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Inflation from cosmological constant and nonminimally coupled scalar
Creators: name: Glavan, Dražen
name: Marunović, Anja
name: Prokopec, Tomislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider inflation in a universe with a positive cosmological constant and a nonminimally coupled scalar field, in which the field couples both quadratically and quartically to the Ricci scalar. When considered in the Einstein frame and when the nonminimal couplings are negative, the field starts in slow roll and inflation ends with an asymptotic value of the principal slow roll parameter, $ε_E=4/3$. Graceful exit can be achieved by suitably (tightly) coupling the scalar field to matter, such that at late time the total energy density reaches the scaling of matter, $ε_E=ε_m$. Quite generically the model produces a red spectrum of scalar cosmological perturbations and a small amount of gravitational radiation. With a suitable choice of the nonminimal couplings, the spectral slope can be as large as $n_s\simeq 0.955$, which is about one standard deviation away from the central value measured by the Planck satellite. The model can be ruled out by future measurements if any of the following is observed: (a) the spectral index of scalar perturbations is $n_s>0.960$; (b) the amplitude of tensor perturbations is above about $r\sim 10^{-2}$; (c) the running of the spectral index of scalar perturbations is positive.
description: 19 pages, 13 figures
“That never happened”: Adults' discernment of children's true and false memory reports.
Creators: name: Alexander, Kristen Weede
name: Shestowsky, Donna
name: Schaaf, Jennifer M.
name: Goodman, Gail S.
name: Segovia, Daisy A.
name: Block, Stephanie D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Adults’ evaluations of children’s reports can determine whether legal proceedings are undertaken and whether they ultimately lead to justice. The current study involved 92 undergraduates and 35 laypersons who viewed and evaluated videotaped interviews of 3- and 5-year-olds providing true or false memory reports. The children’s reports fell into the following categories based on a 2 (event type: true vs. false) × 2 (child report: assent vs. denial) factorial design: Accurate reports, false reports, accurate denials, and false denials. Results revealed that adults were generally better able to correctly judge accurate reports, accurate denials, and false reports compared to false denials: For false denials, adults were, on average, “confident” that the event had not occurred, even though the event had in fact been experienced. Participant age predicted performance. These findings underscore the greater difficulty adults have in evaluating young children’s false denials compared to other types of reports. Implications for law-related situations in which adults are called upon to evaluate children’s statements are discussed.
Supplement 1: Additional tables and figures from Chronic exposure to a glyphosate-based herbicide makes toad larvae more toxic
Creators: name: Bókony, Veronika
name: Mikó, Zsanett
name: Móricz, Ágnes M.
name: Krüzselyi, Dániel
name: Hettyey, Attila
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Contains table S1, table S2, table S3 and figure S1.
Quantum expectation-value estimation by computational basis sampling
Creators: name: Kohda, Masaya
name: Imai, Ryosuke
name: Kanno, Keita
name: Mitarai, Kosuke
name: Mizukami, Wataru
name: Nakagawa, Yuya O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measuring expectation values of observables is an essential ingredient in variational quantum algorithms. A practical obstacle is the necessity of a large number of measurements for statistical convergence to meet requirements of precision, such as chemical accuracy in the application to quantum chemistry computations. Here we propose an algorithm to estimate the expectation value based on its approximate expression as a weighted sum of classically-tractable matrix elements with some modulation, where the weight and modulation factors are evaluated by sampling appropriately prepared quantum states in the computational basis on quantum computers. Each of those states is prepared by applying a unitary transformation consisting of at most N CNOT gates, where N is the number of qubits, to a target quantum state whose expectation value is evaluated. Our algorithm is expected to require fewer measurements than conventional methods for a required statistical precision of the expectation value when the target quantum state is concentrated in particular computational basis states. We provide numerical comparisons of our method with existing ones for measuring electronic ground state energies (expectation values of electronic Hamiltonians for the lowest-energy states) of various small molecules. Numerical results show that our method can reduce the numbers of measurements to obtain the ground state energies for a targeted precision by several orders of magnitudes for molecules whose ground states are concentrated. Our results provide another route to measure expectation values of observables, which could accelerate the variational quantum algorithms.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures, updated to match the published version
Factors Influencing the Choice of Private Health Care Providers in Uganda
Creators: name: Turyamureba, Medard
name: Yawe, Bruno L.
