cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Economical Empowerment Index of Posdaya as Participatory of Community Empowerment Programe in Indonesia
Creators: name: Muljono, Pudji -
name: Purwono, Joko -
name: Cahyadi, Eko Rudhy
name: -, Hamzah -
Publisher: name: QuiEdit
Year: 2019
Subjects: index of economic empowerment; community empowerment

description: In line with the increasing number of Posdaya as a forum for community empowerment in Indonesia, a review of Posdaya’s economic empowerment index is increasingly important. This study aims to: (1) Define the definition, concept and construct of Posdaya economic empowerment index; (2) Develope a measuring instrument of Posdaya economic empowerment index; (3) Analyze results and interpret the Posdaya economic empowerment index. Stages of activity in this study begins with a study of theories, concepts and determination of the construct of Posdaya economic empowerment index. Furthermore, the instrument of Posdaya economic empowerment index was developed. The study data were collected by using indepth interview, questionnaire and group discussion. Research respondents are from Posdaya economic cadres, empowerment experts and related stakeholders in Bogor City area, Bogor Regency, Cianjur Regency, Karawang Regency and Sukabumi Regency. The data is processed by descriptive statistical technique and Posdaya empowerment index analysis in economic field is done by using AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) technique. Based on the results of the study, the economic empowerment index can be grouped into three levels i.e individual level, group level and community level. The results showed that of the 15 Posdaya units studied, there were none (0%) which belonged to the category of Very Powerful; 9 units (60%) Posdaya including category of Powerful; 5 units (33%) Posdaya included category of Powerful Enough; and 1 unit (7%) Posdaya, including the category of Less Powerful.
description: Italian Sociological Review, Vol 9, No 1 (2019)
Michelle Perrot, Punir et comprendre. Entretiens avec Frédéric Chauvaud, Rennes (Presses universitaires de Rennes) 2023
Creators: name: Bretschneider, Falk
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Michelle Perrot, Punir et comprendre. Entretiens avec Frédéric Chauvaud, Rennes (Presses universitaires de Rennes) 2023, 128 p. (Épures), ISBN 978-2-7535-8973-5, EUR 9,90.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/3
The Mechanism of Lipopolysaccharide Inhibition of Glucose Production and Its Significance to Cancer
Creators: name: Raetzsch, Carl
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Nuclear factor kappa B (NFκB) induces insulin resistance in mammals, possibly representing a counter-regulatory response by which the host escapes NFκB-induced hypoglycemia. However, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. To identify the mechanism of NFκB-induced hypoglycemia, we measured hepatocyte glucose production and whole-body glucose utilization in mice. Inhibition of glucose production and utilization by lipopolysaccharide depended on toll-like receptor 4, myeloid differentiation factor 88 and NFκB, while tumor necrosis factor alpha and the insulin signaling intermediate phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase were unnecessary. Taxol, a widely-used cancer drug, also activates toll-like receptor 4 and several of its downstream intermediates, but its mechanism is unclear. To determine whether Taxol destroys tumors by decreasing glucose availability, we measured glucose utilization in vitro. Taxol decreased glucose utilization in MCF7 cells. Additionally, Taxol increased plasma adiponectin, a biomarker of low fasting glucose utilization, in treatment-responsive breast cancer patients. This biomarker could predict the effectiveness of Taxol in individuals.
Ergodicity and slow diffusion in a supercooled liquid
Creators: name: Bidhoodi, Neeta
name: Das, Shankar P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model for the slow dynamics of the supercooled liquid is formulated in terms of the standard equations of fluctuating nonlinear hydrodynamics (FNH) with the inclusion of an extra diffusive mode for the collective density fluctuations. If the compressible nature of the liquid is completely ignored, this diffusive mode sets the longest relaxation times in the supercooled state and smooths off a possible sharp ergodicity-nonergodicity (ENE) transition predicted in a mode coupling theory. The scenario changes when the complete dynamics is considered with the inclusion of $1/ρ$ nonlinearities in the FNH equations, reflecting the compressible nature of the liquid. The latter primarily determines the extent of slowing down in the supercooled liquid. The presence of slow diffusive modes in the supercooled liquid do not give rise to very long relaxation times unless the role of couplings between density and currents in the compressible liquid is negligible.
description: 33 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables
The Kantian Duty of Self-Improvement in the Context of Oppression
Creators: name: Fakhoury, Tamara
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Is Kant's duty of natural self-perfection a moral obligation for individuals who suffer the harms of oppression? In this paper I argue that it is. Understood in a Kantian framework, the project of self-improvement is neither impossible nor too onerous a task under oppression. Adopting the end of self-improvement is a requirement of self-respect and an accessible and morally worthy means of resisting one's oppression.
