cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Identidades culturales en literatura escolar: análisis de un texto escolar en Chile
Creators: name: Valenzuela Rettig, Pilar
name: Ivanova, Anna
Publisher: name: Altre Modernità
Year: 2020

description: El objetivo principal del presente trabajo es identificar y analizar las representaciones de identidades culturales presentes en los textos literarios de un programa de estudio del área de Lenguaje y Comunicación. El contexto de estudio corresponde al de sexto básico del sistema educativo formal chileno. La metodología es de carácter interdisciplinario, a través del análisis lingüístico y semiótico. Las principales conclusiones evidencian que el texto de estudio contiene una escaza variedad de representaciones de identidades culturales, primando las de identidades culturales nacionales chilenas, de autoría, mayoritariamente, femenina y de una edad de autores vinculada a la imagen de los y las abuelas. Luego, priman las ‘universales’ de carácter cultural occidental europeo, vinculadas a procesos de colonización, en desmedro de representaciones de identidades culturales latinoamericanas. Las ausentes corresponden a las identidades vinculadas a las culturas de Asia, Oceanía y África. Se evidencia la necesidad de considerar representaciones de identidades culturales variadas, con énfasis en las latinoamericanas, en especial de las culturas de los grupos migrantes, y la consideración de representaciones contemporáneas de grupos étnicos.
description: Altre Modernità, No 23 (2020): Regards francophones sur paysage français
Photoemission electron microscopy of localized surface plasmons in silver nanostructures at telecommunication wavelengths
Creators: name: Mårsell, Erik
name: Larsen, Esben W.
name: Arnold, Cord L.
name: Xu, Hongxing
name: Mauritsson, Johan
name: Mikkelsen, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We image the field enhancement at Ag nanostructures using femtosecond laser pulses with a center wavelength of 1.55 micrometer. Imaging is based on non-linear photoemission observed in a photoemission electron microscope (PEEM). The images are directly compared to ultra violet PEEM and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) imaging of the same structures. Further, we have carried out atomic scale scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) on the same type of Ag nanostructures and on the Au substrate. Measuring the photoelectron spectrum from individual Ag particles shows a larger contribution from higher order photoemission process above the work function threshold than would be predicted by a fully perturbative model, consistent with recent results using shorter wavelengths. Investigating a wide selection of both Ag nanoparticles and nanowires, field enhancement is observed from 30% of the Ag nanoparticles and from none of the nanowires. No laser-induced damage is observed of the nanostructures neither during the PEEM experiments nor in subsequent SEM analysis. By direct comparison of SEM and PEEM images of the same nanostructures, we can conclude that the field enhancement is independent of the average nanostructure size and shape. Instead, we propose that the variations in observed field enhancement could originate from the wedge interface between the substrate and particles electrically connected to the substrate.
An Offline Corpus for Legal Translations into Italian: a Case Study with a Land Lease Agreement
Creators: name: Giampieri, Patrizia
Publisher: name: Altre Modernità
Year: 2020

description: Offline corpora are claimed to be helpful in technical translations. This paper explores whether a corpus of Italian land lease agreement samples and the civil code can be supportive in legal translations. To this end, three experienced translators were involved in a trial lesson and assigned to translate a land lease agreement from English (L2) into Italian (L1). They participated in a webinar where they became acquainted with corpus compilation and analysis. During the training, they clarified linguistic doubts, had the possibility to verify attested usage of words, and they could identify collocational preferences as well as word frequencies. Thanks to the corpus analysis, the translators could improve the quality of their translation work and learn new terminology. The only drawback of using an offline corpus was perceived as lying in its time-consuming compilation and in the fact that in order to be representative, a corpus must be composed of a certain amount of reliable documents.
description: Altre Modernità, No 23 (2020): Regards francophones sur paysage français
Role of QseG membrane protein in beneficial enterobacterial interactions with plants and Mesorhizobia
Creators: name: Torres, Denise Pereira
name: Paço, Ana
name: Menéndez, Esther
name: Mateos, Pedro F.
name: Brígido, Clarisse
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Homologs of qseG gene (coding for the membrane protein QseG), along with the qseEF genes, are present in many Enterobacteriaceae; however, its role in non-pathogenic strains is still unknown. To fill this knowledge gap, we investigated the role of QseG protein of a plant-associated enterobacterium in the interactions with its legume host and in the benefits induced by this enterobacterium in the Mesorhizobium–chickpea symbiosis. Here, we showed that QseG of Kosakonia sp. MH5 is involved in the following processes: (i) the evasion of the plant immune system and (ii) the efficient colonization of chickpea root cells. Furthermore, these features are essential for the beneficial effects of this strain on the Mesorhizobium–chickpea symbiosis. This study demonstrates that the role of QseG is transversal to pathogenic and non-pathogenic enterobacteria and is a step forward to better understanding the molecular bases of plant–bacteria interactions established between legume and beneficial endophytic enterobacteria.
Errance, déracinement volontaire : Le cas de Akira Mizubayashi
Creators: name: Alves, Ana Maria
Publisher: name: Altre Modernità
Year: 2020

