cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Beliefs About the Health Effects of Smoking Among Adults in the United States
Creators: name:  Mills, S.D.
name:  Wiesen, C.A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2021

description: The majority of U.S. adults believe that smoking is a cause of lung cancer, but research suggests that the percentage of adults who believe smoking causes other types of cancers and chronic disease is lower. This study examines the correlates of beliefs about several established health effects of smoking in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults. Data for this study come from Wave 4 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study conducted from December 2016 to January 2018. Participants responded to questions assessing their beliefs about the health effects of smoking. Logistic regression models were used to examine the relationship between beliefs about the health effects of smoking and sociodemographic characteristics (smoker status, age, sex, education, race/ethnicity), exposure to antitobacco campaigns, smokers’ health, and nicotine dependence. The percentage of U.S. adults who endorsed a health effect can be caused from smoking ranged from 56.4% for blindness to 97.4% for lung disease. Respondents who were older, less educated, current or former smokers, and had less exposure to antitobacco campaigns were generally less likely (p <.05) to endorse that an established health effect was caused by smoking. Smokers with lower nicotine dependence and worse health were generally more likely (p <.05) to endorse that an established health effect was caused by smoking. In summary, knowledge about the health effects of smoking varies across health conditions. Public health would benefit from campaigns targeting segments of the population with less knowledge about the health effects of smoking.
title: A practical model for microbially influenced corrosion risk assessment
Creators: name: Keay, Sean
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04haebc03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Understanding what your risk is, what is driving your risk, and ensuring mitigative measures are effective are key to a strong risk-based inspection program. As a corrosion-resistant material, stainless steel is chosen for use in many applications. There is a wider understanding of degradation caused by microbiologically influenced corrosion. Leveraging microbially influenced corrosion of stainless steel and three major accidents involving corrosion, this work develops a model for corrosion risk assessments using bow tie analysis. In the first part of this work corrosion of stainless steel is introduced. It reviews the various grades of stainless steel and why it is a corrosion-resistant alloy. It then reviews the status of research on its primary degradation mechanisms, pitting, and microbially influenced corrosion. This work then introduces inspection methods and techniques used to detect and monitor stainless steel corrosion to demonstrate the variation in results. The resulting variation impacts the fitness-for-service results and risk profile. In the second part of the work, a model for corrosion risk assessment is developed based on three industrial accidents caused by corrosion. Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate the use of the corrosion risk assessment model and the resulting risk profile. The developed risk profiles are used to design corrosion intervention strategies that include corrosion prevention, to risk mitigation.
(503090) Jennet (Jessie) Smith
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Stacking Faults and Interfaces Dominated Mechanical Behaviors of Cobalt and Copper/Cobalt Multilayers
Creators: name: Su, Ruizhe
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2022
Subjects: Materials engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Metallic materials with nanotwins have been extensively studied for the past twenty years due to their excellent mechanical properties including high strength, great ductility and good thermal stability. Twin boundaries (TBs) can inhibit dislocation migration to increase strength and renucleate new dislocations to accommodate plasticity. However, the roles of stacking faults (SFs), another important planar defect, on the deformation mechanisms in face-centered cubic (FCC) and hexagonal close-packed (HCP) metals are less well understood. The focus of this research is to identify the effect of SFs on deformation mechanisms in FCC and HCP Co thin films and investigate the collaborated strengthening effect between SFs, TBs and layer interfaces in Cu/Co multilayer systems. We utilized in situ micropillar compression tests to investigate the mechanical behaviors of FCC Co with inclined SFs, HCP Co with parallel SFs and Cu/Co multilayers with defect networks, which consisting of SFs, TBs and layer interfaces. Post deformation transmission electron microscopy analyses and molecular dynamic simulations revealed that SFs can strengthen the materials by impeding partial dislocation migration and accommodate plastic deformation by defaulting process and/or intriguing phase transformation. Furthermore, the interplay between TBs, SFs and layer interfaces provides high strength and good deformability in Cu/Co nanolaminates. This research shows an in-depth investigation on deformation mechanisms of nanostructured metals with high-density SFs and provides a new perspective for the design of metallic materials with high strength and great ductility.
Neural mechanism to simulate a scale-invariant future timeline
Creators: name: Shankar, Karthik H.
name: Singh, Inder
name: Howard, Marc W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Predicting future events, and their order, is important for efficient planning. We propose a neural mechanism to non-destructively translate the current state of memory into the future, so as to construct an ordered set of future predictions. This framework applies equally well to translations in time or in one-dimensional position. In a two-layer memory network that encodes the Laplace transform of the external input in real time, translation can be accomplished by modulating the weights between the layers. We propose that within each cycle of hippocampal theta oscillations, the memory state is swept through a range of translations to yield an ordered set of future predictions. We operationalize several neurobiological findings into phenomenological equations constraining translation. Combined with constraints based on physical principles requiring scale-invariance and coherence in translation across memory nodes, the proposition results in Weber-Fechner spacing for the representation of both past (memory) and future (prediction) timelines. The resulting expressions are consistent with findings from phase precession experiments in different regions of the hippocampus and reward systems in the ventral striatum. The model makes several experimental predictions that can be tested with existing technology.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Building Community in the HIV Online Intervention Space: Lessons From the HealthMPowerment Intervention
Creators: name: Dong, W.
name: Soni, K.
name: Barry, M.
name: Threats, M.
name: Muessig, K.
name: LeGrand, S.
name: Pulley, D.V.
name: Bauermeister, J.A.
name: Blackburn, N.A.
name: Hightow-Weidman, L.B.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2021

