultural productions in the Ming. After identifying different layers of anthological space, this study traces the process of anthology-construction with respect to collecting and editing source materials, setting selective standards, and framing literary images within paratexts. Based on a spectral survey of the writings and images of Ming Nanjing courtesans in anthologies ranging from combined male and female writings to women‘s anthologies, chapter one demonstrates that the anthologists strategically utilized transferability of amorous imagination, aesthetic appreciation, poetic appraisal, and scholarly discussion to carve a niche for courtesans within anthologies. By looking into the two courtesans‘ anthologies, chapters two and three investigate images of Ming Nanjing courtesans which were created through the dynamics of courtesans‘ writings, paratexts by male literati, and categories and orders designed by compilers. I argue that courtesans‘ anthologies played a leading role in establishing and developing the repertoire of Ming Nanjing courtesans‘ images and writings which had influence beyond regional and temporal realms. By focusing on the compiling and anthologizing of the poetic works of a Ming Nanjing courtesan, chapter four examines the epitome of an image which transforms from that of a courtesan to gentry woman via its own volition. This image and others situated in different historical contexts can ultimately stimulate novel appraisals of gender relationships and their connection with political and social discourses in late imperial China.
Maternal MTHFR A1298C Polymorphism: A Crucial Consideration in Preventing Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
Creators: name: Jose, Sinu
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2024
Subjects: Early pregnancy loss
MTHFR, gene mutation
adverse pregnancy outcomes
Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase A1298C
polymorphism
Maternal and Child Health

description: Editorial
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 65 No. 1 (2024):
Balance measures of mini and brief balance evaluation system tests for Iranian population
Creators: name: Nakhostin-Ansari, Amin
name: Naghshtabrizi, Nima
name: Mohammadzadeh, Maryam
name: Naghdi, Soofia
name: Delavari, Farnaz
name: Khalifeloo, Maedeh
name: Vezvaei, Payam
name: Nakhostin Ansari, Noureddin
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2024
Subjects: Balance
Mini-BESTest
Brief-Bestest
Normative values
Postural balance

description: Introduction. Falling is a serious problem for all ages. There are several tests to assess balance. mini-BESTest and brief-BESTest are balance tests for which there are no normative values for Iranian people. We aimed to provide the normative values of mini-BESTest and brief-BESTest among healthy Iranian adults.


Methods. A cross-sectional study was designed. Three hundred healthy adults (150 males and 150 females) in six age groups (18-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, +79 years) completed the tests using Persian mini-BESTest and brief-BESTest. Normative values were calculated for age groups.


Results: Normative values of mini-BESTest and brief- BESTest decreased significantly with age (from 27 to 21.9 for mini-BESTest and from 22.9 to 15.4 for brief BESTest). There were no significant differences between genders except for females in 30-39 and 40-49 years age groups which scored better on brief-BESTest and mini-BESTest, respectively. Males had significantly scored better in brief- BESTest in 60-69 and ≥70 age groups.