Cultural Study on Domestic Violence in Batak Community
Creators: name: Alesyanti, Alesyanti
Publisher: name: QuiEdit
Year: 2019
Subjects: Culture; domestic violence, community

description: Many practical conflicts rise within societies these days. These has caused some intrusion to the people life. Based on my observations and predictions, this happened due to a lack of understanding about the culture, behavior, personalities, customs, and regulation which govern us all. Human being has been equipped to function by upholding the certain cultures values. That values, which must be up hold in particular society, may not be considered important by other communities; worse, sometimes it is even considered a deviant act. Cultural values covered various aspects of social norms, that is taught to every individual within community that can serve as guidelines when performing various roles in different social situations. Social norms partly incorporated in relation to the other, and emerged as a social institution which guide the demands of society, or in accordance with the idealized way of life portrayed in the group. This ideal viewpoint forms sanctuary and corridor which must not be disrupted but need to preserve. This research aims to determine familial pattern adopted, wife status, and Batak culture which provides opportunities for violence against wives in Batak household, and to analyze forms of domestic violence in Batak community that lead to legal problems.
description: Italian Sociological Review, Vol 9, No 1 (2019)
Fluctuation Phenomena in Chaotic Dirac Quantum Dots: Artificial Atoms on Graphene Flakes
Creators: name: Ramos, J. G. G. S.
name: Hussein, M. S.
name: Barbosa, A. L. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the stub model for the Dirac Quantum Dot, an electron confining device on a grapheme surface. Analytical results for the average conductance and the correlation functions are obtained and found in agreement with those found previously using semiclassical calculation. Comparison with available data are presented. The results reported here demonstrate the applicability of Random Matrix Theory in the case of Dirac electrons confined in a stadium.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Lena Mörike, Nationale Geschichtspolitik. Der Versailler Friedensvertrag in der 100-jährigen Erinnerung in Schulbüchern aus vier Nationen, Bielefeld (transcript) 2022
Creators: name: Krapoth, Stéphanie
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Lena Mörike, Nationale Geschichtspolitik. Der Versailler Friedensvertrag in der 100-jährigen Erinnerung in Schulbüchern aus vier Nationen, Bielefeld (transcript) 2022, 276 S. (Public History – Angewandte Geschichte, 16), ISBN 978-3-8376-6231-3, EUR 45,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/3
Philippe Olivera (éd.), Jean Norton Cru. Témoins. Essai d’analyse et de critique des souvenirs de combattants édités en français de 1915 à 1928, Marseille (Éditions Agone) 2022
Creators: name: Cazals, Rémy
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Philippe Olivera (éd.), Jean Norton Cru. Témoins. Essai d’analyse et de critique des souvenirs de combattants édités en français de 1915 à 1928, Marseille (Éditions Agone) 2022, 1128 p. (Éléments), ISBN 978-2-7489-0442-0, EUR 23,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/3
Variation and Diversification in the Sexual Signals of Spadefoot Toads
Creators: name: OBrien, Rebecca
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Explaining the origins of diversity is an enduring goal in evolutionary ecology, and in few places is this diversity as striking as in sexual signals. One significant pressure driving signal design is the presence of competitors.  These competitors may be either of the same species and competing for resources such as mates, or of different species and competing for other resources such as signal space.  In my first chapter, I explore how changes in signal design, driven by reproductive character displacement, can be facilitated by changes in habitat.  In my second, I explore the role of signal design in determining facultative signal adjustment in response to interference from competitors.  I find that differences in ecoregion can cause variation in reproductive character displacement throughout a range of sympatry, and that signal structure plays an important role in determining how animals facultatively respond to signal interference.
Emily Marker, Black France, White Europe. Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era, Ithaca, NY (Cornell University Press) 2022
Creators: name: Kalter, Christoph
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Emily Marker, Black France, White Europe. Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era, Ithaca, NY (Cornell University Press) 2022, 276 p., ISBN 978-1-5017-6562-9, USD 39,95.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/3
Priorities in Theory and Practice of Contemporary Social Work in Russia
Creators: name: Mkrtumova, Irina V.
name: Kononova, Lyudmila I.
name: Vdovina, Margarita V.
name: Studenova, Elena G.
name: Potutkova, Svetlana A.