description: “C’est cet effort d’absence volontaire, de déracinement voulu, de distanciation active par rapport à son milieu qui paraît toujours naturel, c’est donc cette manière de s’éloigner de soi-même – ne serait-ce que momentanément et provisoirement –, de se séparer du natal, du national et de ce qui, plus généralement, le fixe dans une étroitesse identitaire, c’est cela et surtout cela que j’appellerai errance” (Mizubayashi 107-108). Cet extrait de Petit éloge de l’errance de Akira Mizubayashi, écrivain japonais d'expression française, nous place d'emblée dans le thème du nomadisme intérieur, évoquant, de la sorte, son choix délibéré pour l'errance, à rebours de la société japonaise. Errance qui est appréhendée comme recul identitaire et questionnement, mais aussi comme découverte de la culture occidentale. Dans ses écrits, l'auteur montre son affection, son attachement à la langue, à la littérature et à la culture française mais il signale, également, la relation plurielle, multiculturelle complexe qui existe entre nation, langue et identité. Notre propos est de souligner combien un auteur comme Akira Mizubayashi, qui refuse le conformisme et condamne la société japonaise, s'approprie une nouvelle réalité, faisant sienne une langue et une culture qui ne véhicule pas les représentations auxquelles il avait échappé brisant, ainsi, comme il le souligne, “les verrous des identités asphyxiantes” (Mizubayashi 89).
description: Altre Modernità, No 23 (2020): Regards francophones sur paysage français
CHRONIC INTERMITTENT AND BINGE-LIKE ETHANOL DRINKING PROCEDURES SEX-DEPENDENTLY BLUNT GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN IMMUNOREACTIVITY IN THE BED NUCLEUS OF THE STRIA TERMINALIS
Creators: name: Brewton, Honoreé W
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Excessive ethanol drinking is a major problem within the United States, causing alterations in brain plasticity and neurocognitive function. Astrocytes are glial cells that regulate neurosynaptic plasticity, modulate neurochemicals, and monitor other homeostatic roles. Astrocytes have been found to play a part in modulating excessive ethanol consumption. The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST)—known for processing stress and anxiety—is a brain region also implicated in modulating ethanol intake. Little is understood, however, about the role of BNST astrocytes in escalated ethanol drinking. In the present report, I utilized two separate animal models of excessive drinking: chronic intermittent ethanol (CIE) and “Drinking-in-the-dark” (DID). Following these paradigms, animal brains were processed through immunohistochemistry (IHC) and stained for glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). Collected data illustrated a sex-dependent relationship between ethanol intake and GFAP immunoreactivity (IR), primarily in males. These findings may implicate sex-dependent ethanol-induced changes in BNST astrocytes.
Dischi in lamina nella prima età del Ferro: il caso della necropoli di Chiavari
Creators: name: Busnelli, Selene
Publisher: name: Aristonothos. Rivista di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico
Year: 2020

description: La necropoli a incinerazione di Chiavari risale all’VIII-VII secolo a.C. Si analizzano in questo lavoro ventuno dischi in lamina con foro centrale, tre in argento e diciotto in bronzo, rinvenuti in diciannove contesti, di cui si da conto. I dischi meglio conservati rientrano nel ‘tipo Chiavari’, caratterizzato da una decorazione a ruota raggiata. Delle due varietà di decorazione individuata si propongono confronti morfologici e funzionali con altri dischi in lamina dell’Italia settentrionale.
description: Aristonothos. Rivista di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico, No 16 (2020)
Unconditionally stable, second-order accurate schemes for solid state phase transformations driven by mechano-chemical spinodal decomposition
Creators: name: Sagiyama, Koki
name: Rudraraju, Shiva
name: Garikipati, Krishna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider solid state phase transformations that are caused by free energy densities with domains of non-convexity in strain-composition space; we refer to the non-convex domains as mechano-chemical spinodals. The non-convexity with respect to composition and strain causes segregation into phases with different crystal structures. We work on an existing model that couples the classical Cahn-Hilliard model with Toupin's theory of gradient elasticity at finite strains. Both systems are represented by fourth-order, nonlinear, partial differential equations. The goal of this work is to develop unconditionally stable, second-order accurate time-integration schemes, motivated by the need to carry out large scale computations of dynamically evolving microstructures in three dimensions. We also introduce reduced formulations naturally derived from these proposed schemes for faster computations that are still second-order accurate. Although our method is developed and analyzed here for a specific class of mechano-chemical problems, one can readily apply the same method to develop unconditionally stable, second-order accurate schemes for any problems for which free energy density functions are multivariate polynomials of solution components and component gradients. Apart from an analysis and construction of methods, we present a suite of numerical results that demonstrate the schemes in action.
description: added more comments on reduced formulations and updated figures
STATE THREE (3): USAID NAPA FUNDED SOIL TESTING AND SOIL PRODUCTIVITY INDEX RATING AND DIGITALIZED MAPS IN NIGERIA.
Creators: name: BLESSING, AGADA
name: BLESSING, AGADA
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Nigeria
subject: Policy
subject: Agriculture
subject: Economics

