cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Multi-scale and multi-domain computational astrophysics
Creators: name: van Elteren, A.
name: Pelupessy, F. I.
name: Zwart, S. Portegies
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Astronomical phenomena are governed by processes on all spatial and temporal scales, ranging from days to the age of the Universe (13.8,Gyr) as well as from km size up to the size of the Universe. This enormous range in scales is contrived, but as long as there is a physical connection between the smallest and largest scales it is important to be able to resolve them all, and for the study of many astronomical phenomena this governance is present. Although covering all these scales is a challenge for numerical modelers, the most challenging aspect is the equally broad and complex range in physics, and the way in which these processes propagate through all scales. In our recent effort to cover all scales and all relevant physical processes on these scales we have designed the Astrophysics Multipurpose Software Environment (AMUSE). AMUSE is a Python-based framework with production quality community codes and provides a specialized environment to connect this plethora of solvers to a homogeneous problem solving environment.
description: 10 pages, Submitted to: Philosophical Transactions A
LAURO DE OLIVEIRA LIMA E O ANALFABETISMO
Creators: name: Rodrigues Dias, Marco Aurélio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022

description: O objetivo deste trabalho é reforçar que o analfabetismo e a evasão escolar ocorrem por causa da exclusão social, das atitudes antidemocráticas do Estado e da Sociedade e do desamparo em que vivem os mais desfavorecidos. Estudos sobre o desenvolvimento da inteligência demonstram que toda criança pode aprender o ensino formal oferecido nas escolas, exceto nos casos de doença neurológica degenerativa que compromete a memória, o pensamento, o comportamento e a compreensão. O analfabetismo e a evasão escolar são diagnóstico não de deficiência intelectual dos analfabetos, mas da falta de vontade política da Escola, do Estado, da Família e da Sociedade, que não promovem a inclusão e excluem do ensino formal os desfavorecidos. O referencial teórico deste trabalho se sustenta numa conversa que tive com Lauro de Oliveira Lima, o qual desconstruiu, fundamentado em Piaget, a desinformação sobre a inteligência dos indivíduos das classes pobres.
Non-Oedipal Networks and the Inorganic Unconscious
Creators: name: Doherty, Melanie
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: er  being  mysteriously  invited  to  this  confer-ence out of the blue last fall and despite my reserva-tions  and  anxieties,  I  am  here  with  a  mixture  of trepidation and curiosity. I was called out of nowhere, like  Josef  K.  called  to  the  castle.  I  have  wondered many times how I ended up on the radar of the indi-viduals involved, and Reza Negarestani’s radar in par-ticular.  I  will  not  pretend  to  understand  the  engine behind this not entirely unpleasant experience of par-anoia that I’ve been feeling for the past few months as I  read  and  reread Cyclonopedia.  As  a  good  hysteri-cized academic who still falls victim to the Discourse of  the  University,  one  who  uses  excessive  Post-It© notes and checks footnotes, I read the text initially as a traditional book, but then I began to search beyond the original  text  on  website  after  website  after  website, following the clues left initially in Kristen Alvanson’s journal. As I began burrowing through the archives, mole-like, I started to suspect a ludic collective throb-bing  behind every  cold discussion  on Hyperstition,2every blog post and journal article, every conference announcement and facebook page, and perhaps lingering behind every page of the book as well. I began to see connections to the text everywhere online: trisons and weaponized rats, 9s and 11s, solar capitalism, Tel-lurian lubricant, xenopoetics! I giggled aloud with a tinge of hysteria when I saw that the date of the con-ference was indeed March 11—the same date as the first page of the Cyclonopedia manuscript itself! What grand  and  terrifying  organizing  skills  were  these?3What spell had been cast around me to make my hold on  reality  feel  so  tenuous?  My  Oedipa  complex reached fever pitch as I read articles in Collapse, the history of the CCRU, Nick Land’s The Thirst for Anni-hilation,  and  tracked  the  unfolding  debates  within Speculative  Realism.  Terror  fractals  radiated  out  of unexpected civilian spaces. Plotholes unfurling vulvi-cally inside plotholes. And, finally, I suspected that I had plunged to a new depth in the molten magma core of my insanity when I woke up last Saturday morning to see this lead news story on the web: “Fox News Ex-clusive  :  NASA  Scientist  Claims  Evidence  of  Alien Life on Meteorite!” (Because of the contingency of my current  geographic  location  in  Macon,  GA,  and  the wonders of Web 2.0, FOX news often pops up first on my browser. Not by choice.)
