cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Arecibo Pulsar Survey Using ALFA. IV. Mock Spectrometer Data Analysis, Survey Sensitivity, and the Discovery of 41 Pulsars
Creators: name: Lazarus, P.
name: Brazier, A.
name: Hessels, J. W. T.
name: Karako-Argaman, C.
name: Kaspi, V. M.
name: Lynch, R.
name: Madsen, E.
name: Patel, C.
name: Ransom, S. M.
name: Scholz, P.
name: Swiggum, J.
name: Zhu, W. W.
name: Allen, B.
name: Bogdanov, S.
name: Camilo, F.
name: Cardoso, F.
name: Chatterjee, S.
name: Cordes, J. M.
name: Crawford, F.
name: Deneva, J. S.
name: Ferdman, R.
name: Freire, P. C. C.
name: Jenet, F. A.
name: Knispel, B.
name: Lee, K. J.
name: van Leeuwen, J.
name: Lorimer, D. R.
name: Lyne, A. G.
name: McLaughlin, M. A.
name: Siemens, X.
name: Spitler, L. G.
name: Stairs, I. H.
name: Stovall, K.
name: Venkataraman, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The on-going PALFA survey at the Arecibo Observatory began in 2004 and is searching for radio pulsars in the Galactic plane at 1.4 GHz. Observations since 2009 have been made with new wider-bandwidth spectrometers than were previously employed in this survey. A new data reduction pipeline has been in place since mid-2011 which consists of standard methods using dedispersion, searches for accelerated periodic sources, and search for single pulses, as well as new interference-excision strategies and candidate selection heuristics. This pipeline has been used to discover 41 pulsars, including 8 millisecond pulsars (MSPs; P < 10 ms), bringing the PALFA survey's discovery totals to 145 pulsars, including 17 MSPs, and one Fast Radio Burst (FRB). The pipeline presented here has also re-detected 188 previously known pulsars including 60 found in PALFA data by re-analyzing observations previously searched by other pipelines. A comprehensive description of the survey sensitivity, including the effect of interference and red noise, has been determined using synthetic pulsar signals with various parameters and amplitudes injected into real survey observations and subsequently recovered with the data reduction pipeline. We have confirmed that the PALFA survey achieves the sensitivity to MSPs predicted by theoretical models. However, we also find that compared to theoretical survey sensitivity models commonly used there is a degradation in sensitivity to pulsars with periods P >= 100 ms that gradually becomes up to a factor of ~10 worse for P > 4 s at DM < 150 pc/cc. This degradation of sensitivity at long periods is largely due to red noise. We find that 35 +- 3% of pulsars are missed despite being bright enough to be detected in the absence of red noise. This reduced sensitivity could have implications on estimates of the number of long-period pulsars in the Galaxy.
description: 24 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ
Effect of sexual enrichment program on the sexual satisfaction of pregnant women in Iran: A randomized clinical trial
Creators: name: Hadizadeh -Talasaz, Fatemeh
name: Bervanloo- Golmohamadi, Fatemeh
name: Motaghi, Zahra
name: Keramat, Afsaneh
name: Nazari, Ali Mohammad
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sexual satisfaction, Pregnant women, Sexual enrichment program, Clinical trial
health
Sexual education

description: Background: To improve the sexual satisfaction of pregnant women, there needs to be a culturally appropriate sex education program. This study aimed at determining the effectiveness of a sexual enrichment program on the sexual satisfaction of pregnant women. Methods: This single-blind randomized clinical trial was conducted on 61 pregnant women aged 18 to 35 years old with low-risk pregnancies and gestational ages of 14 to 32 weeks, who had referred to three healthcare centers in Mashhad. The participants were randomly assigned to two groups of control (n = 31) and intervention (n = 30) based on a table of blocks of four. The intervention group, in addition to receiving routine pregnancy training, participated in six one-hour sessions of a sexual enrichment program held on a weekly basis, while the control group received only the routine pregnancy healthcare. Larson's sexual satisfaction questionnaire was used to assess the sexual satisfaction of pregnant women prior to the study and two weeks after the intervention. Comparison of mean scores between and within the two groups was performed using SPSS software (version 21) using independent and paired t-tests. Results: After the intervention, there was a significant difference between the mean sexual satisfaction scores of the two groups (p = 0.02). Comparison of the differences between the mean sexual satisfaction scores of the intervention group before and after the intervention indicated a significant change (p = 0.009), while in case of the control group this change was not significant (p = 0.46). Conclusion: A sexual enrichment program can be effective in improving the sexual satisfaction of pregnant mothers. Keywords: Sexual satisfaction, Pregnant women, Sexual enrichment program, Clinical trial
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022): 2022634
Childhood immunization coverage during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Province of Siracusa, Italy
Creators: name: Contarino, Fabio
name: Di Pietro, Erminio
name: Bella, Francesca
name: Randazzo, Concetta
name: Contrino, Maria Lia
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2023
Subjects: COVID-19 pandemic
childhood immunization
vaccine coverage
vaccine-preventable diseases
catch-up programmes
vaccine imm