Conclusions:  The normative values of the mini-BESTest and brief- BESTest provided for healthy Iranian adults can help clinicians when assessing subjects with balance dysfunction. 
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 65 No. 1 (2024):
Congruences for spin characters of the double covers of the symmetric and alternating groups
Creators: name: Nath, Rishi
name: Sellers, James A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $p$ be an odd prime. The bar partitions with sign and $p$-bar-core partitions with sign respectively label the spin characters and $p$-defect zero spin characters of the double cover of the symmetric group, and by restriction, those of the alternating group. The generating functions for these objects have been determined by J. Olsson. We study these functions from an arithmetic perspective, using classical analytic tools and elementary generating function manipulation to obtain many Ramanujan-like congruences.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
title: Modernity in Korean Literature Based on the Study of Ch’unhyang- chŏn
Creators: name: Kim, Miyoung
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: Modern Korean literature has been blighted by the notion of being ‘transplanted’ from Western literature. This research, however, asserts that modern Korean literature has maintained its own distinctive literary tradition. I first examine the concepts of Korean modern literature and novels in relation to the rise of Western novels, then argue that the concept of modern literature was incompatible with the Confucian state ideology of the Chosŏn Dynasty. This explains why the modern was delayed in Korean literature and shows this lag to be a deliberate choice by the state. This research investigates the modernity of Korean literature by examining the thematic and discursive aspects of Ch’unhyang-chŏn, the tale of Ch’unhyang. For the thematic aspects, nine editions are examined, implementing Jameson’s ideas on interpretation. Here it was found that an irreversible stream of modern thoughts flowed into Ch’unhyang narratives, strategically contesting conflicting ideas over time. For the discursive aspects, three works are analysed employing Kim Hŭngkyu’s theory of ‘scene maximisation’ and Western narratology. Here I found that p’ansori narrative demonstrates solid narrative structure, with skilful management of rhythm and time, well-controlled narratorhood, and effective usage of ‘showing’ as a narration method. I contend that these elements sufficiently demonstrate the strength of pre-modern narrative as a foundation for the modern novel. Finally, I argue that Ch’unhyang-chŏn, born before Hangŭl orthography existed, transcended the limits of the times, exhibiting vibrant colloquialism in the vernacular language. I contend that under such unfavourable circumstances, Ch’unhyang-chŏn developed its own form and content which demonstrates vivid modern traits. This research contributes to bridging the rupture between pre-modern and modern Korean literature by proving the sturdy modernity of the former, inherent in its themes and discourse, which played a key role in accommodating Western literature and alleviating the shockwaves of its introduction.
A combinatorial proof of a relationship between maximal $(2k-1,2k+1)$ and $(2k-1,2k,2k+1)$-cores
Creators: name: Nath, Rishi
name: Sellers, James A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Integer partitions which are simultaneously $t$--cores for distinct values of $t$ have attracted significant interest in recent years. When $s$ and $t$ are relatively prime, Olsson and Stanton have determined the size of the maximal $(s,t)$-core $κ_{s,t}$. When $k\geq 2$, a conjecture of Amdeberhan on the maximal $(2k-1,2k,2k+1)$-core $κ_{2k-1,2k,2k+1}$ has also recently been verified by numerous authors.
 In this work, we analyze the relationship between maximal $(2k-1,2k+1)$-cores and maximal $(2k-1,2k,2k+1)$-cores. In previous work, the first author noted that, for all $k\geq 1,$ $$ \vert \, κ_{2k-1,2k+1}\, \vert = 4\vert \, κ_{2k-1,2k,2k+1}\, \vert $$ and requested a combinatorial interpretation of this unexpected identity. Here, using the theory of abaci, partition dissection, and elementary results relating triangular numbers and squares, we provide such a combinatorial proof.
description: 10 pages, 6+ figures
title: The Nexus Between The Role Of The State, Market Transition And Food Consumption : The Case Of Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Creators: name: Lombardozzi, Lorena
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: Although simple connections are often drawn between agricultural commercialisation and food security, nevertheless evidence is far more complex because of the context-specific and multidimensional dynamics by which market transition proceeds. This PhD looks at the case of Uzbekistan by investigating the production patterns and consumption patterns of four groups of producers. The research adopts mixed methods. The quantitative component is a purposive farmer survey which helps to explore the microeconomic implications of agrarian economy on food access, dietary diversity, assets and labour. This has been complemented with semi-structured interviews to relevant stakeholders to broaden up the question on what is the political economy implications of the different agrarian productions for different farmers, and how it relates to food provision and socio-economic transformation. It begins by questioning measurements of commercialisation and market integration, and proposes an alternative way of understanding marketisation in the Uzbek context. It then investigates the nature of consumption patterns and reflects on inadequacy of available measures of food consumption and diets. Despite this, clear patterns are drawn, which are then used to construct an analysis of which way food regime in Uzbekistan has been proceeding, and the role of the state in shaping it. The contribution of this PhD is to add an empirical basis of an under-researched country, and to contribute to the theorization of the relationship between market transition, food outcomes, and state interests.
Adding COVID to Cancer: Does Cancer Status Influence COVID-19 Infection Preventive Behaviors?
Creators: name: Miller, Carrie
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2024
Subjects: COVID 19
Preventive Behaviors
cancer survivors
health belief model
Preventive behaviors

