cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Interactions between copper homeostasis and the fungal cell wall affect copper stress resistance
Creators: name: Alspaugh, J. Andrew
name: Thiele, Dennis J.
name: Garcia-Santamarina, Sarela
name: Probst, Corinna
name: Ralle, Martina
name: Brooks, Jacob T.
name: Van Der Kloet, Inge
name: Baars, Oliver
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Copper homeostasis mechanisms are essential for microbial adaption to changing copper levels within the host during infection. In the opportunistic fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans (Cn), the Cn Cbi1/Bim1 protein is a newly identified copper binding and release protein that is highly induced during copper limitation. Recent studies demonstrated that Cbi1 functions in copper uptake through the Ctr1 copper transporter during copper limitation. However, the mechanism of Cbi1 action is unknown. The fungal cell wall is a dynamic structure primarily composed of carbohydrate polymers, such as chitin and chitosan, polymers known to strongly bind copper ions. We demonstrated that Cbi1 depletion affects cell wall integrity and architecture, connecting copper homeostasis with adaptive changes within the fungal cell wall. The cbi1Δ mutant strain possesses an aberrant cell wall gene transcriptional signature as well as defects in chitin / chitosan deposition and exposure. Furthermore, using Cn strains defective in chitosan biosynthesis, we demonstrated that cell wall chitosan modulates the ability of the fungal cell to withstand copper stress. Given the previously described role for Cbi1 in copper uptake, we propose that this copper-binding protein could be involved in shuttling copper from the cell wall to the copper transporter Ctr1 for regulated microbial copper uptake.
Evaluating the impact of sample storage, handling, and technical ability on the decay and recovery of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater
Creators: name: Dinga, Carly
name: Clerkin, Thomas
name: Beattie, Rachelle E.
name: Noble, Rachel T.
name: Blackwood, A. Denene
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Wastewater based epidemiology (WBE) is useful for tracking and monitoring the level of disease prevalence in a community and has been used extensively to complement clinical testing during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the numerous benefits, sources of variability in sample storage, handling, and processing methods can make WBE data difficult to generalize. We performed an experiment to determine sources of variability in WBE data including the impact of storage time, handling, and processing techniques on the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater influent from three wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) in North Carolina over 19 days. The SARS-CoV-2 concentration in influent samples held at 4°C did not degrade significantly over the 19-day experiment. Heat pasteurization did not significantly impact the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 at two of the three WWTP but did reduce viral recovery at the WWTP with the smallest population size served. On each processing date, one filter from each sample was processed immediately while a replicate filter was frozen at -80°C. Once processed, filters previously frozen were found to contain slightly higher concentrations (<0.2 log copies/L) than their immediately processed counterparts, indicating freezing filters is a viable method for delayed quantification and may even improve recovery at WWTP with low viral concentrations. Investigation of factors contributing to variability during sample processing indicated that analyst experience level contributed significantly (p<0.001) to accepted droplet generation while extraction efficiency and reverse transcription efficiency contributed significantly (p<0.05) to day-to-day SARS-CoV-2 variability. This study provides valuable practical information for minimizing decay and/or loss of SARS CoV-2 in wastewater influent while adhering to safety procedures, promoting efficient laboratory workflows, and accounting for sources of variability.
Tiarella and Mitella
Creators: name: M. Wakabayashi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Sect. 2. Spuriomitella H.Boissieu in Bull. Herb. Boissier 5: 689 (1897).
description: Published as part of M. Wakabayashi, 2006, Tiarella and Mitella, pp. 70-75 in Flora of Japan, Volume 2 b: Angiospermae-Dicotyledoneae: Archichlamydeae (b), Kodansha on page 71, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.47476
Assessing Use of Local Holdings of Latin American Books in Doctoral Research: A Case Study of UNC Chapel Hill Libraries
Creators: name: Kittleson, Sara
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: This study investigates where Spanish-language books are used in UNC graduate student research in Humanities and Social Science disciplines in order to assess current Latin American area studies collections policies. Using a citation analysis of UNC dissertations on Latin American topics approved between 2011 and 2020, the study shows which disciplines cited books in Spanish at the highest rates and whether a subsection of those books are available in local holdings at UNC and in the Triangle Research Libraries Network. The data produced in this study is meant to be used in guiding collections policies at UNC and to provide an adaptable case study for other departments or institutions.
