cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The X-Array and SATURN: A new decay-spectroscopy station for CARIBU
Creators: name: Mitchell, A. J.
name: Bertone, P. F.
name: DiGiovine, B.
name: Lister, C. J.
name: Carpenter, M. P.
name: Chowdhury, P.
name: Clark, J. A.
name: D'Olympia, N.
name: Deo, A. Y.
name: Kondev, F. G.
name: McCutchan, E. A.
name: Rohrer, J.
name: Savard, G.
name: Seweryniak, D.
name: Zhu, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new decay-spectroscopy station has been commissioned for experiments with low-energy, fission-fragment radioactive beams from the CARIBU ion source. The new set-up consists of the 'X-array', a highly-efficient array of HPGe clover detectors, and 'SATURN' (Scintillator And Tape Using Radioactive Nuclei), a plastic scintillator detector combined with a tape-transport system for detection of beta particles and removal of long-lived isobaric decay products.
description: 9 pages, 13 figures, published in Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods A
Spin-orbit alignment of exoplanet systems: ensemble analysis using asteroseismology
Creators: name: Campante, T. L.
name: Lund, M. N.
name: Kuszlewicz, J. S.
name: Davies, G. R.
name: Chaplin, W. J.
name: Albrecht, S.
name: Winn, J. N.
name: Bedding, T. R.
name: Benomar, O.
name: Bossini, D.
name: Handberg, R.
name: Santos, A. R. G.
name: Van Eylen, V.
name: Basu, S.
name: Christensen-Dalsgaard, J.
name: Elsworth, Y. P.
name: Hekker, S.
name: Hirano, T.
name: Huber, D.
name: Karoff, C.
name: Kjeldsen, H.
name: Lundkvist, M. S.
name: North, T. S. H.
name: Aguirre, V. Silva
name: Stello, D.
name: White, T. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The angle $ψ$ between a planet's orbital axis and the spin axis of its parent star is an important diagnostic of planet formation, migration, and tidal evolution. We seek empirical constraints on $ψ$ by measuring the stellar inclination $i_{\rm s}$ via asteroseismology for an ensemble of 25 solar-type hosts observed with NASA's Kepler satellite. Our results for $i_{\rm s}$ are consistent with alignment at the 2-$σ$ level for all stars in the sample, meaning that the system surrounding the red-giant star Kepler-56 remains as the only unambiguous misaligned multiple-planet system detected to date. The availability of a measurement of the projected spin-orbit angle $λ$ for two of the systems allows us to estimate $ψ$. We find that the orbit of the hot-Jupiter HAT-P-7b is likely to be retrograde ($ψ=116.4^{+30.2}_{-14.7}\:{\rm deg}$), whereas that of Kepler-25c seems to be well aligned with the stellar spin axis ($ψ=12.6^{+6.7}_{-11.0}\:{\rm deg}$). While the latter result is in apparent contradiction with a statement made previously in the literature that the multi-transiting system Kepler-25 is misaligned, we show that the results are consistent, given the large associated uncertainties. Finally, we perform a hierarchical Bayesian analysis based on the asteroseismic sample in order to recover the underlying distribution of $ψ$. The ensemble analysis suggests that the directions of the stellar spin and planetary orbital axes are correlated, as conveyed by a tendency of the host stars to display large inclination values.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ; 59 pages, 39 figures, 4 tables
Remembering Sharmila Rege
Creators: name: Tambe, Anagha
name: Dyahadroy, Swati
Publisher: name: Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies
Year: 2023

