cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Beyond the Paleolithic prescription: incorporating diversity and flexibility in the study of human diet evolution
Creators: name: Thompson, Amanda L.
name: Turner, Bethany L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Evolutionary paradigms of human health and nutrition center on the evolutionary discordance or “mismatch” model whereby human bodies, reflecting adaptations established in the Paleolithic era, are ill-suited to modern industrialized diets resulting in rapidly increasing rates of chronic metabolic disease. Whereas this model remains useful, we argue that its utility in explaining the evolution of human dietary tendencies is limited. The assumption that human diets are mismatched to our evolved biology implies that they are instinctual or genetically determined and rooted in the Paleolithic. We review current research indicating that human eating habits are primarily learned through behavioral, social and physiological mechanisms starting in utero and extending throughout the life course. Those adaptations that appear to be strongly genetic likely reflect Neolithic, rather than Paleolithic, adaptations and are significantly influenced by human niche-constructing behavior. Incorporating a broader understanding of the evolved mechanisms by which humans learn and imprint eating habits and the reciprocal effects of those habits on physiology would provide useful tools for structuring more lasting nutrition interventions.
Gestational weight gain recommendations in the context of the obesity epidemic
Creators: name: Siega-Riz, Anna Maria
name: Gray, Gandarvaka L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The impact of the obesity epidemic on women of childbearing age has been of particular concern in recent years as a result of studies linking maternal weight status to long-term adverse outcomes for obese mothers and their offspring. The US Institute of Medicine developed new gestational weight gain guidelines based on this literature that attempts to strike a balance between the known risks and benefits of weight gain during pregnancy. More studies that include large numbers of obese women, examine outcomes beyond the perinatal period, and identify safe and effective pregnancy weight gain interventions are needed before lower weight gain recommendations can be made for obese women.
Exploring the high-pressure behavior of the three known polymorphs of BiPO4: Discovery of a new polymorph
Creators: name: Errandonea, D.
name: Gomis, O.
name: Santamaria-Perez, D.
name: Garcia-Domene, B.
name: Munoz, A.
name: Rodriguez-Hernandez, P.
name: Achary, S. N.
name: Tyagi, A. K.
name: Popescu, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the structural behavior of bismuth phosphate under compression. We performed x-ray powder diffraction measurements up to 31.5 GPa and ab initio calculations. Experiments were carried out on different polymorphs; trigonal (phase I) and monoclinic (phases II and III). Phases I and III, at low pressure (0.2-0.8 GPa), transform into phase II, which has a monazite-type structure. At room temperature, this polymorph is stable up to 31.5 GPa. Calculations support these findings and predict the occurrence of an additional transition from the monoclinic monazite-type to a tetragonal scheelite-type structure (phase IV). This transition was experimentally found after the simultaneous application of pressure (28 GPa) and temperature (1500 K), suggesting that at room temperature the transition might by hindered by kinetic barriers. Calculations also predict an additional phase transition at 52 GPa, which exceeds the maximum pressure achieved in the experiments. This transition is from phase IV to an orthorhombic barite-type structure (phase V). We also studied the axial and bulk compressibility of BiPO4. Room-temperature pressure-volume equations of state are reported. BiPO4 was found to be more compressible than isomorphic rare-earth phosphates. The discovered phase IV was determined to be the less compressible polymorph of BiPO4. On the other hand, the theoretically predicted phase V has a bulk modulus comparable with that of monazite-type BiPO4. Finally, the isothermal compressibility tensor for the monazite-type structure is reported at 2.4 GPa showing that the direction of maximum compressibility is in the (010) plane at approximately 15 (21) degrees to the a axis for the case of our experimental (theoretical) study.
description: 30 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, to appear in J. Appl. Phys
Steady-state and transient behaviour of a double-cage induction motor
Creators: name: Burdi Baluch
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This thesis is concerned with the transient torques, currents, acceleration and speed experienced by an induction motor with a double-cage rotor circuit, following various supply-switching operations. The analytical content is based on a double-cage equivalent circuit, and since several of the parameters of this are highly dependent upon slip it is necessary to develop special procedures to enable their variations to be established. [Continues.]
title: Caudostegosoma nomen novum: new replacement name for Stegosoma Chun, 1887 (Tunicata: Appendicularia: Oikopleuridae), not Stegosoma Loew, 1863 (Insecta: Diptera: Calliphoridae)
Creators: name: RIVAZ HERNÁNDEZ, José Amet
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: The name Stegosoma Chun, 1887, representing an appendicularian genus from the Gulf of Salerno, Italia, is a junior homonym. It is preoccupied by the blow fly genus name Stegosoma Loew, 1863 and is replaced by Caudostegosoma nom. nov.
