cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Form in the Amharic novel.
Creators: name: Assefa, Taye
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1986

description: In previous studies of Amharic prose fiction, the question of form has not received sufficient attention. The aim of this dissertation is to provide a critical introduction to narrative modes in the Amharic novel. To show the various tendencies in the methods of presention used during the brief tradition of novelistic writing, the works of ten representative writers have been selected from different periods. These are: Afawarq's Lebb Wallad Tarik, Heruy' s Haddis Alam, Germachaw's Ar'aya, Makonnen's Almot'hum Beyye Alwashem, Nagash's Setenna, Adari, Berhanu's Ya-Tewodros Enba, Haddis' Feger Eska Magaber, Dannachaw's Adafres. Ba'alu's Ka-admas Bashaggar, and Abbe's Ya-raggafu Ababoch. Each of these works is discussed separately, in the order of its publication. In each of the ten chapters the construction of plot, the delineation of characters, the modes of exposition, the rendition of scenes, and the intrusions of the narrator are closely scrutinized so as to give an insight into the formal features of each work. In each case attempts are also made to assess not only the degree of coherence in the surface structure, but also the harmonization of the meanings and/or effects generated by the particular method of presentation. The main finding of this study is that while the tendency to preach by using thinly-disguised demonstrative episodes, mouthpiece characters, and/or moralizing commentary still persists, the practice of subtly conveying the author's vision of life through plausibly dramatized situations has also begun to win more adherents. Many novels appealing after 1950 E.C. resort to characters that are social types rather than abstractions of ideas. Their plots operate on a higher scale of probability. Their dialogues are casual and have the semblance of naturalness. They use narrators that are less patronizing and reserved from openly conveying their value judgements. Events axe presented achronologically, often in scenic form.
title: A modern trend in Nigerian Arabic literature: The contribution of 'Umar Ibrahim.
Creators: name: Raji, Moshood G.A.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1986

description: This thesis is a research into the growth in Nigeria of Modern Arabic Literature, from the impact of modern secular thought on the medieval Arabic-Islamic literary tradition. In chapter one the spread to Nigeria of Islam and the growth within its cultural context of Arabic literature are discussed in the light of the classical Arabic literary theory. Cultivated as an integral part of Islamic traditional sciences, Arabic literature throughout its development in Nigeria had remained the function of Islamic religion. All the literary men were essentially Muslim jurists (al-fuqaha') writing in a sacred medium. The various aspects of this religious literary tradition, al-taqlid, are described with illustrations in chapter two. In chapter three the process of how modern European literature had given birth in Egypt and Greater Syria to Modern Arabic Literature, and its major currents are described. Thus inspired, Modern Arabic Literature is not Islamic but Arab nationalist oriented with very little to offer the non-Arab Muslims in the name of the Islamic Commonwealth. The non-Arab Muslims have accordingly embarked on developing their own national literature in English, French or a vernacular. This phenomenon, seen in Turkey, Iran and Senegal is also demonstrated in Nigeria by the birth of modern Hausa literature instead of Arabic. This development is discussed in chapter four within the context of the Western cultural impact on Islamic Nigeria. But the study of Arabic and Islamic religion in secular institutions imposed by modern political order has begun to challenge the existing religious literary tradition. Nigeria has now produced some Arabists, including Christians, in whose literary innovations Arabic language and literature is no longer an exclusive function of Islamic culture. Influenced by neo-classical Arab writers, the most outstanding contribution to this new trend is the diwan (anthology) of 'Umar Ibrahim, the literary exposition of which is made in chapter five. In conclusion, the scope of the literary innovations introduced into Nigerian Arabic literature is highlighted with an attempt to determine its prospect.
title: "The left league decade": Left-wing literary movement in Shanghai, 1927-1936.
Creators: name: Wong, Wang-Chi
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1986