Publisher: name: QuiEdit
Year: 2019
Subjects: market economy; theory of social work; trans-disciplinary character

description: The article emphasizes a gradual transition to the postmodernist conception based not on the search of a unified complex method of solving the problems, but on a pluralistic approach to forming the theoretical and practical models for dealing with them through trans-disciplinary and risk management methodology, the method of resources activation, the method of creative development of resilience, etc. The research shows that the theory and practice of social work in Russia are gradually moving beyond the limits of social security programs based on the principle of meeting material needs. Instead, they imply formation of theoretical models and practical techniques facilitating self-implementation and independent life support of every citizen through activation of their personality potential. Further research will be aimed at the social protection of personal rights for a decent life support of a person and family under the modern digital society.
description: Italian Sociological Review, Vol 9, No 1 (2019)
The Desire for Children, the Children of one’s Desire. The Meaning of Medically Assisted Procreation and Technological Family Planning
Creators: name: Di Nicola, Paola
Publisher: name: QuiEdit
Year: 2019
Subjects: medically assisted procreation; reproductive rights; commodification of babies

description: The spread of medically assisted procreation (MAP) techniques promises to realise the previously denied human dream of planning and controlling one’s progeny. The new social imaginary features a disproportionately greater freedom of choice and decision-making powers for adults (parents), along with increased risks of genetic determination also given the extremely rapid developments in genetics. At the same time, this demand is fuelled by the presence of a booming private reproductive market which often employs commercial marketing techniques by promising couples and women not only that they can achieve their desire for a child but can make the ‘child of their desire’ – they can have the children that they want, when and how they want them. This article presents the results of an exploratory study conducted with a sample of 360 subjects aged between 25 and 45 who may or may not have not used MAP and examines their responses to a questionnaire. In particular, what lies behind the idea that technology and private fee-based services can supplant nature and public services in areas that they cannot reach? How widespread is the idea? What are the ethical, social and cultural implications at the root of the concept? How can this idea modify the sense and meaning of procreation? What level of freedom and rights should the baby be granted? The results of the research show that the sample is divided almost equally on the issue of MAP between those who acknowledge its potential but are aware of its associated social and cultural risks and those who highlight its potential by referring to rights-based reasons and money-based reasons.
description: Italian Sociological Review, Vol 9, No 1 (2019)
Innovative strategies to fight antimicrobial resistance: crowdsourcing to expand medical training
Creators: name: Kpokiri, Eneyi
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: We describe an innovative strategy to tackle the increasing threat of antimicrobial resistance. Many papers have identified decreasing interest in infectious disease training and there are few programmes to build interests in the specialty. We organised a challenge contest soliciting clinical cases to emphasize the role of clinical diagnostics and spur interest in infectious diseases.
title: The constitution of a community: Spatiotemporality, ‘race’, and state resistance in Liverpool.
Creators: name: Simon, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: If capitalism and the rise of the bourgeoisie emerged in Europe as Marx amongst others has suggested. Then this thesis will show how the symbiotic relationship between ‘race’, class, and capital – articulated as racial capitalism - can be exemplified within Liverpool’s Black community spaces. Liverpool has the oldest settled Black community in Europe thus offering this thesis the opportunity to analyze the first ‘Black space’ in Europe. Similarly, if England is essential to the development of industrial capital that accelerated the urbanization of the UK’s industrial spaces – Liverpool again offers a prima facie example par excellence in understanding how racial capitalism fuelled that development. Racial capitalism as a lens can also be applied to the development of mercantile capital, in terms of Liverpool’s legacy as the site of the great leap in relation to the transatlantic trade – a trade fuelled by a legacy of Slavery. The power this legacy brought to bear, shaped the UK's political approach in the development of Imperialism, and colonization and therefore influences the UK’s contemporary attitudes towards ‘race’. This study will show how the continuity of the psyche of colonial attitudes shapes the institutions and attitudes within Liverpool and beyond. Indeed, the decline of Liverpool, ensured the rise of a new breed of political actions at the forefront of the scramble for Africa, Asia, and the cadastral production of the ‘pink map of empire’, as the ‘reformed’ slaver families relocated their power bases to the capital. However, their legacy within Liverpool remains today and is revealed in all its insidiousness across this study. The concept of value – immaterial but objective - and its concatenation to contemporary articulations of Blackness will be exemplified through this study of spatiotemporality in Liverpool. Although the scope of achieving a complete oversight into such a complex and vast history tests the limits of what is possible in one thesis. This study’s greatest strength is that it makes an important contribution towards renewing a fresh engagement with the relationship between ‘race’, space, and capital, and as this study will show – articulated as the racial fix -, the centrality of this trialectic to the development of urbanization of capital has been totally underestimated to date, across debates of racial capitalism and beyond. This thesis presents a study on racial capitalism in the 21st century via the process of racialized space within urban development.