Diet quality and markers of endothelial function: The CARDIA study
Creators: name: Steffen, L. M.
name: Meyer, K. A.
name: Van Horn, L.
name: Kromhout, D.
name: Sijtsma, F. P.C.
name: Jacobs, D. R.
name: Shikany, J. M.
name: Odegaard, A. O.
name: Gross, M. D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Dietary patterns are associated cross-sectionally with cellular adhesion molecules (CAMs).
Lipoprotein lipase variants interact with polyunsaturated fatty acids for obesity traits in women: Replication in two populations
Creators: name: Shao, Y.
name: Young, K. L.
name: Richardson, K.
name: Ma, Y.
name: Lee, Y. C.
name: Ordovás, J. M.
name: Huang, T.
name: Tucker, K. L.
name: Parnell, L. D.
name: Justice, A. E.
name: Smith, C. E.
name: Lai, C. Q.
name: North, K. E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) is a candidate gene for obesity based on its role in triglyceride hydrolysis and the partitioning of fatty acids towards storage or oxidation. Whether dietary fatty acids modify LPL associated obesity risk is unknown.
Scattering by a topological defect connecting two asymptotically Minkowski spacetimes
Creators: name: Pitelli, J. P. M.
name: Mosna, R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the stability and the scattering properties of a spacetime with a topological defect along a spherical bubble. This bubble connects two flat spacetimes which are asymptotically Minkowski, so that the resulting universe may be regarded as containing a wormhole. Its distinguished feature is the absence of exotic matter, i.e., its matter content respects all the energy conditions. Although this wormhole is nontraversable, waves and quantum particles can tunnel between both universes. Interestingly enough, the wave equation alone does not uniquely determine the evolution of scalar waves on this background, and the theory of self-adjoint extensions of symmetric operators is required to find the relevant boundary conditions in this context. Here we show that, for a particular boundary condition, this spacetime is stable and gives rise to a scattering pattern which is identical to the more usual thin-shell wormhole composed of exotic matter. Other boundary conditions of interest are also analyzed, including an unstable configuration with sharp resonances at well defined frequencies.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures. To appear in Phys Rev D
(401145) Jane Livingston
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.
VEGETAL POLITICS: A POSTANTHROPOCENTRIC ACCOUNT ON URBAN GARDENING IN ROME
Creators: name: DEL MONTE, BEATRICE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2020

description: This thesis is focused on citizens? based environmental initiatives, particularly concentrating on self-managed urban gardening. My exploration was largely dedicated to the study of vegetal politics. With this term I refer to the open-ended materialdiscursive assemblage of politics and policies carried out by public institutions and groups of citizens in urban green spaces (vegetal politics on the vegetal) and interactions of human and nonhuman actors that co-construct urban green spaces, particularly focusing on the role of vegetal agency (vegetal politics of the vegetal). The research is situated in the field of environmental sociology. The whole research and writing process has been enrooted in postanthropocentric newmaterialist feminisms, which I combined with political ecology. The research was made performing ethnography, which at best could investigate situated material practices of the everyday life. I combined a more classical ethnographic approach (observant participation and semi-structured interviews) with multispecies ethnography (an emergent nonanthropocentric methodology). I selected the city of Rome as my ethnographic terrain. The city is experiencing since at least a decade a structural withdrawal of public institutions in charge of the management of urban spaces and green areas and a large spread of environmental citizens? based micropolitical practices. The fieldwork was carried out from September 2017 to September 2018 in the Roman territory. The investigation showed the analytical and material power of vegetal politics. That is, a postanthropocentric political analysis and practice that allows to creep in the folds of reality, giving emphasis throughout the whole research and analysis process on actors who risked otherwise being invisiblised by the use of a fully humanist and anthropocentric length. The study revealed that politics and policies pursued by public institutions and by gardeners on green spaces (vegetal politics on the vegetal), in some cases reiterate or consolidate at a material level spatial injustices, particularly when a normative and controlling attitude prevails unopposed. Instead, from the daily interaction with the nonhuman world a political material relationality emerges which leads some activists to recognize subjectivity to nonhuman actors with whom they enter in a closer relationship of care and alliance. The analysis of interactions between humans, plants and nonhuman actors make emerge the power and capacity for action and transformation of the latters, which arise exceeding the boundaries of human intentionality (vegetal politics of the vegetal). It is precisely when human agency is lacking or incapable of domestication that the power of action of the nonhuman is more clearly shown, indicating that agency is shared and continually negotiated.
