cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
De Sitter String Vacua from Dilaton-dependent Non-perturbative Effects
Creators: name: Cicoli, Michele
name: Maharana, Anshuman
name: Quevedo, F.
name: Burgess, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a novel scenario for modulus stabilisation in IIB string compactifications in which the Kahler moduli are stabilised by a general set-up with two kinds of non-perturbative effects: (i) standard Kahler moduli-dependent non-perturbative effects from gaugino condensation on D7-branes or E3-instantons wrapping four-cycles in the geometric regime; (ii) dilaton-dependent non-perturbative effects from gaugino condensation on space-time filling D3-branes or E(-1)-instantons at singularities. For the LARGE Volume Scenario (LVS), the new dilaton-dependent non-perturbative effects provide a positive definite contribution to the scalar potential that can be arbitrarily tuned from fluxes to give rise to de Sitter vacua. Contrary to anti D3-branes at warped throats, this term arises from a manifestly supersymmetric effective action. In this new scenario the "uplifting" term comes from F-terms of blow-up modes resolving the singularity of the non-perturbative quiver. We discuss phenomenological and cosmological implications of this mechanism. This set-up also allows a realisation of the LVS for manifolds with zero or positive Euler number.
description: 22 pages + two appendices, typos corrected
Reconstructing women’s rights in Africa using the African regional human rights regime : problems and possibilities
Creators: name: Fagbongbe, Mosope Doris
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The struggle for women’s rights has gained momentum in the last three decades with recognition in an assortment of international, regional and national institutions and instruments. The African human rights regime constitutes one such framework for addressing women’s rights. Activating the mechanisms of the regime for the benefit of African women, however, poses an ongoing challenge. Available data indicates African women’s continuing vulnerability to human rights violations, with their already precarious situation exacerbated by factors such as the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in some parts of Africa. This dissertation assesses the African regional human rights regime in the context of the challenges African women confront in their attempts to access it. It acknowledges that the regional initiatives created to protect rights constitute a potentially valuable framework for addressing violations of women’s rights, highlighting some successes but also exposing the limitations. The dissertation uses the case of the right to health recognised within the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa to study the question of rights at the regional level. It applies a feminist Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) perspective to highlight the inclusions and omissions of this instrument in an attempt to construct a holistic, contextual and interdependent understanding of women’s rights in Africa. This dissertation argues that such a re-reading of rights is imperative in order to accelerate women’s ability to effectively mobilise for their rights using regional human rights mechanisms. It recognises the importance of the activities and influences of diverse actors to the implementation of rights. Building on the progress made by the regime, this dissertation identifies international and particularly regional and local actors, such as the African Union and its institutions, State Parties to the African Union, governmental and non-governmental organisations and entities whose activities, directly or indirectly, have implications for women’s rights. It analyses their actions and influences and offers fresh perspectives to enable these stakeholders to further the transformation of women’s situations using the regional human rights regime.
“I defend myself, and I often capitulate”: a diplomatic history of Napoleon III’s attempt to purchase the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
Creators: name: Dehring, Jackson
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Napoleon III’s attempt to purchase Luxembourg in 1867 and the subsequent diplomatic crisis that unfolded has been remembered by diplomatic historians as one catalyst of the Franco-Prussian War of 1871. However, the affair should be considered as a distinctive event in nineteenth century diplomatic history, rather than a prelude to an inevitable conflict. This thesis explores how Napoleon III’s bid to purchase a country was possible under contemporary diplomatic norms and addresses the geopolitical and personal motives for the attempted purchase. Though modern understandings of national sovereignty have become ossified, the Luxembourg Affair suggests historical understandings of sovereignty and nationality were more flexible. Through an analysis of French diplomatic sources, such as official and personal correspondences, treaties, conventions, and diplomatic protocols, this thesis argues that previous scholars have both minimized Napoleon III’s role in the event as well as the event itself. Napoleon III’s attempt to purchase Luxembourg, and the subsequent Luxembourg Crisis serves as a microcosm of the wider themes of the ‘long nineteenth century’. Such themes include the introduction of politics of nationalism into French foreign policy considerations, the creation & negotiation of the limits of the nation-state, and the mobilization of competing notions of sovereignty. The nation-states of France and Prussia negotiated the utmost limits of justifiably French or German lands and people during the nineteenth century. Representing both German and French national interests, the Luxembourg Affair helps to explain the emergence and solidification of the nation state by embodying a conflict between nation-states over a ‘borderland’.
