cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Women in Early Pythagoreanism
Creators: name: Pellò, Caterina
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Ancient philosophy
Presocratics
Pythagoreanism
Women in philosophy
Pythagorean women

description: The sixth-century-BCE Pythagorean communities included both male and female members. This thesis focuses on the Pythagorean women and aims to explore what reasons lie behind the prominence of women in Pythagoreanism and what roles women played in early Pythagorean societies and thought. In the first chapter, I analyse the social conditions of women in Southern Italy, where the first Pythagorean communities were founded. In the second chapter, I compare Pythagorean societies with ancient Greek political clubs and religious sects. Compared to mainland Greece, South Italian women enjoyed higher legal and socio-political status. Similarly, religious groups included female initiates, assigning them authoritative roles. Consequently, the fact that the Pythagoreans founded their communities in Croton and further afield, and that in some respects these communities resembled ancient sects helps to explain why they opened their doors to the female gender to begin with. The third chapter discusses Pythagoras’ teachings to and about women. Pythagorean doctrines did not exclusively affect the followers’ way of thinking and public activities, but also their private way of living. Thus, they also regulated key aspects of the female everyday life, such as marriage and motherhood. I argue that the Pythagorean women entered the communities as wives, mothers and daughters. Nonetheless, some of them were able to gain authority over their fellow Pythagoreans and engage in intellectual activities, thus overcoming the female traditional domestic roles. The fourth chapter argues that another contributing factor to the status of the Pythagorean women is the doctrine of metempsychosis. This belief led the Pythagoreans to adopt similar behaviours towards other ensouled beings. Therefore, since men and women were believed to have the same souls, they were treated with the same respect and received the same education. Finally, the fifth chapter explores how the Pythagorean views on women are taken up and developed in Plato’s Republic. I argue that, although the Pythagoreans never went as far as to have philosopher-queens and abolish private families, they took the first step towards Plato’s ‘gender equality’ theory. Overall, that of women in Pythagoreanism is the first documented case of female engagement with ancient philosophy: Pythagorean men and women lived together according to the same lifestyle, were educated on the same doctrines and played equally integral roles in the intellectual community.
description: The doctorate was funded by the Faculty of Classics of the University of Cambridge, the Clare Hall Development Fund Bursary, Mellon Bursary and Ishii Bursary
Superconducting Contact and Quantum Interference Between Two-Dimensional van der Waals and Three-Dimensional Conventional Superconductors
Creators: name: Sinko, Michael R.
name: de la Barrera, Sergio C.
name: Lanes, Olivia
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Tan, Susheng
name: Pekker, David
name: Hatridge, Michael
name: Hunt, Benjamin M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenide superconductors have unique and desirable properties for integration with conventional superconducting circuits. However, fully superconducting contact must be made between the 2D material and three-dimensional (3D) superconductors in order to employ the standard microwave drive and readout of qubits in such circuits. Here, we present a method for creating zero-resistance contacts between 2D NbSe$_2$ and 3D aluminum that behave as Josephson junctions (JJs) with large effective areas compared to 3D-3D JJs. We present a model for the supercurrent flow in a 2D-3D superconducting structure by numerical solution of the Ginzburg-Landau equations and find good agreement with experiment. These results demonstrate a crucial step towards a new generation of hybrid superconducting quantum circuits.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures
Protoplanetary discs across the stellar mass range
Creators: name: Boneberg, Dominika Maria Rita
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: astronomy
planet formation
protoplanetary discs
ALMA

description: In this thesis, I discuss two studies concerned with modelling protoplanetary discs around stars from different ends of the stellar mass range. In Chapters 1 and 2, I give an introduction to the field of protoplanetary discs, both from an observational and a modelling point of view, and describe the radiative transfer methods I have employed. In Chapter 3, I present my work regarding the disc around the Herbig Ae star HD 163296. I show the results of applying a new modelling technique to this disc: I combine SED modelling with fits to the CO snowline location and C$^{18}$O $J=2-1$ line profile from ALMA. I find that all of the modelling steps are crucial to break degeneracies in the disc parameter space. The use of all of these constraints favours a solution with a notably low gas-to-dust ratio ($g/d<20$). The only models with a more interstellar medium (ISM)-like $g/d$ require C$^{18}$O to be underabundant with respect to the ISM abundances and a significant depletion of sub-micron grains, which is not supported by scattered light observations. I propose that the technique can be applied to a range of discs and opens up the prospect of being able to measure disc dust and gas budgets without making assumptions about the $g/d$ ratio. In Chapter 4, I present my work on characterising the disc around the very low mass star V410 X-ray 1. Protoplanetary discs around such low mass stars offer some of the best prospects for forming Earth-sized planets in their habitable zones. The SED of V410 X-ray 1 is indicative of an optically thick and very truncated dust disc, with my modelling suggesting an outer radius of only 0.6 au. I investigate two scenarios that could lead to such a truncation, and find that the observed SED is compatible with both. The first scenario involves the truncation of both the dust and gas in the disc, perhaps due to a previous dynamical interaction or the presence of an undetected companion. The second scenario involves the fact that a radial location of 0.6 au is close to the expected location of the H$_2$O snowline in the disc. As such, a combination of efficient dust growth, radial migration, and subsequent fragmentation within the snowline leads to an optically thick inner dust disc and larger, optically thin outer dust disc. I find that a firm measurement of the CO $J=2-1$ line flux would distinguish between these two scenarios by enabling a measurement of the radial extent of gas in the disc. Many models I consider contain at least several Earth-masses of dust interior to 0.6 au, suggesting that V410 X-ray 1 could be a precursor to a system of tightly-packed inner planets, such as TRAPPIST-1. In Chapter 5, I summarise the work presented in this thesis, give an overview of future applications of the methods outlined in this dissertation, and an outlook on potential future projects.