description: Sharmila Rege (1964-2013), a feminist scholar from India is well-known for her seminal work on reimagining knowledges, pedagogies, political struggles, and higher educational practices (and interrelationships amongst these), from a Dalit feminist perspective. Ten years after her passing, we seek to commemorate her contributions and reinvestigate the possibility that her work offers for scholars in these troubling times. While an analysis and review of her writings is crucial at this juncture, this essay is a tribute to Rege’s Phule-Ambedkarite feminist pedagogy, and her institutional practices at the Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women’s Studies Centre (Pune), which proved foundational to her overall work. In this essay, we discuss her teaching-learning practices of the Women’s Studies classroom in the state university, that recognizes, analyses and interrogates the complex politics of knowledge, its production, distribution, and consumption. By locating herself at the academic borderlands, Sharmila challenged canonical knowledges and the prevalent hegemonic cultures of teaching and learning, by devising new curricula, classroom practices, and resources. Women’s Studies episteme for her, interwove the knowledge practices of both academia and activism. In this essay, we discuss her institutional practices of doing Women’s Studies that she developed by confronting internal differences along hierarchical lines, social inequality, and through the building and enabling of collective work. Now, at a time when the university system seems to be in flux wrought through transformations and new tensions, Sharmila’s insights and practices are critical for the struggle for radical equality.
description: Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023): Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies
Onset of Plasticity in Thin Polystyrene Films
Creators: name: Gurmessa, Bekele J.
name: Croll, Andrew B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polymer glasses have numerous advantageous mechanical properties in comparison to other materials. One of the most useful is the high degree of toughness that can be achieved due to significant yield occurring in the material. Remarkably, the onset of plasticity in polymeric materials is very poorly quantified, despite its importance as the ultimate limit of purely elastic behavior. Here we report the results of a novel experiment which is extremely sensitive to the onset of yield and discuss its impact on measurement and elastic theory. In particular, we use an elastic instability to locally bend and impart a \textit{local} tensile stress in a thin, glassy polystyrene film, and directly measure the resulting residual stress caused by the bending. We show that plastic failure is initiated at extremely low strains, of order $10^{-3}$ for polystyrene. Not only is this critical strain found to be small in comparison to bulk measurement, we show that it is influenced by thin film confinement - leading to an increase in the critical strain for plastic failure as film thickness approaches zero.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
title: Association Between Food Insecurity and Type of Food Pantry Visited Among Individuals in Atlanta, Georgia
Creators: name: Dennis, Kendall
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2024

description:
Objective: To assess the association between food insecurity and type of food pantry visited.


Design: Secondary analysis of cross-sectional study.


Participants: N=685 adults visiting a choice (n=347) or non-choice pantry (n=338) in Atlanta, GA.


Main Outcome Measure: Type of pantry was the dependent variable. Food security status was the independent variable, assessed using the 18-item Household Food Security Survey Module.


Analysis: Chi-square and Mann-Whitney U tests used to compare variables. Adjusted multivariable logistic regression models developed based on results from bivariate analysis.


Results: Overall, participants were 60 years (IQR: 51-68), majority were female (75.3%), Black (68.3%), and 53.6% were experiencing food insecurity. Participants visiting choice pantries were younger [58 years (IQR: 48-66) vs. 63 years (IQR: 55-69)], had lower participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (35.5% vs 42.9%), and higher rates of food insecurity (59.7% vs 47.3%) (p<0.05). The association between food insecurity and pantry type was not significant after adjusting for all covariates (OR = 1.44 [95% CI = 0.97  2.13], p=0.07).