Testing for entanglement with periodic coarse-graining
Creators: name: Tasca, Daniel S.
name: Rudnicki, Łukasz
name: Aspden, Reuben S.
name: Padgett, Miles J.
name: Ribeiro, Paulo H. Souto
name: Walborn, Stephen P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Continuous variables systems find valuable applications in quantum information processing. To deal with an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space, one in general has to handle large numbers of discretized measurements in tasks such as entanglement detection. Here we employ the continuous transverse spatial variables of photon pairs to experimentally demonstrate novel entanglement criteria based on a periodic structure of coarse-grained measurements. The periodization of the measurements allows for an efficient evaluation of entanglement using spatial masks acting as mode analyzers over the entire transverse field distribution of the photons and without the need to reconstruct the probability densities of the conjugate continuous variables. Our experimental results demonstrate the utility of the derived criteria with a success rate in entanglement detection of $\sim60\%$ relative to $7344$ studied cases.
description: V1: revtex4, 10 pages, 4 figures + supp. material (4 pages, 1 figure) V2: Substantial revisions implemented both in theory and experimental data analysis
Fatty and lean red meat consumption in China: Differential association with Chinese abdominal obesity
Creators: name: Zhang, J.
name: Zhang, J.
name: Zhang, B.
name: Popkin, B. M.
name: Du, W.
name: Zhai, F.
name: Wang, H.
name: Su, C.
name: Wang, Z.
name: Jiang, H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: We examined the longitudinal association between red meat (RM) consumption and the risk of abdominal obesity in Chinese adults.
title: Maximum number of pups of Narcine bancroftii (Elasmobranchii: Narcinidae) from the Southwestern Gulf of Mexico
Creators: name: DEL MORAL-FLORES1, Luis Fernando
name: GRANADOS-GAYOSSO, Samantha
name: ANISLADO-TOLENTINO, Vicente
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: The Lesser electric ray or Caribbean Numbfish, Narcine bancroftii, has a wide distribution in the Western Central Atlantic, from North Carolina to Guyana, including the West Indies and the Gulf of Mexico. This paper reports 25 embryos (males and females) of N. bancroftii, with a size range of 8.9-19.1 cm total length (TL), from a single pregnant female of the 50 cm TL collected on March 22, 2019, as part of the small-scale fishery in the Southwestern Gulf of Mexico, State of Veracruz, Mexico.
title: Evidence of fused vertebrae and spondyloarthritis in Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus (Odontoceti: Cetacea) in Chetumal Bay, Mexico
Creators: name: CORONA-FIGUEROA, Mildred Fabiola
name: NIÑO-TORRES, Carlos Alberto
name: CASTELBLANCO-MARTÍNEZ, Delma Nataly
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: Bone diseases such as deformations, fractures, bone growths and the fusion of some vertebrae processes in dolphins and other marine mammals have been scarcely reported in Mexico. Here, we report a case of spondyloarthritis in several lumbar vertebrae and the fusion of some processes of the lumbar and caudal vertebrae in a Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus. The specimen was an adult female (2.39 m total length) found stranded on the West coast of the Statal Reserve Chetumal Bay Manatee Sanctuary. The anomality in the vertebrae of this individual consisted of the fusion of the neural spines of two lumbar vertebrae, the fusion of the arch sheets of two caudal vertebrae and the presence of spondyloarthrosis in several lumbar vertebrae.
Serum uric acid does not predict incident metabolic syndrome in a population with high prevalence of obesity
Creators: name: Umans, J. G.
name: de Simone, G.
name: Devereux, R. B.
name: Lee, E. T.
name: Wang, H.
name: Yeh, J.
name: Howard, B. V.
name: Franceschini, N.
name: Ferrara, L. A.
name: Jolly, S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: To evaluate whether uric acid (UA) predicts 4-yr incidence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in non-diabetic participants of the Strong Heart Study (SHS) cohort.
title: Intraspecific variability in lipid classes and fatty acid profiles of wild American lobster Homarus americanus H. Milne Edwards, 1837: stage IV
Creators: name: HACHÉ, Rémy
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: Despite the importance of the American lobster fishery, little data exists on wild larval stages. Analysis of nutrient composition from wild specimen is commonly used to evaluate the physiological condition of marine species, to characterize populations and to establish feeding strategies when cultivating that particular species. The aim of this study was to evaluate the natural variations of lipid classes and fatty acid profiles of stage IV American lobster caught in three different sites of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (Canada): the Îles-de-la-Madeleine (Qc); Dingwall (NS); and False Bay (August and October) (NS). Both neutral and polar fatty acids levels were highly variable among sample sites. Almost all the main physiological indicators of lipids (TAG, PL, DHA, EPA, ARA and DHA/EPA) varied among sites, while only the ARA levels varied in time, for the False Bay site. ARA levels are usually associated with stressful situations that could have occurred when water temperatures decreased before winter, in October, at the False Bay site. Variations observed between sites could reflect differences existing in the type of food available and/or local adaptation of the stage IV larvae.