name: Oryema, John Bosco
name: Turyamureba, Medard
name: Yawe, Bruno L.
name: Oryema, John Bosco
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: determinants
subject: healthcare provider choice
subject: probit
subject: private healthcare
subject: policy
subject: Uganda

description: This paper examines the factors influencing the choice of private health care providers in Uganda. Although studies indicate that patients are price sensitive, many (63%) Ugandans prefer private health facilities to less expensive government health facilities. This is inconsistent with the government policy of abolishing user fees in government health facilities. Using the 2019/20 Uganda National Household Survey data, a probit regression model was estimated. The findings show that ownership of health insurance, household welfare and type of employment positively influenced the choice of private health facilities. Distance to the health facility negatively affected the utilisation of private health care providers. Additionally, the sex of the patient and region of residence were significant determinants. There is, therefore, a need for a national health insurance scheme and coordination between public and private health care providers to enable poor and vulnerable patients to visit modern health facilities.
Aggregation Driven by a Localized Source
Creators: name: Krapivsky, P. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study aggregation driven by a localized source of monomers. The densities become stationary and have algebraic tails far away from the source. We show that in a model with mass-independent reaction rates and diffusion coefficients, the density of monomers decays as $r^{-β(d)}$ in $d$ dimensions. The decay exponent has irrational values in physically relevant dimensions: $β(3)=(\sqrt{17}+1)/2$ and $β(2)=\sqrt{8}$. We also study Brownian coagulation with a localized source and establish the behavior of the total cluster density and the total number of of clusters in the system. The latter quantity exhibits a logarithmic growth with time.
description: 9 pages
PTSD symptoms and family versus stranger violence in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.
Creators: name: Elbogen, Eric B.
name: Sullivan, Connor P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: As a diagnosis, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been associated with violence committed by veterans in many studies; however, a potential link to specific PTSD symptoms has received relatively less attention. This paper examines the relationship between PTSD symptoms and different types of violent behavior in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. Participants were randomly sampled from a roster of all separated U.S. military service members or national guard/reservists who served after September 11, 2001. Data were collected at baseline and 1-year follow-up from a national sample of N = 1,090 veterans, from 50 states and all military branches. Of these veterans, 13% reported aggression toward a family member and 9% toward a stranger during the 1-year study period. Anger symptoms at baseline predicted higher odds of family violence at follow-up, both severe (OR = 1.30, CI [1.13, 1.48], p < .0001) and any (OR= 1.28, CI [1.19, 1.37], p < .0001). PTSD flashback symptoms at baseline predicted higher odds of stranger violence at follow-up, both severe (OR = 1.26, CI [1.11, 1.42], p < .0001) and any (OR = 1.16, CI [1.05, 1.28], p = .0029). Analyses revealed that males were more likely to engage in stranger violence, whereas females were more likely to endorse aggression in the family context. The results provide limited support to the hypothesis that PTSD “flashbacks” in veterans are linked to violence. The differing multivariate models illustrate distinct veteran characteristics associated with specific types of violence.
Tunis, ville double : les quartiers consulaires médiévaux comme prémices de la ville européenne
Creators: name: El Ghali, Adnen
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: Thanks to the conclusion of the first trade and peace treaty between the Emirate of Tunis and the Republic of Pisa (1157), the central area called the “Frankish Quarter” of Tunis was established. Through the signing of new treatises with competing Christian powers, the ”Frankish Quarter” was gradually transformed and became a “Consular District”. At the centre of this process was the fondouk, soul of the Latin Christian quarter, located between the port and the city. In this area, consular institutions gave rise to a specific set of services and equipments intended for a specific and segregated community. After four centuries of existence (1157-1535), the “Consular District” was replaced by a military citadel, the Nova Arx, designed by Italian engineers under count Gabrio Serbelloni’s (1509-1580) command and constructed on the site of the hafsid arsenal. The Nova Arx existed for only one year (1573-1574), when it was dismantled by the Ottomans. With it, the memory of the consular presence in this part of the city vanished until the construction of the French consulate in 1860.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 26 N. 1 (2022): Kervan 26 (2022)
Use of ED and hospital services for patients with acute leukemia after induction therapy: One year follow-up
Creators: name: Wood, William A.