Lutzomyia longipalpis en Paraguay y la región del Mercosur: una revisión
Creators: name: Vazquez, Fatima
name: Moreno, Leticia
name: Brítez, Nilsa
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Biology
subject: Entomology

description: Este proyecto se enfoca en la revisión de la evidencia existente con relación a Lutzomyia longipalpis en Paraguay y en los países de la región del MERCOSUR
Matthijs Lok, Friedemann Pestel, Juliette Reboul (ed.), Cosmopolitan Conservatisms. Countering Revolution in Transnational Networks, Ideas and Movements (c. 1700–1930), Leiden (Brill Academic Publishers) 2021
Creators: name: Franchina, Miriam
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Matthijs Lok, Friedemann Pestel, Juliette Reboul (ed.), Cosmopolitan Conservatisms. Countering Revolution in Transnational Networks, Ideas and Movements (c. 1700–1930), Leiden (Brill Academic Publishers) 2021, 452 p. (Studies in the History of Political Thought, 16), ISBN 978-90-04-44523-9, EUR 130,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/3
Methodological Variation of Screening Programs for Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Caregivers of Infants Hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Murthy, Snehal
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: The objective of this scoping review is map the variation in approaches for implementing standardized screening for postpartum mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) among caregivers with infants hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Uncovering the Matter-Neutrino Resonance
Creators: name: Vaananen, D.
name: McLaughlin, G. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Matter Neutrino Resonances (MNRs) can drastically modify neutrino flavor evolution in astrophysical environments and may significantly impact nucleosynthesis. Here we further investigate the underlying physics of MNR type flavor transitions. We provide generalized resonance conditions and make analytical predictions for the behavior of the system. We discuss the adiabatic evolution of these transitions, considering both Symmetric and Standard scenarios. Symmetric MNR transitions differ from Standard MNR transitions in that both neutrinos and antineutrinos can completely transform to other flavors simultaneously. We provide an example of the simplest system in which such transitions can occur with a neutrino and an antineutrino having a single energy and emission angle. We further apply linearized stability analysis to predict the location of self-induced nutation type (or bipolar) oscillations due to neutrino-neutrino interactions in the regions where MNR is ineffective. In all cases, we compare our analytical predictions to numerical calculations.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures
Ariane Leendertz, Der erschöpfte Staat. Eine andere Geschichte des Neoliberalismus, Hamburg (Hamburger Edition) 2022
Creators: name: Bührer, Werner
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Ariane Leendertz, Der erschöpfte Staat. Eine andere Geschichte des Neoliberalismus, Hamburg (Hamburger Edition) 2022, 480 S., ISBN 978-3-86854-365-0, EUR 40,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/3
Faculty Calibration with Instructional Videos for Head and Neck Examinations
Creators: name: Carter, Brandie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The primary objective of this pilot study was to evaluate the effect of an online head and neck examination instructional video for dental hygiene (DH) faculty knowledge. It was hypothesized that the use of such a video would increase knowledge and enhance calibration. Of 24 DH clinical faculty invited to participate, (N=18) completed an online pre-test, instructional video, immediate post-test, and four month follow up retention-test. Results showed a mean pre-test score of 68%, post-test score of 76%, and retention-test score of 80%. Scores increased 15.7% from pre-test to post-test, decreasing 2.8% from post-test to retention. There was a statistically significant difference between years of teaching experience and lower pre-test scores (P=.012). The knowledge increase was retained over four months and neither faculty position nor years of clinical or teaching experience affected test scores. The instructional video increased the knowledge level of DH clinical faculty for head and neck examinations.
Height Estimation of a Blimp Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Using Inertial Measurement Unit and Infrared Camera
Creators: name: Villeneuve, Hubert
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Blimp
UAV
IR camera
IMU
GPS
Pose estimation
EKF

description: Increasing demands in areas such as security, surveillance, search and rescue, and communication, has promoted the research and development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as such technologies can replace manned flights in dangerous or unfavorable conditions. Lighter-than-air UAVs such as blimps can carry higher payloads and can stay longer in the air compared to typical heavier-than-air UAVs such as aeroplanes or quadrotors. One purpose of this thesis is to develop a sensor suite basis for estimating the position and orientation of a blimp UAV in development with respect to a reference point for safer landing procedures using minimal on-board sensors. While the existing low-cost sensor package, including inertial measurement unit (IMU) and Global Navigation System (GPS) module, could be sufficient to estimate the pose of the blimp to a certain extent, the GPS module is not as precise in the short term, especially for altitude. The proposed system combines GPS and inertial data with information from a grounded infrared (IR) camera. Image frames are processed to identify three IR LEDs located on the UAV and each LED coordinate is estimated using a Perspective-n-Point (PnP) algorithm. Then the results from the PnP algorithm are fused with the GPS, accelerometer and gyroscope measurements using an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) to get a more accurate estimate of the position and the orientation. Tests were conducted on a simulated blimp using the experimental avionics.