description: Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted routine immunization activities and a decline in vaccination coverage has been documented around the world. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of the direct and indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine childhood vaccination coverage in the Province of Siracusa, Italy. Methods: We compared 2020 and 2019 vaccination coverage by age group and vaccine type. Results were considered statistically significant at a two-tailed p-value ≤0.05. Results: Our findings show that vaccination coverage rates for mandatory and recommended vaccinations decreased in 2020 compared with the previous year (range from -1.4 % to -7.8%). Anti-rotavirus vaccination increased (+4.8%, as compared to 2019), while the reductions observed for polio vaccination (hexavalent) and human papillomavirus vaccination in males were not statistically significant. The reduction did not hit the population in the same manner, with the greater decreases observed for children aged >24 months compared to the younger (-5.5% vs. -2.2%) and for booster doses compared to the primary vaccinations (-6.4% vs. -2.6%). Conclusions: This study found that vaccination coverage of routine childhood immunisations was negatively affected during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Province of Siracusa. It is of huge importance to put in place some catch-up programs to ensure vaccinations at the earliest of individuals who missed immunization during the pandemic.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022): 2022634
Representationalism and Ambiguous Figures
Creators: name: Uggé, Arianna
Publisher: name: Phenomenology and Mind
Year: 2016

description: The phenomenon of ambiguous figures raises difficulties for the theories of the content of our visual experience that hold that its phenomenal character is identical to its representational content and wholly nonconceptual. This phenomenon seems to show that there can be a difference in the phenomenal character of two visual experiences, without a difference in their representational nonconceptual content. Firstly, I shall try to illustrate that these “representationalist” theories cannot provide a compelling explanation for the phenomenon of ambiguous figures. Secondly, I will present an account of it grounded on Peacocke’s “dual nonconceptual content” view. The distinction he draws between two levels of nonconceptual content can be used to explain the phenomenon without abandoning the thesis that the phenomenal character of our visual experience is a representational wholly nonconceptual content.
description: Phenomenology and Mind, No 4 (2013): Sense and Sensibility. Empirical and Philosophical Investigations on the Five Senses
Chevet-type inequalities for subexponential Weibull variables and estimates for norms of random matrices
Creators: name: Latała, Rafał
name: Strzelecka, Marta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove two-sided Chevet-type inequalities for independent symmetric Weibull random variables with shape parameter $r\in[1,2]$. We apply them to provide two-sided estimates for operator norms from $\ell_p^n$ to $\ell_q^m$ of random matrices $(a_ib_jX_{i,j})_{i\le m, j\le n}$, in the case when $X_{i,j}$'s are iid symmetric Weibull variables with shape parameter $r\in[1,2]$ or when $X$ is an isotropic log-concave unconditional random matrix. We also show how these Chevet-type inequalities imply two-sided bounds for maximal norms from $\ell_p^n$ to $\ell_q^m$ of submatrices of $X$ in both Weibull and log-concave settings.
description: 17 pages. Corollary 3, Theorem 4, Corollary 5, Corollaries 10 & 12 and their proofs added, Conjecture 13 and Remark 14 added. Title and introduction changed
(102843) William Alfred Francis
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A Quality Improvement Initiative: Evaluating Preoperative Education in Prostatectomy Patients
Creators: name: Asaro, Jessica
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men in the United States. Primary treatments for prostate cancer include active surveillance, radiation therapy with hormonal therapy, or prostatectomy. An American Urological Association standard of care states that all patients electing to proceed with definitive treatment for prostate cancer, such as prostatectomy, should be counseled, prior to surgery, about potential side effects of treatment. However, best practices for the type of counseling are not defined by urologic guidelines. Side effects from prostatectomy can have a significant impact on a patient’s quality of life after surgery, which can affect key outcomes, such as anxiety, confidence with the urinary catheter, perceived knowledge, and patient satisfaction with preoperative teaching. Additionally, length of hospital stay and the number of encounters utilized postoperatively may be impacted.      A quality improvement project was performed to evaluate and improve a preoperative prostatectomy patient education class. A literature review was conducted and a group of patients were retrospectively surveyed to guide proposed interventions to the class. Approved interventions were implemented in the class, and the patients were then prospectively surveyed before attending the class and again postoperatively. This preliminary study found that patients reported higher satisfaction with preoperative teaching, reduced anxiety, improved confidence in caring for the urinary catheter, and improved perceived knowledge after prostatectomy.
Amodal Completion, Perception and Visual Imagery
Creators: name: Calabi, Clotilde
Publisher: name: Phenomenology and Mind
Year: 2016

