cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Liverpool China Trade 1834-1880.
Creators: name: Baird, Christina Jane
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1997

description: The nucleus of this thesis is the Liverpool China Trade Collection. This exists in Liverpool in store and has never been exhibited as a whole. Much of this collection is provenanced to local families with strong shipping connections. The examination of this collection is preceded by an analysis of the data on shipping and trade with the aim of showing the importance of the port of Liverpool in the latter part of the nineteenth century after the release of the East India Company franchise and the opening of the Suez Canal. The latter event had a dramatic effect on Liverpool because it coincided with new developments in the compound steam engine, the potential of which was exploited to the full by Alfred Holt, a Liverpool shipowner. The study falls into two main parts. First, the historical background is sketched, revealing, amongst other factors, the influence of American traders, who in the nineteenth century anticipated developments in shipping, for example in clipper-ship design, as well as providing a model market for trade goods from China the demands of which were reflected by the tastes and demands of the prosperous Liverpool merchants. The shipping data are amplified by reference to the family correspondence of Robert Thomson, who was first a clipper captain and later captain of one of the Holt steamers, and also by the diary of Alexander Kidd, whose service with Alfred Holt's company lasted over most of the period under survey only being terminated by his untimely death at sea. Second, the thesis examines in detail the collection itself, which is unique in this country because it is unusually well provenanced to Liverpool families, enabling us to trace the sort of private trading which was going on at the behest of individuals as well as on behalf of the companies who were importing tea as their main commodity. This part of the thesis contains a report on the oriental collections of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, discussing the collections in relation to a neglected phase of China Trade art and in the light of locally sourced documentation. An account, and possible explanation, is offered of the ways in which the nature of the China Trade changed in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The thesis examines the collection itself, illustrates the nature of the objects which were being collected, often by or on behalf of the great mercantile families of Liverpool, and casts light not only upon the nationwide taste for Chinese products together with shifts in patronage and consumerism which developed at this time but also upon the effect trade contacts, the establishment of new colonial communities on the Chinese mainland and the emergence of an identifiable treaty port culture had upon developments in Chinese export art.
title: Water architecture in South Asia: A study of types, developments and meanings.
Creators: name: Hegewald, Julia A. B.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1998

description: The collection, storage and distribution of water, managed by means of dams, reservoirs, tanks and wells, are activities central to life and religious ritual in South Asia, and occasion some of the subcontinent's most spectacular architectural conceptions and engineering achievements. This study is the first to address the subject of water architecture as a whole, to relate the structures of the various regions, contexts and types to each other, and to present a comprehensive interpretation of the history and meaning of South Asian water architecture. It draws attention to the architectural splendour and sacred associations of monuments, many of which have not been documented before, or which have been considered merely as technical constructions. As such, it is the first study to attribute to water architecture a central position within the corpus of South Asian architecture alongside and on equal rank with temple and residential architecture. The dissertation is a study of architectural structures relating to water in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, mainly between the ninth and the nineteenth centuries. The structures under examination are divided into five main types: ghats (steps into water), tanks, kundas (deep stepped basins), wells and ornamental pools in palaces and water gardens. The dissertation shows how water structures signify both practical and metaphysical importance; it investigates the various forms and parts of water monuments, and it traces their development from simple to more complex forms of architecture. In particular, it is concerned with the shapes of the structures, which favour both secular and religious activities, express sacred and royal meanings, and provide a setting for the re-enactment of mythical events. The brief general introduction summarises the present state of research, discusses the sources and explains the chosen approach to the material. This is followed by an introduction to the religious meanings and cultural associations connected with water in the main religious traditions of South Asia. The five following chapters each deal with one of the five types of water architecture, and contain the main findings of the author's field-work. It is argued that the architectural framework of each of the principal types of water architecture is common to the entire subcontinent, that regionalism has considerably less influence on them than has hitherto been assumed, and that no type is exclusive to any one context. Each chapter analyses the main characteristics and the constituent architectural parts of the type, its variations, the border cases, and developments. The final chapter summarises the main results, examines common themes in water architecture, and outlines modem continuity in South Asia.
Hand bone age estimation using divide and conquer strategy and lightweight convolutional neural networks
Creators: name: Kasani, Amin Ahmadi
name: Sajedi, Hedieh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Estimating the Bone Age of children is very important for diagnosing growth defects, and related diseases, and estimating the final height that children reach after maturity. For this reason, it is widely used in different countries. Traditional methods for estimating bone age are performed by comparing atlas images and radiographic images of the left hand, which is time-consuming and error-prone. To estimate bone age using deep neural network models, a lot of research has been done, our effort has been to improve the accuracy and speed of this process by using the introduced approach. After creating and analyzing our initial model, we focused on preprocessing and made the inputs smaller, and increased their quality. we selected small regions of hand radiographs and estimated the age of the bone only according to these regions. by doing this we improved bone age estimation accuracy even further than what was achieved in related works, without increasing the required computational resource. We reached a Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 3.90 months in the range of 0-20 years and an MAE of 3.84 months in the range of 1-18 years on the RSNA test set.
title: Telugu ethnic identity in Mauritius.
Creators: name: Nirsimloo-Anenden, Ananda Devi
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1982

