cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Classical and Quantum Gauged Massless Rarita-Schwinger Fields
Creators: name: Adler, Stephen L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that, in contrast to known results in the massive case, a minimally gauged massless Rarita-Schwinger field yields consistent classical and quantum theories, with a generalized fermionic gauge invariance. To simplify the algebra, we study a two-component left chiral reduction of the massless theory. We formulate the classical theory in both Lagrangian and Hamiltonian form for a general non-Abelian gauging, and analyze the constraints and the Rarita-Schwinger gauge invariance of the action. An explicit wave front calculation for Abelian gauge fields shows that wave-like modes do not propagate with superluminal velocities. The quantized case is studied in gauge covariant radiation gauge and $Ψ_0=0$ gauge for the Rarita-Schwinger field, by both functional integral and Dirac bracket methods. In $Ψ_0=0$ gauge, the constraints have the form needed to apply the Faddeev-Popov method for deriving a functional integral. The Dirac bracket approach in $Ψ_0=0$ gauge yields consistent Hamilton equations of motion, and in covariant radiation gauge leads to anticommutation relations with the correct positivity properties. We discuss relativistic covariance of the anticommutation relations, and of Rarita-Schwinger scattering from an Abelian potential. We note that fermionic gauge transformations are a canonical transformation, but further details of the transformation between different fermionic gauges are left as an open problem.
description: Latex, 54 pages. Revised and expanded; in v2, positivity of the anticommutator is shown in covariant radation gauge; in v3, role of \Psi_0=0 gauge is discussed; in v4, many edits and Secs. 3 and 11 are new. Following v4, this paper has been rewritten and split into two papers: arXiv:1508.03380 and arXiv:1508.03382
Leonesse officianti e animali acrobati? Riflessioni su alcuni mischwesen minoici e micenei alla luce delle evidenze epigrafiche tebane
Creators: name: Civitillo, Matilde
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: In recent years, an increasing number of scholars has suggested that the zoonyms recurrent in the recipient position in some Thebes tablets could be reasonably interpreted as ritual titles; these may refer to persons dressed as animals and engaged in some kind of cult activity. Looking for iconographic parallels of animal masks and masquerades in the Aegean bronze age, some authors have turned their attention to a number of homosomatic hybrids that populate Minoan and Mycenaean glyptic. The latter have been interpreted as reflecting real-life practices and actual performances of enacted transfiguration, during which people may have been garbed as lions, bulls, agrimi, stags, and so forth, using masks and hides, for symbolic, even shamanistic, purposes. The present study deals with the complex issue of hybridity with reference to a specific iconographic type, the «Tiermenschlicher Akrobaten» or «somersaulting hybrid man». The analysis of these images takes into account their circulation and the social practices to which they are associated, discussing the possibility that they may have played multiple roles in ritual, corporeal, social, and political narratives.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 7 (2017): C’è qualcosa di nuovo anzi di antico… nei Performance Studies
The supragingival biofilm in early childhood caries: Clinical and laboratory protocols and bioinformatics pipelines supporting metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and metabolomics studies of the oral microbiome
Creators: name: Ramamoorthy, S.
name: Ferreira Zandoná, A.G.
name: Butz, N.
name: Divaris, K.
name: Shungin, D.
name: Azcarate-Peril, M.A.
name: Basta, P.V.
name: Kwintkiewicz, J.
name: Kinchen, J.M.
name: Roach, J.
name: Ribeiro, A.A.
name: Rodríguez-Cortés, A.
name: Ginnis, J.
name: Wu, D.
name: Cho, H.
Publisher: name: Humana Press Inc.
Year: 2019