description: Background: Mobile health platforms can facilitate social support and address HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) stigma but pose challenges for intervention design and participant engagement. Giddens’s structuration theory, that individuals are shaped by—and shape—their communities through rules and resources that give them power to operate within these environments, provides a useful analytic framework for exploring these dynamic intervention spaces. Method: Data were drawn from an online randomized controlled trial intervention (HealthMpowerment) for young Black men who have sex with men to reduce condomless anal intercourse. We applied a conversational analysis informed by structuration theory to 65 user-generated conversations that included stigma content. We aimed to understand how the interdependent relationship between the intervention space and participants’ contributions might contribute to behavior change. Results: Thirty five intervention participants contributed to the analyzed conversations. Our analysis identified three types of conversational processes that may underlie behavior change: (1) Through intervention engagement, participants established norms and expectations that shaped their discussions; (2) participants used anecdotes and anonymity to reinforce norms; and (3) intervention staff members sought to improve engagement and build knowledge by initiating discussions and correcting misinformation, thus playing an integral role in the online community. Conclusions: The lens of structuration theory usefully reveals potential behavior change mechanisms within the social interactions of an online intervention. Future design of these interventions to address HIV stigma should explicitly characterize the context in which individuals (study staff and participants) engage with one another in order to assess whether these processes are associated with improved intervention outcomes.
(503091) William Woodman
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Tasting Vino with Vico: Full–Bodied Discourse
Creators: name: Ragusa, Ariana
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2019

description: The experience of tasting wine and our earnest attempt to make sense of it draws the body back into discourse, recalling the sensorial and corporeal roots of language creation unearthed by Giambattista Vico in The New Science. Vico’s narrative strategy will help us to understand the necessity and utility of the bodily metaphors pervading wine discourse. Rather than being mere artifice or ornament, out of a poverty of speech; furthermore, they fulfill the need to express new and uncharted dimensions of reality. Our examination of the sense of taste and its intimately related senses of smell and touch reveals gaps in Vico’s story of how language springs from the body. His narrative traces the birth and development of language drawn from only two of our senses: sight and hearing. In other words, the corporeal origins of language creation in theWestern intellectual tradition uncovered by Vico are limited to only two aspects of the body; the others remain buried. Finally, we will consider how cultivating the hidden and hedonic senses of taste, smell, and touch can open up new
description: Trópos, V. 12 N. 1 (2019): Italian Philosophy from Abroad
How to Study Well-Being: A Proposal for the Integration of Philosophy With Science
Creators: name: Prinzing, Michael
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2021