Role of interface in ferromagnetism of (Zn,Co)O films
Creators: name: Godlewski, M.
name: Guziewicz, E.
name: Lukasiewicz, M. I.
name: Kowalik, I. A.
name: Sawicki, M.
name: Witkowski, B. S.
name: Jakiela, R.
name: Lisowski, W.
name: Sobczak, J. W.
name: Krawczyk, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that room temperature ferromagnetic response (RT FR) of ZnCoO films grown at low temperature by the Atomic layer Deposition (ALD) method is due to Co metal accumulations at the ZnCoO/substrate interface region. The accumulated experimental evi evidences allow us to reject several other explanations of this effect in our samples, despite the fact that some of them are likely to be responsible for the low temperature FM in this class of the material.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, 20 references
ALMA observations of Titanium and Aluminium bearing species in Mira
Creators: name: Saberi, Maryam
name: Khouri, Theo
name: Velilla-Prieto, Luis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars stand out as prominent contributors to the production of dust within our Galaxy. However, the intricate process of inorganic dust grain condensation in the outflows of AGB stars remains uncertain. Theoretical investigations, rooted in chemical and thermal equilibrium, have pinpointed aluminium oxides, titanium oxides, and silicon oxides as the primary contenders for serving as the nuclei around which dust particles coalesce in M-type AGB stars. Nevertheless, the mechanisms responsible for the remarkably efficient coagulation of molecules into dust grains remain poorly understood. In this study, our objective is to probe the formation of dust surrounding the nearby M-type AGB star, Mira, using finely resolved observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) across Bands 6, 7, and 8. Our analysis has successfully identified multiple spectral lines, including 46TiO, 48TiO, 49TiO, 50TiO, 46TiO2, 47TiO2, 48TiO2, 49TiO2, 50TiO2, AlO, AlCl, AlF, SO2, SO, SO2, SiO, and SiS. We have employed the rotational diagram method to meticulously estimate the column density and abundance of the majority of these detected species through multiple observations. We aim to provide a more precise characterization of the aluminum and titanium budgets within the inner outflow region of Mira, with the ultimate goal of shedding light on the intricate processes governing dust formation in Mira's inner outflow.
Exploring Healthcare Professionals' Use of Narrative Mediation Approaches to Address Disclosure and Apology in the Aftermath of Medical Errors
Creators: name: Monk, Gerald
name: Sinclair, Stacey
name: Nelson, Michael
Publisher: name: Mason Publishing Group
Year: 2016
Subjects: Narrative Mediation, Disclosure and Apology, Aftermath of Medical Error, Medical Error and disclosure

description: Despite the overwhelming evidence that suggests that patients, families and health care systems benefit from offering appropriate disclosures and apologies to patients and families following the aftermath of medical errors, few health care organizations in the U.S. invest in providing systemic training in disclosure and apology. Using a narrative analysis this paper explores the cultural barriers in the United States healthcare environment that impede health care providers from engaging in restorative conversations with patients and families when things go wrong. The paper identifies a handful of programs and models that provide disclosure and apology training and argues for the unique contributions of narrative mediation to assist health care professionals to disclose adverse events to patients and families to restore trust.
description: Narrative and Conflict: Explorations in Theory and Practice, Vol 3, No 1
Ultrametric skeletons
Creators: name: Mendel, Manor
name: Naor, Assaf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that for every $ε\in (0,1)$ there exists $C_ε\in (0,\infty)$ with the following property. If $(X,d)$ is a compact metric space and $μ$ is a Borel probability measure on $X$ then there exists a compact subset $S\subseteq X$ that embeds into an ultrametric space with distortion $O(1/ε)$, and a probability measure $ν$ supported on $S$ satisfying $ν(B_d(x,r))\le (μ(B_d(x,C_εr))^{1-ε}$ for all $x\in X$ and $r\in (0,\infty)$. The dependence of the distortion on $ε$ is sharp. We discuss an extension of this statement to multiple measures, as well as how it implies Talagrand's majorizing measures theorem.
