cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Femicide Machine/ Backyard
Creators: name: Barton, Greg
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: So reads the sobering introductory paragraph of Sergio González Ro-dríguez’s provocative The Femicide Machine, a recent installment in Semiotext(e)’s Intervention series. The compact primer distills the his-torical trajectory of entanglement among Mexico, the United States, global economy, and organized crime, delineating the femicide ma-chine’s genesis and current stranglehold. The author’s journalistic credentials  prove  invaluable  as  the  text  slips  in  and  out  of  straight  reportage. In 2009 there were 164 female homicides in Ciudad Juárez -- 306 the following year -- many by strangulation, stabbing, and gun-shots, often involving sexual violence. More than 30,000 have died since  the  beginning  of  the  war  on  drug  trafficking  in  2006,  almost  a quarter of those deaths occurring in Ciudad Juárez. Often repeti-tive,  urgent,  and  devastating,  The  Femicide  Machine  tells  a  story  of  extreme  capitalism  reshaping  territory  and  a  processual  state-form  fostering utterly inhumane machines
Survey on Sparse Coded Features for Content Based Face Image Retrieval
Creators: name: Johnvictor, D.
name: Selvavinayagam, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Content based image retrieval, a technique which uses visual contents of image to search images from large scale image databases according to users' interests. This paper provides a comprehensive survey on recent technology used in the area of content based face image retrieval. Nowadays digital devices and photo sharing sites are getting more popularity, large human face photos are available in database. Multiple types of facial features are used to represent discriminality on large scale human facial image database. Searching and mining of facial images are challenging problems and important research issues. Sparse representation on features provides significant improvement in indexing related images to query image.
description: 4 pages,3 figures,1 table, Published with International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT)
Estimate of the Coulomb Correlation Energy in CeAg$_2$Ge$_2$ from Inverse Photoemission and High Resolution Photoemission Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Banik, Soma
name: Arya, A.
name: Bendounan, Azzedine
name: Maniraj, M.
name: Thamizhavel, A.
name: Vobornik, I.
name: Dhar, S. K.
name: Deb, S. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The occupied and the unoccupied electronic structure of CeAg$_2$Ge$_2$ single crystal has been studied using high resolution photoemission and inverse photoemission spectroscopy respectively. High resolution photoemission reveals the clear signature of Ce $4f$ states in the occupied electronic structure which was not observed earlier due to the poor resolution. The coulomb correlation energy in this system has been determined experimentally from the position of the $4f$ states above and below the Fermi level. Theoretically the correlation energy has been determined by using the first principles density functional calculations within the generalized gradient approximations taking into account the strong intra-atomic (on-site) interaction Hubbard $U_{eff}$ term. Although the valence band calculated with different $U_{eff}$ does not show significant difference, but the substantial changes are observed in the conduction band. The estimated value of correlation energy from both the theory and the experiment is $\approx$4.2~eV for CeAg$_2$Ge$_2$.
description: Submitted in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Becoming Fugitive: Carceral Space and Rancierian Politics
Creators: name: Gharavi, Maryam Monalisa
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: The police regime is endowed with the power of ordering space. This text stands at the crossroads of space, policing, and visual percep-tion, as I articulate a Rancierean aesthetic dimension of the political and political dimension of the aesthetic. Jacques Rancière is a useful and  rich  source  for  this  tripartite  investigation  because  in  his  writ-ings, aesthetics is not only about art, and politics is not only about the state. Politics, as laid out in Disagreement, is that which always takes a stage and takes a theatrical formation, putting ‘two worlds in one world.’ This staging often overturns sense-making at the level of language alone, relying also on microlevels of sensation and sense-making  (we  inherited  the  word  ‘aesthetic’  from  the  Greek  aistheta‘perceptible  things’).  In  Dissensus, Rancière mentions to art works that focus on matters of space, territories, borders, wastelands, and other transient spaces, matters ‘that are crucial to today’s issues of power and community.’ To provide a framework to the concern with visibility and emancipatory politics, my bifocal reading takes into ac-count (1) the work of the police, seen in near vision, and (2) the work of politics, seen in distant vision
My Dear Francis...What Kind of Phoenix Will Arise From These Ashes?
