cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dirichlet boundary conditions in a noncommutative theory
Creators: name: Fosco, C. D.
name: Scuracchio, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the problem of imposing Dirichlet-like boundary conditions along a static spatial curve, in a planar Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory model. After constructing interaction terms that impose the boundary conditions, we discuss their implementation at the level of an interacting theory, with a focus on their physical consequences, and the symmetries they preserve. We also derive the effect they have on certain observables, like the Casimir energies.
description: 19 pages, 1 figure, pdflatex
Regioselective Hydrosilylation of Olefins Catalyzed by a Molecular Calcium Hydride Cation
Creators: name: Schuhknecht, Danny
name: Spaniol, Thomas P.
name: Maron, Laurent
name: Okuda, Jun
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2019

description: Abstract Chemo- and regioselectivity are often difficult to control during olefin hydrosilylation catalyzed by d- and f-block metal complexes. The cationic hydride of calcium [CaH]+ stabilized by an NNNN macrocycle was found to catalyze the regioselective hydrosilylation of aliphatic olefins to give anti-Markovnikov products, while aryl-substituted olefins were hydrosilyated with Markovnikov regioselectivity. Ethylene was efficiently hydrosilylated by primary and secondary hydrosilanes to give di- and monoethylated silanes. Aliphatic hydrosilanes were preferred over other commonly employed hydrosilanes: Arylsilanes such as PhSiH3 underwent scrambling reactions promoted by the nucleophilic hydride, while alkoxy- and siloxy-substituted hydrosilanes gave isolable alkoxy and siloxy calcium derivatives.
The Effect of Self-Reported Visual Impairment and Sleep on Cognitive Decline: Results of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.
Creators: name: Cai, Jianwen
name: Zheng, Diane
name: Stickel, Ariana M
name: DeBuc, Delia Cabrera
name: Mahanna-Gabrielli, Elizabeth
name: González, Hector M
name: Tarraf, Wassim
name: Daviglus, Martha L
name: Mendoza-Santiesteban, Carlos
name: Kuwayama, Sayaka
name: Lee, David J
name: Kaur, Sonya
name: Joslin, Charlotte E
name: Ramos, Alberto R
Publisher: name: IOS Press
Year: 2023