name: Walton, Ann Marie
name: Bryant, Ashley Leak
name: Mayer, Deborah K.
name: Deal, Allison M.
name: Muss, Hyman
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Previous studies have documented use of health care services by oncology patients in the Emergency Department (ED), but little is known about the utilization of health services of patients with acute leukemia after induction therapy. The aim of this study was to examine chief reasons for ED and hospital use by patients newly diagnosed with acute leukemia patients after induction therapy up to one year after discharge. A retrospective, longitudinal study of all visits to the ED or unplanned hospital admissions at a single institution for patients with acute leukemia was conducted. Inclusion criteria were patients ≥18 years of age at time of diagnosis, a confirmed diagnosis of AML or ALL, and received and discharged from induction treatment between 2007–2010. Donabedian’s structure-process-outcome framework guided this study examining health services utilization and assessing patient outcomes. 80 patients met the inclusion criteria; 52 had AML and 28 had ALL; median age was 48 (range: 18–76) and 29% (n=23) were non-Caucasian. 70% (n=56) were discharged from induction in remission. 81% (n=65) had at least 1 ED or hospitalization event, and 44% (n=35) had 2 or more events. Of 137 events in 65 patients, the most common reason was neutropenic fever/infection (55%), bleeding (12%), and GI problems (11%). Mean number of events for ALL was 2.43 compared to 1.33 for AML patients (p=0.02), and 2.23 for <50 years of age compared to 1.20 for those older (p=0.002). 20 patients died within one year of diagnosis. Findings from this study can help inform health services delivery and utilization among patients with acute leukemia after induction therapy. Oncology providers can anticipate discharge needs and enhance follow-up care for those at higher risk for problems needing hospitalization.
LMC S63: a historical reappraisal of the outburst behaviour of a deeply eclipsing Magellanic symbiotic star
Creators: name: Ilkiewicz, Krystian
name: Mikolajewska, Joanna
name: Miszalski, Brent
name: Gromadzki, Mariusz
name: Whitelock, Patricia A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of multi-epoch low-resolution spectrophotometry, complemented by the light curves provided by massive photometric surveys spanning over 100 years, of the symbiotic binary LMC S63. We showed that it is an eclipsing binary with the orbital period of 1050d. We also found evidence of outbursts in history of the white dwarf. If it was a Z-And type outburst, as is most likely, it would be a second such outburst recorded in the Magellanic Cloud symbiotic system. We confirmed that the red giant is enhanced in carbon, and estimated C/O~1.2 by fitting a model atmosphere to the SALT spectrum. We also found bi-periodic pulsations of the red giant, and demonstrated that it is similar to other carbon variables with confirmed bi-periodicity.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Data and code of Putative cell-type-specific multiregional mode in Posterior Parietal Cortex during coordinated visual behavior
Creators: name: Khazali, Mohammad Farhan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Central nervous system
Computational neuroscience (incl. mathematical neuroscience and theoretical neuroscience)

description: Data and Code of Putative cell-type-specific multiregional mode in Posterior Parietal Cortex during coordinated visual behavior
 each code used to generate a figure is titled by the figure name, and it calles the needed data which is incluided here.
 Some ofthe codes are authored by others, their references are in the code itself. we added them here to allow the generation of the figures
Planning for Electric Vehicles Coupled with Urban Mobility
Creators: name: Xu, Yanyan
name: Colak, Serdar
name: Kara, Emre C.
name: Moura, Scott J.
name: Gonzalez, Marta C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rising adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) leads to the alignment of their electricity and their mobility demands. Therefore, transportation and power infrastructures are becoming increasingly interdependent. In this work, we uncover patterns of PEV mobility by integrating for the first time two unique data sets: (i) mobile phone activity of 1.39 million Bay Area residents and (ii) charging activity of PEVs in 580,000 sessions obtained in the same region. We present a method to estimate individual mobility of PEV drivers at fine temporal and spatial resolution integrating survey data with mobile phone data and income information obtained from census. Thereupon, we recommend changes in PEVs charging times of commuters at their work stations that take into account individual travel needs and shave the pronounced peak in power demand. Informed by the tariff of electricity, we calculate the12 monetary gains to incentivize the adoption of the recommendations. These results open avenues for planning for the future of coupled transportation and electricity needs using personalized data.