description: Introduction
A better understanding of how to promote disease mitigation and prevention behaviors among vulnerable populations, such as cancer survivors, is needed. This study aimed to determine patterns of and factors associated with COVID-19-related preventive behaviors among cancer survivors and assess whether the COVID-19 preventive behaviors of cancer survivors differ from the general population.
Methods
In June 2020, an online survey of adults (N=897) assessed predictors of COVID-19-related preventive behaviors, including socio-demographics, COVID-19 beliefs and perceptions (Health Belief Model [HBM] variables), and cancer statuses (cancer survivors currently in treatment, cancer survivors not currently in treatment, and individuals with no history of cancer). An average score of respondent engagement in eight preventive behaviors was calculated. Differences in HBM variables and preventive behaviors by cancer status were assessed using ANCOVAs. Hierarchical multiple regression analyzed associations among socio-demographics, HBM constructs, cancer statuses, and engagement in COVID-19 preventive behaviors.
Results
Participants reported engaging in 3.5 (SD=0.6) preventive behaviors. Cancer survivors not in treatment engaged in preventive behaviors significantly less than the comparison group. In the final adjusted model, after adding COVID-19 beliefs and perceptions, cancer status was no longer significant. All HBM constructs except perceived susceptibility were significant predictors of preventive behaviors.
Conclusions
COVID-19 beliefs and perceptions were more robust predictors preventive behaviors than cancer status. Nonetheless, public health organizations and practitioners should communicate the risk and severity of infection among cancer survivors and emphasize the need to engage in protective behaviors for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases with this vulnerable population.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 65 No. 1 (2024):
A periodic approach to plane partition congruences
Creators: name: Mizuhara, Matthew S.
name: Sellers, James A.
name: Swisher, Holly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11P83

description: Ramanujan's celebrated congruences of the partition function $p(n)$ have inspired a vast amount of results on various partition functions. Kwong's work on periodicity of rational polynomial functions yields a general theorem used to establish congruences for restricted plane partitions. This theorem provides a novel proof of several classical congruences and establishes two new congruences. We additionally prove several new congruences which do not fit the scope of the theorem, using only elementary techniques, or a relationship to existing multipartition congruences.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
PRQ_Supplemental_Appendix – Supplemental material for Veto Threat Bargaining with a Bicameral Congress
Creators: name: Guenther, Scott M.
name: Kernell, Samuel
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, PRQ_Supplemental_Appendix for Veto Threat Bargaining with a Bicameral Congress by Scott M. Guenther and Samuel Kernell in Political Research Quarterly
title: Protective Rites in the Netra Tantra
Creators: name: Sauthoff, Patricia Jean Prokesh
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis examines the rites of protection as laid out in the Netra Tantra and its accompanying commentary by Kṣemarāja. This text and commentary help us to understand the ontological role of the court priest, who acts to preserve and improve the health and well-being of the monarch through constant ritual observance. This also leads to a discussion of power as religious, ritual, and social experience. I first examine ritual components, such as mantra, maṇḍala, and iconography to understand how the mantrin builds and maintains the tantric world. Within the iconography of practice, the Netra Tantra, allows for and even encourages the worship of its main deity, Amṛteśa, through the worship of a host of other deities. This brings about an examination of the conflict between public and private practice, especially within the tantric sphere. To further examine this conflict, I then explore initiatory rites, during which the practitioner finds himself reborn in both body and consciousness. Further, his rebirth forces him to reconsider his social place, with his caste now supplanted by his position as an initiated member of the religious group. I engage with both ideas of the body and identity to question how the newly initiated practitioner navigates the world with this new perspective, including his involvement, real or visualized, with the transgressive ritual behaviors so often associated with tantric practice. Finally, I consider specific practices, examining the technicalities of the rights and the meaning assigned to various ritual elements within this and related texts. The rites of nīrājana and those meant to conquer death, directly involve the mantrin who performs them on behalf of the monarch. This allows for an examination of what exactly is intended in such rites and what purpose they have for both the monarch and the mantrin.
title: Durgā Mahiṣāsuramardinī in Likely Tantric Buddhist Context from the Northern Indian Subcontinent to 11th-Century Bali
Creators: name: Calo, Ambra
Publisher: name: SAAAP (SOAS)
Year: 2020