Bi-Modality Medical Image Synthesis Using Semi-Supervised Sequential Generative Adversarial Networks
Creators: name: Yang, Xin
name: Lin, Yi
name: Wang, Zhiwei
name: Li, Xin
name: Cheng, Kwang-Ting
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a bi-modality medical image synthesis approach based on sequential generative adversarial network (GAN) and semi-supervised learning. Our approach consists of two generative modules that synthesize images of the two modalities in a sequential order. A method for measuring the synthesis complexity is proposed to automatically determine the synthesis order in our sequential GAN. Images of the modality with a lower complexity are synthesized first, and the counterparts with a higher complexity are generated later. Our sequential GAN is trained end-to-end in a semi-supervised manner. In supervised training, the joint distribution of bi-modality images are learned from real paired images of the two modalities by explicitly minimizing the reconstruction losses between the real and synthetic images. To avoid overfitting limited training images, in unsupervised training, the marginal distribution of each modality is learned based on unpaired images by minimizing the Wasserstein distance between the distributions of real and fake images. We comprehensively evaluate the proposed model using two synthesis tasks based on three types of evaluate metrics and user studies. Visual and quantitative results demonstrate the superiority of our method to the state-of-the-art methods, and reasonable visual quality and clinical significance. Code is made publicly available at https://github.com/hustlinyi/Multimodal-Medical-Image-Synthesis.
Navigating Aotearoa New Zealand’s Multilingual Social Media Landscape
Creators: name: Wong, Sidney
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470403
subject: Computational linguistics
classificationCode: 470411
subject: Sociolinguistics

description: The purpose of the current study is to take a demographic approach to understand Aotearoa New Zealand. The advent of social media and the influx of language data using computational linguistic methods provide linguists with a new avenue of research. One benefit of analysing geo-referenced social media language data is that we are able to show variation and change in the distribution of languages used in Aotearoa New Zealand to low geographic areas. The geo-referenced tweets come from a subset of the Corpus of Global Language Use (Dunn, 2020). The tweets were collected from 98 locations across Aotearoa New Zealand between 2017 to present. We used a language identification model to classify tweets based on the content of the words. Over 403 distinct languages were identified from the tweets using the language identification model. However, comparing the distributions of languages alone does not provide a clear picture of Aotearoa New Zealand’s changing multilingual social media landscape. In order to do this, we calculated the concentration ratio (CR) for each data collection point as a proxy measure for linguistic diversity (Hirschman, 1945). A CR is often used to determine market competitiveness. A low CR between 0% to 40% suggests low concentration (i.e., high linguistic diversity) while a CR between 70% to 100% suggests high concentration (i.e., low linguistic diversity). The results of the current study suggest that locations across Aotearoa New Zealand are largely linguistically homogeneous; however, linguistic diversity does fluctuate over time.The linguistic landscape of Twitter is consistently more diverse in locations such as those in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland than Ōtautahi Christchurch. Furthermore, there are clear impacts of the linguistic landscape from the Covid-19 pandemic as a result of restrictions on travel and migration. By observing the variation in the distribution of languages on Twitter, we are able to identify changes in the linguistic behaviour for a given location. Social media platforms like Twitter provide a rich source of language data for us to observe real-time societal and attitudinal changes which would not be possible using traditional survey and sampling methods.ReferencesDunn, J. (2020). Mapping languages: the Corpus of Global Language Use. Lang Resources & Evaluation 54, 999–1018.Dunn, J., Coupe, T., & Adams, B. (2020). Measuring Linguistic Diversity During COVID-19, Proceedings of The Fourth Workshop on the Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science.Hirschman, A. O. (1945). National power and the structure of foreign trade. University of California Press.