description:
BACKGROUND: Visual impairment could worsen sleep/wake disorders and cognitive decline. OBJECTIVE: To examine interrelations among self-reported visual impairment, sleep, and cognitive decline in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) Miami-site. METHOD: HCHS/SOL Miami-site participants ages 45-74 years (n = 665) at Visit-1, who returned for cognitive test 7-years later (SOL-INCA). Participants completed the National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ), validated sleep questionnaires and test for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) at Visit-1. We obtained verbal episodic learning and memory, verbal fluency, processing speed, and executive functioning at Visit-1 and at SOL-INCA. Processing speed/executive functioning were added to SOL-INCA. We examined global cognition and change using a regression-based reliable change index, adjusting for the time lapse between Visit-1 and SOL-INCA. We used regression models to test whether 1) persons with OSA, self-reported sleep duration, insomnia, and sleepiness have an increased risk for visual impairment, 2a) visual impairment is associated with worse cognitive function and/or decline, and 2b) sleep disorders attenuate these associations. RESULT: Sleepiness (β= 0.04; p < 0.01) and insomnia (β= 0.04; p < 0.001) were cross-sectionally associated with visual impairment, adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics, behavioral factors, acculturation, and health conditions. Visual impairment was associated with lower global cognitive function at Visit-1 (β= -0.16; p < 0.001) and on average 7-years later (β= -0.18; p < 0.001). Visual impairment was also associated with a change in verbal fluency (β= -0.17; p < 0.01). OSA, self-reported sleep duration, insomnia, and sleepiness did not attenuate any of the associations. CONCLUSION: Self-reported visual impairment was independently associated with worse cognitive function and decline.
A lower mass for the exoplanet WASP-21b
Creators: name: Barros, S. C. C.
name: Pollacco, D. L.
name: Gibson, N. P.
name: Howarth, I. D.
name: Keenan, F. P.
name: Simpson, E. K.
name: Skillen, I.
name: Steele, I. A.
name: .
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high precision transit observations of the exoplanet WASP-21b, obtained with the RISE instrument mounted on 2.0m Liverpool Telescope. A transit model is fitted, coupled with an MCMC routine to derive accurate system parameters. The two new high precision transits allow to estimate the stellar density directly from the light curve. Our analysis suggests that WASP-21 is evolving off the main sequence which led to a previous overestimation of the stellar density. Using isochrone interpolation, we find a stellar mass of 0.86 \pm 0.04 Msun which is significantly lower than previously reported (1.01 \pm 0.03 Msun). Consequently, we find a lower planetary mass of $0.27 \pm 0.01 Mjup$. A lower inclination (87.4 \pm 0.3 degrees) is also found for the system than previously reported, resulting in a slightly larger stellar (R_* =1.10 \pm 0.03 Rsun) and planetary radius (R_p = 1.14 \pm 0.04 Rjup). The planet radius suggests a hydrogen/helium composition with no core which strengthens the correlation between planetary density and host star metallicity. A new ephemeris is determined for the system, i.e., t0 =2455084.51974 \pm 0.00020 (HJD) and P=4.3225060 \pm 0.0000031 days. We found no transit timing variations in WASP-21b.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Calorific value of wood pellets
Creators: name: Lee, Jun Sian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The export of wood pellets from Canada to Europe has been increasing steadily in recent years (roughly 1.8 million ton in 2013). Due to distances involved, wood pellets remain in transit and storage for months before their final consumption. The net calorific value determines the price of wood pellets purchased in Europe. There have been concerns about the changes of net calorific values over time. In this study, the effects of storage time, storage configuration, storage temperature, and wood pellet quality on the net calorific value of wood pellets for a period of 6 months were investigated. Storage configurations were “open” or “closed” and storage temperatures were 25°C, 35°C and 45°C. Two types of wood pellets used: white (10% bark) and mixed (40% bark). The results in the “closed” storage scenario indicated that storage time had a positive effect on the net calorific value, where the net calorific value increased by 1 to 2% over the storage period. In the open storage scenario, the moisture content had the most significant impact on the net calorific value. A multivariable linear regression and analysis of variance performed verified the graphical results. It was postulated that the higher energy potential compounds – low molecular weight aldehyde and ketone or off-gasses such as carbon monoxide, methane and hydrogen – produced during pellet storage, caused the increase in net calorific values.
Additional file 5 of Downregulation of lncRNA ZNF582-AS1 due to DNA hypermethylation promotes clear cell renal cell carcinoma growth and metastasis by regulating the N(6)-methyladenosine modification of MT-RNR1
Creators: name: Yang, Wuping
name: Zhang, Kenan
name: Li, Lei
name: Xu, Yawei
name: Ma, Kaifang
name: Xie, Haibiao
name: Zhou, Jingcheng
name: Cai, Lin
name: Gong, Yanqing
name: Gong, Kan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S4. Comparison of A8K0B9 and TFB1M protein sequences.
The Grassmannian and the Twistor String: Connecting All Trees in N=4 SYM
Creators: name: Bourjaily, Jacob L.
name: Trnka, Jaroslav
name: Volovich, Anastasia
name: Wen, Congkao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new, explicit formula for all tree-level amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. The formula is written as a certain contour integral of the connected prescription of Witten's twistor string, expressed in link variables. A very simple deformation of the integrand gives directly the Grassmannian integrand proposed by Arkani-Hamed et al. together with the explicit contour of integration. The integral is derived by iteratively adding particles to the Grassmannian integral, one particle at a time, and makes manifest both parity and soft limits. The formula is shown to be related to those given by Dolan and Goddard, and generalizes the results of earlier work for NMHV and N^2MHV to all N^(k-2)MHV tree amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills.
description: 26 pages
Recognize & Resist: An Online Health Intervention to Promote Writing About Sexual Consent and Egalitarian Gender Roles Among One Direction Fanfiction Writers
Creators: name: McKenzie, Ashley Hedrick
name: Carpentier, Francesca R. Dillman
name: Shegog, Ross
name: Friedman, Barbara G.
name: Salazar, Laura F.
name: Lazard, Allison J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023

description:
This paper focuses on the development and feasibility of a digitally-based educational intervention, titled Recognize & Resist (R&R), for writers of One Direction (1D) fanfiction on Wattpad.com. The goal of R&R is to reduce the prevalence of social norms that are supportive of sexual violence within 1D fanfiction. 1D fanfictions, or fictional romance stories written by fans of this British boy band, have hundreds of millions of views on Wattpad.com. Formative research has found that social norms supportive of sexual violence are prevalent in 1D fanfictions and that some authors have internalized these norms. R&R aims to motivate 1D fanfiction writers to highlight sexual consent and egalitarian gender roles in their writing. To evaluate the intervention's feasibility, 15 1D fanfiction authors completed a survey and participated in an interview or focus group. Results demonstrate R&R's feasibility, with high ratings of its acceptability and demand. Insights from the interviews and focus groups provide suggestions for revising R&R before rigorously evaluating its efficacy. Additionally, results demonstrate the utility of using popular culture as a vehicle for attitude-change regarding sensitive health issues.
Coenzyme A-Conjugated Cinnamic Acids – Enzymatic Synthesis of a CoA-Ester Library and Application in Biocatalytic Cascades to Vanillin Derivatives
Creators: name: Dippe, Martin
name: Bauer, Anne-Katrin
name: Porzel, Andrea
name: Funke, Evelyn
name: Müller, Anna O.
name: Schmidt, Jürgen
name: Beier, Maria
name: Wessjohann, Ludger A.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2019

