cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Sickness Unto Life: Nietzsche's Diagnosis of the Christian Condition
Creators: Shepard, Frank Griffin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Religion--Philosophy
Religion

description: Insufficient attention has been given to Nietzsche's critique of Christianity as a disease, while too much has been given to the theme of the death of God. Nietzsche's use of the language of health to describe Christianity is not a mere side-effect of his mid-career embrace of the natural sciences; rather, it develops out of his early investigation of the tragic and Socratic responses to nausea, a debilitating condition of the will. Over the course of his career, Nietzsche turns his focus from Socratism to Christianity, coming to believe that the latter response to nausea is a cure that is worse than the condition it is meant to treat. He comes to see Christianity as more relevant than Socratism to the modern European condition, and he distinguishes the two on the basis of their respective attitudes toward death (the topic of suicide) and pity (metaphysical comfort). Nietzsche develops a broadly naturalistic critique of Christianity that describes it as the lowest possible affirmation of life - something akin to a living death. As such, it is a force that disintegrates and decomposes healthy bodies - both individual and social - and produces a new kind of group - the anarchistic "herd" - that promotes the interests of the "priestly" type of human being. By focusing on the physiological, psychological, and social dimensions of Nietzsche's critique rather than its theological claims, we come to see the extent to which this critique is not limited by - and, indeed, challenges - the secular/religious divide, and how it problematizes long-held assumptions about the essence and identity of Christianity in the modern world.
The effect of educational aims on the provision of textbooks in Malaysia: with particular reference to the role of the Textbook Division, Ministry of Education, Malaysia
Creators: name: Alias, Norhayati H.
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The effect of educational aims on the provision of textbooks in Malaysia: with particular reference to the role of the Textbook Division, Ministry of Education, Malaysia
Direct Measurement of Quantum Efficiency of Single Photon Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Creators: name: Nikolay, Niko
name: Mendelson, Noah
name: Özelci, Ersan
name: Sontheimer, Bernd
name: Böhm, Florian
name: Kewes, Günter
name: Toth, Milos
name: Aharonovich, Igor
name: Benson, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single photon emitters in two-dimensional materials are promising candidates for future generation of quantum photonic technologies. In this work, we experimentally determine the quantum efficiency (QE) of single photon emitters (SPE) in few-layer hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). We employ a metal hemisphere that is attached to the tip of an atomic force microscope to directly measure the lifetime variation of the SPEs as the tip approaches the hBN. This technique enables non-destructive, yet direct and absolute measurement of the QE of SPEs. We find that the emitters exhibit very high QEs approaching $(87 \pm 7)\,\%$ at wavelengths of $\approx\,580\,\mathrm{nm}$, which is amongst the highest QEs recorded for a solid state single photon emitter.
Scalar Field Quantum Inequalities in Static Spacetimes
Creators: name: Pfenning, Michael J.
name: Ford, L. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss quantum inequalities for minimally coupled scalar fields in static spacetimes. These are inequalities which place limits on the magnitude and duration of negative energy densities. We derive a general expression for the quantum inequality for a static observer in terms of a Euclidean two-point function. In a short sampling time limit, the quantum inequality can be written as the flat space form plus subdominant correction terms dependent upon the geometric properties of the spacetime. This supports the use of flat space quantum inequalities to constrain negative energy effects in curved spacetime. Using the exact Euclidean two-point function method, we develop the quantum inequalities for perfectly reflecting planar mirrors in flat spacetime. We then look at the quantum inequalities in static de~Sitter spacetime, Rindler spacetime and two- and four-dimensional black holes. In the case of a four-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole, explicit forms of the inequality are found for static observers near the horizon and at large distances. It is show that there is a quantum averaged weak energy condition (QAWEC), which states that the energy density averaged over the entire worldline of a static observer is bounded below by the vacuum energy of the spacetime. In particular, for an observer at a fixed radial distance away from a black hole, the QAWEC says that the averaged energy density can never be less than the Boulware vacuum energy density.
description: 27 pages, 2 Encapsulated Postscript figures, uses epsf.tex, typeset in RevTex
title: SIMD vectorization for simultaneous solution of locally varying linear systems with multiple right-hand sides
Creators: name: Kühn, Martin J.