description: STFC
Face-on, stream-fed intermediate polars: an alternative model for RX J1914.4+2456 and RX J0806.3+1527
Creators: name: Norton, A. J.
name: Haswell, C. A.
name: Wynn, G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: RX J1914.4+2456 and RX J0806.3+1527 have been proposed as double degenerate binaries with orbital periods of 569s and 321s respectively. An alternative model, in which the periods are related to the spin of a magnetic white dwarf in an intermediate polar system, has been rejected by other authors. We show that a face-on, stream-fed intermediate polar model for the two systems is viable and preferable to the other models. In each case, the X-ray modulation periods then represent the rotation of the white dwarf in the binary reference frame. The model explains the fully modulated X-ray pulse profiles, the X-ray spectra, the antiphase between X-ray and optical/infrared modulation, the lack of longer period modulation, and the low level of polarization. The optical spectrum of RX J0806.3+1527 suggests that Balmer series lines are present, blended with HeII lines. This is unlike the spectra of any of the known AM CVn stars and suggests that the system is not a double degenerate binary. The optical spectrum of RX J1914.4+2456 has spectral features that are consistent with those of a K star, ruling out the double degenerate models in this case. The lack of optical/infrared emission lines in RX J1914.4+2456 may be attributed to a high mass accretion rate and its face-on orientation. Its reported period decrease may be a short term spin-up episode driven by the current high M-dot. Finally we suggest that there is an observational selection effect such that the face-on intermediate polars that are detected will all have a stream-fed component, and the purely stream-fed intermediate polars that are detected will all be face-on systems.
description: Final version of the paper. Accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics
Faint Dark Matter Annihilation Signals and the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
Creators: name: Chiang, Barry T.
name: Shapiro, Stuart L.
name: Shelton, Jessie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A wide range of mechanisms predict present-day s-wave dark matter (DM) annihilation cross-sections that are orders of magnitude below current experimental sensitivity. We explore the capability of DM density spikes around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole to probe such faint signals of DM annihilations, considering a range of possible spike and halo distributions. As an exemplar of a theory with a suppressed s-wave annihilation cross-section, we consider a hidden sector axion portal model of DM. In this model, the leading contribution to the annihilation cross-section in the early universe is p-wave, while s-wave annihilations occur at higher order in the coupling constant. We provide a unified treatment of DM freezeout in this model including both s- and p-wave annihilations and analytically determine the photon spectrum for the dominant DM annihilation process in the universe today. We find that Fermi and H.E.S.S. observations of the Galactic Center offer excellent sensitivity to this model over a wide range of parameter space, with prospects depending sensitively on the properties of the DM spike as well as the central halo.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures; V2, version accepted to PRD
Patriziella nuragica Rampini & Zoia 1990
Creators: name: Casale, Achille
name: Grafitti, Giuseppe
name: Latella, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Patriziella
Patriziella nuragica

description: Patriziella nuragica Rampini & Zoia, 1990
 Literature records. Sassari prov.: Cossoine, near the town, Grotta Sa Ucca ‘e Mammuscone (180 Sa/SS) (Rampini & Zoia 1990; Casale 1991; Casale & Giachino 1994; Cobolli Sbordoni et al. 1994; Grafitti 1996b, 1999b, 2001a, 2002a; Mucedda et al. 2002; De Waele & Grafitti 2004; Zoia & Latella 2006).
Distribution. N-W Sardinia, known only from the type locality.
