cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Maximum Likelihood Time Synchronization for Zero-padded OFDM
Creators: name: Roshandeh, Koosha Pourtahmasi
name: Mohammadkarimi, Mostafa
name: Ardakani, Masoud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Existing Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) variants based on cyclic prefix (CP) allow for efficient time synchronization, but suffer from lower power efficiency compared to zero-padded (ZP)-OFDM. Because of its power efficiency, ZP-OFDM is considered as an appealing solution for the emerging low-power wireless systems. However, in the absence of CP, time synchronization in ZP-OFDM is a very challenging task. In this paper, the non-data-aided (NDA) maximum-likelihood (ML) time synchronization for ZP-OFDM is analytically derived. We show that the optimal NDA-ML synchronization algorithm offers a high lock-in probability and can be efficiently implemented using Monte Carlo sampling (MCS) technique in combination with golden-section search. To obtain the optimal NDA-ML time synchronization algorithm, we first derive a closed-form expression for the joint probability density function (PDF) of the received ZP-OFDM samples in frequency-selective fading channels. The derived expression is valid for doubly-selective fading channels with mobile users as well. The performance of the proposed synchronization algorithm is evaluated under various practical settings through simulation experiments. It is shown that the proposed optimal NDA-ML synchronization algorithm and its MCS implementation substantially outperforms existing algorithms in terms of lock-in probability.
Teatro e neuroscienze
Creators: name: Fazio, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: In the last decennia, many dialogues have developed by sharing among arts, aesthetics and sciences. The objective is to neuroaesthetics (dating back 1994) by Semir Zeki. To date, the training process of neuroaesthetics is focused on visual arts. Perhaps, the theatre might be the most suitable for neuroscientific studies. Some interesting results have been produced by mutual attention among neurosciences and theatre. Neurosciences are tending to consider the theatre as a natural category. The neural dimension study of intersubjectivity offers food for thought for a naturalization of actor’s tradition. So the theatre is regarded as a social pratice and loses its specificity.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
Mechanistic Analysis of the Oligomerization States of DmGen in vitro Using  Atomic Force Microscopy
Creators: name: Juhi Salunke
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: DNA damage can happen due to a variety of environmental agents, such as oxidative and UV damage that can lead to DNA mutations within the genome which is linked to disease etiologies. DNA damage repair is an important pathway that helps modulate these damages that occur in DNA replication. One such repair pathway acts in homologous recombination, which acts to resolve DNA intermediates that result from repair of DNA damage in double strand breaks and interstrand crosslinking. A variety of enzymes function along this repair pathway to resolve these DNA intermediates, one such protein being Drosophila Melanogaster Gen (DmGen), an endonuclease protein. In past studies, this endonuclease has been shown to mirror the human homolog GEN1 endonuclease in DNA damage repair. In this study, we will be investigating the mechanism of DmGen by observing how it binds to flapped DNA substrates, which act as a double stranded break DNA intermediate. These findings will help to elucidate the oligomerization and bending of substrates within in vitro studies. By using AFM, we imaged and analyzed how DmGen binds to 5’ flap DNA substrate to better understand the overlying mechanism in which DmGen resolves flapped DNA intermediates. This analysis revealed a distribution of Gen between monomer and dimer states with possible differences in binding angle. These findings from this eukaryotic system centered on DmGen will function to deepen our understanding of human GEN1 and potentially other eukaryotic resolvases in the context of DNA damage repair.
Holography of 3D Asymptotically Flat Black Holes
Creators: name: Fareghbal, Reza
name: Hosseini, Seyed Morteza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the asymptotically flat rotating hairy black hole solution of a three-dimensional gravity theory which is given by taking the flat-space limit (zero cosmological constant limit) of new massive gravity. We propose that the dual field theory of the flat-space limit of new massive gravity can be described by a contracted conformal field theory which is invariant under the action of the BMS$_{3}$ group. Using the flat/contracted conformal field theory correspondence, we construct a stress tensor which yields the conserved charges of the asymptotically flat black hole solution. We check that our expressions of the mass and angular momentum fit with the first law of black hole thermodynamics. Furthermore, by taking the appropriate limit of the Cardy formula in the parent conformal field theory, we find a Cardy-like formula which reproduces the Wald's entropy of the 3D asymptotically flat black hole.
description: 17 pages, V2: Minor corrections, Ref. added, Published version
Additional file 1: of The distribution of autistic traits across the autism spectrum: evidence for discontinuous dimensional subpopulations underlying the autism continuum
Creators: name: Abu-Akel, Ahmad
name: Allison, Carrie
name: Baron-Cohen, Simon
name: Heinke, Dietmar
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure S1. Hartiganâ  s dip test of unimodality. Figure S2. Power analysis of threshold comparison between the male and female samples. Figure S3. The distributions of Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) scores of the males and females with and without an autism spectrum condition within the overall enriched-sample (NÂ =â  4717). (DOCX 183 kb)
What and how do different stakeholders contribute to intervention development? A mixed methods study.