description: Amodal completion typically occurs when we look at an object that is partially behind another object. Theorists often say that in such cases we are aware not only of the visible parts, but also, in some sense, of the occluded parts, because otherwise we could not have a perceptual experience of the object as continuing behind its occluder. Since no sense modality carries information about the occluded parts, this information is provided by other means. Amodal completion raises two questions. First, what is the mechanism involved? Second, what kind of experience do we have of the occluded parts? According to Nanay, the so-called Imagery Theory answers both questions. For this theory, information about the occluded parts is the product of a low level, vision specific, neural mechanism that takes place in the early vision processing areas of the brain. This mechanism provides a representation of the occluded parts and, as a result, the observer enjoys a quasi-sensory or quasi-perceptual conscious experience that is phenomenally similar to seeing those parts (as purportedly Perky has proved). In this paper I criticize Nanay’s answer to the second question.
description: Phenomenology and Mind, No 4 (2013): Sense and Sensibility. Empirical and Philosophical Investigations on the Five Senses
(102825) Henry Sheil
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.
What do young people know about HIV? Results of a cross sectional study on 18-24-year-old students
Creators: name: Sardu, Claudia
name: Mereu, Alessandra
name: Liori, Arianna
name: Fadda, Luca
name: Puddu, Massimiliano
name: Chessa, Luchino
name: Contu, Paolo
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2023
Subjects: Students, HIV knowledge, HIV perception, HIV prevention
Health Promotion and Education

description: Increasing people’s knowledge of transmission, prevention, early diagnosis, and available treatments is a key step toward HIV control; it means setting the conditions for empowerment and enabling individuals to make aware choices about the prevention strategy best suited to their needs. This study aims to identify unmet needs on HIV knowledge among freshman students. A cross sectional study was carried out at the University of Cagliari, which is an Italian public state university. Data were collected by means of an anonymous questionnaire; the final sample included 801 students. Results offer a detailed picture of students’ knowledge and perceptions of HIV. Several topics deserve to be better understood by students, but the main gaps relate to the pre-exposure prophylaxis and the decreased likelihood of sexually transmitting HIV due to early treatments. Students’ vision of the quality of life of people living with HIV was negatively affected by perceiving as relevant the effects of HIV on physical health or on sexual/affective domains, while conversely, it seemed positively affected by knowing that current treatments are useful for counteracting physical symptoms and decreasing the possibility of transmitting HIV. Being aware of the potential benefits of current therapies could favour a less negative view, in line with the current state of the beneficial effects of HIV treatment. Universities are a valuable setting to bridge the HIV knowledge gap and thus also contribute to tackling stigma and actively promoting HIV testing.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022): 2022634
Some Considerations on Pitch
Creators: name: Di Bona, Elvira
Publisher: name: Phenomenology and Mind
Year: 2016

description: Pitch is an audible quality of sound which can be explained not only in terms of strong correlation with sound waves’ properties, but also by a neat correlation to the properties of the sounding object. This seems to be in favour of the theory of sound labelled “distal view”, according to which sound is the vibration of the sounding object.
description: Phenomenology and Mind, No 4 (2013): Sense and Sensibility. Empirical and Philosophical Investigations on the Five Senses
Embodied Simulation and Touch: the Sense of Touch in Social Cognition
Creators: name: Gallese, Vittorio
name: Ebisch, Sjoerd
Publisher: name: Phenomenology and Mind
Year: 2016

