cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Focus Structures in Mùwe Ké: Grammatical Category or Much Ado About Nothing?
Creators: name: Archer, Jonathan David
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2021

description: This thesis investigates the information-structural notion of focus through the morphosyntax of focus structures in Mùwe Ké, a Tibeto-Burman language of Mugu, Nepal with roughly five thousand speakers. The focus structures mainly involve the obligatory focus marking of actors with the otherwise-optional ergative marker -gane and a preferred immediately preverbal focus position for focussed terms, both of which are shown to correlate with the notion of focus. This is a common finding for Tibeto-Burman languages since the expression of information structure in the language family has previously been associated with differential case marking, topic and focus marking, word order and the positioning of salient terms. However, in recent years, the very notion of focus as a stable cross-linguistic category has been debated. The research and analyses presented are based on a corpus of field data collected over three years in Nepal and a grammatical sketch of M we K is provided first. Following a discussion on the theoretical approaches and notions that are adopted, a description of focus structures in the language is offered and the manifestations of focus are listed. Subsequently, focus as a category is questioned and an alternative approach is outlined using Cognitive Grammar as the theoretical framework to show the underlying processes that are associated with information update. The reanalysis fails to find evidence for a category of focus in the language due to the lack of any clearly identifiable content or a one-to-one correlation between differential ergative making, the preverbal position and focus. It does, however, show varying interpretative strategies, or focal effects, that may be associated with information structure and which overlap with the notion of focus.
title: Land-Pooling In Andhra Pradesh, India: A study of protracted dispossession and manufactured compliance in Amaravati
Creators: name: Menon, Roshni
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: After the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh into Telangana and residual Andhra in 2014, the ruling TDP government announced plans to build an ambitious new capital city, christened Amaravati, on the southern banks of the Krishna River in Guntur district. This purported “pioneer smart city of India” and “dream capital” was expected to not only serve as an engine of growth and development for the rest of Andhra, but to also fill the emotional void left behind by the loss of Hyderabad, to Telangana. The government sought to build the city through an alternate method of land assembly called the land pooling scheme, which it claimed would make farmers in the region “shareholders of development.” This was contrasted against the more arduous processes involved under the Central government’s Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. However, through fieldwork conducted in the 25 villages and four hamlets that comprise the capital region, this dissertation demonstrates how land pooling has characteristics of previous episodes of enclosures, whilst also demonstrating new features or variations in the manner in which land is appropriated and used. Specifically, in the context of Amaravati, it amounts to a continuous process of strategizing and negotiation, generating a protracted and continuous process of dispossession stretching over years. Furthermore, the announcement of the capital city had intensely differentiated impacts on the residents there as the convergence of an exclusionary economic growth and urbanization plan with pre-existing caste-based agrarian inequalities exacerbated the socioeconomic inequalities between dominant landed castes and more marginalized castes. Thus, the large contingent of landless people (mostly Dalits), who had previously enjoyed reliable work cultivating rich, multi-cropped and irrigated lands in the ‘rice bowl’ of the State, were made worse off in absolute terms through mass job loss. Even where some Dalits had gained access to land (through for example, being assigned ceiling or lanka lands), land pooling became a vehicle for the politics of co-option, intimidation and elite-capture. This ultimately amounted to a reversal of historical gains made earlier in Andhra from land distribution policies designed to uplift poorer segments of society.
title: Global China, African Agency and the Prism of Soft Power: Media Interaction and Newsroom Politics Between China and Africa
Creators: name: Li, Hangwei
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2021

description: Using comprehensive ethnographic rigor, large number of interviews and data with theoretical sophistication, the thesis discuss the historical and contemporary media interactions between China and Africa. Drawing on years of fieldwork in China, Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania, including participant observation in newsrooms, this thesis explores China’s soft power and African agency, and how African journalistic autonomy is manifested in different countries and political contexts. The thesis proposes a new framework – a variety of media – that offers a more pluralist understanding of Chinese media engagement with Africa. Through a more balanced approach by conducting over 250 interviews with Chinese and African journalists, media practitioners, and officials, the thesis aims to present a more balanced picture from both sides. Inspired by the refractive index of a prism, this paper argues that China’s efforts to use the media to penetrate soft power in Africa, cannot avoid passing through a sophisticated and complex prism, through which the effectiveness can be reduced/discounted/redirected, as light bends once entering the prism. The complexity of the prism is reflected in Chinese internal politics and constraints within the Chinese media and propaganda system, such as ‘perfomative implementation’. It also includes African media workers (especially journalists) and civil society’s resistance to Chinese media and its content, coloured by distrust, criticism and rising populism. Moreover, by examining how multiple levels of African actors interact with Chinese media organisations and impact the media relations with China, this study highlights the fragmented nature of African agency. I argue that fragmented African agency leads to a complex internal composition of the prism, with light passing through the prism at widely varying angles of refraction, which explains the uneven effects of soft power penetration. The research argues that examining the mechanisms in which Chinese media, Africa and Beijing correlate and interact can provide an alternative way to understand the origins and dynamics of China-Africa relations.
title: Title: Spices and perfumes in early medieval globalism and their socio-political effects, 80-494 A.H. /700-1100 A.D.