Creators: name: Mahony, Lauren
name: Racine, Emmy
name: , Fiona.Riordan@Ucc.Ie
name: Flynn, Gráinne
name: Kearney, Patricia
name: McHugh, Sheena
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases
subject: Health Services Research
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Community Health and Preventive Medicine
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Other Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Public Health
subject: Diseases
subject: Diabetic Retinopathy Screening
subject: Intervention development
subject: Patient and public involvement
subject: User involvement

description: This Study Within A Trial (SWAT) was embedded in the intervention development phase of the Improving Diabetes Eye-Screening Attendance (IDEAs) pilot trial conducted at the School of Public Health, University College Cork
Maximilian Kolbe: Beispiel christlicher Proexistenz
Creators: name: Nossol, Alfons
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 11 Nr. 5 (1982): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 11, Heft 5
Il recupero della dimensione performativa per un'adeguata comprensione delle commedie plautine. L'esempio di Pseudolus 1246-1284
Creators: name: Felici, Chiara
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: Assuming the performative dimension as the key to an adequate understanding of Plautus comedies, this paper studies a grammar of the ancient dramatic technique through the performances of the slave Pseudolus, in the same comedy. With this character, that shows a theatrical consciousness, Plautus includes a new concept in the conventions of ‘comic heroism’.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
Ion Channel Fluctuations in transmembrane protein ion channels within single cells
Creators: name: Pandey, Santosh
name: White, Marvin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Clinical microbiology
Clinical chemistry (incl. diagnostics)
Emergency medicine
Endocrinology
Infectious diseases
Medical genetics (excl. cancer genetics)
Rural clinical health
Rheumatology and arthritis
Bioassays
Electroanalytical chemistry
Instrumental methods (excl. immunological and bioassay methods)
Metabolomic chemistry
Quality assurance, chemometrics, traceability and metrological chemistry
Biological network analysis
Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified
Bioinformatic methods development
Genomics and transcriptomics
Proteomics and metabolomics
Statistical and quantitative genetics

description: Transmembrane proteins, known as ion channels, are key to regulating and sustaining ionic concentrations within the cell membrane. It is essential to model the atomic-level ionic flow through these channels in order to comprehend a variety of neurological illnesses and related pharmaceutical developments. Advanced experimental procedures provide data on the physical structure of the channel, which assists in constructing realistic ion transport models. While ions are passing through the channel, they follow distinct trajectories, each with a corresponding probability. Quantities that explain these pathways consist of translocation and return probabilities, average lifetime, and spectral density (an experimentally available parameter) of ion number fluctuations. Previous theoretical analyses of ion transport have been restricted to low-resolution continuum diffusion-based or kinetic-based models, which are unable to take into consideration factors impacting ionic conduction. This paper goes further, expanding on earlier models by means of an electro-diffusion model, incorporating the effects of electric field, energy barrier, and rate-limited association/dissociation of ions with surface charges inside the channel. Survival probability and spectral density are derived from the analytical model.
 Pandey, S. (2012). Analytical Modeling of the Ion Number Fluctuations in Biological Ion Channels. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 12(3), 2489–2495. https://doi.org/10.1166/jnn.2012.5771
 https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/jnn/2012/00000012/00000003/art00106;jsessionid=9sa2eo64qp083.x-ic-live-02
The Role of Fission in Neutron Star Mergers and its Impact on the r-Process Peaks
Creators: name: Eichler, Marius
name: Arcones, Almudena
name: Kelic, Alexandra
name: Korobkin, Oleg
name: Langanke, Karlheinz
name: Marketin, Tomislav
name: Martinez-Pinedo, Gabriel
name: Panov, Igor V.
name: Rauscher, Thomas
name: Rosswog, Stephan
name: Winteler, Christian
name: Zinner, Nikolaj T.