description: This paper explores the sense of touch in relation to social cognition offering a new take on multisensory integration in the brain, within the framework of Embodied simulation (ES) theory. ES provides a new empirically based notion of intersubjectivity, viewed first and foremost as intercorporeality. In relation to touch, by means of ES we do not just “see” a sensation experienced by someone else and then understand it through an inference by analogy. By means of ES we can map others’ sensations by re-using our own motor, somatosensory and viscero-motor representations. ES provides an original and unitary account of basic aspects of intersubjectivity, demonstrating how deeply our making sense of others’ living and acting bodies is rooted in the power of re-using our own motor, somatosensory and viscero-motor resources.
description: Phenomenology and Mind, No 4 (2013): Sense and Sensibility. Empirical and Philosophical Investigations on the Five Senses
Machine learning classification of the ISM in NGC 300
Creators: name: Castrillo, Asier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: In this work, we present a machine learning (ML) clustering algorithm for the classification of the interstellar medium (ISM) main components (HII regions, supernova remnants (SNR) and diffuse ionize gas (DIG) regions). We study the ISM components of the NGC 300 galaxy from MUSE integral field spectroscopy observations. These observations give us an ISM spatial resolution of a few parsecs. In order to disentangle this complex ISM, we apply an unsupervised Bayesian Gaussian Mixture Model algorithm to a data set of spaxel-by-spaxel main strong emission lines. Our method produces an automatic and unbiased detection of the main components of the ISM combining the spatial and spectral information.
The Nature of Sensory Experience: the Case of Taste and Tasting
Creators: name: Smith, Barry C.
Publisher: name: Phenomenology and Mind
Year: 2016

description: Recently, psychologists and neuroscientists have provided a great deal of evidence showing that perceptual experiences are mostly multimodal. As perceivers, we don’t usually recognize them as such. We think of the experiences we are having as either visual, or auditory or tactile, not realising that they often arise from the fusion of different sensory inputs. The experience of tasting something is one such case. What we call ‘taste’ is the result of the multisensory integration of touch taste and smell. These unified flavour experiences provide a challenge when trying to reconcile the underlying processing story with the conscious experience of subjects, but they also challenge assumptions about our access to our own experiences and whether how we conceive of those experiences plays any in role in accounting for their ultimate nature.
description: Phenomenology and Mind, No 4 (2013): Sense and Sensibility. Empirical and Philosophical Investigations on the Five Senses
Access to water, sanitation, and hygiene in schools: a pre-requisite for SDG achievement in India
Creators: name: Jena, Shubharanjan
name: Satpathy, Nancy
name: Sahoo, Krushna Chandra
name: Epari, Venkatarao
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sustainable Development Goals
water sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
schoolchildren's
India
Public health

description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022): 2022634
Quasi-range-compatible affine maps on large operator spaces
Creators: name: Pazzis, Clément de Seguins
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A03, 15A30

description: Let $U$ and $V$ be finite-dimensional vector spaces over an arbitrary field, and $\mathcal{S}$ be a subset of the space $\mathcal{L}(U,V)$ of all linear maps from $U$ to $V$. A map $F : \mathcal{S} \rightarrow V$ is called range-compatible when it satisfies $F(s) \in \mathrm{im}(s)$ for all $s \in \mathcal{S}$; it is called quasi-range-compatible when the condition is only assumed to apply to the operators whose range does not include a fixed $1$-dimensional linear subspace of $V$. Among the range-compatible maps are the so-called local maps $s \mapsto s(x)$ for fixed $x \in U$. Recently, the range-compatible group homomorphisms on $\mathcal{S}$ were classified when $\mathcal{S}$ is a linear subspace of small codimension in $\mathcal{L}(U,V)$. In this work, we consider several variations of that problem: we investigate range-compatible affine maps on affine subspaces of linear operators; when $\mathcal{S}$ is a linear subspace, we give the optimal bound on its codimension for all quasi-range-compatible homomorphisms on $\mathcal{S}$ to be local. Finally, we give the optimal upper bound on the codimension of an affine subspace $\mathcal{S}$ of $\mathcal{L}(U,V)$ for all quasi-range-compatible affine maps on it to be local.
description: 38 pages
(102827) Alfred Turner
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.
Parents’ knowledge, attitude, and practices towards COVID-19 in children: A Lebanese cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Saryeddine, Rida
name: Ajrouch, Zeina
name: El Ahmar, Malak
name: Lahoud, Nathalie
name: Ajrouche, Roula
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2023
Subjects: Knowledge; Attitude; Practices; COVID-19; Children.
COVID-19 prevention