description: The thesis deals with different aspects of ethnicity in the multi-racial society of Mauritius. It considers the significance of ethnic identity for the sub-groups of the Indian community, both in a village situation and at the global social level in the country. Further, it attempts to elucidate the ways in which ethnic identity can he used as a resource, which each group can consciously manipulate in order to obtain specific privileges in the wider social context. Part One of the thesis deals with the village situation. Two adjacent villages are compared and the different configurations of ethnicity in each are identified and related to specific economic and social conditions in the villages as well as to the make-up of the groups themselves. It is suggested that there is a correlation between the bounded, restrictive context of the 'plantation-village' - which one of the village closely approximates - and a less overt configuration of ethnic differentiation; whereas in the other village studied, a more open-ended social and economic situation, creating avenues of social mobility and economic entrepreneurship, allows overt ethnic rivalries and separation to emerge. It is not however solely a matter of context, but also one of content that allows ethnic identity to assume different guises in the society. Identity seems to spring from a deeply imbedded notion of substance, akin to the idea of 'genus' and blood, which is an immutable part of the individual's social and psychological personality. Part Two of the thesis focuses on one group of Mauritian society, the Telugu-speaking group, which is defined as a regional and linguistic sub-group of the Indian community, but which adheres to a more distinctly ethnic selfdefinition. In a substantial sense, the group's identity hinges on institutional features of kinship and marriage. In fact, kinship as a real order of relation and as a symbolical link is the underlying fabric that holds the group together and gives it a sense of its own identity. In order to validate its identity vis-a-vis other, more cogently organised groups, however, it has to use other parameters of identity. This is done by emphasising its distinctiveness in terms of religion, language and cultural norms, which represent overt, surface boundaries demarcating the group's specificity. This is seen in terms of a structuralisation of ethnicity, or ethnicisation, whereby the group's substantial identity is translated into a consciously manipulative one. In this way, ethnicity as an order of being becomes transformed into ethnicity as a resource in the plural society.
title: Phonology and grammar of Lòkée : A preliminary study.
Creators: name: Iwara, Alexander Ubi
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1982

description: This thesis is a preliminary study of the phonology and grammar of the Lokee language. The first chapter gives a brief general introduction to the people and their language. It also outlines the theoretical framework of the study. Chapter 2 describes the phonological hierarchy, focusing primarily on the phoneme, syllable, phonological morph and phonological ward units. Chapters 3-7 describe the morpheme, word, phrase, clause and sentence units of the grammatical hierarchy respectively, presenting classes at each rank in terms of its elements of structure and showing the realization of these elements in structure. Chapter 8 is a brief description of patterning above the sentence that provides a setting to illustrate the function of the sentence. Lokee has one of the most elaborate concord-class systems among the Cross River languages of Eastern Nigeria. It is here described at the word, phrase and clause ranks of the grammatical hierarchy at which it is relevant. The thesis concludes with an appendix consisting of some sample texts that show preliminary orthography largely based on the preceding analysis of the phonology and grammar of Lokee.
Pyrpotyra paraensis Santos-Silva, Martins & Clarke, 2010, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Martins, Ubirajara R.
name: Clarke, Robin O. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Pyrpotyra
Pyrpotyra paraensis