description: Early childhood caries (ECC) is a biofilm-mediated disease. Social, environmental, and behavioral determinants as well as innate susceptibility are major influences on its incidence; however, from a pathogenetic standpoint, the disease is defined and driven by oral dysbiosis. In other words, the disease occurs when the natural equilibrium between the host and its oral microbiome shifts toward states that promote demineralization at the biofilm-tooth surface interface. Thus, a comprehensive understanding of dental caries as a disease requires the characterization of both the composition and the function or metabolic activity of the supragingival biofilm according to well-defined clinical statuses. However, taxonomic and functional information of the supragingival biofilm is rarely available in clinical cohorts, and its collection presents unique challenges among very young children. This paper presents a protocol and pipelines available for the conduct of supragingival biofilm microbiome studies among children in the primary dentition, that has been designed in the context of a large-scale population-based genetic epidemiologic study of ECC. The protocol is being developed for the collection of two supragingival biofilm samples from the maxillary primary dentition, enabling downstream taxonomic (e.g., metagenomics) and functional (e.g., transcriptomics and metabolomics) analyses. The protocol is being implemented in the assembly of a pediatric precision medicine cohort comprising over 6000 participants to date, contributing social, environmental, behavioral, clinical, and biological data informing ECC and other oral health outcomes.
Microstructural overlap of Macroelongatoolithus eggs from Asia and North America expands the occurrence of colossal oviraptorosaurs
Creators: name: D. Jade Simon
name: Varricchio, David J.
name: Xingsheng Jin
name: Robison, Steven F.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: The first intact North American Macroelongatoolithus specimen was excavated from sediments in the Wayan Formation of southeastern Idaho and initially reported by Krumenacker et al. (2017, Historical Biology 29:170–186). Here, we present a description of the specimen, including a zonal analysis of microstructural variation and comparison with an egg pair from the Liangtoutang Formation of Zhejiang, China. We assign egg pair IMNH 2428\49608 from the Albian–Cenomanian Wayan Formation of Idaho and egg pair ZMNH M8705 from the Liangtoutang Formation of China to the oospecies Macroelongatoolithus carlylei. The eggs are 39.8–41.7 cm long and 10.8–14.3 cm wide, and the eggshell consists of two structural layers of calcite demarcated by a distinct, undulating boundary. Eggshell thickness is 1.01–2.17 mm, and the continuous layer to mammillary layer ratio (CL:ML) ranges from 2.05:1 to 7.68:1. Identification of intact Macroelongatoolithus specimens from North America supports synonymy of M. xixiaensis with M. carlylei, as proposed by Zelenitsky et al. (2002) on the basis of eggshell fragments. Due to the substantial microstructural variation of the specimens reported here, we also regard M. goseongensis and M. qiongensis as junior synonyms of M. carlylei. The degree of microstructural variation within the new specimens expands the expected range of variation typically used in diagnosing oospecies and has implications for the naming of new oospecies on the basis of fragments or egg portions alone. The discovery of Macroelongatoolithus eggs from the latest Early Cretaceous of Idaho confirms the presence of this extraordinary oogenus outside of Asia and provides nonskeletal evidence of a Gigantoraptor-sized oviraptorosaur in western North America.
Improving the reusability of relative and absolute chronological information by automating and archiving the Bayesian chronology construction process
Creators: name: Moody, Bryony
name: Dye, Tom
name: May, Keith
name: Buck, Caitlin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Archaeology
Bayesian

description: Archaeological excavations produce a wealth of data. Due to the unrepeatable nature of this fieldwork, once the site is fully excavated, digital records must be archived in a manner that best facilitates reuse. However, in our experience, despite the best efforts of digital repositories such as ADS, archiving data does not ensure reusability. In this talk, we discuss attempts to reuse data for chronological modelling. We focus on three case studies where the user wished to reuse digital chronological data and ran into problems.

 Following this, we will outline a prototype software we are developing for handling the relative and absolute dating evidence. This software focuses on evidence obtained during single context excavations, as carried out in many European countries such as the UK. This software uses mathematical graph theory to manage stratigraphic and chronological information during Bayesian chronology construction.

 We provide an overview of the process that the software follows. Following this, we will focus on managing data during this process. Such management includes: at which points in the process we save data from the software; what format should our data be in; and which data to archive. Finally, we provide recommendations specific to chronological data that seek to improve the reusability of such data for future users.
How Does the Low-Rank Matrix Decomposition Help Internal and External Learnings for Super-Resolution
Creators: name: Wang, Shuang
name: Yue, Bo
name: Liang, Xuefeng
name: Ji, Peiyuan
name: Jiao, Licheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Wisely utilizing the internal and external learning methods is a new challenge in super-resolution problem. To address this issue, we analyze the attributes of two methodologies and find two observations of their recovered details: 1) they are complementary in both feature space and image plane, 2) they distribute sparsely in the spatial space. These inspire us to propose a low-rank solution which effectively integrates two learning methods and then achieves a superior result. To fit this solution, the internal learning method and the external learning method are tailored to produce multiple preliminary results. Our theoretical analysis and experiment prove that the proposed low-rank solution does not require massive inputs to guarantee the performance, and thereby simplifying the design of two learning methods for the solution. Intensive experiments show the proposed solution improves the single learning method in both qualitative and quantitative assessments. Surprisingly, it shows more superior capability on noisy images and outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
PUBLIC SECTOR PENSION FUND PERFORMANCE IN INDIA: AN INVESTIGATION THROUGH UTI MUTUAL FUND'S LENS
Creators: name: Mr. Arvind Kumar, Mishra
Publisher: name: keith journal
Year: 2025
Subjects: UTIMF; Treynor Ratio; Benchmark Index

description: The present study endeavours to evaluate the performance of various schemes of pension funds sponsored by the UTI MF. UTI Mutual Fund is the first mutual fund player in India that introduced the pension fund namely, UTI Retirement Benefit Fund in 1994 with two variants i.e, (i) UTI Retirement Benefit Fund- Regular and (ii) UTI Retirement Benefit Fund- Direct. The study covers a period of 10 years from 2013-14 to 2022-23.  The fund performance has been measured in terms of average return, standard deviation, and beta values. The Treynor index has also been calculated in this study to find out the risk-return associated with it. The returns of the schemes have also been compared with the benchmark index. The study revealed that, the UTI Retirement Benefit Fund- Direct scheme has performed better than the UTI Retirement Benefit Fund- Regular over the period. It was also found that the benchmark index performance was better than both the above two schemes.
Dimensions of multi-fan algebras
Creators: name: Ayzenberg, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 05E40, 05E45, 28A75, 57M27, Secondary 13H10, 13P20, 13D40, 52C35, 52B70, 57N65, 13A02, 57M25, 05C15