Search for the direct production of charginos and neutralinos in final states with tau leptons in $\sqrt {s} =$ 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: p p: colliding beams
chargino: direct production
neutralino: associated production
tau: pair production
tau: hadronic decay
chargino: mass: lower limit
p p: scattering
ATLAS
chargino: pair production
CERN LHC Coll
background
experimental results
13000 GeV-cms

description: A search for the direct production of charginos and neutralinos in final states with at least two hadronically decaying tau leptons is presented. The analysis uses a dataset of p$-$p collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb$^{-1}$, recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV. No significant deviation from the Standard Model background expectation is observed. Limits are derived in scenarios of $\tilde\chi^+_1 \tilde\chi^-_1$ pair production and of $\tilde\chi^\pm_1 \tilde\chi^0_2$ and $\tilde\chi^+_1 \tilde\chi^-_1$ production. Chargino masses up to 630 GeV are excluded at 95 % confidence level in the scenario of direct production of $\tilde\chi^+_1 \tilde\chi^-_1$ for a massless $\tilde\chi^0_1$. Common $\tilde\chi^\pm_1$, $\tilde\chi^0_2$ masses up to 760 GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level in the case of production of $\tilde\chi^\pm_1 \tilde\chi^0_2$ and $\tilde\chi^+_1 \tilde\chi^-_1$ assuming a massless $\tilde\chi^0_1$.
Las figuras de Job y María en las Memorias de Leonor López de Córdoba
Creators: name: Risso, Marcela
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: The Liturgy is a series of rituals performed in the church with the purpose of communing with God. At a time when men and women understood the world and their lives' experiences through the reading, listening and contemplating of the Scriptures, the liturgical calendar and Hours would have certainly guided their daily prayers. Many writers in the clerical and secular realms found a source of inspiration in the bible. Leonor López de Córdoba was not an exception and she impregnated her Memorias with liturgical undertones. This essay studies the juxtaposition of the suffering of Job with Mary's interceding role before God present in the backdrop of her autobiography. The allusion to the aforementioned biblical characters in the text acts as a rhetoric device that looks to convince her audience of her family's honorable character as well as her own.
A consistent four-body CDCC model of low-energy reactions: Application to 9Be + 208Pb
Creators: name: Hussein, M. S.
name: Descouvemont, P.
name: Canto, L. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the $^9$Be + $^{208}$Pb elastic scattering, breakup and fusion at energies around the Coulomb barrier. The three processes are described simultaneously, with identical conditions of calculations. The $^{9}$Be nucleus is defined in an $α+ α$ + n three-body model, using the hyperspherical coordinate method. We first analyze spectroscopic properties of $^9$Be, and show that the model provides a fairly good description of the low-lying states. The scattering with $^{208}$Pb is then studied with the Continuum Discretized Coupled Channel (CDCC) method, where the $α+α$ + n continuum is approximated by a discrete number of pseudostates. Optical potentials for the $α$+ $^{208}$Pb and n+ $^{208}$Pb systems are taken from the literature. We present elastic-scattering and fusion cross sections at different energies.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, NN 2015, Catania-Italy. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1410.6410
Sébastien Ledoux, Niels F. May (dir.), Transmettre l’Europe à la jeunesse. XXe–XXIe siècles, Rennes (Presses universitaires de Rennes) 2023
Creators: name: Soldwisch, Ines
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Sébastien Ledoux, Niels F. May (dir.), Transmettre l’Europe à la jeunesse. XXe–XXIe siècles, Rennes (Presses universitaires de Rennes) 2023, 156 p. (Histoire), ISBN 978-2-7535-8714-4, EUR 20,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/3
Un-Veiling Islamophobia in the Post-9/11 Era: Orientalism in the Veil Debate in France and the United States, December 2003 to June 2004
Creators: name: Bordeaux, Elizabeth Hope
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: This essay explores the role of Orientalism in contemporary Western society through an analysis of the debate over the Muslim veil or hijab, in public schools in France and the United States, between December 2003 and June 2004. It focuses on several official documents, reports and speeches produced by each government, in response to the debate over hijab, as well as some popular literature which informs official language and opinions.
On the existence of infinitely many closed geodesics on non-compact manifolds
Creators: name: Asselle, Luca
name: Mazzucchelli, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C22, 58E10

description: We prove that any complete (and possibly non-compact) Riemannian manifold $M$ possesses infinitely many closed geodesics provided its free loop space has unbounded Betti numbers in degrees larger than the dimension of $M$, and there are no close conjugate points at infinity. Our argument builds on an existence result due to Benci and Giannoni, and generalizes the celebrated theorem of Gromoll and Meyer for closed manifolds.
description: 9 pages; Version 2: minor corrections
Structural investigations of biomolecules under extreme conditions
Creators: name: Berghaus, Melanie
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: SAXS
subject: XRR
subject: Scattering
subject: High pressure
subject: Prebiotic chemistry
subject: RNA
subject: Lipids
subject: Proteins
subject: 540

description: Scattering methods like small-angle X-ray scattering and X-ray reflectivity enable to perform in situ studies on biomolecules under various conditions of temperature and pressure. These methods are employed in this work to shed light on the changes of size and shape as well as on the interactions between biomolecules under extreme conditions. Most of these aim to simulate conditions of temperature and pressures encountered in hydrothermal vents in the deep sea, where life might have evolved. This work includes many examples from all classes of biomolecules, lipids, nucleic acids as well as peptides and proteins, ranging from fairly simple to very complex systems.