Chorotype. W-Mediterranean (Sardinian endemic).
description: Published as part of Casale, Achille, Grafitti, Giuseppe & Latella, Leonardo, 2009, The Cholevidae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia *, pp. 290-316 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 302
Minnesota Farm Business Notes No. 197
Creators: name: Pond, George A.
name: Ranney, W.P.
name: Dvoracek, D.C.
name: Norton, V.C.
name: Waite, Warren C.
name: Peterson, G.L.
name: Garver, W.B.
name: Pond, George A.
name: Ranney, W.P.
name: Dvoracek, D.C.
name: Norton, V.C.
name: Waite, Warren C.
name: Peterson, G.L.
name: Garver, W.B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1939
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Management Factors that Affect Farmer's Earnings; Grade of Minnesota potatoes as affected by disease and growth conditions; Farm mortgage loans by country banks; Minnesota farm prices for April 1939
Is English Language Causing a Dichotomy between Economic Growth and Inclusive Growth in India?
Creators: name: Bedi, Jaskiran Kaur
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: English Language
India
Economic Growth
Inclusive Growth

description: India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity has given English language a prominent role in the country. This research, through a historical analysis, first understands the factors behind the persistent prevalence of the language in India. The reasons go beyond colonial legacy and globalisation, and enters the domain of economics. Particularly, India’s reliance on the service sector plays a role in accrediting the language with a superior status. Having entered the economic arena, the research, using India Human Development Survey Round 2, conceptualises and quantifies the impact of English language on economic indicators including wage rates and GDP. The results reflect a significantly positive relationship between the language and income. A fluent English speaker earns 34 percent more than a non-English speaker. Furthermore, the empirical results highlight that the response of growth to investment in a state is greater the higher the number of English speakers. The substantiation of the importance of language’s perpetuation from service-based growth is further embedded by the fact that there exists a positive and statistically significant relationship between the number of fluent English speakers in a state and the growth rate of the Gross State Domestic Product of services. The thesis further investigates the relationship between the language and the inclusivity of growth. The results highlight that the likelihood of fluent English speakers moving out of the ‘deprived’ income strata by earning INR 1.5 lakh or more annually is 33 percentage points higher than that of non-English speakers. The research thus, empirically proves that though English is helping economic growth, it is simultaneously hindering development in terms of inclusivity, hence paving way for a dichotomy that policy makers need to resolve. Finally, the research aims to suggest a solution to the dichotomy through an analysis of the education system in India. Particularly, using primary data collection in Delhi, Chandigarh and Shimla, the research evaluates the pedagogy of English Language, and its impact on the learning levels. It highlights that the pedagogy of the language within the CBSE framework requires editions to lead to an inclusive learning of the language.
Minnesota Farm Business Notes No. 198
Creators: name: Newman, William A.
name: Dankers, William H.
name: Waite, Warren C.
name: Cox, Rex W.
name: Ranney, W.P.
name: Garver, W.B.
name: Newman, William A.
name: Dankers, William H.
name: Waite, Warren C.
name: Cox, Rex W.
name: Ranney, W.P.
name: Garver, W.B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1939
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Problems in Marketing Minnesota Eggs; The agricultural price situation; Wise selection of crops increases the farmers' earnings; Minnesota farm prices for May 1939
Detecting social (in)stability in primates from their temporal co-presence network
Creators: name: Gelardi, Valeria
name: Fagot, Joël
name: Barrat, Alain
name: Claidière, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The stability of social relationships is important to animals living in groups, and social network analysis provides a powerful tool to help characterize and understand their (in)stability and the consequences at the group level. However, the use of dynamic social networks is still limited in this context as it requires long-term social data and new analytical tools. Here, we study the dynamic evolution of a group of 29 Guinea baboons using a dataset of automatically collected cognitive tests comprising more than 16M records collected over 3 years. We first built a monthly aggregated temporal network describing the baboon's co-presence in the cognitive testing booths. We then used a null model, considering the heterogeneity in the baboons' activity, to define both positive (association) and negative (avoidance) monthly networks. We tested social balance theory by combining these positive and negative social networks. The results showed that the networks were structurally balanced and that newly created edges also tended to preserve social balance. We investigated several network metrics to gain insights into the individual level and group level social networks long-term temporal evolution. A measure of similarity between successive monthly networks was able to pinpoint periods of stability and instability and to show how some baboons' ego-networks remained stable while others changed radically. Our study confirms the prediction of social balance theory but also shows that large fluctuations in the numbers of triads may limit its applicability to study the dynamic evolution of animal social networks. In contrast, the use of the similarity measure proved to be very versatile and sensitive in detecting relationships' (in)stabilities at different levels. The changes we identified can be linked, at least in some cases, to females changing primary male, as observed in the wild.
MOESM1 of Airway clearance services (ACSs) in Australia for adults with chronic lung conditions: scoping review of publicly available web-based information
Creators: name: Cooper, Laura
name: Johnston, Kylie
name: Williams, Marie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Australian Standard Geographical Classification of Remoteness.