description: Given an arbitrary non-zero simplicial cycle and a generic vector coloring of its vertices, there is a way to produce a graded Poincare duality algebra associated with these data. The procedure relies on the theory of volume polynomials and multi-fans. This construction includes many important examples, such as cohomology of toric varieties and quasitoric manifolds, and Gorenstein algebras of triangulated homology manifolds, introduced by Novik and Swartz. In all these examples the dimensions of graded components of such duality algebras do not depend on the vector coloring. It was conjectured that the same holds for any simplicial cycle. We disprove this conjecture by showing that the colors of singular points of the cycle may affect the dimensions. However, the colors of smooth points are irrelevant. By using bistellar moves we show that the number of different dimension vectors arising on a given 3-dimensional pseudomanifold with isolated singularities is a topological invariant. This invariant is trivial on manifolds, but nontrivial in general.
description: 18 pages, 5 labeled figures + 2 unlabeled figures
Estimating the relative rate of recombination to mutation in bacteria from single-locus variants using composite likelihood methods
Creators: name: Fearnhead, Paul
name: Yu, Shoukai
name: Biggs, Patrick
name: Holland, Barbara
name: French, Nigel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A number of studies have suggested using comparisons between DNA sequences of closely related bacterial isolates to estimate the relative rate of recombination to mutation for that bacterial species. We consider such an approach which uses single-locus variants: pairs of isolates whose DNA differ at a single gene locus. One way of deriving point estimates for the relative rate of recombination to mutation from such data is to use composite likelihood methods. We extend recent work in this area so as to be able to construct confidence intervals for our estimates, without needing to resort to computationally-intensive bootstrap procedures, and to develop a test for whether the relative rate varies across loci. Both our test and method for constructing confidence intervals are obtained by modeling the dependence structure in the data, and then applying asymptotic theory regarding the distribution of estimators obtained using a composite likelihood. We applied these methods to multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) data from eight bacteria, finding strong evidence for considerable rate variation in three of these: Bacillus cereus, Enterococcus faecium and Klebsiella pneumoniae.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-AOAS795 in the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Induced Representations of Tensors and Spinors of any Rank in the SHP Theory
Creators: name: Horwitz, Lawrence P.
name: Zeilig-Hess, Meir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a modification of Wigner's induced representation for the description of a relativistic particle with spin can be used to construct spinors and tensors of arbitrary rank, with invariant decomposition over angular momentum. In particular, scalar and vector fields, as well as the representations of their transformations, are constructed. The method that is developed here admits the construction of wave packets and states of a many body relativistic system with definite total angular momentum. Furthermore, a Pauli-Lubanski operator is constructed on the orbit of the induced representation which provides a Casimir operator for the Poincaré group and which contains the physical intrinsic angular momentum of the particle covariantly.
description: 23 pages. Some minor semantic corrections were made with respect to the last version of the article
Der Auftrag des Amtes in der heutigen Kirche
Creators: name: Lehmann, Karl
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 10 Nr. 5 (1981): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 10, Heft 5
Artificazioni della performance: il caso del Museo Pasqualino
Creators: name: Perricone, Rosario
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020
Subjects: Museo Internazionale delle Marionette “Antonio Pasqualino”; Performance; Artificazione; Opera d’arte