name: Holke, Johannes
name: Lutz, Annette
name: Thies, Jonas
name: Röhrig-Zöllner, Melven
name: Bleh, Alexander
name: Backhaus, Jan
name: Basermann, Achim
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2025

description: Developments in numerical simulation of flows and high-performance computing influence one another. More detailed simulation methods create a permanent need for more computational power, while new hardware developments often require changes to the software to exploit new hardware features. This dependency is very pronounced in the case of vector-units which are featured by all modern processors to increase their numerical throughput but require vectorization of the software to be used efficiently. We study the vectorization of a simulation method that exhibits an inherent level of vector-parallelism. This is of particular interest as SIMD operations will hopefully be available with std::simd in a future C++ standard. The simulation method considered here results in the simultaneous solution of multiple sparse linear systems of equations which only differ by their main diagonal and right-hand sides. Such structure arises in the simulation of unsteady flow in turbomachinery by means of a frequency domain approach called harmonic balance.
Noiseless Collective Motion out of Noisy Chaos
Creators: name: Shibata, Tatsuo
name: Chawanya, Tsuyoshi
name: Kaneko, Kunihiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the effect of microscopic external noise on the collective motion of a globally coupled map in fully desynchronized states. Without the external noise a macroscopic variable shows high-dimensional chaos distinguishable from random motion. With the increase of external noise intensity, the collective motion is successively simplified. The number of effective degrees of freedom in the collective motion is found to decrease as $-\log{σ^2}$ with the external noise variance $σ^2$. It is shown how the microscopic noise can suppress the number of degrees of freedom at a macroscopic level.
description: 9 pages RevTex file and 4 postscript figures
By any other name and to the woman who accused me of breastfeeding the madam's child
Creators: name: De Villiers, Phillippa
name: Brew Hammond, Nana Ekua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 369999
subject: Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified

description: The essay/short story is formally experimental combining fiction, autofiction and creative non-fiction to explore themes of identity, race and knowledge production.
Molecular Evolution in Time Dependent Environments
Creators: name: Wilke, Claus O.
name: Ronnewinkel, Christopher
name: Martinetz, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The quasispecies theory is studied for dynamic replication landscapes. A meaningful asymptotic quasispecies is defined for periodic time dependencies. The quasispecies' composition is constantly changing over the oscillation period. The error threshold moves towards the position of the time averaged landscape for high oscillation frequencies and follows the landscape closely for low oscillation frequencies.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, Latex, uses Springer documentclass llncs.cls
Additional file 1: of Electroencephalographic, physiologic and behavioural responses during cervical dislocation euthanasia in turkeys
Creators: name: Elein Hernandez
name: James, Fiona
name: Torrey, Stephanie
name: Widowski, Tina
name: Schwean-Lardner, Karen
name: Monteith, Gabrielle
name: Turner, Patricia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Mean (ÂąSE) EEG parameters after administration of pentobarbital sodium to turkeys. (DOCX 16 kb)
The Sheremetevs and the Argunovs: Art, Serfdom, and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Creators: Helprin, Alexandra Morris
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Art
Serfdom
Enlightenment

description: This dissertation studies a case of Enlightenment art created in feudal conditions of servitude. The Sheremetevs, one of the richest and most powerful families in eighteenth-century Russia, had some of their hundreds of thousands of serfs trained as painters, architects, opera singers, and musicians. Two of these serfs, Ivan and Nikolai Argunov, became successful portraitists who painted a range of sitters from Empresses to fellow serfs. Tensions between social rank and individuality, already a preoccupation for eighteenth-century portrait painters, became particularly pronounced in this situation.
      	While recent scholarship has focused on the Argunovs' cosmopolitan influences, their paintings of fellow serfs and others of low rank are sometimes visually and iconographically distinct from their usual output. This category of portrait, this dissertation argues, should be considered within the context of the other artistic projects of the Sheremetev household. Despite strong Western European influences on the Argunovs, the painters were also exposed to extremely personal and local precedents. These include earlier portraits, garden prints, an atlas project, the Sheremetevs' many collections, and operas staged by the family's renowned serf theater. Working within this visual environment, Ivan and Nikolai Argunov painted their subjects in intricately allusive ways. Their portraits represented and negotiated the complications of serfdom in a setting where unusual social change was possible.
The Silk Princess Narrative: Religious Identity and the Localization of Buddhist Networks in the Kingdom of Khotan
Creators: Monteleone, David
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Religion
Buddhism
Sericulture

description: The southern Silk Road kingdom of Khotan was long considered by Chinese pilgrim monks to be just another stop on the road to India in search of Buddhist scriptures. The aim of this dissertation is to recast Khotan as a unique and innovative mediator of religious and cultural expression within the Buddhist network through an analysis of the Khotanese silk princess narrative, the tale of an eastern princess who is credited with acquiring the secrets of Chinese sericulture for the Khotanese king.