description: The coup d'etat of Jiang Jieshi in 1927 brought a sudden end to the first united front between the KMT and the CCP. From then on, the Communist Party was driven underground and survived only with great difficulties, until the second united front was formed in 1937. Yet within the same period, we saw the emergence and growth of concerted left-wing activity in the literary arena. The present thesis is an attempt to look into the background, the development as well as the outcome of this movement, with special reference to the Chinese League of Left-wing Writers, an organization formed in 1930 under the direction and control of the CCP. It covers the period known as "The Left League Decade" in modern Chinese literary history. The thesis is in three parts. Part one discusses the pre-League period, the years before the formation of the League. It deals mainly with the revolutionary literary movement in 1927-28, which in fact consisted of a polemic between the ultra-left, the left and the right over the issue of revolutionary literature. The steps taken for the formation of the united front among the left after this heated debate are analyzed. Part two, which comprises four chapters, is on the League itself. The first is a general survey of the formation, membership and structure of the organization. The second and third chapters discuss the achievements of the League in the first half of its existence. The League then began to decline from 1934 onwards. The internal conflicts which finally led to the alienation of its chief leader and the "giant" of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun, are presented in great detail in the last chapter of part two. Part three traces and gives an account of the dissolution of the organization and the subsequent Two Slogan Polemic in 1936 over the action to be taken in the new political situation. The relationship between the polemic and the developments in politics takes up a considerable portion of the discussion. Before closing the thesis, an epilogue is attached which looks at the Left League and the left wing literary movement of the thirties in their historical context. It also includes a review of their appraisal in the mainland after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
sj-pdf-4-wso-10.1177_1747493020932787 - Supplemental material for A score to predict one-year risk of recurrence after acute ischemic stroke
Creators: name: Strambo, Davide
name: Zachariadis, Alexandros
name: Lambrou, Dimitris
name: Ghil Schwarz
name: Sirimarco, Gaia
name: Karolinaa Aarnio
name: Putaala, Jukka
name: Ntaios, George
name: Vemmos, Kostantinos
name: Michel, Patrik
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: Medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-4-wso-10.1177_1747493020932787 for A score to predict one-year risk of recurrence after acute ischemic stroke by Davide Strambo, Alexandros Zachariadis, Dimitris Lambrou, Ghil Schwarz, Gaia Sirimarco, Karolinaa Aarnio, Jukka Putaala, George Ntaios, Kostantinos Vemmos and Patrik Michel in International Journal of Stroke
Learning from the COVID-19 lockdown in Berlin: Observations and modelling to support understanding policies to reduce NO2.
Creators: name: Schneidemesser, Erika Von
name: Sibiya, Bheki
name: Caseiro, Alexandre
name: Butler, Tim
name: Lawrence, Mark G.
name: Leitao, Joana
name: Lupascu, Aurelia
name: Salvador, Pedro
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Urban areas
subject: Air pollution
subject: Emissions
subject: COVID-19
subject: Nitrogen dioxide
subject: Ozone
subject: Europe
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: Urban air pollution is a substantial threat to human health. Traffic emissions remain a large contributor to air pollution in urban areas. The mobility restrictions put in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic provided a large-scale real-world experiment that allows for the evaluation of changes in traffic emissions and the corresponding changes in air quality. Here we use observational data, as well as modelling, to analyse changes in nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and particulate matter resulting from the COVID-19 restrictions at the height of the lockdown period in Spring of 2020. Accounting for the influence of meteorology on air quality, we found that reduction of ca. 30–50 % in traffic counts, dominated by changes in passenger cars, corresponded to reductions in median observed nitrogen dioxide concentrations of ca. 40 % (traffic and urban background locations) and a ca. 22 % increase in ozone (urban background locations) during weekdays. Lesser reductions in nitrogen dioxide concentrations were observed at urban background stations at weekends, and no change in ozone was observed. The modelled reductions in median nitrogen dioxide at urban background locations were smaller than the observed reductions and the change was not significant. The model results showed no significant change in ozone on weekdays or weekends. The lack of a simulated weekday/weekend effect is consistent with previous work suggesting that NOx emissions from traffic could be significantly underestimated in European cities by models. These results indicate the potential for improvements in air quality due to policies for reducing traffic, along with the scale of reductions that would be needed to result in meaningful changes in air quality if a transition to sustainable mobility is to be seriously considered. They also confirm once more the highly relevant role of traffic for air quality in urban areas.
title: Social and ethnic differentiation in Kuwait: A social geography of an indigenous society.
Creators: name: Munays, Waleed A.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1981