Creators: name: Khatun, Toslima
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: The aim of this research is to identify and examine the role of perfumes and spices that came from the Indian Ocean trade into the Caliphate, and through there into the Mediterranean trade. This study is a direct challenge to history writing that suggests that globalization happened as a sudden phenomenon after the year 390 A.H./1000 A.D. instead of as a process that occurred gradually over several centuries. This research subscribes to the definition of globalisation as the continuous and ongoing linkages of distant societies in trade, knowledge, and the movement of ‘millions of people from Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia’.1 But with the caveat that this happened prior to the year 1000 A.D. and includes East and South Asia. It is due to the graduality of this process of interconnectivity that meant that there were genuine connections between the Arab traders and those they met. This was what made areas outside of the Caliphate adopt Islamicate culture after a while. The movement of luxury products such a perfumes and spices provided enough incentive in value that communication links had to be made and maintained. The socio-political dynamics and adjustments that were needed to facilitate such links are also a part of this study into the effects of perfumes and spices in early medieval globalism.
title: Developing Moralities: An Ethnographic Study of New Elite Development Actors in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Jamal, Imran
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis explores young Bangladeshi new elite actors in development and how they conceptualise and practice new modalities of development. By working with a group of actors who are often overlooked when studying development, especially in the context of the Global South where the what and how is the primary focus rather than the who and why, I to demonstrate the importance of local elites in shaping and transforming the nature and practice of development. Based primarily on two organisational ethnographies in NGOs in Dhaka, and drawing on the anthropology of elites, development and morality, I illustrate how the new elite actors work primarily with urban, middle-class young people to cultivate market-oriented subjectivities. This marks a shift in local development practice which has tended to focus on rural, poor actors and the provision of services. This shift is occurring within a broader context of economic and social change in Bangladesh, as the country is striving to achieve middle-income status. I situate the new elite actors within a changing landscape of elites in Bangladesh to explore formations and reproduction of eliteness, particularly with regards to elite development workers. Following this, I explore how new elite-led organisations mark certain continuities and departures from older NGOs and development workers. Drawing on my ethnographies, I provide an account for how different organisations try to differentiate themselves from one another through the use of affective capital at large public events aimed at middle- and upper-middle class actors. Further drawing upon affect and emotions, I highlight how elite and non-elite actors navigate the tensions and contradictions in cultivating ethical-moral subjectivities through development practice, either at their places of work or via voluntary engagement. I place the practice of subjectivity formation by the organisations in which I work, within the broader national context of nationalism and neo-liberalism, to demonstrate how organisational cultivation of market-oriented subjectivities of young people is linked to emerging forms of citizenship cultivation in Bangladesh.
Artemis-enabled Stellar Imager (AeSI): A Lunar Long-Baseline UV/Optical Imaging Interferometer
Creators: name: Rau, Gioia
name: Carpenter, Kenneth G.
name: Boyajian, Tabetha
name: Creech-Eakman, Michelle
name: Foster, Julianne
name: Karovska, Margarita
name: Leisawitz, David
name: Morse, Jon A.
name: Mozurkewich, David
name: Peacock, Sarah
name: Petro, Noah
name: Scowen, Paul
name: Sitarski, Breann
name: van Belle, Gerard
name: Wilkinson, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NASA's return to the Moon presents unparalleled opportunities to advance high-impact scientific capabilities. At the cutting edge of these possibilities are extremely high-resolution interferometric observations at visible and ultraviolet wavelengths. Such technology can resolve the surfaces of stars, explore the inner accretion disks of nascent stars and black holes, and eventually enable us to observe surface features and weather patterns on nearby exoplanets. We have been awarded Phase 1 support from NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program to explore the feasibility of constructing a high-resolution, long-baseline UV/optical imaging interferometer on the lunar surface, in conjunction with the Artemis Program. A 1996 study comparing interferometers on the Moon versus free-flyers in space concluded that, without pre-existing lunar infrastructure, free-flyers were preferable. However, with the advent of the Artemis Program, it is now crucial to revisit the potential of building lunar interferometers. Our objective is to conduct a study with the same level of rigor applied to large baseline, free-flying interferometers during the 2003-2005 NASA Vision Missions Studies. This preparation is essential for timely and effective utilization of the forthcoming lunar infrastructure. In this paper, we highlight the groundbreaking potential of a lunar surface-based interferometer. This concept study will be a huge step forward to larger arrays on both the moon and free-flying in space, over a wide variety of wavelengths and science topics. Our Phase 1 study began in April 2024, and here we present a concise overview of our vision and the progress made so far.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024 (Invited Paper)
LHC EFT WG Note: Basis for Anomalous Quartic Gauge Couplings
Creators: name: Durieux, Gauthier
name: Remmen, Grant N.