description: This paper analyzes the process, dating back to the last 50 years, which has seen the work of art approaching everyday life, with critical perspectives increasingly focused on processuality and performance. Therefore, a notion such as that of artification – “process of processes”, according to Heinich and Shapiro – signals the paradox of the success of art at the time of its deconstruction. In this cultural climate, ethnographic museums reproduce, rework or draw on the languages of contemporary art, making them tools to overcome an essentialist notion of heritage but also to present multivocal interpretations and reflect on the processes that underlie “showing the difference”. The “Antonio Pasqualino” International Puppet Museum has followed this path by combining a properly museographic activity with field research and the staging of shows, first essentially in continuity with tradition, then also with research and innovation. A museum of performance, a museum-narration, a place of ideas and not of things, which goes beyond the simple collection and becomes a meta-story, an “open work”.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 9 (2019): Un contrappasso fatale
Performance e giochi d'iniziazione in Grecia antica: la «tarta-tartaruga» (chelichelṓnē) e il «calderone» (chytrínda)
Creators: name: Costanza, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: We consider performance and initiation’s rituals with respect to the tortoise game (chelichelṓnē). At first, Julius Pollux, the second-century CE lexicographer, describes the game, to wich Erinna in her lost poem “The Distaff” and Eustathius also refer. This was a game for girls of marriageable age and it was performed, in order to instruct them to their future status as wives and mothers. As Pollux states, the cauldron game (chytrinda) was the exact counterpart of the chelichelṓnē for young boys. Finally, the deep social and religious meaning of these games, including performatory elements, such as dance, nursery rhymes, and ritual acts, is to be scrutinized, in order to better understand these rites of transition into the world(s) of adults.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 7 (2017): C’è qualcosa di nuovo anzi di antico… nei Performance Studies
Bipolar magnetic spots from dynamos in stratified spherical shell turbulence
Creators: name: Jabbari, Sarah
name: Brandenburg, Axel
name: Kleeorin, Nathan
name: Mitra, Dhrubaditya
name: Rogachevskii, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent work by Mitra et al. (2014) has shown that in strongly stratified forced two-layer turbulence with helicity and corresponding large-scale dynamo action in the lower layer, a magnetic field occurs in the upper layer in the form of sharply bounded bipolar magnetic spots. Here we extend this model to spherical wedge geometry covering the northern hemisphere up to 75° latitude and an azimuthal extent of 180°. The kinetic helicity and therefore also the large-scale magnetic field are strongest at low latitudes. For moderately strong stratification, several bipolar spots form that fill eventually the full longitudinal extent. At early times, the polarity of spots reflects the orientation of the underlying azimuthal field, as expected from Ω-shaped flux loops. At late times their tilt changes such that there is a radial field of opposite orientation at different latitudes separated by about 10°. Our model demonstrates the spontaneous formation of spots of sizes much larger than the pressure scale height. Their tendency to produce filling factors close to unity is argued to be reminiscent of highly active stars. We confirm that strong stratification and strong scale separation are essential ingredients behind magnetic spot formation, which appears to be associated with downflows at larger depths.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures
La finzione del "re" da Ciro il Grande (Erodoto) a Nerone (Svetonio, Tacito)
Creators: name: Costanza, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020
Subjects: Gioco; Giochi di ruolo; Mimesis; Performance; Basilinda

description: Greek and Roman sources depict an ancient children´s game, wherein one was chosen by drawing lots as king (basileus) and his playmates were appointed as servants or soldiers and were obliged to obey him. Herodotus already accounts a story about this game with reference to Cyrus the Elder and his discovery as royal heir. In ball-games, the winner was also appointed as king, while the defeated player was called donkey (onos). The roles of king and servant were also acted out in Roman times (ducatus et imperia ludere), as Tacitus and Suetonius confirm in connexion with the Emperor Nero. In fact, power was highly attractive for children, as Ancient basilinda game clearly shows. Neverthless, playmates should previously know ultimate power before acting a role game upon sovereignty.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 9 (2019): Un contrappasso fatale
Il rhombos e la trottola
Creators: name: D'Onofrio, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: Both of Greek origin, the Italian words “rombo” and “trottola” are linked by at least two other aspects that define their symbolic function: their coexistence in the Orphic myth of Dionysus’ dismemberment by the Titans and their functional and semantic similarities in contemporary folklore. In particular, this essay emphasises that the Sicilian term for rhombus - lapuni (“hornet”) - is the same used to designate the spinning top (trottola) that, turning perfectly on its axis at maximum speed, almost disappears from the view. We, then, explore the multiple meanings related to the games made with the spinning top and to the parts that compose this object, and the use of the rhombus in initiatory rituals. The characteristics of the latter, in spite of the temporal and spatial distance of the societies that express them (from the Bororo to the Greeks, from the Sicilians to the Australian Aborigines), turn out to be very close to each other. This allows us to reflect on the existence of “elementary ideas” and “cultural universals”.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 7 (2017): C’è qualcosa di nuovo anzi di antico… nei Performance Studies
Cohort profile: Zoe 2.0—a community-based genetic epidemiologic study of early childhood oral health
Creators: name: Shrestha, P.
name: Ribeiro, A.A.
name: Ginnis, J.
name: Karhade, D.S.
name: Meyer, B.D.
name: Wu, D.
name: Basta, P.V.
name: Joshi, A.R.
name: Gu, Y.
name: Ferreira Zandona, A.G.
name: Agler, C.S.
name: Simancas-Pallares, M.A.
name: Preisser, J.S.
name: Azcarate-Peril, M.A.
name: Slade, G.D.
name: Cho, H.
name: North, K.E.
name: Divaris, K.
Publisher: name: MDPI AG
Year: 2020