Osmotic Pressure of Permeable Ionic Microgels: Poisson-Boltzmann Theory and Exact Statistical Mechanical Relations in the Cell Model
Creators: name: Denton, Alan R.
name: Alziyadi, Mohammed O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ionic microgels are soft colloidal particles, composed of crosslinked polymer networks, that ionize and swell when dispersed in a good solvent. Swelling of these permeable, compressible particles involves a balance of electrostatic, elastic, and mixing contributions to the single-particle osmotic pressure. The electrostatic contribution depends on the distributions of mobile counterions and coions and of fixed charge on the polymers. Within the cell model, we employ two complementary methods to derive the electrostatic osmotic pressure of ionic microgels. In Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory, we minimize a free energy functional with respect to the electrostatic potential to obtain the bulk pressure. From the pressure tensor, we extract the electrostatic and gel contributions to the total pressure. In a statistical mechanical approach, we vary the free energy with respect to microgel size to obtain exact relations for the microgel electrostatic osmotic pressure. We present results for planar, cylindrical, and spherical geometries. For models of membranes and microgels with fixed charge uniformly distributed over their surface or volume, we derive analogues of the contact value theorem for charged colloids. We validate these relations by solving the PB equation and computing ion densities and osmotic pressures. When implemented within PB theory, the two methods yield identical electrostatic osmotic pressures for surface-charged microgels. For volume-charged microgels, the exact electrostatic osmotic pressure equals the average of the corresponding PB profile over the gel volume. We demonstrate that swelling of ionic microgels depends on variation of the electrostatic pressure inside the particle and discuss implications for interpreting experiments.
description: 21 pages, 16 figures
Temporal intermittency and cascades in shell models of turbulence
Creators: name: Ditlevsen, P. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 2d and 3d like Gletzer, Okhitani and Yamada (GOY) shell models are examined. The 2d like model shows a transition from statistical quasi-equilibrium to cascade of enstrophy as a function of the spectral ratio of energy to enstrophy. The transition is related to the ratio of time scales, corresponding to eddy turnover times, between shells. The anomalous scaling, giving rise to non-linear scaling functions, is also connected to the ratio of eddy turnover times. This is illustrated in a simple stochastic model, where the structure function, $ζ(q)$, becomes independent of $q$. In the 3d like model the multiscaling is also influenced by the existence of a second non-positive definite inviscid invariant, the helicity.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
MOESM1 of Associations between soil-transmitted helminthiasis and viral, bacterial, and protozoal enteroinfections: a cross-sectional study in rural Laos
Creators: name: Chard, Anna
name: Baker, Kelly
name: Tsai, Kevin
name: Levy, Karen
name: Jeticia Sistrunk
name: Chang, Howard
name: Freeman, Matthew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers and probes for custom TaqMan Array Card.
Exact Potts Model Partition Functions on Wider Arbitrary-Length Strips of the Square Lattice
Creators: name: Chang, Shu-Chiuan
name: Shrock, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present exact calculations of the partition function of the q-state Potts model for general q and temperature on strips of the square lattice of width L_y=3 vertices and arbitrary length L_x with periodic longitudinal boundary conditions, of the following types: (i) (FBC_y,PBC_x)= cyclic, (ii) (FBC_y,TPBC_x)= Möbius, (iii) (PBC_y,PBC_x)= toroidal, and (iv) (PBC_y,TPBC_x)= Klein bottle, where FBC and (T)PBC refer to free and (twisted) periodic boundary conditions. Results for the L_y=2 torus and Klein bottle strips are also included. In the infinite-length limit the thermodynamic properties are discussed and some general results are given for low-temperature behavior on strips of arbitrarily great width. We determine the submanifold in the {\mathbb C}^2 space of q and temperature where the free energy is singular for these strips. Our calculations are also used to compute certain quantities of graph-theoretic interest.