name: Rodd, Nicholas L.
name: Éboli, O. J. P.
name: Gonzalez-Garcia, M. C.
name: Kondo, Dan
name: Murayama, Hitoshi
name: Okabe, Risshin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note, we give a definitive basis for the dimension-eight operators leading to quartic -- but no cubic -- interactions among electroweak gauge bosons. These are often called anomalous quartic gauge couplings, or aQGCs. We distinguish in particular the CP-even ones from their CP-odd counterparts.
description: LHC Effective Field Theory Working Group Note, 8 pages, 3 tables
Supplemental Material, PRISMA_Checklist_v04 - The Effectiveness of Palate Re-Repair for Treating Velopharyngeal Insufficiency: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Kurnik, Nicole M.
name: Weidler, Erica M.
name: Lien, Kari M.
name: Cordero, Kelly N.
name: Williams, Jessica L.
name: M’hamed Temkit
name: Beals, Stephen P.
name: Singh, Davinder J.
name: Sitzman, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental Material, PRISMA_Checklist_v04 for The Effectiveness of Palate Re-Repair for Treating Velopharyngeal Insufficiency: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Nicole M. Kurnik, Erica M. Weidler, Kari M. Lien, Kelly N. Cordero, Jessica L. Williams, M’hamed Temkit, Stephen P. Beals, Davinder J. Singh and Thomas J. Sitzman in The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal
title: Reflections on Dialogue with The Divine: A Comparative Study
Creators: name: al-Baroud, Dalal Saleh
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis tackles the controversial concept of dialogue with the Divine in Sufi literature and its use as an indirect vehicle to transmit a mystically camouflaged social message. The in-depth study offers a modern theoretical framework that examines hidden signs and unspoken messages masked by the gentle and winding arabesques of Sufi literary works, in an effort to explore their relation to power, authority and politics. The writing of certain mystical authors who have rarely been studied is explored, in particular the oeuvre of al-Suhrawardi and al-Niffari, whose work is introduced through a linguistic, literary and theological analysis and whose philosophical and mystical views are examined comprehensively through their special usage of language. The paper explores three different genres: a poem by al-Suhrawardi, two of al-Niffari’s Mawāqif and a play by Salah ʿAbd al-Sabur. It is a comparative study and the mystical texts involved are examined under the light of multiple Western theoretical frameworks for the first time. The milestone of the research study is its daring probing of the direct dialogue with the Divine, its forms, stylistics, implications and indications of how it could be viewed as a political text. The paper concludes that beyond being a devotional path, mysticism in literature can also be a spiritual and narrative revolution that threatens the legitimate authorities, as well as an approach to redefining the meaning of power, disguised in emotional expressions and intentionally complicated language.
title: Public International Law and the Responsibility of Arms-Exporting States
Creators: name: Labianco, Riccardo
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: In today’s highly interconnected international community, it is not uncommon for arms exported from a country to end up being used in armed conflicts or violent actions abroad. Contemporary public international law is not indifferent to this indirect participation in violent action through the transferring of arms. Rules from different international regimes, ranging from disarmament law to international humanitarian and human rights law, regulate international arms transfers. These rules do not only define the transfers of arms that lead to wrongful acts by the recipient state as wrongful; but they also provide a special responsibility of the arms-exporting state when engaged with those wrongful transfers. If transferring arms is seen as starting from the preliminary negotiations and continuing throughout the collaboration between the exporting and recipient states after the shipment, arms-exporting state responsibility consists of four elements. First, international rules and practice recognise the connection of the arms-exporting state with recipient state’s wrongful conduct involving the transferred arms. Secondly, the arms-exporting state has a duty to appreciate the risk behind the transfer of arms. Thirdly, the arms-exporting state is required to react to the identified risk, doing its best to prevent possible wrongful conduct. Fourthly, the arms-exporting state can be considered an accomplice of the recipient state if, despite its duties, it knowingly exports arms that are then used with a wrongful purpose. This dissertation analyses the various rules that frame the conduct of arms-exporting states, emphasising that responsibility for wrongful conduct involving weaponry does not only lie with the actor that eventually pulls the trigger. In an interconnected international community, the responsibility for wrongful acts involving exported arms is shared among all the actors in a position to predict and prevent those acts.