Creators: name: Patsopoulos, Nikolas
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: The recent developments in Tahrir Square in Egypt and the Indigna-dos in Spain followed by the London riots and the Syntagma Square uprising in Athens have forced me to revisit this quote. Albeit it is not mud anymore, in this fully “developed” corner of the world, but yel-lowish tear gas dust, just as the holes in the clothes have converted to  rips  from  excessive  police  violence.  Someone  might  ask,  why  is  it any different now? Protests and demonstrations have been occur-ring  non-stop,  well  after  the  “end  of  history”  had  been  declared  in  the beginning of the 90’s. Many of them are even more violent and oppressive than the ones I listed.
Application of radiation omics in the development of adverse outcome pathway networks: an example of radiation-induced cardiovascular disease
Creators: name: Azimzadeh, Omid
name: Moertl, Simone
name: Ramadan, Raghda
name: Baselet, Bjorn
name: Laiakis, Evagelia C.
name: Sebastian, Soji
name: Beaton, Danielle
name: Hartikainen, Jaana M.
name: Kaiser, Jan Christian
name: Beheshti, Afshin
name: Salomaa, Sisko
name: Chauhan, Vinita
name: Hamada, Nobuyuki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Epidemiological studies have indicated that exposure of the heart to doses of ionizing radiation as low as 0.5 Gy increases the risk of cardiac morbidity and mortality with a latency period of decades. The damaging effects of radiation to myocardial and endothelial structures and functions have been confirmed radiobiologically at high dose, but much less is known at low dose. Integration of radiation biology and epidemiology data is a recommended approach to improve the radiation risk assessment process. The adverse outcome pathway (AOP) framework offers a comprehensive tool to compile and translate mechanistic information into pathological endpoints which may be relevant for risk assessment at the different levels of a biological system. Omics technologies enable the generation of large volumes of biological data at various levels of complexity, from molecular pathways to functional organisms. Given the quality and quantity of available data across levels of biology, omics data can be attractive sources of information for use within the AOP framework. It is anticipated that radiation omics studies could improve our understanding of the molecular mechanisms behind the adverse effects of radiation on the cardiovascular system. In this review, we explored the available omics studies on radiation-induced cardiovascular disease (CVD) and their applicability to the proposed AOP for CVD. The results of 80 omics studies published on radiation-induced CVD over the past 20 years have been discussed in the context of the AOP of CVD proposed by Chauhan et al. Most of the available omics data on radiation-induced CVD are from proteomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics, whereas few datasets were available from epigenomics and multi-omics. The omics data presented here show great promise in providing information for several key events of the proposed AOP of CVD, particularly oxidative stress, alterations of energy metabolism, extracellular matrix and vascular remodeling. The omics data presented here shows promise to inform the various levels of the proposed AOP of CVD. However, the data highlight the urgent need of designing omics studies to address the knowledge gap concerning different radiation scenarios, time after exposure and experimental models. This review presents the evidence to build a qualitative omics-informed AOP and provides views on the potential benefits and challenges in using omics data to assess risk-related outcomes.
The targum (1929:Dec. 7 - 1929:Dec. 17)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1929

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
A new analytical model to fit both fine and coarse grained quartz luminescence dose response curves
Creators: name: Lawless, John
name: Timar-Gabor, Alida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: We address two issues: (a) the choice of suitable analytic forms for curve fitting quartz OSL{SAR dose response data and (b) possible physical interpretations
of the difference between  fine (4-11 micrometer) and coarse (63-90 micrometer) grain samples. We start with a phenomenological model with three levels:
an OSL active trap, a deep trap, and a radiative center. This model yields a simple analytic form for the dose response under the optically stimulated
luminescence (single-aliquot regenerative dose OSL SAR) protocol. By comparing with experimental data from nine quartz samples, we show that this
form provides excellent agreement and may, in some cases, be better than the commonly used double saturating exponential form despite this form having
fewer adjustable constants. Further, because this analytic form is derived from a model, physical parameters can be inferred from the curve  fits. In
particular, concentrations for the OSL{active and deep electron traps can be computed and the variation in concentrations of these traps between samples
is discussed. Within this model, the difference between  fine and coarse grain samples is consistent with the OSL active trap being a surface trap as
opposed to a volume trap.