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Year: 2024

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Atsuhiro Yoshida, Haydn Trowell

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A symphony of interconnected lives that offers a compelling reflection on life in modern-day metropolises at the intersection of isolation and intimacy in Yoshida’s English-language debut Set over several nights, between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 4:30 a.m., in and around Tokyo, this mind-blowingly constructed book is an elaborate, energetic fresco of human nocturnal existence in all its mystery, an enigmatic literary mix of Agatha Christie, Teju Cole, and Heironymous Bosch. On this journey through the labyrinthine streets and hidden corners of one of the world’s most fascinating cities, everybody is searching for something, and maybe searching in the wrong places. Elements of the fantastical and the surreal abound, as they tend to do in the early pre-dawn hours of the morning, yet the settings, the human stories, and each character’s search are all as real as can be. Goodnight Tokyo offers readers a unique and intimate take on Tokyo as seen through the eyes of a large cast of colorful characters. Their lives, as disparate and as far apart as they may seem, are in fact intricately interconnected, and their fates converge against the backdrop of the city’s neon-lit streets and quiet alleyways. In his English-language debut, Yoshida masterfully portrays in captivating and lyrical prose the complexities of human relationships, the mystery of human connection, and the universal quest for meaning.
The path to a collective spirituality in the art of Mori Mariko
Creators: name: Cavazzuti, Federica
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: Among the most successful Japanese artists working internationally, Mori Mariko (b. 1967, Tokyo) has distinguished herself on the contemporary art scene for her multi-disciplinary practice that continuously experiments with different techniques and concepts. During her very active career, and particularly around the turn of the century, a shift can be noticed from the rather pop imagery of her earlier works to an exploration of religious, sacred, and spiritual themes, a progressive transformation that has developed in multiple directions until the present moment. The references included in her artworks often merge indigenous religions, Shinto, and Buddhism, doctrines that she perceives as ways to reflect on broader aspects of life, nature, and the humankind at large. This article traces an overview of some of the most important works realized by Mori during the past three decades, which are grouped both thematically and chronologically: the early photographs and performances; the pieces inspired by Tantric Buddhism, with strong connections to traditional Buddhist art; the big-scale installations, with a shift towards sacred architecture; the projects encouraging the interconnectedness between different people, as well as a rediscovery of their roots; and finally, the outdoor installations that celebrate nature and Earth.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 26 N. 1 (2022): Kervan 26 (2022)
{pdf download} Song of Carcosa: An Arkham Horror Novel by Josh Reynolds
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Year: 2024

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An occult thief takes on a sinister society threatening to tear the fabric of this world apart, in this daring noir-thriller from the bestselling world of Arkham Horror Countess Alessandra Zorzi, reformed thief and acquirer of occult artifacts, faces her greatest challenge yet as she searches for an elusive artist in possession of the powerful Zanthu Tablet; the only thing that can stop the strange psychic malaise afflicting Alessandra’s assistant, Pepper. The countess’s quest takes her to the crooked heart of Venice, where an eerie organization is planning a grand performance that will engulf the city in chaos. As Pepper slips into an inescapable alien world, Alessandra must defeat powerful forces to save her friend. One wrong move could bring the curtain down on them all.
Maternal Influences on Nausea and Vomiting in Early Pregnancy
Creators: name: Peterson, Herbert B.
name: Herring, Amy H.
name: Savitz, David A.
name: Olshan, Andrew F.
name: Martin, Sandra L.
name: Chan, Ronna L.
name: Daniels, Julie L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Symptoms of nausea and vomiting in early pregnancy (NVP) are common among pregnant women, but whether some women are more likely than others to experience these symptoms has not been well established. We examined potential risk factors for NVP symptom severity, timing of onset, and duration. We included 2,407 newly pregnant women who participated in a prospective cohort study on early pregnancy health between 2000 and 2004 in three U.S. cities. Data on NVP and other health information were collected through telephone interviews, early gestation ultrasound, and medical record abstractions. Generalized linear models were used to model possible risk factors for each NVP characteristic. Eighty-nine percent of women had NVP; for 99% of these, symptoms started in the first trimester. None of the characteristics examined were associated with having NVP. Among those with NVP, increasing risk of delayed symptoms onset was associated with advancing maternal age; increased risks were also seen among non-Hispanic Black [Risk ratio (RR) = 4.3, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.6,11.6] and Hispanic women (RR = 2.3, 95% CI:0.4,11.5). NVP symptoms for multigravidae were more likely to last beyond the first trimester with each additional pregnancy. Most pregnant women experienced NVP. Nearly all of them, regardless of characteristics examined, had symptoms beginning in the first trimester. Maternal age, race/ethnicity, and gravidity were associated with delayed onset and symptoms that persisted into the second trimester.