description: There are presently two approaches to the study of well-being. Philosophers typically focus on normative theorizing, attempting to identify the things that are ultimately good for a person, while largely ignoring empirical research. The idea is that empirical attention cannot be directed to the right place without a rigorous theory. Meanwhile, social scientists typically focus on empirical research, attempting to identify the causes and consequences of well-being, while largely ignoring normative theorizing. The idea is that conceptual and theoretical clarity will come with time and more data. This article argues that neither is a good approach to the study of well-being. The traditional philosophical approach underappreciates the vital importance of empirical investigation, whereas the atheoretical empirical approach underappreciates the vital importance of normative theorizing. The proposed solution is to bring these methods together. Well-being research should be interdisciplinary. The article proposes a “conceptual engineering” approach as a novel alternative. This approach involves an iterative process of normative theorizing, empirical investigation, and conceptual revision, with the aim of articulating concepts and theories of well-being that optimally suit particular interests and purposes.
Leopardi Beyond Spinoza: Hegel’s Logic of Essence
Creators: name: Nuzzo, Angelica
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2019

description: The essay illustrates the meaning of the Absolute that leads Hegel’s Logic of Essence to its conclusion by bringing Leopardi’s conception of Nature to the center. Hegel’s Absolute, I contend, can be best understood as the Nature that appears in Leopardi’s 1824 Dialogo della Natura e di un Islandese (Operette Morali) and in his late poem La Ginestra (1836). Hegel claims that the Absolute of the Logic of Essence “corresponds” to Spinoza’s monistic Absolute expressed as Deus sive natura. This “correspondence” and the criticism of Spinoza it entails have stirred reactions against Hegel’s alleged misunderstanding of Spinoza. Leopardi’s intervention will help us understand the core of Hegel’s position with regard to Spinoza’s substance, and will ultimately allow us to put in a novel perspective the crucial transition from necessity to freedom that this stage of the development of Essence represents.
description: Trópos, V. 12 N. 1 (2019): Italian Philosophy from Abroad
(503092) Andrew Lynn
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Understanding endomembrane trafficking in plant cells using chemical genetics approach
Creators: name: Diwen Wang
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Like other eukaryotic cells, plant cells contain endomembrane system composed of compartmentalized organelles with specialized functions. Vesicle trafficking mediates the transport of materials between different organelles and between cells and the environment. The vesicle trafficking process is highly dynamic and plays essential roles in maintaining cellular homeostasis and environmental adaptation. Because of the essential roles of vesicle trafficking in plant growth and development, genes that are involved in vesicle trafficking often have redundant function when they exist as a large family or cause embryonic lethality when they exist as a signal gene or small gene family. Chemical genetics uses small molecule inhibitors to affect protein function without interfering with plant’s genome. Bioactive small molecules can generate a temporary perturbation of a biological system in a reversible and dose-dependent fashion, which allow us to observe dynamic cellular processes and discover new components in trafficking machineries. We recently discovered two small molecules named Endosidin2 (ES2) and Endosidin20 (ES20) that disrupt vesicle trafficking in plants. ES2 inhibits exocytosis by targeting the EXO70A1 subunit of the exocyst complex in plant cells. ES20 targets cellulose synthase (CESA) at the catalytic site and inhibits the delivery of Cellulose Synthase Complex (CSC) to the plasma membrane. This research thesis aims to characterize the specificity of ES2 on EXO70 homologs and identify new genes that mediate CSC trafficking. Drug Affinity Responsive Target Stability (DARTS) assay was used to test the specificity of ES2 in targeting different EXO70s in Arabidopsis. Chemical genetic screen for mutants that have increased sensitivity was conducted to identify novel genes related to CSC trafficking. This project provides new insights in the specificity of ES2 in targeting different EXO70s in plants and the regulatory mechanisms of CSC trafficking that control plant cellulose synthesis.
Understanding endomembrane trafficking in plant cells using chemical genetics approach
Creators: name: Wang, Diwen
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biochemistry and cell biology not elsewhere classified
Plant biology not elsewhere classified