Conclusion and Implications: Food insecurity was not a factor that influenced type of pantry visited, however, age, income, and proximity to home address were. Studies in other geographic regions are needed to further explore these factors.
HERschel Observations of Edge-on Spirals (HEROES). III. Dust energy balance study of IC 2531
Creators: name: Mosenkov, Aleksandr V.
name: Allaert, Flor
name: Baes, Maarten
name: Bianchi, Simone
name: Camps, Peter
name: De Geyter, Gert
name: De Looze, Ilse
name: Fritz, Jacopo
name: Gentile, Gianfranco
name: Hughes, Thomas M.
name: Lewis, Fraser
name: Verstappen, Joris
name: Verstocken, Sam
name: Viaene, Sébastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dust energy balance for the edge-on galaxy IC 2531, one of the seven galaxies in the HEROES sample. We perform a state-of-the-art radiative transfer modelling based, for the first time, on a set of optical and near-infrared galaxy images. We show that taking into account near-infrared imaging in the modelling significantly improves the constraints on the retrieved parameters of the dust content. We confirm the result from previous studies that including a young stellar population in the modelling is important for explaining the observed stellar energy distribution. However, the discrepancy between the observed and modelled thermal emission at far-infrared wavelengths, the so-called dust energy balance problem, is still present: the model underestimates the observed fluxes by a factor of about two. We compare two different dust models, and find that dust parameters and thus the spectral energy distribution in the infrared domain are sensitive to the adopted dust model. In general, the THEMIS model reproduces the observed emission in the infrared wavelength domain better than the popular Zubko et al. BARE-GR-S model. Our study of IC 2531 is a pilot case for detailed and uniform radiative transfer modelling of the entire HEROES sample, which will shed more light on the strength and origins of the dust energy balance problem.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
NMR signal for particles diffusing under potentials: From path integrals and numerical methods to a new model of diffusion anisotropy
Creators: name: Yolcu, Cem
name: Memiç, Muhammet
name: Şimşek, Kadir
name: Westin, Carl-Fredrik
name: Özarslan, Evren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the influence of diffusion on NMR experiments when the molecules undergo random motion under the influence of a force field, and place special emphasis on parabolic (Hookean) potentials. To this end, the problem is studied using path integral methods. Explicit relationships are derived for commonly employed gradient waveforms involving pulsed and oscillating gradients. The Bloch-Torrey equation, describing the temporal evolution of magnetization, is modified by incorporating potentials. A general solution to this equation is obtained for the case of parabolic potential by adopting the multiple correlation function (MCF) formalism, which has been used in the past to quantify the effects of restricted diffusion. Both analytical and MCF results were found to be in agreement with random walk simulations. A multi-dimensional formulation of the problem is introduced that leads to a new characterization of diffusion anisotropy. Unlike for the case of traditional methods that employ a diffusion tensor, anisotropy originates from the tensorial force constant, and bulk diffusivity is retained in the formulation. Our findings suggest that some features of the NMR signal that have traditionally been attributed to restricted diffusion are accommodated by the Hookean model. Under certain conditions, the formalism can be envisioned to provide a viable approximation to the mathematically more challenging restricted diffusion problems.
title: Die prognostische Reliabilität/Diskriminierbarkeit der aktuellen T-Klassifikation (7. Edition) bei Patienten mit operiertem papillären Nierenzellkarzinom – Ergebnisse einer multi-institutionalen Studie (CORONA; Collaborative Research on Renal Neoplasms Association)
Creators: name: Brookman-May, S.
name: Hutterer, G.
name: Kalusova, K.
name: Zigeuner, R.
name: Pahernik, S.
name: Huck, N.
name: Wagener, N.
name: Scavuzzo, A.
name: Wolff, I.
name: Zastrow, S.
name: Wirth, M.
name: Capitanio, U.
name: Klatte, T.
name: Shariat, S.F.
name: Krabbe, L.M.
name: Herrmann, E.
name: Mirvald, C.
name: Surcel, C.
name: Haferkamp, A.
name: Borgmann, H.
name: Vergho, D.
name: Riedmiller, H.
name: Ecke, T.
name: Musquera, M.
name: Stief, C.
name: Waidelich, R.
name: May, M.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Fragestellung: Arbeiten zur prognostischen Qualität des UICC Tumor-Node-Metastasis Staging Systems (TNM) beim Nierenzellkarzinom (RCC) werden entscheidend vom klarzelligen Subtyp dominiert. Die wenigen Studien mit isolierter Analyse von Patienten mit papillärem RCC (papRCC) liefern widersprüchliche[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 42. Gemeinsame Tagung der Bayerischen Urologenvereinigung und der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Urologie und Andrologie
Micrometer-scale ballistic transport of electron pairs in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 nanowires
Creators: name: Tomczyk, Michelle
name: Cheng, Guanglei
name: Lee, Hyungwoo
name: Lu, Shicheng
name: Annadi, Anil
name: Veazey, Joshua P.
name: Huang, Mengchen
name: Irvin, Patrick
name: Ryu, Sangwoo
name: Eom, Chang-Beom
name: Levy, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-mobility complex-oxide heterostructures and nanostructures offer new opportunities for extending the paradigm of quantum transport beyond the realm of traditional III-V or carbon-based materials. Recent quantum transport investigations with LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$-based quantum dots have revealed the existence of a strongly correlated phase in which electrons form spin-singlet pairs without becoming superconducting. Here we report evidence for micrometer-scale ballistic transport of electron pairs in quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ nanowire cavities. In the paired phase, Fabry-Perot-like quantum interference is observed, in sync with conductance oscillations observed in the superconducting regime (at zero magnetic field). Above a critical magnetic field $B_p$, electron pairs unbind and conductance oscillations shift with magnetic field. These experimental observations extend the regime of ballistic electronic transport to strongly correlated phases.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures; Also includes Supplemental Information
title: A review of COVID-19's digitalisation of built environment education
Creators: name: Mall, Ayesha
name: Haupt, Theodore C.
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde
Year: 2022

description: The coronavirus pandemic that unexpectedly took over the world in early 2020 has resulted in the rapid digitalisation of education in the built environment. The closure of higher education institutes due to the global shutdown instituted by authorities significantly impacted the academic realm. As a result, traditional face-to-face teaching and learning in engineering education programs had to transform to a completely online learning pedagogy. However, a seamless shift to an online pedagogy in a developing country such as South Africa was difficult as it exposed several challenges. These challenges have since become the ‘new normal’ in higher education institutes of developing countries including engineering programs. A comprehensive traditional literature review focusing on online learning due to the pandemic was conducted. This study provides an overview of the various pedagogical approaches adopted from research databases. The keywords ‘Online learning’, ‘E-Learning’, ‘Construction education’ and ‘Online pedagogy’ were used to search the databases. Findings from the study revealed that various pedagogies were implemented online to assist students to adapt to the online mode of instruction. However, it was further identified that students in developing countries faced technical challenges accessing digital work, challenges accessing online learning platforms, internet connectivity, adequacy of technology and challenges adapting to a student centred approach.
Beyond Reformism
Creators: name: Thube, Surajkumar
Publisher: name: Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies
Year: 2023