description: The aim of this study is to illustrate the various aspects of social and ethnic differentiation in Kuwait. In order to understand these aspects, the study will investigate two main elements: (1) analysing the origin and the current aspects of differentiation through time, i.e. 1710-1980, and (2) tracing the spatial aspects of socio-ethnic differentiation over the inhabited area of the country. The study as a whole is a contribution to social and spatial studies of Kuwait society. In addition, it also contributes to other branches of geography like social, urban and electoral geography as it examines related aspects of group segregation and other socio-ethnic aspects. The study consists of 7 chapters each of which examines separate aspects but all with one common feature in relation to the theme of the study. The first chapter is primarily an introduction, concerned with three main elements, i.e. the importance of such studies to Kuwait, the objective and approach to the study, and the relation of such studies to the field of social geography. Chapter two is a socio-geographical perspective about the area under study. Chapter three examines the aspects of differentiation in Kuwait since its appearance on the map of the Peninsula until the discovery of oil, i.e. 1710-1946. Chapter four keeps on the same approach of chapter three but for the oil era i.e. from the year 1946 until 1980. Chapter five is about the segregation of the groups over the inhabited area of Kuwait. It also involved a field work study in relation to the spatial aspects of differentiation in the oil era. Chapter six, follows the year of National Assembly elections and other related aspects, i.e. early features of legislative participation, voting potential of each group and election returns for the election years 1963-67, 1967-71, 1971-75 and 1975-76. Finally chapter seven gives a summary of findings and the conclusion of the study.
DS_10.1177_2380084420934731 – Supplemental material for Effect of Flap Design for Enamel Matrix Derivative Application in Intraosseous Defects
Creators: name: L. Trombelli
name: A. Simonelli
name: A. Quaranta
name: Y.K. Tu
name: H. Li
name: M. Agusto
name: X. Jiao
name: R. Farina
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, DS_10.1177_2380084420934731 for Effect of Flap Design for Enamel Matrix Derivative Application in Intraosseous Defects by L. Trombelli, A. Simonelli, A. Quaranta, Y.K. Tu, H. Li, M. Agusto, X. Jiao and R. Farina in JDR Clinical & Translational Research
title: Economics of higher-yielding varieties of rice with special reference to a South Indian district: West Godavary (Andhra Pradesh).
Creators: name: Madhavan, Shobhana
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1975

description: The thesis is a study of some economic aspects of higher-yielding varieties of rice with special reference to small farmers in the West Godavary district of Andhra Pradesh. The introduction of higher-yielding varieties represents a major technological breakthrough in Indian agriculture. They sire expected to play an important role in increasing food production. The successful cultivation of these varieties depends upon the use of non-conventional inputs like chemical fertilisers and pesticides and the adoption of improved water management practices. The ability to increase rice production by means of these varieties will depend upon the availability of these inputs on farms of all sizes. Rice cultivation in India is undertaken predominantly on small farms. Such farms face several difficulties in acquiring these inputs. Any assessment of the impact of the new varieties in increasing rice production in the country as a whole will require identification of these difficulties. Chapter I contains brief descriptions of the new varieties and of the region studied; the term "small farm" is then defined for the purpose of the present study. Chapter II examines the role of irrigation in the cultivation of the new varieties. Chapter III deals with fertilisers; it explores the factors influencing demand at the micro-level. Chapter IV examines the nature and implications of the increased application of human labour input on farms resulting from controlled irrigation and high levels of fertiliser use. Chapter V returns to the themes developed in the earlier chapters and presents the demand for and supply of fertilisers and facilities for control of irrigation in the form of a generalised input, namely, credit. The inferior access of small farms to institutional credit is seen as an obstacle to their effective contribution to the programme of increasing rice production. Chapter VI contains the principal conclusion of this thesis: that the potential contribution of small farms to rice production has hitherto received inadequate attention and may be considerably more significant than is at present supposed.
title: Personal religion in Ancient Mesopotamia as shown in Akkadian texts.
Creators: name: Couve de Murville, Maurice Noel Leon
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1975

description: This study aims to examine the view that in Ancient Mesopotamia the lay citizen was relatively devoid of personal religious devotion and beliefs. The first chapter sets this thesis in the context of studies in Mesopotamian religion which have appeared since the beginnings of Assyriology. A selection of the main categories of literary and epistolary texts has been examined in an effort to isolate the practices of the layman from those of kings and priests, who are the primary authors or subjects of the majority of texts. Chapter II considers the evidence for the participation of the population at large in the liturgy and draws the conclusion that lay individuals participated in public festivals as well as in the temple worship of the gods, both in popular devotion as well as in judicial procedures. In Chapter III religious and devotional practices occurring outside the temples are studied. The role of the asipu is shown to have been important since he acted as intermediary between the gods and individuals in various personal crises. Rituals for individuals and the accompanying prayers show belief in the concern of the gods for the individual and his welfare, and the same belief is exhibited by the practice of house-blessings, the use of seals and amulets and the recourse to omens. Rites and beliefs connected with birth, marriage and the cult of the dead are examined. Chapter IV examines the relationship of the personal god to his devotee. It also studies the belief in protective deities, especially dlamassu in texts connected with lay persons.
The Highest Oxidation State of Rhodium: Rhodium(VII) in [RhO3]+
Creators: name: Silva Santos, Mayara Da
name: Stüker, Tony
name: Flach, Max
name: Ablyasova, Olesya S.
name: Timm, Martin
name: Issendorff, Bernd Von
name: Hirsch, Konstantin
name: Zamudio‐Bayer, Vicente
name: Riedel, Sebastian
name: Lau, J. Tobias
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Gas Phase
subject: Oxidation State
subject: Oxides
subject: Rhodium
subject: X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Although the highest possible oxidation states of all transition elements are rare, they are not only of fundamental interest but also relevant as potentially strong oxidizing agents. In general, the highest oxidation states are found in the electron‐rich late transition elements of groups 7–9 of the periodic table. Rhodium is the first element of the 4d transition metal series for which the highest known oxidation state does not equal its group number of 9, but reaches only a significantly lower value of +6 in exceptional cases. Higher oxidation states of rhodium have remained elusive so far. In a combined mass spectrometry, X‐ray absorption spectroscopy, and quantum‐chemical study of gas‐phaseRhOn+ (n=1–4), we identify RhO3+ as the 1A1' trioxidorhodium(VII) cation, the first chemical species to contain rhodium in the +7 oxidation state, which is the third‐highest oxidation state experimentally verified among all elements in the periodic table.
Supplemental Material, CCX-19-0211.R1_-_Checklist - S-1 Maintenance Therapy in Extensive Stage Small-Cell Lung Cancer—A Randomized Clinical Study
Creators: name: Keke Nie
name: Xiuhui Guo
name: Yunhong You
name: Xingjun Zhuang
name: Chunling Zhang
name: Youxin Ji
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental Material, CCX-19-0211.R1_-_Checklist for S-1 Maintenance Therapy in Extensive Stage Small-Cell Lung Cancer—A Randomized Clinical Study by Keke Nie, Xiuhui Guo, Yunhong You, Xingjun Zhuang, Chunling Zhang and Youxin Ji in Cancer Control
EXPECTANCY-VALUE IN THE ENROLLMENT FACTOR OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION YOUTH
Creators: name: Schafbuch, Morgan
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Vocational Education