description: latex, with encapsulated postscript figures
Bidding for Preferred Timing: An Auction Design for Electric Vehicle Charging Station Scheduling
Creators: name: Hou, Luyang
name: Wang, Chun
name: Yan, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper considers an electric vehicle charging scheduling setting where vehicle users can reserve charging time in advance at a charging station. In this setting, users are allowed to explicitly express their preferences over different start times and the length of charging periods for charging their vehicles. The goal is to compute optimal charging schedules which maximize the social welfare of all users given their time preferences and the state of charge of their vehicles. Assuming that users are self-interested agents who may behave strategically to advance their own benefits rather than the social welfare of all agents, we propose an iterative auction which computes high quality schedules and, at the same time, preserve users' privacy by progressively eliciting their preferences as necessary. We conduct a game theoretical analysis on the proposed iterative auction to prove its individual rationality and the best response for agents. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that the iterative auction can achieve high-efficiency solutions with a partial value information. Additionally, we explore the relationship between scheduling efficiency and information revelation in the auction.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
MOESM2 of Associations between soil-transmitted helminthiasis and viral, bacterial, and protozoal enteroinfections: a cross-sectional study in rural Laos
Creators: name: Chard, Anna
name: Baker, Kelly
name: Tsai, Kevin
name: Levy, Karen
name: Jeticia Sistrunk
name: Chang, Howard
name: Freeman, Matthew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Soil-transmitted helminth infection intensity according to Kato-Katz test, Saravane Province, Laos, 2017 (nâ =â 746).
The Small Universe of Social Protection: Labor, Underemployment and Assistance in Mexico’s Welfare State, 1917-1970
Creators: Hidalgo Garza, Sara Daniela
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: History
Public health
Public welfare

description: This dissertation examines the creation and consolidation of Mexico’s segmented system of welfare provision between and the consequences it had for the people who relied on it for basic medical and economic benefits. The Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), founded in 1943, was responsible for the welfare of formal workers and their families through the provision of general healthcare and pensions in the case of accident, disability, illness, old-age or death. Publicly, Mexican authorities voiced the expectation that, one breadwinner at a time, IMSS would soon become nearly universal. By using IMSS historical sources, statistics, and general population censuses, this dissertation argues that the National Security Institute’s design, which relied on contributions from salaried workers in stable employment relationships, made this project unlikely. The result was that most of the country’s population had to resort to the Secretaría de Salubridad y Asistencia (SSA) for medical and social services; these, however, had been planned to become marginal vis-à-vis an expanding IMSS, and were therefore chronically underfunded and overcrowded, and ill-prepared to tend for the majority of the country’s population. Moreover, as an examination of cases who received social assistance from the SSA during the 1960s show, the services provided by this institution were, unlike those of IMSS, temporary, conditional and often stigmatizing, introducing long-standing inequalities in the social and economic rights that different sectors of the Mexican population could access.
A note on area variables in Regge calculus
Creators: name: Barrett, John W.
name: Rocek, Martin
name: Williams, Ruth M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the possibility of setting up a new version of Regge calculus in four dimensions with areas of triangles as the basic variables rather than the edge-lengths. The difficulties and restrictions of this approach are discussed.
description: 4 pages, amstex. Revision has minor changes and more precise conclusions
Scaling-up atomically thin coplanar semiconductor-metal circuitry via phase engineered chemical assembly
Creators: name: Xu, Xiaolong
name: Liu, Shuai
name: Han, Bo
name: Han, Yimo
name: Xu, Wanjin
name: Yao, Xiaohan
name: Yuan, Kai
name: Li, Pan
name: Yang, Shiqi
name: Gong, Wenting
name: Muller, David A.