Symptomatic Horror: Lovecraft's "The Colour out of Space"
Creators: name: Sciscione, Anthony
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Symptomatic horror describes works that attempt to encounter the radically non-human without recourse to  ontological  presence  and  positive  conceptualiza-tion,  instead  channeling  the  incompatible  agency through its effects on the landscape and representing it in the text primarily with reference to the discursive and hermeneutic gaps it occasions. In H.P. Lovecraft’s “The  Colour  Out  of  Space,”  a  classic  work  of  this sort,  a  constitutionally-indeterminate extraterrestrial agency deposited by a meteorite infiltrates a local bio-physical milieu and reengineers it in accordance with its  alien  molecular  agenda.  At  the  same  time,  the agency occupies a liminal dimension with regard to phenomenal (extensive) space by nesting in the inter-stice between object and quality and also suggesting itself just beyond the borders of perception by sounds sensed  only  at  “moments  where  consciousness [seems]  to  half  slip  away.”  The  habits  of  “stealthy listening” and obsessive nocturnal watching the Gard-ners develop thus increase its phenomenal availabil-ity,  making  paranoia  a  ‘schizotrategic’  mode  of drawing victims toward it at “the outer limits of de-mon  and  system”  where,  to  borrow  from  Deleuze-Guattari, “the interior forces of earth [and] the exterior forces of chaos...clasp and are wed in a battle whose only criterion and stakes is the earth.” The “xeno-agent” or radical outsider never appears as a discrete entity or individuated substance beyond vague indica-tions of motion and fog, but is revealed only nebulous-ly on the ground (the superficial or visible outside) through symptoms of transmutation and madness. In cosmic horror fiction, radical exteriority tends to re-flect some abyss in cognitive apprehension, a chasm or disjuncture between person and world widened by our profound vulnerability in an aleatory, unfavorable cosmos. The shadow of what we don’t know becomes an  alterior  horror  that  knows  all,  that  stares  back through mist with myriad eyes or takes advantage of solidity’s dependence on void to wriggle out the eye-holes of anthropocentrism. In this paper I will explore symptomatic horror in Lovecraft’s tale through Negar-estani’s “( )hole-complex,” understood as a “machine” by which the xeno-agent as “avatar of absolute exteri-ority” infiltrates the interior of a system and opens it up to the outside (the unhuman) via derangement and disintegration, making what once thrived a dusty sig-nature of human impotence in a world that, the more it opens up to us, the more horrifyingly weird it be-comes.
Large Deviations in Stochastic Heat-Conduction Processes Provide a Gradient-Flow Structure for Heat Conduction
Creators: name: Peletier, Mark A.
name: Redig, Frank
name: Vafayi, Kiamars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider three one-dimensional continuous-time Markov processes on a lattice, each of which models the conduction of heat: the family of Brownian Energy Processes with parameter $m$, a Generalized Brownian Energy Process, and the Kipnis-Marchioro-Presutti process. The hydrodynamic limit of each of these three processes is a parabolic equation, the linear heat equation in the case of the BEP$(m)$ and the KMP, and a nonlinear heat equation for the GBEP($a$). We prove the hydrodynamic limit rigorously for the BEP$(m)$, and give a formal derivation for the GBEP($a$). We then formally derive the pathwise large-deviation rate functional for the empirical measure of the three processes. These rate functionals imply gradient-flow structures for the limiting linear and nonlinear heat equations. We contrast these gradient-flow structures with those for processes describing the diffusion of mass, most importantly the class of Wasserstein gradient-flow systems. The linear and nonlinear heat-equation gradient-flow structures are each driven by entropy terms of the form $-\log ρ$; they involve dissipation or mobility terms of order $ρ^2$ for the linear heat equation, and a nonlinear function of $ρ$ for the nonlinear heat equation.
description: 29 pages
Panorama des politiques et dispositifs de données de la recherche mis en place en Afrique francophone : premiers résultats de l'enquête
Creators: name: AZILAN, Innocent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Research data, Open Science, Africa

description: Comment sont gérées les données de la recherche en Afrique francophone ? Quelles sont les pratiques de gestion et de partage des producteurs de données ? Qu'est-ce qui motive le partage des données ? Quels sont les défis liés au partage des données de la recherche en Afrique francophone et quels peuvent être les leviers pour promouvoir le partage des données ? Telles sont les questions auxquelles tente de répondre cette étude.
Cyclonopedia as Novel (A Meditation on Complicity as Inauthenticity)
Creators: name: Marshall, Kate
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: The  found  manuscript  comprising  one Cyclono-pedia—that is, the “thick piece of writing” that Kristen Alvanson exhumes from under the bed in her Istanbul hotel room bearing the handwritten name of Reza Ne-garestani—has already begun to deteriorate.1 Our hero-ine notes that “everyone in this manuscript seems to disappear  without  a  trace”  as  she  reads  of  persons who are “characterized by their exit-level.”2 By this description,  the  closest  thing  to  a  character  in  her somnambulist’s  treasure  is  Dr.  Hamid  Parsani,  who has already departed when the manuscript begins.     Parsani is constructed through an assemblage of anonymous remembrances, fragmented writings, and obscure  commentary.  His  “newly  discovered  notes” are the cause of the “tumultuous discussion” and “fe-verish excitement” that will form the bulk of the text.3At its most banal level, the manuscript Cyclonopediais  a  posthumous  collaboration  between  Parsani  and the distributed anonymous author-collective Hypersti-tion, is narrated by or addressed to the fictional quan-tity  Reza  Negarestani,  and  is  edited,  introduced, annotated and ruthlessly deformed by Kristen Alvan-son.
A Process Model of Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Sulis, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A process model of quantum mechanics utilizes a combinatorial game to generate a discrete and finite causal space upon which can be defined a self-consistent quantum mechanics. An emergent space-time M and continuous wave function arise through a non-uniform interpolation process. Standard non-relativistic quantum mechanics emerges under the limit of infinite information (the causal space grows to infinity) and infinitesimal scale (the separation between points goes to zero). The model has the potential to address several paradoxes in quantum mechanics while remaining computationally powerful.
description: 23 pages, corrections of typos, additional comments added to conclusions
What is a Hermeneutic Light?