description: Abstract We present a bioorthogonal method for the ligation of coenzyme A (CoA) with cinnamic acids. The reaction, which is the initial step in the biosynthesis of a multitude of bioactive secondary metabolites, is catalyzed by a promiscuous plant ligase and yields CoA conjugates with different functionalization in high purity and without formation of by-products. Its applicability in biosynthetic cascades is shown for the direct transformation of cinnamic acids into natural benzaldehydes (like vanillin) or artificial derivatives (e. g. ethylvanillin). image
Additional file 7 of Downregulation of lncRNA ZNF582-AS1 due to DNA hypermethylation promotes clear cell renal cell carcinoma growth and metastasis by regulating the N(6)-methyladenosine modification of MT-RNR1
Creators: name: Yang, Wuping
name: Zhang, Kenan
name: Li, Lei
name: Xu, Yawei
name: Ma, Kaifang
name: Xie, Haibiao
name: Zhou, Jingcheng
name: Cai, Lin
name: Gong, Yanqing
name: Gong, Kan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Figure S6. The correlation between MT-RNR1 expression and the mRNA expression of 12 mitochondrial proteins (n = 317).
Superconductivity Reinforced by Magnetic Field and the Magnetic Instability in Uranium Ferromagnets
Creators: name: Aoki, Dai
name: Matsuda, Tatsuma D.
name: Hardy, Frederic
name: Meingast, Christoph
name: Taufour, Valentin
name: Hassinger, Elena
name: Sheikin, Ilya
name: Paulsen, Carley
name: Knebel, Georg
name: Kotegawa, Hisashi
name: Flouquet, Jacques
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review our recent results on ferromagnetic superconductors, URhGe and UCoGe. High quality single crystals of both compounds were successfully grown. The specific heat shows a clear jump related to the superconducting transition in UCoGe. The finite values of C/T at 0K are discussed in terms of the self-induced vortex state and the value of the ordered moment. With increasing fields for H // b-axis in URhGe, the jump of thermal expansion increases and shifts to lower temperature. The re-entrant and S-shaped superconducting phases for URhGe and UCoGe respectively are explained by the unusual field dependence of the effective mass, which is induced by the ferromagnetic instability when the field is applied along the hard magnetization b-axis. The magnetic fluctuations are very sensitive to the field orientation. This is reflected in the Hc2 and the anisotropy of the effective mass.
description: 6 pages, 9 figures, proceedings of ICHE2010 in Tokyo, to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Suppl
Middle to Late Pleistocene Architecture and Stratigraphy of the Lower Bengal Fan—Integrating Multichannel Seismic Data and IODP Expedition 354 Results
Creators: name: Bergmann, Fenna
name: Schwenk, Tilmann
name: Spiess, Volkhard
name: France-Lanord, Christian
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2020

description: Utilizing a novel data set of integrated high-resolution multichannel seismic data with IODP Expedition 354 drilling results, a Middle to Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for the lower Bengal Fan is developed. The study reveals a high lateral and temporal variability of deposition expressed by lateral shifts (often exceeding 100 km) between successive channel-levee systems (CLSs), which occurred on average every ~15 kyr independent from sea-level changes. The CLSs are embedded in sheeted sediments deposited out of unchannelized turbidity currents, which represent almost two thirds of the lower Bengal Fan sediments. On 100-kyr timescales, CLSs and sheeted/unchannelized sediments build up subfans, which alternately occupied the western and the eastern Bengal Fan, while the remaining area was draped by ~10 to 20 m-thick layers of background/hemipelagic sediments. Three subfans have been reconstructed: Subfan B (1.24–0.68 Ma) formed concurrently with the Middle Pleistocene Hemipelagic Layer, Subfan C (0.68–0.25 Ma) covered the entire study area, and Subfan D (0.25 Ma to recent) deposited concomitant with the Late Pleistocene Hemipelagic Layer. The continuous succession of subfans indicates an uninterrupted fan activity independent from sea-level cycles at least since the Middle Pleistocene. This remarkable independent behavior in terms of sediment supply has not been observed at the Amazon Fan but is in agreement with observations from the Congo Fan. Finally, the analysis of a complete cross section through the lower Bengal Fan reveals that almost half of the sediment represents sands, indicating that the lower Bengal Fan may not generally be classified as “mud rich” (≤30% sand).
Light storage in an optically thick atomic ensemble under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency and four-wave mixing
Creators: name: Phillips, Nathaniel B.
name: Gorshkov, Alexey V.
name: Novikova, Irina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the modification of a traditional electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) stored light technique that includes both EIT and four-wave mixing (FWM) in an ensemble of hot Rb atoms. The standard treatment of light storage involves the coherent and reversible mapping of one photonic mode onto a collective spin coherence. It has been shown that unwanted, competing processes such as four-wave mixing are enhanced by EIT and can significantly modify the signal optical pulse propagation. We present theoretical and experimental evidence to indicate that while a Stokes field is indeed detected upon retrieval of the signal field, any information originally encoded in a seeded Stokes field is not independently preserved during the storage process. We present a simple model that describes the propagation dynamics of the fields and the impact of FWM on the spin wave.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 1 of Profiles of immune cell infiltration and immune-related genes in the tumor microenvironment of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Liu, Mingdi
name: Li, Faping
name: Liu, Bin
name: Jian, Yongping
name: Zhang, Dan
name: Zhou, Honglan
name: Wang, Yishu
name: Xu, Zhixiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. The immune and stromal scores for 81 ESCC samples from TCGA database. Supplementary Table 2. The risk scores for 81 ESCC samples from TCGA database.
Molecule-Induced Radical Formation (MIRF) Reactions—A Reappraisal
Creators: name: Sandhiya, Lakshmanan
name: Jangra, Harish
name: Zipse, Hendrik
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2020