description: Introduction: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, a serious public health crisis, can affect all ages, even children. This study aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practices of parents living in Lebanon towards the COVID-19 in children. Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted between June and July 2021, targeting parents living in Lebanon. The questionnaire was divided into 4 parts: socio-demographic, knowledge, attitude, and practices. A score was calculated to evaluate parents’ knowledge towards COVID-19 in children. Descriptive and bivariate analyses were conducted. Then, determinants of COVID-19 knowledge were assessed using multivariable linear regression. P<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: A total of 429 parents were included. The mean knowledge score was 11.28 ± 2.19 out of 15. Knowledge was significantly lower among older and single parents, who don’t know if COVID-19 is a serious disease and if it will be successfully controlled, and higher among female parents. The majority of parents had a positive attitude and good practices towards COVID-19 in children, but 76.7% of them were worried about their child getting coronavirus. About 66.9% of parents expressed their willingness to vaccinate their kids when a vaccine would be available for them, and 66.2% answered that they are sending or willing to send their children to the school or the nursery. Conclusions: Parents’ knowledge about COVID-19 in children was good, but remains lower among older and single parents. Health authorities should conduct awareness campaigns to target specific groups of parents who lacked critical knowledge about COVID-19 in children.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022): 2022634
Spectroscopic probes of isolated nonequilibrium quantum matter: Quantum quenches, Floquet states, and distribution functions
Creators: name: Liao, Yunxiang
name: Foster, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate radio-frequency (rf) spectroscopy, metal-to-superconductor tunneling, and ARPES as probes of isolated out-of-equilibrium quantum systems, and examine the crucial role played by the nonequilibrium distribution function. As an example, we focus on the induced topological time-periodic (Floquet) phase in a 2D $p+ip$ superfluid, following an instantaneous quench of the coupling strength. The post-quench Cooper pairs occupy a linear combination of "ground" and "excited" Floquet states, with coefficients determined by the distribution function. While the Floquet bandstructure exhibits a single avoided crossing relative to the equilibrium case, the distribution function shows a population inversion of the Floquet bands at low energies. For a realization in ultracold atoms, these two features compensate, producing a bulk average rf signal that is well-captured by a quasi-equilibrium approximation. In particular, the rf spectrum shows a robust gap. The single crossing occurs because the quench-induced Floquet phase belongs to a particular class of soliton dynamics for the BCS equation. The population inversion is a consequence of this, and ensures the conservation of the pseudospin winding number. As a comparison, we compute the rf signal when only the lower Floquet band is occupied; in this case, the gap disappears for strong quenches. The tunneling signal in a solid state realization is ignorant of the distribution function, and can show wildly different behaviors. We also examine rf, tunneling, and ARPES for weak quenches, such that the resulting topological steady-state is characterized by a constant nonequilibrium order parameter. In a system with a boundary, tunneling reveals the Majorana edge states. However, the local rf signal due to the edge states is suppressed by a factor of the inverse system size, and is spatially deconfined throughout the bulk of the sample.
description: 22 pages, 15 figures. v2: Added calculated ARPES spectra
Transformaciones textuales y controversias teológicas: a propósito de los versos inmaculistas de las primeras ediciones del Espill de Jaume Roig. Revista de Cancioneros Impresos y Manuscritos. ISSN 2254-7444Núm. 14, 2025, pp. 109-128. https://doi.org/10.14198/rcim.28034.
Creators: name: Peirats Navarro, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470514
subject: Literary theory
classificationCode: 470520
subject: Literature in Spanish and Portuguese