Efficient Multiple Importance Sampling Estimators
Creators: name: Elvira, Víctor
name: Martino, Luca
name: Luengo, David
name: Bugallo, Mónica F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multiple importance sampling (MIS) methods use a set of proposal distributions from which samples are drawn. Each sample is then assigned an importance weight that can be obtained according to different strategies. This work is motivated by the trade-off between variance reduction and computational complexity of the different approaches (classical vs. deterministic mixture) available for the weight calculation. A new method that achieves an efficient compromise between both factors is introduced in this paper. It is based on forming a partition of the set of proposal distributions and computing the weights accordingly. Computer simulations show the excellent performance of the associated \mbox{\emph{partial deterministic mixture} MIS estimator.
title: First record of the isopod parasite Clypeoniscus cantacuzenei (Crustacea: Isopoda) in the UK and the introduction of a key to the cryptoniscus stage of genus Clypeoniscus of UK Waters
Creators: name: JENKINS, Adam
name: GRIFFIN, Ross A.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: In 2017 a cryptoniscus stage of the isopod parasite Clypeoniscus cantacuzenei was found attached to the dorsum of Cleantis prismatica at Cresswell Sands, Northumberland. This is the only record outside the type locality and is the first record of this species in the United Kingdom. C. cantacuzenei can be distinguished from other species of Clypeoniscus known from the region by the possession of only 2 teeth on the coxal plates. Despite the wide distribution of the recorded host species, the parasitic genus Clypeoniscus remains under recorded, possibly due to low infection rates, difficulty in identifying parasites or lack of effort shown to many invertebrate groups by recorders. A key to the cryptoniscus stage of the genus Clypeoniscus likely to be found in UK waters is provided.
Algebraic models of local period maps and Yukawa algebras
Creators: name: Bandiera, Ruggero
name: Manetti, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We describe some L-infinity model for the local period map of a compact Kaehler manifold. Applications include the study of deformations with associated variation of Hodge structure constrained by certain closed strata of the Grassmannian of the de Rham cohomology. As a byproduct we obtain an interpretation in the framework of deformation theory of the Yukawa coupling.
description: to appear in Letters in Mathematical Physics
Asymptotic safety in $O(N)$ scalar models coupled to gravity
Creators: name: Labus, Peter
name: Percacci, Roberto
name: Vacca, Gian Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend recent results on scalar-tensor theories to the case of an O(N)-invariant multiplet. Some exact fixed point solutions of the RG flow equations are discussed. We find that also in the functional context, on employing a standard "type-I" cutoff, too many scalars destroy the gravitational fixed point. For d=3 we show the existence of the gravitationally dressed Wilson-Fisher fixed point also for N>1. We discuss also the results of the analysis for a different, scalar-free, coarse-graining scheme.
description: Latex, 15 pages, 1 figure
ESSAY ON INVESTMENT AND THE ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION
Creators: name: STROPPA, GIACOMO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2020

description: Standard models used to analyze business-cycle fluctuations rely on the Cobb-Douglas production function. In their paper, Cantore et al. (2015) (CLPY in the following) analyze if and to what extent the use of a Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production function improves a standard medium-size Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model. Extending a model similar to Christiano et al. (2005) and Smets and Wouters (2007) with the CES production function, they show that allowing for non-unitary elasticity of substitution (i.e., non-Cobb-Douglas production function) between inputs has a significant improvement in terms of second moments and posterior marginal likelihood. Our research builds upon the results of CLPY and is carried out in two chapters, each inspecting the implications of CES production function on a different definition of investment; in particular, the first chapter considers investment in physical capital, the second investment in firm creation.
How growers make decisions impacts plant disease control.