description: Abstract Radical chain reactions are commonly initiated through the thermal or photochemical activation of purpose-built initiators, through photochemical activation of substrates, or through well-designed redox processes. Where radicals come from in the absence of these initiation strategies is much less obvious and are often assumed to derive from unknown impurities. In this situation, molecule-induced radical formation (MIRF) reactions should be considered as well-defined alternative initiation modes. In the most general definition of MIRF reactions, two closed-shell molecules react to give a radical pair or biradical. The exact nature of this transformation depends on the σ- or π-bonds involved in the MIRF process, and this Minireview specifically focuses on reactions that transform two σ-bonds into two radicals and a closed-shell product molecule.
Analysis of targeting mechanisms of tRNA derived fragments (tRFs)
Creators: name: Karaiskos, Spyros
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: We characterized Drosophila  melanogaster tRFs, which appear to have a number of structural and functional features similar to those of miRNAs. These tRFs show a number of similarities with miRNAs, including seed sequences. Based on complementarity with conserved Drosophila regions we identified such seed sequences and their possible targets with matches in the 3’ UTR regions. Strikingly, the potential target genes of the most abundant tRFs show significant Gene Ontology enrichment in development and neuronal function. The latter suggests that involvement of tRFs in the RNA interfering pathway may play a role in brain activity or brain changes with age. Next, we observed different behavior of two types of tRNA fragments (3’ and 5’ tRFs) detected in significant numbers in rat brains. These fragments showed dynamic changes with age and 3’ tRFs were found to be increasing from young to mid-aged to old rats while 5’ tRFs displayed less consistent patterns. Further, 3’ tRFs showed a narrow range of sizes compared to 5’ tRFs suggesting different biogenesis mechanisms. Putative targets of these fragments were found to be enriched in neuronal and developmental functions.Last, we describe interactions of human tRFs with their putative target RNAs associated with human Ago1 using Crosslinking, Ligation, And Sequencing of Hybrids (CLASH). We found that Argonaute-loaded tRFs target a wide range of transcripts corresponding to various gene types, in addition to protein-coding transcripts. In the latter, 3' UTR regions are the likely primary target of tRFs, although there is a significant number of interactions of tRFs with coding sequences and a small number of interactions between tRFs and 5' UTR regions. We also report a novel phenomenon – a large number of putative interactions between tRFs and intronic sequences. We analyzed sequences of chimeras formed in vivo between tRFs and their targets to identify clusters of RNA-RNA interaction signatures. We also identified enriched motifs that may be responsible for these interactions and we provide ample evidence supporting the notion that tRF “seed” sequences appear to be primarily located on the 5’ end of a tRF.
Sister Space: Collective Descriptive Representation and Black Women in Legislative Caucuses
Creators: name: Clark, Christopher J.
name: Brown, Nadia E.
name: Strawbridge, Michael
name: Mahoney, Anna Mitchell
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Year: 2023