High-resolution coherent probe spectroscopy of a polariton quantum fluid
Creators: name: Claude, Ferdinand
name: Jacquet, Maxime J
name: Usciati, Romain
name: Carusotto, Iacopo
name: Giacobino, Elisabeth
name: Bramati, Alberto
name: Glorieux, Quentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Characterising elementary excitations in quantum fluids is essential to study collective effects within. We present an original angle-resolved coherent probe spectroscopy technique to study the dispersion of these excitation modes in a fluid of polaritons under resonant pumping. Thanks to the unprecedented spectral and spatial resolution, we observe directly the low-energy phononic behaviour and detect the negative-energy modes, i.e. the \textit{ghost branch}, of the dispersion relation. In addition, we reveal narrow spectral features precursory of dynamical instabilities due to the intrinsic out-of-equilibrium nature of the system. This technique provides the missing tool for the quantitative study of quantum hydrodynamics in polariton fluids.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. Comments are welcome
The historical reality of the plural of paucity and the plural diminutive in Classical Arabic: Evidence from kalām al-‘arab (Part Two)
Creators: name: Grande, Francesco
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: This study investigates the semantics of the plural of paucity and the plural diminutive, based on their attestations in the non-literary source of Classical Arabic traditionally known as kalām al-‘arab. In noun plural marking, the meaning of the diminutive is as elusive as that of the plural of paucity. What is known of both kinds of meanings is mainly derived from the indirect description of early lexicographers and grammarians. To assess the historical reality of this traditional semantic description, attestations from the kalām al-‘arab are collected, then compared to data from Arabic dialects, and finally subjected to a distributional analysis. The grammatical categories of the collective, inherent plural, and the pseudo-dual are also considered in this assessment.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 26 N. 1 (2022): Kervan 26 (2022)
Recombination energy in double white dwarf formation
Creators: name: Nandez, Jose L. A.
name: Ivanova, Natalia
name: Lombardi, James C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Letter we investigate the role of recombination energy during a common envelope event. We confirm that taking this energy into account helps to avoid the formation of the circumbinary envelope commonly found in previous studies. For the first time, we can model a complete common envelope event, with a clean compact double white dwarf binary system formed at the end. The resulting binary orbit is almost perfectly circular. In addition to considering recombination energy, we also show that between 1/4 and 1/2 of the released orbital energy is taken away by the ejected material. We apply this new method to the case of the double-white dwarf system WD 1101+364, and we find that the progenitor system at the start of the common envelope event consisted of a $\sim1.5M_\odot$ red giant star in a $\sim 30$ day orbit with a white dwarf companion.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters (acceptance date:8 March 2015)
“What’s in a name?” Swahili toponymy of past towns on the East African coast
Creators: name: Baumanova, Monika
name: Tramutoli, Rosanna
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: For the last century, archaeologists have surveyed and studied archaeological sites on the Swahili coast of East Africa, that represent the remains of past Swahili settlements and, in few cases, living historical towns. This paper is the first discussion of a collection of the names under which these past towns have been known, some of which may date back to the precolonial period. The present enquiry is concerned with the analysis of linguistic features, folk etymology and the conceptual content of these toponyms. It considers the recognised important themes in archaeology and history of the Swahili society, such as the political functioning of these towns as city states and the attested social and economic relevance of trade, the built environment and the ocean. Utilising this knowledge, it reflects on how the names contributed to place-making and defining the identity of these towns both as individual entities and as part of the Swahili cultural sphere. The interdisciplinary approach and perspectives (linguistic and archaeological) help to elucidate the connection between the socio-historical relevance of these sites with their cultural conceptualisations.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 26 N. 1 (2022): Kervan 26 (2022)
Effects of Maternity Care Coordination on Pregnancy Outcomes: Propensity-Weighted Analyses
Creators: name: Basu, Anirban
name: Timothy Whitmire, J.
name: Domino, Marisa E.
name: Hillemeier, Marianne M.
name: Goyal, Ravi K.
name: Wells, Rebecca
name: Cilenti, Dorothy
name: Kum, Hye Chung
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Care coordination services that link pregnant women to health-promoting resources, avoid duplication of effort, and improve communication between families and providers have been endorsed as a strategy for reducing disparities in adverse pregnancy outcomes, however empirical evidence regarding the effects of these services is contradictory and incomplete. This study investigates the effects of maternity care coordination on pregnancy outcomes in North Carolina.