Creators: name: Murray-Watson, Rachel E
name: Hamelin, Frédéric M
name: Cunniffe, Nik J
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Research Article
subject: Medicine and health sciences
subject: Biology and life sciences
subject: Social sciences
subject: FOS: Social sciences

description: While the spread of plant disease depends strongly on biological factors driving transmission, it also has a human dimension. Disease control depends on decisions made by individual growers, who are in turn influenced by a broad range of factors. Despite this, human behaviour has rarely been included in plant epidemic models. Considering Cassava Brown Streak Disease, we model how the perceived increase in profit due to disease management influences participation in clean seed systems (CSS). Our models are rooted in game theory, with growers making strategic decisions based on the expected profitability of different control strategies. We find that both the information used by growers to assess profitability and the perception of economic and epidemiological parameters influence long-term participation in the CSS. Over-estimation of infection risk leads to lower participation in the CSS, as growers perceive that paying for the CSS will be futile. Additionally, even though good disease management can be achieved through the implementation of CSS, and a scenario where all controllers use the CSS is achievable when growers base their decision on the average of their entire strategy, CBSD is rarely eliminated from the system. These results are robust to stochastic and spatial effects. Our work highlights the importance of including human behaviour in plant disease models, but also the significance of how that behaviour is included.
title: First record of the Lessepsian nereidid Pseudonereis anomala Gravier, 1899 (Annelida: Nereididae) in the western Mediterranean Sea
Creators: name: KURT, Güley
name: REZZAG-MAHCENE, Hiba
name: KUŞ, Sevgi
name: DAAS, Tarek
name: VILLALOBOS-GUERRERO, Tulio F.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2021

description: This is the first record of the Lessepsian polychaete Pseudonereis anomala Gravier, 1899 in the western Mediterranean Sea, specifically in Skikda Bay, Algeria. The species was collected among rocks covered by algae at 0.5 m depth. A characterization of the species, as well as some ecological and distributional aspects are provided.
The State health emergency under Covid-19
Creators: name: Çela, Eda
name: Angelone, Francesco
Publisher: name: Euro-Balkan Law and Economics Review
Year: 2020
Subjects: COVID-19; emergency; measures; freedoms; constitution

description: These months we have been witness of the various extraordinary measures that governments have adopted, as a response to COVID-19 emergency. The decisions of different governments have raised significant concerns about its possible social and economic repercussions; in addition it brought out the critical issues of the current health systems present in the countries involved in terms of minimum levels of care guarantee. At the same time, it constitutes an interesting opportunity to reflect on certain legal aspects of constitutional and legal compatibility, related to the adoption of the numerous regulatory provisions, measures and limitations, through which States have attempted to stem the rampant epidemiological phenomenon, called COVID-19.
description: Euro-Balkan Law and Economics Review, N. 2 (2020): Fascicolo 2
(401144) William Walker
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.
Notes for an education theory in Antonio Gramsci’s work: Gentile and Gelmini Reform
Creators: name: Cascione, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Euro-Balkan Law and Economics Review
Year: 2020
Subjects: Gramsci; Gentile; Gelmini; Quaderni del carcere

description: This essay aims to highlight a “theory of education” in Gramsci’s work. Although none of the “Quaderni del carcere” focuses on this subject, a large number of notes refers to the theme of education. The approach is comparative, because compares the Gentile’s Reform and the Gelmini’s Reform with the Gramsci’s point of view, which is much more democratic and considers the education system like one of the most important factors in making a radical political change.
description: Euro-Balkan Law and Economics Review, N. 2 (2020): Fascicolo 2
Experimental Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution with Imperfect Sources
Creators: name: Tang, Zhiyuan
name: Wei, Kejin
name: Bedroya, Olinka
name: Qian, Li
name: Lo, Hoi-Kwong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD), which is immune to all detector side-channel attacks, is the most promising solution to the security issues in practical quantum key distribution systems. Though several experimental demonstrations of MDI QKD have been reported, they all make one crucial but not yet verified assumption, that is there are no flaws in state preparation. Such an assumption is unrealistic and security loopholes remain in the source. Here we present, to our knowledge, the first MDI-QKD experiment with state preparation flaws taken into consideration. By applying a novel security proof by Tamaki \textit{et al} (Phys. Rev. A 90, 052314 (2014)), we distribute secure keys over fiber links up to 40 km with imperfect sources, which would not have been possible under previous security proofs. By closing loopholes in both the sources and the detectors, our work shows the feasibility of secure QKD with practical imperfect devices.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, including supplemental material
ROLE OF THE HISTONE DEMETHYLASE JMJD3 IN CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT AND NEURAL DIFFERENTIATION