PODIO - Applying plain-old-data for defining physics data models
Creators: name: Gaede, Frank
name: Hegner, B
name: Mato, P
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2016

description: International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, CHEP 2016, CHEP 2016, San Francisco, USA, 10 Oct 2016 - 14 Oct 2016 ; (2016).
SOM_Appendixes_A_B_C – Supplemental material for Intergroup Threat as a Mediator of Ethnic Identification and Intergroup Orientations
Creators: name: Jelić, Margareta
name: Uzelac, Ena
name: Biruški, Dinka Čorkalo
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200399 Language Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, SOM_Appendixes_A_B_C for Intergroup Threat as a Mediator of Ethnic Identification and Intergroup Orientations by Margareta Jelić, Ena Uzelac and Dinka Čorkalo Biruški in Journal of Language and Social Psychology
title: Towards a multi-dimensional model of impact evaluation quality: assessing development impact evaluation methods with respect to context
Creators: name: Juden, Matthew Tom
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: In this thesis, I give an account of the quality of (quasi-)experimental impact evaluation methods for development interventions that goes beyond internal validity considerations to also incorporate the transferability of findings to new contexts. To investigate how well different (quasi-)experimental impact evaluation methods facilitate transferability, I adapt tools from realist synthesis to extract and synthesise the programme theories that underpin a set of evaluations of the same intervention-outcome pair. From this synthesis of programme theory, I derive the markers of intervention causation in context (MICCs) that a (quasi-)experimental impact evaluation of an intervention of that type would have to report to facilitate the transferability of findings. I systematically build a complete set of (quasi-)experimental impact evaluations for two intervention-outcome pairings, and apply my method to these two cases. This generates case-specific insights such as identifying evidence gaps where minimal further data generation offers large gains in understanding. Further, the analysis generates cross-case insights such as the tendency to better report causally significant features of intervention implementation than causally significant features of context. Most importantly, the analysis suggests there is no association between method choice and the facilitation of transferability, in theory or in practice. I argue that we can nonetheless improve on ‘there is no gold standard’ by showing how generating a middle-range theory of intervention causation capable of underpinning the list of MICCs for a type of intervention provides a guide to evaluation method choice and to transferring results between contexts. In parallel, to render my main results more useful to the relevant experts and therefore more likely to influence practice, I conduct semi-structured interviews with development intervention evaluation experts. I identify a broad discursive trend in favour of theory-based evaluation and a nascent interest in the use of middle-range theories to underpin transferability. I therefore frame my main results in these terms.
title: Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics: Social Protection and its Implication on Rural Poverty Dynamics in India
Creators: name: Gupta, Seema
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: The thesis is set to examine the nature of rural poverty dynamics in India and its relation to social protection schemes. In place of static monetary or consumption-based measures, the thesis focuses on multidimensional poverty measures which is able to differentiate stochastic poverty from structural one. The empirical analyses are proceeded with four research questions:1) What are the interlinkages between various dimensions of well-being in relation to poverty dynamics? 2) What explains poverty dynamics in India and are these dynamics different for different measures of poverty? 3) Can we establish a link between social protection policies and poverty dynamics? and 4) What are the transformational effect of these policies? These research questions are assessed quantitatively using the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) data for the years 2005 and 2011 as well as qualitatively by conducting face to face interviews and focus group discussions in four villages of one of the poorest states in India. A decomposition analysis on multidimensional poverty to ascertain the interdependencies between transitions in deprivation of multiple dimensions of poverty is also undertaken. Chapter 1 provides contextual background of the research and lays down research questions. Chapter 2 presents a theoretical literature review on poverty and its causes and outlines the importance of multidimensional poverty dynamics. Chapter 3 reviews empirical literature on poverty dynamics and its causes with a special focus on India. Chapters 4 provides an analysis of relationship between social protection and poverty dynamics. Chapter 5 explains the data used in this study and the methodology adopted to answer the research questions. Chapters 6, 7, and 8 provide empirical investigations into poverty dynamics and social protection in India. Chapter 9 summarises key findings and discusses policy implications and future research directions.