Erwan Le Gall, Une armée de métiers? Le 47e régiment d’infanterie pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, Rennes (Presses universitaires de Rennes) 2022
Creators: name: Miller-Tremblay, Jean-Philippe
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Erwan Le Gall, Une armée de métiers? Le 47e régiment d’infanterie pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, Rennes (Presses universitaires de Rennes) 2022, 286 p., ill., cartes (Histoire), ISBN 978-2-7535-8292-7, EUR 25.00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/3
title: Decision making in child placement
Creators: name: Stewart, James Kerr
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: This study was undertaken in Kent Social Services Department and was designed to explore in detail the way in which a sample of fifty social workers formed decisions about where to place children who came into their care. Data derived from structured interviews was analysed, using statistical techniques as appropriate, in order to establish which of a range of factors played the most important part in placement decisions. Knowledge of social work theory and research was found not to be very influential. Personal attitudes, based on experience or belief, together with the prevailing ethos and tradition of the local office were found to be the most decisive factors in determining how decisions were reached and which resources were used. There were significant variations in approach between respondents from different local offices. The orientation of qualified and unqualified respondents to professional and bureaucratic values was compared and no significant difference was found. However, qualified social workers did express a greater willingness to make independent case decisions and to act on them and a corresponding reluctance to recognise the managerial and supervisory role of their line manager. This tendency was more pronounced amongst newly qualified staff; more experienced qualified staff were more likely to distinguish between their role in assessing client need and that of their supervisor in mediating between assessed need and organisational constraints. These findings support the statement in the Barclay Report that there is "Confusion and ambiguity among social workers as to how far they were expected to act on their own judgement, and how far they were simply expected to carry out the orders of their department". Overall 70% of the placements which arose from these decisions developed broadly as expected by the social workers concerned. The remaining cases were generally more complex and their outcomes correspondingly harder to anticipate, and of these, the majority consisted of teenagers.
Assessing the Jeans Anisotropic Multi-Gaussian Expansion method with the Illustris simulation
Creators: name: Li, Hongyu
name: Li, Ran
name: Mao, Shude
name: Xu, Dandan
name: Long, R. J.
name: Emsellem, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We assess the effectiveness of the Jeans-Anisotropic-MGE (JAM) technique with a state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamic simulation, the Illustris project. We perform JAM modelling on 1413 simulated galaxies with stellar mass M^* > 10^{10}M_{sun}, and construct an axisymmetric dynamical model for each galaxy. Combined with a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation, we recover the projected root-mean-square velocity (V_rms) field of the stellar component, and investigate constraints on the stellar mass-to-light ratio, M^*/L, and the fraction of dark matter f_{DM} within 2.5 effective radii (R_e). We find that the enclosed total mass within 2.5 R_e is well constrained to within 10%. However, there is a degeneracy between the dark matter and stellar components with correspondingly larger individual errors. The 1 sigma scatter in the recovered M^*/L is 30-40% of the true value. The accuracy of the recovery of M^*/L depends on the triaxial shape of a galaxy. There is no significant bias for oblate galaxies, while for prolate galaxies the JAM-recovered stellar mass is on average 18% higher than the input values. We also find that higher image resolutions alleviate the dark matter and stellar mass degeneracy and yield systematically better parameter recovery.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures
Philipp Kröger, Das vermessene Volk. Nationalitätenstatistik und Bevölkerungspolitik in Deutschlands östlichen Grenzländern 1860–1945, Göttingen (Wallstein) 2023
Creators: name: Renard, Léa
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Philipp Kröger, Das vermessene Volk. Nationalitätenstatistik und Bevölkerungspolitik in Deutschlands östlichen Grenzländern 1860–1945, Göttingen (Wallstein) 2023, 336 S., 17 Abb. (Historische Wissensforschung, 21), ISBN 978-3-8353-5382-4, EUR 34,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/3
title: José António Caldas
Creators: name: Araujo, Renata
name: Pacheco, Mafalda
Publisher: name: CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Year: 2022

description: Entrada biográfica José António Caldas, na plataforma eViterbo
description: Araújo, Renata; Pacheco, Mafalda. 2022. José António Caldas in eViterbo. CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. eISBN: 978-989-8492-77-7
A universal platform for magnetostriction measurements in thin films
Creators: name: Pernpeintner, Matthias
name: Holländer, Rasmus B.
name: Seitner, Maximilian J.