Creators: name: SGUALDINO, JACOPO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: Jmjd3 is a H3K27 demethylase that is required for the neural commitment of ESCs and controls the expression of key drivers and markers of neurulation through the demethylation of H3K27me3. Previous work from our lab has demonstrated that loss of Jmjd3 in mouse embryos causes a complex neurodevelopmental phenotype that results in perinatal death. Such lethality is due to a respiratory failure resulting from the lack of a functional pre-Bo?tzinger complex, a small network of neurons that is responsible for respiratory rhythm generation. Rescue experiments performed with catalytically active or inactive Jmjd3 have demonstrated that its demethylase activity is necessary for developing and maintaining the embryonic respiratory neuronal network. This unanticipated finding claims a broader role in brain development for Jmjd3, whose importance extends from early differentiation choices to the late development of neuronal networks. To investigate the effect of Jmjd3 loss on neocortical development, we analyzed Jmjd3 KO embryonic brains at different developmental stages using markers for stem cells and differentiated neurons. We found that loss of Jmjd3 causes a late-onset increase in the number of ventricular zone (VZ) neural precursor cells (NPCs) and a reduction in the cortical neuronal production. Jmjd3 KO VZ NPCs display a higher rate of cell cycle re-entry than their WT counterpart, and have an overall longer cell cycle. In order to pinpoint the mechanism by which Jmjd3 is causally linked to the lengthening of the NPC cell cycle and to the VZ expansion, we investigated the transcriptional effect of Jmjd3 loss by performing RNAseq on mRNA extracted from WT and KO cultured E13.5 primary NPCs. A detailed molecular characterization at the transcriptional level revealed that the phenotype that we observed both in vivo and in vitro in Jmjd3 KO NPCs is linked to supraphysiological activation of the Wnt/B-catenin and Notch pathways, two known regulators of the choice between self- renewal and differentiation in the VZ NPCs of the developing brains, whose upregulation has already been shown to correlate with an increased proliferative potential and hampered neuronal differentiation.
Anomalies, Renormalization Group Flows, and the a-Theorem in Six-Dimensional (1,0) Theories
Creators: name: Cordova, Clay
name: Dumitrescu, Thomas T.
name: Intriligator, Kenneth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish a linear relation between the $a$-type Weyl anomaly and the 't Hooft anomaly coefficients for the $R$-symmetry and gravitational anomalies in six-dimensional $(1,0)$ superconformal field theories. For RG flows onto the tensor branch, where conformal symmetry is spontaneously broken, supersymmetry relates the anomaly mismatch $Δa$ to the square of a four-derivative interaction for the dilaton. This establishes the $a$-theorem for all such flows. The four-derivative dilaton interaction is in turn related to the Green-Schwarz-like terms that are needed to match the 't Hooft anomalies on the tensor branch, thus fixing their relation to $Δa$. We use our formula to obtain exact expressions for the $a$-anomaly of $N$ small $E_8$ instantons, as well as $N$ M5-branes probing an orbifold singularity, and verify the $a$-theorem for RG flows onto their Higgs branches. We also discuss aspects of supersymmetric RG flows that terminate in scale but not conformally invariant theories with massless gauge fields.
description: 38 pages, 3 figures; added references and an appendix
(401143) Mary Anne Allan
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.
Understanding the Role of Nutrition in the Brain & Behavioral Development of Toddlers and Preschool Children: Identifying and Overcoming Methodological Barriers
Creators: name: Rosales, Francisco J.
name: Zeisel, Steven H.
name: Reznick, J. Steven
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The pre-school years (i.e., 1–5 years of age) is a time of rapid and dramatic postnatal brain development, i.e., neural plasticity, and of fundamental acquisition of cognitive development i.e., working memory, attention and inhibitory control. Also, it is a time of transition from a direct maternal mediation/selection of diet-based nutrition to food selection that is more based on self-selection and self-gratification. However, there have been fewer published studies in pre-school children than in infants or school-aged children that examined the role of nutrition in brain/mental development (i.e., 125 studies vs. 232 and 303 studies, respectively during the last 28 years, Figure 1). This may arise because of age-related variability, in terms of individual differences in temperament, linguistic ability, and patterns of neural activity that may affect assessment of neural and cognitive development in pre-school children. In this review, we suggest several approaches for assessing brain function in children that can be refined. It would be desirable if the discipline developed some common elements to be included in future studies of diet and brain function, with the idea that they would complement more targeted measures based on time of exposure and understanding of data from animal models. Underlining this approach is the concepts of “window of sensitivity” during which nutrients may affect postnatal neural development: investigators and expert panels need to specifically look for region-specific changes and do so with understanding of the likely time window during which the nutrient was, or was not available. (244 words)
Excitation properties of galaxies with the highest [OIII]/[OII] ratios: No evidence for massive escape of ionizing photons
Creators: name: Stasinska, G.