Cuisine is not enough: Transformation of women in Indonesian short stories in the 2000s
Creators: name: Harjito, Harjito
name: Umaya, Nazla Maharani
name: Kurniati, Yuli
name: Suciati, Sri
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: Women’s attachment to the world of cooking is not without practical cause, but it is also an ideological process. This paper examines married women’s relationship with cooking and its ideological background in four Indonesian short stories. The stories serve as primary data, discussed through narrative textual analysis, from a feminist perspective. Married women are obligated to be good cooks, especially to earn their husbands’ loyalty and faithfulness, so their main role is in the kitchen. In the meantime, patriarchal ideology is passed on from mothers to daughters. Although not all texts describe women’s resistance to their role in the kitchen, some women resist by preparing food and marketing it with the aim of not relying on their husband’s income alone and gaining economic independence.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 26 N. 1 (2022): Kervan 26 (2022)
PDF [DOWNLOAD] Ultimo emperador de México, El by Edward Shawcross on Iphone
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La verdadera historia de Maximiliano y Carlota y de su convulso reinado en México... En 1864, un joven archiduque austriaco llamado Maximiliano y su esposa Carlota cruzaron el Atlántico para asumir un trono lejano en América. Napoleón III los había convencido para que emprendieran una aventura en México: el emperador francés había prometido a Maximiliano una bienvenida de héroe. En lugar de eso, se encontraron en mitad de una sangrienta guerra civil. Con la cabeza llena de ideales ––y una singular afición por las mariposas––, el nuevo «emperador» no estaba preparado para su destino. Shawcross narra en este magnífico libro una tragedia sangrienta cuyos efectos reverberaron hasta la actualidad. The true story of Maximilian and Carlota and their turbulent reign in Mexico. This is history's judgement on the events surrounding the ill-fated reign of Maximilian of Mexico, the young Austrian archduke who in 1864 crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne. He had been convinced to do so by a duplicitous Napoleon III. Keen to spread his own interests abroad, the French emperor promised Maximilian a hero's welcome, which he would ensure with his own mighty military support. Instead, Maximilian walked into a bloody guerrilla war - and with a headful of impractical ideals and a penchant for pomp and butterflies, the so-called new emperor was singularly unequipped for the task. The ensuing saga would feature the great world leaders of the day, popes, bandits and queens; intrigue, conspiracy and cut-throat statecraft, as Mexico became the pivotal battleground in the global balance of power, between Old Europe and the burgeoning force of the New World: American imperialism.

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Calabi-Yau Metrics, Energy Functionals and Machine-Learning
Creators: name: Ashmore, Anthony
name: Calmon, Lucille
name: He, Yang-Hui
name: Ovrut, Burt A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We apply machine learning to the problem of finding numerical Calabi-Yau metrics. We extend previous work on learning approximate Ricci-flat metrics calculated using Donaldson's algorithm to the much more accurate "optimal" metrics of Headrick and Nassar. We show that machine learning is able to predict the Kähler potential of a Calabi-Yau metric having seen only a small sample of training data.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Ontogenetic Differences in Dietary Fat Influence Microbiota Assembly in the Zebrafish Gut
Creators: name: Zac Stephens, W.
name: Wong, Sandi
name: Burns, Adam R.
name: David, Lawrence A.
name: Stagaman, Keaton
name: Bohannan, Brendan J.M.