name: Thielemann, Friedrich-Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Comparing observational abundance features with nucleosynthesis predictions of stellar evolution or explosion simulations can scrutinize two aspects: (a) the conditions in the astrophysical production site and (b) the quality of the nuclear physics input utilized. We test the abundance features of r-process nucleosynthesis calculations for the dynamical ejecta of neutron star merger simulations based on three different nuclear mass models: The Finite Range Droplet Model (FRDM), the (quenched version of the) Extended Thomas Fermi Model with Strutinsky Integral (ETFSI-Q), and the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) mass model. We make use of corresponding fission barrier heights and compare the impact of four different fission fragment distribution models on the final r-process abundance distribution. In particular, we explore the abundance distribution in the second r-process peak and the rare-earth sub-peak as a function of mass models and fission fragment distributions, as well as the origin of a shift in the third r-process peak position. The latter has been noticed in a number of merger nucleosynthesis predictions. We show that the shift occurs during the r-process freeze-out when neutron captures and β-decays compete and an (n,γ)-(γ,n) equilibrium is not maintained anymore. During this phase neutrons originate mainly from fission of material above A = 240. We also investigate the role of β-decay half-lives from recent theoretical advances, which lead either to a smaller amount of fissioning nuclei during freeze-out or a faster (and thus earlier) release of fission neutrons, which can (partially) prevent this shift and has an impact on the second and rare-earth peak as well.
Reader, I Broke the Formula: A Study of Bertha Mason's Intersectional Identity and the Gothic Double Formula
Creators: name: Kersten, Olivia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: The varying definitions surrounding the Gothic double reveal the formulaic nature of the trope: the undesirable qualities of the hero(ine) combined with a physically grotesque character equals the monstrous double. Charlotte Brontë created her infamous Gothic double in Jane Eyre (1847) with the eponymous heroine and Bertha Mason. The Gothic reading of Bertha Mason reduces her character to a formulation and two-dimensional trope dependent on Jane, erasing the complexities of her identity that speak to the larger Victorian political climate. Exploring Bertha's identity though the lens of intersectionality uncovers a more comprehensive image of the patriarchal British Empire and the inhumane treatment of people with disabilities in the asylum system. By combining feminist, post-colonialist, and disability frameworks, scholars can observe how Bertha's intersectional identity resists her relegation to a simple trope and the harm these tropes can impose on marginalized characters.
Enhanced phase sensitivity in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer via photon recycling
Creators: name: Li, Dong
name: Yuan, Chun-Hua
name: Ma, Xiaoping
name: Wang, Qingle
name: Lee, Hwang
name: Yao, Yao
name: Zhang, Weiping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an alternative scheme for phase estimation in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) with photon recycling. It is demonstrated that with the same coherent-state input and homodyne detection, our proposal possesses a phase sensitivity beyond the traditional MZI. For instance, it can achieve an enhancement factor of 9.32 in the phase sensitivity compared with the conventional scheme even with a photon loss of 10% on the photon-recycled arm. From another point of view, the quantum Cramer-Rao bound (QCRB) is also investigated. It is found that our scheme is able to achieve a lower QCRB than the traditional one. Intriguingly, the QCRB of our scheme is dependent of the phase shift phi while the traditional scheme has a constant QCRB regardless of the phase shift. Finally, we present the underlying mechanisms behind the enhanced phase sensitivity. We believe that our results provide another angle from which to enhance the phase sensitivity in a MZI via photon recycling.
description: Comments welcome
Understandings Barriers and Facilitators of Dietary Change Following Stroke: A Qualitative Analysis
Creators: name: Geib, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Background: Stroke remains one of the leading causes of long-term disability in the United States. Healthy lifestyle factors, such as eating a balanced diet high in fiber and low in sodium may decrease the risk of secondary stroke. The interactions between barriers and facilitators of dietary change, are not well understood. The objective of this study was to describe the experiences of individuals regarding their dietary habits post-stroke. 

Methods: Individuals who previously experienced a stroke participating in a study of stroke support (n = 10) completed a semi-structured interview virtually. Individuals were interviewed approximately 4-6 weeks following hospital discharge. Interviews were guided using a set of consistent questions and transcribed. Key themes were identified through an inductive coding approach. Themes were checked against the transcribed interviews, and a team based iterative approach was used to refine the final set of themes.

Results:  Key themes included post-stroke changes (e.g., changes in physical mobility, dexterity, taste, and cravings), the impact of social support (ranging from live-in caregivers to no consistent caregiver, including subthemes of gratitude, self-reliance), and motivation and desire for dietary change. 

Conclusion: Post-stroke is a complex and pivotal time to implement dietary changes. Providing education and resources can aid participants in making lasting dietary changes even after leaving the inpatient rehabilitation facility.