description: Pyrpotyra paraensis sp. nov.
 (Fig. 20)
 Etimologia: Alusivo ao estado brasileiro de origem do holótipo (Pará).
 Diagnose: Pyrpotyra paraensis sp. nov. difere das demais espécies do gênero pelos metatarsômeros castanhos.
 Fêmea (Fig. 20): Tegumento castanho-escuro, quase preto. Protórax alaranjado, exceto uma larga faixa preta que cobre quase todo o prosterno interligada a outra, estreita e da mesma cor, que circunda todo o protórax junto à cabeça. Antenômero VIII branco-amarelado; antenômero IX branco-amarelado no terço basal. Élitros com reflexos azuis e violáceos. Metatarsômeros castanhos.
Rostro, área entre os lobos oculares inferiores e faixa longitudinal na região dorsal com abundante pubescência branco-acinzentada. Distância entre os lobos oculares inferiores igual a 0,8 vezes a largura de um lobo; distância entre os lobos oculares superiores igual a 2,8 vezes a largura de um lobo. Antenas tão longas quanto o dobro do comprimento elitral; comprimento do antenômero VIII subigual ao do IX. Pronoto com pontos grossos e abundantes, exceto sobre uma calosidade moderadamente larga, pouco elevada e longitudinal, que se estende do quinto basal até aproximadamente o meio; pubescência muito curta, abundante, entremeada por pelos longos, eretos e moderadamente abundantes. Élitros com faixa de pubescência abundante, que inicia na base, onde quase atinge os úmeros, estreita-se gradualmente até proximidades do meio e segue junto à sutura até o ápice, circundando-o; metade basal com pelos longos, esparsos, gradualmente menores em direção ao ápice; demais áreas com alguns pelos curtos; carena elitral pouco conspícua, atinge o terço apical; área lateral, entre a carena e a epipleura fortemente obliqua no terço basal e gradualmente mais plana em direção ao ápice; margens laterais subparalelas nos dois terços apicais; quarto apical fracamente convexo. Metasterno com pontos pouco grossos e moderadamente abundantes, gradualmente mais finos e esparsos em direção à sutura metasternal. Face ventral com pubescência branco-acinzentada, curta e abundante, exceto no terço do prosterno mais próxima da cabeça.
 Dimensões em mm ( ♀ ): Comprimento total, 9,2; comprimento do protórax, 1,9; largura anterior do protórax, 1,2; largura posterior do protórax, 1,3; largura umeral, 1,6; comprimento elitral, 5,9.
 Material-tipo: Holótipo ♀, BRASIL, Pará: Paragominas (PA-70, km 32), 14-15.XI.1979, W. França col. (MPEG).
description: Published as part of Santos-Silva, Antonio, Martins, Ubirajara R. & Clarke, Robin O. S., 2010, Contribuição Para O Estudo Dos Rhinotragini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Ii. Revisão De Ommata White, pp. 595-621 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 50 (39) on pages 616-617, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492010003900001, http://zenodo.org/record/13307686
Pyrpotyra capixaba Santos-Silva, Martins & Clarke, 2010, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Martins, Ubirajara R.
name: Clarke, Robin O. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Pyrpotyra
Pyrpotyra capixaba

description: Pyrpotyra capixaba sp. nov.
 (Fig. 21)
 Etimologia: Tupi, kapi’xawa: terra de plantação, roça. Alusivo ao estado do Espírito Santo.
 Diagnose: Pyrpotyra capixaba sp. nov. difere das demais espécies do gênero pela presença de pelos moderadamente longos em toda a superfície elitral.
 Fêmea (Fig. 21): Tegumento castanho-escuro. Cabeça (inclusive mandíbulas) castanho-avermelhada, com o ápice do rostro e das mandíbulas enegrecidas. Antenômeros VIII-IX branco-amarelados. Protórax avermelhado. Região epipleural, abaixo dos úmeros, com pequena área avermelhada. Terço apical dos meso- e metafêmures castanhos. Quinto apical das metatíbias e metatarsômeros branco-amarelados, exceto o quarto apical do metatarsômero V e as garras.
Rostro e área entre os lobos oculares inferiores com pubescência branco-acinzentada. Distância entre os lobos oculares inferiores igual a 0,65 vezes a largura de um lobo; distância entre os lobos oculares superiores igual a 2,8 vezes a largura de um lobo. Antenas tão longas quanto 1,8 vezes o comprimento elitral; comprimento do antenômero VIII subigual ao do IX. Pronoto com pontos grossos e abundantes, exceto sobre uma calosidade estreita que se estende longitudinalmente desde próximo da base até a base do terço distal; pilosidade curta e abundante, entremeada por pelos eretos em toda a superfície e distintamente pubescente na base. Élitros com pelos longos em toda a superfície; carena elitral pouco conspícua e restrita a metade basal; área lateral, entre a carena e a epipleura fortemente obliqua no terço basal e gradualmente mais plana em direção ao ápice; margem lateral subparalela nos dois terços apicais; quarto apical subplano. Metasterno com pontos grossos e moderadamente abundantes, gradualmente mais finos e mais esparsos em direção à sutura metasternal. Face ventral com pubescência branco-acinzentada, curta e abundante (notavelmente nas laterais do metasterno e nos metepisternos), exceto na metade do prosterno mais próxima da cabeça.
 Dimensões em mm ( ♀ ): Comprimento total, 7,0; comprimento do protórax, 1,6; largura anterior do protórax, 1,0; largura posterior do protórax, 1,1; largura umeral, 1,3; comprimento elitral, 4,8.
 Material-tipo: Holótipo ♀, BRASIL, Espírito Santo: Linhares, 22-31.X.1973, C. T. & C. Elias col. (DZUP).
description: Published as part of Santos-Silva, Antonio, Martins, Ubirajara R. & Clarke, Robin O. S., 2010, Contribuição Para O Estudo Dos Rhinotragini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Ii. Revisão De Ommata White, pp. 595-621 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 50 (39) on page 617, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492010003900001, http://zenodo.org/record/13307686
DS_10.1177_0022034520924656 – Supplemental material for Notch Regulates Fibrocartilage Stem Cell Fate and Is Upregulated in Inflammatory TMJ Arthritis
Creators: name: A. Ruscitto
name: V. Scarpa
name: M. Morel
name: S. Pylawka
name: C.J. Shawber
name: M.C. Embree
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, DS_10.1177_0022034520924656 for Notch Regulates Fibrocartilage Stem Cell Fate and Is Upregulated in Inflammatory TMJ Arthritis by A. Ruscitto, V. Scarpa, M. Morel, S. Pylawka, C.J. Shawber and M.C. Embree in Journal of Dental Research
title: The influence of the political situation in Palestine on Arabic poetry from 1917-1973.
Creators: name: Mohammad, Khalid Abdullah Sulaiman
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1982