description: Like other eukaryotic cells, plant cells contain an endomembrane system composed of compartmentalized organelles with specialized functions. Vesicle trafficking mediates the transport of materials between different organelles and between cells and the environment. The vesicle trafficking process is highly dynamic and plays essential roles in maintaining cellular homeostasis and environmental adaptation. Because of the essential roles of vesicle trafficking in plant growth and development, genes that are involved in vesicle trafficking often have redundant function when they exist as a large family or cause embryonic lethality when they exist as a signal gene or small gene family. Chemical genetics uses small molecule inhibitors to affect protein function without interfering with plant’s genome. Bioactive small molecules can generate a temporary perturbation of a biological system in a reversible and dose-dependent fashion, which allow us to observe dynamic cellular processes and discover new components in trafficking machineries. We recently discovered two small molecules named Endosidin2 (ES2) and Endosidin20 (ES20) that disrupt vesicle trafficking in plants. ES2 inhibits exocytosis by targeting the EXO70A1 subunit of the exocyst complex in plant cells. ES20 targets cellulose synthase (CESA) at the catalytic site and inhibits the delivery of Cellulose Synthase Complex (CSC) to the plasma membrane. This research thesis aims to characterize the specificity of ES2 on EXO70 homologs and identify new genes that mediate CSC trafficking. Drug Affinity Responsive Target Stability (DARTS) assay was used to test the specificity of ES2 in targeting different EXO70s in Arabidopsis. Chemical genetic screen for mutants that have increased sensitivity was conducted to identify novel genes related to CSC trafficking. This project provides new insights in the specificity of ES2 in targeting different EXO70s in plants and the regulatory mechanisms of CSC trafficking that control plant cellulose synthesis.
title: Extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the parapharyngeal space
Creators: name: Oliveira, Tiago
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Head & neck imaging
subject: Haematologic
subject: Head and neck
subject: MR
subject: PET-CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Haematologic diseases
subject: Lymphoma
subject: Clinical Case

description: Clinical History: A 30-year-old woman presented with a history of trismus, right nasal obstruction, and right-sided hearing loss for 4 months. On physical examination, the right tonsil and lateral pharyngeal wall were found to protrude medially with no abnormalities of the overlying mucosa. Right supraclavicular (level IV) lymphadenopathy was palpated.

description: 30 years, female
ShouldWe Renounce Hegel? From Existentialism to Hermeneutics
Creators: name: Martinengo, Alberto
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2019

description: Renoncer à Hegel is the motto that defines Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics in his Time and Narrative. This sort of “parricide” draws the boundaries between hermeneutical rationality and Hegelian reason. Ricoeur’s words capture very well how philosophical hermeneutics understood itself in the 1980s, a historical phase in which that tradition showed its fully disruptive power towards modernity. This was the case with Italian hermeneutics which, much more than its French counterpart, found a positive resonance in reflections on postmodernism. The present essay deals with some of the most relevant representatives of that debate: Luigi Pareyson, Valerio Verra, and Gianni Vattimo. The aim is to show that the chapter on Hegel is fully part of the origin and history of Italian philosophical hermeneutics, far beyond the narrow limits of early twentieth–century Hegelianism.
description: Trópos, V. 12 N. 1 (2019): Italian Philosophy from Abroad
A Strategy for a Democratic Future: Constituent or Destituent Power?
Creators: name: Holloway, Travis
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2019

description: This essay presents two strategies for a more democratic future. A debate is underway in continental philosophy between two different types of democratic activity or strategy. The first form of democratic activity, constituent power, is widely known for its attempts to confront existing government institutions and transform them in a variety of ways. A second form of political activity, however, labeled destituent power, proposes abandoning the constituent project of reforming government institutions in order to explore another form of politics entirely. The concept of destituent power arises in part out of a concern that it is increasingly difficult to reform governments through protest and assembly and other means, particularly in the wake of several military–style defeats of peaceful demonstrations and occupations around the world. Instead of focusing on reforming these institutions by contesting them, destituent power destitutes them by withdrawing from them and dispelling the notion that they represent us. Finally, destituent power specifically targets a neoliberal way of life and asks how we might live otherwise.
description: Trópos, V. 12 N. 1 (2019): Italian Philosophy from Abroad
Preve’s Uses of Lukács: Rethinking a Marxian Tradition
Creators: name: Epstein, Mark
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2019