Dionysus in 69: Richard Schechner tra teoria e prassi della performance
Creators: name: Fiaschini, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: The paper aims to review the Schechner’s play Dionysus in 69. An event that, although the critics (and the director himself) have historicized as a simple epiphenomenon of American radical theater, however shows that it already possesses those foundations and principles that, in his post-theatrical analisys, Schechner will identify with the broad spectrum of performance, with particular reference to the concepts of ‘actual’, the ‘restoration of behavior’, ‘transportation and transformation’. So we will do an exercise in refocusing that reverses the direction of research, bringing it back (historically and conceptually) from the macro system of the living languages (human and animal) to the micro-system of the play (actor-spectator), from the ‘future’ of ritual to his ‘past’, finding analogies that encourage a cyclical recovery of the origin, of the starting point.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
5G and Beyond 5G Ecosystem Business Modelling
Creators: name: Hallingby, Hanne-Stine
name: Gavras, Anastasius
name: Mesogiti, Ioanna
name: Bledow, Nona
name: Darzanos, George
name: Frizzell, Ronan
name: Breuer, Henning
name: Rokkas, Theodoros
name: Fernandez Vega, Luis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This white paper describes approaches to business modelling in the context of 5G and beyond 5G ecosystems. It first explains how the disaggregated and modular 5G and beyond 5G technologies enable a dynamic business ecosystem with a higher number of interdependent actor roles, actors, and business relationships. This leads to the challenge to identify and design sustainable business models in a highly dynamic and complex business environment. The white paper proposes a methodology composed of five steps for how to carry out business modelling, catering for the perspectives of all actors. The approach described in this white paper embraces existing insight from different analytic approaches such as the concepts of ecosystems, value networks, business and sustainability model canvassing, and the application thereof in many recent 5G projects. The projects, represented by their experts, serve as a source for inspiration and validate our stepwise model. In addition, contributors to the white paper have willingly shared insights from approaches they apply in their respective organizations. Finally, we present systematically how their business modelling is aligned with the five steps in our suggested approach.
Invariant characterization of the Kerr spacetime: Locating the horizon and measuring the mass and spin of rotating black holes using curvature invariants
Creators: name: Abdelqader, Majd
name: Lake, Kayll
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide an invariant characterization of the physical properties of the Kerr spacetime. We introduce two dimensionless invariants, constructed out of some known curvature invariants, that act as detectors for the event horizon and ergosurface of the Kerr black hole. We also show that the mass and angular momentum can be extracted from local measurements of the curvature invariants, which in the weak field limit could be used to approximate the total angular momentum and mass of a system of merging black holes. Finally, we introduce a dimensionless invariant that gives a local measure of the "Kerrness" of the spacetime.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, typos fixed and other minor changes made to match the published version
«I wanna have lots and lots of blonde hair»: l'immagine della donna nel teatro nativo americano tra la Indian princess e la Squaw
Creators: name: Fichera, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: The paper notes the unhinging and the reappropriation of stereotypes of the Indian Princess and Squaw in Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots (pièce of native american dramaturg Monique Mojica, 1991). Mojica deconstructs the figure of Pocahontas, drawing on the collective memory of the native women and using Hermeneutics Trickster.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
Emotion as a Moderator Between Perceived Discrimination and Mental Health Outcomes
Creators: name: Amrita Mani
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: People who report elevated levels of discrimination are at increased risk for anxiety and depression. Emotion regulation strategies may exacerbate or buffer against the deleterious effect of discrimination on mental health; for example, increased use of rumination and suppression is associated with greater reported distress. Previous work also demonstrates that beliefs about emotion malleability moderate the effect of early life stress on mental health. Yet, it is unclear if emotion malleability and emotion regulation strategy use influence the relationship between perceived discrimination and mental health outcomes. The present study asked 281 undergraduate students (59.3% White, 39.3% not White, 1.48% race not reported; 10.7% Hispanic/Latinx; 71.9% cis women, 25.9% cis men, 2.2% non-binary) to complete validated self-report questionnaires about everyday instances of perceived discrimination and current anxiety and depression symptoms. Hierarchical regressions revealed that greater perceived discrimination, maladaptive emotion regulation strategy use, and fixed emotion beliefs were each associated with greater anxiety (bs= 3.63, 0.60, 0.94, ps < .01) and depression (bs=3.62, 0.99, 3.21, ps < .01) symptoms. However, regulation strategy use and emotion malleability beliefs did not interact with perceived discrimination to influence mental health outcomes (ps > .05). Thus, contrary to hypotheses, we found that emotion regulation strategies and beliefs about emotion malleability did not buffer against the well-established links between discrimination and worsened mental health.