description: The pilot study on soil testing and soil productivity index ratings of small holder farmers (to generate digitalized soil maps as a management tool in the country) began with Benue and Kebbi states. The third state Ebonyi, one of the eight focal states under the Nigerian Agricultural Policy Project (NAPP) and the Nigerian Agricultural Policy Activity (NAPA) was our next port of call.
JupyterLab Installation on Windows
Creators: name: Girgin, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The document explains how to install JupyterLab on Windows step by step. It starts with the installation of Python, then describes how to install node.js, and finally explains how to install JupyterLab. For each step screen-shots are provided, which helps the users to install software more easily.
Comparative analysis of protein and differential responses of defense-related gene and enzyme activity reveals the long-term molecular responses of sugarcane inoculated with Sporisorium scitamineum
Creators: name: Singh, Pratiksha
name: Singh, Rajesh Kumar
name: Song, Qi-Qi
name: Li, Hai-Bi
name: Guo, Dao-Jun
name: Malviya, Mukesh K.
name: Verma, Krishan K.
name: Song, Xiu-Peng
name: Lakshmanan, Prakash
name: Yang, Li-Tao
name: Li, Yang-Rui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Smut, the most important sugarcane fungal disease in China, is caused by Sporisorium scitamineum. Smut infection causes severe cane and sugar yield loss. Whole-plant resistance response is characterized by the expression of a large number of pathogenesis-related proteins and genes. Here, proteomic analysis by isobaric tag for relative and absolute quantification was conducted to identify differentially expressed proteins of two sugarcane varieties with contrasting resistance to smut, i.e. Yacheng71-374 (smut-susceptible) and GT29 (smut-resistant) following S. scitamineum infection. A total of 125 and 290 proteins were found differentially expressed after whip appearance in Yacheng71-374 and GT29 sugarcane varieties. Increased up-regulation of peroxidase and catalase and proteins involved in photosynthesis, calcium signaling, abscisic acid biosynthesis, and protein metabolism, were observed in GT29 as compared to Yacheng71-374, suggesting their potential involvement in smut defense mechanism(s) in sugarcane. The expression level of five important defense-related enzymes i.e. chitinase, glucanase, catalase, superoxide dismutase, and phenylalanine ammonia-lyase was analyzed by RT-qPCR. The expression of these enzymes was found enhanced considerably in GT29 as compared to Yacheng71-374 for up to six months following pathogen infection. These results provide new molecular insights into long-term responses of sugarcane to smut infection, a much over-looked aspect of sugarcane smut disease.
Le français haïtien et le « français commun » : normes, regards, représentations Résumé
Creators: name: Govain, Renauld
Publisher: name: Altre Modernità
Year: 2020

description: Une langue n’est jamais pratiquée de manière uniforme d’un lieu à un autre à l’intérieur d’une même communauté, voire d’une communauté linguistique à une autre. Ainsi, le français pratiqué en Haïti que Pompilus (1961), Govain (2008, 2009, 2013), Saint-Fort (2007), Fattier (2010) nomment le français haïtien (FH) est une variété de parler francophone propre à Haïti et différente à bien des égards des autres variétés de parlers francophones. Le FH n’est donc pas identique en tout point avec les autres variétés de parlers francophones, mais il existe entre toutes ces variétés une zone d’invariance qui garantit l’intercompréhension. Le français, arrivé dans l’espace qui va devenir Haïti aujourd’hui au cours de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle, va évoluer différemment des variétés de français qui vont se développer ici et là : le temps, l’espace et les générations agissent sur les pratiques linguistiques. Les spécificités du FH proviennent des normes endogènes qui sont facilitées par des expériences locales diverses, le créole haïtien, l’anglo-américain et l’espagnol. Elles se manifestent notamment au niveau lexico-sémantique, mais aussi phonologique, et dans une moindre mesure morphosyntaxique. Des différences lexico-sémantiques entre le FH et le français commun font naitre des faux-amis pouvant conduire à des problèmes d’interprétation chez les locuteurs de ces variétés. Cette contribution propose une brève description du FH à partir des productions d’étudiants de 1e année d’Université.
description: Altre Modernità, No 23 (2020): Regards francophones sur paysage français
Social and Cultural Context Modulate the Brain Representations of Emotion: An fMRI Study
Creators: name: Leshin, Joseph
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Emotions are thought to be situated in social and cultural contexts, yet neuroscience approaches to human emotion have mostly overlooked the role of context in shaping emotional brain states. Here, we propose that instances of fear and sadness, and their corresponding neural representations, are shaped by social and cultural contexts. Using fMRI, we assessed how social contexts (i.e., the presence or absence of others) and cultural contexts (i.e., participants’ exposure to Chinese vs. American cultural norms) altered brain activity associated with experiences of fear and sadness. We find brain states associated with fear and sadness are an interaction between the emotion category being experienced and the contexts in which experience occurs. We also find time spent in the U.S. predicted the extent to which Chinese participants’ neural responses during sadness resembled those of Americans. These findings suggest emotions—and their neural correlates—are highly situated phenomena with variable biological profiles.
Sociodemographic Attributes as Explanations of Tolerance Towards Immigrants in Germany: An Individual-Level, Multiple Regression Analysis
Creators: name: Block, Mallory Lesley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: The toleration of immigrants and ethnic minorities is a major societal issue in Europe. The existing literature on native tolerance towards immigrants suggests that personal attributes influence tolerance attitudes. Two main theories seek to explain the intolerance of out-groups: social identity theory (SIT) and realistic conflict theory (RCT). Researchers typically use SIT and RCT to explain tolerance; rather, looking specifically at Germany, I utilize the implementation of SIT and RCT to determine the explanation of intolerance that individuals of various sociodemographic traits are more prone to. I conclude that under both theories, labor market position, educational attainment, and regional domain all serve as strong explanations of native German attitudes of tolerance towards immigrants. More specifically, I conclude that under both SIT- and RCT-related tolerance, individuals who hold professional-level jobs, individuals who have obtained a college education, and individuals who live in cities demonstrate the highest level of tolerance towards immigrants.
Spline Path Following for Redundant Mechanical Systems
Creators: name: Gill, Rajan
name: Kulić, Dana
name: Nielsen, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 70Q05