sj-pdf-1-aim-10.1177_0964528420920303 - Supplemental material for Identifying patients with chronic pain who respond to acupuncture: results from an individual patient data meta-analysis
Creators: name: Foster, Nadine E
name: Vertosick, Emily A
name: Lewith, George
name: Linde, Klaus
name: MacPherson, Hugh
name: Sherman, Karen J
name: Witt, Claudia M
name: Vickers, Andrew J
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-aim-10.1177_0964528420920303 for Identifying patients with chronic pain who respond to acupuncture: results from an individual patient data meta-analysis by Nadine E Foster, Emily A Vertosick, George Lewith, Klaus Linde, Hugh MacPherson, Karen J Sherman, Claudia M Witt, Andrew J Vickers and on behalf of the Acupuncture Trialists Collaboration in Acupuncture in Medicine
title: Doing Democracy in Malawi: MPs and their Home Styles
Creators: name: Fisher, Calum Stewart
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: Political scientists have under-studied those who actually “do” formal politics – politicians, particularly those operating below the level of heads of state. This neglect has been acute in African politics, resulting from, and contributing to, a generalised disdain for African politicians and a set of unflattering assumptions about their allegedly self-interested and materialistic motivations and methods. This blind-spot has impoverished debates around democratisation, party-voter linkage, and economic development, amongst others. Approaching politics through the eyes of politicians, and taking Malawi as a case, this thesis focuses on an especially neglected yet important area: MPs’ attitudes towards, and behaviour within, their constituencies. Utilising an adjusted version of Fenno’s concept of “home styles” – and based upon close observation of MPs “at home” as well as extended interviews with them – the thesis addresses MPs’ motivations for entering politics; their experiences of primary contests; the logistics and sociology of campaigning for election; their constituency service, before and after taking office, in terms of both development projects and “handouts”; and finally, how their experiences of being a constituency MP inform their reflections about how democracy is (and is not) working in contemporary Malawi. I argue that MPs’ motivations transcend self-interest. Broadly (and in common with many aid donors) they have a deeply ambivalent attitude to democracy, grounded in an image of a country and of constituents lacking in necessary (self-) discipline. They seek office by making a presentation of themselves as an embodied exemplar of certain virtues and once in office usually try to hold a line on handouts, communicating a “presentation of (their) role” as elected representatives designed in part to limit the pressure that holding office places on their personal resources. Typically, MPs perceive themselves as failing on all fronts and adopt a distinctly pessimistic orientation towards democracy as a whole.
Supplemental_Appendix_1 – Supplemental material for A study of the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Nociception Coma Scale–Revised
Creators: name: Wang, Jing
name: Di, Haibo
name: Hua, Wen
name: Cheng, Liwen
name: Xia, Zhigang
name: Hu, Zhouyao
name: Huang, Wangshan
name: Chatelle, Camille
name: Laureys, Steven
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Orthopaedics
subject: Sports Medicine

description: Supplemental material, Supplemental_Appendix_1 for A study of the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Nociception Coma Scale–Revised by Jing Wang, Haibo Di, Wen Hua, Liwen Cheng, Zhigang Xia, Zhouyao Hu, Wangshan Huang, Camille Chatelle and Steven Laureys in Clinical Rehabilitation
Solar poloidal magnetic field generation rate from observations and mean-field dynamos
Creators: name: Pipin, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To estimate the hemispheric flux generation rate of the large-scale radial magnetic field in the Solar Cycles 23 and 24, we use the photospheric observations of the solar magnetic fields and results of the mean-field dynamo models. Results of the dynamo model show the strong impact of the radial turbulent diffusion on the surface evolution of the large-scale poloidal magnetic field and on the hemispheric magnetic flux generation rate. To process the observational data set we employ the parameters of the meridional circulation and turbulent diffusion from the Surface Flux-Transport (SFT) models. We find that the observed evolution of the axisymmetric vector potential contains the time--latitude patterns which can result from the effect of turbulent diffusion of the large-scale poloidal magnetic field in the radial direction. We think that, the SFT models can reconcile the observed rate of hemispheric magnetic flux generation by considering radial turbulent diffusion and lower values of the diffusion coefficient.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures, accepted in Solar Physics
sj-pdf-1-lup-10.1177_0961203320932219 - Supplemental material for Systemic lupus erythematosus, lupus nephritis and end-stage renal disease: a pragmatic review mapping disease severity and progression
Creators: name: Anadi Mahajan
name: Amelio, Justyna
name: Gairy, Kerry
name: Gavneet Kaur
name: Levy, Roger A
name: Roth, David
name: Bass, Damon