description: This essay examines Costanzo Preve’s uses of György Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being and related writings from the same period as both provocations and, to some extent, foundations for Preve’s project of the deduzione storico–sociale delle categorie (historical–social deduction of categories), which Preve named ontologia dell’essere sociale (ontology of social being). This essay shows how Preve’s discussion of Lukács and his work changes from La filosofia imperfetta to Una nuova storia alternativa della filosofia and how, in several respects, at the conclusion of their lives and reflections Preve and Lukács are on opposite trajectories as regard the understanding and evaluation of the idealism–materialism continuum. Both thinkers share the urgency and need of a rethinking and refoundation of the Marxian tradition, one which needs to address many aspects of social reproduction beyond the economic.
description: Trópos, V. 12 N. 1 (2019): Italian Philosophy from Abroad
Persistent Pain After Cardiac Surgery: Prevention and Management
Creators: name: Krakowski, J.C.
name: Smeltz, A.M.
name: Hallman, M.J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2021

description: Persistent postoperative pain (PPP) after cardiac surgery is a significant complication that negatively affects patient quality of life and increases health care system burden. However, there are no standards or guidelines to inform how to mitigate these effects. Therefore, in this review, we will discuss strategies to prevent and manage PPP after cardiac surgery. Adequate perioperative analgesia may prove instrumental in the prevention of PPP. Although opioids have historically been the primary analgesic approach to cardiac surgery, an opioid-sparing strategy may prove advantageous in reducing side effects, avoiding secondary hyperalgesia, and decreasing risk of PPP. Implementing a multimodal analgesic plan using alternative medications and regional anesthetic techniques may offer superior efficacy while reducing adverse effects.
Model trained on 11th century manuscripts to produce graphematic transcription (Latin).
Creators: name: Michael Schonhardt
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: kraken_pytorch

description: This model has been trained as part of the ongoing edition project Burchards Dekret Digital (www.burchards-dekret-digital.de), funded by the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. It is the project's first high-quality model specifically designed to produce a graphematic transcription based on a predefined set of special characters (https://github.com/michaelscho/transpy?tab=readme-ov-file#special-characters) in accordance with the MUFI standard. The model was trained on five 11th-century manuscripts that can be traced to the episcopal scriptorium in Worms: Bamberg, SB, Msc.Can.6 (https://mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00140701-0), Frankfurt, UB, Ms. Barth. 50 (https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/msma/urn/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:2-12488), Köln, EDD, Cod. 119 (https://digital.dombibliothek-koeln.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:kn28-3-3241), Vatican, BAV, Pal.lat.585 (https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/Pal.lat.585), and Vatican, BAV, Pal.lat.586 (https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/Pal.lat.586). However, it also works well as a base model for later medieval scripts.
The model was trained by Dr. Michael Schonhardt (Universität Kassel, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2750-1900). Transcriptions were provided and proofread by Helena Geitz, Daniel Gneckow, Dr. Andreas Grote, Prof. Dr. Lotte Kéry, Dr. Birgit Kynast, Dr. Hans-Christian Lehner, Dr. Melanie Panse-Buchwalter, Michaela Parma, Dr. Cornelia Scherer, Dr. Michael Schonhardt and Dr. des. Elena Vanelli. The project is led by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Baumgärtner, Prof. Dr. Klaus Herbers and Prof. Dr. Ludger Körntgen.
The model was trained in 54 epochs using a learning rate of 0.0008 and a batch size of 64.
Infant Attentional Behaviors Are Associated with ADHD Symptomatology and Executive Function in Early Childhood
Creators: name: Reznick, J.S.
name: Crais, E.R.
name: Watson, L.R.
name: Elsayed, H.E.
name: Stephens, R.L.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2021

description: Objective: We explored associations between infant attentional behaviors as measured by the First Year Inventory (FYIv2.0) and dimensional ratings of ADHD symptomatology and executive function (EF) in early childhood. Methods: This study included parents (N = 229) who filled out the FYIv2.0 when their children were 12 months of age. When children were approximately 54 months (4.5 years) of age, parents completed reports of children’s ADHD symptomatology and EF abilities. Correlation and regression analyses were conducted among measures. Results: We found significant associations among the variables of interest, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally, as well as gender differences. Notably, non-social sensory attention (NSA) was significantly related to 54-month ADHD symptom severity. All three 12-month attention variables were significantly related to 54-month EF. Conclusion: Results suggest that infant attentional behaviors predict later ADHD-related behaviors in early childhood. Future research should explore associations using laboratory-based measures and could inform early intervention efforts.
Organized Loneliness
Creators: name: Enns, Diane
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2019