Creators: name: Galloway, Alexander R.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Of the many unresolved debates surrounding the work of Martin Heidegger, one often returns to an elemental question: is Heideggerian phenomenology ultimately a question  of  hermeneutics  and  interpretation,  or  is  it ultimately  a  question  of  immanence  and  truth?  Is Dasein  forever  questing  after  a  Being  that  withdraws, or  does  it  somehow  achieve  a  primordial  communion with the truth of Being?  Hermeneutics  has  been  a  dominant  methodology for  the  tradition  of  theory  and  critique  dating  to  the 1960s.  Hence  it  is  not  surprising  that  Heidegger,  who was  being  rediscovered  and  rethought  during  that  pe-riod, would often be framed in terms of hermeneutics. To  be  sure,  the  critical  tradition  handed  down  from poststructuralism  leaves  little  room  for  modes  of  im-manence  and  immediacy,  modes  that  were  marginal-ized  as  essentialist  or  otherwise  unpleasant  (often  for good  reason).  Thus  it  would  be  easy  to  assimilate  a figure like Heidegger, with his complicated withdraw-ings  of  Being,  into  the  tradition  of  hermeneutics.  For where  else  would  he  fit?  And  one  will  admit  that Heidegger  is typically  categorized  within  this  tradi-tion. But is it not also possible to show that Heidegger is  a  philosopher  of  immanence?  That  he  speaks  as much to illumination as to withdrawal? That he speak as  much  to  the  intuitive  and  proximate  as  to  the  de-tached and distanced?
Update on the LLRF operations status at the European XFEL
Creators: name: Diomede, Marco
name: Ayvazyan, V.
name: Branlard, J.
name: Grecki, M.
name: Hierholzer, M.
name: Hoffmann, M.
name: Lautenschlager, B.
name: Pfeiffer, S.
name: Schmidt, C.
name: Walker, N.
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2023

description: The European XFEL (EuXFEL) is a free-electron laser in the X-ray range for users. Its high availability is one of the key aspects of the machine. In 2022, it entered in the sixth year of operation. The EuXFEL linac is based on the TESLA superconducting RF technology, operating at 1.3 GHz with an RF pulse length of 650 $\mu$s and a repetition rate of 10 Hz. The LLRF system is based on the MicroTCA standard and relies on a high level of automation. In this contribution, we review the LLRF operation at the EuXFEL and the development of new tools and features to improve the monitoring and extend the usability of the LLRF system.
title: The role of Mcl-1 in developmental neurogenesis
Creators: name: Connolly, Sarah P.
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2024

description: Neurogenesis is marked by cell cycle exit and differentiation of neural stem cells (NSCs) into post mitotic neurons. Mitochondrial morphology and function regulate neurogenesis through mediating a metabolic switch from glycolysis to oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). Myeloid cell leukemia 1 (Mcl-1), a member of the B-cell lymphoma 2 family of proteins, is essential for survival of neural precursor cells (NPCs) during neurogenesis. Mcl-1 also regulates mitochondrial dynamics. Currently it remains elusive whether Mcl-1 maintains mitochondrial dynamics during neurogenesis. Therefore, my hypothesis is that Mcl-1 promotes survival of NPCs during neurogenesis through mediating mitochondrial dynamics. Conditional knockout mouse lines of Mcl-1 (MKO) were generated using the Cre/Lox system. The effect of Mcl-1 on cell cycle exit in the developing forebrain was determined through a BrdU/EdU pulse assay. Mitochondrial number and morphology in MKO embryos were examined in the medial ganglionic eminence (MGE) through immunohistochemistry (IHC) and electron microscopy (EM). Loss of Mcl-1 resulted in a significantly greater number of NPCs exiting the cell cycle at E11. IHC and EM analysis reveal that mitochondria were more numerous in MKO NPCs. The results of this study suggest that Mcl-1 serves additional roles in mitochondrial dynamics and cell cycle exit during neurogenesis, which may be essential for proper nervous system development.