A Visit to the Old City of Hebron
Creators: name: Shehadeh, Raja
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: In the 1980s when I was still involved in defending land expropriation cases before Israeli courts, I used to make weekly trips to Hebron. I would leave Ramallah at eight in the morning and be in Hebron by nine.  Now  it  is  a  different  story.  Only  Israelis  can  get  from  Jerusa-lem to Hebron in fifteen minutes driving through two tunnels dug in the hill underneath the Palestinian city of Beit Jalla. Palestinians are barred from these. They have to circle around expanded Jerusalem going  through Wadi Al Nar (the wadi of Fire) where they have to wait for hours at one of the notorious army barriers, called the Container Checkpoint.
Temperature Dependent Valley Relaxation Dynamics in Single Layer WS2 Measured Using Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Mai, Cong
name: Semenov, Yuriy G.
name: Barrette, Andrew
name: Yu, Yifei
name: Jin, Zhenghe
name: Cao, Linyou
name: Kim, Ki Wook
name: Gundogdu, Kenan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measured the lifetime of optically created valley polarization in single layer WS2 using transient absorption spectroscopy. The electron valley relaxation is very short (< 1ps). However the hole valley lifetime is at least two orders of magnitude longer and exhibits a temperature dependence that cannot be explained by single carrier spin/valley relaxation mechanisms. Our theoretical analysis suggests that a collective contribution of two potential processes may explain the valley relaxation in single layer WS2. One process involves direct scattering of excitons from K to K' valleys with a spin flip-flop interaction. The other mechanism involves scattering through spin degenerate Gamma valley. This second process is thermally activated with an Arrhenius behavior due to the energy barrier between Gamma and K valleys.
Ruin Machine
Creators: name: Finoki, Bryan
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: The contemporary ruin today — in all its incarnations (from the aban-doned auto factories in Michigan to the World Trade Centers’ foot-print in NYC, Saddam Hussein’s elegant compounds in Baghdad that have since been converted into temporary barracks for the U.S. military — or from the vacant half-constructed towers in Dubai to the one billion squatters around the world who live in a different kind of recycled ruin, just to name a few) — hints at a spectrum of different spatial configurations of power that offer a kind of forensic evidence of not only neoliberalization’s false claim of flattening the playing field of  economic  opportunity  around  the  world,  but  of  the  ongoing  fail-ures  in  our  social  and  political  institutions  themselves  ,which  have  taken  to  a  strategy  of  secrecy  and  deception  in  order  to  wage  not  just a War on Crime, Poverty, Drugs, Illegal Immigration, or Terror-ism, but what I see as a War on Space itself — ruin on a brand new, unprecedented scale
Two-Factor Model of Soil Suction from Capillarity, Shrinkage, Adsorbed Film, and Intra-aggregate Structure
Creators: name: Chertkov, V. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The objective of this work is to derive the soil water retention from the soil structure without curve-fitting and only using the physical parameters found irrespective of an experimental retention curve. Two key points underlie the work: (i) the soil suction at drying coincides with that of the soil intra-aggregate matrix and contributive clay; and (ii) both the soil suction and volume shrinkage at drying depend on the same soil water content. In addition the two following results are used: (i) the available two-factor (capillarity and shrinkage) model of clay suction enables one to connect a clay suction and clay water content using the clay matrix structure; and (ii) the recent reference shrinkage curve model based on the concepts of intra-aggregate soil structure permits one to connect the soil water content at shrinkage with the water content of the contributive clay. With that the available two-factor model was essentially modified and, in particular, the effect of adsorbed water film was taken into account. The developed model includes the following input parameters: the solid density, relative volume of contributive-clay solids, relative volume of contributive clay in the oven-dried state, soil clay content, aggregate/intra-aggregate mass ratio, and specific volume of lacunar pores in the aggregates at maximum swelling. The validation of the model is based on available data of water retention and the above input parameters for six soils. A promising agreement between the predicted and observed water retention curves was found.