description: The point of departure in this essay is Hannah Arendt’s intriguing reference to “organized loneliness” at the end of The Origins of Totalitarianism. If loneliness is a unique experience of psychological suffering fundamental to human life, organized loneliness threatens our very existence for it systematizes the isolation produced by totalitarianism to suppress solidarity and action. I will argue that the concept of organized loneliness has never been more relevant, though its conditions have changed, and no one elaborates these conditions as effectively and urgently as Franco Berardi. Loneliness under “high–tech capitalism” is one of many psychosocial symptoms resulting from the erosion of empathy and sensitivity, social media–fed mass conformity, and the severe isolation caused by our competitive, precarious and flexible work environments. Bringing together the insights of these two remarkable thinkers will help us understand the danger — at once psychological, social and political — of our contemporary loneliness.
description: Trópos, V. 12 N. 1 (2019): Italian Philosophy from Abroad
Active self-feedback when facing rejection from employers
Creators: name: Rose, Jennifer
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: These questions have been designed to help students transform disappointment into valuable learning. Treating rejection as a practice application will help them gain crucial insights into your strengths and weaknesses. This self-awareness empowers them to refine their job search strategies, enhance their impact skills, and ultimately increase their chances of success in future applications.Reflecting on rejection helps build resilience and self-efficacy. By acknowledging setbacks as learning opportunities and focusing on personal growth, they can develop the perseverance and confidence needed to navigate the challenges of the job market.
The Restless Mind of Italian Humanism: On Massimo Cacciari’s La mente inquieta
Creators: name: Carrera, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2019

description: Massimo Cacciari’s La mente inquieta [The Restless Mind], first published in 2016 as an introduction to Umanisti italiani. Pensiero e destino [Italian Humanists: Thought and Fate], is now being reprinted as a separate book with some additions. Cacciari’s intention is to emancipate fifteenth–century humanism from the Heideggerian and post–Heideggerian assumption that it was not real philosophy and nothing more than philology and erudition, marred by an anthropocentric, essentialistic ideology about what “man” is or is supposed to be. Cacciari’s argument is that philology “is” philosophy; it was so from Valla to Vico, and from Leopardi to Nietzsche. By re-reading Valla, Alberti, Ficino, and Pico in this light, Cacciari deemphasizes the anthropocentric reading of humanism and brings to light its internal tension, its fundamental “insecurity.” There is a tragic component in humanism. It struggles, on the one hand, to harmonize the classical tradition and the Christian heritage and, on the other, to come to terms with the impossibility of harmonizing the city at both the philosophical and the political level. A “tragic” and unfulfilled longing for “peace” runs through the humanistic debate of the fifteenth–century up to Savonarola’s failed attempt to a radical reform of faith and politics.
description: Trópos, V. 12 N. 1 (2019): Italian Philosophy from Abroad
(503096) Thomas Horrocks Wilson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Parenting and Children’s Externalizing Behaviors: Transactional Processes Over Time
Creators: name: Macy, R.J.
name: Lanier, P.
name: Chung, G.
name: Jensen, T.M.
name: Parisi, A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2021

description: This study used longitudinal data to examine the transactional associations between mothers’ spanking and mother–child relationship quality with children’s externalizing behaviors in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV). Data came from a sample of 1,152 low-income mothers with children age 10–14 years. Results showed that past-year IPV triggered transactional associations by increasing children’s externalizing behaviors which, in turn, increased spanking and subsequently more externalizing behaviors. Transactional associations were also found for relationship quality. All outcomes used were mothers-reported except relationship quality. Implications for practice include the importance of the mother–child dyad and their reciprocal processes in assessment and treatment.
Search for a Charged Higgs Boson Produced in the Vector-boson Fusion Mode with Decay $H^\pm \to W^\pm Z$ using $pp$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS Experiment
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for a charged Higgs boson, $H^\pm$, decaying to a $W^\pm$ boson and a $Z$ boson is presented. The search is based on 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The $H^\pm$ boson is assumed to be produced via vector-boson fusion and the decays $W^\pm \to q\bar{q^\prime}$ and $Z\rightarrow e^+e^-/μ^+μ^-$ are considered. The search is performed in a range of charged Higgs boson masses from 200 to 1000 GeV. No evidence for the production of an $H^\pm$ boson is observed. Upper limits of 31-1020 fb at 95% CL are placed on the cross section for vector-boson fusion production of an $H^\pm$ boson times its branching fraction to $W^\pm Z$. The limits are compared with predictions from the Georgi-Machacek Higgs Triplet Model.
description: 8 pages plus author list + cover pages (27 pages total), 3 figures, 9 tables, published on Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 231801 (2015). All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HIGG-2014-13
Affirmative Biopolitics: Life, Love, and Politics in Lea Melandri
Creators: name: Benso, Silvia
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2019