title: Produktplatzierungen in Kinderfilmen
Creators: name: Baratta, Nirvana Eva
Year: 2022

description: Beim Rezipieren von Filmen sind Kinder oft Produktplatzierungen ausgesetzt, ohne diese zu erkennen und sich vor Persuasionsversuchen schützen zu können. Um Eltern einen Leitfaden für den richtigen Film- und Fernsehkonsum von Kindern zu geben und um eine Basis für aufbauende Studien zu bieten ist es deshalb wichtig, sich die Produktplatzierungen genauer anzusehen und zu untersuchen, was für Produktplatzierungen in welchen Filmen am häufigsten vorkommen. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit war es, die verschiedenen Produktkategorien, die in Kinderfilmen vorkommen auszumachen und herauszufinden, wann diese am häufigsten vorkommen. Die Hauptforschungsfrage lautete: „Welche Produktkategorien sind in Kinderfilmen am häufigsten durch Produktplatzierungen vertreten?“. Es wurden viele weitere Forschungsfragen und Hypothesen gestellt, die vertiefenden Themen nachgehen wie der Rolle des Produktionslandes, dem Einfluss des Genres und der Bedeutung des Formats in Zusammenhang mit dem Auftreten von Produktplatzierungen. Um das Ziel zu erreichen, wurde eine quantitative Inhaltsanalyse durchgeführt. Es wurden insgesamt 60 Kinderfilme aus den Jahren 2016 bis 2021 angesehen und mittels eines Codebuchs analysiert. Anschließend wurden die Daten statistisch ausgewertet. Es wurde herausgefunden, dass 53,3% (n = 32) der Filme Produktplatzierungen enthalten. Am häufigsten kamen Platzierungen aus der Kategorie Fahrzeuge vor. Komödien waren das Filmgenre mit den meisten Platzierungen. Ebenfalls konnte festgestellt werden, dass Produkte eher visuell als verbal oder audiovisuell dargestellt wurden und dass diese meist in der Mitte des Bildes und im Vordergrund zu sehen waren. Menschliche Hauptcharaktere interagierten am öftesten mit Produktplatzierungen. Die Inhaltsanalyse bietet mit ihrem detaillierten Überblick über Produktplatzierungen in Kinderfilmen eine Basis für weitere Forschungsarbeiten in diesem Themenbereich.
The effects of time-dependent dissipation on the basins of attraction for the pendulum with oscillating support
Creators: name: Wright, James A.
name: Bartuccelli, Michele
name: Gentile, Guido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34C60, 34C25, 37C60, 58F12, 70K40, 70K50

description: We consider a pendulum with vertically oscillating support and time-dependent damping coefficient which varies until reaching a finite final value. The sizes of the corresponding basins of attraction are found to depend strongly on the full evolution of the dissipation. In order to predict the behaviour of the system, it is essential to understand how the sizes of the basins of attraction for constant dissipation depend on the damping coefficient. For values of the parameters in the perturbation regime, we characterise analytically the conditions under which the attractors exist and study numerically how the sizes of their basins of attraction depend on the damping coefficient. Away from the perturbation regime, a numerical study of the attractors and the corresponding basins of attraction for different constant values of the damping coefficient produces a much more involved scenario: changing the magnitude of the dissipation causes some attractors to disappear either leaving no trace or producing new attractors by bifurcation, such as period doubling and saddle-node bifurcation. For an initially non-constant damping coefficient, both increasing and decreasing to some finite final value, we numerically observe that, when the damping coefficient varies slowly from a finite initial value to a different final value, without changing the set of attractors, the slower the variation the closer the sizes of the basins of attraction are to those they have for constant damping coefficient fixed at the initial value. If during the variation of the damping coefficient attractors appear or disappear, remarkable additional phenomena may occur. For instance, a fixed point asymptotically may attract the entire phase space, up to a zero measure set, even though no attractor with such a property exists for any value of the damping coefficient between the extreme values.
description: 37 pages, 26 figures, 21 tables
Notes on the Figure of the Cyclone
Creators: name: Negarestani, Reza
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: The ovum of reality is the eternal or the univer-sal. The universal is that in which all partake, but it is eternally irreducible to commonalities and affordances between all particular instances, collections of multi-tudes,  and  local  horizons  of  thought.  It  is  neither bound in its local expressions, nor is it exhaustible by any collection of multitudes; it is simply free from the necessity of all its particular instances. The universal is  a  sign  free  of  meaning  and  significance,  the  so-called  free  sign  of  Peirce  that  ramifies  into  its  local contexts  according  to  its  global  contingency,  its  bot-tomlessness  and  uninterruptable  continuity  with  it-self.   For naturphilosophie,   by   virtue   of   its intensionality  and  self-reflexivity,  the  universal  is identified  as  the  eternal.  The  eternal—understood semio-logically  by  Peirce—is  a  modal  plenum,  an abyss  replete  with  modalities  that  can  neither  be  re-duced  to  the  totality  of  infinite  possibilities  nor  de-termined  in  the  first  or  the  last  instance  by  discrete actualities  (marks  of  difference,  cosmological  hori-zons,  local  conditions  of  life  and  thought,  etc.).  The modal  plenum  is  represented  as  the Blank  Sheet  of Assertion,  a  proto-topological  blank  sheet  whose modes of relations to itself are unbound and on which semio-logical  processes  can  be  geometrically  in-scribed. Just as on the Blank Sheet of Assertion each isolated  or  discrete  modality  is  perpetually  intruded upon by unbound modalities of the sheet, within the open expanse of the universal, no particular instance can stave off the eruptions of the eternal or assimilate its modalities within its temporal horizon.