Lattice Quark Propagator in Landau and Laplacian Gauges
Creators: name: Bowman, P. O.
name: Heller, U. M.
name: Williams, A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results for the lattice quark propagator in both Landau and Laplacian gauges using standard and improved staggered quark actions. The standard Kogut-Susskind action has errors of \oa{2} while the improved ``Asqtad'' action has \oa{4}, \oag{2}{2} errors. This improvement is seen in the quark propagator. We demonstrate the application of tree-level corrections to these actions and see that Landau and Laplacian gauges produce very similar results.
description: Lattice2001(improvement), 3 pages, 5 figs
Patriziella sardoa Jeannel 1956
Creators: name: Casale, Achille
name: Grafitti, Giuseppe
name: Latella, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Patriziella
Patriziella sardoa

description: Patriziella sardoa Jeannel, 1956
(Fig. 2)
 Literature records. Nuoro prov.: Oliena, Punta Sos Nidos, Sos Ostis, Sa Nurra de Sas Palumbas (217 Sa/NU) (Jeannel 1956; Furreddu & Maxia 1964; Cerruti 1968; Casale 1969; Assorgia et al. 1974; Puddu & Pirodda 1974; Cassola 1982; Sbordoni et al. 1982; Buschettu et al. 1994; Grafitti 2001a, 2002a; Pisano et al. 2003; De Waele & Grafitti 2004; Zoia & Latella 2006); Oliena, Monte Cusidore, Orgoi, Grotta Orgoi or “di Cusidore” (34 Sa/NU) (Cerruti 1968).
Unpublished data. Nuoro prov.: Oliena, Sos Ostis, Nurra ‘e Prados (not registered, Sa/NU) (P. Marcia, pers. comm.).
Distribution. Central-Eastern Sardinia, in caves of the Corrasi massif, Supramonte di Oliena.
Chorotype. W-Mediterranean (Sardinian endemic).
 Remarks. Citations of this species for localities outside Oliena Supramonte (such as Donini Cave in Urzulei Supramonte and Ispinigoli, San Giovanni, Pisanu and Bue Marino caves, in Dorgali area) reported by Carta (1974) and Pisano et al. (2003) have never been confirmed by numerous subsequent researches in these caves.
description: Published as part of Casale, Achille, Grafitti, Giuseppe & Latella, Leonardo, 2009, The Cholevidae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia *, pp. 290-316 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 302
Supplementary Matrial from Hybridization boosts dispersal of two contrasted ecotypes in a grass species
Creators: name: Curran, Emma V.
name: Scott, Matilda S.
name: Olofsson, Jill K.
name: Nyirenda, Florence
name: Sotelo, Graciela
name: Bianconi, Matheus E.
name: Manzi, Sophie
name: Besnard, Guillaume
name: Pereira, Lara
name: Christin, Pascal-Antoine
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Combined pdf containing nine supplementary figures and three supplementary tables
Probing New Physics in $B\to K^{(*)} \ell^+\ell^-$ decays
Creators: name: Chen, Chuan-Hung
name: Geng, C. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the exclusive decays of $B\to K^{(*)}\ell^+ \ell^-$ by the results in the perturbative QCD with the heavy quark effective theory and lattice calculations. We obtain the form factors for the $B\to K^{(*)}$ transitions in the whole allowed region. Our predictions on the branching ratios of $B\to K \ell^{+} \ell^{-}$, $B\to K^{*} e^{+}e^{-}$, and $B\to K^{*} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ are $0.53\pm 0.05 ^{+0.10}_{-0.07}$, $1.68\pm 0.17^{+0.14}_{-0.09}$, and $1.34\pm 0.13 ^{+0.11}_{-0.06}\times 10^{-6}$, where the errors are from the quark mixing elements and hadronic effects, respectively. We also find that our definitions of the T-odd observable and the up-down asymmetry of the $K$ meson in $B\to K^*\ell^+ \ell^-\to Kπ\ell^+ \ell^-$ can be used to probe new physics.
description: 20 pages, 6 Figures, LaTex file
The New Borderland: A Mixed-Methods Examination of Teacher Perceptions of Intelligence, Race, and Socioeconomic Status in Relation to Behavior Genetics
Creators: name: Martschenko, Daphne Oluwaseun
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: education
genetics
discriminate biopower
teachers
mixed-methods

description: Behavior genetics argues intelligence and educational attainment are highly heritable (genetically influenced) and polygenic (influenced by many genes) traits. Researchers in this field have moved beyond identifying whether and how much genes influence the manifestation of a given outcome to trying to pinpoint the genetic markers that help predict them. In more recent years, behavior genetics research has attempted to cross-over into the field of education, looking to play a role in the construction of policy and the implementation of curriculum. This dissertation explores American teacher understandings of intelligence, race, and socioeconomic status in relation to genetics. The convergent parallel mixed-methods research design interprets findings from focus groups, interviews, and surveys through the notion of ‘discriminate biopower’–a theoretical framework that combines intersectionality with biopower. Findings from this study suggest that US teachers believe children differ genetically and see genetics playing a role in a student’s ability and race. Furthermore, teachers are open to learning more about the inclusion of genetics research in education policy. At the same time, however, teachers are wary of incorporating behavior genetics findings into education policy within a context where economic and racial segregation continue to dictate who gains access to resource and opportunities.