description: typos fixed
Overcoming intractability : identity and intergroup reconciliation in transitional justice
Creators: name: Aiken, Nevin Thomas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Drawing upon an interdisciplinary synthesis of literature from political science, social psychology, and peace and conflict studies, this dissertation seeks to construct a theoretical framework capable of tracing the complex linkages between identity, transitional justice, and intergroup reconciliation in the post-conflict environments of deeply divided societies. An innovative ‘social learning’ model of this complex interrelationship is introduced, one which suggests that transitional justice strategies will be most successful in promoting intergroup reconciliation to the degree that they are able to catalyze crucial processes of instrumental, socioemotional, and distributive learning amongst former antagonists by promoting contact, dialogue, truth, justice, and the amelioration of structural and material inequalities – all factors identified in existing scholarship as necessary, if not sufficient, conditions for post-conflict reconciliation in divided societies. Employing a methodology of theoretically oriented systematic process analysis, this social learning model is tested through a critical examination of the very different transitional justice approaches adopted in South Africa and Northern Ireland. In South Africa, transitional justice centered on the highly regarded Truth and Reconciliation Commission, designed to address apartheid-era abuses committed between black and white South Africans. In Northern Ireland, a much more ‘decentralized’ approach has combined discrete government programs with an array of ‘bottom-up’ civil society initiatives to deal with the legacy of violence between Nationalist and Unionist communities committed during the ‘Troubles.’ Through extensive desk research and four months of qualitative field research conducted in 2008 (which included 85 in-depth expert interviews), suggestive evidence is found to support the underlying supposition that, at least in deeply divided societies, the causal relationship between transitional justice and reconciliation remains heavily mediated by the politics of identity. More specifically, in both Northern Ireland and South Africa, the transitional justice strategies employed appear to have been successful in contributing to post-conflict reconciliation to the extent to which they have been able to successfully promote a combination of the instrumental, socioemotional, and distributive forms of learning identified in the theoretical model. This study concludes by considering the policy implications of this analysis for ‘best practices’ in the design of future transitional justice strategies in deeply divided societies.
Faith, Politics, and the Parable of the Kosher Deli: Explorations of Narrative in a Congressional Hearing
Creators: name: Kraut, Joshua
Publisher: name: Mason Publishing Group
Year: 2016
Subjects: narrative, politics, religion, conflict, healthcare, positioning

description: This paper takes a discourse analytic approach in exploring how a short narrative, delivered in the testimony of a panel-witness during a 2011 US congressional hearing investigating potential violations of religious liberty in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as “Obamacare”), shapes and reflects the larger political conflict over the legislation.  Exploring the so-called “parable of the kosher deli” from a structuralist, functionalist, and post-structuralist perspective reveals several key elements of how narratives can function in such a context.  The choice of genre not only facilitates communication via a culturally familiar structure, but also positions the communicator reflexively, and in strategic fashion.  This choice also provides an efficient means for glossing over the adversary’s most significant concerns: because parables are abstractions meant to reflect back on real situations, one can choose which elements to incorporate, and which to ignore about those situations in one’s interpretation.

            Additionally, I observe how the parable is an effective means for positioning an opposing side (Davies and Harré, 1990), as the narrative takes aim at not only the government, positioned as an illegitimate disciplinarian, and an inappropriate judge, but also at advocates of the legislation generally, characterized as “off-topic” or else blind to the most important issue.  Finally, from a post-structuralist perspective, I note that the narrative, reflecting the general stance of the majority members of committee overseeing the hearing, construes the opposing side as a “generalized other” (Benhabib, 1992), ignoring the role of individual experience, needs, motivations, and desires in the attempt to make a case for broader exemptions to the proposed legislation.  Such a move short-circuited any possibility of “elaboration” (Cobb, 2006) in which both sides might have worked toward a mutually agreeable narrative which contained both of the moral perspectives presented.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

I would like to thank Sara Cobb as well as the editor and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments on earlier versions of this manuscript.
description: Narrative and Conflict: Explorations in Theory and Practice, Vol 3, No 1
Supplementary Material from A statistical theory of the strength of epidemics. An application to the Italian COVID-19 case
Creators: name: Pisano, Gabriele
name: Royer-Carfagni, Gianni
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30399 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 29903 Medical Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With reference to the Italian COVID-19 case, these tables record the numerical values that correspond to the data used in the article, as well as the results obtained from their manipulation on the basis of the proposed theory.
title: Figura rerum: 'the pattern of the glory': the theological contributions of Charles Williams
Creators: name: Blair, Paul S.