Facebook 2020 Election Research Project Ideological Segregation in Exposure to News.
Creators: name: Nyhan, Brendan J.
name: Tenorio, Adriana Crespo
name: Tucker, Joshua A.
name: Settle, Jaime
name: Hunt Allcott
name: Franco, Annie
name: Thorson, Emily
name: Iyengar, Shanto
name: Deen Freelon
name: Persily, Nate
name: Wynter, Thomas
name: Gonzalez-Bailon, Sandra
name: Malhotra, Neil
name: Winter Mason
name: Barbera, Pablo
name: Gentzkow, Matthew
name: Guess, Andrew
name: Kim, Young Mie
name: Lazer, David
name: Tromble, Rebekah
name: Wilkins, Arjun
name: Devra Moehler
name: Stroud, Talia
name: Velasco, Carlos
name: Pan, Jennifer
name: De Jonge, Chad Kiewiet
name: Wojcieszak, Magdalena
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Pre-analysis plan for the Facebook 2020 Election Research Project. The results from the study outlined in this PAP will be published in a paper forthcoming in Science, July 28, 2023.
Política, futebol e seleção brasileira: Uma breve reflexão sobre a influência do futebol dentro da política nacional.pdf
Creators: name: Macedo Dalcol, Pedro Luís
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 439999
subject: Other history, heritage and archaeology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 470207
subject: Cultural theory
classificationCode: 440811
subject: Political theory and political philosophy

description: O presente artigo busca explorar como o futebol, enquanto produto cultural e político, desempenha um papel significativo na construção e na manipulação da identidade nacional. Os governos brasileiros, ao longo da história, utilizaram o futebol como uma ferramenta de propaganda e como um meio de conectar-se com a população, evidenciando a interseção entre esporte, política e identidade nacional.
Additional file 1: of An eukaryotic elongation factor 2 from Medicago falcata (MfEF2) confers cold tolerance
Creators: name: Haifan Shi
name: Sijian He
name: Xueying He
name: Shaoyun Lu
name: Zhenfei Guo
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S1. Basic information statistics of Protein identification (PDF 5â  kb) (PDF 4 kb)
Sensitive dependence of Gibbs measures at low temperatures
Creators: name: Coronel, Daniel
name: Rivera-Letelier, Juan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Gibbs measures of an interaction can behave chaotically as the temperature drops to zero. We observe that for some classical lattice systems there are interactions exhibiting a related phenomenon of sensitive dependence of Gibbs measures: An arbitrarily small perturbation of the interaction can produce significant changes in the low-temperature behavior of its Gibbs measures. For some one-dimensional XY models we exhibit sensitive dependence of Gibbs measures for a (nearest-neighbor) interaction given by a smooth function, and for perturbations that are small in the smooth category. We also exhibit sensitive dependence of Gibbs measures for an interaction on a classical lattice system with finite-state space. This interaction decreases exponentially as a function of the distance between sites; it is given by a Lipschitz continuous potential in the configuration space. The perturbations are small in the Lipschitz topology. As a by-product we solve some problems stated by Chazottes and Hochman.
description: Minor corrections geared to improve the exposition
Il valore performativo della fruizione artistica
Creators: name: Finocchi, Valeria
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: When considering artistic fruition as a communicative-educational performance rather than as the mere observation of an artwork, the focus shifts from the status of the artwork as such to the modalities through which it communicates, and to the definition of the relationship between the artwork and its public. In this perspective, artistic fruition can be understood no longer as a contemplative state (in the Romantic sense of the term), but as a performative act – in other words, as a dynamic and participative act which produces sense and content (H.G. Gadamer, Wahrheit und Methode, 1960). The implied notion of chronological duration (S. Bettini, Cinema e architettura, 1956) connotes this act as a process (see G. Genette, L’Œuvre de l’art, 1: Immanence et transcendance, 1994), which is relational in that it is not limited to a mere transmission of data (from artwork to public), but enhances the audience’s cognitive and emotional involvement.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
A spectral method for half-integer spin fields based on spin-weighted spherical harmonics
Creators: name: Beyer, Florian
name: Daszuta, Boris
name: Frauendiener, Joerg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new spectral scheme for analysing functions of half-integer spin-weight on the $2$-sphere and demonstrate the stability and convergence properties of our implementation. The dynamical evolution of the Dirac equation on a manifold with spatial topology of $\mathbb{S}^2$ via pseudo-spectral method is also demonstrated.