description: Early childhood caries (ECC) is an aggressive form of dental caries occurring in the first five years of life. Despite its prevalence and consequences, little progress has been made in its prevention and even less is known about individuals’ susceptibility or genomic risk factors. The genome-wide association study (GWAS) of ECC (“ZOE 2.0”) is a community-based, multi-ethnic, cross-sectional, genetic epidemiologic study seeking to address this knowledge gap. This paper describes the study’s design, the cohort’s demographic profile, data domains, and key oral health outcomes. Between 2016 and 2019, the study enrolled 8059 3–5-year-old children attending public preschools in North Carolina, United States. Participants resided in 86 of the state’s 100 counties and racial/ethnic minorities predominated—for example, 48% (n = 3872) were African American, 22% white, and 20% (n = 1611) were Hispanic/Latino. Seventy-nine percent (n = 6404) of participants underwent clinical dental examinations yielding ECC outcome measures—ECC (defined at the established caries lesion threshold) prevalence was 54% and the mean number of decayed, missing, filled surfaces due to caries was eight. Nearly all (98%) examined children provided sufficient DNA from saliva for genotyping. The cohort’s community-based nature and rich data offer excellent opportunities for addressing important clinical, epidemiologic, and biological questions in early childhood.
Die kirchliche Lehre vom "sacramentum ordinis"
Creators: name: Benedikt XVI., Papst
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 10 Nr. 5 (1981): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 10, Heft 5
Robustness of incompatibility for quantum devices
Creators: name: Haapasalo, Erkka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A robustness measure for incompatibility of quantum devices in the lines of the robustness of entanglement is proposed. The concept of general robustness measures is first introduced in general convex-geometric settings and these ideas are then applied to measure how incompatible a given pair of quantum devices is. The robustness of quantum incompatibility is calculated in three special cases: a pair of Fourier-coupled rank-1 sharp observables, a pair of decodable channels, where decodability means left-invertibility by a channel, and a pair consisting of a rank-1 sharp observable and a decodable channel.
description: 26 pages, 4 figures, some refinements in sections 1 and 2, in Proposition 1, and some new references compared to the earlier version. Moreover, this new version has a new remark (Remark 1) and the old Remark 1 (now Remark 2) has been slightly extended
Morphologieerwerb in den frühesten Phasen des Fremdsprachenerwerbs unter kontrollierten Unterrichtsbedingungen
Creators: name: Hinz, Johanna
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Input
subject: L2-Erwerb
subject: Morphologie
subject: 400
subject: 430

description: Diese Dissertation befasst sich mit der Frage, wie die ersten Stunden des Erwerbs einer Fremdsprache beschrieben werden können: Wie extrahieren und verarbeiten Lernende Elemente aus dem Input, um sich ein neues morphosyntaktisches System anzueignen? Die Daten für die Dissertation wurden im Rahmen des europäischen Projektes VILLA (Varieties of Initial Learners in Language Acquisition) erhoben. Das Projekt untersucht die allerersten Phasen des Spracherwerbsprozesses. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf dem Vergleich von Wahrnehmungs-, Verständnis- und Produktionsprozessen beim Erwerb einer neuen Zielsprache (Polnisch) durch Erwachsene und Kinder mit unterschiedlichen Erstsprachen (Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Italienisch, Niederländisch). Insgesamt wurden 14 Stunden Polnisch in einer kommunikativen Unterrichtssituation vermittelt. In der Dissertation wurden die Ergebnisse zweier Experimente analysiert: die Beurteilung der Grammatikalität (Erwerb der Verbalmorphologie) und die elizitierte Produktion (Erwerb der Nominalmorphologie). Die Studie umfasste die Daten von zwei Erwachsenengruppen (französische und deutsche Muttersprachler) sowie von zwei Altersgruppen (deutsche Erwachsene und Kinder). Die Ergebnisse stimmen mit Ergebnissen aus der Literatur überein: Erwachsene Lernende haben in der frühesten Phase des Spracherwerbs Vorteile gegenüber Lernenden im Kindesalter in Bezug auf den Erwerb morphologischer Strukturen der neuen Zielsprache. In Hinsicht auf den Einfluss der Erstsprache konnte bestätigt werden, dass eine komplexere Erstsprache (Flexion) den Erwerb komplexer Sprachstrukturen in der Zielsprache positiv beeinflusst.
НАЦИОНАЛЬНО-КУЛЬТУРНЫЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ ПОВЕДЕНИЯ НЕМЦЕВ И РУССКИХ В ПРАВИЛАХ ЭТИКЕТА
Creators: name: Икрамова, Шахло
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Общество вырaбaтывaет стaндaртизовaнные нормы и прaвилa социaльного поведения, или этикет, который регулирует поведение индивидов в соответствии с социaльными требовaниями. Реaлизуемые в коммуникaции нормы, прaвилa и трaдиции общения той или иной лингвокультурной общности обрaзуют коммуникaтивное поведение дaнной общности.
THE VALUE OF HERMENEUTICS IN LINGUISTIC STUDIES
Creators: name: Abduganiyeva, Djamila
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article examines the evolution of hermeneutics in contemporary linguistics, emphasizing its application in digital and intercultural contexts. Moving beyond classical approaches, the study engages with deconstructive, discursive, and narrative methodologies to explore how interpretive practices have adapted to modern communication challenges. By integrating insights from Derrida, Habermas, Bruner, Culler, and others, the article demonstrates that contemporary hermeneutics remains a vital tool in decoding complex linguistic phenomena in an era of rapid technological and cultural change.
On the Curvature Effect of a Relativistic Spherical Shell
Creators: name: Uhm, Z. Lucas
name: Zhang, Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a relativistic spherical shell and calculate its spectral flux as received by a distant observer. Using two different methods, we derive a simple analytical expression of the observed spectral flux and show that the well-known relation $\hat α= 2+\hat β$ (between temporal index $\hat α$ and spectral index $\hat β$) of the high-latitude emission is achieved naturally in our derivation but holds only when the shell moves with a constant Lorentz factor $Γ$. Presenting numerical models where the shell is under acceleration or deceleration, we show that the simple $\hat α= 2+\hat β$ relation is indeed deviated as long as $Γ$ is not constant. For the models under acceleration, we find that the light curves produced purely by the high-latitude emission decay initially much steeper than the constant $Γ$ case and gradually resume the $\hat α= 2+\hat β$ relation in about one and half orders of magnitude in observer time. For the models under deceleration, the trend is opposite. The light curves made purely by the high-latitude emission decay initially shallower than the constant $Γ$ case and gradually resume the relation $\hat α= 2+\hat β$ in a similar order of magnitude in observer time. We also show that how fast the Lorentz factor $Γ$ of the shell increases or decreases is the main ingredient determining the initial steepness or shallowness of the light curves.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Terra: finale di partita. Per essere ancora ottimisti
Creators: name: Schechner, Richard
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020
Subjects: Apocalypse, Overpopulation, Performance