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2014

description: This thesis seeks to show that Charles Williams makes a significant contribution to theology, and it demonstrates the nature of that contribution. A pattern of theological themes centering on the Incarnation, emphasizing the humanity of Christ, is repeated throughout his works. For Williams, human beings are images of the coinherent Godhead. His theological anthropology further develops through his understanding of imaging, as shown for instance in the Incarnation, and in Dante’s characterization of Beatrice as a God bearer. His view of images is built from Coleridge’s understanding of the nature of a symbol. This picture of imaging is widely applied, first and foremost to relationships of love, seen as potential incarnate images of grace. Williams seeks to extend his picture to all relationships and, further, to whatever man must do to go beyond himself to an encounter with God. He believes that man is responsible for his brother, in practice by bearing his brother’s burdens, with substitutionary acts of vicarious love. A further part of his thinking then views people as living in coinherent relationships, and the universe as a web of coinherent relations. He draws his examples of natural coinherent relations from the world of commerce with its exchange and substitution of labors and from the child living within its mother, and builds a picture of what he calls the City, a broader coinherent society. Coinherence begins and flows from the Trinity and the Incarnation and then is found in relationships between God and man: in the Church, in the future City of God, and in all Creation. The Fall brings about the breakdown of the coinherence of God and man and man and man, and that breakdown is a central characteristic of sin. Williams believes that a regenerated coinherence in Christ brings about a renewal of mankind.
Rewriting Institutional Narratives to Make Amends:  The French National Railroads (SNCF)
Creators: name: Federman, Sarah
Publisher: name: Mason Publishing Group
Year: 2016
Subjects: narrative, conflict, transitional justice, reconcilation

description: In 1940, France, threatened with total annexation by Nazi Germany, signed an armistice agreement with Germany that placed the French government in Vichy France and divided the country into an occupied and unoccupied zone. The Armistice also requisitioned the rolling stock of the SNCF—French National Railways—which became a significant arm in the German effort, transporting soldiers, goods, and over 75,000 deportees crammed into merchandise wagons toward Nazi extermination camps. Between 3,000-5,000 survived. Of the roughly 400,000 SNCF employees, Nazis murdered a couple of thousand for resistance or alleged in subordination. Railway men who resisted the Germans also often has to resist their employer as well. After the liberation of French at the end of WWII, the company—not simply the brave individuals -- received France’s Medal of Honor for its alleged role in the ultimate defeat of the Germans. This medal, along with other postwar propaganda in the form of films and books, instilled a singular narrative about the company’s heroic wartime role. This narrative continued uninterrupted until the 1980s. Those who returned, along with the relatives of many who did not, increasingly challenge the company’s simplified wartime narrative. In the 1990s, lawsuits against the company began in France and continue through 2016 in the United States. In response, the SNCF made efforts to intertwine story of deportation with the company narrative of resistance. One key forum for this attempt was a colloquium held in 2000 at the Assemblée Nationale in Paris.

That colloquium is examined here through the lenses of three forms of narrative analysis: structural, functional, and post-structural. Each analytic frame illuminates different challenges to that colloquium’s attempts at revising history through altering a mystified institutional narrative. Through the analysis of this case, the author establishes the power of these analytic frameworks when examining problematic discursive spaces that hold in place master narratives and limit moral work.
description: Narrative and Conflict: Explorations in Theory and Practice, Vol 3, No 1
How To Start A War: Eight Cases of Strategic Provocation
Creators: name: Maddox, JD
Publisher: name: Mason Publishing Group
Year: 2016
Subjects: media; narrative; strategic narrative, propaganda; messaging; war; provocation; strategic communication; media;

description: A leader intent on starting a war must develop a compelling narrative for their domestic constituency and the international community.  For some, strategic provocation – defined here as the use of deceptive tactics to instigate violence against one's own state – has been a reliable means of initiating war under the guise of self-defense. Eight cases of strategic provocation reveal a basic pattern of its use, and some possibly unwelcome truths about state leaders' methods.  As international institutions increasingly scrutinize states' interventionist agendas, the use of deceptive narratives is likely to continue. Despite known indicators of strategic provocation operations, warning of such operations has not typically prevented warfare.
description: Narrative and Conflict: Explorations in Theory and Practice, Vol 3, No 1
Second wind of the Dulong-Petit Law at a quantum critical point
Creators: name: Khodel, V. A.
name: Clark, J. W.
name: Shaginyan, V. R.