The Tangibility of Summer Reading Programs and Community Connection
Creators: name: McLaurin, Amanda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: The effects of COVID-19 have highlighted the tangible aspects of summer reading programs and their importance to the success of programs in their communities. These tangible aspects are more than the rewards secured for completing allotted time requirements. They are the importance physical signifiers of the programs and communal gathering in a specific space. In this study an in-depth look was taken at four public library systems in North Carolina to understand the physically of their programs, how they relate to marketing and participation not just by youth but by the community at large and how COVID-19 greatly disrupted them. These topics will be highlighted and supported through statistical data from summer reading programs pre and post COVID-19 along with testimonials from the librarian in charge of the programs at their respected libraries.
Exponential convergence to equilibrium in a Poisson-Nernst-Planck-type system with nonlinear diffusion
Creators: name: Zinsl, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35K45 (Primary), 35A15 (Secondary), 35B40, 35D30, 35Q60

description: We investigate a Poisson-Nernst-Planck type system in three spatial dimensions where the strength of the electric drift depends on a possibly small parameter and the particles are assumed to diffuse quadratically. On grounds of the global existence result proved by Kinderlehrer, Monsaingeon and Xu (2015) using the formal Wasserstein gradient flow structure of the system, we analyse the long-time behaviour of weak solutions. We prove under the assumption of uniform convexity of the external drift potentials that the system possesses a unique steady state. If the strength of the electric drift is sufficiently small, we show convergence of solutions to the respective steady state at an exponential rate using entropy-dissipation methods.
description: This research has been supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), SFB TR 109
(501031) Annetta Cage
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The prognostic significance of skin involvement in breast cancer patients with chest wall recurrence
Creators: name: Zhou, Danyang
name: Li, Mei
name: Xu, Fei
name: Zheng, Qiufan
name: Lu, Qianyi
name: Hong, Ruoxi
name: Wang, Shusen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Virology

description: To assess the prognostic significance of skin involvement in breast cancer patients with chest wall recurrence (CWR). We retrospectively analyzed the clinicopathological data of breast cancer patients with CWR who were diagnosed pathologically between January 2000 and April 2020. Disease-free survival (DFS) was the time from radical resection for CWR to disease recurrence. Progression-free survival (PFS) was defined as the time from the diagnosis of locally unresectable CWR to the first sign of disease progression. Persistent chest wall progression was defined as three consecutive chest wall progressions with no distant organ involvement. A total of 476 patients with CWR were included in this study. Skin involvement was confirmed in 345 patients. Skin involvement was significantly correlated with a high T stage (p = 0.003), more positive nodes at initial examination (p < 0.001) and lymphovascular invasion (p < 0.001). Kaplan–Meier analysis showed that skin involvement was a predictor of shorter DFS (p < 0.001), including both local disease progression (p < 0.001) and distant disease progression (p = 0.022). Multivariate analysis showed that skin involvement was an independent biomarker for DFS (p = 0.043). Patients with skin involvement were more likely to experience persistent chest wall progression (p = 0.040). After eliminating the potential deviation caused by an insufficient follow-up time, persistent chest wall progression was more likely to be associated with a high N stage (p = 0.002), negative progesterone receptor (PR; p = 0.001) and positive human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2; p = 0.046) of the primary site, and negative oestrogen receptor (ER; p = 0.027) and PR (p = 0.013) of the chest wall lesion and skin involvement (p = 0.020). Skin involvement was a predictor of poor disease control in patients with CWR and was closely related to persistent chest wall progression. We stratified the prognosis of individualized treatment for breast cancer patients with CWR to provide new insights into the biological behaviours of the disease. Skin involvement is a predictor of poor local disease control in breast cancer patients with CWR and a factor contributing to persistent chest wall progression after CWR. We stratified the prognosis of individualized treatment for breast cancer patients with CWR.