description: This quantitative study considers the motivating factors for enrollment in secondary agricultural education courses from students whose home background is not from a farm. This study utilizes expectancy-value theory, and looks at students (n=211) from different agricultural backgrounds and the impact on their ability beliefs, expectancies for success, and usefulness, importance, and interest for enrollment in agricultural education courses. The results indicate that students who have no affiliation to a farm have the highest ability beliefs and expectancies for success towards agricultural education in relation to students who are from traditional agricultural backgrounds.
Enhanced entanglement in multi-bath spin-boson models
Creators: name: Hogg, Charlie R.
name: Cerisola, Federico
name: Cresser, James D.
name: Horsley, Simon A. R.
name: Anders, Janet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spin-boson model usually considers a spin coupled to a single bosonic bath. However, some physical situations require coupling of the spin to multiple environments. For example, spins interacting with phonons in three-dimensional magnetic materials. Here, we consider a spin coupled isotropically to three independent baths. We show that coupling to multiple baths can significantly increase entanglement between the spin and its environment at zero temperature. The effect of this is to reduce the spin's expectation values in the mean force equilibrium state. In contrast, the classical three-bath spin equilibrium state turns out to be entirely independent of the environmental coupling. These results reveal purely quantum effects that can arise from multi-bath couplings, with potential applications in a wide range of settings, such as magnetic materials.
description: Comments welcome
Intraligand Charge Transfer Enables Visible‐Light‐Mediated Nickel‐Catalyzed Cross‐Coupling Reactions
Creators: name: Cavedon, Cristian
name: Gisbertz, Sebastian
name: Reischauer, Susanne
name: Vogl, Sarah
name: Sperlich, Eric
name: Burke, John H.
name: Wallick, Rachel F.
name: Schrottke, Stefanie
name: Hsu, Wei‐Hsin
name: Anghileri, Lucia
name: Pfeifer, Yannik
name: Richter, Noah
name: Teutloff, Christian
name: Müller‐Werkmeister, Henrike
name: Cambié, Dario
name: Seeberger, Peter H.
name: Vura‐Weis, Josh
name: Veen, Renske M. Van Der
name: Thomas, Arne
name: Pieber, Bartholomäus
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Flow Chemistry
subject: Heterogeneous Catalysis
subject: Homogeneous Catalysis
subject: Photocatalysis
subject: Nickel Catalysis
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: We demonstrate that several visible‐light‐mediated carbon−heteroatom cross‐coupling reactions can be carried out using a photoactive NiII precatalyst that forms in situ from a nickel salt and a bipyridine ligand decorated with two carbazole groups (Ni(Czbpy)Cl2). The activation of this precatalyst towards cross‐coupling reactions follows a hitherto undisclosed mechanism that is different from previously reported light‐responsive nickel complexes that undergo metal‐to‐ligand charge transfer. Theoretical and spectroscopic investigations revealed that irradiation of Ni(Czbpy)Cl2 with visible light causes an initial intraligand charge transfer event that triggers productive catalysis. Ligand polymerization affords a porous, recyclable organic polymer for heterogeneous nickel catalysis of cross‐coupling reactions. The heterogeneous catalyst shows stable performance in a packed‐bed flow reactor during a week of continuous operation.
title: Aspects of Malayan economic development, 1900-1940.
Creators: name: Kinney, William P.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1975