name: Zverev, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Renewed interest in 3He physics has been stimulated by experimental observation of non-Fermi-liquid behavior of dense 3He films at low temperatures. Abnormal behavior of the specific heat C(T) of two-dimensional liquid 3He is demonstrated in the occurrence of a T-independent term in C(T). To uncover the origin of this phenomenon, we have considered the group velocity of transverse zero sound propagating in a strongly correlated Fermi liquid. For the first time, it is shown that if two-dimensional liquid 3He is located in the vicinity of the quantum critical point associated with a divergent quasiparticle effective mass, the group velocity depends strongly on temperature and vanishes as T is lowered toward zero. The predicted vigorous dependence of the group velocity can be detected in experimental measurements on liquid 3He films. We have demonstrated that the contribution to the specific heat coming from the boson part of the free energy due to the transverse zero-sound mode follows the Dulong-Petit Law. In the case of two-dimensional liquid 3He, the specific heat becomes independent of temperature at some characteristic temperature of a few mK.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
MEIGarage as an example of collaboration on long-living research software in different research communities
Creators: name: Ferger, Anne
name: Röwenstrunk, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: OxGarage (https://github.com/TEIC/oxgarage) has been used for a decade by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI, https://tei-c.org/) and was adapted by the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI, https://music-encoding.org/). In NFDI4Culture (https://nfdi4culture.de/) measures have been taken to achieve a more sustainable and adaptable code base.
These measures include a modularized, GitHub-based setup using CI for maven builds, dependencies and Docker images. Badges and checklists for FAIR software (https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org) were also introduced. Meetings were held for community building and sharing new developments and available documentation.
The process of creating additional "Garages" for other research communities is used to further evaluate the benefit of the measures and checking for necessary modifications.
description: Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) – 441958017 (NFDI4Culture).
Accelerating the convergence of path integral dynamics with a generalized Langevin equation
Creators: name: Ceriotti, Michele
name: Manolopoulos, David E.
name: Parrinello, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum nature of nuclei plays an important role in the accurate modelling of light atoms such as hydrogen, but it is often neglected in simulations due to the high computational overhead involved. It has recently been shown that zero-point energy effects can be included comparatively cheaply in simulations of harmonic and quasi-harmonic systems by augmenting classical molecular dynamics with a generalized Langevin equation (GLE). Here we describe how a similar approach can be used to accelerate the convergence of path integral (PI) molecular dynamics to the exact quantum mechanical result in more strongly anharmonic systems exhibiting both zero point energy and tunnelling effects. The resulting PI-GLE method is illustrated with applications to a double-well tunnelling problem and to liquid water.
Characterization of two pathological gating-charge substitutions in Cav1.4 L-type calcium channels
Creators: name: Heigl, Thomas
name: Netzer, Michael A.
name: Zanetti, Lucia
name: Ganglberger, Matthias
name: Fernández-Quintero, Monica L.
name: Koschak, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Cav1.4 L-type calcium channels are predominantly expressed at the photoreceptor terminals and in bipolar cells, mediating neurotransmitter release. Mutations in its gene, CACNA1F, can cause congenital stationary night-blindness type 2 (CSNB2). Due to phenotypic variability in CSNB2, characterization of pathological variants is necessary to better determine pathological mechanism at the site of action. A set of known mutations affects conserved gating charges in the S4 voltage sensor, two of which have been found in male CSNB2 patients. Here, we describe two disease-causing Cav1.4 mutations with gating charge neutralization, exchanging an arginine 964 with glycine (RG) or arginine 1288 with leucine (RL). In both, charge neutralization was associated with a reduction channel expression also reflected in smaller ON gating currents. In RL channels, the strong decrease in whole-cell current densities might additionally be explained by a reduction of single-channel currents. We further identified alterations in their biophysical properties, such as a hyperpolarizing shift of the activation threshold and an increase in slope factor of activation and inactivation. Molecular dynamic simulations in RL substituted channels indicated water wires in both, resting and active, channel states, suggesting the development of omega (ω)currents as a new pathological mechanism in CSNB2. This sum of the respective channel property alterations might add to the differential symptoms in patients beside other factors, such as genomic and environmental deviations.
Executive Functioning in Context: Measurement, Etiology, and Biological Embedding
Creators: name: Tomlinson, Rachel
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: executive functioning
subject: neuroimaging
subject: behavioral genetics
subject: neighborhood poverty
subject: parenting
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social Sciences

description: Executive functioning abilities measured early in life are known to predict important outcomes later in life, including academic outcomes, physical health, and symptoms of psychopathology. Unfortunately, a growing literature identifies a consistent relationship between socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood and worse executive functioning performance, and the mechanisms underlying this troubling relationship are not well understood. This dissertation is comprised of three studies that address several complications muddying our understanding of executive functioning and its relationship with disadvantage, including (1) how we measure executive functioning, (2) how we can disentangle non-genetic from genetic effects of parenting on executive functioning, and (3) how multiple levels of context may become biologically embedded to affect executive functioning. In Study 1, we find encouraging evidence for a novel computational measure of task-general executive functioning, Efficiency of Evidence Accumulation (EEA), as a transdiagnostic risk factor associated with externalizing psychopathology in adolescents. In Study 2, we employ a genetically informed design, find little evidence of passive or evocative genotype-environment correlation, and instead finding that the relationship between harsh parenting and child executive functioning is due in part to non-shared environmental influences. In Study 3, we find that neighborhood poverty is associated with executive functioning performance via inferior frontal gyrus activation during a go/no-go task, over and above other contextual effects. However, we do not find evidence for nurturing, supportive parenting as a buffer, nor for harsh parenting as an activator of neighborhood risk. The general discussion chapter of this dissertation highlights the implications of this research and important future directions.