description: 25 pages, 18 figures. Agrees with the published version
Riscritture novecentesche dell'Antigone: questione di genere e spazio politico
Creators: name: Frediani, Federica
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: This paper analyzes how some women authors have re-written Antigone, Sophocles’ tragedy, with particular emphasis on women’s role in the political context. From Liliana Cavani’s film I Cannibali (1969) and Griselda Gambaro’s play Antígona Furiosa (1986), it aims to highlight the performative dimension of Creon’s and Antigone’s speech acts, taking Antigone’s claim by Judith Butler as a theoretical framework. In addition, the contribution draws attention to the ambiguity and complexity of this tragedy. It also reinterprets the rigid opposition between Creon and Antigone, thereby reconsidering the values they have in common as well as their complementary gender roles.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
Parodia cattolica e liturgia erotica in To His Mistris Going to Bed di John Donne
Creators: name: Gallo, Carmen
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: Starting from The Book of Common Prayer, a text widely used in the seventeenth century, this paper provides the historical and theological context which includes the debate on Mass as performance, that is both as ‘representation’ of the Christ’s sacrifice and as a setting for an event – the ‘transformation’ of the bread and wine into the Christ’s body and blood through the words of consecration pronounced by the priest. It also analyses some figures related to the liturgical aspects of the Eucharist and the poetic attempt to stage a performance of seduction by means of them.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
title: Sprachkompetenz und Textkomplexität. Methodologische Überlegungen aus romanistischer Sicht
Creators: name: Schrott, Angela
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 400
subject: Sprachkompetenz
subject: Komplexität
subject: Text
subject: Diskursanalyse
subject: Coseriu, Eugenio

description: Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
Dopaminergic Influence on Habitual Consumption of Sugar Sweetened Beverages
Creators: name: Patel, Kirti
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Obesity is the leading cause of the top health conditions in the United States including diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer. Here we explored one of the established genetic links to obesity, the DRD2 Taq1A allele. The DRD2 Taq A1 allele (A2/A1) polymorphism results in a 30-40% reduction in dopamine D2 receptor density compared to the normal (A2/A2) polymorphism.1 In an observational study, researchers found that within a population 67% of obese and overweight individuals had the DRD2 Taq A1 allele present compared to only 3.3% in the normal BMI individuals.2 The Taq A1 allele has been linked to increased risk of engaging in addictive behaviors including overeating which can result in obesity.3-4 In this study, 157 participants completed a pre- and post-intervention behavioral assessment to determine the impact of 3 weeks of regular consumption of either a sugar-sweetened beverage or a similarly flavored unsweetened beverage. We expected to see an interaction between BMI and Taq1A status and the pre- to post-intervention wanting of the beverage which we didn’t find. We did find that both groups, regardless of sweetness assignment, had an increase in beverage wanting post-intervention (p < 0.05).
Convolution in dual Cesàro sequence spaces
Creators: name: Curbera, Guillermo P.
name: Ricker, Werner J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate convolution operators in the sequence spaces $d_p$, for $1\le p<\infty$. These spaces, for $p>1$, arise as dual spaces of the \ces sequence spaces $ces_p$ thoroughly investigated by G.~Bennett. A detailed study is also made of the algebra of those sequences which convolve $d_p$ into $d_p$. It turns out that such multiplier spaces exhibit features which are very different to the classical multiplier spaces of $\ell^p$.
Signal Recovery on Graphs: Variation Minimization
Creators: name: Chen, Siheng
name: Sandryhaila, Aliaksei
name: Moura, José M. F.
name: Kovačević, Jelena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of signal recovery on graphs as graphs model data with complex structure as signals on a graph. Graph signal recovery implies recovery of one or multiple smooth graph signals from noisy, corrupted, or incomplete measurements. We propose a graph signal model and formulate signal recovery as a corresponding optimization problem. We provide a general solution by using the alternating direction methods of multipliers. We next show how signal inpainting, matrix completion, robust principal component analysis, and anomaly detection all relate to graph signal recovery, and provide corresponding specific solutions and theoretical analysis. Finally, we validate the proposed methods on real-world recovery problems, including online blog classification, bridge condition identification, temperature estimation, recommender system, and expert opinion combination of online blog classification.