description: This study of Malaya posits the establishment of export industries as the starting point in initiating the growth process. The export commodities developed were those highly using of unskilled labour or of a particular natural resource. Tin and rubber were the main exports of Malaya in the period under consideration-- the late nineteenth century up to World War II. Also important in initiating development and, more importantly in shaping the contours of growth once initiated, were government policy in regard to infrastructure (material and institutional infrastructure) and the technological nature of the production function. This analytical framework regards infrastructural policy and the technological nature of the production function as complementary rather than mutually exclusive causative factors. By 1920, Malaya's export industries had reached relative maturity. Utilizing extensive industrial and occupational data of the 1921 census, Malaya's economic profile is sketched. The now capital-intensive tin industry was shared by Chinese and British producers. The labour-intensive rubber industry was shared by estates and smallholders. Coexisting with the export industries was a subsistence sector and some secondary and tertiary industry. Malaya represented a typical case of dualism as defined in this study and in the literature. Subsequent census reports reveal the continuing rigidity of "segregative" dualism. Several other important conclusions emerge. The considerable potential of smallholder rubber was realized only to a limited extent. Governmental retrenchment and the exigencies of the Depression forced the peasants into an "involutional" adaptation. Infrastructural policy contributed importantly to these outcomes. An assessment of welfare changes is made for the 1930's Although the limits of statistical expression are considerable, it may be concluded that per capita rice availability was well-maintained during the Depression. The experience of Malaya's communities varied with regard to other aspects of welfare. Indices, constructed from raw data, support these contentions.
JAG-19-0401.R2_Supplementary_tables_final – Supplemental material for Dyadic Profiles of Health Behaviors Among Korean Baby Boomer Couples
Creators: name: Kim, Bon
name: Kyungmin Kim
name: Burr, Jeffrey A.
name: Joohyun Kim
name: Gyounghae Han
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, JAG-19-0401.R2_Supplementary_tables_final for Dyadic Profiles of Health Behaviors Among Korean Baby Boomer Couples by Bon Kim, Kyungmin Kim, Jeffrey A. Burr, Joohyun Kim and Gyounghae Han in Journal of Applied Gerontology
title: Changes in patterns and practices of wheat farming since the introduction of the new high yielding varieties: A study in six villages of the Bulandhsahr District, Uttar Pradesh, Northern India.
Creators: name: Baker, Kathleen M.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1975

description: Fear of continuing food shortage in India has stimulated efforts to increase agricultural output, and in recent years much research has been directed towards raising returns per unit area of land. Dwarf, high yielding varieties of wheat, rice, maize and millet introduced to India in the 1960s are capable of at least doubling the yields of their indigenous counterparts, and in addition, the shorter maturation period required by the new varieties potentially increases the number of crops that can be harvested each year. Theoretically, these plants could contribute much towards raising agricultural output, but only if their environmental needs are met, as high yields depend heavily on large and frequent applications of water, fertilizer, insecticide and pesticide. In the agricultural district of Bulandshahr in western Uttar Pradesh, by 1972, new varieties of wheat in particular, had been widely adopted, but the level of their success was unknown. A study limited to six villages was conducted in central Bulandshahr in 1972, with the aim of assessing how successfully farmers were growing dwarf wheat. Data were collected mainly by questionnaire and as areal patterns showed that the adoption of new wheat was almost complete in the study area, the next step was to see whether new farming methods had been similarly adopted. Essential cultivation techniques were examined to see if they had changed significantly from traditional methods, but the best measure of success, in farming dwarf wheat -is the yield, so information on crop returns was collected and the relationships of such returns with farming techniques examined. As all results showed considerable variation, the cultivators were classified, for example, according to their caste, farm size or education level, in an attempt to identify any factors which may have influenced their farming practices. The success of the high yielding varieties rests not only on the cultivators' enthusiasm, but also on a continued supply of essential inputs. Both field work and secondary sources showed the growing difficulties of obtaining adequate inputs, a trend unlikely to change rapidly, and which, if it continued, could reverse the initial success which attended the raising of dwarf varieties.
supplemental_results - Hsa_Circ_0007841 Enhances Multiple Myeloma Chemotherapy Resistance Through Upregulating ABCG2
Creators: name: Song, Yan
name: Hu, Ning
name: Song, Xiaowei
name: Yang, Juhong
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
Radiology and Organ Imaging
Biochemistry