Educational problems
Creators: name: Walkowiak, Radoslaw
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Professional education and training
Teacher education and professional development of educators
Technical, further and workplace education

description: © International Experts Group, Washington, D.C., USA 2022; Educational problems; The fifth interdisciplinary meeting of experts; Internet platform, 38 participants, 18 speakers, 8 expert lectures; November 11-13, 2022, Washington, D.C., USA; Educational problems, legal aspects; Peter Gorman, J.D., USA; Radoslaw Walkowiak, M.Sc., Hon.D., Poland
title: Der Umwelt zuliebe
Creators: name: Hochkirchner, Daniela
Year: 2023

description: Unsere heutige Gesellschaft ist sehr von Werbung geprägt. Unternehmen wollen durch verschiedenste Herangehensweisen von ihren Produkten überzeugen, auch wenn es sich um nicht nachhaltige Konsumgüter handelt. Studien zeigen, dass selbst umweltbewusste Menschen immer wieder zu umweltschädlichen Produkten, beispielsweise einer Flugreise, greifen, wenn diese attraktiv angeworben wird. Obwohl ihnen die Konsequenzen dieses Verhaltens bewusst sind, lassen sich trotzdem viele von der Reise überzeugen. In diesem Zusammenhang treten häufig sogenannte Moral-Disengagement-Strategien auf, um das umweltschädliche Verhalten vor sich selbst rechtfertigen zu können. Ob nur die Werbung, oder auch die eigene Persönlichkeit mitverantwortlich für die Aktivierung von Moral Disengagement ist, wurde bisher noch unzureichend erforscht. In dieser Arbeit wird mittels einer experimentellen Studie untersucht, inwiefern Werbung, die die Attraktivität der Flugreise stark erhöht, zu mehr Moral Disengagement führen kann, aber auch, wie die materialistische Persönlichkeitseigenschaft die Wirkung von Werbung auf Moral Disengagement beeinflusst. Es zeigte sich, dass die Werbung, die die Flugreise attraktiver darstellte, nicht zu einer höheren Aktivierung von Moral-Disengagement-Strategien führte. Auch konnte in der Studie kein Moderationseffekt festgestellt, und somit eine Beeinflussung von materialistischen Einstellungen auf Moral Disengagement nicht bestätigt werden.
description: Advertising has become an important part in people’s life. Companies want to convince people through a wide variety of approaches for their products, even if they are not sustainable consumer goods. Studies show that even environmentally conscious people repeatedly reach for environmentally harmful products, such as an airplane trip, when it is attractively advertised. Although they are aware of the consequences of this behavior, many of them decided to take the trip. In this context, moral disengagement strategies occur to justify the environmentally harmful behavior to oneself. But whether only advertising, or also one's own personality is responsible for the activation of moral disengagement, has not been sufficiently researched yet. This paper uses an experimental study to investigate the extent to an advertising that strongly increases the attractiveness of air travel can lead to more moral disengagement, but also how the materialistic personality trait influences the effect of advertising on moral disengagement. It was found that advertising that portrayed air travel more attractive did not lead to higher activation of moral disengagement strategies. Also no moderation effect was found in the study, and thus an influence of materialistic attitudes on moral disengagement could not be confirmed.
Inclusive semileptonic B decays from QCD with NLO accuracy for power suppressed terms
Creators: name: Mannel, Thomas
name: Pivovarov, Alexei A.
name: Rosenthal, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a calculation of the perturbative QCD corrections for the semileptonic inclusive width of a heavy flavored meson. Within the Heavy Quark Expansion we analytically compute the QCD correction to the coefficient of power suppressed contribution of the chromo-magnetic operator in the limit of vanishing mass of the final state quark. The important phenomenological applications are decays of bottom mesons, and to the less extend, charmed mesons.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
title: Identifying novel soluble biomarkers in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis
Creators: name: Blandford, Stephanie Nicole
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2024

description: Relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) is a chronic immune-mediated inflammatory disease characterized by central nervous system (CNS) demyelination and axonal damage. Under current guidelines, a multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis most often occurs over the course of months and requires clinical assessment, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and a lumbar puncture. While clinically useful diagnostic, prognostic, and disease monitoring biomarkers do exist, they share commonalities with many other autoimmune and/or neurodegenerative disorders. As a result, this process leaves patients waiting for critical healthcare services. The objective of this thesis is to identify novel candidate biomarkers in blood plasma of MS patients and elucidate pathophysiological disease mechanisms in RRMS. Blood plasma represents an accessible body fluid harboring many immune-related molecules that may inform on RRMS disease status and ongoing systemic pathological mechanisms. In this thesis, interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA) was identified as a plasma-based biomarker for increased disability in RRMS that is released from macrophages and microglia in active areas of lesions during activation of an inflammasome. Blood plasma of RRMS cases was also used to investigate the patterns of circulating extracellular vesicles (EVs). It was determined that RRMS cases have higher levels of immune cell derived EVs in circulation compared to healthy controls, and that this was unrelated to numbers of circulating parent cell populations. Finally, cerebrospinal fluid samples were analysed for 27 cytokines, and identified few differences in RRMS compared to non-inflammatory neurological disease controls. CXCL10 levels were significantly increased but were not associated with its most welliii known function of immune cell chemotaxis. Instead, an alternative pathological mechanism whereby CXCL10 leads to downregulation of glutamate transporters on astrocytes was identified. This thesis highlights the wealth of information to be gained from studying body fluid-based biomarkers of ongoing inflammatory activity in RRMS and identifies three exploratory biomarkers for which future studies will be based on. These future works should focus on determining the sensitivity and specificity of these molecules in MS prospectively, longitudinally and across the disability and disease spectrum. Furthermore, future studies will work any functional mechanisms that are modulated by IL-1RA, immune cell derived EVs and CXCL10.
and here we are as on a darkling plain
Creators: name: Shipley, Gary J.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: blackening,  like  a  corpse-reanimate,  lost  in  nights  of  stars  of heaven’s  sick  white  light.  And  there  are  hilts  wired  to  the widening  grip  of  bleached  palms,  the  edges  remaining  white beneath  a  spill  of  blood  carved  black.  And  each  love  and loveless seed of rot is white, leeching lignin and degrading and decolorizing all past worlds of woods of tar-black trees rooted in  some  foreign  shame.  And  though  the  fox  of  this  wood  is black  and  the  cabbages  white  in  which  it  lays,  there  is  no peroxide in the throat that trolls the art of stories of old things.