description: This study examines the significance of the originally Hindu goddess Durgā Mahiṣāsuramardinī (Durgā slaying the buffalo demon) in Tantric Buddhist temple contexts of the 8th–11th century in Afghanistan and northeastern India, and 11th-century Bali. Taking a cross-regional approach, it considers the genesis of Tantric Buddhism, its transmission to Indonesia, and its significance in Bali during the 10th–11th century. Drawing primarily on archaeological and iconographic evidence, it suggests that Durgā Mahiṣāsuramardinī is likely to have reached Bali as part of a late 10th–11th century phase of renewed transmission of Tantric Buddhism from the northeastern Indian subcontinent to Indonesia, following an initial late 7th–8th century phase.
Supplemental Material, Supplemental_Table - Indicators of Social Competence and Social Participation Among US Children With Tourette Syndrome
Creators: name: Bitsko, Rebecca H.
name: Danielson, Melissa L.
name: Leeb, Rebecca T.
name: Bergland, Brita
name: Fuoco, Morgan J.
name: Ghandour, Reem M.
name: Lewin, Adam B.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental Material, Supplemental_Table for Indicators of Social Competence and Social Participation Among US Children With Tourette Syndrome by Rebecca H. Bitsko, Melissa L. Danielson, Rebecca T. Leeb, Brita Bergland, Morgan J. Fuoco, Reem M. Ghandour and Adam B. Lewin in Journal of Child Neurology
Appendix – Supplemental material for Is China a Deviant Case? A Societal-Level Test of the Modernization Theory
Creators: name: Yingnan Joseph Zhou
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, Appendix for Is China a Deviant Case? A Societal-Level Test of the Modernization Theory by Yingnan Joseph Zhou in Political Studies
Abaci structures of $(s,ms\pm1)$-core partitions
Creators: name: Nath, Rishi
name: Sellers, James A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop a geometric approach to the study of $(s,ms-1)$-core and $(s,ms+1)$-core partitions through the associated $ms$-abaci. This perspective yields new proofs for results of H. Xiong and A. Straub (originally proposed by T. Amdeberhan) on the enumeration of $(s, s+1)$ and $(s,ms-1)$-core partitions with distinct parts. It also enumerates the $(s, ms+1)$-cores with distinct parts. Furthermore, we calculate the weight of the $(s, ms-1,ms+1)$-core partition with the largest number of parts. Finally we use 2-core partitions to enumerate self-conjugate core partitions with distinct parts. The central idea is that the $ms$-abaci of maximal $(s,ms\pm1)$-cores can be built up from $s$-abaci of $(s,s\pm 1)$-cores in an elegant way.
sj-pdf-1-aim-10.1177_0964528420920280 - Supplemental material for Sustained effects of a brief and standardised acupuncture approach on menopausal symptoms: post hoc analysis of the ACOM randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Lund, Kamma Sundgaard
name: Siersma, Volkert
name: Bang, Christine Winther
name: Brodersen, John
name: Waldorff, Frans Boch
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-aim-10.1177_0964528420920280 for Sustained effects of a brief and standardised acupuncture approach on menopausal symptoms: post hoc analysis of the ACOM randomised controlled trial by Kamma Sundgaard Lund, Volkert Siersma, Christine Winther Bang, John Brodersen and Frans Boch Waldorff in Acupuncture in Medicine
Supporting_Online_Material – Supplemental material for The Irony of MedWatch and the FAERS Database: An Assessment of Data Input Errors and Potential Consequences
Creators: name: Veronin, Michael A.
name: Schumaker, Robert P.
name: Rohit Dixit
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, Supporting_Online_Material for The Irony of MedWatch and the FAERS Database: An Assessment of Data Input Errors and Potential Consequences by Michael A. Veronin, Robert P. Schumaker and Rohit Dixit in Journal of Pharmacy Technology
sj-pdf-1-jtt-10.1177_1357633X20927587 - Supplemental material for Components, design and effectiveness of digital physical rehabilitation interventions for older people: A systematic review
Creators: name: Tonga, Eda
name: Srikesavan, Cynthia
name: Williamson, Esther
name: Lamb, Sarah E
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jtt-10.1177_1357633X20927587 for Components, design and effectiveness of digital physical rehabilitation interventions for older people: A systematic review by Eda Tonga, Cynthia Srikesavan, Esther Williamson and Sarah E Lamb in Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare
Inherent Biases of Recurrent Neural Networks for Phonological Assimilation and Dissimilation
Creators: name: Doucette, Amanda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A recurrent neural network model of phonological pattern learning is proposed. The model is a relatively simple neural network with one recurrent layer, and displays biases in learning that mimic observed biases in human learning. Single-feature patterns are learned faster than two-feature patterns, and vowel or consonant-only patterns are learned faster than patterns involving vowels and consonants, mimicking the results of laboratory learning experiments. In non-recurrent models, capturing these biases requires the use of alpha features or some other representation of repeated features, but with a recurrent neural network, these elaborations are not necessary.
Interaction noise for a rotor-stator assembly in a short duct
Creators: name: Sanjosé, Marlène
Publisher: name: Acoustics Week in Canada, Montréal, 2023
Year: 2023
Subjects: aeroacoustics