description: This work is concerned with Arabic poetry influenced by the Arab-Israeli conflict regarding Palestine from 1917 to 1973. Its main aim is to discuss how the subject of Palestine has, since 1917, been a source of inspiration to Arab poets, and to illuminate the various aspects of influence the conflict had on modern Arabic poetry. The thesis is divided into two parts. Part one consists of three chapters and deals with the poetry written up to 1948. The conclusion reached in this part is that Arab poets' concern about the political situation of Palestine in the period between 1917 and 194-8 developed rapidly. Yet, aspects of influence of the conflict on poetry written during that period, are primarily limited to the level of introducing a number of themes as well as some new poetic vocabulary related to the subject. Part Two consists of four chapters and deals with the poetry written from 1948 to 1973. The conclusion drawn from this part is that the conflict, unlike the period preceding 1948, has affected Arabic poetry in many ways with regard to mood, tone, attitudes and diction.
Supplementary_Information_File – Supplemental material for Poison If You Don’t Know How to Use It: Facebook, Democracy, and Human Rights in Myanmar
Creators: name: Whitten-Woodring, Jenifer
name: Kleinberg, Mona
name: Thawnghmung, Ardeth
name: Myat The Thitsar
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary_Information_File for Poison If You Don’t Know How to Use It: Facebook, Democracy, and Human Rights in Myanmar by Jenifer Whitten-Woodring, Mona Kleinberg, Ardeth Thawnghmung and Myat The Thitsar in The International Journal of Press/Politics
title: Communalism in Egyptian politics: The experience of the Copts, 1918-1952.
Creators: name: Carter, Barbara Lynn
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1982

description: This thesis explores a particular experiment in political accommodation between the Muslim majority and Coptic minority in Egypt between 1918 and 1952. The Egyptians then seized the opportunity presented by a changing political system to restructure the governing arrangements between Muslims and Copts and involve the latter more fully in the political process. Many hoped to see the collaboration of the 1919 revolution spur the creation of both a new collective Egyptian identity and a state without religious bias. Traditional ways of governing, however, were not so easily cast aside, and Islam continued to have a political role. Some Egyptians held tenaciously to the traditional arrangements which had both guaranteed Muslim primacy and served relatively well to protect the Copts and afford them some autonomy. Differences within the Coptic community over the wisdom of trusting the genuineness and durability of Muslim support for equality were accented by a protracted struggle between reforming laymen and conservative clergy for control of the community. The unwillingness of all parties to compromise hampered the ability of the community both to determine and defend its interests. The Copts met with modest success in their attempt to become full Egyptian citizens. As one example, their influence in the Wafd, the preeminent political party, was very strong prior to and in the early years of the Constitutional Monarchy. As a second, their formal representation was generally adequate and, in some Parliaments, better than adequate. However, this very success produced a backlash which caused many Copts to believe, by the 1940s, that the experiment had failed: political activity had become fraught with risk for them. Coptic complaints about Muslim intolerance abounded and reflected the broad criticisms levelled at minority behaviour by Muslims. At the close of the monarchy, equality and shared power seemed notions as distant as in the disheartening years before the revolution.
title: Tradition and change in Ethiopian social and cultural life as reflected in Amharic fictional literature (ca. 1930-74).
Creators: name: Molvaer, Reidulf Knut
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1978

description: This thesis, based on the study of the fictional work of twelve well-known Ethiopian authors, describes Ethiopian social and cultural life in the period 1930-1974. It is divided into two parts, the first dealing with traditional culture, the second with recent changes in social life and with attitudes to these changes. Amharic literature deals mostly with life in the central highlands of Ethiopia. Part One starts with a description of the traditional classes and how they interrelate, both in situations of normal peaceful intercourse and in conflict. Next follows a section on common beliefs and principles of conduct in the country - a fairly long portion of the thesis, as religious and moral questions frequently come up in Amharic literature. Sickness and health are also looked upon from a metaphysical angle. Social life in a more limited local sense is treated next, with more stress on food and drink, and sex and marriage than on family life or village life, following the emphasis of Amharic literature. The life of women is also briefly discussed. Finally, a few remarks are made about national characteristics as Ethiopian authors see them. Part Two deals with change. After a discussion of internal and external influences for change, the different attitudes to present changes are outlined: some oppose or regret them, some think they happen too slowly, others try not to get involved. Then the actual changes in the social and cultural life are set out. These are seen partly as advances, partly as setbacks for the country. This part ends with a section on how Ethiopians regard the future of Ethiopia, and how authors want to influence the development of their country. The main conclusion is that Ethiopian writers are critical observers of society, supporting and opposing developments according to their moral stand.
title: Synonymy and linguistic analysis.
Creators: name: Harris, Roy
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1970