description: Path following controllers make the output of a control system approach and traverse a pre-specified path with no apriori time parametrization. In this paper we present a method for path following control design applicable to framed curves generated by splines in the workspace of kinematically redundant mechanical systems. The class of admissible paths includes self-intersecting curves. Kinematic redundancies are resolved by designing controllers that solve a suitably defined constrained quadratic optimization problem. By employing partial feedback linearization, the proposed path following controllers have a clear physical meaning. The approach is experimentally verified on a 4-degree-of-freedom (4-DOF) manipulator with a combination of revolute and linear actuated links and significant model uncertainty.
description: Submitted to IEEE TRO (under review)
Ethè discursifs africains au bord de la Seine. L’exemple de Fatou Diome
Creators: name: Tarquini, Valentina
Publisher: name: Altre Modernità
Year: 2020

description: The analysis of enounciative subjectivity in Fatou Diome’s works allows us to focus on the contemporary French-Parisian literary landscape, and on the strategies of locating African writers, or of African descent, within the field. The use of stereotypes about the African writer, and of the exotic discourse emanating from the doxa, reveal that contemporary authors are forced to develop discursive and media strategies to negotiate a place of legitimacy in the French literary field that overlaps partly with the Francophone and worldwide field, but whose objectives and the public reception are not always shared. Fatou Diome’s case study enables discursive analysis on rhetorical ethè, and on how she manages the fictional and mediatical “I”. But it also sheds light on the use of “us” in her pamphlet Marianne porte plainte! that may refer to different communities. The identification of effective positions taken on by the author will then enable us to appreciate the potential for transformation with regard to the consecration and canonisation processes governed by the “center” institutions. The “African” character attributed to both authors and literary productions is the main issue. It remains to be seen whether and how writers who claim literary autonomy are willing to play the “difference” card to satisfy the public who is structurally close to the dominant discourse.
description: Altre Modernità, No 23 (2020): Regards francophones sur paysage français
I sigla nella cultura di Golasecca: il caso del comprensorio proto-urbano di Castelletto Ticino-Sesto Calende-Golasecca
Creators: name: Barbieri, Elena
Publisher: name: Aristonothos. Rivista di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico
Year: 2020

description: Il presente studio è volto a indagare e catalogare i numerosi segni grafici che ricorrono sulle superfici esterne, o meno frequentemente interne, dei manufatti ceramici della cultura di Golasecca, in particolare del comprensorio proto-urbano di Castelletto Ticino – Sesto Calende – Golasecca. I tipi di segni sono in parte presenti nel repertorio raccolto nel quadro del Progetto IESP. I sigla, che sono incisi, impressi, graffiti o a stralucido, sono presenti in tutte i periodi di Golasecca, specialmente nel IIB e testimoniano un diretto influsso etrusco.
description: Aristonothos. Rivista di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico, No 16 (2020)
La littérature de l’entre-deux et le regard sur la langue française. Enjeux linguistiques et identitaires dans l'oeuvre de Fouad Laroui
Creators: name: Rollo, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Altre Modernità
Year: 2020