name: Guillemin, Karen
name: Rawls, John F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: ABSTRACT Gut microbiota influence the development and physiology of their animal hosts, and these effects are determined in part by the composition of these microbial communities. Gut microbiota composition can be affected by introduction of microbes from the environment, changes in the gut habitat during development, and acute dietary alterations. However, little is known about the relationship between gut and environmental microbiotas or about how host development and dietary differences during development impact the assembly of gut microbiota. We sought to explore these relationships using zebrafish, an ideal model because they are constantly immersed in a defined environment and can be fed the same diet for their entire lives. We conducted a cross-sectional study in zebrafish raised on a high-fat, control, or low-fat diet and used bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequencing to survey microbial communities in the gut and external environment at different developmental ages. Gut and environmental microbiota compositions rapidly diverged following the initiation of feeding and became increasingly different as zebrafish grew under conditions of a constant diet. Different dietary fat levels were associated with distinct gut microbiota compositions at different ages. In addition to alterations in individual bacterial taxa, we identified putative assemblages of bacterial lineages that covaried in abundance as a function of age, diet, and location. These results reveal dynamic relationships between dietary fat levels and the microbial communities residing in the intestine and the surrounding environment during ontogenesis. IMPORTANCE The ability of gut microbiota to influence host health is determined in part by their composition. However, little is known about the relationship between gut and environmental microbiotas or about how ontogenetic differences in dietary fat impact gut microbiota composition. We addressed these gaps in knowledge using zebrafish, an ideal model organism because their environment can be thoroughly sampled and they can be fed the same diet for their entire lives. We found that microbial communities in the gut changed as zebrafish aged under conditions of a constant diet and became increasingly different from microbial communities in their surrounding environment. Further, we observed that the amount of fat in the diet had distinct age-specific effects on gut community assembly. These results reveal the complex relationships between microbial communities residing in the intestine and those in the surrounding environment and show that these relationships are shaped by dietary fat throughout the life of animal hosts.
Data and code of Putative cell-type-specific multiregional mode in Posterior Parietal Cortex during coordinated visual behavior
Creators: name: Khazali, Mohammad Farhan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Central nervous system
Computational neuroscience (incl. mathematical neuroscience and theoretical neuroscience)

description: Data and Code of Putative cell-type-specific multiregional mode in Posterior Parietal Cortex during coordinated visual behavior
 each code used to generate a figure is titled by the figure name, and it calles the needed data which is incluided here.
4-Alkyloxyimino-cytosine nucleotides: tethering approaches to molecular probes for the P2Y6 receptor
Creators: name: Ball, Christopher B.
name: Brown, Kyle A.
name: Kozma, Eszter
name: Squarcialupi, Lucia
name: Jayasekara, P. Suresh
name: Maruoka, Hiroshi
name: Barrett, Matthew O.
name: Costanzi, Stefano
name: Jacobson, Kenneth A.
name: Balasubramanian, Ramachandran
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: 4-Alkyloxyimino derivatives of pyrimidine nucleotides display high potency as agonists of certain G protein-coupled P2Y receptors (P2YRs). In an effort to functionalize a P2Y6R agonist for fluorescent labeling, we probed two positions (N4 and γ-phosphate of cytidine derivatives) with various functional groups, including alkynes for click chemistry. Functionalization of extended imino substituents at the 4 position of the pyrimidine nucleobase of CDP preserved P2Y6R potency generally better than γ-phosphoester formation in CTP derivatives. Fluorescent Alexa Fluor 488 conjugate 16 activated the human P2Y6R expressed in 1321N1 human astrocytoma cells with an EC50 of 9 nM, and exhibited high selectivity for this receptor over other uridine nucleotide-activated P2Y receptors. Flow cytometry detected specific labeling with 16 to P2Y6R-expressing but not to wild-type 1321N1 cells. Additionally, confocal microscopy indicated both internalized 16 (t1/2 of 18 min) and surface-bound fluorescence. Known P2Y6R ligands inhibited labeling. Theoretical docking of 16 to a homology model of the P2Y6R predicted electrostatic interactions between the fluorophore and extracellular portion of TM3. Thus, we have identified the N4-benzyloxy group as a structurally permissive site for synthesis of functionalized congeners leading to high affinity molecular probes for studying the P2Y6R.
(3225) Ethel Leigh
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.