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-lup-10.1177_0961203320932219 for Systemic lupus erythematosus, lupus nephritis and end-stage renal disease: a pragmatic review mapping disease severity and progression by Anadi Mahajan, Justyna Amelio, Kerry Gairy, Gavneet Kaur, Roger A Levy, David Roth and Damon Bass in Lupus
IPS866845_Online_Supplementary_Material_(Statistical_Appendices) – Supplemental material for Economic governance: Does it make or break a dominant party equilibrium? The case of India
Creators: name: Sharma, Chanchal Kumar
name: Swenden, Wilfried
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, IPS866845_Online_Supplementary_Material_(Statistical_Appendices) for Economic governance: Does it make or break a dominant party equilibrium? The case of India by Chanchal Kumar Sharma and Wilfried Swenden in International Political Science Review
title: The Origin, Development and Classification of Trompe l’oeil Porcelain in High Qing China
Creators: name: Chen, Chih-En
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis aims to present an alternate conception of Qing trompe l’oeil porcelain, which fools the eye, appearing real while being materially different from its referent model. Typically it is so skilful that it can be visually mistaken for the original by an uninformed viewer. The thesis questions and challenges the widely accepted identity and origin of the Qing trompe l’oeil porcelain, against the conventional wisdom that it was an imperial genre appraised and collected by the Manchu rulers, notably the Qianlong emperor, and that its production and design was substantially associated with the aesthetic from the West. It is argued in this thesis that there was a hierarchical status within the Qing trompe l’oeil artefacts, and trompe l’oeil porcelain was a genre distinct from the rest of the Qing works of art. The thesis also addresses that the production of Qing trompe l’oeil porcelain began earlier than the Qianlong reign period, and the motivation to present trompe l’oeil surfacescapes on porcelain, which was not necessary imitation based on an authentic counterpart in the real world, varied under different reigns in the High Qing era. Also, the success of this genre should be attributed to many of the Jingdezhen imperial kilns superintendents, instead of giving Tang Ying full credit. Moreover, this research introduces the “spatial turn” into the discourse of the historiography of the Qing trompe l’oeil porcelain and reconsiders the connoisseurship, patronage, and function of this genre. Overall, the thesis paints a holistic picture of Qing trompe l’oeil porcelain – production, reception, purpose, nomenclature and conceptualization, aesthetic, and its connection to physical and symbolic spaces; and through this to demonstrate that the Qing trompe l’oeil porcelains, a marginal genre in the present scholarship, was in actuality a vehicle representing High Qing intermediality and transculturalism and have always been understood as playthings in gendered terms.
Supplemental_Material_S_ang_G – Supplemental material for The Influence of Game Character Appearance on Empathy and Immersion
Creators: name: Rativa, Alexandra Sierra
name: Postma, Marie
name: Zaanen, Menno Van
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplemental material, Supplemental_Material_S_ang_G for The Influence of Game Character Appearance on Empathy and Immersion by Alexandra Sierra Rativa, Marie Postma and Menno Van Zaanen in Simulation & Gaming
title: A Critical Study of First-Person Narrative in Modern Persian Novels
Creators: name: Farigam, Nikoo
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2021

description: This thesis is a critical study of the first-person narrative in modern Persian novels. To my knowledge, the first-person narrative, which I define in this work as one of the thorniest issues in literary criticism in Iran, has never been thoroughly discussed before in an academic context, within the purview of Persian Studies. The thesis aims to address the confusion caused by first-person narrator/author identification with respect to modern novel writing in Iran by tracing the issue back to the beginnings of the Persian novel, reviewing modern literary criticism and narratology studies in contemporary Iran and offering a detailed analysis of the first-person narrative in Ṣādeq Hedāyat’s The Blind Owl, the first and most evident case of author/first-person narrator identification in the history of the Persian novel. The thesis investigates the possible cultural and literary reasons for the rise of the first-person narrative in novel writing over the past fifteen years in Iran, including the role of blogging and creative writing workshops, and how the widespread use of first-person narratives has been affected, but not restricted, by government censorship. The thesis also inclusively considers the role of gender, stressing its importance in any analysis of first-person narratives, and looks at the way in which female novelists approach and popularize some narrative techniques such as shifting point of view, employing them as a bargaining chip in order to bypass state censorship and obtain permission to publish their work. Last but not least, the thesis aims to introduce Iranian readers to a new perspective on the point of view: a component of narrative that is not merely formal, but encompasses social, economical and literary circumstances. It is hoped that, by shedding light on author/narrator identification, the thesis will represent a solid initial step towards the development of literary criticism studies in Iran.