description: Talk given in the aeroacoustic session of the Acoustics Week in Canada which was held in Montréal (QC, Canada) in October 2023.

Presentation without paper (abstract only).
Insights on Variance Estimation for Blocked and Matched Pairs Designs
Creators: name: Pashley, Nicole E.
name: Miratrix, Luke W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Evaluating blocked randomized experiments from a potential outcomes perspective has two primary branches of work. The first focuses on larger blocks, with multiple treatment and control units in each block. The second focuses on matched pairs, with a single treatment and control unit in each block. These literatures not only provide different estimators for the standard errors of the estimated average impact, but they are also built on different sets of assumptions. Neither literature handles cases with blocks of varying size that contain singleton treatment or control units, a case which can occur in a variety of contexts, such as with different forms of matching or post-stratification. In this paper, we reconcile the literatures by carefully examining the performance of variance estimators under several different frameworks. We then use these insights to derive novel variance estimators for experiments containing blocks of different sizes.
Cumulants, Spreadability and the Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff Series
Creators: name: Hasebe, Takahiro
name: Lehner, Franz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L53 (Primary), 60C05, 17B01, 05A18 (Secondary)

description: We define spreadability systems as a generalization of exchangeability systems in order to unify various notions of independence and cumulants known in noncommutative probability. In particular, our theory covers monotone independence and monotone cumulants which do not satisfy exchangeability. To this end we study generalized zeta and Möbius functions in the context of the incidence algebra of the semilattice of ordered set partitions and prove an appropriate variant of Faa di Bruno's theorem. With the aid of this machinery we show that our cumulants cover most of the previously known cumulants. Due to noncommutativity of independence the behaviour of these cumulants with respect to independent random variables is more complicated than in the exchangeable case and the appearance of Goldberg coefficients exhibits the role of the Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff series in this context. In a final section we exhibit an interpretation of the Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff series as a sum of cumulants in a particular spreadability system, thus providing a new derivation of the Goldberg coefficients.
description: many corrections and rearrangements suggested by the referee, 64 pages; to appear in Doc Math
Explicit equations for exterior square of the general linear group
Creators: name: Lubkov, Roman
name: Nekrasov, Ilia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present several explicit systems of equations defining exterior square of the general linear group as an affine group scheme. Algebraic ingredients of the equations, exterior numbers, are translated into the language of weight diagrams corresponding to Lie groups of type $A_{n-1}$ in representation with the highest weight $\varpi_{2}$.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1801.07918
Extremal process of the zero-average Gaussian Free Field for $d\ge 3$
Creators: name: Das, Sayan
name: Hazra, Rajat Subhra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the Gaussian free field on the torus whose covariance kernel is given by the zero-average Green's function. We show that for dimension $d\ge 3$, the extremal point process associated with this field converges weakly to a Poisson random measure. As an immediate corollary, the maxima of the field converges after appropriate centering and scaling to the Gumbel distribution.
description: 12 pages