Minnesota Farm Business Notes No. 199
Creators: name: Cox, Rex W.
name: Halvorson, Lloyd C.
name: Engene, Selmer A.
name: Dankers, William H.
name: Waite, Warren C.
name: Garver, W.B.
name: Cox, Rex W.
name: Halvorson, Lloyd C.
name: Engene, Selmer A.
name: Dankers, William H.
name: Waite, Warren C.
name: Garver, W.B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1939
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Cash Expenses of Minnesota Farmers; Cash expenses for living on the farm; Surplus problems in dairying; Minnesota farm prices for June 1939
MOESM1 of mHealth communication to strengthen postnatal care in rural areas: a systematic review
Creators: name: Mbuthia, Florence
name: Reid, Marianne
name: Annali Fichardt
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Data extraction and critical appraisal of studies included. This file provides bibliographic details, and information on the aims, design, setting, sample, inclusion-exclusion criteria, primary and secondary outcomes, data collection, intervention, control group, data analysis, critical appraisal, study findings, limitations and recommendations of each article.
Evolution and structure of magnetic fields in simulated galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Dolag, Klaus
name: Bartelmann, Matthias
name: Lesch, Harald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use cosmological magneto-hydrodynamic simulations to study the evolution of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters in two different cosmological models, a standard-CDM and a $Λ$-CDM model. We show that the magnetic field strength profiles closely follow the cluster density profiles outside a core region of radius $\sim200\kpc$. The magnetic field has a correlation length of order $50\kpc$ and reverses on scales of $\sim100\kpc$ along typical lines-of-sight. The power spectrum of the magnetic field can well be approximated by a steep power law with an exponent of $\sim-2.7$. The mean magnetic field in the cluster cores grows roughly exponentially with decreasing redshift, $B\sim10^{-2.5z} \muG$. Merger events have a pronounced effect on magnetic field evolution, which is strongly reflected in measurable quantities like the Faraday rotation. The field evolution in the two different cosmologies proceeds virtually identically. All our cluster models very well reproduce observed Faraday rotation measurements when starting with nG seed fields.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Reviving old controversies: is the early Galaxy flat or round? Investigations into the early phases of the Milky Way formation through stellar kinematics and chemical abundances
Creators: name: Di Matteo, P.
name: Spite, M.
name: Haywood, M.
name: Bonifacio, P.
name: Gómez, A.
name: Spite, F.
name: Caffau, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse a set of very metal-poor stars for which accurate chemical abundances have been obtained as part of the ESO Large Program "First stars" in the light of the Gaia DR2 data. The kinematics and orbital properties of the stars in the sample show they probably belong to the thick disc, partially heated to halo kinematics, and to the accreted Nissen & Schuster-Gaia Sausage-Enceladus satellite. The continuity of these properties with stars at both higher ($\rm [Fe/H]>-2$) and lower metallicities ($\rm [Fe/H]
description: 30 pages, 18 figures, A&A, in press
Objects As Polyagents: Tracing The Histories Of The Gweagal Spears
Creators: name: Dakin, Francesca Helen
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Museum anthropology
subject: Museum ethnography
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ethnography
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Gweagal
subject: Gweagal spears
subject: Dharawal
subject: Indigenous Australian
subject: Aboriginal
subject: Object
subject: Object biography
subject: La Perouse
subject: Protest
subject: Trinity College
subject: University of Cambridge
subject: Polyagents
subject: Captain Cook
subject: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
subject: Actor-Network-Theory
subject: Agency

description: This paper explores the capacity for objects entangled in complex - and often painful - histories to become constituted of multiple agencies (Gell 1998) through their interaction with various actants in complex and ever-expanding networks of association (Latour 1993; 2005). It does so by analysing how such objects become symbols for multiple histories, presences, and political agendas throughout their social lives (Appadurai 1986; Kopytoff 1986). The paper also examines how these objects influence and construct the pathways of their social lives through their polyagency. ‘Polyagency’ reflects a theory of object agency that I have developed through engaging literature on materiality and agency (Gell 1998), consumption and object movement (Appadurai 1986; Kopytoff 1986), and networks of relationality (Latour 2005). It considers the multiple gathered identities that objects come to embody through the sum of their interactions with various human actors during the objects’ social lives - agencies which then become efficacious in later interactions with people. The productivity of this theory is demonstrated by applying it to the analysis of a complicated repatriation case involving the Gweagal Spears, currently owned by Trinity College and held at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge. This application illustrates the impact that innovations in theory and repatriation cases can have on the perceived role of museums regarding object return, decolonisation and reconciliation efforts through relationship-building with source communities.