description: supplemental_results for Hsa_Circ_0007841 Enhances Multiple Myeloma Chemotherapy Resistance Through Upregulating ABCG2 by Yan Song, Ning Hu, Xiaowei Song and Juhong Yang in Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment
title: Information Systems Reading Club
title: Reading List 2023
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Bellin, Pepe (Ed.)
name: Schlömer, Nina (Ed.)
name: Schurig, Tim (Ed.)
name: Schulte-Althoff, Matthias (Ed.)
name: Kilgus, Tim (Ed.)
name: Bloch, Annemarie (Ed.)
name: Nowak, Alessia (Ed.)
name: Welczeck, Laura Von (Ed.)
name: Gubser, Rahel (Ed.)
name: Stegemann, Lars (Ed.)
name: Richter, Kenneth (Ed.)
name: Kari, Arthur (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Methodology
subject: General Theory
subject: Platform Ecosystems
subject: Organizational Sciences
subject: Bibliographie
subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke

description: When was the last time you talked about a paper that wasn’t yours? Or a study that you didn’t find to directly use in your research? What an absurd question you may think. After all, reading papers is the bread and butter of research. But think about it. In the fast-paced realm of academia, we often find ourselves mindlessly skimming through articles. Caught in a constant hunt for information we can directly utilize and cite in our papers. The luxury of time – to thoroughly engage with the different research streams in Information Systems (IS) – is a rarity in our packed schedules. Even more scarce are the opportunities to discuss them with peers, colleagues, and friends. Allowing ourselves this luxury, we founded the Information Systems Reading Club (ISRC) in June 2023. Every week, we discuss both the newly published and the timeless classics of IS research. As a result of the sessions in the past year, we have curated a reading list representing our journey. It includes full papers, essays, editorials, and even three books. Whether you are an IS expert or a curious newcomer, there is something in this list for you. We encourage you to grant yourself the luxury of exploring these papers, even if they may seem to go beyond your immediate research focus.
title: The social life of the green Mong textile : Commercialisation and alternative discourses of value in Thailand.
Creators: name: Harper, Caroline
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1992

description: This thesis examines how material culture, specifically the Mong textile, is used in society and how an analysis of these uses can inform us of social processes. Discussion takes a contextual approach whereby the object is analysed at different points in its social life, ultimately focusing on alternative discourses of value and the conflict generated between different readings and interpretations. After an introduction to the Mong textile (Chapter One) and the fieldwork community (Chapter Two) the textile is placed in village context. Through a radical analysis of women's position in the village (Chapter Three & Four) and through an examination of the textile in Mong myth and cultural use, the textile is shown to play an important role in legitimising social relations and reproducing social institutions (Chapter Five). Changes in production (Chapter Six) are part of a new commercial trade and in this form the Mong textile provides an income for Mong and specifically for women, who are shown to adopt new patterns of residence and productive relations (Chapter Seven). Varying uses and values of the textile reveal conflict, a result of differences in exposures and knowledge acquired by the Mong. One effect of conflict is fragmentation from within Mong society (Chapter Eight). The social life of the Mong textile outside of the Mong village supports a stereotypic image that is contributing to Mong assimilation in Thailand (Chapter Nine). Although a subordinate group, within Thailand the Mong are not seen to be totally dominated and the Mong textile thus becomes the focus of a battle between the Mong statement and an alternative ideology which attempts to appropriate the symbols of their material culture for a rival interpretation (Chapter Ten). In conclusion it is suggested that we should continue to reassess the place of material culture within anthropological study and learn from the different contexts of production and consumption, and the constantly changing relationship between subject and object.
Supplemental Material, MAreguin_FEMS_SPPS_Supplemental_Materials_R2S - Reaping More Than What They Sow: A Critical Race Perspective on Environmental Microaggressions Toward Latinx Farmworkers
Creators: name: Areguin, Maira A.
name: Que-Lam Huynh
name: Berzenski, Sara R.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental Material, MAreguin_FEMS_SPPS_Supplemental_Materials_R2S for Reaping More Than What They Sow: A Critical Race Perspective on Environmental Microaggressions Toward Latinx Farmworkers by Maira A. Areguin, Que-Lam Huynh and Sara R. Berzenski in Social Psychological and Personality Science
title: A Mongol procedure for the management of energy: The "dalalya" ritual and its texts.
Creators: name: Chabros, Krystyna M.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1991