description: Fouad Laroui, a talented Moroccan author who writes in French and at times Dutch, is an exemplar of the in-between – in fact, the in-between-several-cultures. Like many Moroccans, he is “neither here nor there”. His original work, notable for the author’s dual belonging as well as its highly ironic vein, embodies multiple facets of multiculturalism, which he experienced during his youth at the French “lycée” in Casablanca, his trips to the western world (he now lives in Amsterdam) and through openness to European cultures. His stories in French are enriched with diverse references, resulting in a sort of patchwork – a jumble of words where the French language is present, but it is coloured by other languages and literary reminiscences (Laroui cited in Martin & Drevet 107). This article reflects on the author’s relationship with the French language and culture, by analysing the sense of identity and search for identity of his characters whose connections with France, and the western world, are marked by conflicting feelings, bearing traces of the Maghreb authors’ own sense of being torn. Is French an instrument of oppression or emancipation? The article focuses on two representative works, “Le jour où Malika ne s’est pas mariée” (2009) and “Une année chez les Français” (2010), set against the complex, multilingual backdrop of Morocco as discussed in his essay “Le drame linguistique marocain” (2011).
description: Altre Modernità, No 23 (2020): Regards francophones sur paysage français
La questione della resa grafica dei numerali etruschi: appunti e considerazioni
Creators: name: Alvino, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Aristonothos. Rivista di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico
Year: 2020

description: Il contributo prende in esame lo stato dell’arte inerente alle ricerche sui numerali etruschi a partire dalla bibliografia ottocentesca di computo. Si propone inoltre di passare in rassegna il corpus disponibile dal punto di vista delle fasi cronologiche. In questo quadro viene esplorata in particolare la questione dei rapporti tra esigenze di rappresentazione dei numerali in quanto definizione di quantità numeriche e quella delle tacche utili ai sistemi di computo.
description: Aristonothos. Rivista di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico, No 16 (2020)
Marathon: An open source software library for the analysis of Markov-Chain Monte Carlo algorithms
Creators: name: Rechner, Steffen
name: Berger, Annabell
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we consider the Markov-Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach for random sampling of combinatorial objects. The running time of such an algorithm depends on the total mixing time of the underlying Markov chain and is unknown in general. For some Markov chains, upper bounds on this total mixing time exist but are too large to be applicable in practice. We try to answer the question, whether the total mixing time is close to its upper bounds, or if there is a significant gap between them. In doing so, we present the software library marathon which is designed to support the analysis of MCMC based sampling algorithms. The main application of this library is to compute properties of so-called state graphs which represent the structure of Markov chains. We use marathon to investigate the quality of several bounding methods on four well-known Markov chains for sampling perfect matchings and bipartite graph realizations. In a set of experiments, we compute the total mixing time and several of its bounds for a large number of input instances. We find that the upper bound gained by the famous canonical path method is several magnitudes larger than the total mixing time and deteriorates with growing input size. In contrast, the spectral bound is found to be a precise approximation of the total mixing time.
Un Paris littéraire sous les yeux d'un Arabe dans le roman de Salim Bachi, Amours et Aventures de Sindbad le Marin
Creators: name: Mariamou, Siby
Publisher: name: Altre Modernità
Year: 2020

description: This article deals with the figure of a foreigner who finds refuge in Paris in Salim Bachi's novel, Amours et aventures de Sindbad le Marin. The character manages to leave and follows the literary marks in this city he is discovering. The finding of the city is linked both to cultural and literary references. The streets travelled and drawn by the walker he is becoming. From this foreigner's eyes, Paris shows hidden faces and shadow, previous and nowadays migrants. Thus who remind the character that he is himself in exile in this capitale. He is having a particular relationship by becoming a Sorbonne's student to proof that he owns a cultural capital.
description: Altre Modernità, No 23 (2020): Regards francophones sur paysage français
Astronomy Communication in a Time of Confinement: #AstroatHome
Creators: name: Montes, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Astronomy Outreach
Astronomical events
Astronomy
Teaching
Education