description: Drawing on Beckett’s parable from Endgame, Richard Schechner explores how the world, that the tailor disparages, is polluted, its climate warming, deserts expanding, forests chopped down, mineral and liquid resources wantonly extracted, glaciers melting, seas acidifying and rising. In spite of that, there is still a reasonable chance to cling to optimism, because of Performance Studies’ inspiring role.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 9 (2019): Un contrappasso fatale
Germline 16p11.2 Microdeletion Predisposes to Neuroblastoma
Creators: name: Vaksman, Z.
name: Hakonarson, H.
name: Modi, A.
name: Diskin, S.J.
name: Olshan, A.F.
name: Rokita, J.L.
name: Lopez, G.
name: Egolf, L.E.
name: Basta, P.V.
Publisher: name: Cell Press
Year: 2019

description: Neuroblastoma is a cancer of the developing sympathetic nervous system. It is diagnosed in 600–700 children per year in the United States and accounts for 12% of pediatric cancer deaths. Despite recent advances in our understanding of this malignancy's complex genetic architecture, the contribution of rare germline variants remains undefined. Here, we conducted a genome-wide analysis of large (>500 kb), rare (<1%) germline copy number variants (CNVs) in two independent, multi-ethnic cohorts totaling 5,585 children with neuroblastoma and 23,505 cancer-free control children. We identified a 550-kb deletion on chromosome 16p11.2 significantly enriched in neuroblastoma cases (0.39% of cases and 0.03% of controls; p = 3.34 × 10−9). Notably, this CNV corresponds to a known microdeletion syndrome that affects approximately one in 3,000 children and confers risk for diverse developmental phenotypes including autism spectrum disorder and other neurodevelopmental disorders. The CNV had a substantial impact on neuroblastoma risk, with an odds ratio of 13.9 (95% confidence interval = 5.8–33.4). The association remained significant when we restricted our analysis to individuals of European ancestry in order to mitigate potential confounding by population stratification (0.42% of cases and 0.03% of controls; p = 4.10 × 10−8). We used whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to validate the deletion in paired germline and tumor DNA from 12 cases. Finally, WGS of four parent-child trios revealed that the deletion primarily arose de novo without maternal or paternal bias. This finding expands the clinical phenotypes associated with 16p11.2 microdeletion syndrome to include cancer, and it suggests that disruption of the 16p11.2 region may dysregulate neurodevelopmental pathways that influence both neurological phenotypes and neuroblastoma.
Il "rituale drammatico" in Crowley nella prospettiva dei Performance Studies
Creators: name: Busà, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020
Subjects: Performance Studies, Thelemitism, Aleister Crowley, Magick, Ritual Studies