description: In this article, I investigate the intellectual contributions of Chhatrapati Shahu, who was the ruler of the princely state of Kolhapur from 1894 to 1922. Shahu was not just a prominent source of patronage for the non-Brahmin movement, but he was also an influential public speaker who shaped an alternative conception of Hinduism. Shahu attempted to reimagine Hinduism through the prism of the Arya Samaj and as this article explores, Shahu’s creatively resolved the balance between this alternative idea of Hinduism while simultaneously retaining a staunch critique of caste practices. Instead of identifying him as a ‘Sanskritizing Kshatriya’ agent, I seek to study Shahu’s gradual transformation of views on caste by calling him a ‘radical reformist’. Furthermore, I argue that Shahu’s public presence from 1890s to 1920 had a major impact on how the generation after Jotirao Phule imagined and responded to the discourses surrounding religion, identity and caste. Despite Shahu’s status as the Maharaja of Kolhapur, his speeches delivered all across Maharashta and beyond, were instrumental in channelling the movement’s trajectory during the early 20th century. Lastly, I suggest that even if Shahu’s methods seemingly imitated Brahmins, more so with the adoption of the Kshatriya seat of authority as a counter to the Brahmin one, his conception of this parallel authority emphasised the significance of equality and individual autonomy.
description: Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023): Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies
Universal Fluctuations of Single-Particle Diffusivity in Quenched Environment
Creators: name: Akimoto, Takuma
name: Barkai, Eli
name: Saito, Keiji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Local diffusion coefficients in disordered materials such as living cells are highly heterogeneous. Quenched disorder is utilized substantially to study such complex systems, whereas its analytical treatment is difficult to handle. We consider finite systems with quenched disorder in order to investigate the effects of sample disorder fluctuations and confinement on single-particle diffusivity. While the system is ergodic in a single disorder realization, the time-averaged mean squared displacement depends on the disorder, i.e., the system is ergodic but non-self-averaging. We find that the inverse Levy distribution is a universal distribution for diffusivity in the sense that it can be applied for arbitrary dimensions. Quantifying the degree of the non-self-averaging effect, we show that fluctuations of single-particle diffusivity far exceed the corresponding annealed theory and also find confinement effects. The relevance for experimental situations is also discussed.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
(Im)possibility of Winning the Untouchables
Creators: name: Kunjukunju, Anish Kizhakkentaparampil
Publisher: name: Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies
Year: 2023

description: The present paper discusses the fundamental dynamics of provincial-national politics and the struggle of the Depressed Classes for equality and political freedom through the correspondence between BR Ambedkar and E. Kannan of Malabar. This article examines the efforts made by the Depressed Classes to maintain their autonomy in the face of societal prejudices based on caste, exploring the contributions made by the Oppressed Classes to the process of reshaping political discourse in India. This paper also aims to situate the Ambedkar-initiated Depressed Class movement, the local Depressed Class movements, and Congress interventions within the political context of Madras and Malabar, shaped by British colonialism. The most perceptive and intellectual insights on caste oppression, ideas of autonomous anti-caste movement, dynamics of political space, and emancipatory potentialities from Ambedkar and Kannan confront Gandhi and the Congress, while providing concepts and viewpoints about how India's Depressed Classes could forge ahead and become recognized as a political force. This study investigates the power of resistance, mostly against caste oppression, and investigates the omitted histories of the Depressed Classes to demonstrate how they were key participants of the struggle, given the specificities of their social and political settings. The purpose of this article is to bring Dalits from the peripheries of South Asian history to the fore as intellectual leaders whose work rewrites and shifts the ideas and struggles of contemporary India, instead of merely being seen as regional political actors.
description: Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023): Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies
Body size, skeletal biomechanics and habitual behaviour: a bioarchaeological approach to social and economic change in the Neolithic and Copper Age central Mediterranean
Creators: name: Parkinson, Eóin
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Neolithic
Copper Age
Mediterranean prehistory
Italy
Malta