description: A synonymity statement presents a comparison of linguistic items in respect of their linguistic meanings, abstracting from the particular: meanings in question and giving simply an assessment of 'semantic sameness' vs. 'semantic difference'. Questions connected with synonymity statements in linguistic analysis are considered in the present study under the following heads: (i) the justification of synonymity statements in terms of the postulates of linguistic analysis adopted; (ii) the role of synonymity statements in phonology; (iii) the role of synonymity statements in grammar; (iv) the role of synonymity statements in semantic analysis; and (v) the justification of synonymity statements in terms of a concept of 'linguistic knowledge'. In each case, according as the synonymity statement functions as explicans or explicandum, the theoretical positions generally adopted are examined, and arguments for or against are analysed. The ultimate objective in view is to establish a viable basis for integrating a linguistic analysis which employs synonymity statements with a theory of speech acts which will account for communication between language- users.
Supp_table_1 – Supplemental material for Adverse childhood experiences in families with multiple members diagnosed to have psychiatric illnesses
Creators: name: Someshwar, Amala
name: Bharath Holla
name: Agarwal, Preeti Pansari
name: Anza Thomas
name: Jose, Anand
name: Joseph, Boban
name: Birudu Raju
name: Hariprasad Karle
name: M Muthukumaran
name: Prabhath G Kodancha
name: Kumar, Pramod
name: Preethi V Reddy
name: Nadella, Ravi Kumar
name: Naik, Sanjay T
name: Sayantanava Mitra
name: Sreenivasulu Mallappagiri
name: Vanteemar S Sreeraj
name: Balachander, Srinivas
name: Suhas Ganesh
name: Murthy, Pratima
name: Benegal, Vivek
name: Janardhan YC Reddy
name: Jain, Sanjeev
name: Jayant Mahadevan
name: Biju Viswanath
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, Supp_table_1 for Adverse childhood experiences in families with multiple members diagnosed to have psychiatric illnesses by Amala Someshwar, Bharath Holla, Preeti Pansari Agarwal, Anza Thomas, Anand Jose, Boban Joseph, Birudu Raju, Hariprasad Karle, M Muthukumaran, Prabhath G Kodancha, Pramod Kumar, Preethi V Reddy, Ravi Kumar Nadella, Sanjay T Naik, Sayantanava Mitra, Sreenivasulu Mallappagiri, Vanteemar S Sreeraj, Srinivas Balachander, Suhas Ganesh, Pratima Murthy, Vivek Benegal, Janardhan YC Reddy, Sanjeev Jain, Jayant Mahadevan and Biju Viswanath in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
Supplemental Material, jm.19.0011-File003 - Providers Versus Platforms: Marketing Communications in the Sharing Economy
Creators: name: Costello, John P.
name: Reczek, Rebecca Walker
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150402 Hospitality Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Supplemental Material, jm.19.0011-File003 for Providers Versus Platforms: Marketing Communications in the Sharing Economy by John P. Costello and Rebecca Walker Reczek in Journal of Marketing
Contractive coupling rates and curvature lower bounds for Markov chains
Creators: name: Pedrotti, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Contractive coupling rates have been recently introduced by Conforti as a tool to establish convex Sobolev inequalities (including modified log-Sobolev and Poincaré inequality) for some classes of Markov chains. In this work, we show how contractive coupling rates can also be used to prove stronger inequalities, in the form of curvature lower bounds for Markov chains and geodesic convexity of entropic functionals. We illustrate this in several examples discussed by Conforti, where in particular, after appropriately choosing a parameter function, we establish positive curvature in the entropic and (discrete) Bakry--Émery sense. In addition, we recall and give straightforward generalizations of some notions of coarse Ricci curvature, and we discuss some of their properties and relations with the concepts of couplings and coupling rates: as an application, we show exponential contraction of the $p$-Wasserstein distance for the heat flow in the aforementioned examples.
description: 49 pages, final version, accepted in AAP
Supplement_S3_xyz34013e5c2fea3 – Supplemental material for Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Patterns in Children Exposed to Nonpharmacologically Treated Prenatal Depressive Symptoms: Results From 2 Independent Cohorts
Creators: name: Stonawski, Valeska
name: Roetner, Jakob
name: Goecke, Tamme W
name: Fasching, Peter A
name: Beckmann, Matthias W
name: Kornhuber, Johannes
name: Kratz, Oliver
name: Moll, Gunther H
name: Eichler, Anna
name: Heinrich, Hartmut
name: Frey, Stefan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cell Biology