Non-compact quantum spin chains as integrable stochastic particle processes
Creators: name: Frassek, Rouven
name: Giardinà, Cristian
name: Kurchan, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we discuss a family of models of particle and energy diffusion on a one-dimensional lattice, related to those studied previously in [Sasamoto-Wadati], [Barraquand-Corwin] and [Povolotsky] in the context of KPZ universality class. We show that they may be mapped onto an integrable $\mathfrak{sl}(2)$ Heisenberg spin chain whose Hamiltonian density in the bulk has been already studied in the AdS/CFT and the integrable system literature. Using the quantum inverse scattering method, we study various new aspects, in particular we identify boundary terms, modeling reservoirs in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics models, for which the spin chain (and thus also the stochastic process) continues to be integrable. We also show how the construction of a "dual model" of probability theory is possible and useful. The fluctuating hydrodynamics of our stochastic model corresponds to the semiclassical evolution of a string that derives from correlation functions of local gauge invariant operators of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory (SYM), in imaginary-time. As any stochastic system, it has a supersymmetric completion that encodes for the thermal equilibrium theorems: we show that in this case it is equivalent to the $\mathfrak{sl}(2|1)$ superstring that has been derived directly from $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM.
description: 35 pages, 2 figures, v2: typos fixed and references added, v3: typo fixed, v4,5: minor correction
Deformation of rational singularities and Hodge structure
Creators: name: Kerr, Matt
name: Laza, Radu
name: Saito, Morihiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a one-parameter degeneration of reduced compact complex analytic spaces of dimension $n$, we prove the invariance of the frontier Hodge numbers $h^{p,q}$ (that is, with $pq(n{-}p)(n{-}q)=0$) for the intersection cohomology of the fibers and also for the cohomology of their desingularizations, assuming that the central fiber is reduced, projective, and has only rational singularities. This can be shown to be equivalent to the invariance of the dimension of the cohomology of structure sheaf (which is known in the algebraizable case), since we can prove the Hodge symmetry for all the Hodge numbers $h^{p,q}$ together with $E_1$-degeneration of the Hodge-to-de Rham spectral sequence for nearby fibers, assuming only the projectivity of the central fiber.
 For the proof of the main theorem, we calculate the graded pieces of the induced $V$-filtration for the first non-zero member of the Hodge filtration on the intersection complex Hodge module of the total space, which coincides with the direct image of the dualizing sheaf of a desingularization (related to Kollár's conjecture on the direct images of dualizing sheaves of smooth varieties). This calculation implies also that the order of nilpotence of the local monodromy is smaller than the general singularity case by 2 in the situation of the main theorem assuming further smoothness of general fibers. We can prove a partial converse of the main theorem under some hypothesis.
description: 23 pages
DS_10.1177_0022034520936950 – Supplemental material for Automated Detection of TMJ Osteoarthritis Based on Artificial Intelligence
Creators: name: K.S. Lee
name: H.J. Kwak
name: J.M. Oh
name: N. Jha
name: Y.J. Kim
name: W. Kim
name: U.B. Baik
name: J.J. Ryu
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, DS_10.1177_0022034520936950 for Automated Detection of TMJ Osteoarthritis Based on Artificial Intelligence by K.S. Lee, H.J. Kwak, J.M. Oh, N. Jha, Y.J. Kim, W. Kim, U.B. Baik and J.J. Ryu in Journal of Dental Research
title: The Rambling Guitarist – Gender, Genre And Archetypes In Nikkatsu Action’s Mukokuseki Eiga
Creators: name: Green, Laurence
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2020