description: The central Mediterranean during the 4th-3rd millennia BC is traditionally considered a period of economic and social transformation between the Neolithic and Bronze Age, characterised by agricultural intensification, technological innovation, and the emergence of gendered society. This project directly investigates these social and economic processes through a bioarchaeological approach which investigates body size, as reflective of physiological and nutritional stress, and long bone skeletal biomechanics, as reflective of habitual behaviour. This research uses metric data derived from 3D models of humeri, femora and tibiae in 17 human skeletal assemblages from across the central Mediterranean and features comparative analysis with a large sample of individuals spanning the Upper Palaeolithic to Modern periods. The application of 3D scanning also enabled the use of novel methods in the analysis of fragmented skeletal remains. The analysis of body size documents a pronounced reduction in body mass and stature during the Neolithic, followed by a gradual recovery in the Copper and Bronze Ages. The results suggest that the transition to agriculture was initially challenging for early farming groups in the central Mediterranean, resulting in increased physiological and nutritional stress. The biomechanical analysis of the humerus found that the intensification of agriculture in the Copper Age was characterised by a wider range of manual behaviours, reflecting the introduction of diverse economic tasks and craft specialisation. The analysis of the humerus also found no evidence for sexual division of labour in the Copper Age, contrasting with the widely accepted models of social change that have been proposed for the period. The analysis of the lower limb observed a decline in robusticity following the Neolithic, indicating that Copper Age groups were less terrestrially mobile than Neolithic groups. The results of this thesis demonstrate the effectiveness of a bioarchaeological approach in exploring social and economic change in prehistory and provide a framework for future research on the Copper Age of the central Mediterranean.
description: Arts & Humanities Research Council Studentship, University of Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership Robert Gardiner Memorial Scholarship (Honorary Award)
Mansions of the Gods and Visions of Paradise
Creators: name: Sohoni, Pushkar
Publisher: name: Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies
Year: 2023

description: The culture of the Mughals left an indelible stamp on South Asia, particularly in court ceremonies, architecture, and visual arts. Many of the architectural elements that form their legacy were emulated by successor states to the Mughal empire. Some of the new state formations were merely splinters of the Mughal state, where the new rulers nominally claimed to be vassals. Others, like several Maratha states, had histories wherein they saw themselves as a resistance against the Mughals. However, while the empire was slowly being dismantled, every successor accepted the legitimacy of Mughal rule. In their quest to portray themselves as political descendants of the Mughals, they adopted the court culture and imperial architecture. Therefore, the Mughal political decline is also a period of cultural ascendancy. The most unlikely venue for Mughal architectural features was the Hindu temple, which had a long history of architecture, including its own logic and morphology. However, even the temples of the Marathas, possibly to keep up with the latest architectural trends and emblems of political power, and to enhance their prestige, borrowed Mughal architectural elements. Studies in the visual culture allow for nuanced counter-narratives, wherein the common binaries of religions, or political states completely dissolve into a single cultural matrix.
description: Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023): Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies
"When in Rome do as Romans do"
Creators: name: Sharma, Yaminie
Publisher: name: Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies
Year: 2023

description: The presence of Lahaulis in Kullu is well-documented within early colonial records as those “squatting seasonally in various parts of the town, as labourers and for trade” (Harcourt 1871: 244). In the 1970s, Lahaulis from the Swangla community in the Pattan Valley began to earn enough to invest in building permanent homes in Kullu. This paper highlights the complexities of urbanization in Kullu and the experiences of Swangla migrants, who negotiate their identities and place within the town (Kullu), while navigating traditional practices and cultural norms. The paper focuses further on the presence of Swangla migrants (a Scheduled Tribe from Himachal Pradesh) from the Pattan Valley of Lahaul in the town of Kullu and analyses the dynamics of urbanity in Kullu through their experiences. Metropolitan amenities and pleasant weather constitute a major pull factor for Swanglas. However, their aspiration to shed off traditional identities and prejudice is not achieved with migration as Kullu maintains its connections with rural heritage, reflected in the traditional values and cultural codes that are still adhered to by its inhabitants. The Swanglas respond to these dynamics in various ways, demonstrating their agency in posing their own identity and community in relation to the region. Hence, this paper investigates the dynamic position that Kullu constitutes as a case study of an urbanizing town that reinforces and upholds traditional practices of caste, as part of its lifestyle.
description: Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023): Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies
Region as a Mnemonic
Creators: name: Cybil, K.V.
Publisher: name: Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies
Year: 2023

description: This article contributes to the idea of the Republic in contemporary India. More specifically, it tries to contextualize the idea of the Republic within the locational frame of firka, an organized revenue unit of sixteen villages in erstwhile Malabar (Madras presidency), at the eve of the first Republic day of India, in 1950. The firka has, primarily, a mnemonic-function as a revenue division that was dissolved after 1956, after the formation of the new state of Kerala and the incorporation of the erstwhile Malabar district of Madras Presidency into Kerala. The article additionally explores the conceptual word Sardar, defining its associations with martyrdom, and in particular, with Indian politics. It deals with a discourse of death, that is materialised today as an event, with distinct political overtones, periodic demonstrations, rallies, meetings, and a cultural fete known as Sardar dinam that commemorates the death of K.C. Gopalakrishnan: a maashu (teacher), an Air Force veteran, a communist leader, and a volunteer captain of the Pouravakasajatha—the rally for Citizens’ Rights organized by the local branches of Communist Party of India, Beedi Workers Union and Harijan Sangh on January 26, 1950, in the firka. This article shows how Gopalakrishnan can be considered the first martyr among Communists in the Republic of India.
description: Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023): Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies
Negotiating Spaces for a Shared Social Existence
Creators: name: Bhaswati, Snigdha
Publisher: name: Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies
Year: 2023