description: Isaac Newton Trust and Corpus Christi College (under the 'Newton College Masters Scheme')
Efficient Cosmological Parameter Estimation from Microwave Background Anisotropies
Creators: name: Kosowsky, Arthur
name: Milosavljevic, Milos
name: Jimenez, Raul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the issue of cosmological parameter estimation in light of current and upcoming high-precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background power spectrum. Physical quantities which determine the power spectrum are reviewed, and their connection to familiar cosmological parameters is explicated. We present a set of physical parameters, analytic functions of the usual cosmological parameters, upon which the microwave background power spectrum depends linearly (or with some other simple dependence) over a wide range of parameter values. With such a set of parameters, microwave background power spectra can be estimated with high accuracy and negligible computational effort, vastly increasing the efficiency of cosmological parameter error determination. The techniques presented here allow calculation of microwave background power spectra $10^5$ times faster than comparably accurate direct codes (after precomputing a handful of power spectra). We discuss various issues of parameter estimation, including parameter degeneracies, numerical precision, mapping between physical and cosmological parameters, and systematic errors, and illustrate these considerations with an idealized model of the MAP experiment.
description: 22 pages, 12 figures
Minnesota Farm Business Notes No. 200
Creators: name: Dvoracek, D.C.
name: Norton, V.C.
name: Waite, Warren C.
name: Ranney, W.P.
name: McNulty, J.B.
name: Garver, W.B.
name: Dvoracek, D.C.
name: Norton, V.C.
name: Waite, Warren C.
name: Ranney, W.P.
name: McNulty, J.B.
name: Garver, W.B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1939
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Defects of Potatoes Caused by Handling; High crop yields increases the farmer's earnings; Owner and tenant responsibility for the administration of the agricultural conservation program in 1938; Minnesota farm prices for July 1939
title: Advanced systems and methods for collecting accurate data in optical coherence tomography
Creators: name: Žurauskas, Mantas
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2010

description: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has recently emerged as a valuable technique in biomedical research and medical diagnostics. OCT based instruments allow acquisi- tion of high-resolution information about the internal structure of translucent organs and tissues without damaging the object. However, unaccounted object movements reduce the quality of acquired data, particularly in functional imaging and in OCT modalities that rely on continuous monitoring. Therefore there is a need for methods that allow mitigating the negative effects of the object movements on the data quality.In this thesis we present several methods and devices that allow improving the ac- curacy of collected data. First we introduce a novel frequency multiplexing method for OCT, which enables simultaneous measurements using several frequency-encoded channels. By doing so, several parameters are measured in the same time, reducing the time to acquire the data and making the technology less sensitive to object movements. We employed the method to extend the functionality of several OCT modalities. We have applied the multiplexer to enable simultaneous en face time domain OCT imag- ing at different depths. We have demonstrated a polarisation sensitive OCT set-up where different multiplexer channels are employed to perform polarisation sensitive measurements.Furthermore, we have demonstrated how the multiplexer can be applied to extend the sensitivity range in swept source based OCT systems. The experiments presented in this thesis illustrate the flexibility of our new multiplexing method, which has proven useful not only for increasing the accuracy of collected data, but as well for increasing the efficiency in using the light from the object.Alternatively, we have investigated tracking as a way to improve the quality of the OCT data acquired from the moving targets. We have demonstrated a closed-loop tracking based set-up that uses low coherence interferometry to continuously monitor the cardiac dynamics of a Drosophila melanogaster embryo.
Influence of structure and cation distribution on magnetic anisotropy and damping in Zn/Al doped nickel ferrites
Creators: name: Lumetzberger, Julia
name: Buchner, Martin
name: Pile, Santa
name: Ney, Verena
name: Gaderbauer, Wolfgang
name: Daffé, Niéli
name: Moro, Marcos V.
name: Primetzhofer, Daniel
name: Lenz, Kilian
name: Ney, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An in-depth analysis of Zn/Al doped nickel ferrites grown by reactive magnetron sputtering is relevant due to their promising characteristics for applications in spintronics. The material is insulating and ferromagnetic at room temperature with an additional low magnetic damping. By studying the complex interplay between strain and cation distribution their impact on the magnetic properties, i.e. anisotropy, damping and g-factor is unravelled. In particular, a strong influence of the lattice site occupation of Ni$^{2+}_{\text{Td}}$ and cation coordination of Fe$^{2+}_{\text{Oh}}$ on the intrinsic damping is found. Furthermore, the critical role of the incorporation of Zn$^{2+}$ and Al$^{3+}$ is evidenced by comparison with a sample of altered composition. Especially, the dopant Zn$^{2+}$ is evidenced as a tuning factor for Ni$^{2+}_{\text{Td}}$ and therefore unquenched orbital moments directly controlling the g-factor. A strain-independent reduction of the magnetic anisotropy and damping by adapting the cation distribution is demonstrated.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Super Yang-Mills Theory on Lattice and the Transformation
Creators: name: Itoh, K.