description: For Japan's oldest film studio Nikkatsu, the late-'50s and early-'60s represented a rapidly evolving, cosmopolitan playground in which Eastern and Western influences could be collided together in an explosive mix that ultimately resulted in movies that felt quite apart from either. These were the mukokuseki eiga (borderless or of no nationality), typified by Nikkatsu's nine-part wataridori (wanderer) series produced from 1959-1962. The first film in the series, The Rambling Guitarist ( Gitaa o motta wataridori), stands as a prime candidate through which to better understand the precise appeal of these films as well as the way their settings and characters captured a new, worldly aesthetic. Through a close analysis of The Rambling Guitarist, and more specifically, the way it presents and challenges various gender archetypes, this essay will look to present a snapshot of what Nikkatsu Action represented, straddling the borderline between two camps; East and West, old and new, tradition and modernity.
title: The Pedi polity under Sekwati and Sekhukune 1828-1880
Creators: name: Delius, Peter
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1980

description: This thesis explores aspects of the history of the Pedi polity from 1828-1880 covering the period from the emergence of the polity in the aftermath of the difaqane until its defeat in November of 1879. It sets out to fill the lacunae in the existing literature caused by the failure to adopt a critical approach to historical sources or to provide a dynamic account of Pedi society. An analysis is provided of the changing nature and distribution of power within the polity. The economic changes and political processes at work within the society and the impact of Christianity on it are explored. The development of the polity is also examined in the context of the processes of conflict and change taking place beyond its borders. The concluding chapters of the thesis draw on the insights afforded by the examination of these themes to attempt a substantive revision of the existing explanations and accounts of the conflicts in the 1870s which culminated in the defeat of the polity and the subjection of the Pedi to colonial rule.
Simultaneous core partitions with nontrivial common divisor
Creators: name: Gramain, Jean-Baptiste
name: Nath, Rishi
name: Sellers, James A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A17, 11P83

description: A tremendous amount of research has been done in the last two decades on $(s,t)$-core partitions when $s$ and $t$ are positive integers with no common divisor. Here we change perspective slightly and explore properties of $(s,t)$-core and $(\bar{s},\bar{t})$-core partitions for $s$ and $t$ with nontrivial common divisor $g$.
 We begin by revisiting work by D. Aukerman, D. Kane and L. Sze on $(s,t)$-core partitions for nontrivial $g$ before obtaining a generating function for the number of $(\bar{s},\bar{t})$-core partitions of $n$ under the same conditions. Our approach, using the $g$-core, $g$-quotient and bar-analogues, allows for new results on $t$-cores and self-conjugate $t$-cores that are {\it not} $g$-cores and $\bar{t}$-cores that are {\it not} $\bar{g}$-cores, thus strengthening positivity results of K. Ono and A. Granville, J. Baldwin et. al., and I. Kiming.
 We then detail a new bijection between self-conjugate $(s,t)$-core and $(\bar{s},\bar{t})$-core partitions for $s$ and $t$ odd with odd, nontrivial common divisor $g$. Here the core-quotient construction fits remarkably well with certain lattice-path labelings due to B. Ford, H. Mai, and L. Sze and C. Bessenrodt and J. Olsson. Along the way we give a new proof of a correspondence of J. Yang between self-conjugate $t$-core and $\bar{t}$-core partitions when $t$ is odd and positive.
 We end by noting $(s,t)$-core and $(\bar{s}, \bar{t})$-core partitions inherit Ramanujan-type congruences from those of $g$-core and $\bar{g}$-core partitions.
description: 22 pages. To appear in Ramanujan Journal
title: The rise, consolidation and disintegration of Dlamini power in Swaziland between 1820 and 1889 : a study in the relationship of foreign affairs to internal political development
Creators: name: Bonner, Philip
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1977