description: This paper delves into the idea of space, primarily at the level of a constructed, physical space of naamghar. Naamghars are prayer halls made expressly for the devotionals of the Krishna avatara of Vishnu, popularised in the 16th century by Sankaradeva, a saint leader of Assam. In addition to the physical space of the naamghar, the paper deals with the spiritual space that encompasses Sankaradeva’s religious ideology referred to as Ek-sharan-naam-dharma, or Naba boishnab-baad (Neo-vaishnavism). This study is located in the region of Dikhowmukh, a group of villages in the district of Sivasagar in Assam. Within the ambit of the above-mentioned spiritual space, the paper examines the relationship between the followers of the Srimanta Sankaradeva Sangha, an organisation formed in the 20th century around the teachings of Sankardeva, and others, who follow Sankaradeva’s mode of Vishnu worship but are not members of the sankardeva sangha. The article further explores how these groups navigate the space of naamghar. Finally, the study also engages with how the people of the region in general, navigate the complex boundaries between and within these spaces to create a shared-existence. The naamghar and the Ek-sharan-naam-dharma are not restricted to being the backdrop for action to unravel, but are distinct entities that shape and influence ways in which people orient their everyday lives and social relations. The interaction between these two spaces in Dikhowmukh provides avenues for the study of implications for evolving social dynamics within the Ek-sharan-naam-dharma in the broader context of Assam.
description: Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023): Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies
From Ram Tirath to Valmiki Tirath
Creators: name: Snehi, Yogesh
Publisher: name: Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies
Year: 2023

description: This paper contextualises the emergence of the Valmiki Tirath as a major pilgrimage centre for the Valmiki community in contemporary Punjab. Its inauguration in 2016 has a longer history of contestation and association. Before it was officially established as a ‘Valmiki’ Tirath through an Act of the state legislature, the site was popularly known as ‘Ram’ Tirath, associating it with the legendary figure of Valmiki’s Ramayana. This was despite the site’s well-known legendary status as the abode of Sage Valmiki where Sita lived in exile with her two sons. Besides, most important shrines at the Tirath were under the control of non-Valmiki mahants, which was also the major reason for long-drawn political and legal contestation. However, the recent state recognition given to the site as a Valmiki Tirath needs to be placed within the broader contours of Valmiki social and political aspirations which can only be understood by paying attention to their demographic spread broadly in Punjab and specifically in Amritsar. This spatial context gets placed in the broader legendary association of the site with the sacred geography of Ramayana and the complexity of contemporary caste politics within which a variety of Valmiki castes—Majhabi, Chuhra, Bhangi, Balmiki—are placed. Its emergence, therefore, deviates both from the given template of the emergence of tirthas or as little traditions getting subsumed into dominant symbols.
description: Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023): Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies
Far from random: dynamical groupings among the NEO population
Creators: name: Marcos, C. de la Fuente
name: Marcos, R. de la Fuente
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Among the near-Earth object (NEO) population there are comets and active asteroids which are sources of fragments that initially move together; in addition, some NEOs follow orbits temporarily trapped in a web of secular resonances. These facts contribute to increasing the risk of meteoroid strikes on Earth, making its proper quantification difficult. The identification and subsequent study of groups of small NEOs that appear to move in similar trajectories are necessary steps in improving our understanding of the impact risk associated with meteoroids. Here, we present results of a search for statistically significant dynamical groupings among the NEO population. Our Monte Carlo-based methodology recovers well-documented groupings like the Taurid Complex or the one resulting from the split comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, and new ones that may have been the source of past impacts. Among the most conspicuous are the Mjolnir and Ptah groups, perhaps the source of recent impact events like Almahata Sitta and Chelyabinsk, respectively. Meteoroid 2014 AA, that hit the Earth on 2014 January 2, could have its origin in a marginally significant grouping associated with Bennu. We find that most of the substructure present within the orbital domain of the NEOs is of resonant nature, probably induced by secular resonances and the Kozai mechanism that confine these objects into specific paths with well-defined perihelia.
description: 11 pages, 15 figures. Revised to match version published in MNRAS
Set Regularities and Feasibility Problems
Creators: name: Kruger, Alexander Y.
name: Luke, D. Russell
name: Thao, Nguyen H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49J53, 65K10, 49K40, 49M05, 49M37, 65K05, 90C30