description:
Black women in elective office in the United States have demonstrated how descriptive representative transforms democratic institutions. This transformation is most evident in previously uncrystallized interests, those new to the agenda or not yet owned by specific political groups (Mansbridge 1999), articulated in legislative communication and action. For instance, Black maternal health is an issue that addresses the disproportionately poor health outcomes among Black women, who face systemic barriers to equitable care (Crear-Perry et al. 2021). Congresswoman Lauren Underwood’s (D-IL) 2021 Momnibus legislation included 12 bipartisan bills to address racial and ethnic disparities faced by mothers, children, and individuals who birth. Indeed, the creation of the Black Maternal Health Caucus (BMHC) demonstrates the legislative agency of Black women to form identity- and issue-based coalitions that suit the needs of Black women—needs often overlooked by Black men and white women.
A Unified Gravity-Electroweak Model Based on a Generalized Yang-Mills Framework
Creators: name: Hsu, Jong-Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational and electroweak interactions can be unified in analogy with the unification in the Weinberg-Salam theory. The Yang-Mills framework is generalized to include space-time translational group T(4), whose generators $T_μ(=\p/\p x^μ)$ do not have constant matrix representations. By gauging $T(4) \times SU(2) \times U(1)$ in flat space-time, we have a new tensor field $ϕ_{μν}$ which universally couples to all particles and anti-particles with the same constant $g$, which has the dimension of length. In this unified model, the T(4) gauge symmetry dictates that all wave equations of fermions, massive bosons and the photon in flat space-time reduce to a Hamilton-Jacobi equation with the same `effective Riemann metric tensor' in the geometric-optics limit. Consequently, the results are consistent with experiments. We demonstrated that the T(4) gravitational gauge field can be quantized in inertial frames.
description: 12 pages. To be published in "Modern Physics Letters A"
Middle- and High-Latitude Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Mean Winds and Tides in Response to Strong Polar-Night Jet Oscillations
Creators: name: Conte, J. Federico
name: Chau, Jorge L.
name: Peters, Dieter H. W.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2019

description: The dynamical behavior of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region during strongly disturbed wintertime conditions commonly known as polar-night jet oscillations (PJOs) is described in detail and compared to other wintertime conditions. For this purpose, wind measurements provided by two specular meteor radars located at Andenes (69°N, 16°E) and Juliusruh (54°N, 13°E) are used to estimate horizontal mean winds and tides as an observational basis. Winds and tidal main features are analyzed and compared for three different cases: major sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) with (a) strong PJO event, (b) non-PJO event, and (c) no major SSWs. We show that the distinction into strong PJOs, non-PJOs, and winters with no major SSWs is better suited to identify differences in the behavior of the mean winds and tides during the boreal winter. To assess the impact of the stratospheric disturbed conditions on the MLT region, we investigate the 30-year nudged simulation by the Extended Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model. Analysis of geopotential height disturbances suggests that changes in the location of the polar vortex at mesospheric heights are responsible for the jets observed in the MLT mean winds during strong PJOs, which in turn influence the evolution of semidiurnal tides by increasing or decreasing their amplitudes depending on the tidal component.
"Success will write apocalypse across the sky" : William Blake and the eschatological performative
Creators: name: Thomas, Alexander
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: 　　Writing in an era of apocalyptic speculations and millenarian hopes, the Romantic poet and visionary William Blake made frequent and idiosyncratic use of eschatological themes and imagery throughout his poetry and art. While critics have long recognized the centrality of apocalyptic themes to Blake’s work, opinion has been largely divided as to the precise nature of Blakean apocalypticism. Critical attempts to address the complexities of Blakean apocalypticism have frequently been unable to reconcile Blake's celebration of the polysemous, indeterminate nature of reality with his triumphant vision of divine unity. In this essay, I argue that Blake's eschatological aspirations are realized precisely through his embrace of multiplicity and his resistance to totalizing systems of normative authority. Drawing on the work of Blake critic Angela Esterhammer, I contend that Blake’s apocalyptic writing is performative, in that it attempts to linguistically create the eschatological state it ostensibly describes. The goal of this Blakean eschatological performative is to radically transform the state of epistemological, social, and political closure which Blake characterizes as the post-lapsarian condition. Blake’s apocalyptic writing deconstructs the tendency of eschatological speech to calcify into a reinforcement of conventional social structures, while modelling a speech-community in which the fundamental legitimacy of all other subjects is a foundational and inalienable principle. This community, called by Blake “Jersualem,” is based on an embrace of the Other in which their ineluctable alterity paradoxically forms the basis of a more expansive personal identity. Following Judith Butler’s work on the insurrectionary potential of performatives, I argue that this Jerusalem community has potent political ramifications, as it enables disempowered, marginalized voices to resist hegemonic power-structures and lay claim to an agency denied to them by society-at-large.
Revisiting the Role of Convective Deep Water Formation in Northern Baltic Sea Bottom Water Renewal
Creators: name: Giesse, Céline
name: Meier, H. E. Markus
name: Neumann, Thomas
name: Moros, Matthias
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2020