Effect of truncation on TRPM7 channel activity
Creators: name: Xie, Zhuqing
name: Abumaria, Nashat
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Transient receptor potential melastatin-like 7 (TRPM7) is a key player in various physiological and pathological processes. TRPM7 channel activity is regulated by different factors. The effects of cleavage of different domains on channel activity remain unknown. Here, we constructed several TRPM7 clones and explored the effects of truncating the mouse TRPM7 at different locations on the ion channel activity in two cell lines. We compared the clones’ activity with the full-length TRPM7 and the native TRPM7 in transfected and untransfected cells. We also expressed fluorescently tagged truncated clones to examine their protein stability and membrane targeting. We found that truncating the kinase domain induced reduction in TRPM7 channel activity. Further truncations beyond the kinase (serine/threonine rich domain and/or coiled-coil domain) did not result in further reductions in channel activity. Two truncated clones lacking the TRP domain or the melastatin homology domain had a completely nonfunctional channel apparently due to disruption of protein stability. We identified the shortest structure of TRPM7 with measurable channel activity. We found that the truncated TRPM7 containing only S5 and S6 domains retained some channel activity. Adding the TRP domain to the S5-S6 resulted in a significant increase in channel activity. Finally, our analysis showed that TRPM7 outward currents are more sensitive to truncations than inward currents. Our data provide insights on the effects of truncating TRPM7 at different locations on the channel functions, highlighting the importance of different domains in impacting channel activity, protein stability, and/or membrane targeting.
X-Ray Emission From The Muscles Exoplanet Host Stars
Creators: name: Brown, Alexander
name: Schneider, P. Christian
name: France, Kevin
name: Loyd, Parke
name: MUSCLES Team
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Exoplanet host stars
Coronal X-ray emission

description: The MUSCLES (Measurements of the Ultraviolet Spectral Characteristics of Low-mass Exoplanetary Systems) project is a multi-spectral-region investigation of the high-energy (UV/X-ray) radiation fields of K dwarf / M dwarf exoplanet host stars and how this radiation will influence the evolution of the exoplanet atmospheres. As part of this project we have used Chandra and XMM-Newton to study the X-ray emission from ten (7 M dwarf and 3 K dwarf), nearby (within 15 pc), low mass exoplanet hosts. Typically, we have coordinated the X-ray observations with HST-COS FUV and ground-based optical spectroscopy of the same targets. Even though these stars are generally considered to be inactive we find evidence for significant X-ray variability for many of the M dwarfs observed. In this poster we illustrate the coronal properties of the stars using example light-curves and spectral analyses. The UV and X-ray data are crucial input  to the modeling the complete spectral energy distributions for exoplanet studies.

This work was supported by Chandra grants GO4-15041X and GO5-16155X and NASA XMM grant NNX16AC09G to the University of Colorado at Boulder. The overall MUSCLES project was undertaken by HST GO programs 12464 and 13650 and supported by STScI grants HST-GO-12464.01 and HST-GO-13650.01 . P.C.S. is supported by an ESA Research Fellowship.
description: Poster #265
On individual neutrality and collective decision making
Creators: name: Zhu, Mu
name: Wang, Shangsi
name: Xin, Lu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Other Statistics (stat.OT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We derive a simple mathematical "theory" to show that two decision-making entities can work better together only if at least one of them is occasionally willing to stay neutral. This provides a mathematical "justification" for an age-old cliche among marriage counselors.