name: Izotov, Yu.
name: Morisset, C.
name: Guseva, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility that star-forming galaxies may leak ionizing photons is at the heart of many present-day studies that investigate the reionization of the Universe. We test this hypothesis on local blue compact dwarf galaxies of very high excitation. We assembled a sample of such galaxies by examining the spectra from Data Releases 7 and 10 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We argue that reliable conclusions cannot be based on strong lines alone, and adopt a strategy that includes important weak lines such as [OI] and the high-excitation HeII and [ArIV] lines. Our analysis is based on purely observational diagrams and on a comparison of photoionization models with well-chosen emission-line ratio diagrams. We show that spectral energy distributions from current stellar population synthesis models cannot account for all the observational constraints, which led us to mimick several scenarios that could explain the data. These include the additional presence of hard X-rays or of shocks. We find that only ionization-bounded models (or models with an escape fraction of ionizing photons lower than 10%) are able to simultaneously explain all the observational constraints.
description: accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics
title: Cladopsammia manuelensis sensu Cairns, 2000 (Order: Scleractinia): a new distribution record for Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
Creators: name: HAMMERMAN, Nicholas M.
name: WILLIAMS, Stacey M.
name: VEGLIA, Alex J.
name: GARCÍA-HERNÁNDEZ, Jaaziel E.
name: SCHIZAS, Nikolaos V.
name: LANG, Judith C.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2021

description: An unfamiliar looking azooxanthellate dendrophylliid coral, observed during shallow water (3-19 m) visual censuses since 2015 in Hispaniola and since 2019 in Puerto Rico, has been identified as Cladopsammia manuelensis sensu Cairns, 2000 (hereafter C. manuelensis). Genus assignment is based on morphological (e.g. large, widely separated and divergently oriented polyps that grow by extratentacular division, either near the base of another polyp or separated from others by a flattened coenenchyme) and genetic data (CO1 gene). We highlight the taxonomic uncertainty of the species affiliation of Cladopsammia manuelensis as well as the unresolved status of the closely related genera Cladopsammia, Rhizopsammia and Dendrophyllia. Typically found deeper (at 43-366 m) in the tropical-subtropical Atlantic Ocean and western Indian Ocean, C. manuelensis is also known to have increased in abundance in semi-cryptic habitats over the last decade at 4- 30 m in Curaçao and occurs in transects at 10 m in Aruba. The recent appearance of C. manuelensis at snorkel- SCUBA depths may represent an upward expansion of its bathymetric range and/or emergence from the cryptic habitats that abound on shallow reefs. Cladopsammia manuelensis superficially resembles, and genetically is relatively closely related to, three, highly invasive, semi-cryptic dendrophylliid Tubastraea species, and may show a similar ability to spread widely on tropical western Atlantic reefs.
LA QUESTIONE DELLA POLITICA ESTERA NEL DIBATTITO INTERNO AL PARTITO SOCIALISTA UNIFICATO.DAL PROGETTO DI UNIFICAZIONE ALLA NUOVA SCISSIONE: 1964-1969.
Creators: name: PASINI, ELEONORA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: The question of foreign policy within Socialist Unity Party 1966 - 1969 The research project aims to carry out an analysis of the different positions within the Socialist Unity Party, taking into consideration the years of its political activity, 1966 ? 1969. The research try to follow the political debate born in these years, from some of the most important international issues such as the Vietnam War, the Arab-Israeli question and the Prague Spring; the research also analyzes the relationships between the PSU and the Socialist International. The central theme of the project will, therefore, consist of a precise examination of the various interpretations developed within the party, divided in recent years in current well-defined and often contradict each other in relation to these important events in international politics. A careful reflection on these different judgments could also allow you to determine how much the lack of a precise and systematic program of international politics has helped to speed up the process of separation of the two souls of the party. The research aims, finally, to determine whether and how the socialist unification has put into question and crisis in the traditional guidelines of the socialist party's foreign policy, and to consider, therefore, the elements of continuity or rupture with respect to the ideological principles that the party had followed until then.