description: During the confinement (in Spain from March to June 2020) the usual observations at the UCM (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) observatory (Observatorio UCM) was not possible. There were no public observations and was impossible to take pictures with the telescopes or teleobjetives. To solve this problem, I start to make observations from the window on me root at home. I go up with a scale install a small tripod my digital camera and start to take pictures of the more relevant ephemerides and share the images on internet in order a lot of people can enjoy from these events. These observations include: phases of the Moon at night and at day, the supermoon, timelapses, startrails and Moontrails, pass of the Moon close to Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, pass of Venus across the Pleiades, conjunction of Mars and Mercury, pass of the ISS and Starlink satellites, etc... and later when the confinement finish at the observatory but without public the penumbral Moon eclipse of June and comet C/2020 F3 (#NEOWISE). All the resulting images are available in several pictures’ galleries and on twitter accounts @DMontesG and @ObservaUCM and Instagram @dmontesg_fotos_astro with hashtags: #AstronomiaenCasa, #AstroatHome, and#AstronomiaContraElVirus, and part of @IAU_Outreach.
description: Observatorio UCM, Observatorio de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM): https://webs.ucm.es/info/Astrof/obs_ucm/obs_ucm.html
Ranking and significance of variable-length similarity-based time series motifs
Creators: name: Serrà, Joan
name: Serra, Isabel
name: Corral, Álvaro
name: Arcos, Josep Lluis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The detection of very similar patterns in a time series, commonly called motifs, has received continuous and increasing attention from diverse scientific communities. In particular, recent approaches for discovering similar motifs of different lengths have been proposed. In this work, we show that such variable-length similarity-based motifs cannot be directly compared, and hence ranked, by their normalized dissimilarities. Specifically, we find that length-normalized motif dissimilarities still have intrinsic dependencies on the motif length, and that lowest dissimilarities are particularly affected by this dependency. Moreover, we find that such dependencies are generally non-linear and change with the considered data set and dissimilarity measure. Based on these findings, we propose a solution to rank those motifs and measure their significance. This solution relies on a compact but accurate model of the dissimilarity space, using a beta distribution with three parameters that depend on the motif length in a non-linear way. We believe the incomparability of variable-length dissimilarities could go beyond the field of time series, and that similar modeling strategies as the one used here could be of help in a more broad context.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures
Microsphere-Based Local Delivery of Notch Ligand to Endothelial Monolayers
Creators: name: Griffith, Christian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: The vascular barrier separates blood from surrounding tissues and is dynamically regulated by adhesions between cells in the endothelium. The Notch1 receptor has recently been identified as a key regulator of endothelial junctional maintenance through Dll4-dependent proteolytic activation induced by fluid shear stress. However, translating this discovery has been challenging due to the lack of a reliable approach to activate the Notch1 receptor with high spatiotemporal resolution as well as the incompletely understood role of force in Notch1 activation. Here we use a microsphere platform coated with immobilized Dll4 to controllably activate the Notch1 receptor in endothelial monolayers. In preliminary studies we observe that Dll4-coated microspheres co-localize intracellular Notch1 with VE-cadherin and F-actin coupled with a rapid restriction in vascular permeability, indicative of the formation of the Notch1 mechanosensory complex. Future work involves using this platform to elucidate the role of force in Notch1 activation.
Reconfiguraciones de poder y políticas de Cooperación Sur-Sur en América Latina en la primera década del siglo XXI
Creators: name: Zapata, Sandra
Publisher: name: Revista Andina de Estudios Políticos
Year: 2018

description: El resurgimiento de la Cooperación Sur-Sur (CSS) en América Latina a partir de la primera década del siglo XXI se encuentra vinculado a las transformaciones de poder y la paulatina reconfiguración de las estructuras sistémicas del orden internacional. Tras un repaso histórico-crítico de los enfoques teóricos dominantes en la disciplina de las Relaciones Internacionales y los Estudios del Desarrollo, el artículo se propone analizar al “Sur” desenmarcándose del prisma eurocentrista que atraviesa su análisis en las ciencias sociales y examinar su auge en el ejercicio de la política exterior de los países latinoamericanos en tres ejes: a) cooperación económica y financiera, b) integración regional, c) cooperación técnica. Se busca responder la siguiente pregunta guía ¿Por qué resurge la CSS en América Latina y qué espacios, agendas y políticas produce su auge a partir de la primera década del siglo XXI? El argumento central que se sostiene es que la CSS trajo de vuelta lo político para cuestionar modelos tradicionales de desarrollo y generó espacios de concertación, institucionalidades y políticas públicas, que reflejan la consolidación de una masa crítica que reafirma las aspiraciones de autonomía y defensa del interés nacional de los países.
description: Revista Andina de Estudios Políticos, Vol. 8 Núm. 1 (2018): Identidad, Política y Políticas Públicas
Hasenburg und Kindhausen, die Burgen am Hasenberg
Creators: name: Heid, Karl
Publisher: name: Buchdruckerei Oscar Hummel
Year: 1957
Subjects: subject: 930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie
subject: 949 Geschichte anderer Teile Europas
subject: Dietikon
subject: Bergdietikon
subject: Burgruine
subject: Ausgrabung