description: The Swazi kingdom grew out of the pressures associated with competition for trade and for the rich resources of Shiselweni. While centred on this area it acquired some of its characteristic features - notably a regimental system, and the dominance of a Dlamini aristocracy. Around 1815 the Swazi came under pressure from the South, and were forced to colonise the land lying north of the Lusutfu. Here they remained for some years a nation under arms, as they plundered local peoples, and were themselves swept about by the currents of the Mfecane. In time a more settled administration emerged, as the aristocracy spread out from the royal centres at Ezulwini, and this process accelerated under Mswati as he subdued recalcitrant chiefdoms, and restructured the regiments. Consequently, by the time Mswati died in 1865, Dlamini power was sufficiently entrenched for there to be no serious disturbance, and for a regency to function smoothly for the following decade. Externally the dominant influence was the Zulu, who continually threatened the kingdom's stability. The Swazi were forced by these attacks to look for allies in the Boers, and to make several territorial cessions from 1846. Nevertheless, the relations they established were not markedly unequal, since the Republic were dependent on the Swazi in various ways. Consequently, the Swazi were able to take charge of the lowveld in the north, and by the 1860s reached the pinnacle of their power. The consolidation of the South African Republic following the British annexation, and the discovery of gold, meant that this freedom was gradually lost, and in the 1880s pressure mounted on Swaziland itself. The clearest index of this lies in the country's conquest by concessions, which eventually so eroded the social fabric of the country that a pretext was given for the Republic and Britain to intervene.
Platfusa Dworakowska 1993
Creators: name: Jiao, Meng
name: Yu, Xiao-Fei
name: Yang, Mao-Fa
name: Yan, Bin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Platfusa

description: Genus Platfusa Dworakowska, 1993
Remarks. According to the description of Dworakowska, the genus Platfusa has body proportions resembling those of Aruena Anufriev and wing venation as in Igutettix Matsumura (Dworakowska 1993). Through specimen observation, we found that the face of Aruena is slightly concave, while the face of Igutettix is prominent. Ohara and Hayashi (2022) also observed that specimens of Igutettix had the frontoclypeus swollen and the antennal ledge developed. In this regard, the three genera are completely different. The main characters distinguishing Platfusa are the slightly convex face, pygofer with dorsal appendage and macroseta at or near base of appendage, subgenital plates fused to each other (except in P. semena sp. nov.), petal-shaped and partly enclosing pygofer.
Type species: Platfusa arooni Dworakowska, 1993 (type locality: India).
Distribution. China (Yunnan), Thailand.
description: Published as part of Jiao, Meng, Yu, Xiao-Fei, Yang, Mao-Fa & Yan, Bin, 2025, Three new species of Platfusa Dworakowska (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) from China, pp. 84-90 in Zootaxa 5632 (1) on pages 84-85, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5632.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/15371482
title: The Mirror Effect : Identity And Minorisation Among The Quechuas And Amazighs In Catalonia
Creators: name: Badosa Roldós, Albert
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2020

description: The borders of minoritised communities and national minorities are different than the nation-state ones; they are affected by local dynamics, the nation-state framework, and the global English-dominant context. In this paper, I analyse the concepts of minorisation and identity in two minoritised migrant communities, the Quechua and the Amazigh, living in another minoritised community, Catalonia. I will evaluate double and triple minorisation and the mirror effect on these communities. Double or triple minorisation happens when a particular individual or population sector is affected by more than one type of discrimination (Parella, 2003). The mirror effect happens when a particular individual or community from a minoritised background establishes contact with another minoritised community, triggering a change of identity, and cultural and linguistic ideologies and representations (Cortes-Colome, 2016). I will analyse a set of collected qualitative data, mainly semi-structured interviews with individuals from both communities residing in Barcelona. This is the first study to address these issues on minoritised communities in Catalonia.
Sequentially congruent partitions and partitions into squares
Creators: name: Schneider, Robert
name: Sellers, James A.
name: Wagner, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In recent work, M. Schneider and the first author studied a curious class of integer partitions called "sequentially congruent" partitions: the $m$th part is congruent to the $(m+1)$th part modulo $m$, with the smallest part congruent to zero modulo the number of parts. Let $p_{\mathcal S}(n)$ be the number of sequentially congruent partitions of $n,$ and let $p_{\square}(n)$ be the number of partitions of $n$ wherein all parts are squares. In this note we prove bijectively, for all $n\geq 1,$ that $p_{\mathcal S}(n) = p_{\square}(n).$ Our proof naturally extends to show other exotic classes of partitions of $n$ are in bijection with certain partitions of $n$ into $k$th powers.
description: 5 pages, accepted for publication in The Ramanujan Journal