name: Weig, Eva M.
name: Gross, Rudolf
name: Goennenwein, Sebastian T. B.
name: Huebl, Hans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a universal nanomechanical sensing platform for the investigation of magnetostriction in thin films. It is based on a doubly-clamped silicon nitride nanobeam resonator covered with a thin magnetostrictive film. Changing the magnetization direction within the film plane by an applied magnetic field generates a magnetostrictive stress and thus changes the resonance frequency of the nanobeam. A measurement of the resulting resonance frequency shift, e.g. by optical interferometry, allows to quantitatively determine the magnetostriction constants of the thin film. We use this method to determine the magnetostriction constants of a 10nm thick polycrystalline cobalt film, showing very good agreement with literature values. The presented technique can be useful in particular for the precise measurement of magnetostriction in a variety of (conducting and insulating) thin films, which can be deposited by e.g. electron beam deposition, thermal evaporation or sputtering.
"Un homme victime de la violence d'une femme, ça n'existe pas !" : Analyse de la représentation médiatique des hommes victimes de violence conjugale à travers la presse québécoise (1970-2020)
Creators: name: Albarez, Léna
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2022
Subjects: Homme victime
Violence conjugale
Représentation sociale
Théorie du cadrage
Médias

description: Avec un regard sociologique et criminologique, ce mémoire consiste à analyser la représentation des hommes victimes de violence conjugale au sein de la presse écrite. Notre analyse se base sur des articles de presse écrite québécoise entre 1970 et 2020. Elle mobilise le volet épistémologique de la représentation sociale et le volet théorique du cadrage. Ce mémoire met en avant la représentation médiatique de l'homme victime de violence conjugale. Nous démontrerons que le portrait de l'homme victime est quasiment similaire à celui de la femme victime, malgré l'image sociétale persistante de l'homme auteur lui portant préjudice. Dans cette étude, divers aspects de l'homme en tant que victime sont abordés tels que : les difficultés pour représenter l'homme en tant que victime, les difficultés sous-jacentes à son statut de victime (exemple : trouver de l’aide), le tabou, l'évolution de la violence conjugale lors de ces cinquante dernières années et l'effet du cadrage sur le sujet des hommes victimes de violence conjugale. Pour finir, ce mémoire abordera également des notions telles que celle de victime « imparfaite » ou encore celle de victime « invisible ».
Rotem Kowner, Iris Rachamimov (ed.), Out of Line, Out of Place. A Global and Local History of World War I Internments, Ithaca, NY (Cornell University Press) 2022
Creators: name: Grandhomme, Jean-Noël
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Rotem Kowner, Iris Rachamimov (ed.), Out of Line, Out of Place. A Global and Local History of World War I Internments, Ithaca, NY (Cornell University Press) 2022, 336 p., ISBN 978-1-5017-6544-5, USD 28,95.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/3
An Empire of Possibilities: Education in Fascist Italy’s African Colonies, 1922-1943
Creators: name: Scalvedi, Caterina
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation is the first imperial history of education in fascist Italy’s African colonies (1922-1943). It integrates pedagogic discussions and school policies with lived experiences at school, addressing education as a window into colonial encounters in Eritrea, Somalia, Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, and Ethiopia, fascism’s political projects, and the intertwined processes of nation- and empire-state building in interwar Europe. Building on global history methods, it conceives of empire as an intra-connected space in which people, ideas, and practices traveled, and follows the shaping of educational repertoires in transnational and inter-imperial networks of knowledge exchange. Drawing from printed, archival, and visual sources, An Empire of Possibilities includes an introduction, eight chapters divided into three parts, and a conclusion. Part I retraces common understandings of education for African colonial subjects in fascist Italy and across academic and humanitarian venues in Europe and North America in the 1920s through the turn of the 1930s. Part II explores the broad rethinking of pedagogies and imperial visions in fascist Italy and its colonies in the 1930s, specifically among pedagogues, colonial law scholars, and missionaries. The fascist party-state’s massive mobilization of colonial education in the late 1930s and early 1940s constitutes Part III’s main focus. This dissertation demonstrates that, in fascist Italy, there was no consensus around the education of African subjects: a variety of voices—by party and state officials, pedagogues, legal scholars, missionary and lay teachers and their students—envisioned the formation of colonial youth and therefore the future of the empire in remarkably different and shifting terms. In so doing, it revises common understandings of fascist Italy’s colonial agenda as a univocal project. Secondly, this dissertation uncovers the strong connections between fascist Italy and concurrent imperial formations regarding educational reform in colonial spaces. In the early-twentieth century, it argues, rival empires collectively turned to colonial curricula as a primary tool of imperial governance meant to prevent social and political unrest in Africa and Asia. This finding contributes to the history of modern empires by illustrating the momentum the education of colonial subjects gained in interwar Europe.