description: The Mongol dalalya, 'beckoning of good-fortune', is a folk-religious ritual which also occurs in lamaized contexts. The different forms which the ritual takes are classified and analysed, reference being made to published accounts and to the author's fieldwork in Mongolia, and (to a limited extent) to comparative material for other Altaic areas and for Tibet. The relationship of the ritual to the sacrifice to the hearth-deity is examined. Mongol terminology specific to the ritual is analysed. Objects which appear as requisites in the ritual are described and illustrated, and their place in Mongol symbolic systems is analysed. All known texts of invocations to be recited at the ritual are listed and classified. Texts representative of each of the main categories identified are translated and edited. The study concludes that the ritual is a means of promoting the vital energy of men and herds; it has taken a number of different forms in different environments, under the influence of the contrasting ideologies of hunting and herding, of Mongol folk-religion and of lamaism. The ritual may be associated with earlier sacrifices to the ancestors.
Programming tunable active dynamics in a self-propelled robot
Creators: name: Paramanick, Somnath
name: Pal, Arnab
name: Soni, Harsh
name: Kumar, Nitin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a scheme for producing tunable active dynamics in a self-propelled robotic device. The robot moves using the differential drive mechanism where two wheels can vary their instantaneous velocities independently. These velocities are calculated by equating robot's equations of motion in two dimensions with well-established active particle models and encoded into the robot's microcontroller. We demonstrate that the robot can depict active Brownian, run and tumble, and Brownian dynamics with a wide range of parameters. The resulting motion analyzed using particle tracking shows excellent agreement with the theoretically predicted trajectories. Finally, we demonstrate that its motion can be switched between different dynamics using light intensity as an external parameter. This work opens an avenue for designing tunable active systems with the potential of revealing the physics of active matter and its application for bio- and nature-inspired robotics.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, For supplementary movies and SI file visit: https://iitbacin-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/somnath_p_iitb_ac_in/EvOuWA3nDdtFsJ9x1thyDCcBDuE029-kduxwXulG6HFMpA?e=iIgTRK
Ultrafast laser-induced magneto-optical changes in resonant magnetic x-ray reflectivity
Creators: name: Kumberg, Ivar
name: Golias, Evangelos
name: Hadjadj, Sebastien Elie
name: Hosseinifar, Rahil
name: Thakur, Sangeeta
name: Shinwari, Tauqir
name: Gelen, Ismet
name: Pontius, Niko
name: Schüßler-Langeheine, Christian
name: Korff Schmising, Clemens Von
name: Sharma, Sangeeta
name: Kuch, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Laser-induced demagnetization
subject: Magneto-optical effect
subject: Spin dynamics
subject: Ultrafast demagnetization
subject: Ultrafast magnetic effects
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::538 Magnetismus

description: We investigate the magneto-optical response of Co to an ultrashort laser excitation by x-ray resonant magnetic reflectivity (XRMR) employing circular polarization. The time-resolved reflectivities detected for opposite sample magnetization are separated into magnetic and nonmagnetic contributions, which contain information about the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of the sample. Different response times of the different contributions are observed. The experimental results are reproduced numerically by two different simulation approaches. On the one hand, we use a purely thermal model, a time-dependent heat-induced loss of macroscopic magnetization, and an inhomogeneous laser-induced strain profile. On the other hand, we employ time-dependent density-functional theory to calculate the transient optical response to the laser-induced excitation and from that the reflected intensities. While both methods are able to reproduce the time dependence of the magnetic signal, the ultrafast nonmagnetic change in reflectivity is captured satisfactorily only in simulations of the transient optical response function and has thus to be assigned to electronic effects. The energy dependence of the magnetic circular dichroism is investigated in the simulations, highlighting a dependence of the observable on the probing energy. Finally, a phenomenological explanation of the dynamics measured in dichroic x-ray reflectivity in the different channels is offered.
Challenging the Boundaries Between Treatment, Prevention, and Enhancement in Human Genome Editing
Creators: name: MacKay, Douglas
name: Flatt, Michael A.
name: Juengst, Eric T.
name: Walker, Rebecca L.
name: Conley, John M.
name: Cadigan, R. Jean
name: Waltz, Margaret
Publisher: name: Mary Ann Liebert
Year: 2024