description: We synthesize and unify notions of regularity, both of individual sets and of collections of sets, as they appear in the convergence theory of projection methods for consistent feasibility problems. Several new characterizations of regularities are presented which shed light on the relations between seemingly different ideas and point to possible necessary conditions for local linear convergence of fundamental algorithms.
The serpin superfamily : evolution, conservation and the inhibition of papain-like cysteine proteinases
Creators: name: Irving., James A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Analyzing coevolutionary games with dynamic fitness landscapes
Creators: name: Richter, Hendrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Coevolutionary games cast players that may change their strategies as well as their networks of interaction. In this paper a framework is introduced for describing coevolutionary game dynamics by landscape models. It is shown that coevolutionary games invoke dynamic landscapes. Numerical experiments are shown for a prisoner's dilemma (PD) and a snow drift (SD) game that both use either birth-death (BD) or death-birth (DB) strategy updating. The resulting landscapes are analyzed with respect to modality and ruggedness
Trapping of Single Nano-Objects in Dynamic Temperature Fields
Creators: name: Braun, Marco
name: Würger, Alois
name: Cichos, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we explore the dynamics of a Brownian particle in a feedback-free dynamic thermophoretic trap. The trap contains a focused laser beam heating a circular gold structure locally and creating a repulsive thermal potential for a Brownian particle. In order to confine a particle the heating beam is steered along the circumference of the gold structure leading to a non-trivial motion of the particle. We theoretically find a stability condition by switching to a rotating frame, where the laser beam is at rest. Particle trajectories and stable points are calculated as a function of the laser rotations frequency and are experimentally confirmed. Additionally, the effect of Brownian motion is considered. The present study complements the dynamic thermophoretic trapping with a theoretical basis and will enhance the applicability in micro- and nanofluidic devices.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
The excitonic insulator route through a dynamical phase transition induced by an optical pulse
Creators: name: Brazovskii, Serguei
name: Kirova, Natasha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a dynamical phase transition induced by a short optical pulse in a system prone to thermodynamical instability. We address the case of pumping to excitons whose density contributes directly to the order parameter. To describe both thermodynamic and dynamic effects on equal footing, we adopt a view of the excitonic insulator for the phase transition and suggest a formation of the Bose condensate for the pumped excitons. The work is motivated by experiments in donor-acceptor organic compounds with a neutral-ionic phase transition coupled to the spontaneous lattice dimerization and to charge transfer excitons. The double nature of the ensemble of excitons leads to an intricate time evolution, in particular to macroscopic quantum oscillations from the interference between the Bose condensate of excitons and the ground state of the excitonic insulator. The coupling of excitons and the order parameter also leads to self-trapping of their wave function, akin to self-focusing in optics. The locally enhanced density of excitons can surpass a critical value to trigger the phase transformation, even if the mean density is below the required threshold. The system is stratified in domains that evolve through dynamical phase transitions and sequences of merging.
title: Thrombose-Modulation führt zu einer signifikanten Reduktion der Schädigung nach Hodentorsion im Rattenmodell
Creators: name: Boettcher, Michael
name: Mietzsch, Stefan
name: Schäfer, Hansjörg
name: Eschenburg, Georg
name: Fuchs, Tobias
name: Reinshagen, Konrad
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Ziel der Untersuchung war die Untersuchung des Einflusses von Thrombolyse bzw. Antikoagulation auf die testikuläre Viabilität nach Hodentorsion. Es hat sich gezeigt, dass sich während einer Hodentorsion Thromben ausbilden können, die möglicherweise die Hodenperfusion[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
title: Additive Erhaltungstherapie mit Gemcitabine nach primärer Cisplatin-basierter Polychemotherapie im chirurgisch therapierten fortgeschrittenen Urothelkarzinom: eine matched-pair Analyse
Creators: name: Kalogirou, C.
name: Svistunov, A.
name: Krebs, M.
name: Lausenmeyer, E.M.
name: Vergho, D.
name: Riedmiller, H.
name: Kocot, A.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Zielsetzung: Evaluation des Stellenwerts einer additiven Gemcitabine (GEM)-Erhaltungstherapie nach adjuvanter Cisplatin-basierter Polychemotherapie (CBP) im chirurgisch therapierten fortgeschrittenen Urothelkarzinom (UC) des oberen und unteren Harntrakts. Patienten und Methoden: 38 Patienten wurden[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 42. Gemeinsame Tagung der Bayerischen Urologenvereinigung und der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Urologie und Andrologie
Florestina Cassini 1817
Creators: name: Soto-Trejo, Fabiola
name: Schilling, Edward E.
name: Oyama, Ken
name: Lira, Rafael
name: Dávila, Patricia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Florestina