Extremal quantum states and their Majorana constellations
Creators: name: Bjork, G.
name: Klimov, A. B.
name: de la Hoz, P.
name: Grassl, M.
name: Leuchs, G.
name: Sanchez-Soto, L. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The characterization of quantum polarization of light requires knowledge of all the moments of the Stokes variables, which are appropriately encoded in the multipole expansion of the density matrix. We look into the cumulative distribution of those multipoles and work out the corresponding extremal pure states. We find that SU(2) coherent states are maximal to any order whereas the converse case of minimal states (which can be seen as the most quantum ones) is investigated for a diverse range of the number of photons. Taking advantage of the Majorana representation, we recast the problem as that of distributing a number of points uniformly over the surface of the Poincare sphere.
description: Close to the published version
Effective nonlinear Ehrenfest hybrid quantum-classical dynamics
Creators: name: Alonso, J. L.
name: Bouthelier-Madre, C.
name: Clemente-Gallardo, J.
name: Martínez-Crespo, D.
name: Pomar, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The definition of a consistent evolution equation for statistical hybrid quantum-classical systems is still an open problem. In this paper we analyze the case of Ehrenfest dynamics on systems defined by a probability density and identify the relations of the non-linearity of the dynamics with the obstructions to define a consistent dynamics for the first quantum moment of the distribution. This first quantum moment represents the physical states as a family of classically-parametrized density matrices $\hat ρ(ξ)$, for $ξ$ a classical point; and it is the most common representation of hybrid systems in the literature. Due to this obstruction, we consider higher order quantum moments, and argue that only a finite number of them are physically measurable. Because of this, we propose an effective solution for the hybrid dynamics problem based on approximating the distribution by those moments and representing the states by them.
description: 21 pages. Minor correction in the list of affiliations
User Preferences for Email Tasks on Different Platforms
Creators: name: Pandya, Ketan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: User interfaces
Email systems
Mobile apps
Email clients

description: The purpose of this study was to examine what tasks users prefer to perform using web-based desktop email versus mobile app email and understand those preferences. Through in-depth questionnaires, a mixed-methods exploratory study asked users about their experiences using web and mobile app email and under what circumstances they might choose to use one over another. User perceptions of task difficulty on different devices were collected using scale questions with these perceptions informed by open-ended free response questions that asked users what device they preferred and why. The findings indicated that users still prefer computers in almost every instance when given a choice, and the responses were used to generate insight into why this is the case.
(501032) William Watson Dickins
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A Review of Cavity Design for Kerr Lens Mode-Locked Solid-State Lasers
Creators: name: Yefet, Shai
name: Pe'er, Avi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a critical review of the fundamental concepts of Kerr lens mode-locking (KLM), along with a detailed description of the experimental considerations involved in the realization of a mode-locked oscillator. In addition, we review recent developments that overcome inherent limitations and disadvantages in standard KLM lasers. Our review is aimed mainly at readers who wish to realize/maintain such an oscillator or for those who wish to better understand this major experimental tool.
Case report of idiopathic histoplasmosis in the HIV-uninfected population
Creators: name: Moniyka Sachar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Case report of idiopathic histoplasmosis in the HIV-uninfected population.
Analyzing Diversity in Picture Books About Technology
Creators: name: Yale, Gwendolyn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: In this content analysis of picture books from the A. B. Combs Magnet Elementary School library about technology, I analyzed and coded 20 books. The goal was to analyze the amount of authentic diverse characters in these picture books that would influence students positively in their use of technology for fun or learning. Results showed a gap in publishing “Mirrors”, as Rudine Sims Bishop defined them, in picture books about technology for students of color.
Foucault, the modernist?