description:
Traditional distinctions between treatment and enhancement goals for human genome editing (HGE) have animated oversight considerations, yet these categories have been complicated by the addition of prevention as a possible target for HGE applications. To assess the role these three categories might play in continued HGE governance efforts, we report on interviews with genome editing scientists and governance group members. While some accepted traditional distinctions between treatment and enhancement and rejected the latter as unacceptable, others argued that the concept of enhancement is largely irrelevant or not as morally problematic as suggested. Others described how preventive goals for HGE create gray zones where prevention and enhancement may be difficult to distinguish, which may stymie uses of HGE. We conclude by discussing the governance implications of these various understandings of treatment, prevention, and enhancement as HGE research moves beyond the treatment of serious disease to embrace longer range preventive goals.
PS_Supplemental_Material_Table4 – Supplemental material for Political Veganism: An Empirical Analysis of Vegans’ Motives, Aims, and Political Engagement
Creators: name: Kalte, Deborah
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, PS_Supplemental_Material_Table4 for Political Veganism: An Empirical Analysis of Vegans’ Motives, Aims, and Political Engagement by Deborah Kalte in Political Studies
Improved generic regularity of codimension-1 minimizing integral currents
Creators: name: Chodosh, Otis
name: Mantoulidis, Christos
name: Schulze, Felix
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $Γ$ be a smooth, closed, oriented, $(n-1)$-dimensional submanifold of $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. We show that there exist arbitrarily small perturbations $Γ'$ of $Γ$ with the property that minimizing integral $n$-currents with boundary $Γ'$ are smooth away from a set of Hausdorff dimension $\leq n-9-\varepsilon_n$, where $\varepsilon_n \in (0, 1]$ is a dimensional constant.
 This improves on our previous result (where we proved generic smoothness of minimizers in $9$ and $10$ ambient dimensions). The key ingredients developed here are a new method to estimate the full singular set of the foliation by minimizers and a proof of superlinear decay of closeness (near singular points) that holds even across non-conical scales.
description: This is the publication version, incorporating the journal style
title: A study of the "Svetasvataropanisadbhasya" attributed to Samkara: An annotated translation.
Creators: name: Jessup, Warwick V.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1991

description: The Svetasvatara Upanisad is not usually considered to be among the ten Upanisads commented on by Samkara. The Upanisad questions the origin of creation, and explores the relationship between the soul and the Supreme Deity, emphasizing the importance of meditation in realising the Deity. The commentary has a long introduction teaching that liberation comes through knowledge, not rites, quoting profusely from the Puranas and other sources. The commentary on the text itself further expands the Keveladvaitavedanta of Samkara's School, inculcating the unity of the Self, which is the real, and the unreality of all else, Gods spoken of, such as Rudra, are taken as referring to the nondual Brahman, and the various means spoken of are interpreted as means of realising Brahman. Whether this commentary is actually the work of Adisamkara has been disputed for over a century. Indeed, the authenticity of many works attributed to Samkara has been called into doubt. In the case of the Svetasvataropanisadbhasya, no thorough-going tests have been applied and published. The present study, by a combination of Hacker's litmus-test of authenticity, and other evidence gleaned, proves fairly conclusively that the commentary is not the work of Adisamkara, but of a later follower, thus vindicating the view that Adisamkara wrote commentaries on only ten Upanisads.
PS_Supplemental_Material_Table5 – Supplemental material for Political Veganism: An Empirical Analysis of Vegans’ Motives, Aims, and Political Engagement
Creators: name: Kalte, Deborah
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, PS_Supplemental_Material_Table5 for Political Veganism: An Empirical Analysis of Vegans’ Motives, Aims, and Political Engagement by Deborah Kalte in Political Studies
title: The grammar of Emakhuwa verbal extensions : An investigation of the role of extension morphemes in derivational verbal morphology and in grammatical relations.
Creators: name: Katupha, Jose M.M.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1991

description: The central concern of this thesis is a group of derivational suffixes characteristic of the Bantu languages known as verbal extensions yielding such derived verbs as causative, frequentative, passive, reciprocative. The study is based on a textual corpus from Emakhuwa, a Bantu language of Mozambique, supplemented by the author's native knowledge of the language. The theoretical background is provided by Lexical Functional Grammar (Bresnan (1982)), which provides a means of relating theta roles (agent, instrument, theme etc.) to grammatical functions through the Lexical Mapping sub-theory. After exploring in chapter two the morphology of these suffixes and their suppletive relationship within the lexicon, chapter three examines the syntax of primitive verbs, classified principally as ergative, unergative and unaccusative. In this analysis "objecthood" and "restrictedness" prove difficult to establish, since object c1iticization is largely restricted to human reference, while passivization (chapter five) is applied to all roles below the highest, including roles such as time and manner, normally perceived as adverbial. Furthermore, word order is little constrained and not decisive of function. Certain constructions allow variable mapping of roles to functions and introduction of supplementary objects corresponding to co-referent patients or reason, but without morphological verbal indexation. Focus in chapters four and five is narrowed to thematic extensions adding or dropping roles. The applicative introduces a beneficiary, instrument or goal, interpreted partially according to animacy; the repeated extensions may introduce multiple roles. The causative constructions include the inductive, introducing a reason/instrument role with optional suppression of agent and/or theme. The reciprocative may have a quasi-causative reading introducing an involved but unequal participant. Uses of these extensions with the passive and stative, singly or in combination, are systematically explored. The conclusion casts doubts on the adequacy of theories relying heavily on the traditional morpho-syntactic manifestations of object.