description: Deep water renewal and ventilation of the Baltic Sea is commonly considered to occur solely via saltwater inflows from the North Sea. However, recent analysis of geophysical and sediment proxy data suggests convective deep water formation during wintertime as a second process that has contributed to the ventilation of the northern and central Baltic Sea bottom waters during cold climate periods. Here, we investigate the role of deep water formation in the northern Baltic Sea in a regional ocean circulation model. Selecting the particularly cold winter 1986/1987 as a reference period, we perform sensitivity experiments in which the atmospheric temperature forcing is changed and/or localized brine rejection on subgrid scales is accounted for through a parameterization. We study the sinking and circulation of water masses via passive tracers introduced into the model. Generally, our model results support the established view that convective deep water formation does not play a major role in Baltic Sea deep water renewal. While a reduction of air temperatures does not qualitatively change the sinking and circulation of water masses in our experiments, brine rejection could potentially lead to localized deep water formation. However, the impact is too weak to possibly change the large-scale deep water exchange between the Baltic proper and the northern Baltic sub-basins. Although being in line with established knowledge, through consideration of the model limitations, our results provide insights on how and under which circumstances convective deep water formation could potentially have occurred during cold climate periods.
On computing in fine-grained compartmentalised Belousov-Zhabotinsky medium
Creators: name: Adamatzky, Andrew
name: Holley, Julian
name: Bull, Larry
name: Costello, Ben De Lacy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce results of computer experiments on information processing in a hexagonal array of vesicles filled with Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) solution in a sub-excitable mode. We represent values of Boolean variables by excitation wave-fragments and implement basic logical gates by colliding the wave-fragments. We show that a vesicle filled with BZ mixture can implement a range of basic logical functions. We cascade BZ-vesicle logical gates into arithmetic circuits implementing addition of two one-bit binary numbers. We envisage that our theoretical results will be applied in chemical laboratory designs of massive-parallel computers based on fine-grained compartmentalisation of excitable chemical systems.
title: Stratégie pluridisciplinaire thérapeutique chez l’enfant PC
Creators: name: K. Patte
name: N. Khouri
Publisher: name: Société Française d’Orthopédie Pédiatrique (SOFOP)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: enfant
subject: thérapeutique
subject: pluridisciplinaire

description: Résumer les stratégies pluridisciplinaires thérapeutiques chez l’enfant PC n’est pas aisé car elles recouvrent de nombreuses situations cliniques. 1. Les recommandations de la HAS Rééducation et réadaptation de la fonction motrice de l’appareil locomoteur des personnes diagnostiquées de paralysie cérébrale rappellent (1): « La paralysie cérébrale peut se décomposer en différents tableaux cliniques définis selon la classification du Surveillance of Cerebral Palsy in Europe (2) : • Topographie de l’atteinte : formes unilatérales (monoplégie/parésie, hémiplégie/parésie), • Formes bilatérales (diplégie/parésie, triplégie/parésie, quadriplégie/parésie) • Sémiologie clinique : spastique, dyskinétique, ataxique ou mixte • Niveau moteur : basé sur le système de classification de la fonction motrice globale (Gross Motor Function Classification System-GMFCS) s’adressant à la motricité globale et les paramètres de la déambulation tels que la vitesse de marche, l’asymétrie de longueur de pas ou de fréquence ou la force de propulsion.
Calibration of the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP 3) for the InSight Mars Mission
Creators: name: Grott, M.
name: Spohn, T.
name: Knollenberg, J.
name: Krause, C.
name: Scharringhausen, M.
name: Wippermann, T.
name: Smrekar, S.E.
name: Hudson, T.L.
name: Banerdt, W.B.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2019

description: The (HP 3) of the InSight Mars mission is an instrument package to measure the Martian geothermal heat flow. The instrument's platinum resistance temperature sensors have been calibrated between −75 and +55 °C, and the absolute temperature uncertainty of the calibration is 10 mK. Temperature differences can be measured with an uncertainty of better than 5 mK. HP 3 determines regolith thermal conductivity by using the HP 3 mole as a modified line heat source, and thermal conductivity can be measured with an uncertainty of better than 4%. Tilt sensors used to determine the attitude of the mole during penetration measure tilt with an uncertainty of better than 0.25°.
Seismological and Geophysical Signatures of the Deep Crustal Magma Systems of the Cenozoic Volcanic Fields Beneath the Eifel, Germany
Creators: name: Dahm, Torsten
name: Stiller, Manfred
name: Mechie, James
name: Heimann, Sebastian
name: Hensch, Martin
name: Woith, Heiko
name: Schmidt, Bernd
name: Gabriel, Gerald
name: Weber, Michael
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2020

description: The Quaternary volcanic fields of the Eifel (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) had their last eruptions less than 13,000 years ago. Recently, deep low-frequency (DLF) earthquakes were detected beneath one of the volcanic fields showing evidence of ongoing magmatic activity in the lower crust and upper mantle. In this work, seismic wide- and steep-angle experiments from 1978/1979 and 1987/1988 are compiled, partially reprocessed and interpreted, together with other data to better determine the location, size, shape, and state of magmatic reservoirs in the Eifel region near the crust-mantle boundary. We discuss seismic evidence for a low-velocity gradient layer from 30–36 km depth, which has developed over a large region under all Quaternary volcanic fields of the Rhenish Massif and can be explained by the presence of partial melts. We show that the DLF earthquakes connect the postulated upper mantle reservoir with the upper crust at a depth of about 8 km, directly below one of the youngest phonolitic volcanic centers in the Eifel, where CO2 originating from the mantle is massively outgassing. A bright spot in the West Eifel between 6 and 10 km depth represents a Tertiary magma reservoir and is seen as a model for a differentiated reservoir beneath the young phonolitic center today. We find that the distribution of volcanic fields is controlled by the Variscan lithospheric structures and terrane boundaries as a whole, which is reflected by an offset of the Moho depth, a wedge-shaped transparent zone in the lower crust and the system of thrusts over about 120 km length.
Measuring Toxicity Toward Women in Game-Based Communities
Creators: name: Hemminger, Bradley M.
name: Belskie, Matthew
name: Zhang, Hanlin
Publisher: name: Human Kinetics
Year: 2023