description: Supplemental material, Supplement_S3_xyz34013e5c2fea3 for Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Patterns in Children Exposed to Nonpharmacologically Treated Prenatal Depressive Symptoms: Results From 2 Independent Cohorts by Valeska Stonawski, Jakob Roetner, Tamme W Goecke, Peter A Fasching, Matthias W Beckmann, Johannes Kornhuber, Oliver Kratz, Gunther H Moll, Anna Eichler, Hartmut Heinrich and Stefan Frey in Epigenetics Insights
Author_Response_1 – Supplemental material for Lung under attack by COVID-19-induced cytokine storm: pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic implications
Creators: name: Pelaia, Corrado
name: Tinello, Caterina
name: Vatrella, Alessandro
name: Giovambattista De Sarro
name: Pelaia, Girolamo
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Author_Response_1 for Lung under attack by COVID-19-induced cytokine storm: pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic implications by Corrado Pelaia, Caterina Tinello, Alessandro Vatrella, Giovambattista De Sarro and Girolamo Pelaia in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
title: Agriculture in Iraq during the 3rd/9th century.
Creators: name: El-Samarraie, Husam Qawam
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1970

description: The following thesis, which consists of six chapters, is concerned with the history of agriculture in Iraq during the 3rd/9th century. The economy of the country in this century suffered from natural and political disasters, and it was also during this period, that the power of caliphate authority began to weaken. Chapter I deals with the geographical aspect of the country, its limits and its nature. It attempts to picture the system of its canalisation, levelling, survey and maintenance. Methods of irrigation both by water devices and weirs together with the drainage and reclamation of land are taken into consideration, as is the division of Iraq which was used by the existing government to supervise agricultural growth and tax collection. In the second chapter, aspects of tenure and production form the basis of discussion. An attempt is also made to collate the climate and conditions of work of cultivators and peasants together with a brief survey of life in the villages. This thesis pays attention, in Chapter III to the agricultural system, to the various methods of cultivation and the implements used. Floods, disease and pests are also considered, together with crops and their distribution. Chapter IV is devoted to the agricultural policy of the state. This is summarised under four headings and deals with the policy of irrigation, supervision of cultivation, reforms in tax assessment and collection and reform of the revenue calendar, and also the policy of iqta'. The fifth chapter deals with taxation, its various kinds, etc. and its assessment and method of collection, while the sixth chapter deals with agriculture as a source of revenue. It contains various accounts which represent the revenue of the period, and an attempt has been made to summarise the expenditure of the central government and the fluctuations which it caused in the revenue. No separate survey of the sources on which this thesis was based has been made as these have been the subject of a number of extensive studies (cf. Bibliography; Barthold, Duri, Gibb, Lewis, Rosenthal and Wellhausen).
DVR_Supplementary_Material – Supplemental material for Cardiovascular outcomes in patients who experienced a myocardial infarction while treated with liraglutide versus placebo in the LEADER trial
Creators: name: Nauck, Michael A
name: Tornøe, Karen
name: Rasmussen, Søren
name: Treppendahl, Marianne Bach
name: Marso, Steven P
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental material, DVR_Supplementary_Material for Cardiovascular outcomes in patients who experienced a myocardial infarction while treated with liraglutide versus placebo in the LEADER trial by Michael A Nauck, Karen Tornøe, Søren Rasmussen, Marianne Bach Treppendahl and Steven P Marso in Diabetes & Vascular Disease Research
title: The Portuguese contribution to Bengali prose, grammar and lexicography.
Creators: name: Khondkar, Muhammad Abdur Rahim
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1971