description: Florestina Cassini (1817: 11).
 Type species: Florestina pedata (Cavanilles 1797: 33) Cassini (1820: 156).
 Annual herbs, 10–130 cm tall. Stems erect, simple or scarcely branched, nearly glabrous to densely pubescent, hairs straight, strigose and/or glandular. Leaves simple or compound, when compound 3–5-foliate or biternately dissected, lower ones opposite, upper ones alternate, petiolate, blades ovate to linear, pubescent, hairs straight or strigose, with or without glandular hairs. Inflorescences terminal, dichotomous or corymbose, 5 to numerous heads. Heads terminal, homogamous, pedunculate. Involucres turbinate. Phyllaries in 1–2 series, equal to subequal, 8–13, green or purplish, margins scarious and often suffused with purple, nearly glabrous to densely pubescent, with or without glandular hairs. Rays absent. Disk florets 6–40, bisexual, white or purplish, tubular, 5-lobed, zygomorphic with two lobes longer than other three; tube and throat well defined, nearly glabrous to densely pubescent, with or without glandular hairs. Anthers 5, sacs rounded at base, apical appendages ovate to obtuse, without glandular trichomes. Style branches flattened, narrowly acuminate, tapered; stigmatic lines terminated by cuspidate appendages, penicillate or nearly glabrous, purple. Achenes obpyramidal, 4-angled, faces smooth or distinctly 3-ribbed, black, nearly glabrous to densely pubescent; pappus of 8–10 ovate-lanceolate scales, sometimes with thickened midribs protruding as a bristle or awn, scales with acute or truncate apex. Chromosome numbers n = 10, 12.
description: Published as part of Soto-Trejo, Fabiola, Schilling, Edward E., Oyama, Ken, Lira, Rafael & Dávila, Patricia, 2016, A taxonomic revision of the genus Florestina (Asteraceae, Bahieae), pp. 91-109 in Phytotaxa 268 (2) on page 94, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.268.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13666999
The regulation of cardiovascular function by nitroxyl (HNO)
Creators: name: Irvine., Jennifer Claire
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Thermoelectric Energy Conversion: How Good Can Silicon Be?
Creators: name: Haras, M.
name: Lacatena, V.
name: Morini, F.
name: Robillard, J. -F.
name: Monfray, S.
name: Skotnicki, T.
name: Dubois, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lack of materials which are thermoelectrically efficient and economically attractive is a challenge in thermoelectricity. Silicon could be a good thermoelectric material offering CMOS compatibility, harmlessness and cost reduction but it features a too high thermal conductivity. High harvested power density of 7W/cm2 at deltaT=30K is modeled based on a thin-film lateral architecture of thermo-converter that takes advantage of confinement effects to reduce the thermal conductivity. The simulation leads to the conclusion that 10nm thick Silicon has 10 times higher efficiency than bulk.
Planar cell polarity in the larval epidermis of Drosophila and the role of microtubules.
Creators: name: Pietra, Stefano
name: Ng, KangBo
name: Lawrence, Peter A
name: Casal, José
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Epidermis
Microtubules
Animals
Drosophila
Fluorescent Antibody Technique
Immunohistochemistry
Cell Polarity
Larva
Biomarkers
Epidermal Cells

description: We investigate planar cell polarity (PCP) in the Drosophila larval epidermis. The intricate pattern of denticles depends on only one system of PCP, the Dachsous/Fat system. Dachsous molecules in one cell bind to Fat molecules in a neighbour cell to make intercellular bridges. The disposition and orientation of these Dachsous-Fat bridges allows each cell to compare two neighbours and point its denticles towards the neighbour with the most Dachsous. Measurements of the amount of Dachsous reveal a peak at the back of the anterior compartment of each segment. Localization of Dachs and orientation of ectopic denticles help reveal the polarity of every cell. We discuss whether these findings support our gradient model of Dachsous activity. Several groups have proposed that Dachsous and Fat fix the direction of PCP via oriented microtubules that transport PCP proteins to one side of the cell. We test this proposition in the larval cells and find that most microtubules grow perpendicularly to the axis of PCP. We find no meaningful bias in the polarity of microtubules aligned close to that axis. We also reexamine published data from the pupal abdomen and find no evidence supporting the hypothesis that microtubular orientation draws the arrow of PCP.
Louis Rollier (1859-1931) an das Generalkonsulat Kolumbiens in Bern, Briefkonzept eines Empfehlungsschreibens für Hans Thalmann (1859-1930), Geologe
Creators: name: Rollier, Louis
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1923

description: Konzept, verfasst am 17.9.1923 in Zürich