Comparison of the TIP4P-2005, SWM4-DP and BK3 interaction potentials of liquid water with respect to their consistency with neutron and X-ray diffraction data of pure water
Creators: name: Steinczinger, Z.
name: Pusztai, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following a fairly comprehensive study on popular interaction potentials of water (Pusztai et al., J. Chem. Phys., 2008, 129, 184103), here two more recent polarizable potential sets, SWM4-DP (Lamoureux et al., Chem. Phys. Lett., 2006, 418, 245) and BK3 (Kiss et al., J. Chem. Phys., 2013, 138, 204507) are compared to the TIP4P-2005 water potential (Abascal et al., J. Chem. Phys., 2005, 123, 234505) that had previously appeared to be most favoravble. The basis of comparison was the compatibility with the results of neutron and X-ray diffraction experiments on pure water, using the scheme applied by Pusztai et al. (2008). The scheme combines the experimental total scattering structure factors (TSSF) and partial radial distribution functions (PRDF) from molecular dynamics simulations in a single structural model. Goodness-of-fit values to the O-O, O-H and H-H simulated PRDF-s and to the experimental neutron and X-ray TSSF provided a measure that can characterize the level of consistency between interaction potentials and diffraction experiments. Among the sets of partial RDF-s investigated here, the ones corresponding to the SWM4-DP potential parameters have proven to be the most consistent with the particular diffraction results taken for the present study, by a hardly significant margin ahead of BK3. Perhaps more importantly, it is shown that the three sets of potential parameters produce nearly equivalent PRDF-s that may all be made consistent with diffraction data at a very high level. The largest differences can be detected in terms of the O-O partial radial distribution function.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1207.3271
Half Dead: Parsing Cecelia
Creators: name: Masciandaro, Nicola
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: St.  Cecilia’s  botched  beheading in  Chaucer’s Second  Nun’s Tale    masterfully    sculpts    the    conundrum    of    life/death liminality  into  a  horrific  three-day  dilation  of  the  moment  of martyrdom,   opening   the   decollative   blow   that   typically coincides  with  receiving  its  crown  into  a  series  of  unfinished neck-cuts.  Pinched  between  the  cruelty  of  the  headsman’s impotence,  the  idiotic  inflexibility  of  the  law,  and  her  own sacred durability, Cecilia embodies the paradoxical idea of an unending,    asymptotically    inconclusive    decapitation,    an infinite  series  of  beheading  blows  that  never  severs  the  head. Her  hacked  neck  fuses  into  one  form  the  two  principles  it figurally  evokes:  the  unbeheadability  of  the  body  of  God  —“illius  enim  capita  membra  sumus.  Non  potest  hoc  corpus decollari”  [“We  are  limbs  of  that  head.  This  body  cannot  be decapitated”]2    —    and the    semi-living    nature    of    fallen humanity, as signified through medieval allegorical interpretation  of  the  traveler  who  is  attacked  by  robbers  on the  road  from  Jerusalem  to  Jericho  and  left  “half  alive/half dead”  [semivivus, emithane]  (Luke  10:30).  The  unity  of  this form is equivalent to the differential non-difference (half alive =  half  dead)  between  the  Greek  and  Latin  terms.  The  three-fold   opening   intensively   multiplies   the   “zero   degree   of torture”3 into a single tertium quid that is indifferently beyond the distinction between life and death. Being half dead, Cecilia is  ultimately  alive.  Being  half  alive,  Cecilia  is  ultimately  dead. Dwelling in the hyper-intimacy of extreme dereliction, Cecilia is   a   lacerated,   ever-dilating   theopathic   icon   of   divinity’s absolute     indifference     to     life     and     death,     its     being superessentially  beyond  both.  Her  three-day  rest  from  both, during  which  she  simultaneously  does  nothing  and  works  all the  more  fervently,  exemplifies  the  “passivity  and  absence  of effort . . . in which divine transcendence is dissolved.”
title: Characterization of diverse excitatory currents in Melanin-Concentrating hormone neurons
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Mohammed Sohel
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2025

description: Positive energy balance and sleep are coordinated by a lateral hypothalamic neuronal subpopulation known as Melanin concentrating hormone (MCH) neurons. The excitatory transmitter glutamate plays an important role in shaping the activity of MCH neurons, which is regulated by glutamate transporters present on astrocytes and neurons. Here, we aimed to investigate the role of controlling excitatory signaling via glutamatergic receptors in MCH neurons. We performed in vitro electrophysiological (Whole-cell patch clamp) recordings from acute brain slices to investigate the effect of ambient glutamate by using a glutamate transporter blocker. We identified and characterized three kinetically diverse excitatory currents in addition to excitatory postsynaptic currents (EPSCs): tonic inward current (TIC), step currents and slow inward currents (SICs). TIC had the longest time course and amplitude followed by the step currents and SICs. These currents are mediated by glutamatergic (non-NMDA and NMDA) receptors and dependent on the action potential-dependent exocytotic release. 12 h fasting reduced the amplitude and frequency of TIC and SICs respectively, suggesting that ambient-glutamate regulation by glutamate transporter is altered under homeostatic challenge, therefore the excitability of MCH neurons. Taken together, MCH neurons are under the influence of ambient glutamate modulated by glutamate transporters. This could possibly have physiological implications in energy homeostasis.