name: Kato, M.
name: Sawanaka, H.
name: So, H.
name: Ukita, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new lattice super Yang-Mills theory and its SUSY transformation. After our formulation of the model in a fundamental lattice, it is extended to the whole lattice with a substructure of modulo 2.
description: 3pages,3 figures, talk presented by H. So at Lattice2001(higgssusy)
A Measurement of Psi(2S) Resonance Parameters
Creators: name: BES Collaboration
name: Bai, J. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cross sections for e+e- to hadons, pi+pi- J/Psi, and mu+mu- have been measured in the vicinity of the Psi(2S) resonance using the BESII detector operated at the BEPC. The Psi(2S) total width; partial widths to hadrons, pi+pi- J/Psi, muons; and corresponding branching fractions have been determined to be Gamma(total)= (264+-27) keV; Gamma(hadron)= (258+-26) keV, Gamma(mu)= (2.44+-0.21) keV, and Gamma(pi+pi- J/Psi)= (85+-8.7) keV; and Br(hadron)= (97.79+-0.15)%, Br(pi+pi- J/Psi)= (32+-1.4)%, Br(mu)= (0.93+-0.08)%, respectively.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Patriziella muceddai Casale 2004
Creators: name: Casale, Achille
name: Grafitti, Giuseppe
name: Latella, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Patriziella
Patriziella muceddai

description: Patriziella muceddai Casale, 2004
 Literature records. Nuoro prov.: Urzulei, Costa Silana - Monte Su Nercone, Sa Rutta ‘e Monte su Nercone (1175 Sa/NU) (Casale 2004; De Waele & Grafitti 2004; Lana et al. 2004; Zoia & Latella 2006; Grafitti 2007a).
Distribution. Central-Eastern Sardinia, known only from the type locality.
Chorotype. W-Mediterranean (Sardinian endemic).
description: Published as part of Casale, Achille, Grafitti, Giuseppe & Latella, Leonardo, 2009, The Cholevidae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia *, pp. 290-316 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 302
MOESM2 of mHealth communication to strengthen postnatal care in rural areas: a systematic review
Creators: name: Mbuthia, Florence
name: Reid, Marianne
name: Annali Fichardt
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Data synthesis on how mHealth strengthens PNC in a rural areas. This file highlights the types of mHealth communication and the determinants of PNC uptake.
A Rat and Its Redactors: Silent Co-Authorship in Kalīla wa-Dimna
Creators: name: Gruendler, Beatrice
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Kalila and Dimna
subject: manuscript culture
subject: copyist
subject: 800 Literature::890 Literatures of other languages::892 Afro-Asiatic literatures Semitic

description: The article investigates Kalīla wa-Dimna as a multilingual text which underwent massive change over centuries, especially in its Arabic phase, which is the present focus. Out of three types of sources for the work, indirect transmission, medieval translations, and complete manuscripts, the last group is analysed in greater detail, based on a sample of seven manuscripts. As a text sample, the short chapter of the Cat and the Rat is chosen. The interpretative method is comparative narratology, and regarding the editing procedure, a synoptic digital edition has been opted for, which juxtaposes versions for comparison, as opposed to a stemmatic reconstruction of any putative “original.” On this basis, the text’s changes in the seven manuscripts are classified and interpreted. The alterations can be identified to a large extent as selective and targeted, and they lead to a fluctuation of the text. In those three of the seven manuscripts, in which the rewriting is most extensive, distinct trends can be observed, insofar as the protagonists and the plot are given specific and varying foci. These can be regarded as the outcome of a silent redaction process that approximates co-authorship, and which was performed by copyists who remained mostly anonymous. These results, being partial and preliminary, require further study to confirm the scope and consistency of such textual interference. The study is part of the ongoing research project “The Arabic Anonymous in a World Classic” (acronym: AnonymClassic), funded by the European Research Council and located at Freie Universität Berlin.
Are There Unstable Planetary Systems Around White Dwarfs?