description:
Prior research into gaming toxicity in game-specific Reddit communities nearly always considers toxicity in aggregate, and so provides very few clues for a valid coding scheme for isolating toxic language and triggers that specifically target women gamers. Existing research offers a starting place for devising valid methods for measuring and detecting toxic language and toxic triggers within specified data sets, but that research is less useful is its applicability to game-related forms of toxicity targeting women gamers. Where this research had originally hoped to develop an automated method for scoring, limitations with automated detection of toxicity discussed within the paper prompted a shift to what the authors identify as a key intermediate step—better accuracy in toxicity detection by automated means—that will contribute to future achievements in reducing toxicity toward women and other targeted groups in gaming communities. This paper is intended to aid projects that aim to incrementally improve our understanding of toxicity toward women in games and game communities and how to effectively measure it. The conclusion of this research ultimately hopes to contribute to providing information to inform policies that create a safer and more respectful gaming environment for all gamers.
Preserving the coupled atmosphere–ocean feedback in initializations of decadal climate predictions
Creators: name: Brune, Sebastian
name: Baehr, Johanna
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2020

description: On interannual to decadal time scales, memory in the Earth's climate system resides to a large extent in the slowly varying heat content of the ocean, which responds to fast atmospheric variability and in turn sets the frame for large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns. This large-scale coupled atmosphere–ocean feedback is generally well represented in today's Earth system models. This may fundamentally change when data assimilation is used to bring such models close to an observed state to initialize interannual to decadal climate predictions. Here, we review how the large-scale coupled atmosphere–ocean feedback is preserved in common approaches to construct such initial conditions, with the focus on the initialized ocean state. In a set of decadal prediction experiments, ranging from an initialization of atmospheric variability only to full-field nudging of both atmosphere and ocean, we evaluate the variability and predictability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, of the Atlantic multidecadal variability and North Atlantic subpolar gyre sea surface temperatures. We argue that the quality of initial conditions for decadal predictions should not purely be assessed by their closeness to observations, but also by the closeness of their respective predictions to observations. This prediction quality may depend on the representation of the simulated large-scale atmosphere–ocean feedback. This article is categorized under: Climate Models and Modeling > Knowledge Generation with Models
title: Nash, Paul
title: Nash, Paul
Creators: name: Gough, Paul
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nash, Paul
subject: Nash, Paul, 1889-1946

description: Paul Nash was a British painter who served as an infantry officer and an official war artist during the First World War. His paintings and prints depicted the dystopian face of modern warfare etched on the tortured landscapes of the Western Front. His front line work was critically acclaimed and exhibited widely during and after the war, transforming him from an artist of limited ambition to one of the greatest British painters of the 20th century.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: UK Rail Freight and Emissions
Creators: name: Jibrin, Rabee
Publisher: name: University of Birmingham
Year: 2023

description: Freight transport (movement of goods and bulk cargo) plays a fundamental role in supporting supply chains both  domestically and internationally. The strategic importance of the UK freight sector was signified by the inclusion of logistics workers as “key workers” during the COVID-19 pandemic [1]. International freight is also vital for the UK economy which is highly reliant on international trade; the trade-to-GDP ratio stood at 55% during the year 2021 [2]. To achieve the UK’s net zero target, the inland freight sector will need to rapidly decarbonise, including modal shift from road to rail and harnessing advances in new technology. This policy briefing note outlines the status of rail freight in the UK, considering benefits of a modal shift from road to rail. It also identifies future interventions that could decarbonise the UK’s freight sector by 2050, with benefits for health and wider society.
title: Negotiating and Mediating Conduct of War
title: Negotiating and Mediating Conduct of War
Creators: name: Stibbe, Matthew
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Humanitäre Hilfe
subject: Völkerrecht
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Atrocities