description: Este artículo explora las transformaciones textuales y las controversias teológicas en torno a los versos sobre la Inmaculada Concepción en las primeras ediciones del Espill de Jaume Roig. La doctrina de la Inmaculada Concepción, debatida desde los primeros siglos del cristianismo, se analiza a través de las disputas teológicas medievales, particularmente las que involucraban a dominicos y franciscanos. El Espill, que originalmente reflejaba estos debates, sufrió cambios editoriales significativos en sus ediciones de 1531 y 1561 para evitar conflictos en un periodo de estricto control doctrinal y creciente devoción mariana. Estas alteraciones se contextualizan dentro de las dinámicas sociales y religiosas del siglo xvi, lo que ilustra cómo las disputas teológicas influenciaron la producción y transmisión literaria. Al comparar las versiones manuscritas e impresas, el estudio revela cómo el editor de 1531 reestructuró el texto para alinearlo con las posturas teológicas dominantes de la época, modificando así la postura abierta y permisiva de los versos originales de Roig sobre la Inmaculada Concepción. Este caso destaca la intersección entre teología y literatura en la Valencia medieval y subraya el impacto de las controversias doctrinales en la recepción y modificación de las obras literarias.
The delay time distribution of supernovae from integral-field spectroscopy of nearby galaxies
Creators: name: Castrillo, Asier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Constraining the delay time distribution (DTD) of different supernova (SN) types can shed light on the time-scales of galaxy chemical enrichment and feedback processes affecting galaxy dynamics, and SN progenitor properties. Here, we present an approach to recover SN DTDs based on integral-field spectroscopy (IFS) of their host galaxies. Using a statistical analysis of a sample of 116 SNe in 102 galaxies, we evaluate different DTD models for SN types Ia (73), II (28), and Ib/c (15). We find the best SN Ia DTD fit to be a power law with an exponent α = -1.1 ± 0.3 (50 per cent confidence interval (C.I.)), and a time delay (between star formation and the first SNe) Δ=50+100−35 MyrΔ=50−35+100 Myr (50 per cent C.I.). For core collapse (CC) SNe, both of the Zapartas et al. DTD models for single and binary stellar evolution are consistent with our results. For SNe II and Ib/c, we find a correlation with a Gaussian DTD model with σ=82+129−23 Myrσ=82−23+129 Myr and σ=56+141−9 Myrσ=56−9+141 Myr (50 per cent C.I.), respectively. This analysis demonstrates that IFS opens a new way of studying SN DTD models in the local Universe.
Russian subject-level index of multidimensional deprivation and its association with all-cause and infant mortality
Creators: name: Zelenina, Anastasia
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2023
Subjects: deprivation index, mortality, population census, Russia
public health

description: Background Social and environmental inequalities in public health are recognized as global problems of our time. From the point of view of the theory of deprivation, social and environmental determinants identified as deprivation indicators, which help to detect health inequality. Indices are one of the most practical and powerful tools for measuring the level of deprivation. Aim The aims of our study are (1) to develop a Russian derivation index and (2) to analyze its associations with total and infant mortality. Material and Methods Deprivation indicators were obtained from the Federal State Statistics Service of Russia. All mortality data were taken from the official website of the Federal Research Institute for Health Organization and Informatics of Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation from 2009 to 2012. Principal components analysis with varimax rotation was used to (1) select suitable deprivation indicators and (2) create the index. A Spearman's correlation was run to determine the relationship of deprivation with all-cause and infant mortality. OLS regression was used to assess the relationship between deprivation and infant mortality. Results There is not a statistically significant correlation between deprivation and all-cause mortality. OLS regression showed a significant relationship between deprivation and infant mortality (p = 0.02). For every one-unit increase in the index score, infant mortality rate increases by about 7.4%. Discussion Our study showed that generally the most deprived regions were industrial with poor ecological conditions such as Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, Omsk Oblasts, and Sakha and located in Ural and the Western Siberia.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022): 2022634
(102833) Henry Howard Thompson
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.
Love, Plural Subjects & Normative Constraint
Creators: name: Kisolo-Ssonko, Joseph
Publisher: name: Phenomenology and Mind
Year: 2016

description: Andrea Westlund’s account of love involves lovers becoming Plural Subjects mirroring Margaret Gilbert’s Plural Subject Theory. However, while for Gilbert the creation of a plural will involves individuals jointly committing to pool their wills and this joint pool directly normatively constraining those individuals, Westlund, in contrast, sees the creation of a plural will as a ongoing process and she rejects the possibility of such direct normative constraint. This rejection appears to be required to explain the flexibility that allows for a central place for reciprocity in loving relationships. However, this paper argues against the existence of such flexibility and presents instead the case that variance in the normative pain of rebelling against the collective will should be understood by replacing Gilbert’s notion of all-or-nothing pooling of wills with an account that sees wills as becoming entangled through levels of identification with the plural subject.
description: Phenomenology and Mind, No 3 (2012): Norms, Values, Society: Phenomenological and Ontological Approaches
Health literacy in Mediterranean general population
Creators: name: La Fauci, Vincenza
name: Trimarchi, Giuseppe
name: Ceccio, Concetta
name: Mazzitelli, Francesco
name: Alessi, Valeria
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2023
Subjects: Health literacy
prevention
public health