Creators: name: Daniel Russo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
Enlightenment
Postmodernism

description: In this essay, I argue that it’s theoretically and historically misleading to talk about a break between modernism and postmodernism, and more specifically, that thinkers such as Foucault and Derrida, two figures frequently associated with the postmodern turn, are situated within certain rational, enlightenment and modernist traditions. As part of this claim, I explore how features such as essentialism, binarism, determinism, positivism, and productivism are not characteristics that can be applied to all of enlightenment thought and modernism, and that such a description of the enlightenment and modernism would themselves be essentialist and caught up in binaries. To illustrate these arguments, I re-read figures such as Berkeley, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and a range of Modern artists (especially their conceptualizations about essences, representations, and processes), tracing patterns such as plurality, particularity, and absurdity/incoherence throughout their thought. After historical and theoretical overview, I connect the experiential and philosophical patterns existing before our so-called “postmodern turn” to an examination of Foucault’s rational methodology and critical ontology, as well as his theorization of enlightenment thought, power/knowledge, ethics, and resistance (especially in, but not limited to, his later works). Through all of this, I ultimately show that 1) Rather than a break, postmodernism signifies an extrapolation of certain pre-existing enlightenment and modernist trends, and 2) Michel Foucault can be claimed as both an enlightenment thinker and a modernist. Such a set of arguments, if deduced as correct by readers, might restructure traditional understandings of postmodernism and the legacy of enlightenment thought.
(501027) Evelyn Diana Montresor
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
New Media Masculinities: How YouTube Influencers Incubate Masculine Ideologies and Mentor Males Through Gender Role Conflict/Stress
Creators: name: Jenni Simon
name: Daniel Russo
name: Gabriel Parks
Publisher: name: Rowman & Littlefield
Year: 2021
Subjects: Rhetoric
Gender identity
Masculinity in popular culture

description: This chapter uses a Gender Role Conflict Theory (GRC) lens to analyze the ways in which three YouTube opinion-and-lifestyle influencers—with large adolescent male audiences—negotiate and amplify their ideals of masculinity and male identity development in the 21st century. Each influencer advocates a competing solution to contemporary male GRC which they frame as a crisis of masculinity. Using rhetorical analysis techniques, we unpack, compare, and contrast three clips from each influencer to closely examine the ways they define masculinity and its complexities, as well as their solutions to stressors experienced by young men. Three distinct frames emerge in each influencer’s configuration of a crisis of masculinity, each linked to different male GRC stressors. These results are situated amidst a broader landscape of gender and socio-political commentary on social media platforms. We connect the three influencers’ messages to current discourses of hegemonic, hybrid, and counterhegemonic masculinities circulating across YouTube.
AI in the Gray: Exploring Moderation Policies in Dialogic Large Language Models vs. Human Answers in Controversial Topics
Creators: name: Ghafouri, Vahid
name: Agarwal, Vibhor
name: Zhang, Yong
name: Sastry, Nishanth
name: Such, Jose
name: Suarez-Tangil, Guillermo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The introduction of ChatGPT and the subsequent improvement of Large Language Models (LLMs) have prompted more and more individuals to turn to the use of ChatBots, both for information and assistance with decision-making. However, the information the user is after is often not formulated by these ChatBots objectively enough to be provided with a definite, globally accepted answer. Controversial topics, such as "religion", "gender identity", "freedom of speech", and "equality", among others, can be a source of conflict as partisan or biased answers can reinforce preconceived notions or promote disinformation. By exposing ChatGPT to such debatable questions, we aim to understand its level of awareness and if existing models are subject to socio-political and/or economic biases. We also aim to explore how AI-generated answers compare to human ones. For exploring this, we use a dataset of a social media platform created for the purpose of debating human-generated claims on polemic subjects among users, dubbed Kialo. Our results show that while previous versions of ChatGPT have had important issues with controversial topics, more recent versions of ChatGPT (gpt-3.5-turbo) are no longer manifesting significant explicit biases in several knowledge areas. In particular, it is well-moderated regarding economic aspects. However, it still maintains degrees of implicit libertarian leaning toward right-winged ideals which suggest the need for increased moderation from the socio-political point of view. In terms of domain knowledge on controversial topics, with the exception of the "Philosophical" category, ChatGPT is performing well in keeping up with the collective human level of knowledge. Finally, we see that sources of Bing AI have slightly more tendency to the center when compared to human answers. All the analyses we make are generalizable to other types of biases and domains.