description: The Mathematical Scientist, Vol. 37, No. 2, accepted and to appear in December 2012
Deep blue emitting N-heterocyclic carbene platinum(II) bisalkyne complexes for light emitting applications
Creators: name: Naseer, Maria
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) devices are found in digital displays including, television screens, smartphones and computer monitors. Their efficiencies needs further improvement to significantly reduce energy consumption. This necessitates the need for highly efficient deep blue emitters critical for display and solid-state lighting. Phosphorescent metal complex based OLEDs (PhOLEDs) have the ability to harvest 100% of the generated excitons, which results in 100% internal quantum efficiency (IQE). This is possible due to the presence of the metal centre which enables efficient intersystem crossing (ISC) due to the spin orbit coupling of the heavy metal, whereby the singlet excited state (S1) is converted to the triplet excited state (T1). The radiative decay from the T1 back to the ground state S0 produces phosphorescence. The aim of this research project is to synthesise a novel class of platinum(II) deep blue emitting complexes OLED application. Several platinum(II) complexes which consist of four monodentate ligands in a trans configuration were synthesised and characterised. Detailed photophysical investigations were carried out to understand the effect of the ligands electronic properties on emission wavelengths and efficiencies. Further results from the device fabrication and evaluation are expected to provide information on electroluminescence behaviour, stability, and device efficiency.
What is Publishing? (2)
Creators: name: Dolechek, Melanie
name: Farb, Sharon E.
name: Hall, Steven
name: Hemmasi, Harriette
name: Inglis, John
name: Macklin, Lisa
name: Oransky, Ivan
name: Parsons, Mark A.
name: Rodnan, Nancy
name: Tein, Andrew
Publisher: name: Open Scholarship Initiative Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: What do we mean by publishing in todayâ€™s world? What should be the goals of scholarly publishing? What are the ideals to which scholarly publishing should aspire? What roles might scholarly publishers have in the future? What scenarios exist where publishers continue to play a vital role but information moves more freely? What impact might these reforms have on the health of publishers? Scholarly societies? Science research? Why?
description: Open Scholarship Initiative Proceedings, 2016
Individual project on theme "Dactylis L." (MOOC: CompTech in biology)
Creators: name: Kotov Sergey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Данный кейс является результатом реализации индивидуального проекта Котова Сергея по теме "Dactylis L." в рамках онлайн курса "Компьютерные технологии в биологии" (автор – А.В. Ваганов) (https://stepik.org/course/60859/promo)
The environmental rights revolution : constitutions, human rights, and the environment
Creators: name: Boyd, David Richard
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis examines the growing recognition of the right to a healthy environment and its potential influence on public policy and environmental protection. It includes an analysis of 192 national constitutions, a survey of 500+ environmental law experts, an examination of environmental laws and court decisions in 86 nations, and a comparison of the environmental performance of nations with and without constitutional environmental protection using three comprehensive indices and three time-series. Constitutional environmental protection is widespread—incorporated in 140 national constitutions—including 86 constitutions that explicitly recognize the right to a healthy environment. Common law nations lag behind civil law nations in this regard. Environmental rights also are recognized in four binding international agreements covering 115 nations in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Constitutionalizing the right to a healthy environment appears to have significant legal consequences. In 72 of 86 nations studied, national environmental laws were strengthened and incorporated environmental rights post-constitutionalization. In 50+ nations—spanning Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa—courts have enforced the right to a healthy environment. Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Costa Rica have pioneered simple and inexpensive judicial processes for protecting the right to a healthy environment. Increasingly, international courts and commissions are applying environmental rights in human rights cases. In some nations, the constitutional right to a healthy environment appears to be contributing to: enhanced enforcement of environmental laws; a barrier to rollbacks in environmental law; greater government accountability; a level playing field with other rights; reduced environmental injustice; and improved access to information, public participation in decision-making, and access to justice. Preliminary analysis suggests a positive relationship between environmental protection provisions in constitutions and environmental performance. Nations with constitutional environmental provisions have smaller ecological footprints, rank higher on comprehensive indices of environmental indicators, and reduced emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases faster than nations without such provisions. Additional quantitative research is needed to further explore the impact of constitutional provisions on environmental outcomes. In conclusion, constitutionalizing environmental protection, particularly the right to a healthy environment, represents a potentially transformative act, capable of reconfiguring legal systems to place unprecedented priority on ecological sustainability.
Stability of planar fronts for a non--local phase kinetics equation with a conservation law in $D \le 3$
Creators: name: Carlen, Eric A.
name: Orlandi, Enza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A15, 35B40, 35K25, 35K45, 35K55, 35K65

description: We consider, in a $D-$dimensional cylinder, a non--local evolution equation that describes the evolution of the local magnetization in a continuum limit of an Ising spin system with Kawasaki dynamics and Kac potentials. We consider sub--critical temperatures, for which there are two local spatially homogeneous equilibria, and show a local nonlinear stability result for the minimum free energy profiles for the magnetization at the interface between regions of these two different local equilibrium; i.e., the planar fronts: We show that an initial perturbation of a front that is sufficiently small in $L^2$ norm, and sufficiently localized yields a solution that relaxes to another front, selected by a conservation law, in the $L^1$ norm at an algebraic rate that we explicitly estimate. We also obtain rates for the relaxation in the $L^2$ norm and the rate of decrease of the excess free energy.