name: Gao, Peng
name: Ye, Yu
name: Dai, Lun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional (2D) layered semiconductors, with their ultimate atomic thickness, have shown promise to scale down transistors for modern integrated circuitry. However, the electrical contacts that connect these materials with external bulky metals are usually unsatisfactory, which limits the transistor performance. Recently, contacting 2D semiconductors using coplanar 2D conductors has shown promise in reducing the problematic high resistance contacts. However, many of these methods are not ideal for scaled production. Here, we report on the large-scale, spatially controlled chemical assembly of the integrated 2H-MoTe2 field-effect transistors (FETs) with coplanar metallic 1T' MoTe2 contacts via phase engineered approaches. We demonstrate that the heterophase FETs exhibit ohmic contact behavior with low contact resistance, resulting from the coplanar seamless contact between 2H and 1T' MoTe2 confirmed by transmission electron microscopy characterizations. The average mobility of the heterophase FETs was measured to be as high as 23 cm2 V-1 s-1 (comparable with those of exfoliated single crystals), due to the large 2H MoTe2 single-crystalline domain (486μm). By developing a patterned growth method, we realize the 1T' MoTe2 gated heterophase FET array whose components of channel, gate, and contacts are all 2D materials. Finally, we transfer the heterophase device array onto a flexible substrate and demonstrate the near-infrared photoresponse with high photoresponsivity (~1.02 A/W). Our study provides a basis for the large-scale application of phase-engineered coplanar MoTe2 semiconductors-meter structure in advanced electronics and optoelectronics.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1: of SNPs associated with barley resistance to isolates of Pyrenophora teres f. teres
Creators: name: Rozanova, Irina
name: Lashina, Nina
name: Zakhar Mustafin
name: Gorobets, Sofia
name: Efimov, Vadim
name: Afanasenko, Olga
name: Khlestkina, Elena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Table with results of net blotch resistance assessment within the Siberian spring barley collection. HR – highly resistant (1.0–3.0); MR – moderately resistant (3.1–5.0); MS – moderately susceptible (5.1–6.9); S – susceptible (7.0–10.0); “-” – failed. (DOCX 43 kb)
The Social Life of Gnosis: Sufism in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Creators: Golestaneh, Seema
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)
Sufism--Social aspects
Revolution (Iran : 1979)
Sufism
Ethnology

description: My research examines the social and material life of gnosis for the contemporary Sufi community in post-revolutionary Iran. In contrast to literatures which confine Sufism to the literary and poetic realms, I investigate the ways in which gnosis (mystical epistemology) is re-configured as a series of techniques for navigating the realm of the everyday. In particular, I focus on the ways in which mystical knowledge (ma'arifat-e 'erfani) is utilized by the Sufis to position themselves as outside of the socio-political areana, a move that, within the context of the Islamic Republic, in and of itself possesses vast political and social repercussions. I approach gnosis in two ways: both as object of study but also as critical lens, utilizing the Sufis' own mystical epistemology to guide me in understanding and interpreting my ethnographic case studies. In my dissertation, I address the following questions: What is the role of the Sufis, a group positioned on neither side of the orthodoxy-secular divide, within post-revolutionary Iran? How does a religious group attempt to create and maintain a disavowal of the political realm in a theocracy? More broadly, what is the role of mysticism within late modernity, and how might such a question be answered anthropologically?
      At the heart of my dissertation is the analysis of four ethnographic case studies. In each instance, I illustrate the way that the Sufis' own concept of mystical knowledge may be used to interpret topics as varied as the relationship between commemorative (dhikr) rituals and national identity to the negotiation of state interference to the practice of youth-organized poetry readings to the spatial organization of meeting places. I trace the affective and sensory dimensions of gnosis as it influences the mystics' understanding of the body, memory, place, language, and their socio-theological position within Iranian modernity more broadly. By analyzing the question of the "apolitical," my dissertation intervenes into the presumed distinction between the aesthetico-epistemological and the political divide, tracking a group that favors not direct resistance or outright evasion, but a more elusive engagement. My dissertation may be utilized by those interested in questions of knowledge production, aesthetics and affect, and alternatives to the religious-secular divide.
The $\hat{G}^{4}λ^{16}$ Term in IIB Supergravity
Creators: name: Sinha, Aninda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The supersymmetry constraints on the $\hat{G}^{4}\lamda^{16}$ term in the effective action of type IIB superstring theory are studied in order to determine the dependence of its coefficient on the complex scalar field, $τ$. The resulting expression is consistent with the $SL(2,{\Bbb Z})$ invariant conjectures in the literature.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure
A New Class of Time Dependent Latent Factor Models with Applications
Creators: name: Williamson, Sinead A.
name: Zhang, Michael Minyi
name: Damien, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In many applications, observed data are influenced by some combination of latent causes. For example, suppose sensors are placed inside a building to record responses such as temperature, humidity, power consumption and noise levels. These random, observed responses are typically affected by many unobserved, latent factors (or features) within the building such as the number of individuals, the turning on and off of electrical devices, power surges, etc. These latent factors are usually present for a contiguous period of time before disappearing; further, multiple factors could be present at a time. This paper develops new probabilistic methodology and inference methods for random object generation influenced by latent features exhibiting temporal persistence. Every datum is associated with subsets of a potentially infinite number of hidden, persistent features that account for temporal dynamics in an observation. The ensuing class of dynamic models constructed by adapting the Indian Buffet Process --- a probability measure on the space of random, unbounded binary matrices --- finds use in a variety of applications arising in operations, signal processing, biomedicine, marketing, image analysis, etc. Illustrations using synthetic and real data are provided.