(501028) Laura Dickins
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(501029) Laura Annetta Montresor
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Subcompletions of representable relation algebras
Creators: name: Maddux, Roger D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Many finite symmetric integral non-representable relation algebras, including almost all Monk algebras, can be embedded in the completion of an atomic symmetric integral representable relation algebra whose finitely-generated subalgebras are finite.
description: 22 pages, presented as Subcompletions of atomic representable relational algebras, Invited Talk, at the Workshop on Lattices and Relations, 12 September 2012, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(501024) Gertrude Sarah Morrell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
ANER: Arabic and Arabizi Named Entity Recognition using Transformer-Based Approach
Creators: name: Sadallah, Abdelrahman "Boda"
name: Ahmed, Omar
name: Mohamed, Shimaa
name: Hatem, Omar
name: Hesham, Doaa
name: Yousef, Ahmed H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One of the main tasks of Natural Language Processing (NLP), is Named Entity Recognition (NER). It is used in many applications and also can be used as an intermediate step for other tasks. We present ANER, a web-based named entity recognizer for the Arabic, and Arabizi languages. The model is built upon BERT, which is a transformer-based encoder. It can recognize 50 different entity classes, covering various fields. We trained our model on the WikiFANE\_Gold dataset which consists of Wikipedia articles. We achieved an F1 score of 88.7\%, which beats CAMeL Tools' F1 score of 83\% on the ANERcorp dataset, which has only 4 classes. We also got an F1 score of 77.7\% on the NewsFANE\_Gold dataset which contains out-of-domain data from News articles. The system is deployed on a user-friendly web interface that accepts users' inputs in Arabic, or Arabizi. It allows users to explore the entities in the text by highlighting them. It can also direct users to get information about entities through Wikipedia directly. We added the ability to do NER using our model, or CAMeL Tools' model through our website. ANER is publicly accessible at \url{http://www.aner.online}. We also deployed our model on HuggingFace at https://huggingface.co/boda/ANER, to allow developers to test and use it.
Comedy and Tolerance: Vir Das, Standup Comedy and Religious Tolerance in India
Creators: name: Daniel Russo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: Group identity
Religion
Media studies
Humor

description: This essay examines the relationship between stand-up comedy and identity representation. The methods for examination begin with an overview of relevant humor theories, culminating in a case study of comedian Vir Das’s role in representing a collective secular identity in India. The case study takes on the method of critical textual analysis. By contextualizing the content of Vir Das’s 2018 Netflix stand-up special, Losing It, with the historical and present landscape of religio- politics in India, I argue that stand-up routines like Vir Das’s represent humour being used as a tool to promote secularism and religious tolerance. I then conclude by suggesting that the use of this type of humour in India should continue in order to help foster an Indian collective identity that promotes secularism, religious freedom, and religious tolerance. Lastly, I also speculate that Vir Das’s religious themed humour takes on a more tolerant, encompassing approach to mocking religious hegemony compared to Euro-American comedy approaches. Future comparative studies might do well in confirming this speculation.
Asimitellaria (sect. Asimitellaria)
Creators: name: M. Wakabayashi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Saxifragales
Saxifragaceae
Asimitellaria
Animalia
Mitella
Mitella japonica

description: Sect. 3. Asimitellaria Wakab.* 25 *25 Mitella sect. Asimitellaria Wakab., sect. nov. Sect. Mitellaria Ser. Eumitellaria H.Hara in Nakai & Honda, Nov. FI. Jap. 3: 127 (1939). pro parte majore. Sect. Mitellaria Ser. Apetalae H.Hara in Nakai & Honda, Nov. FI. Jap. 3: 126 (1939). Sect. Mitellastra auct. non Torr. et A.Gray: Rosend. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 50: 378 (1914), pro parte. Stamina 5, petalis opposita. Ovarium inferum. Semina scabra, saepe longitudinaliter elevato-areola vel papillosa, brunneola vel viridula. Type: Mitella japonica Maxim. Note: Section Mitellaria, including only M. pentandra of North America, is similar to sect. Asimitellaria in having five stamens opposite the petals, but distinctly differs in having glabrous, smooth, black seeds, and a chromosome count of 2n = 14. Section Asimitellaria has 2n = 28 showing diploidized allotetraploidy. M. formosana of Taiwan also belongs to this section. The sections, Mitella (M. diphylla), Mitellastra (M. caulescens), Mitellina (M. stauropetala, M. trifida,M. diversifolia), Brewerimitella (M. breweri, M. ovalis), are in North America.