description: INTRODUCTION Health literacy refers to "the ability to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and access health services in order to make informed choices." In essence, being able to acquire, understand, and use information for one's own health. METHODS Observational study through the administration of a face-to-face questionnaire conducted between July and September 2020 on 260 individuals residing between Calabria and Sicily, aged between 18 and 89 years. Questions related to education, lifestyle (alcohol, smoking, and physical activity). Multiple-choice questions to assess health literacy and conceptual skills, ability to find information on health topics and services, use of preventive medicine especially vaccinations, and ability to make decisions about one's own health. RESULTS Of 260, 43% were male and 57% female. The most represented age group is between 50 and 59 years. Forty-eight percent of respondents had a high school diploma. 39% smoke and 32% habitually consume alcoholic beverages; only 40% engage in physical activity. Ten percent had a low level of health literacy, average 55%, adequate 35%. CONCLUSIONS Given the importance of adequate HL on health choices and on individual and public wellbeing, it is essential to expand the knowledge of the individual, through public and private information campaigns and with an increasing involvement of family physicians, who are fundamental in training and informing their patients.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022): 2022634
Fairness for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in 5G Systems
Creators: name: Timotheou, Stelios
name: Krikidis, Ioannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) downlink, multiple data flows are superimposed in the power domain and user decoding is based on successive interference cancellation. NOMA's performance highly depends on the power split among the data flows and the associated power allocation (PA) problem. In this letter, we study NOMA from a fairness standpoint and we investigate PA techniques that ensure fairness for the downlink users under i) instantaneous channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter, and ii) average CSI. Although the formulated problems are non-convex, we have developed low-complexity polynomial algorithms that yield the optimal solution in both cases considered.
description: 5 pages, 3 Figures, accepted in IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Effects of Struggle and Goal Achievement in Weight-Loss Journeys on Social Media: Instilling Hope and Promoting Health Behaviors
Creators: name: Carter, Chandler Clay
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Weight-loss journeys are frequently depicted in social media attempting to inspire others to achieve their health goals. In a 3 X 2 experimental design, this thesis examines how social media posts about weight-loss goals achieved, in progress, or unattained, and that mention or do not mention struggle in the pursuit, affect self-efficacy, social comparison, target perceptions, hope and, in turn, intention to model the author’s health behaviors. Mixed support arose for the predicted effects of social comparison and how struggle expressed in a weight-loss narrative and personal struggle interact to impact self-efficacy to perform modeled strategies. The findings support Social Cognitive Theory’s main tenet that an individual’s self-efficacy is central to whether or not a modeled behavior is emulated. The results suggest personal struggle with a weight-loss helps determine whether an individual will perceive similarity with and feel hopefulness in response to weight-loss narratives. Implications for health promotion are discussed.
(102826) Donald Stewart Arbuthnott
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.
Oscillations in Sunspot Umbra in He I 1083 nm
Creators: name: Sangeetha, C. R.
name: Felipe, T.
name: Gonzalez Manrique, S. J.
name: Asensio Ramos, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Magnetohydrodynamic waves are an important mechanism of solar atmospheric heating. Doppler velocity and intensity measurements are known to clearly show these waves. In recent years, observations of fluctuations in the magnetic field show this oscillatory behaviour in both the photosphere and the chromosphere. The reason for these observed oscillations in the magnetic field has been difficult to interpret over the years. In this work, to address this issue, we invert He I 1083 nm line using HAZEL to study these fluctuations in the magnetic field and we find that these fluctuations arise due to the opacity effect. The nature and origin were also validated with the support of numerical simulations.
Incipient Slip-Based Rotation Measurement via Visuotactile Sensing During In-Hand Object Pivoting
Creators: name: Li, Mingxuan
name: Zhou, Yen Hang
name: Li, Tiemin
name: Jiang, Yao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In typical in-hand manipulation tasks represented by object pivoting, the real-time perception of rotational slippage has been proven beneficial for improving the dexterity and stability of robotic hands. An effective strategy is to obtain the contact properties for measuring rotation angle through visuotactile sensing. However, existing methods for rotation estimation did not consider the impact of the incipient slip during the pivoting process, which introduces measurement errors and makes it hard to determine the boundary between stable contact and macro slip. This paper describes a generalized 2-d contact model under pivoting, and proposes a rotation measurement method based on the line-features in the stick region. The proposed method was applied to the Tac3D vision-based tactile sensors using continuous marker patterns. Experiments show that the rotation measurement system could achieve an average static measurement error of 0.17 degree and an average dynamic measurement error of 1.34 degree. Besides, the proposed method requires no training data and can achieve real-time sensing during the in-hand object pivoting.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures, Accepted by ICRA 2024
ASASSN-15lh: A Highly Super-Luminous Supernova
Creators: name: Dong, Subo
name: Shappee, B. J.
name: Prieto, J. L.
name: Jha, S. W.
name: Stanek, K. Z.
name: Holoien, T. W. -S.
name: Kochanek, C. S.
name: Thompson, T. A.
name: Morrell, N.
name: Thompson, I. B.
name: Basu, U.
name: Beacom, J. F.
name: Bersier, D.
name: Brimacombe, J.
name: Brown, J. S.
name: Bufano, F.
name: Chen, Ping
name: Conseil, E.
name: Danilet, A. B.
name: Falco, E.
name: Grupe, D.
name: Kiyota, S.
name: Masi, G.
name: Nicholls, B.
name: Olivares, F.
name: Pignata, G.
name: Pojmanski, G.
name: Simonian, G. V.
name: Szczygiel, D. M.
name: Wozniak, P. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of ASASSN-15lh (SN 2015L), which we interpret as the most luminous supernova yet found. At redshift z = 0.2326, ASASSN-15lh reached an absolute magnitude of M_{u,AB} = -23.5+/-0.1 and bolometric luminosity L_bol = (2.2+/-0.2)x 10^45 ergs s^-1, which is more than twice as luminous as any previously known supernova. It has several major features characteristic of the hydrogen-poor super-luminous supernovae (SLSNe-I), whose energy sources and progenitors are currently poorly understood. In contrast to most previously known SLSNe-I that reside in star-forming dwarf galaxies, ASASSN-15lh appears to be hosted by a luminous galaxy (M_K ~ -25.5) with little star formation. In the 4 months since first detection, ASASSN-15lh radiated (1.1+/- 0.2)x10^52 ergs, challenging the magnetar model for its engine.
description: Published in the January 15, 2016 Issue of Science Magazine
On the Constitutive Force of Regulative Rules
Creators: name: Zełaniec, Wojciech
Publisher: name: Phenomenology and Mind
Year: 2016