Creators: name: Debes, John H.
name: Sigurdsson, Steinn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The presence of planets around solar-type stars suggests that many white dwarfs should have relic planetary systems. While planets closer than $\sim$ 5~AU will most likely not survive the post-main sequence lifetime of its parent star, any planet with semimajor axis $>$ 5~AU will survive, and its semimajor axis will increase as the central star loses mass. Since the stability of adjacent orbits to mutual planet-planet perturbations depends on the ratio of the planet mass to the central star's mass, some planets in previously stable orbits around a star undergoing mass loss will become unstable. We show that when mass loss is slow, systems of two planets that are marginally stable can become unstable to close encounters, while for three planets the timescale for close approaches decreases significantly with increasing mass ratio. These processes could explain the presence of anomalous IR excesses around white dwarfs that cannot be explained by close companions, such as G29-38, and may also be an important factor in explaining the existence of DAZ white dwarfs. The onset of instability through changing mass-ratios will also be a significant effect for planetary embryos gaining mass in protoplanetary disks.
description: 22 pages, 7 figures, accepted to ApJ
Role of DDX RNA helicases in cancer cells
Creators: name: Cannizzaro, Ester
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: DDX
RNA
CANCER

description: Ester Cannizzaro ROLE OF DDX RNA HELICASES IN CANCER CELLS Abstract DEAD-BOX (DDX) RNA helicases are a large family of proteins characterized by the presence of a DEAD/H (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp/His) motif. Their main function is to unwind double stranded RNA to promote downstream molecular events. They are involved in virtually all steps of RNA metabolism such as transcription, translation, RNA export and degradation, ribosome biogenesis and pre-mRNA splicing. The aim of my work was to investigate the functions of human DDX3X and DDX54 RNA helicases, particularly in in vitro cancer models. To provide insight into their molecular functions, I identified RNAs bound by DDX3X and DDX54 in breast cancer (MCF7) cells by performing iCLIP experiments. This generated two very distinct RNA binding profiles: DDX3X preferentially bound exonic regions of mRNAs encoding translational factors, whilst DDX54 preferentially bound non-coding RNAs and intronic regions of mRNAs encoding nuclear proteins. Further bioinformatic analysis identified a few discrete binding motifs within DDX3X target RNAs. One of these, within the human JUND transcript, was validated as a DDX3X binding site using electrophoretic mobility shift assays. Notably, the levels of proteins encoded by mRNAs bound by DDX3X were altered following knockdown of the helicase. These data highlight the importance of DDX3X in maintaining appropriate levels of certain proteins, which in turn may explain at least some of the changes in phenotype observed upon DDX3X knockdown. In this regard, I showed that knocking down DDX3X or DDX54 in MCF7 cells slowed cell proliferation by inducing a G1/S phase arrest. Furthermore, a CRISPR/Cas9 dropout screen in a leukaemia cell line (MLL-AF9) showed that both helicases are essential for growth of these cells. However, loss of DDX3X or DDX54 had little effect on proliferation of immortalized NIH3T3 cells indicating that their loss is not generally lethal. In subsequent CRISPR/Cas9 dropout screens in various other cancer cell lines, including some derived from solid tumours, DDX54 was found to be essential for growth of all cell lines. In contrast, DDX3X was required for proliferation of only a subset of these. Focusing on DDX3X, I identified that the integrity of the helicase's RNA binding domains is essential for growth and cell cycle progression of an acute myeloid leukaemia cell line (OCI-AML3). Overall, my findings shed mechanistic insight upon the role of DDX RNA helicases in cancer and identify DDX3X and DDX54 as potential targets for therapeutic intervention in certain cancers.
The Nabatean Agriculture by Ibn Waḥshiyya, a Pseudo-Translation by a Pseudo-Translator: The Topos of Translation in Occult Sciences.
Creators: name: Toral, Isabel
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: translation studies
subject: 800 Literature::890 Literatures of other languages::892 Afro-Asiatic literatures Semitic

description: The text introduced in this chapter, the Kitāb al-Filāḥa al-Nabaṭiyya (Book of the Nabatean Agriculture) by Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Waḥshiyya (early tenth century AD), constitutes an exception in the structure of this volume. On the one hand, it shares with the other textual testimonies herein the quality of being a text that, in its original context, was regarded and presented as a translation; on the other, it has proven to be impossible to identify a single genuine source text for the Filāḥa al-Nabaṭiyya. This means that the preface, which claims that the text is a translation of an approximately 20,000-year-old original Babylonian source, is not reliable; we must therefore assume that there has been no actual linguistic-transfer operation that could be reconstructed and evaluated. From this perspective, the Filāḥa al-Nabaṭiyya fits into the category of pseudo- or fictitious translations, and one might wonder whether such a testimony can be of any value in a volume studying the social and cultural history of the translation of real scientific texts. However, I will argue in the following that the Filāḥa al-Nabaṭiyya is very relevant to a better understanding of the function of translation and translated texts in the cultural system of ʿAbbāsid and Buyid Baghdad. To this end, I shall first introduce the concept of pseudo-translation as developed in translation studies; I shall then present the text by Ibn Waḥshiyya and sketch the current state of research into it and the complexities of its textual history. I shall further discuss the extent to which the concept of ‘pseudo-translation’ serves as an analytical tool in evaluating the relevance of Filāḥa al-Nabaṭiyya in the context of translation history. Finally, I shall translate and comment on the preface, which is one of the most significant peritextual passages in the Filāḥa al-Nabaṭiyya.