description: This paper aims to analyze the dramatic rituals as they were theorized by the british occultist and ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley in his magnum opus, Magick in Theory and Practice. For this purpose, the methodological perspective will be constituted by Performance studies, with reference above all to the theorizations of Victor Turner and Richard Schechner.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 9 (2019): Un contrappasso fatale
Corpi altrui, corpi propri: il teatro di prova della sfera medico-curativa antica
Creators: name: Hautala, Svetlana
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: The article examines the main occasions for public self-representations by professions related to health in antiquity: physicians and manufacturers and sellers of medicines. While today, thanks to the wide range of credentials, a medical doctor does not need to personally gain the confidence of the patient too much, his white coat does the most part of this task for him, in antiquity, those who practiced medical professions had to constantly demonstrate their skills, involving for this purpose their own or other’s bodies.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 7 (2017): C’è qualcosa di nuovo anzi di antico… nei Performance Studies
Schermo e porta: due esempi di imago agens nel Medioevo cristiano
Creators: name: Bino, Carla Maria
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: In recent years the idea of ‘performative vision’ has been at the heart of international medieval studies. Such studies, embracing an interdisciplinary approach and re-reading sources and documents from a variety of different perspectives, have been particularly concerned with the meaning of representation and questions of how representation works, in an attempt to rethink radically the status of images and their relationship with the spectator. The paper considers two examples of imagines agentes which stand for two different kinds of ‘performative vision’. The first example concerns the so-called fastentuch, a large and painted cloth used to conceal the altar area during the days of Lent in Catholic churches, especially in German-speaking countries. It is an image which closes (or encloses) the audience’s view and, at the same time, it shows them the history of Salvation, making that narrative active and dynamic. I call it image-screen. The second example concerns the so-called Vierge Ouvrante, an opening sculpture of the Madonna with Child, widespread in Europe from the 13th century on. This is an image that opens its own body to show another image hidden in it. I call it image-door. Both these images were intended to play a specific action during a specific liturgical time, in order to create different relationships with the faithful involved in as many ‘rituals of gazing’.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 8 (2018): Una sinestesia remota nel tempo: la dimensione performativa dell'immagine sonora
L'asino travestito da leone: performance e vocalità di un animale simbolico
Creators: name: Macrì, Sonia
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: In an array of symbolic animals the donkey has an outstanding relevance for what about its performative function. In many plots, the donkey plays an unexpected role, expressing itself with a terrible and frightening voice. His existential parable, traced by numerous stories of the Greek and Latin literature, as well as Hebrew-Christian tradition, responds well to the Schechnerian assumption of a behavior readable "as performance".
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 7 (2017): C’è qualcosa di nuovo anzi di antico… nei Performance Studies
Surface band structure of $\text{Bi}_{1-x}\text{Sb}_{x}$(111)
Creators: name: Benia, Hadj M.
name: Straßer, Carola
name: Kern, Klaus
name: Ast, Christian R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical and experimental studies agree that $\text{Bi}_{1-x}\text{Sb}_{x}$ ($0.07 \leq x \leq 0.21$) to be a three-dimensional topological insulator. However, there is still a debate on the corresponding $\text{Bi}_{1-x}\text{Sb}_{x}$(111) surface band structure. While three spin polarized bands have been claimed experimentally, theoretically, only two surface bands appear, with the third band being attributed to surface imperfections. Here, we address this controversy using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) on $\text{Bi}_{1-x}\text{Sb}_{x}$ films. To minimize surface imperfections, we have optimized the sample growth recipe. We have measured the evolution of the surface band structure of $\text{Bi}_{1-x}\text{Sb}_{x}$ with $x$ increasing gradually from $x = 0$ to $x = 0.6$. Our ARPES data show better agreement with the theoretical calculations, where the system is topologically non-trivial with two surface bands.
Curare con il diavolo: aspetti performativi di alcuni esorcismi bizantini e postbizantini
Creators: name: Braccini, Tommaso
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: Many Byzantine folk-exorcisms take the form of historiolae, i.e. short stories about the victorious confrontation of a saint or an angel with the devil, providing both the mythical foundation and the guarantee of effectiveness of the actual exorcism, often intended to free the “patient”, as well as from the demon, from the diseases caused by it. Sometimes, the historiola ends with a prayer by the holy protagonist, asking and obtaining from God the grant of special blessings for those who will copy the text of the story or will read it aloud, in this way “performing” it. In the case of the so-called “exorcisms of Gello”, some manuscripts have retained the names of the people who had copied the text, or of their family members, literally introduced into the story and into the characters’ dialogues. The most remarkable case, however, is that of a 15th century manuscript of the Testament of Solomon, where an unknown exorcist added his instructions on how to treat the possessed while reading aloud the text. The celebrant repeated on the unfortunate “patient” the same, often violent, actions that Solomon practiced against disease-inducing demons, beating, binding and abusing him in different ways: this provided a kind of performative shock-therapy focused on the re-enactment of the text.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 7 (2017): C’è qualcosa di nuovo anzi di antico… nei Performance Studies
การพัฒนาระบบบันทึกและติดตามผลการตรวจ Antigen Test Kit (ATK)
Creators: name: มนพร  ชาติชำนิ
Publisher: name: สถาบันบำราศนราดูร
Year: 2023
Subjects: นวัตกรรมระบบบันทึก
ติดตามผล
การตรวจ Antigen Test Kit

description: วารสารสถาบันบำราศนราดูร, 17, 2, 72-83
Υπονύχιο Μελάνωμα
Creators: name: Κανακίδου, Μαρία Βασιλείου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Υπονύχιο Μελάνωμα
Επιδημιολογικά, κλινικά και ιστοπαθολογικά χαρακτηριστικά
Διάγνωση και θεραπεία
Subungual Melanoma
Epidemiological, clinical and histopathological characteristics
Diagnosis and treatment