description: The paper deals with the problem of delimitation of regulative and constitutive rules. I argue that while regulative rules are and remain a genus of their own, they do have a constitutive import, because they (i) define new forms of behaviour (behaviour compliant with them), (ii) take constituted entities as “input”, (iii) redefine old forms of behaviour as such to which a deontic modality applies and (iv) help to carve out new possibilities of behaviour from a continuum of only potentially distinguishable possibilities.
description: Phenomenology and Mind, No 3 (2012): Norms, Values, Society: Phenomenological and Ontological Approaches
Does Ontogenesis of Social Ontology Start with Pretence?
Creators: name: Albergo, Gaetano
Publisher: name: Phenomenology and Mind
Year: 2016

description: Rakoczy and Tomasello follow Searle in claiming that rule games need status function assignment and constitutive rules. But, in the case of pretend play, it is not easy to put together these notions with the natural world knowledge necessary to engage in it. If we consider the pretended scenario as a possible world, metaphysically possible, then, how can we abandon the natural necessity implicit in it? The rules of pretend-inference can have a robustly objective status. On this view pretence stands to pretending as truth stands to belief.
description: Phenomenology and Mind, No 3 (2012): Norms, Values, Society: Phenomenological and Ontological Approaches
The Impact of Heterogeneous Thresholds on Social Contagion with Multiple Initiators
Creators: name: Karampourniotis, Panagiotis D.
name: Sreenivasan, Sameet
name: Szymanski, Boleslaw K.
name: Korniss, Gyorgy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The threshold model is a simple but classic model of contagion spreading in complex social systems. To capture the complex nature of social influencing we investigate numerically and analytically the transition in the behavior of threshold-limited cascades in the presence of multiple initiators as the distribution of thresholds is varied between the two extreme cases of identical thresholds and a uniform distribution. We accomplish this by employing a truncated normal distribution of the nodes' thresholds and observe a non-monotonic change in the cascade size as we vary the standard deviation. Further, for a sufficiently large spread in the threshold distribution, the tipping-point behavior of the social influencing process disappears and is replaced by a smooth crossover governed by the size of initiator set. We demonstrate that for a given size of the initiator set, there is a specific variance of the threshold distribution for which an opinion spreads optimally. Furthermore, in the case of synthetic graphs we show that the spread asymptotically becomes independent of the system size, and that global cascades can arise just by the addition of a single node to the initiator set.
description: Final version, reflecting changes in response to referees' comments
(102798) William Godwin Michelmore
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.