description: To appear on IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Le performance di Pigmalione tra letteratura, arte e teatro
Creators: name: Galvagno, Rosalba
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: Pygmalion, a disappointed artist because of the audacity and the vices of the Propoetides who dared to challenge Venus’s divinity and who consecrated themselves to prostitution, feels disgust at the female sex and so, after a long period of abstinence and loneliness, he finally decides to mould a statue of a woman which corresponds to his feminine ideal and falls tenderly in love with it. He gets out of Venus that this simulacrum would be changed to a real flesh-and-blood woman and he marries her. The goddess becomes in this way the true artifex of this exceptional metamorphosis that, instead of petrifying life, vivifies the stone in order to allow the perfect union of the two lovers. From this famous myth told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, some modern variations and/or hybridizations among literature and music (Rousseau, Pygmalion, scène lyrique), literature and painting (Balzac, Le chefd’oeuvre inconnu), literature, art and theatre (Pirandello, Diana e la Tuda) will be presented. In these rewritings the promethean artist does not always have the lucky possibility to realize his performance.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
Nuclear response theory with multiphonon coupling in a covariant framework
Creators: name: Litvinova, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Background: Nuclear excited states within a wide range of excitation energies are formally described by the linear response theory. Besides its conventional formulation within the quasiparticle random phase approximation (QRPA) representing excited states as two correlated quasiparticles (2q), there exist extensions for 4q configurations. Such extended approaches are quite successful in the description of gross properties of nuclear spectra, however, accounting for many of their fine features requires further extension of the configuration space. Purpose: This work aims at the development of an approach which is capable of such an extension as well as of reproducing and predicting fine spectral properties, which are of special interest at low energies. Method: The method is based on the covariant density functional theory and time blocking approximation, which is extended for couplings between quasiparticles and multiphonon excitations. Results: The covariant multiphonon response theory is developed and adopted for nuclear structure calculations in medium-mass and heavy nuclei. The equations are formulated in both general and coupled forms in the spherical basis. Conclusions: The developed covariant multiphonon response theory represents a new generation of the approaches to nuclear response, which aims at a unified description of both high-frequency collective states and low-energy spectroscopy in medium-mass and heavy nuclei.
description: version 3; 11 pages, 7 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1308.3184 on basic notions
L'esperienza artistica di Luchino Visconti in chiave performativa
Creators: name: Giori, Mauro
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: Reading Luchino Visconti’s artistic experience by performative categories involves the need to consider the relationship between the texts and the public like an essential part of his poethic. Shocking the spectators and induce them to reflection and reaction, thus, can be investigated even as an inspiring motive of the opera, in historical-cultural perspective (from Ossessione, 1943, to Tanto tempo fa, 1973), rather than as a marginal consequence.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
Fine spectra and compactness of generalized Cesàro operators in Banach lattices in ${\mathbb C}^{{\mathbb N}_0}$
Creators: name: Curbera, Guillermo P.
name: Ricker, Werner J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The generalized Cesàro operators $\mathcal{C}_t$, for $t\in[0,1)$, introduced in the 1980's by Rhaly, are natural analogues of the classical Cesàro averaging operator $\mathcal{C}_1$ and act in various Banach sequence spaces $X\subseteq {\mathbb C}^{{\mathbb N}_0}$. In this paper we concentrate on a certain class of Banach lattices for the coordinate-wise order, which includes all separable, rearrangement invariant sequence spaces, various weighted $c_0$ and $\ell^p$ spaces and many others. In such Banach lattices $X$ the operators $\mathcal{C}_t$, for $t\in[0,1)$, are always compact (unlike $\mathcal{C}_1$) and a full description of their point, continuous and residual spectrum is given. Estimates for the operator norm of $\mathcal{C}_t$ are also presented.