description: Published as part of M. Wakabayashi, 2006, Tiarella and Mitella, pp. 70-75 in Flora of Japan, Volume 2 b: Angiospermae-Dicotyledoneae: Archichlamydeae (b), Kodansha on page 71, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.47476
(501025) Herbert Towning Morrell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A Ricci-flat metric on D-brane orbifolds
Creators: name: Ray, Koushik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study issues pertaining to the Ricci-flatness of metrics on orbifolds resolved by D-branes. We find a Kähler metric on the three-dimensional orbifold $\C^3/\Z_3$, resolved by D-branes, following an approach due to Guillemin. This metric is not Ricci-flat for any finite value of the blow-up parameter. Conditions for the envisaged Ricci-flat metric for finite values of the blow-up parameter are formulated in terms of a correction to the Kähler potential. This leads to an explicit construction of a Ricci-flat Kähler metric on the resolved orbifold. The correction can be interpreted as a part of the superspace-interaction in the corresponding gauged linear sigma-model.
description: 12 pages, latex. Uses amsmath and amssymb. A major typo in eq(61) corrected. The current version supersedes the journal version, which contains the typo too
(501026) ____ ? [Morrell]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Spectral variability in Swift and Chandra observations of the Ultraluminous source NGC 55 ULX1
Creators: name: Pintore, F.
name: Esposito, P.
name: Zampieri, L.
name: Motta, S.
name: Wolter, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NGC 55 ULX1 is a bright Ultraluminous X-ray source located 1.78 Mpc away. We analysed a sample of 20 Swift observations, taken between 2013 April and August, and two Chandra observations taken in 2001 September and 2004 June. We found only marginal hints of a limited number of dips in the light curve, previously reported to occur in this source, although the uncertainties due to the low counting statistics of the data are large. The Chandra and Swift spectra showed clearly spectral variability which resembles those observed in other ULXs. We can account for this spectral variability in terms of changes in both the normalization and intrinsic column density of a two-components model consisting of a blackbody (for the soft component) and a multicolour accretion disc (for the hard component). We discuss the possibility that strong outflows ejected by the disc are in part responsible for such spectral changes.
description: 9 pages, 6 figure; accepted to be published on MNRAS
Camp Studies, and Queer Theory, and drag queens, oh my! camping the academy, queer methods, and the potentiality of camp
Creators: name: Simple, Kerry
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2022

description: In all seriousness, camp is not dead. But since Susan Sontag's Notes of 'Camp', academic attention to, and interest in the often recognisable (but painfully ineffable) Camp/camp has never been sustained. Each moment marked by a camp death. The focus of this dissertation is returning to these dead-ends and cul-de-sacs of thought, to map camp's enduring potential in straightie-time. Recuperating Sontag's capping of camp as apolitical, unserious, and unintentional, to recognise its affective world-making and technologies of survival by alternative existence. Not a 'revolutionary' full circle returning to where we started, or a 'cultural turn' that's turning, turning, turning towards progress. More like camp has turned/curdled, and in true camp fashion we're throwing some cheap perfume and glitter over it so we can keep partying on and performing. In mapping camp's deaths and reconfigurations, I offer camp's doubleness, resourcefulness, and its unburdening of liveness. Theorising what camp is, can be, and does. In doing so, this thesis unpacks camp's critical utility, while demonstrating its utility as method and critical lens. Researching camp, while doing camp research. Drawing on interviews with draggers (drag artists), not as empirical data to be analysed, but as a vanguard community of camp and street professionals; on Cultural, Performance, Art, and Queer Studies literature, materials, and mediums; and other silly texts, like children's animated programme Pinky Malinky, drag competition RuPaul's Drag Race, and les-bi-trans-queer BDSM practices. This thesis, as a generative and recuperative reconfiguration of camp, is an interdisciplinary pitching of tents across camp sites that demonstrates camp's potential to be and do social, political, and pedagogical work in Camp Studies.