Water-Level Measurement Data, Water-Level Altitude and Long-term Water-Level Altitude Change Contours (2017) in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper Aquifers, Houston-Galveston Region, Texas
Creators: name: Kasmarek, Mark
name: Ramage, Jason K
Publisher: name: U.S. Geological Survey
Year: 2017

description: The U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Harris-Galveston Subsidence District, City of Houston, Fort Bend Subsidence District, and Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District has produced (1) dataset of water-level measurement data and (2) shapefiles of water-level altitudes and water-level changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper aquifers in the Houston-Galveston region, Texas.This dataset shows current-year (2017) water-level measurement data, altitudes for each aquifer, 5-year (2012-2017) water-level changes for each aquifer, long-term (1990-2017 and 1977-2017) water-level changes for the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers, and long-term (2000-2017) water-level change for the Jasper aquifer. For the 1-year (2016-17) water-level changes, data were computed as the difference in water-level altitude at each point (well) for which a water-level measurement was made in 2016 and 2017. Five-year (2012-2017) water-level changes were computed the same as for the 1-year water-level changes; the difference in water-level altitude at each point for which a water-level measurement was made in 2012 and 2017.
(401142) Catherine Sandeman Morrison
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.
Weekend and Weekday Patterns of Physical Activity in Overweight and Normal-weight Adolescent Girls*
Creators: name: Webber, Larry
name: Catellier, Diane J.
name: Pate, Russell R.
name: Treuth, Margarita S.
name: McMurray, Robert G.
name: Blew, Robert M.
name: Elder, John P.
name: Schmitz, Kathryn H.
name: Yang, Song
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: To describe the patterns (specifically comparing weekdays and weekends classified by intensities) of physical activity (PA) measured by accelerometry in adolescent girls.
Universal entanglement for higher dimensional cones
Creators: name: Bueno, Pablo
name: Myers, Robert C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entanglement entropy of a generic $d$-dimensional conformal field theory receives a regulator independent contribution when the entangling region contains a (hyper)conical singularity of opening angle $Ω$, codified in a function $a^{(d)}(Ω)$. In arXiv:1505.04804, we proposed that for three-dimensional conformal field theories, the coefficient $σ$ characterizing the smooth surface limit of such contribution ($Ω\rightarrow π$) equals the stress tensor two-point function charge $C_{ T}$, up to a universal constant. In this paper, we prove this relation for general three-dimensional holographic theories, and extend the result to general dimensions. In particular, we show that a generalized coefficient $σ^{ (d)}$ can be defined for (hyper)conical entangling regions in the almost smooth surface limit, and that this coefficient is universally related to $C_{ T}$ for general holographic theories, providing a general formula for the ratio $σ^{ (d)}/C_{ T}$ in arbitrary dimensions. We conjecture that the latter ratio is universal for general CFTs. Further, based on our recent results in arXiv:1507.06997, we propose an extension of this relation to general Rényi entropies, which we show passes several consistency checks in $d=4$ and $d=6$.
description: 22 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; v3: minor modifications to match published version, references added
Association of Monosodium Glutamate Intake With Overweight in Chinese Adults: The INTERMAP Study
Creators: name: Zhao, Liancheng
name: Wu, Yangfeng
name: Zhou, Beifan
name: Dyer, Alan R.
name: Zhu, Liguang
name: He, Ka
name: Daviglus, Martha L.
name: Guo, Dongshuang
name: Garside, Daniel
name: Stamler, Jeremiah
name: Van Horn, Linda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Animal studies indicate that monosodium glutamate (MSG) can induce hypothalamic lesions and leptin resistance, possibly influencing energy balance, leading to overweight. This study examines the association between MSG intake and overweight in the human species. We conducted a cross-sectional study of 752 healthy Chinese (48.7% women), ages 40 to 59 years, randomly sampled from three rural villages in north and south China. The great majority of participants prepared their foods at home, without use of commercially processed foods. Diet was assessed with four in-depth multi-pass 24-hour recalls. Participants were asked to demonstrate MSG amounts added in food preparation. Amounts shaken out were weighed by trained interviewers. Overweight was defined as body mass index ≥25.0 kg/m2 or ≥23.0 (based on World Health Organization recommendations for Asian populations). Eighty-two percent of participants used MSG. Average intake was 0.33 gram/day (standard deviation=0.40). With adjustment for potential confounders including physical activity and total energy intake, MSG intake was positively related to body mass index. Prevalence of overweight was significantly higher in MSG users than non-users. For users in the highest tertile of MSG intake compared to non-users, the multivariable-adjusted odds ratios of overweight (body mass index ≥23.0 and ≥25.0) were 2.10 (95% CI, 1.13–3.90, P for trend across four MSG categories=0.03) and 2.75 (95% CI, 1.28–5.95, P=0.04). This research provides human data that MSG intake may be associated with increased risk of overweight independent of physical activity and total energy intake.