description: Many issues surrounding the conduct of war in the years 1914-1918 were impervious to international negotiation or mediation, due either to a complete lack of consensus or to an absence of trust and goodwill. However, there were some important exceptions, especially when it came to treatment of enemy wounded on the battlefield and conditions of military captivity. Here, ongoing, if intermittent, mediation produced some positive results. A notable feature of this was the intervention of neutral countries including the United States (until 1917), Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands, as well as humanitarian organisations like the International Committee of the Red Cross.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Detection limits for close eclipsing and transiting sub-stellar and planetary companions to white dwarfs in the WASP survey
Creators: name: Faedi, F.
name: West, R. G.
name: Burleigh, M. R.
name: Goad, M. R.
name: Hebb, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used photometric data from the WASP (Wide-Angle Search for Planets) survey to explore the possibility of detecting eclipses and transit signals of brown dwarfs, gas giants and terrestrial companions in close orbit around white dwarfs. We performed extensive Monte Carlo simulations and we found that for Gaussian random noise WASP is sensitive to companions as small as the Moon orbiting a $V\sim$12 white dwarf. For fainter stars WASP is sensitive to increasingly larger bodies. Our sensitivity drops in the presence of co-variant noise structure in the data, nevertheless Earth-size bodies remain readily detectable in relatively low S/N data. We searched for eclipses and transit signals in a sample of 194 white dwarfs in the WASP archive however, no evidence for companions was found. We used our results to place tentative upper limits to the frequency of such systems. While we can only place weak limits on the likely frequency of Earth-sized or smaller companions; brown dwarfs and gas giants (radius$\simeq$ R$_{jup}$) with periods $\leq$0.2 days must certainly be rare ($<10\%$). More stringent constraints requires significantly larger white dwarf samples, higher observing cadence and continuous coverage. The short duration of eclipses and transits of white dwarfs compared to the cadence of WASP observations appears to be one of the main factors limiting the detection rate in a survey optimised for planetary transits of main sequence stars.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
title: Film/Cinema (Ottoman Empire)
title: Film/Cinema (Ottoman Empire)
Creators: name: Çeliktemel-Thomen, Özde
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Osmanisches Reich
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Film
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Turkey
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Motion pictures and the war

description: This article explores film production and screening in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Cinema initially became available through the private entrepreneurship of Ottoman merchants and their connection with Western European film companies. During the war, film production in the empire developed as an extension of the Military Office of Cinema and charity organizations, such as the Society of National Defense and Society of Disabled Veterans. These film productions exemplify propaganda efforts, as they highlight news from the battlefield and the Ottomans’ ideological collaboration with its allies. Furthermore, the article briefly illustrates how the Central Powers used films to spread their war aims in the region and provided the Ottomans with technical assistance and equipment to produce films.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Importance of Cadmium Sulfides for Biogeochemical Cycling of Cd and Its Isotopes in Oxygen Deficient Zones—A Case Study of the Angola Basin
Creators: name: Guinoiseau, D.
name: Galer, S. J. G.
name: Abouchami, W.
name: Frank, M.
name: Achterberg, E. P.
name: Haug, G. H.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2019

description: Understanding oceanic cadmium (Cd) cycling is paramount due to its micronutrient-like behavior in seawater, which has been inferred from its similarity to phosphate (PO4) cycling. Cadmium concentrations follow a nutrient-like consumption-regeneration cycle in the top of the water column and are mainly controlled by water mass mixing and circulation in the deep ocean. However, an additional scavenging mechanism through cadmium sulfide (CdS) precipitates, occurring within sinking biogenic particles in oxygen deficient zones (ODZ), has been proposed. In this study, we report Cd stable isotope and concentration data for seven vertical seawater profiles sampled during GEOTRACES cruise GA08 in the northern Cape and Angola Basins, which feature a significant ODZ along their eastern margins. Outside the ODZ, Cd cycling is similar to that previously reported for the South Atlantic. While water mass mixing largely controls deep ocean Cd isotope signatures, Cd isotope fractionation in surface waters can be modeled as an open system at steady state buffered by organic ligand complexation. In the ODZ, stronger Cd depletion relative to PO4 is associated with a shift in δ114Cd toward heavier values, which is indicative of CdS precipitation. Our interpretation is supported by experimental CdS precipitation data and a size-resolved particle model involving bacterial sulfate reduction as a precursor of CdS. Our estimates of the CdS flux to the seafloor (107 to 109 mol/yr) indicate that CdS precipitation is a significant process of Cd removal and constitutes a nonnegligible Cd sink that needs to be better quantified by Cd isotope analyses of marine sediments.
Laser Interaction with a Dielectric Block
Creators: name: De Leo, Stefano
name: Rotelli, Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some optical experiments provide the easiest way to test quantum mechanical predictions. Such a situation applies to a laser beam traversing a dielectric structure. The dielectric structure mir- roring quantum mechanical potentials. The simplest of these, studied in this paper, involves a single dielectric block. We exhibit both by analytic and numerical calculations explicit examples of total coherence and total incoherence phenomena. Which case appears depends upon the angle of incidence of the laser beam and/or the dimensions of beam vs block width. Unlike our previ- ous studies our calculations here are three-dimensional, although, with suitable approximations, somewhat simpler planar expressions can be derived.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures