cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The systematic impact of intraparty factions in the U.S. House of Representatives
Creators: name: McGee, Zachary Alden
name: 0000-0002-2462-0269
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Congress
Political parties
Intraparty factions
American politics

description: In the modern U.S. Congress, plagued by partisan polarization, scholars stand to learn much from turning inward and examining the dynamics and priorities within the two parties. This dissertation identifies eight intraparty factions, measures their policy agendas, and examines their member-to-member contribution behaviors from 2001 to 2018. The original agenda data contain more than 15,000 policy documents, press releases, and endorsed bills, which I collected from the factions’ websites, social media accounts, and other documented activities in Congress. The contribution data are collected from Leadership Political Action Committee (LPAC) disbursements from the Federal Election Commission's official website. These quantitative data are paired with a set of interviews with current and former members of Congress and staffers both in member offices and faction offices. The data and analyses reveal the asymmetric nature of the legislative parties with Republican intraparty factions battling over a small set of ideologically charged issues and Democratic intraparty factions engaging in diverse agendas consistent with their “big tent” coalition. I argue—and find evidence—that intraparty factions provide a vital avenue for rank-and-file members to extract policy concessions from party leaders in a highly centralized power structure and to support ideological allies in their pursuits for reelection.
Review of Hoey (2005)Lexical Priming
Creators: name: Philip, Gill
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2007
Subjects: L-LIN/01 Glottologia e linguistica
L-LIN/12 Lingua e traduzione - Lingua inglese

description: Book review of Hoey (2005) Lexical Priming. Describes and discusses presentation of contents and the implications of this novel approach to linguiatic theory.
Metaphorical Keyness in Specialised Corpora
Creators: name: Philip, Gill
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: L-LIN/01 Glottologia e linguistica
L-LIN/12 Lingua e traduzione - Lingua inglese

description: What is more important in text: the topical content, or the manner in which topical content is presented? While statistically-generated key words tell us about a text’s content, the inter-relation between these words and the message of the text can be difficult to ascertain. One method of doing so is to observe the inter-relation of key words with evaluative language: in this case, metaphor. Metaphors are notoriously difficult to locate in corpora, but this paper sets out a method for their semi-automatic identification, and demonstrates how their interaction with keywords is both systematic and pervasive. Studying the interaction of key words and metaphors brings to light attitudes which lurk beneath the surface of text.
Adverb use in EFL student writing
Creators: name: Philip, Gill
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2007
Subjects: L-LIN/02 Didattica delle lingue moderne
L-LIN/12 Lingua e traduzione - Lingua inglese

description: Adverbs, especially those occurring in adverb+adjective collocations, play a central role in the language that advanced learners are expected to produce in their argumentative writing. However submodifying adverbs of degree such as ‘closely’, ‘deeply’, ‘strongly’ and ‘widely’ have been identified as being problematic for learners of English: Italian learners over-use very and really to the virtual exclusion of any other adverb (Philip 2007). This situation is due in part to the EFL curriculum, but monolingual and bilingual learner’s dictionaries appear to do little to address the issue. This contribution examines the treatment of lexical adverbs of degree in the five major English dictionaries for advanced learners (CALD, COBUILD, LDOCE, MED and OALD). It also assesses the treatment of the same forms in four bilingual dictionaries specifically aimed at Italian learners of English (Longman, Oxford Study, Rizzoli-Laroussse and Oxford-Paravia). Analysis reveals that these dictionaries do little or nothing to help students expand their workiong knowledge of adverbs of degree. The presentation of lexical adverbs is seen on the whole to be subservient to the adjectives from which they are derived. The information boxes which most modern learner’s dictionaries include seem to focus on elementary matters of grammar and word choice rather than on the collocation of these polysemous, metaphorically-motivated language items. The contribution concludes by suggesting some ways in which monolingual and bilingual learners’ dictionaries might modify their treatment of lexical adverbs in order to enable students to identify and use alternatives to ‘very’, ‘really’ and ‘a lot’.
A Reproducing Kernel Perspective of Smoothing Spline Estimators
Creators: name: Bianconcini, Silvia
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: SECS-S/01 Statistica
SECS-S/03 Statistica economica

description: Spline functions have a long history as smoothers of noisy time series data, and several equivalent kernel representations have been proposed in terms of the Green's function solving the related boundary value problem. In this study we make use of the reproducing kernel property of the Green's function to obtain an hierarchy of time-invariant spline kernels of different order. The reproducing kernels give a good representation of smoothing splines for medium and long length filters, with a better performance of the asymmetric weights in terms of signal passing, noise suppression and revisions. Empirical comparisons of time-invariant filters are made with the classical non linear ones. The former are shown to loose part of their optimal properties when we fixed the length of the filter according to the noise to signal ratio as done in nonparametric seasonal adjustment procedures.
Probing active forces via a fluctuation-dissipation relation: Application to living cells
Creators: name: Bohec, Pierre
name: Gallet, François
name: Maes, Christian
name: Safaverdi, Soghra
name: Visco, Paolo
name: Van Wijland, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a new fluctuation-dissipation relation for non-equilibrium systems with long-term memory. We show how this relation allows one to access new experimental information regarding active forces in living cells that cannot otherwise be accessed. For a silica bead attached to the wall of a living cell, we identify a crossover time between thermally controlled fluctuations and those produced by the active forces. We show that the probe position is eventually slaved to the underlying random drive produced by the so-called active forces.
description: 5 pages
Self-evaluation test for student guidance: the case of the University of Bologna
Creators: name: Matteucci, Mariagiulia
name: Mignani, Stefania
name: Ricci, Roberto
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: SECS-S/01 Statistica

description: In this work, the theme of student guidance in the university context is outlined. In order to introduce the competence evaluation for student guidance, a new guidance project based on self-evaluation tests of the University of Bologna (Italy) is presented. In the paper, the issues of item specification and test calibration are explored, with reference to item response theory models. Models are for multiple-choice and binary items and they assume that a single ability is responsible for the student performance in the test. The test calibration is conducted for the Statistics Faculty and the results are discussed, together with the future developments of the project.
Curatorial practice at contemporary performance festivals in the United States
Creators: name: Gwillim, Christine
name: 0000-0003-3617-6289
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Performance studies
Performance curating
Live art
Contemporary performance festivals

description: Contemporary performance festivals (CPFs) are a relatively new phenomenon in the United States. This dissertation documents the rise of contemporary performance festivals in the United States in the early 2000s. As festivals have grown and developed larger audiences, CPF curators find themselves mediating their international relationships and commitments with their deep knowledge and experience of local communities. Broadly, my study focuses on curatorial decisions guiding organizational growth goals and their relationship to public expectations and local demographics. I focus on three prominent US-based festivals: Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas, Time-Based Art (TBA) Festival in Portland, Oregon, and Under the Radar (UtR) Festival in New York City, all of which began in the early 2000s and soon thereafter began to influence one another. Representing distinct regions of the country and operating under differing institutional models, they are connected through their shared timelines, similar curatorial practices, like-minded mixing of contemporary dance, theatre, performance, and visual art, as well as their close-knit relations to each other—ties that often result in shared programming. The founding curators from each of these festivals, Ron Berry (Fusebox), Mark Russell (UtR), and Kristy Edmunds (TBA), participate in an international network of curators that convenes around shared artistic visions and curatorial goals. Each of these festivals also programs local–international pairings—placing exciting local artists alongside internationally recognized artists. In doing so, they make spaces for local and international artists, presenters, and audiences to commingle. To illustrate the potential impact of the affective experiences, developed by building relationships, I deploy the framework of space, place, and landscape as used in cultural geography. Given that the artists in these festivals are drawn from an international pool, my study demonstrates that the curatorial efforts of these festivals operate on registers that are simultaneously global and local and that curators act as agents to a uniquely local form of shaping places.
INTEGRAL FORMULAS FOR A CLASS OF CURVATURE PDE'S AND APPLICATIONS TO ISOPERIMETRIC INEQUALITIES AND TO SYMMETRY PROBLEMS
Creators: name: Martino, Vittorio
name: Montanari, Annamaria
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: MAT/05 Analisi matematica

description: We prove integral formulas for closed hypersurfaces in C^(n+1); which
furnish a relation between elementary symmetric functions in the eigenvalues of
the complex Hessian matrix of the defining function and the Levi curvatures of
the hypersurface. Then we follow the Reilly approach to prove an isoperimetric
inequality. As an application, we obtain the "Soap Bubble Theorem" for star-
shaped domains with positive and constant Levi curvatures bounding the classical
mean curvature from above.
ON THE CHARACTERISTIC DIRECTION OF REAL HYPERSURFACES IN C^(N+1) AND A SYMMETRY RESULT
Creators: name: Martino, Vittorio
name: Montanari, Annamaria
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: MAT/05 Analisi matematica

description: In this paper we show the following property of a non
Levi flat real hypersurface in C^(n+1): if the unit characteristic 
direction T is a geodesic, then it is an eigenvector of the second
fundamental form and the relative eigenvalue is constant. As an
application we prove a symmetry result, of Alexandrov type, for
compact hypersurfaces in C^(n+1) with positive constant Levi mean
curvature.
Adverb use in EFL student writing: from learner dictionary to text production
Creators: name: Philip, Gill
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: L-LIN/01 Glottologia e linguistica
L-LIN/02 Didattica delle lingue moderne
L-LIN/12 Lingua e traduzione - Lingua inglese

description: Adverbs, especially those occurring in adverb+adjective collocations, play a central role in the language that advanced learners are expected to produce in their argumentative writing. However submodifying adverbs of degree such as ‘closely’, ‘deeply’, ‘strongly’ and ‘widely’ have been identified as being problematic for learners of English: Italian learners over-use very and really to the virtual exclusion of any other adverb (Philip 2007). This situation is due in part to the EFL curriculum, but monolingual and bilingual learner’s dictionaries appear to do little to address the issue. This contribution examines the treatment of lexical adverbs of degree in the five major English dictionaries for advanced learners (CALD, COBUILD, LDOCE, MED and OALD). It also assesses the treatment of the same forms in four bilingual dictionaries specifically aimed at Italian learners of English (Longman, Oxford Study, Rizzoli-Laroussse and Oxford-Paravia). 
Analysis reveals that these dictionaries do little or nothing to help students expand their working knowledge of adverbs of degree. The presentation of lexical adverbs is seen on the whole to be subservient to the adjectives from which they are derived. The information boxes which most modern learner’s dictionaries include seem to focus on elementary matters of grammar and word choice rather than on the collocation of these polysemous, metaphorically-motivated language items. The contribution concludes by suggesting some ways in which monolingual and bilingual learners’ dictionaries might modify their treatment of lexical adverbs in order to enable students to identify and use alternatives to ‘very’, ‘really’ and ‘a lot’.
Linking endotypes to omics profiles in difficult-to-control asthma using the diagnostic Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation algorithm
Creators: name: Song, Wenping
name: Zheng, Si
name: Li, Meng
name: Zhang, Xia
name: Cao, Rui
name: Ye, Cheng
name: Shao, Rongguang
name: Li, Guangxi
name: Li, Jiao
name: Liu, Shigang
name: Li, Hui
name: Li, Liang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Objective: Patients with difficult-to-control asthma have difficulty breathing almost all of the time, even leading to life-threatening asthma attacks. However, only few diagnostic markers for this disease have been identified. We aimed to take advantage of unique Chinese medicine theories for phenotypic classification and to explore molecular signatures in difficult-to-control asthma. Methods: The Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation algorithm (CMSDA) is a syndrome-scoring classification method based on the Chinese medicine overall observation theory. Patients with difficult-to-control asthma were classified into Cold- and Hot-pattern groups according to the CMSDA. DNA methylation and metabolomic profiles were obtained using Infinium Human Methylation 450 BeadChip and gas chromatography-mass spectrometer. Subsequently, an integrated bioinformatics analysis was performed to compare those two patterns and identify Cold/Hot-associated candidates, followed by functional validation studies. Results: A total of 20 patients with difficult-to-control asthma were enrolled in the study. Ten were grouped as Cold and 10 as Hot according to the CMSDA. We identified distinct whole-genome DNA methylation and metabolomic profiles between Cold- and Hot-pattern groups. ALDH3A1 gene exhibited variations in the DNA methylation probe cg10791966, while two metabolic pathways were associated with those two patterns. Conclusions: Our study introduced a novel diagnostic classification approach, the CMSDA, for difficult-to-control asthma. This is an alternative way to categorize diverse syndromes and link endotypes with omics profiles of this disease. ALDH3A1 might be a potential biomarker for precision diagnosis of difficult-to-control asthma.
Convergence towards equilibrium of Probabilistic Cellular Automata
Creators: name: Louis, Pierre-Yves
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Probabilistic Cellular Automata
subject: Interacting Particle Systems
subject: Coupling
subject: Attractive Dynamics
subject: %Stochastic Ordering
subject: Weak Mixing Condition
subject: Ergodicity
subject: Exponential rate of convergence
subject: Gibbs measure
subject: 60G60
subject: 60J10
subject: 60K35
subject: 82C20
subject: 82C26

description: We first introduce some coupling of a finite number of Probabilistic Cellular Automata dynamics (PCA), preserving the stochastic ordering. Using this tool, and under some assumption ( 풜) we establish ergodicity for general attractive probabilistic cellular automata on Sℤd, where S is finite: this means the convergence towards equilibrium of these Markovian parallel dynamics, in the uniform norm, exponentially fast. For a class of reversible PCA dynamics on {-1,+1}ℤd, with a naturally associated Gibbsian potential 휑, we prove that a Weak Mixing condition for 휑 implies the validity of the assumption (풜), thus the 'exponential ergodicity' of the dynamics towards the unique Gibbs measure associated to 휑 holds. On some particular examples of this PCA class, we verify that our assumption (풜) is weaker than the Dobrushin-Vasershtein ergodicity condition. For some precise PCA, the 'exponential ergodicity' holds as soon as there is no phase transition.
On the Birational Nature of Lifting
Creators: name: Liedtke, Christian
name: Satriano, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14E05, 14D15, 14G17, 14D23

description: Let $X$ and $Y$ be proper birational varieties, say with only rational double points over a perfect field $k$ of positive characteristic. If $X$ lifts to $W_n(k)$, is it true that $Y$ has the same lifting property? This is true for smooth surfaces, but we show by example that this is false for smooth varieties in higher dimension, and for surfaces with canonical singularities. We also answer a stacky analogue of this question: given a canonical surface $X$ with minimal resolution $Y$ and stacky resolution $\mathcal{X}$, we characterize when liftability of $Y$ is equivalent to that of $\mathcal{X}$. The main input for our results is a study of how the deformation functor of a canonical surface singularity compares with the deformation functor of its minimal resolution. This extends work of Burns and Wahl to positive characteristic. As a byproduct, we show that Tjurina's vanishing result fails for every canonical surface singularity in every positive characteristic.
description: 17 pages; many details added
Embedding cycles of given length in oriented graphs
Creators: name: Kühn, Daniela
name: Osthus, Deryk
name: Piguet, Diana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05D99 (Primary) 05C20 (Secondary)

description: Kelly, Kuehn and Osthus conjectured that for any l>3 and the smallest number k>2 that does not divide l, any large enough oriented graph G with minimum indegree and minimum outdegree at least \lfloor |V(G)|/k\rfloor +1 contains a directed cycle of length l. We prove this conjecture asymptotically for the case when l is large enough compared to k and k>6. The case when k<7 was already settled asymptotically by Kelly, Kuehn and Osthus.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures
Untersuchungen über den Einfluss von Losartan auf die Symptome der Herzinsuffizienz am Beispiel eines genetischen Mausmodells der kardialen Überexpression von Calsequestrin
Creators: name: Günther, Sophie
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Herzinsuffizienz
subject: Pharmakologie
subject: Losartan
subject: Maus
subject: Online-Publikation
subject: Hochschulschrift
subject: 615

description: Herzinsuffizienz ist gekennzeichnet durch Veränderungen in der Ca2+ Homöostase. Als Herzinsuffizienzmodell wurden transgene Mäuse (TG) mit herzspezifischer Überexpression von Calsequestrin (CSQ) verwendet. CSQ-Überexpression führt zu Hypertrophie, Fibrose, Modifikationen auf zellulärer Ebene, Veränderungen hämodynamischer und elektrophysiologischer Parameter, Arrhythmien sowie erhöhte Sterblichkeit im Vergleich zu Wildtyp. In TG-Muskeln wurde eine Verschiebung zum oxidativen Phänotyp beobachtet. Losartan konnte die Fibrose, die Herzgewichte, die ATPase-Expression sowie Veränderungen auf zelluläre Ebene positiv beeinflussen und dadurch die hämodynamischen sowie elektrophysiologischen Parameter wie auch das Überleben der TG verbessern. Zudem konnten Veränderungen im Muskelmetabolismus teilweise unter Losartan aufgehoben werden. Diese Ergebnisse weisen auf eine Beteiligung des AT1-Rezeptors an Herzinsuffizienz infolge der CSQ-Überexpression hin, da dessen Blockade das Überleben erhöhte.
Interactions between cytochrome P450 genetic polymorphisms and plasma organochlorines in non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Creators: name: Dhalla, Anar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Following World War II, the production of chlorine-containing organic molecules known as organochlorines (OCs) became commonplace. Although heightened regulation has since occurred in Canada, OCs continue to pose health and environmental concerns due to their persistence and ongoing use elsewhere. To date, the largest study assessing the association between plasma OCs and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) was conducted in British Columbia (BC) between 2000 and 2004. Eight hundred twenty-eight newly diagnosed NHL cases were ascertained from the BC Cancer Registry and 848 population controls were randomly obtained from the BC Ministry of Health Client Registry. Significant associations were observed between NHL and 14 individual organochlorines. Because the effects of OCs on NHL may be modified by an individual’s genetic makeup, gene-environment (GxE) interactions between OCs and cytochrome P450 (CYP) genes were examined here, using data from the subset of participants of European ethnic origin (“Europeans”) in the BC study. CYPs were chosen because they are involved in the metabolism of chemicals, including some OCs. First, the effects of the OCs were re-evaluated in Europeans only, as this was the analytic group in subsequent genetic analyses. Significant trends were noted for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) 153, 180, 187, summed PCBs (total, dioxin-like, non-dioxin-like), beta-hexachlorocyclohexane (β-HCCH), hexachlorobenzene (HCB), mirex, trans-nonachlor, and oxychlordane. Significance was maintained after controlling for multiple testing for PCB-187, total summed PCBs, β-HCCH, HCB, trans-nonachlor, and oxychlordane. No significant trends were found for PCB-28, 99, 105, 118, 138, 156, 170, 183, cis-nonachlor, p, p’-DDT, or p, p’-DDE. Secondly, 129 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 18 CYP genes were selected for study. Significant trends were noted for rs743572 (CYP17A1) and rs1322179 (CYP2C19). Significance was not maintained after controlling for multiple testing. Two SNPs, rs9332197 and rs10509679 (CYP2C9), in the same gene cluster as CYP2C19 were of borderline non-significance. A significant GxE interaction was found between rs743572 and mirex, even after controlling for multiple testing. The increased risk of NHL conferred by higher mirex levels is lessened in minor allele homozygotes of rs743572. As CYP17A1 is involved in steroid metabolism, these results suggest the involvement of hormonal modulation in NHL risk.
MOESM1 of Real-time adsorption and action of expansin on cellulose
Creators: name: Duan, Yuhao
name: Ma, Yuanyuan
name: Zhao, Xudong
name: Huang, Renliang
name: Su, Rongxin
name: Qi, Wei
name: He, Zhimin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional tables and figures.
On the dihedral Euler characteristics of Selmer groups of abelian varieties
Creators: name: Van Order, Jeanine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This note shows how to use the framework of Euler characteristic formulae to study Selmer groups of abelian varieties in certain dihedral or anticyclotomic extensions of CM fields via Iwasawa main conjectures, and in particular how to verify the p-part of the refined Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture in this setting. When the Selmer group is cotorsion with respect to the associated Iwasawa algebra, we obtain the p-part of formula predicted by the refined Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. When the Selmer group is not cotorsion with respect to the associated Iwasawa algebra, we give a conjectural description of the Euler characteristic of the cotorsion submodule, and explain how to deduce inequalities from the associated main conjecture divisibilities of Perrin-Riou and Howard.
description: 26 pages. Previous discussion of two-variable setting removed, and discussion of the indefinite setting modified accordingly. To appear in the HIM "Arithmetic and Geometry" conference proceedings
The CMC Dynamics Theorem in R^3
Creators: name: Meeks, William H.
name: Tinaglia, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: MAT/03 Geometria

description: In this paper, we develop some new tools and theory that are useful in describing the 
geometry of properly embedded, constant mean curvature surfaces in R^3 with bounded 
second fundamental form. More precisely, we prove dynamics type results for the space 
of translational limits of such a surface. As a consequence of our main theorems, in 
subsequent papers we obtain rigidity results for certain properly embedded, constant 
mean curvature surfaces in R^3, as well as derive curvature estimates for complete, 
embedded, constant mean curvature surfaces in complete locally homogeneous three- 
manifolds.
GIT quotients of projective spaces
Creators: name: Incensi, Francesca
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: MAT/03 Geometria

description: We study the quotients for the diagonal action of SL3(C) on the product of n-fold of P^2(C): we are interested in describing how the quotient changes when we vary the polarization (i.e. the choice of an ample linearized line bundle). 
We illustrate the different techniques for the construction of a quotient, in particular the numerical criterion for semi-stability and the “elementary transformations” which are resolutions of precisely described singularities (case n = 6).
Douglas Davies’ Transcultural Model of Grief
Creators: name: Vähäkangas, Auli
Publisher: name: International Academy of Practical Theology. Conference Series
Year: 2021

description: Grief research on continuing emotional bonds between the deceased and the bereaved has mainly used concepts and theories developed in the Western world with a few exceptions from the Majority world as well. The concept of dividuality or multiple personhood of a bereaved person is used in various Asian societies. The aim of this chapter is to analyse what Davies means with his model and to evaluate the transcultural nature of it. The results of this chapter show that Davies stresses embodied rituals because the starting point of dividual personhood is the inner complexity of a person. Davies challenges a Western word-centred individual to reconstruct identity and find new meaning in life after bereavement. Dividual grief is a good beginning when searching for transcultural models of grief. It is, however, not based on first-hand empirical research on a specific culture, which makes the transcultural aspects in it very descriptive. I am waiting for practical theological colleagues from the Majority world to start formulating models of grief based on their own cultural backgrounds. Models that are strongly grounded in a specific culture are really needed in order to understand such a central theological topic.
description: International Academy of Practical Theology. Conference Series, Vol 2 (2021): (De)coloniality and religious practices: liberating hope; edited by Valburga Schmiedt Streck, Júlio Cézar Adam and Cláudio Carvalhaes
Lembit Põlma välipäevik nr 13
Creators: name: Põlma, Lembit
Publisher: name: Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli Geoloogia Instituut
Year: 1973
Subjects: Ülem-Ordoviitsium
Eesti
Läti
puuraugud
geoloogilised kirjeldused
Upper Ordovician
drill cores
Estonia
Latvia
geological descriptions

description: Field notebook with descriptions of Ordovician drill cores from Estonia and Latvia.
Prevention at work and stress evaluation in France and in Italy / La prévention sur les lieux de travail et l’évaluation du stress en France et en Italie / Prevenzione nei luoghi di lavoro e valutazione dello stress in Francia e in Italia
Creators: name: Maggi, Bruno
name: Marchiori, Michela
name: Rulli, Giovanni
name: Etienne, Pascal
name: Salento, Angelo
name: Clot, Yves
name: Costa, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: M-PSI/06 Psicologia del lavoro e delle organizzazioni
MED/44 Medicina del lavoro
SECS-P/08 Economia e gestione delle imprese
SECS-P/10 Organizzazione aziendale
SPS/09 Sociologia dei processi economici e del lavoro

description: A European directive, transposed into the legal systems of the member States, steers towards an idea of prevention that is primary, general, programmed and integrated in work design. The interpretation of norms and the guidelines of institutions devoted to health and safety in the workplace direct, however, towards the management of existing risks. This is particularly evident as far as stress and the so called psycho-social risks are concerned. Even the approaches of disciplines regarding work follow the same trend. A real and effective protection of well-being appears to be neglected, and this is confirmed by statistics about physical and psychological damages to workers. The contributions in this collection concern France and Italy, where, however, internationally recognized approaches, allowing primary prevention interventions on work, have been developed.
Verwundbarkeit der Umwelt gegenüber Hochwasserereignissen - eine Untersuchung auf kommunaler Ebene
Creators: name: Meisel, Kathleen
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Online-Publikation
subject: Hochschulschrift
subject: 577

description: Bedingt durch den globalen Klimawandel werden Hochwasserereignisse mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit intensiver und häufiger. In jüngster Zeit werden für einen gezielten Hochwasserschutz zunehmend Verwundbarkeitsanalysen durchgeführt. Meist steht dabei die Verwundbarkeit der Gesellschaft im Fokus. Diese Arbeit widmet sich der Verwundbarkeit der Umwelt gegenüber Hochwasserereignissen. Betrachtet wird ausschließlich die Verwundbarkeit gegenüber potenziellen Schadwirkungen aus ungesicherten Kontaminationsquellen. Es wird ein Verfahren vorgestellt, mit dem unter Anwendung der Systemtheorie diese Verwundbarkeit in urbanen Räumen ermittelt werden kann. Dieses wissenschaftlich hergeleitete Verfahren wird danach in einen Praxisleitfaden, der eine GIS-basierte Schritt für Schritt-Anleitung zur Bestimmung der Umweltverwundbarkeit darstellt, überführt. Da dieses Verfahren auf Daten basiert, die üblicherweise in den Kommunen vorliegen, ist eine Übertragbarkeit auf alle Kommunen gegeben.
(De)colonizing the image of female beauty and (de)commodifying women
Creators: name: Stevenson-Moessner, Jeanne
Publisher: name: International Academy of Practical Theology. Conference Series
Year: 2021

description: Plastic is capital. We readily think of the plastic of credit cards and debit cards for the financial power they give us. At this time, there is a burgeoning industry of plastic surgery in North and South America. This type of Plástica introduces an economy of appearances in which physical beauty is the valued product. In my area of Dallas, Texas, women’s social gatherings can include Botox parties in the place of bridge (card) parties or garden clubs. Using a study of beauty and plastic surgery among Siliconadas in Brazil and comparing it with research on cosmetic or aesthetic plastic surgery in Texas, I will draw some findings of interest to us as practical and pastoral theologians. Specifically, this research looks at self-esteem of women opting for augmentation or alteration of their physical self and at how colonialism, post-colonialism, and de-colonialism has addressed and impacted this issue. The paper explores asymmetries of power that impact individual and group social identity. For those whose history has been shaped ontologically, theologically, and psychologically by colonial forces, detaching from the lure of the “colonial gaze” as defined by the powerful, the elite, the slave holders, the media, capitalism, film, and conquerors, requires both resistance and resilience. How do we as pastoral and practical theologians in our work facilitate freedom from the images and the industry “of beauty”? This is an issue for practical theology in both research and action as we seek to liberate Hope and Self-Esteem.
description: International Academy of Practical Theology. Conference Series, Vol 2 (2021): (De)coloniality and religious practices: liberating hope; edited by Valburga Schmiedt Streck, Júlio Cézar Adam and Cláudio Carvalhaes
A lasso for hierarchical interactions
Creators: name: Bien, Jacob
name: Taylor, Jonathan
name: Tibshirani, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We add a set of convex constraints to the lasso to produce sparse interaction models that honor the hierarchy restriction that an interaction only be included in a model if one or both variables are marginally important. We give a precise characterization of the effect of this hierarchy constraint, prove that hierarchy holds with probability one and derive an unbiased estimate for the degrees of freedom of our estimator. A bound on this estimate reveals the amount of fitting "saved" by the hierarchy constraint. We distinguish between parameter sparsity - the number of nonzero coefficients - and practical sparsity - the number of raw variables one must measure to make a new prediction. Hierarchy focuses on the latter, which is more closely tied to important data collection concerns such as cost, time and effort. We develop an algorithm, available in the R package hierNet, and perform an empirical study of our method.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AOS1096 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Getting to ‘know’ connectors? Evaluating data-driven learning
in a writing skills course
Creators: name: Cresswell, Andy
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2007
Subjects: L-LIN/02 Didattica delle lingue moderne
L-LIN/12 Lingua e traduzione - Lingua inglese

description: This paper sets out to evaluate the effect on learners’ knowledge and use of language of
one prominent technique in corpus pedagogy, the data-driven use of corpus concordances
with learners as researchers, or Data-Driven Learning (DDL) (Johns 1988, 1991). More
specifically, the paper attempts measurement of the effect of DDL on the achievement of
the goal of appropriate production by learners of logical connectors, an important subskill
in the context of the wider objective of the acquisition of basic academic writing skills
in English. The evaluation uses learner corpora from experimental and control groups,
supported by other methods. The conclusion is that DDL, applied in the context of the
communicative teaching of writing skills, is moderately effective, and that there is
potential both for the further development of learner corpora in an evaluative role, and for
use of a wider range of instrumentation.
Making progress or perpetuating power?
Creators: name: Casteel, Amy
Publisher: name: International Academy of Practical Theology. Conference Series
Year: 2021

description: What does it mean to “enact” the imago dei? The majority of theological work on migration is from the point of view of the host, or receiving communities and their response towards newcomers. This results in an observer’s view of the challenges of migration not the experiences of migrants themselves. Is there an underlying bias in the language they choose that, even unwittingly, perpetuates a colonial mindset? Analyzing 105 theological articles, chapters, and books written about migration, this paper briefly considers the anthropological stances towards migrants present in these works. These are compared with theological anthropological stances. Then welcome or hospitality, which are described as the appropriate response to newcomers, are also considered in light of the anthropologies. These differences are juxtaposed with practices of churches in Greece variously involved with resettled migrants.
description: International Academy of Practical Theology. Conference Series, Vol 2 (2021): (De)coloniality and religious practices: liberating hope; edited by Valburga Schmiedt Streck, Júlio Cézar Adam and Cláudio Carvalhaes
A quantum genetic algorithm with quantum crossover and mutation operations
Creators: name: SaiToh, Akira
name: Rahimi, Robabeh
name: Nakahara, Mikio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 68Q12

description: In the context of evolutionary quantum computing in the literal meaning, a quantum crossover operation has not been introduced so far. Here, we introduce a novel quantum genetic algorithm which has a quantum crossover procedure performing crossovers among all chromosomes in parallel for each generation. A complexity analysis shows that a quadratic speedup is achieved over its classical counterpart in the dominant factor of the run time to handle each generation.
description: 21 pages, 1 table, v2: typos corrected, minor modifications in sections 3.5 and 4, v3: minor revision, title changed (original title: Semiclassical genetic algorithm with quantum crossover and mutation operations), v4: minor revision, v5: minor grammatical corrections, to appear in QIP
Decolonial Praxis
Creators: name: Walsh, Catherine
Publisher: name: International Academy of Practical Theology. Conference Series
Year: 2021

description: This text is concerned with two interrelated questions of the “hows” of decolonial praxis. How to struggle against the present-day colonial matrices of power and their growing practice of dehumanities? And, how to struggle for, think from, and sow an otherwise of re-existence-life? These questions and the reflections, thought, and actions that they open, give essence to what I understand as and describe in this text as decolonial praxis.
description: International Academy of Practical Theology. Conference Series, Vol 2 (2021): (De)coloniality and religious practices: liberating hope; edited by Valburga Schmiedt Streck, Júlio Cézar Adam and Cláudio Carvalhaes
Decreto Legislativo 81/2008. Quale prevenzione nei luoghi di lavoro?
Creators: name: Maggi, Bruno
name: Rulli, Giovanni
name: Del Punta, Riccardo
name: Pascucci, Paolo
name: Salento, Angelo
name: Fabbri, Tommaso Maria
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: IUS/07 Diritto del lavoro
M-PSI/06 Psicologia del lavoro e delle organizzazioni
MED/44 Medicina del lavoro
SECS-P/08 Economia e gestione delle imprese
SECS-P/10 Organizzazione aziendale
SPS/09 Sociologia dei processi economici e del lavoro

description: A contribution in the medical field illustrates the historical evolution of the concepts of prevention and health to which it is necessary to refer for a discussion about health and safety in the workplace. Some contributions in the fields of labor law and organizational theory interpret the norms currently effective in Italy and the guidelines for the assessment of risks in work situations. What conception of prevention is implicitly assumed by the norms, and by the guidelines that the norms indicate? Are the current norms adequate to stimulate organizational choices aimed at preventing risks and discouraging harmful choices? Limits and contradictions hindering a real, effective, primary prevention are emphasized.
A geometric quantization of the Kostant-Sekiguchi correpondence for scalar type unitary highest weight representations
Creators: name: Möllers, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For any Hermitian Lie group $G$ of tube type we give a geometric quantization procedure of certain $K_{\mathbb{C}}$-orbits in $\mathfrak{p}_{\mathbb{C}}^*$ to obtain all scalar type highest weight representations. Here $K_{\mathbb{C}}$ is the complexification of a maximal compact subgroup $K\subseteq G$ with corresponding Cartan decomposition $\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{k}+\mathfrak{p}$ of the Lie algebra of $G$. We explicitly realize every such representation $π$ on a Fock space consisting of square integrable holomorphic functions on its associated variety $Ass(π)\subseteq\mathfrak{p}_{\mathbb{C}}^*$. The associated variety $Ass(π)$ is the closure of a single nilpotent $K_{\mathbb{C}}$-orbit $\mathcal{O}^{K_{\mathbb{C}}}\subseteq\mathfrak{p}_{\mathbb{C}}^*$ which corresponds by the Kostant-Sekiguchi correspondence to a nilpotent coadjoint $G$-orbit $\mathcal{O}^G\subseteq\mathfrak{g}^*$. The known Schrödinger model of $π$ is a realization on $L^2(\mathcal{O})$, where $\mathcal{O}\subseteq\mathcal{O}^G$ is a Lagrangian submanifold. We construct an intertwining operator from the Schrödinger model to the new Fock model, the generalized Segal-Bargmann transform, which gives a geometric quantization of the Kostant-Sekiguchi correspondence (a notion invented by Hilgert, Kobayashi, Ørsted and the author). The main tool in our construction are multivariable $I$- and $K$-Bessel functions on Jordan algebras which appear in the measure of $\mathcal{O}^{K_{\mathbb{C}}}$, as reproducing kernel of the Fock space and as integral kernel of the Segal-Bargmann transform. As a corollary to our construction we also obtain the integral kernel of the unitary inversion operator in the Schrödinger model in terms of a multivariable $J$-Bessel function as well as explicit Whittaker vectors.
description: final version, 73 pages
Adaptive und softwaregestützte Konstruktion von drehenden elektrischen Maschinen
Creators: name: Hinzelmann, Ralf
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Elektrische Maschinen
subject: Elektrische Antriebe
subject: 620.00420285536

description: Diese Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zur Digitalisierung und Verbesserung von Entwicklungspro-zessen. Insbesondere richtet sie sich an Entwicklungsingenieure, die Elektromaschinen nach Kundenwunsch gestalten, die Fertigung planen sowie die Messung der Maschinen durchfüh-ren und bewerten. Dabei wird eine passende Maschine für den Kunden entwickelt, um den bestmöglichen Nutzen zu generieren. Dadurch kann beim Betrieb der Maschine Geld und Energie gespart werden und die Umwelt wird geschont. In dieser Arbeit werden PM-Synchron-maschinen und einer Sonderform dieser betrachtet, die Maschine mit Luftspaltwicklung, die am Lehrstuhl für Mechatronik des Instituts für Mobile Systeme der Fakultät für Maschinenbau entwickelt wurde. Der Entwicklungsprozess der Maschinen wird analysiert. Dabei werden die Möglichkeiten der modernen Softwarelandschaft beachtet. Es wird ein Konstruktionswerkzeug vorgestellt, das die komplexen Wechselwirkungen der mechanischen, elektrischen und ther-mischen Parameter der Maschine berücksichtigt. Das iterative Vorgehen bei der Entwicklung wird beschleunigt und teilweise automatisiert. Mithilfe dieses Ansatzes wurden zwei Genera-toren entwickelt. Es entstand ein Generator mit Luftspaltwicklung für die Verwendung in Klein-windkraftanlagen und ein Generator mit Luftspalt- und Nutenwicklung für den Einsatz in Klein-wasserkraftanlagen. Ziel ist die Anwendung der Konstruktionsmethodik in der Forschung so-wie der Transfer in KMUs.
description: This work contributes to the digitization and improvement of development processes. In par-ticular, it is aimed at development engineers who design electrical machines according to cus-tomer requirements, plan production and carry out and evaluate the measurement of the ma-chines. The right machine will be developed for the customer in order to generate the best possible benefit. This saves money and energy when operating the machine and protects the environment. In this thesis, PM synchronous machines and a special form of them are consid-ered, the machine with air gap winding, which was developed at the Chair of Mechatronics at the Institute for Mobile Systems in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The machine de-velopment process is analyzed. The possibilities of the modern software landscape are taken into account. A design tool is presented that takes into account the complex interactions of the mechanical, electrical and thermal parameters of the machine and thus accelerates and par-tially automates the iterative process during development. With the help of this approach, two generators were developed. A generator with air gap winding for use in small wind power plants and a generator with air gap and groove winding for use in small hydropower plants were created. The aim is to use the construction methodology in research and transfer it to SMEs.
Chemische und biologische Untersuchungen von Inhaltsstoffen aus Pilzfruchtkörpern der Gattungen Cortinarius und Hygrophorus
Creators: name: Teichert, Axel
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Online-Publikation
subject: Hochschulschrift
subject: 615.3
subject: 540

description: Aus Fruchtkörpern von Cortinarius brunneus wurden insgesamt 18 stickstoffhaltige Inhaltsstoffe isoliert und strukturell mittels NMR- und MS-Methoden charakterisiert. Unter ihnen konnte mit den neuen β-Carbolinalkaloiden, Brunneine A–C, die Ursache für die intensive gelbgrüne Fluoreszenz des Methanolextraktes aufgedeckt werden. Brunnein A zeigte in ersten biologischen Aktivitätsbestimmungen eine geringe Inhibierung der Acetylcholinesterase. Auch vier N-glukosylierte Indolderivate wurden innerhalb der Untersuchungen aus C. brunneus isoliert und strukturell charakterisiert. Darunter befand sich ein Indol-3-yl-essigsäure-Konjugat, für welches keine Auxinwirkung im Arabidopsis-Pfahlwurzellängenwachstumstest nachgewiesen werden konnte. Chemische Untersuchungen von Inhaltsstoffen aus Fruchtkörpern von Cortinarius subtortus ergaben die Isolierung und Strukturaufklärung zweier Chinolin- und eines Isochinolinalkaloides. Diese Substanzen wurden auf ihre fungitoxischen sowie Radikalfängereigenschaften getestet und zeigten hierbei teilweise moderate Aktivitäten. Das antimikrobielle Potential der aus Fruchtkörpern des Basidiomyceten Hygrophorus eburneus isolierten 4-Oxo-2-alkensäuren wurde beispielhaft an 4-Oxohexadec-2-ensäure umfangreich untersucht. Es wurden zum Teil hohe antibakterielle, fungitoxische und antioomycetische Eigenschaften dieser Substanz detektiert.