The Social Economy of Buying, Selling, Trading, and Consuming Drugs: A Comparison of Individual and Sub Cultural Strategies Among Methamphetamine Users and Dealers in Two Cities
Creators: Hunt, Kirsten Erin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Ethnology

description: The objective of this ethnographic study was to elucidate the individual and collective meanings and functions of drug taking for research subjects including methamphetamine users and dealers in drug subcultural groups recruited in two major cities. Participant observation was conducted in the two cities among methamphetamine users and dealers. In depth interviews were conducted with N=35 respondents in New York City and N=38 respondents in Los Angeles including injecting (IDUS) and non injecting drug users (NIUS). In this dissertation, I describe how the social identities and economic lives of participants in various sites have influenced the buying, selling, and consumption of drugs. Comparative analyses of the meanings and practices of research subjects, including mixed income gay, straight and bisexual users in New York City and inner city ethnic and class minorities in Los Angeles, illustrate how the function of drug taking and drug effects can vary depending on the social and economic context and physical setting, the social location of users and the subcultural group that one belongs to. Variations were found in the structure and organization of methamphetamine distribution. Among New York City respondents, freelance distributors catered to "binge" users that used the drug on weekends while clubbing and during commercial sex encounters and the co-evolution of the local methamphetamine market with the expanding online men who have sex with men (MSM) commercial sex industry and the New York City gay sex and club drug scene provided a collective identity that largely determined subjective drug effects. Sex workers operated as cultural brokers between buyers and sellers in the gay sex scene by facilitating sex parties and the closing and policing of public venues including clubs, bathhouses, and afterhours venues, largely shifted the buying and selling of drugs and sex indoors and in transitory public locations such as hotels. Whereas buying, selling, trading and consuming methamphetamine were a cultural response to stigmatization as a sexual minority for many New York City respondents, among ethnic and class minorities in the Los Angeles sample, low income and transient dealers and users formed helping networks as a response to social economic marginalization and consumption and distribution were important aspects sustaining them. For these respondents, buying, selling, and consuming drugs were an adaptive response to instability in housing, unemployment, racism, and structural inequality including historical exclusion and discrimination on the basis of immigrant status and class oppression. This study suggests the importance of a contextual understanding of local drug markets and risk taking which are essential to the formation and development of risk reduction and prevention methods and policy.
Spin image of an atomic vapor cell with a resolution smaller than the diffusion crosstalk free distance
Creators: name: Dong, Haifeng
name: Chen, Jingling
name: Li, Jimin
name: Liu, Chen
name: Li, Anxian
name: Zhao, Nan
name: Guo, Fenzhuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The diffusion crosstalk free distance is an important parameter for spin images in atomic vapor cells and is also regarded as a limit on the spatial resolution. However, by modulating the pumping light both spatially and temporally using a digital micromirror device, a spin image of a vapor cell has been obtained with a distinguishable stripe width of 13.7~$μ$m, which is much smaller than the corresponding diffusion crosstalk free distance of $\sim$138~$μ$m. The fundamental limit on the spatial resolution as determined by diffusion and the uncertainty principle is analyzed.
Intermittency and scaling laws for wall bounded turbulence
Creators: name: Benzi, R.
name: Amati, G.
name: Casciola, C. M.
name: Toschi, F.