description: Το υπονύχιο μελάνωμα είναι ένας σπάνιος καρκίνος και αποτελεί το 0,18 μέχρι 7% όλων των δερματικών μελανωμάτων που διαγιγνώσκονται στον γενικό πληθυσμό και κυρίως εμφανίζεται στον αντίχειρα ή στο μεγάλο δάκτυλο του ποδιού. Η συχνότητα εμφάνισης των μελανωμάτων του όνυχα είναι υψηλότερη στους σκουρόχρωμους πληθυσμούς και δεν έχει βρεθεί κάποια συσχέτιση με την έκθεση στον ήλιο. Το υπονύχιο μελάνωμα παρουσιάζεται συχνά με άτυπο τρόπο με δυστροφία των νυχιών και με ή χωρίς ανώμαλη χρώση. Η διάγνωση του υπονύχιου μελανώματος αποτελεί πρόκληση, λόγω της ποικιλομορφίας των χαρακτηριστικών του. Η οριστική και πιο σίγουρη διάγνωση γίνεται με την βιοψία και την άμεση ιστολογική εξέταση του βιοπτικού υλικού. Η θεραπεία εκλογής είναι η πλήρης χειρουργική αφαίρεση του όγκου ανάλογα με το βάθος διήθησης, τη λεμφαγγειακή και περινευρική διήθηση. Σκοπός της χειρουργικής θεραπείας είναι η διατήρηση της αισθητικής και της λειτουργικότητας του δακτύλου. Αν και εξαιρετικά σπάνιος, ο όγκος είναι σημαντικά επιθετικός και μάλιστα εμφανίζει χειρότερη πρόγνωση σε σχέση με το μελάνωμα άλλων ανατομικών θέσεων, κυρίως λόγω της καθυστερημένης διάγνωσής του
description: Subungual melanoma is a rare cancer and accounts for 0.18 to 7% of all cutaneous melanomas diagnosed in the general population and mainly occurs on the thumb or big toe. The incidence of subungual melanomas is higher in dark-skinned populations and no correlation with sun exposure has been found. Subungual melanoma often presents in an atypical manner with nail dystrophy and with or without abnormal pigmentation. The diagnosis of subnuchal melanoma is challenging because of the diversity of its features. Definite and safe diagnosis is made by biopsy and direct histological examination of the specimen. The treatment of choice is complete surgical removal of the tumor depending on the depth of infiltration, lymphatic and perineural infiltration. The purpose of surgical treatment is to preserve the aesthetics and functionality of the finger. Although subungual melanoma is an extremely rare tumour, it is extremely aggressive with poorer prognosis than melanomas in other anatomical sites, mainly due to delay in diagnosis
Exploring the genomic basis of early childhood caries: a pilot study
Creators: name: Marazita, M.L.
name: Divaris, K.
name: Carlson, J.C.
name: Ballantine, J.L.
name: Antonio-Obese, M.E.
name: Luo, J.
name: Weyant, R.J.
name: Basta, P.V.
name: Slayton, R.L.
name: Crout, R.J.
name: McNeil, D.W.
name: Zeldin, L.P.
name: Levy, S.M.
name: Shaffer, J.R.
name: Ferreira Zandoná, A.G.
name: Agler, C.
name: Roberts, M.W.
name: Rozier, R.G.
name: North, K.E.
Publisher: name: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Year: 2018

description: Objective: A genetic component in early childhood caries (ECC) is theorized, but no genome-wide investigations of ECC have been conducted. This pilot study is part of a long-term research program aimed to: (1) determine the proportion of ECC variance attributable to the human genome and (2) identify ECC-associated genetic loci. Methods: The study's community-based sample comprised 212 children (mean age=39 months; range = 30–52 months; males = 55%; Hispanic/Latino = 35%, African-American = 32%; American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry definition of ECC prevalence = 38%). Approximately 2.4 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were genotyped using DNA purified from saliva. A P < 5 × 10−8 criterion was used for genome-wide significance. SNPs with P < 5 × 10−5 were followed-up in three independent cohorts of 921 preschool-age children with similar ECC prevalence. Results: SNPs with minor allele frequency ≥5% explained 52% (standard error = 54%) of ECC variance (one-sided P = 0.03). Unsurprisingly, given the pilot's small sample size, no genome-wide significant associations were found. An intergenic locus on 4q32 (rs4690994) displayed the strongest association with ECC [P = 2.3 × 10−6; odds ratio (OR) = 3.5; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 2.1–5.9]. Thirteen loci with suggestive associations were followed-up – none showed evidence of association in the replication samples. Conclusion: This study's findings support a heritable component of ECC and demonstrate the feasibility of conducting genomics studies among preschool-age children.
Die katholischen Arbeitervereine Westdeutschlands von 1930 bis 1945
Creators: name: Berger, Hans
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 10 Nr. 4 (1981): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 10, Heft 4
«Saup ben trovar e cantar»: oralità e performance tra lirica d'Oc e del Sì
Creators: name: Pizzimento, Paolo
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: This article analyses the oral and performative aspects of medieval lyric poetry in Languedoc and Italy. First, it investigates the contacts between the troubadours with their “secular” performance and the Church with its liturgical and paraliturgical repertoire, intended as a particular form of “sacred” performance. Then, the article dwells upon the contacts of the trobadoric lyric poetry with the ritual of the feudal courts, which constituted a cultural and social coté and a milieu of ideological solidarity between the poets and their public. Finally, it focuses on the relationships between poetry and music in medieval lyric and explains their development between Occitan and Italian lyric.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 8 (2018): Una sinestesia remota nel tempo: la dimensione performativa dell'immagine sonora