Universal and Distinct Properties of Communication Dynamics: How to Generate Realistic Inter-event Times
Creators: name: de Melo, Pedro O. S. Vaz
name: Faloutsos, Christos
name: Assunção, Renato
name: Alves, Rodrigo
name: Loureiro, Antonio A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: H.2.8; G.3

description: With the advancement of information systems, means of communications are becoming cheaper, faster and more available. Today, millions of people carrying smart-phones or tablets are able to communicate at practically any time and anywhere they want. Among others, they can access their e-mails, comment on weblogs, watch and post comments on videos, make phone calls or text messages almost ubiquitously. Given this scenario, in this paper we tackle a fundamental aspect of this new era of communication: how the time intervals between communication events behave for different technologies and means of communications? Are there universal patterns for the inter-event time distribution (IED)? In which ways inter-event times behave differently among particular technologies? To answer these questions, we analyze eight different datasets from real and modern communication data and we found four well defined patterns that are seen in all the eight datasets. Moreover, we propose the use of the Self-Feeding Process (SFP) to generate inter-event times between communications. The SFP is extremely parsimonious point process that requires at most two parameters and is able to generate inter-event times with all the universal properties we observed in the data. We show the potential application of SFP by proposing a framework to generate a synthetic dataset containing realistic communication events of any one of the analyzed means of communications (e.g. phone calls, e-mails, comments on blogs) and an algorithm to detect anomalies.
Black as the Crow
Creators: name: Neel, Travis
name: Richmond, Andrew
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Perched among the many birds in the Parliament of Foules sits “the  crowe  with  vois  of  care”  (364).1  The  crow  receives  no space to speak in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Valentine’s Day poem —a grim reminder perhaps of the circumstances under which he received  his  sad  voice  and  scorched  appearance.  In  Chaucer’s hands it is a different, perhaps darker, story than the one told by   Ted   Hughes.   The   crow   does   not   launch   himself   into blackness  through  a  jealousy  contest;  rather  he  becomes  but one  victim  at  the  hands  of  a  jealous  and  wrathful  master.  As Chaucer’s  Manciple  tells  the  story,  the  crow  had  once  been  a white  bird  with  a  beautiful  voice.  Phoebus  Apollo  had  taught the crow how to speak like a human, and when this crow sang, “Therwith  in  al  this  world  no  nyghtyngale/  Ne  koude,  by  an hondred thousand deel, / Syngen so wonder myrily and weel” (IX.136–139).    But    the    crow’s    status    within    Phoebus’s household  does  not  last  long  in  the Manciple’s  Tale.  Having witnessed    Phoebus’s    wife    with    her beloved,    the    crow immediately  declares  the  wife’s  unfaithfulness  to  Phoebus  —and Pheobus’ resulting identity as a cuckold — with the song, “Cokkow! Cokkow! Cokkow!” (IX.243). Phoebus turns his ire and   sorrow   towards   his   wife   and   his   minstrelsy   before addressing the crow as a traitor. To quite the crow of his false tale  (IX.293),  Phoebus  strips  him  of  his  song,  deplumes  his white feathers, and casts him out of his home.
The effect of salinity on anatomical characteristics of two halophyte species from Turkey
Creators: name: Akcin, Adnan
name: Yalçın, Erkan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Anatomical adaptations of vegetative organs of Salicornia perennans Willd. and Suaeda prostrata Pall. subsp. prostrata distributed throughout the Kizilirmak Delta, Samsun were investigated in this study. To examine root, stem, and leaf anatomical modifications, the examined halophytic taxa were collected from the natural salt-affected soils of the study area. Some anatomical differences were detected in the roots, stems, and leaves of the taxa exposed to salinity. High salinity significantly increased the thickness of the periderm and cortex and the width of the aeriferous cavities in the root cortex of Salicornia perennans. The number of xylem vessels increased at higher salinity levels, whereas the diameters of xylem vessels decreased in the roots of Salicornia perennans. The diameters of xylem vessels decreased in the roots of Suaeda prostrata subsp. prostrata. Stem anatomical characteristics such as the thickness of the cuticle, palisade tissue, water-storing parenchyma, and the length and width of lignified cells, were increased by high salinity. Similarly, the thickness of the cortex in the stem of Suaeda prostrata subsp. prostrata was increased at the high salinity level. In addition, many tracheoblasts specific to Salicornia perennans were observed in the palisade tissue. In the leaves of Suaeda prostrata subsp. prostrata, the thickness of palisade tissue, and the succulence were significantly increased with a further increase in salt concentrations. Furthermore, stomata dimensions and stomata indices of both investigated taxa were considerably decreased under high salinity.