name: Piva, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Well defined scaling laws clearly appear in wall bounded turbulence, even very close to the wall, where a distinct violation of the refined Kolmogorov similarity hypothesis (RKSH) occurs together with the simultaneous persistence of scaling laws. A new form of RKSH for the wall region is here proposed in terms of the structure functions of order two which, in physical terms, confirms the prevailing role of the momentum transfer towards the wall in the near wall dynamics.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 1: of UHRF1 depletion and HDAC inhibition reactivate epigenetically silenced genes in colorectal cancer cells
Creators: name: Niinuma, Takeshi
name: Kitajima, Hiroshi
name: Kai, Masahiro
name: Yamamoto, Eiichiro
name: Yorozu, Akira
name: Ishiguro, Kazuya
name: Sasaki, Hajime
name: Sudo, Gota
name: Toyota, Mutsumi
name: Hatahira, Tomo
name: Reo Maruyama
name: Tokino, Takashi
name: Nakase, Hiroshi
name: Sugai, Tamotsu
name: Hiromu Suzuki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Supplementary figures. (DOC 3751 kb)
AN OVERVIEW ON THE LATE MIOCENE VERTEBRATES FROM THE FISSURE FILLINGS OF MONTICINO QUARRY (BRISIGHELLA, ITALY), WITH NEW DATA ON NON-MAMMALIAN TAXA
Creators: name: VILLA, ANDREA
name: CARNEVALE, GIORGIO
name: PAVIA, MARCO
name: ROOK, LORENZO
name: SAMI, MARCO
name: SZYNDLAR, ZBIGNIEW
name: DELFINO, MASSIMO
Publisher: name: RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA
Year: 2021

description: The latest Messinian Monticino Quarry fissure fillings, near Brisighella in Italy, are well known for their diverse mammal fauna. Conversely, little is known about other vertebrates from this rich site. Beside presenting an overview of the mammals, here we describe fish, amphibian, reptile, and bird remains, identifying three, eight, at least 18, and five taxa, respectively. Some of these represent the oldest occurrences either worldwide (an erycine snake related to Eryx jaculus, Malpolon, and otidids birds) or locally (common toads in the Apennine Peninsula and eremiadine lacertids in Europe, the latter being also the only known occurrence of these lizards in Italy). Altogether, the vertebrate fauna from Monticino Quarry is indicative of a complex palaeoenvironment, which was warm and somehow dry. Water bodies were indeed present though, as well as a patchy set of habitats with loose or sandy soils, rocky outcrops, open biotopes, and (even though maybe to a lesser extent) wooded areas. Furthermore, estuarine or lagoonal conditions were likely present near the depositional site. From a palaeobiogeographical point of view, the non-mammal vertebrate assemblage from Monticino Quarry shows considerable Afro-Asian affinities at least for some components. In the context of the Italian late Miocene continental vertebrate assemblages, that of Monticino is remarkably similar to those from the Piedmont Basin, especially if compared with the Tusco-Sardinian area, Apulian Platform, Calabrian Arc and Sicily. This is consistent with the palaeobiogeographic scenario defined by mammal assemblages, with northcentral Italy, Tuscany and Sardinia, Apulian Platform, and Calabria and Sicily representing separated bioprovinces.
description: RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA , V. 127 N. 2 (2021)
Exact Solvability of Superintegrable Systems
Creators: name: Tempesta, Piergiulio
name: Turbiner, Alexander V.
name: Winternitz, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that all four superintegrable quantum systems on the Euclidean plane possess the same underlying hidden algebra $sl(3)$. The gauge-rotated Hamiltonians, as well as their integrals of motion, once rewritten in appropriate coordinates, preserve a flag of polynomials. This flag corresponds to highest-weight finite-dimensional representations of the $sl(3)$-algebra, realized by first order differential operators.
description: 14 pages, AMS LaTeX
Thermal rectifier based on asymmetric interaction of molecular chain with thermostats
Creators: name: Savin, Alexander V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The model of thermal rectifier based on the asymmetry of interaction of the molecular chain ends with thermostats is proposed in this work. The rectification mechanism is not related to the chain asymmetry, but to the asymmetry of the interaction of chain ends with thermostats, for instance, due to different lengths of the end thermostats. The chain can be homogeneous, it is only important that the thermal conductivity of the chain should depend on temperature strict monotonically. The effect is maximal when convergence of the thermal conductivity with increasing length just begins to manifest itself. In this case, the efficiency of thermal rectification can reach 25%. These conditions are met for carbon nanoribbons and nanotubes. Therefore, they can be ideal objects for the construction of thermal rectifiers based on the asymmetric interaction with thermostats. Numerical simulation of heat transfer shows that the rectification of heat transfer can reach 14% for nanoribbons and 22% for nanotubes.
description: 11 pages, 16 figures
Monopole Operators and Mirror Symmetry in Three Dimensions
Creators: name: Borokhov, Vadim
name: Kapustin, Anton
name: Wu, Xinkai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study vortex-creating, or monopole, operators in 3d CFTs which are the infrared limit of N=2 and N=4 supersymmetric QEDs in three dimensions. Using large-Nf expansion, we construct monopole operators which are primaries of short representations of the superconformal algebra. Mirror symmetry in three dimensions makes a number of predictions about such operators, and our results confirm these predictions. Furthermore, we argue that some of our large-Nf results are exact. This implies, in particular, that certain monopole operators in N=4 d=3 SQED with Nf=1 are free fields. This amounts to a proof of 3d mirror symmetry in a special case.
description: 30 pages, latex. v2: references added
MOESM1 of Spatio-temporal modelling of Leishmania infantum infection among domestic dogs: a simulation study and sensitivity analysis applied to rural Brazil
Creators: name: Buckingham-Jeffery, Elizabeth
name: Hill, Edward
name: Samik Datta
name: Dilger, Erin
name: Courtenay, Orin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional information on household-level host distributions; sand fly abundance; proportion of infectious sand flies; and sensitivity coefficients.