Public History and Tourism – A Success Story?
Creators: name: Gautschi, Peter
name: Hodel, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Public History
subject: Tourism
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: use of history

description: Tourism is one of the major economic sectors, and history plays an important role in it. This article gives an overview of different aspects of the use of history for, about and by tourists. It discusses, on the one hand, the criticism of the use of history in tourism by scholars and, on the other hand, the history boom in tourism. Overall, it becomes clear that tourism is a great opportunity for public history that needs to be better exploited in the future.
description: + ID der Publikation: phlu_17231 + Art des Beitrages: Editorial + Seiten: 1 - 16 + Jahrgang: 11 + Medium/Art/Gattung: Public History Weekly + Sprache: Deutsch + Letzte Aktualisierung: 2023-06-29 15:30:00
The kernel and the injectivity of the EPRL map
Creators: name: Kaminski, Wojciech
name: Kisielowski, Marcin
name: Lewandowski, Jerzy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we prove injectivity of the EPRL map for |γ|<1, filling the gap of our previous paper.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures
Evolving Open Solutions (1)
Creators: name: Bilder, Geoffrey
name: Ghebre, Adyam
name: Kenneway, Melinda
name: Kiley, Robert
name: Kirk, Elizabeth
name: Murphy, Paul
name: Nicholson, Joshua
name: Potter, Peter
name: Salter, Matthew
name: Sander, Frank
Publisher: name: Open Scholarship Initiative Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: Are the scholarly publishing tools weâ€™re using today still the right ones? Is the monograph still the best format in the humanities? Is the journal article still best in STM? These products can be difficult to produce and edit, nearly impenetrable to read, andâ€”as in the case of clinical research informationâ€”they arenâ€™t necessarily the best-suited formats for capturing every piece of necessary information (like protocols and datasets in medical research) and showing how this information is all connected to other scholarship. What other formats and options are being considered or used? What are the prospects of change? How about the stakeholder universe itself? How are roles, responsibilities and expectations changing (and where might they end up)? Are we â€œsettlingâ€ on half-measures or on the best possible solutions?
description: Open Scholarship Initiative Proceedings, 2016
Understanding Health Information Needs and Behaviors in the  Context of Childhood Cancer and COVID-19
Creators: name: Ilic, Anica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Access to accurate health information is central to individuals' well-being and quality of life as it enables them to make informed decisions about their health. More research on health information is needed in childhood cancer and the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) to address the challenges encountered in these contexts. Although the two conditions differ, both can significantly impact the quality of life of those indirectly affected. The current cumulative thesis consists of three independent studies about different health information aspects related to childhood cancer and COVID-19. The first paper examined the self-reported information needs, perceived barriers, facilitators, and preferences about information acquisition of relatives of childhood cancer patients and survivors. The second paper explored the role of health literacy and COVID-19 information-seeking in caregivers' decision-making about COVID-19 vaccination of young childhood cancer survivors. The third paper investigated COVID-19-related information-seeking behavior in Switzerland, focusing on how individuals seek information and the determinants of their information-seeking behavior at an early stage of the pandemic. All three studies provided new insights in their respective fields and the main findings were discussed in a broader context.
description: + UNILU Diss 2023 F5 EL
Magnetic excitations in L-edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering from one-dimensional cuprates
Creators: name: Igarashi, Jun-ichi
name: Nagao, Tatsuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the magnetic excitation spectra of L-edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) from the spin singlet ground state in one-dimensional undoped cuprates. Analyzing the transition amplitudes of the magnetic excitations in the second-order dipole allowed process, we find that the magnetic excitations are brought about not only on the core-hole site but also on the neighboring sites. The RIXS spectra are expressed by the one-spin correlation function in the scattering channel with changing polarization, and the two-spin correlation function in the scattering channel without changing polarization. The latter could not be brought about within the so-called UCL approximation. We calculate these correlation functions on a finite-size ring. An application to the possible RIXS spectra in Sr_2CuO_3 demonstrates that the contribution of the two-spin correlation function could be larger than that of the one-spin correlation function in the σpolarization for the momentum transfer around the zone center.