description: The purpose of this thesis is to study the Portuguese contribution to the development of Bengali prose, grammar and lexicography. The preface merely outlines how we came to choose the topic and the approach we adopted. Chapter I supplies background information on the coming of the Portuguese to India and more especially on the foundation of the Mission of St Nicholas of Tolentino with which are associated our three primary sources, namely Dom Antonio's Dialogom and the Crepar Xaxtrer Orthbhed and Vocabulario Em Idioma Bengalla E Portuguez attributed to Manoel da Assumpcam. Chapter II studies the various comments, opinions and discoveries of earlier scholars in regard to these three works and the issues raised by them in regard to the system of transliteration adopted by the Portuguese and also their doubts concerning the authorship of these works. The purpose of Chapter III is, by a comparative study of the Portuguese and Bengali text of Dom Antonio's Dialogo, to determine the degree to which Manoel da Assumpcam understood Bengali. Chapter IV analyses Crepar Xaxtrer Orthbhed with a view to determining its authorship. Chapter V concerns the authorship of Vocabulario Em Idioma Bengalla E Portuguez. Chapters VI and VII describe and evaluate the various lexicons associated with the Portuguese and the grammatical section of Vocabulario Em Idioma Bengalla E Portuguez. Chapter VIII attempts to evaluate the Portuguese contribution to the development of Bengali prose. The conclusion states in a tentative manner our findings as a result of the various tests and analyses that we made in the course of writing the thesis.
Foundational Policy Acquisition via Multitask Learning for Motor Skill Generation
Creators: name: Yamamori, Satoshi
name: Morimoto, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this study, we propose a multitask reinforcement learning algorithm for foundational policy acquisition to generate novel motor skills. \textcolor{\hcolor}{Learning the rich representation of the multitask policy is a challenge in dynamic movement generation tasks because the policy needs to cope with changes in goals or environments with different reward functions or physical parameters. Inspired by human sensorimotor adaptation mechanisms, we developed the learning pipeline to construct the encoder-decoder networks and network selection to facilitate foundational policy acquisition under multiple situations. First, we compared the proposed method with previous multitask reinforcement learning methods in the standard multi-locomotion tasks. The results showed that the proposed approach outperformed the baseline methods. Then, we applied the proposed method to the ball heading task using a monopod robot model to evaluate skill generation performance. The results showed that the proposed method was able to adapt to novel target positions or inexperienced ball restitution coefficients but to acquire a foundational policy network, originally learned for heading motion, which can generate an entirely new overhead kicking skill.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
title: A literary study of Saddharmaratnavaliya.
Creators: name: De Mel, Sunanda Mahendra
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1970

description: This thesis is an attempt to assess the 13th century Sinhala text, Saddharmaratnavaliya, a work based on the 5th century Pali text Dharamapadatthakatha. The introductory chapter examines briefly the period in which the work was compiled, the authorship and the contents in general. Chapter 2 attempts a classification of the stories of Saddharmaratnavaliya broadly into four categories, viz. realistic, didactic, historic and fantasy. The contents of the text are considered under the headings of themes, allusions and characters in Chapter 3. In Chapter 4 the author's use of language is examined with special reference to his ability to use prose to communicate human experiences. Chapter 5 is devoted to a study of the author's use of literary techniques. In this Chapter special attention is paid to the use of psychological narrative techniques such as the technique of the stream of consciousness or the internal monologue. In the last Chapter, an attempt is made to examine to what extent the modern literary concept 'modernity' is applicable to the stories of Saddharmaratnavaliya.
title: Symbolic and material aspects of institutions in political process: Analysis of two North Indian villages.
Creators: name: Borgstrom, Bengt-Erik
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1971

description: This thesis is an illustration of the use of the processual method in social anthropology. In the first chapter a model is outlined. It deals with the problem of how to treat political anthropology. The main argument is that one has to look at the material basis and the ideology of the groups under investigation and see how these two spheres interact in the process of competition for political goals. They interact by being brought into the struggle by the contestants, and this is done through social relations, institutions. The institutions have both a material and ideological aspect and they act as resources for the groups that can use these aspects. Or rather, the groups activate and organize these material and ideological resources through social relations of different kinds. In the second chapter the model is nut in a definite social context, that of northern India. The concepts of the first chapter are filled with ethnographic and conceptual data, and this is done by using a historic perspective, since the social relations and the resources mentioned above constantly change, some are emerging while others are vanishing. In the third chapter the scale is narrowed down to the micro- sociological level. Elections to the statutory panchayats in two villages in the area described in the second chapter are analysed. The conceptual and ethnographic framework from chapter two is taken as given and operative in this process, it constitutes the resources for the different groups. The fourth chapter consists of a discussion of the other three chapters.
Supplement_S5_xyz34013cb77c00b – Supplemental material for Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Patterns in Children Exposed to Nonpharmacologically Treated Prenatal Depressive Symptoms: Results From 2 Independent Cohorts
Creators: name: Stonawski, Valeska
name: Roetner, Jakob
name: Goecke, Tamme W
name: Fasching, Peter A
name: Beckmann, Matthias W
name: Kornhuber, Johannes
name: Kratz, Oliver
name: Moll, Gunther H
name: Eichler, Anna
name: Heinrich, Hartmut
name: Frey, Stefan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cell Biology

description: Supplemental material, Supplement_S5_xyz34013cb77c00b for Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Patterns in Children Exposed to Nonpharmacologically Treated Prenatal Depressive Symptoms: Results From 2 Independent Cohorts by Valeska Stonawski, Jakob Roetner, Tamme W Goecke, Peter A Fasching, Matthias W Beckmann, Johannes Kornhuber, Oliver Kratz, Gunther H Moll, Anna Eichler, Hartmut Heinrich and Stefan Frey in Epigenetics Insights
Supplement_S6_xyz3401382b311ea_1 – Supplemental material for Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Patterns in Children Exposed to Nonpharmacologically Treated Prenatal Depressive Symptoms: Results From 2 Independent Cohorts
Creators: name: Stonawski, Valeska
name: Roetner, Jakob
name: Goecke, Tamme W
name: Fasching, Peter A
name: Beckmann, Matthias W
name: Kornhuber, Johannes
name: Kratz, Oliver
name: Moll, Gunther H
name: Eichler, Anna
name: Heinrich, Hartmut
name: Frey, Stefan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cell Biology