sj-pdf-1-vas-10.1177_1708538120938921 - Supplemental material for Peripheral artery disease in outpatients with a recent history of acute coronary syndrome or at high atherothrombotic risk
Creators: name: Cantú-Brito, Carlos
name: Chiquete, Erwin
name: Antezana-Castro, Javier F
name: Toapanta-Yanchapaxi, Liz
name: Ochoa-Guzmán, Ana
name: Ruiz-Sandoval, José Luis
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cardiology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-vas-10.1177_1708538120938921 for Peripheral artery disease in outpatients with a recent history of acute coronary syndrome or at high atherothrombotic risk by Carlos Cantú-Brito, Erwin Chiquete, Javier F Antezana-Castro, Liz Toapanta-Yanchapaxi, Ana Ochoa-Guzmán, José Luis Ruiz-Sandoval and INDAGA Cardiologists Investigators in Vascular
Impact of Beam-Gas Interactions in the IP Region of the ILD
Creators: name: Karl, Robert
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2015

description: 9th Annual Meeting of the Helmholtz Alliance "Physics at the Terascale", Hamburg, Germany, 17 Nov 2015 - 18 Nov 2015 ; (2015).
Final_Supplementary_Materials – Supplemental material for Improvisation experience predicts how musicians categorize musical structures
Creators: name: Goldman, Andrew
name: Tyreek Jackson
name: Sajda, Paul
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, Final_Supplementary_Materials for Improvisation experience predicts how musicians categorize musical structures by Andrew Goldman, Tyreek Jackson and Paul Sajda in Psychology of Music
LLRF System Installation for the European XFEL
Creators: name: Branlard, Julien
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2016

description: The 5th MicroTCA workshop for industry and research, Hamburg, Germany, 7 Dec 2016 - 8 Dec 2016 ; (2016).
description: This contribution presents an overview of the complete low level radio frequency system (LLRF) installation in the European x-ray free electron laser (E-XFEL). The focus is on the MicroTCA.4-based LLRF system architecture, testing and preliminary results. Some performance results of the commissioned XFEL injector will also be presented.
title: Counter Terrorism and the Normalisation of Violence: a Feminist Genealogy of Anglo/Egyptian Pre-criminal Practices
Creators: name: Finden, Alice
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis expands on and understandings of the ‘pre-criminal space’ – a pre-emptive form of countering terrorism that sets up different treatment for those suspected of terrorism – by situating it within a historical context. This thesis makes two, inter-related arguments. First, I argue that by contextualising the ‘pre-criminal space’ within colonial legal histories, it becomes clear how this pre-emptive form of countering terrorism is legitimised and normalised as part of the everyday operation of law, rather than being a form of exceptionalism. Second, the thesis argues that the ‘pre-criminal space’ relies upon conceptualisations of extremism and terrorism that have been shaped by forms of morality and vulnerability through the marginalisation of gendered, classed and racialised communities. The arguments are made through a genealogy of pre-criminal forms of countering terrorism in early twentieth century British-occupied and contemporary Britain and Egypt. Using transnational, intersectional, queer and postcolonial feminist approaches that combine archival analysis with interviews and legal analysis, the thesis interrogates legal moments in Britain’s colonial history in Egypt, arguing that these events have been central in normalising everyday forms of state violence in both states. By holding together versions of truth from the British administration, British feminists and Egyptian officials, alongside testimonies of the fellaheen (peasantry), the working classes and sex workers, and contemporary interviews with Egyptian citizens, I demonstrate the tensions between empirical depictions of what law and violence mean to people on an everyday basis, and what an archival or legal account provides. The thesis concludes that the pre-criminal space is a form of coloniality that is legitimised through the primacy of contemporary law.
title: Ranis and Pardayats: Royal Marriages in Jodhpur-Marwar, CE 1707-1873
Creators: name: Ahlawat, Deepika
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: Matrimonial relations between Rajput kingdoms formed the basis of the regional polity in Rajputana since its formation. Colonial and colonial inspired historiography transformed the cultural complexities of these royal polygamous marriages into stereotypical tropes without reference to the region’s own archives and histories, thereby creating entirely new discursive objects that now dominate the epistemology of the subject. This dissertation aims to recover the lived realities of these polygamous marriages from local and vernacular sources in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By looking at how duties and responsibilities were constituted for men and women in an age of widespread violence, it examines the ideologies and actions that constituted rajputai, i.e., the act of being Rajput. In this context, it opens up new ways of viewing death-seeking by the male warrior and the female sati within the Rajput community. Through contemporary accounts of life in the janana for both Rajput and non- Rajput women, it reveals worldviews regarding love, marriage, and domesticity that are distinctly different from dominant modern ideas.
RAMIE: Retrieval-Augmented Multi-task Information Extraction with Large Language Models on Dietary Supplements
Creators: name: Zhan, Zaifu
name: Zhou, Shuang
name: Li, Mingchen
name: Zhang, Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: \textbf{Objective:} We aimed to develop an advanced multi-task large language model (LLM) framework to extract multiple types of information about dietary supplements (DS) from clinical records.