Maximising common fixtures in a round robin tournament with two divisions
Creators: name: Burrows, Wayne
name: Tuffley, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C70

description: We describe a round robin scheduling problem for a competition played in two divisions, motivated by a scheduling problem brought to the second author by a local sports organisation. The first division has teams from 2n clubs, and is played in a double round robin in which the draw for the second round robin is identical to the first. The second division has teams from two additional clubs, and is played as a single round robin during the first 2n+1 rounds of the first division. We will say that two clubs have a **common fixture** if their teams in division one and two are scheduled to play each other in the same round, and show that for n>1 the maximum possible number of common fixtures is 2n^2 - 3n + 4. Our construction of draws achieving this maximum is based on a bipyramidal one-factorisation of K_{2n}, which represents the draw in division one. Moreover, if we additionally require the home and away status of common fixtures to be the same in both divisions, we show that the draw can be chosen to be balanced in all three round robins.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures generated using the tikz package. v2: Final version following peer review, as published in Australas. J. Combin. References added, notation revised, theorem statement strengthened slightly with respect to home and away status, additional minor changes
Raccontare lo spazio: la commedia di Aristofane tra dramma e narrazione performativa
Creators: name: Giovannelli, Maddalena
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: Resorting to the notion of ‘perfomativity’, it is possible to question the issue of genre fixity: in the specific case of ancient theatre, we can identify heterogeneous elements – different from pure dramatic form – which we can label as ‘hybrid’. The habit of systematically describing space and time (referred to as ‘verbal scenography’) has to be seen as a heritage of the epic tradition. In Aristophanes’ comedies, in particular, the protagonist evoke the whole performance reality: he is not only considered as pivotal for the plot by the audience, but also as its creator; a similar phenomenon can be observed in in some kinds of narrative theatre or folk tale. The comic genre always plays open-face and the audience is, in some way, involved in the performance and communication is oriented by its presence. Finally, ancient comedy is able to combine the two different kinds of Aristothelic dramata, dramatic and diegematic poetry.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
Impact of Cold Climate on Emissions and Fuel Consumption of Vehicles: Knowledge Gap Synthesis
Creators: Abediasl, Hamidreza
Hosseini, Vahid
Meresht, Navid Balazadeh
Koch, Charles Robert
Shahbakhti, Mahdi
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Conference Abstract. Part of the Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2022.
MOESM1 of Evaluating the influence of common antibiotics on the efficacy of a recombinant immunotoxin in tissue culture
Creators: name: Yuyi Zhu
name: Weldon, John
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. HEK293 survival in response to antibiotic treatment. Survival of HEK293 cells in response to six antibiotics was evaluated. Each antibiotic was evaluated at least twice. Representative graphs are shown here. Error bars indicate standard error of six replicates. Data were fit to a straight line (streptomycin, kanamycin) or a four-parameter sigmoid function (tetracycline, chloramphenicol, linezolid, fusidic acid). The vertical dotted line indicates the concentration of antibiotic selected for evaluation in combination with HB21-LR (see TableÂ 1).
The Effects of Chronic THC Administration on Motor Abilities and Pain Sensitivity in HIV-1 Tg26 Mice
Creators: name: Huguely, Caitlin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) are prevalent in individuals living with HIV, even in the presence of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). To treat many of their chronic symptoms, people living with HIV (PLWH) engage in higher levels of cannabis use than the general population. It is therefore important to characterize the effects that this cannabis use may be having on the already neurocognitively impaired condition of PLWH. The present study strives to understand the role of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive factor of cannabis, in this interaction. HIV-1 Tg26 transgenic mice (males and females), a recently developed HAND model, were injected with 3 mg/kg THC daily for three months, and their motor coordination (rotarod), movement (locomotor activity), and pain tolerance (hot plate) were assessed. Tg26 (+/-) and Tg26 (-/-) mice displayed similar movement and motor coordination but exhibited differential patterns of motor learning. Notably, Tg26 (+/-) mice exhibited a higher pain tolerance compared to their Tg26 (-/-) counterparts and highlighted a possible role for pain habituation. THC treatment did not adversely affect locomotor activity or motor coordination, refuting the idea of cumulative HAND-cannabis impairment in this regard. THC also did not alter pain tolerance; however, females demonstrated hyposensitivity two days after treatment termination. Additionally, the lack of any adverse effects on measures of health highlights Tg26 mice as a safe model for investigating the effects of long-term drug administration. The present data also offer insight concerning how this model may be optimally studied. With further investigations of Tg26 mice and cannabinoids, the interaction of cannabis and the HAND condition can be better understood.
The Forbidden Quantum Adder
Creators: name: Alvarez-Rodriguez, U.
name: Sanz, M.
name: Lamata, L.
name: Solano, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum information provides fundamentally different computational resources than classical information. We prove that there is no unitary protocol able to add unknown quantum states belonging to different Hilbert spaces. This is an inherent restriction of quantum physics that is related to the impossibility of copying an arbitrary quantum state, i.e., the no-cloning theorem. Moreover, we demonstrate that a quantum adder, in absence of an ancillary system, is also forbidden for a known orthonormal basis. This allows us to propose an approximate quantum adder that could be implemented in the lab. Finally, we discuss the distinct character of the forbidden quantum adder for quantum states and the allowed quantum adder for density matrices.
description: Improved version with added material