$\textit{Ab initio}$ evidence for nonthermal characteristics in ultrafast laser melting
Creators: name: Lian, Chao
name: Zhang, S. B.
name: Meng, Sheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Laser melting of semiconductors has been observed for almost 40 years; surprisingly, it is not well understood where most theoretical simulations show a laser-induced thermal process. $\textit{Ab initio}$ nonadiabatic simulations based on real-time time-dependent density functional theory reveal intrinsic nonthermal melting of silicon, at a temperature far below the thermal melting temperature of 1680 K. Both excitation threshold and time evolution of diffraction intensity agree well with experiment. Nonthermal melting is attributed to excitation-induced drastic changes in bonding electron density, and the subsequent decrease in the melting barrier, rather than lattice heating as previously assumed in the two-temperature models.
Localization without recurrence and pseudo-Bloch oscillations in optics
Creators: name: Longhi, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamical localization, i.e. the absence of secular spreading of a quantum or classical wave packet, is usually associated to Hamiltonians with purely point spectrum, i.e. with a normalizable and complete set of eigenstates, which show quasi-periodic dynamics (recurrence). Here we show rather counter-intuitively that dynamical localization can be observed in Hamiltonians with absolutely continuous spectrum, where recurrence effects are forbidden. An optical realization of such an Hamiltonian is proposed based on beam propagation in a self-imaging optical resonator with a phase grating. Localization without recurrence in this system is explained in terms of pseudo-Bloch optical oscillations.
description: 4 figure, 6 pages
Evaluating the Development of a Palliative Care Consultation Algorithm for Inpatient Bone Marrow Transplant Patients
Creators: name: Capps, Nicole
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Bone marrow transplant patients often experience increased symptom burden and decreased quality of life due to intense therapy regimens needed for disease treatment. Palliative care services have been shown to improve patient’s quality of life and decrease symptom burden. In the acute care setting, the primary method to initiate palliative care is through consultation. Palliative care services are often underutilized in the inpatient bone marrow transplant setting due to clinical practice barriers including provider resistance, inadequate knowledge regarding palliative services, or misunderstanding which patients may benefit from palliative care. Current oncology recommendations and accrediting organizations support incorporating palliative care into patients’ plans of care. A current gap exists between evidence-based recommendations supporting palliative care use in oncology patient care and clinical practice. This project developed a palliative care consult algorithm specific to inpatient bone marrow transplant patients to help clinicians best determine which patients may benefit from palliative care services.
William Kinderman, Malcolm Miller (ed.), Beethoven the European. Transcultural Contexts of Performance, Interpretation and Reception, Turnhout (Brepols) 2023
Creators: name: Brisson, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: William Kinderman, Malcolm Miller (ed.), Beethoven the European. Transcultural Contexts of Performance, Interpretation and Reception, Turnhout (Brepols) 2023, 300 p., 32 b/w fig. (Speculum musicae, 48), ISBN 978-2-503-60290-5, EUR 110.00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/3
Laurent Joly, La falsification de l’Histoire. Éric Zemmour, l’extrême droite, Vichy et les juifs, Paris (Grasset) 2022
Creators: name: Bührer, Werner
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Laurent Joly, La falsification de l’Histoire. Éric Zemmour, l’extrême droite, Vichy et les juifs, Paris (Grasset) 2022, 136 S., ISBN 978-2-246-83081-8, EUR 12,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/3
Stability of Einstein-Maxwell-Kalb-Ramond Wormholes
Creators: name: Cox, Paul H.
name: Harms, Benjamin C.
name: Hou, Shaoqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper investigates a particular type of wormhole. The wormhole solutions studied are obtained by sewing together two static, spherically symmetric, charged black-hole metrics at their horizons. The charged wormholes are in a background Kalb-Ramond field, which is the source of the necessary tension in the gravitational field. The metric-tensor elements are studied by numerically solving Einstein's equations with stress-energy-tensor elements given by the combination of static electric and Kalb-Ramond fields. For a certain range of electric charge the tension is positive away from the wormhole throat, but the tension is negative near the throat, making it non-traversable. The wormholes are found to be quasi-stable against decay via gravitational instanton tunnelling.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1108.1184
Termination of rewrite relations on $λ$-terms based on Girard's notion of reducibility
Creators: name: Blanqui, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we show how to extend the notion of reducibility introduced by Girard for proving the termination of $β$-reduction in the polymorphic $λ$-calculus, to prove the termination of various kinds of rewrite relations on $λ$-terms, including rewriting modulo some equational theory and rewriting with matching modulo $β$$η$, by using the notion of computability closure. This provides a powerful termination criterion for various higher-order rewriting frameworks, including Klop's Combinatory Reductions Systems with simple types and Nipkow's Higher-order Rewrite Systems.