description: In this essay, I explore some crucial themes such as life, embodied experiences, the narrative self, the thinking body, all of which characterize the position of the Italian feminist writer, thinker, and activist Lea Melandri, as they emerge in her recently translated volume, Love and Violence. I also address her conviction of the hidden connection between love and violence, according to which men turn aggressive against the one who has first given them life, love, care, and sexual inspiration. The current “feminization” of the public space, which seems to soften the “war between the two sexes,” is, for Melandri, an updated version of the centuries–long domination that has understood women in terms of biological life, domestic virtues, and sexual servitude. How does this “feminization” reflect on how life unfolds, and what possibilities does this entail for the creation of a different politics, named by Melandri “affirmative biopolitics” and centered on the thinking body?
description: Trópos, V. 12 N. 1 (2019): Italian Philosophy from Abroad
title: RSPO certification scheme: a governance tool for smallholders in the Indonesian palm oil industry?
Creators: name: Unachukwu, Victoria Tochukwu
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04haebc03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: In recent years, environmental governance has been characterized by voluntary initiatives. The RSPO, established in 2004 is an example of a market-based solution to achieve sustainable palm oil production. This thesis seeks to understand how the RSPO knowledge operates as a form of power and its implication for smallholders in Indonesia. The thesis argues that the RSPO knowledge power is implemented through certification. This certification scheme valorizes the administrative and technical model of palm oil production thereby often excluding smallholders who possess alternative skills. Susan Strange structural power theory is adopted as the heuristic tool for understanding the RSPO knowledge-power dynamic. The thesis also employed a qualitative research methodology. The thesis reveals that the RSPO certification knowledge brings about complexities for smallholders, in turn, limiting their access to the global market. This arises from legal requirements, organizational demands for group certification, reliance on external stakeholders, and the cost implications associated with RSPO certification knowledge. The thesis recommends that the RSPO knowledge framework should recognize and integrate traditional practices that align with the diverse backgrounds of smallholders to foster equity and inclusion in the palm oil industry.
Old Law, New Tech, and Citizen-Created Hashtags: #BlackLivesMatter and the Case for Provisional Hashtag Marks
Creators: name: Ekstrand, V.S.
name: Mahin, S.L.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2021