Herschel dust emission as a probe of starless cores mass: MCLD 123.5+24.9 of the Polaris Flare
Creators: name: Wagle, Gururaj A.
name: Troland, Thomas H.
name: Ferland, Gary J.
name: Abel, Nicholas P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present newly processed archival Herschel images of molecular cloud MCLD 123.5+24.9 in the Polaris Flare. This cloud contains five starless cores. Using the spectral synthesis code Cloudy, we explore uncertainties in the derivation of column densities, hence, masses of molecular cores from Herschel data. We first consider several detailed grain models that predict far-IR grain opacities. Opacities predicted by the models differ by more than a factor of two, leading to uncertainties in derived column densities by the same factor. Then we consider uncertainties associated with the modified blackbody fitting process used by observers to estimate column densities. For high column density clouds (N(H) $\gg$ 10$^{22}$ cm$^{-2}$), this fitting technique can underestimate column densities by about a factor of three. Finally, we consider the virial stability of the five starless cores in MCLD 123.5+24.9. All of these cores appear to have strongly sub-virial masses, assuming, as we argue, that $^{13}$CO line data provide reliable estimates of velocity dispersions. Evidently, they are not self-gravitating, so it is no surprise that they are starless.
description: ApJ, Accepted. Minor typographical errors corrected and figures 6 & 7 updated in v3
The Living Word: Textuality and the End in the MaddAddam and Southern Reach Trilogies
Creators: name: Niemann, Ruby
Publisher: name: Apocalyptica
Year: 2022

description: This paper explores the relationship between the written word and the world beyond humankind in two apocalyptic trilogies: Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy (Oryx and Crake [2003], The Year of the Flood [2009] and MaddAddam [2013]) and Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series (Annihilation, Authority and Acceptance [2014]). In these two examples of Anthropocene literature, the end of Man and the end of the Word are neither wholly separate nor entirely constitutive of one another. Both trilogies explore the ways in which a chaotic, lively, a-human apocalypticism is described both by and through language and, more specifically, human and nonhuman textualities. In this paper, I describe how Atwood and VanderMeer’s visions of Anthropocene afterlives decouple writing from human agency and, in doing so, provide ways of envisioning survival after the end of worlds. In both the MaddAddam and the Southern Reach trilogies, the written word itself becomes a unique link between the human and nonhuman, the living and nonliving (either dead or never what the biological sciences would class as ‘alive’), raising questions about communication, intention, and a postapocalyptic semiotics of the Anthropocene epoch. Both VanderMeer and Atwood detach meaning-making from the concept of writing in a way that, rather than creating purely unintelligible text-acts, turns the written word into something more than a mere conveyer of meaning or even a creator of communal understanding. Language, which has always (or at least since Babel) functioned on some level to constitute an in- and out-group, in these texts forms either a barrier or a conduit between the pre- and post-apocalyptic.
description: Apocalyptica, Vol. 1 (2022)
Multilayer stochastic block models reveal the multilayer structure of complex networks
Creators: name: Valles-Catala, Toni
name: Massucci, Francesco A.
name: Guimera, Roger
name: Sales-Pardo, Marta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In complex systems, the network of interactions we observe between system's components is the aggregate of the interactions that occur through different mechanisms or layers. Recent studies reveal that the existence of multiple interaction layers can have a dramatic impact in the dynamical processes occurring on these systems. However, these studies assume that the interactions between systems components in each one of the layers are known, while typically for real-world systems we do not have that information. Here, we address the issue of uncovering the different interaction layers from aggregate data by introducing multilayer stochastic block models (SBMs), a generalization of single-layer SBMs that considers different mechanisms of layer aggregation. First, we find the complete probabilistic solution to the problem of finding the optimal multilayer SBM for a given aggregate observed network. Because this solution is computationally intractable, we propose an approximation that enables us to verify that multilayer SBMs are more predictive of network structure in real-world complex systems.