Review of User Needs (DyMoN Project)
Creators: name: Nemeti-Baba, Daniela
name: Stamatopoulos, Harris
name: Hiema, Ibrahim
name: Samir, Dina
name: Harms, Carlotta
name: Pater, Emmy
name: Davis, Matthew
name: Weber, Nils
name: Westermeier, Eva
name: Miksch, Franziska
name: Luger-Bazinger, Claudia
name: Kolm, Marie
name: Hornung-Prähauser, Veronika
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: sustainable mobility
urban mobility
mobility behaviour
behaviour change
behavioural insights
digital nudging
situation-aware
co-creation
user needs

description: This project deliverable provides insights from the analyses of user needs, collected through four transnational think tanks with end-user citizens, eleven in-depth interviews with city stakeholders and a workshop on the dashboard design involving five smart city stakeholders. Based on a co-creation approach for primary data collection, the analysis presented in this report provides a thorough understanding of the needs, aspirations and expectations of the user groups concerned by the nudging repository and the overall DyMoN framework. Specifically, the document presents an overview of the needs expressed by end-users (citizens), as well as smart city mobility stakeholders (mobility managers, urban planners and other practitioners in the public mobility sector) from Austria, Germany and Sweden. The document provides key insights from the analysis of the following three actions led by the DyMoN partners: 1) Four international think tanks (one with female – only participants) led by Ecollective. 2) Eleven individual interviews (with mobility managers, city representatives, urban planners) led by Sustainability InnoCenter. 3) A workshop on the smart city dashboard (with five smart city managers from Austria and Germany) led by Trafficon.
L'O de V: A Palimpsest
Creators: name: Schamess, Lisa
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: For  centuries  she  didn’t  speak  at  all,  the  girl  Virginia.The silent   girl   who   finally   speaks   tells   the   story.   Submission, omission,    commission,    submersion,    subversion,    inversion, corruption,  coercion.  Defilement,  denial,  the  child,  the  trial,  fil, fille,  vile,  ville,  filial  bonds, bondage, twisted positions and impositions,    text    and    subtext    and    context    and    cuntext. Penetration,   vellum,   hide,   marks,   pens,   wounds,   piercings, cuttings, severings, maidenheads, giving head, what’s inside our heads  that  is  left  unsaid,  what  cannot  be  said  being  said,  the sinkhole  in  a  prison  bed,  the  outburst  of  consent  and  the pressure  of  speech,  the  hand  holding  the  pencil  raced  over  the paper without the least concern for the hour or the light. The girl  was  writing  the  way  you  speak  in  the  dark  to  the  person you love when you’ve held back the words of love too long and they    flow    at    last2,    hysteria    catatonia    silence    asceticism abasement  how  a  woman  throws  herself  is  thrown  hurls  herself is hurled cuts herself is cut how there is an O in the center of the monastery  and  in  the  rear  of  the  prison  the  text  is  inscribed, marked,  stripped,  cut,  scraped, erased,  reinscribed,  corrected, raped,  rapt,  wrapped3 and how this story is old, begins with a snake’s  mouth  and  ends  in  a  bit  of  tale  served  up  by  a  woman, an  O,  once  a  V,  an  A(nne),  an  A(ury),  a  Pauline  nun  from  the bawdy  papers,  a  Reagent.  The  Autre.  The  Autre4 Translation transgression transubstantiation, trasumanar5, tongues, longing, language,  sources,  apocrypha  apostasy  outtakes  originals  pens and   penetration,   comments,   commas,   parents,   parentheses, prisons,  patrimony,  patronage,  the  mouth,  the  eye,  the  os,  the ass, the orifice, the vacuole, the caesura, the fissure, the seizure, the   rapture, ravissement,   stripping   away,   strips   of   skin, laceration,  O  in  the  middle,  jouissance,6 O behind, the iron O on  the  finger,  the  steel  O  in  the  labia,  the  monsters  inside  us: The Three-Legged Man, The Headless Woman . . .  we forget to remember  and  remember  to  forget a story of giving credit and revoking  credit  of  not  knowing  half  the  time  to  whom  to  give credit.
title: Psychomotorik - Erfahrungslernen im Kindergarten
Creators: name: Heigl, Stefanie
Year: 2023

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich mit dem Erfahrungslernen und dem Embodiment-Ansatz im Kindergarten, in Verbindung zur Psychomotorik, auseinandersetzen. Zu Beginn gibt es einen kurzen Überblick, über die Entwicklung des Kindes im Alter von 3-6 Jahren. Hierbei spielen die sinnliche Wahrnehmung und Erfahrung in jungen Jahren des Kindes eine wichtige Rolle. Aufbauend dazu, wird näher auf das erfahrungsbasierte Lernen und den Embodiment-Ansatz eingehen, und welche Wirksamkeit diese, auf das Verhalten und Handeln des Kindes, die Selbstwirksamkeit, auf sozial-emotionale Beziehungen und den Aufbau des Selbstkonzepts haben. Damit das erfahrungsbasierte Lernen stattfinden kann, ist die pädagogische Haltung der Fachkraft von großer Bedeutung. Bezugnehmend darauf, werden praktische Spielideen/Impulse in Verbindung zum Erfahrungslernen und der Psychomotorik beschrieben.