description: Inhalt: Geschichtliches über beide Burgen ; Die Burg Kindhausen ; Die Hasenburg bei Gwinden ; Der Egelsee (Gedicht von Augustin Keller).
Modulation of transforming growth factor beta signalling pathway genes by transforming growth factor beta in human osteoarthritic chondrocytes: involvement of Sp1 in both early and late response cells to transforming growth factor beta
Creators: name: Baugé, Catherine
name: Cauvard, Olivier
name: Leclercq, Sylvain
name: Galéra, Philippe
name: Boumédiene, Karim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Transforming growth factor beta (TGF$β$) plays a central role in morphogenesis, growth, and cell differentiation. This cytokine is particularly important in cartilage where it regulates cell proliferation and extracellular matrix synthesis. While the action of TGF$β$ on chondrocyte metabolism has been extensively catalogued, the modulation of specific genes that function as mediators of TGF$β$ signalling is poorly defined. In the current study, elements of the Smad component of the TGF$β$ intracellular signalling system and TGF$β$ receptors were characterised in human chondrocytes upon TGF$β$1 treatment. Human articular chondrocytes were incubated with TGF$β$1. Then, mRNA and protein levels of TGF$β$ receptors and Smads were analysed by RT-PCR and western blot analysis. The role of specific protein 1 (Sp1) was investigated by gain and loss of function (inhibitor, siRNA, expression vector). We showed that TGF$β$1 regulates mRNA levels of its own receptors, and of Smad3 and Smad7. It modulates TGF$β$ receptors post-transcriptionally by affecting their mRNA stability, but does not change the Smad-3 and Smad-7 mRNA half-life span, suggesting a potential transcriptional effect on these genes. Moreover, the transcriptional factor Sp1, which is downregulated by TGF$β$1, is involved in the repression of both TGF$β$ receptors but not in the modulation of Smad3 and Smad7. Interestingly, Sp1 ectopic expression permitted also to maintain a similar expression pattern to early response to TGF$β$ at 24 hours of treatment. It restored the induction of Sox9 and COL2A1 and blocked the late response (repression of aggrecan, induction of COL1A1 and COL10A1). These data help to better understand the negative feedback loop in the TGF$β$ signalling system, and enlighten an interesting role of Sp1 to regulate TGF$β$ response.
From Poverty to Prosperity: The Path of Education among the Mississippi Choctaw
Creators: name: Harbour, Stark David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians knew early in their post-recognition existence that education was the key to future success for the tribe. From 1945 to 1963, the MBCI methodically built the framework for an autonomous school district that would provide students with a comprehensive curriculum that addressed tribal needs. The crowning achievement of this project was a high school that kept tribal members in the community for their secondary education. This analysis traces the creation of Choctaw Central High School from conception to completion and highlights the contributions of tribal leaders in making the project a major tribal success. Tribal Chairmen like Emmet York and Philip Martin helped develop a progressive school curriculum and the capital necessary to fund the school as an independent entity. Choctaw Central High School serves as a prime example of Choctaw self-determination and shrewd diplomacy to advance tribal education and the MBCI’s external image.
Samuel Archibald - Ogni casa doppia e duplice
Creators: name: Morena, Roberta
Publisher: name: Criando: la rivista di CRIAR
Year: 2020

description: Samuel Archibald, professore universitario e scrittore del Québec, è nato nel 1978 ad Arvida, città del Saguenay‒Lac-Saint-Jean costruita all’inizio del ‘900 per soddisfare i bisogni della compagnia Alcoa che vi ha installato un’importante fabbrica per la produzione d’alluminio. Ogni casa è doppia e duplice è uno dei quattordici racconti ambientati nella sua città natale, che hanno riscosso un grande successo sia in Canada che in Francia. Storie di notti passate nella foresta e di mattine difficili. Storie di ragazze innocenti e di bestie selvagge, di mancati omicidi e di mutilazioni rituali, di gite verso il nulla e di case infestate dai fantasmi. Storie ora tristi, ora divertenti od orribili, sospese tra la verità e la finzione.
description: Criando: la rivista di CRIAR, No 4 (2019): Miscellanea Uruguay e Dossier Cartonero 2019/I
MPEC 2023-F36 : 2023 DE3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 DE3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
The PyCBC search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence
Creators: name: Usman, Samantha A.
name: Nitz, Alexander H.
name: Harry, Ian W.
name: Biwer, Christopher M.
name: Brown, Duncan A.
name: Cabero, Miriam
name: Capano, Collin D.
name: Canton, Tito Dal
name: Dent, Thomas
name: Fairhurst, Stephen
name: Kehl, Marcel S.
name: Keppel, Drew
name: Krishnan, Badri
name: Lenon, Amber
name: Lundgren, Andrew
name: Nielsen, Alex B.
name: Pekowsky, Larne P.
name: Pfeiffer, Harald P.
name: Saulson, Peter R.
name: West, Matthew
name: Willis, Joshua L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the PyCBC search for gravitational waves from compact-object binary coalescences in advanced gravitational-wave detector data. The search was used in the first Advanced LIGO observing run and unambiguously identified two black hole binary mergers, GW150914 and GW151226. At its core, the PyCBC search performs a matched-filter search for binary merger signals using a bank of gravitational-wave template waveforms. We provide a complete description of the search pipeline including the steps used to mitigate the effects of noise transients in the data, identify candidate events and measure their statistical significance. The analysis is able to measure false-alarm rates as low as one per million years, required for confident detection of signals. Using data from initial LIGO's sixth science run, we show that the new analysis reduces the background noise in the search, giving a 30% increase in sensitive volume for binary neutron star systems over previous searches.
description: 29 pages, 7 figures, accepted by Classical and Quantum Gravity
Visual Survey of 18020 Objects from the 2MFGC Catalog
Creators: name: Mitronova, S. N.
name: Korotkova, G. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conducted a continuous survey of infrared and visual images of 18020 2MFGC galaxies which were selected on an automatic basis from 1.64 mln extended objects of the 2MASS XSC catalog based on the ratio of the infrared axes a/b>=3. This work aims to exclude "false" objects from the list of flat galaxies. Having observed more than 80 thousand images in different filters, we were able to detect 1512 such objects (8.4% of the total number). We found 23 galaxies duplicated in 2MASS, which have two 2MFGC numbers correspondingly, and three flat galaxies which are not included in other catalogs and are located close to three "false" galaxies. Galaxies with magnitudes fainter than K_s =13 mag compose the main part of the excluded objects. They show small angular sizes, low surface brightnesses and concentration ratios. The results of the work in the form of the 2MFGC table with notes are given in the astronomical databases VizieR, NED, HyperLeda.
description: 10 pages, 2 tables, 7 figures
The origin of the U shape of the color profile's galaxies
Creators: name: Raji, Samane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The color radial profile of a disk galaxy has a U shape, yet it is unclear why this is the case. The disk usually gets bluer at increasing galactocentric distance, irrespective of the galaxy type. Because of the low star formation in the bulge and the stellar halo, these regions are redder than the disk and it might cause the U shape for the color radial profile. But in some galaxies after becoming progressively bluer in the beginning, the color of the galaxies gets redder before the truncation radius. We studied the radial color profile of NGC1042 and aimed to find the origin of the U shape of the color profile.
Samuel Archibald - Antigonish
Creators: name: Morena, Roberta
Publisher: name: Criando: la rivista di CRIAR
Year: 2020