description: Supplemental material, Supplement_S6_xyz3401382b311ea_1 for Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Patterns in Children Exposed to Nonpharmacologically Treated Prenatal Depressive Symptoms: Results From 2 Independent Cohorts by Valeska Stonawski, Jakob Roetner, Tamme W Goecke, Peter A Fasching, Matthias W Beckmann, Johannes Kornhuber, Oliver Kratz, Gunther H Moll, Anna Eichler, Hartmut Heinrich and Stefan Frey in Epigenetics Insights
PHP921896_suppl_mat – Supplemental material for Learning Through Practice: The Design and Implementation of an Advanced Integrative Practicum for DrPH Students
Creators: name: Hemingway, Bree L.
name: Felicitas-Perkins, Jamie Q.
name: C. Anderson Johnson
name: Osur, Michael
name: Peterson, Darleen V.
name: Orr, Jay
name: Gatto, Nicole M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, PHP921896_suppl_mat for Learning Through Practice: The Design and Implementation of an Advanced Integrative Practicum for DrPH Students by Bree L. Hemingway, Jamie Q. Felicitas-Perkins, C. Anderson Johnson, Michael Osur, Darleen V. Peterson, Jay Orr and Nicole M. Gatto in Pedagogy in Health Promotion
title: Social stratification and political change in two East African kingdoms.
Creators: name: Manners, Anthony James
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1971

description: The problem investigated in this thesis concerns the part played by systems of economic, status and political stratification in processes of political change. It is demonstrated that two major variables required in explanation are (l) the nature of actors' perceptions of power structures in the society; (2) the differential capacities for political organization in different strata. The cases for study are the East African kingdoms of Buganda and Rwanda during the period, ending in 1962, when they were subject to colonial overrule. In parts I and II, I analyze the processes of change in structures of power in the two kingdoms along the three dimensions indicated. These processes were themselves the product of interplay between those taking place in the precolonial kingdoms and those introduced by the colonial powers. The kingdom governments retained some 'traditional' forms, with changed functions. Their offices were virtually monopolized by the most powerful economic classes and elite status groups - 'elite classes' - in each case. In the later colonial period, the legitimacy of the existing political systems was threatened as the colonial powers allowed parties to be formed which exploited structural conflicts of interest. In part III, I examine how the 'elite classes' attempted to deal with the potential challenge to their political domination. In each case they tried to mobilize the whole kingdom in structural opposition to outsiders, and to articulate unity through intensified use of distinguishing cultural forms, in a 'neotraditional' cultural strategy. I examine the internal structural context of success in organizing the Baganda as a political group, and contrast it with the context of failure in Rwanda. Explanation takes the form of examining whether prerequisites of political group organization could be fulfilled by neotraditional forms in the context of processes of structural change analyzed in parts I and II.
title: A study of inflation in Pakistan, 1955-1968.
Creators: name: Siddiqi, Qamarul Hassan
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1972

description: Pakistan has experienced significant inflationary pressures in the course of her economic development. Although inflation was often repressed by Government controls, estimates based on free market prices existing alongside the controlled prices indicate that inflationary pressures have most of the time been quite significant. The price inflation has also been partly diverted towards the balance of payments pressure. Monetary expansion, caused by large deficit financing operations in the Government sector and bank financed development expenditures in the private sector, was often supplemented by substantial increases in income velocity. Nevertheless, monetary factors do not seem to have played as vital a role in generating the inflationary pressures as the structural factors like chronic food shortages and foreign exchange bottlenecks. Government's agricultural and commercial policies were greatly responsible for these shortages. Foreign economic aid and the P.L. 480 food imports relieved the general inflationary pressures considerably and played an important stabilizing role. Nevertheless, the pressure on prices and balance of payments has always been significant. Evidence shows that inflation has not given much support not to economic growth. Real savings and capital formation have/been so much encouraged by rising prices as by the availability of capital goods and raw materials. Profits have been mainly determined by the degree of competition rather than by the rising prices. On the whole, high rates of growth in the economy have been associated with low rates of inflation. On the other hand, inflation has distorted the distribution of real income. Real wages have often been adversely affected by the rising cost of living and the brunt of inflation has been borne mainly by the working classes whose wages have risen very reluctantly in the process of inflation due to high unemployment and abundant supply of labour. More stable economic growth in future would require sound agricultural development in future Plans and larger food supplies. Likewise, increased foreign exchange supplies both through exchange rate manipulations and foreign capital inflows together with relatively liberalized imports can ensure more efficient economic growth. Improvements in the fiscal and monetary management, lesser reliance on deficit finding and increased tax efforts would also be warranted in the interest of stable and efficient economic development.