 \textbf{Methods:} We used four core DS information extraction tasks - namely, named entity recognition (NER: 2,949 clinical sentences), relation extraction (RE: 4,892 sentences), triple extraction (TE: 2,949 sentences), and usage classification (UC: 2,460 sentences) as our multitasks. We introduced a novel Retrieval-Augmented Multi-task Information Extraction (RAMIE) Framework, including: 1) employed instruction fine-tuning techniques with task-specific prompts, 2) trained LLMs for multiple tasks with improved storage efficiency and lower training costs, and 3) incorporated retrieval augmentation generation (RAG) techniques by retrieving similar examples from the training set. We compared RAMIE's performance to LLMs with instruction fine-tuning alone and conducted an ablation study to assess the contributions of multi-task learning and RAG to improved multitasking performance.
 \textbf{Results:} With the aid of the RAMIE framework, Llama2-13B achieved an F1 score of 87.39 (3.51\% improvement) on the NER task and demonstrated outstanding performance on the RE task with an F1 score of 93.74 (1.15\% improvement). For the TE task, Llama2-7B scored 79.45 (14.26\% improvement), and MedAlpaca-7B achieved the highest F1 score of 93.45 (0.94\% improvement) on the UC task. The ablation study revealed that while MTL increased efficiency with a slight trade-off in performance, RAG significantly boosted overall accuracy.
 \textbf{Conclusion:} This study presents a novel RAMIE framework that demonstrates substantial improvements in multi-task information extraction for DS-related data from clinical records. Our framework can potentially be applied to other domains.
Metaheuristic Generation of Brane Tilings
Creators: name: He, Yang-Hui
name: Jejjala, Vishnu
name: Silva, Tomás S. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The combinatorics of dimer models on brane tilings describe a large class of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauge theories that afford quiver descriptions and have toric moduli spaces. We introduce a combinatorial optimization method leveraging simulated annealing to explicitly construct geometrically consistent brane tilings, providing a proof of concept for efficient generation of gauge theories using metaheuristic techniques. The implementation of this idea recovers known examples and allows us to derive a new brane tiling with $26$ quantum fields, illustrating the potential of metaheuristic techniques as a valuable addition to the toolbox for constructing and analyzing gauge theories from brane tilings.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Parameterized Deceleration in $f(Q,C)$ Gravity: A Logarithmic Approach
Creators: name: Bhoyar, S. R.
name: Ingole, Yash B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This study explores a distinctive logarithmic parameterization of the deceleration parameter within the $f(Q, C)$ gravity framework, incorporating a nonlinear functional form $f(Q, C) = γ_1 Q^n + γ_2 C$, where $Q$ and $C$ denote the nonmetricity scalar and boundary term, respectively, and $n \geq 1$. This approach provides a unique perspective on the universe's accelerated expansion without resorting to exotic fields. Using observational data from Hubble measurements (OHD) and the Pantheon+SH0ES Type Ia supernovae dataset, the model parameters were constrained through a $χ^2$ minimization technique. The analysis reveals a transition from deceleration to acceleration in the expansion history of the universe, with the transition redshifts $z_t \approx 0.98$ (OHD) and $z_t \approx 0.76$ (Pantheon+SH0ES). The model demonstrates consistency with observations, offering insights into the dynamics of dark energy and alternative gravity theories, while effectively modeling cosmic evolution across epochs.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables
Online_supplement_2 – Supplemental material for Identity Expression Through Collective Action: How Identification With a Politicized Group and Its Identity Contents Differently Motivated Identity-Expressive Collective Action in the U.S. 2016 Presidential Elections
Creators: name: Turner-Zwinkels, Felicity M.
name: Zomeren, Martijn Van
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, Online_supplement_2 for Identity Expression Through Collective Action: How Identification With a Politicized Group and Its Identity Contents Differently Motivated Identity-Expressive Collective Action in the U.S. 2016 Presidential Elections by Felicity M. Turner-Zwinkels and Martijn van Zomeren in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
MSJ936231_supplemental_material – Supplemental material for Time matters: Early-phase multiple sclerosis is accompanied by considerable impairments across multiple domains
Creators: name: Thrue, C
name: Riemenschneider, M
name: Hvid, LG
name: Stenager, E
name: Dalgas, U
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Aged Health Care

description: Supplemental material, MSJ936231_supplemental_material for Time matters: Early-phase multiple sclerosis is accompanied by considerable impairments across multiple domains by C Thrue, M Riemenschneider, LG Hvid, E Stenager and U Dalgas in Multiple Sclerosis Journal