description: Samuel Archibald, professore universitario e scrittore del Québec, è nato nel 1978 ad Arvida, città del Saguenay‒Lac-Saint-Jean costruita all’inizio del ‘900 per soddisfare i bisogni della compagnia Alcoa che vi ha installato un’importante fabbrica per la produzione d’alluminio. Antigonish è uno dei quattordici racconti ambientati nella sua città natale, che hanno riscosso un grande successo sia in Canada che in Francia. Storie di notti passate nella foresta e di mattine difficili. Storie di ragazze innocenti e di bestie selvagge, di mancati omicidi e di mutilazioni rituali, di gite verso il nulla e di case infestate dai fantasmi. Storie ora tristi, ora divertenti od orribili, sospese tra la verità e la finzione.
description: Criando: la rivista di CRIAR, No 4 (2019): Miscellanea Uruguay e Dossier Cartonero 2019/I
The Effect of the Refugee Crisis on Anti-Immigrant Attitudes
Creators: name: Brand, Madelon
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: The refugee crisis of 2015 has caused a large increase in immigrant percentages in populations worldwide. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of the refugee crisis on anti-immigrant attitudes in Europe. In particular, to what extent do changes in the numbers of immigrants affect anti-immigrant attitudes? I seek to answer this question by comparing survey responses from the European Values Survey at a time before the refugee crisis—2008—with a time point after the crisis-- 2017. The main focus of this study is on personal anti-immigrant attitudes, by which I mean the effect of immigrants on an individual’s personal life. The findings of this study show, contrary to expectation, that the larger the increase of immigrants in their country, the less likely individuals will perceive immigrants as a threat to their personal life. This study also shows that the larger the increase of immigrants in their country, Western European individuals are less likely to perceive immigrants as a threat to their personal life and Eastern European individuals are more likely to perceive immigrants as a threat to their personal life. The number of immigrants in a country does not seem to have an effect on economic immigrant attitudes and cultural immigrant attitudes.
Asporin expression is highly regulated in human chondrocytes
Creators: name: Duval, Elise
name: Bigot, Nicolas
name: Hervieu, Magalie
name: Kou, Ikuyo
name: Leclercq, Sylvain
name: Galéra, Philippe
name: Boumediene, Karim
name: Baugé, Catherine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A significant association between a polymorphism in the D repeat of the gene encoding asporin and osteoarthritis, the most frequent of articular diseases, has been recently reported. The goal of the present study was to investigate the expression of this new class I small leucine-rich proteoglycan (SLRP) in human articular chondrocytes. First, we studied the modulation of asporin (ASPN) expression by cytokines by Western blot and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. Interleukin-1$β$ and tumor necrosis factor-$α$ downregulated ASPN, whereas transforming growth factor-$β$1 (when incubated in a serum-free medium) upregulated it. Similarly to proinflammatory cytokines, chondrocyte dedifferentiation induced by a successive passages of cells was accompanied by a decreased asporin expression, whereas their redifferentiation by three-dimensional culture restored its expression. Finally, we found an important role of the transcription factor Sp1 in the regulation of ASPN expression. Sp1 ectopic expression increased ASPN mRNA level and promoter activity. In addition, using gene reporter assay and electrophoretic mobility shift assay, we showed that Sp1 mediated its effect through a region located between -473 and -140 bp upstream of the transcription start site in ASPN gene. In conclusion, this report is the first study on the regulation of asporin expression by different cytokines in human articular chondrocytes. Our data indicate that the expression of this gene is finely regulated in cartilage and suggest a major role of Sp1.