description: Using #BlackLivesMatter as a case study, this research documents the tensions and harms associated with trademarking online social movement hashtags. Grounded in the work of critical race theory and intellectual property scholars, this study analyzes the inconsistencies in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office application practice. The contradictions signal a limited or “mis”understanding of the utility of citizen-created hashtags and online social movement slogans. We propose a provisional networked trademark that would grant limited protection to social movements to show that their marks demonstrate the kind of secondary meaning required for a traditional trademark.
Tunable site- and orbital-selective Mott transition and quantum confinement effects in La$_{0.5}$Ca$_{0.5}$MnO$_3$ nanoclusters
Creators: name: Valli, A.
name: Das, H.
name: Sangiovanni, G.
name: Saha-Dasgupta, T.
name: Held, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) study of the charge and orbital correlations in finite-size La$_{0.5}$Ca$_{0.5}$MnO$_3$ (LCMO) nanoclusters. Upon nanostructuring LCMO to clusters of 3 nm diameter, the size reduction induces an insulator-to-metal transition in the high-temperature paramagnetic phase. This is ascribed to the reduction in charge disproportionation between Mn sites with different nominal valence [Das et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 197202 (2011)]. Here we show that upon further reducing the system size to a few-atom nanoclusters, quantum confinement effects come into play. These lead to the opposite effect: the nanocluster turns insulating again and the charge disproportionation between Mn sites, as well as the orbital polarization, are enhanced. Electron doping by means of external gate voltage on few-atom nanoclusters is found to trigger a site- and orbital-selective Mott transition. Our results suggest that LCMO nanoclusters could be employed for the realization of technological devices, exploiting the proximity to the Mott transition and its control by size and gate voltage.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Improved electronic measurement of the Boltzmann constant by Johnson noise Thermometry
Creators: name: Qu, Jifeng
name: Benz, Samuel P
name: Pollarolo, Alessio
name: Rogalla, Horst
name: Tew, Weston L
name: White, Rod
name: Zhou, Kunli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The unit of thermodynamic temperature, the kelvin, will be redefined in 2018 by fixing the value of the Boltzmann constant, k. The present CODATA recommended value of k is determined predominantly by acoustic gas-thermometry results. To provide a value of k based on different physical principles, purely electronic measurements of k were performed by using a Johnson noise thermometer to compare the thermal noise power of a 200 Ohm sensing resistor immersed in a triple-point-of-water cell to the noise power of a quantum-accurate pseudo-random noise waveform of nominally equal noise power. Measurements integrated over a bandwidth of 550 kHz and a total integration time of 33 days gave a measured value of k = 1.3806514(48)x10^-23 J/K, for which the relative standard uncertainty is 3.5x10^-6 and the relative offset from the CODATA 2010 value is +1.9x10^-6.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures
Prevalence of Injuries Among Medicaid Enrolled Infants Prior to Child Abuse and Neglect
Creators: name: Berkoff, M.C.
name: Austin, A.E.
name: Shanahan, M.E.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2021

description: Prior research has identified common injuries among children who experience child maltreatment; however, most of this work has focused on inpatient settings and has excluded many cases of neglect. This study examines the prevalence of injuries that occur prior to a diagnosis of child maltreatment, as well as the proportion of children with well-child visits prior to the injury and child maltreatment diagnosis. Based on a secondary analysis of Medicaid data from four states, we found that among infants with 12 months of continuous enrollment (N = 4817), 30.6% of those diagnosed with maltreatment were previously diagnosed with an injury. Among infants diagnosed with child maltreatment, 88.4% had at least one well-child visit prior to the maltreatment diagnosis. Among children with a maltreatment diagnosis and a prior injury, 84% had at least one well-child visit preceding the injury. These results indicate that most children had at least one well-child visit prior to being diagnosed with child maltreatment or an injury, indicating opportunities for prevention.
(503083) John Gell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(503084) Fanny Gell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Tracing the Use of the Family Management Framework and Measure: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Knafl, K.A.
name: Gallo, A.M.
name: Skelton, B.
name: Deatrick, J.A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2021

description: This article reports the results of a scoping review of research applications of the Family Management Style Framework (FMSF) and the Family Management Measure (FaMM). We identified 32 studies based on the FMSF and 41 studies in which the FaMM was used, 17 of which were based on the FMSF. Both the framework and measure have been used by investigators in multiple countries, with most applications of the FaMM outside the United States. Although the FMSF and FaMM were originally developed for use with families in which there was a child with a chronic physical condition, both have been applied to a broader range of health conditions and to studies focusing on families with an adult member facing a health challenge. Based on our findings, we make recommendations for how researchers can more fully address all aspects of the FMSF.
Exit from the self–incurred contradiction
Creators: name: Kobe, Zdravko
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2018

description: The paper considers Kant’s presentation of the antimony as an indirect proof of transcendental idealism. By examining the two mathematical antinomic conflicts, it purports to show that Kant’s proofs of the respective theses and antitheses turn out to be inconclusive for the alleged dogmatist. Not only does the latter not fall into an inevitable contradiction, he is also able to solve it in advance, as illustrated by Leibniz’s theory of the creation of the world and Kant’s pre–critical physical monadology. Since the source of the antinomy, it is claimed, lies rather in the conflicting requirements for the possibility of experience as exposed by Kant, it is the transcendental idealist who is haunted by an inherent contradiction. This has, it is argued, important consequences for Kant’s system, as it invalidates the principle of complete determination and in general leads to a peculiar top–down gappy ontology
description: Trópos, V. 11 N. 2 (2018): La rivoluzione: tra politica e filosofia