Community detection and reciprocity in networks by jointly modeling pairs of edges
Creators: name: Contisciani, Martina
name: Safdari, Hadiseh
name: De Bacco, Caterina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To unravel the driving patterns of networks, the most popular models rely on community detection algorithms. However, these approaches are generally unable to reproduce the structural features of the network. Therefore, attempts are always made to develop models that incorporate these network properties beside the community structure. In this work, we present a probabilistic generative model and an efficient algorithm to both perform community detection and capture reciprocity in networks. Our approach jointly models pairs of edges with exact 2-edge joint distributions. In addition, it provides closed-form analytical expressions for both marginal and conditional distributions. We validate our model on synthetic data in recovering communities, edge prediction tasks, and generating synthetic networks that replicate the reciprocity values observed in real networks. We also highlight these findings on two real datasets that are relevant for social scientists and behavioral ecologists. Our method overcomes the limitations of both standard algorithms and recent models that incorporate reciprocity through a pseudo-likelihood approximation. The inference of the model parameters is implemented by the efficient and scalable expectation-maximization algorithm, as it exploits the sparsity of the dataset. We provide an open-source implementation of the code online.
Evaluation of Item Candidates: The PROMIS Qualitative Item Review
Creators: name: Yount, Susan
name: Stone, Arthur A.
name: Rothrock, Nan
name: DeWalt, Darren A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: One of the PROMIS (Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System) network's primary goals is the development of a comprehensive item bank for patient-reported outcomes of chronic diseases. For its first set of item banks, PROMIS chose to focus on pain, fatigue, emotional distress, physical function, and social function. An essential step for the development of an item pool is the identification, evaluation, and revision of extant questionnaire items for the core item pool. In this work, we also describe the systematic process wherein items are classified for subsequent statistical processing by the PROMIS investigators. Six phases of item development are documented: identification of extant items, item classification and selection, item review and revision, focus group input on domain coverage, cognitive interviews with individual items, and final revision before field testing. Identification of items refers to the systematic search for existing items in currently available scales. Expert item review and revision was conducted by trained professionals who reviewed the wording of each item and revised as appropriate for conventions adopted by the PROMIS network. Focus groups were used to confirm domain definitions and to identify new areas of item development for future PROMIS item banks. Cognitive interviews were used to examine individual items. Items successfully screened through this process were sent to field testing and will be subjected to innovative scale construction procedures.
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Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

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In this new installment of Tasha Alexander's acclaimed Lady Emily series set in the wild Scottish highlands, an ancient story of witchcraft may hold the key to solving a murder centuries later. Lady Emily, husband Colin Hargreaves, and their three sons eagerly embark on a family vacation at Cairnfarn Castle, the Scottish estate of their dear friend Jeremy, Duke of Bainbridge. But a high-spirited celebration at the beginning of their stay comes to a grisly end when the duke's gamekeeper is found murdered on the banks of the loch. Handsome Angus Sinclair had a host of enemies: the fiancée he abandoned in Edinburgh, the young woman who had fallen hopelessly in love with him, and the rough farmer who saw him as a rival for her affections. But what is the meaning of the curious runic stone left on Sinclair's forehead? Clues may be found in the story of Lady MacAllister, wife of the Laird of Cairnfarn Castle, who in 1676 suddenly found herself widowed and thrown out of her home. Her sole companion was a Moorish slave girl who helped her secretly spirit her most prized possessions—a collection of strange books—out of the castle. When her neighbors, wary of a woman living on her own, found a poppet—a doll used to cast spells—and a daisy wheel in her isolated cottage, Lady MacAllister was accused of witchcraft, a crime punishable by death. Hundreds of years later, Lady Emily searches for the link between Lady MacAllister's harrowing witchcraft trial and the brutal death of Sinclair. She must follow a trail of hidden motives, an illicit affair, and a mysterious stranger to reveal the dark side of a seemingly idyllic Highland village.
Comment on "Hamiltonian splitting for the Vlasov-Maxwell equations"
Creators: name: Qin, Hong
name: He, Yang
name: Zhang, Ruili
name: Liu, Jian
name: Xiao, Jianyuan
name: Wang, Yulei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The paper [1] by Crouseilles, Einkemmer, and Faou used an incorrect Poisson bracket for the Vlasov-Maxwell equations. If the correct Poisson bracket is used, the solution of one of the subsystems cannot be computed exactly in general. As a result, one cannot construct a symplectic scheme for the Vlasov-Maxwell equations using the splitting Hamiltonian method proposed in Ref [1].
description: 6 pages