Dual-polarized all-angle cloaking of a dielectric nanowire by helical graphene ribbons
Creators: name: Shcherbinin, Vitalii I.
name: Moskvitina, Yuliya K.
name: Fesenko, Volodymyr I.
name: Tuz, Vladimir R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scattering from a dielectric nanowire coated by helical graphene strips (nanoribbons) is investigated for dual-polarized wave at oblique incidence. In the long-wavelength approximation, the helical strips are treated as a homogeneous layer with averaged tensor conductivity. It is shown that performance of well-known surface cloaks in the form of graphene monolayer, axial and azimuthal graphene strips can be deteriorated in a wide range of incidence angles. To overcome this problem, helical graphene strips are proposed as an advanced metasurface for dual-polarized all-angle cloaking of dielectric nanowire in the terahertz band. It is found that such metasurface suppresses scattering from nanowire more effectively as compared to graphene monolayer, regardless of the angle of wave incidence. Moreover, dual-polarized all-angle cloaking of dielectric nanowire can be broadly tuned in frequency with parameters of helical graphene strips.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures
A NEW CRANIUM OFCROCODYLUS ANTHROPOPHAGUS FROM OLDUVAI GORGE, NORTHERN TANZANIA
Creators: name: AZZARÀ, BEATRICE
name: BOSCHIAN, GIOVANNI
name: BROCHU, CHRISTOPHER A.
name: DELFINO, MASSIMO
name: IURINO, DAWID A.
name: KIMAMBO, JACKSON S.
name: MANZI, GIORGIO
name: MASAO, FIDELIS T.
name: MENCONERO, SOFIA
name: NJAU, JACKSON K.
name: CHERIN, MARCO
Publisher: name: RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA
Year: 2021

description: Olduvai Gorge (northern Tanzania) is one of the best known and most iconic palaeontological and archaeological sites in the world. In more than a century of research it has yielded an impressive record of fossils and stone tools which stands as a compendium of human evolution in the context of environmental changes of East Africa in the last 2 Ma. Recent field work in the DK site at Olduvai lead to the retrieval of a partial crocodile cranium nicknamed Black Sun because it was discovered during an annular solar eclipse. The specimen is here described and compared with extinct and extant African crocodylids. The new cranium can be referred to Crocodylus anthropophagus, a Pleistocene species hitherto found only in Olduvai Gorge. Thanks to the good preservation of the skull table, its morphology is here characterised for the first time. Black Sun represents to date the earliest (ca. 1.9–1.85 Ma) and the most informative cranium of C. anthropophagus in the fossil record. Our phylogenetic analysis supports a strict relationship between C. anthropophagus and Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, a large species from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Turkana Basin (Kenya). These two sister taxa share a combination of characters which places them at the base of Crocodylus, providing an intriguing element to the debate on the African or extra-African origin of this genus.
description: RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA , V. 127 N. 2 (2021)
Boundary Effects in The Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
Creators: name: Eguiluz, Victor M.
name: Hernandez-Garcia, Emilio
name: Piro, Oreste
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of a finite geometry on the two-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau equation is addressed. Boundary effects induce the formation of novel states. For example target like-solutions appear as robust solutions under Dirichlet boundary conditions. Synchronization of plane waves emitted by boundaries, entrainment by corner emission, and anchoring of defects by shock lines are also reported.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted for publication; slight modifications; for related work visit http://www.imedea.uib.es/~victor
Gravitation Gauge Group
Creators: name: Ter-Kazarian, G. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Suggested theory involves a drastic revision of a role of local internal symmetries in physical concept of curved geometry. Under the reflection of fields and their dynamics from Minkowski to Riemannian space a standard gauge principle of local internal symmetries is generalized. The gravitation gauge group is proposed, which is generated by hidden local internal symmetries. The developed mechanism enables one to infer Einstein's equation of gravitation, but only with strong difference from Einstein's theory at the vital point of well-defined energy-momentum tensor of gravitational field and conservation laws. The gravitational interaction as well as general distortion of manifold G(2.2.3) with hidden group U(1) was considered.
description: LaTex, 14 pages, email gago@bao.sci.am