description: 21 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables
Mapping Intervals: Towards an Emancipated Cartography
Creators: name: Akawi, Nora
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: The map as a tool for domination is the visual inscription of a seam-less story for a specific group of people sharing specific character-istics.  It  represents  their  history,  knowledge  and  claims  for  control  within a territory with specific borders.So what is a map as a tool for liberation?That  would  be  a  visual  representation  of  and  by  a  multiplicity  of  publics. It would represent their history, experience, knowledge and imaginaries of and within a shared space. Multiplicity entails rup-tures. Within those ruptures lies the possibility for democratic spatial representation and organization. This tool is not to be confused with tools for negotiations. This is a public platform for the collective for-mation,  aggregation  and  dissemination  of  public  opinions.  Nor  is  this a practice of counter-mapping, as it doesn’t consist of building upon an initial map for developing its counter-product.
Indización de documentos según la Metodología LILACS 2019: IX – Revisión de la indización del artículo "Traumatismos e inmunidad humoral según índice predictivo TRISS"
Creators: name: BIREME/OPS/OMS
name: Conceição, Maria Anália da
name: Vidili, Ana Lucia
name: Suga, Sueli Mitiko Yano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Indizacion de documentos
subject: Metodologia LILACS
subject: https://decs.bvsalud.org/ths/resource/?id=56243
subject: https://decs.bvsalud.org/ths/resource/?id=46

description: 09 - Sesión virtual de actualización en indización de documentos según Metodología LILACS 2019. Apresentação do dia 28 nov.2019
The targum (1930:Jan. 7 - 1930:Jan. 14)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1930

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
A convenient approach to $10^{-12}~g/g$ ICP-MS limits for Th and U in Aurubis electrolytic NA-ESN brand copper
Creators: name: Leonard, D. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy is a powerful technique for measuring trace levels of radioactive contaminants, specifically Th and U, in materials for use in construction of low-background rare-event detectors such as double beta decay and dark matter detectors. I describe here a technique for measuring Th and U contamination in copper using direct acid digestion and dilution, without further chemical processing, achieving results comparable to previous work which utilized more complex chemical pre-concentration techniques. A convenient research-oriented analysis environment is described as well. Results are presented for measurements of three samples from the production line of electrolytically-purified, LME (London Metal Exchange) grade A, NA-ESN Aurubis copper. Purified samples showed levels consistent with zero contamination for both elements, while weak but inconclusive indications of contamination were present for the un-purified anode copper. The best limits achieved are near $1\cdot 10^{-12}$~g/g (95% CL) for both Th and U measured for copper from the cathode of the purification process.
description: 7 pages
Old Media's Ressurection
Creators: name: Hussein, Linnéa
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: In October 2011 The New York Times published an article on the re-vival of the VHS tape in the horror film genre.1 What makes these so-called neo-VHS tapes different from their outdated VHS companions is the fact that their role transformed from technical to aesthetic. En-tire  magazines, such as Lunchmeat and Fangoria, are devoted to the subject of VHS now. For these horror fans, neo-VHS is not preferred for functional reasons, but because the grainy picture quality — the signs of usage that caused DVD and BluRay to replace VHS in the first place — became an indispensable trope for the bad horror film genre. Laura U. Marks (Simon Fraser University) talks about a similar notion of old media recycling when writing about The Color of Love:It seems that the real erotic activity...is not between the actors but in the game with death taking place on the surface of the film...the  film’s  emulsion  flowers  and  evaporates,  giving  itself  up to bliss and death
Cinematic Catalysts: Contempt + Casa Malaparte
Creators: name: Willems, Danielle
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: There  is  no  question  that  at  this  point  in  time  we  view  the  world  through the cinematic lens. The way we move and perceive space, time and the landscape is most certainly through this lens. How can this  method  be  harnessed  to  become  a  methodology  that  is  gen-erative rather than just representational? Can this method be de-veloped  through  a  narrative  feeding  back  onto  the  form  expanding  and creating space and time around the sequence of events? This case study of Casa Malaparte has its own interesting story as well as  the  many  events  and  narratives  that  weave  themselves  through  and around this space. The film Le Mépris (Contempt) produced in 1963 is certainly one of Godard’s most seductive productions. The main event or catalyzing moment between the two characters in the film  is  solidified  through  the  formal  performance  of  the  architecture  of Casa Malaparte. This catalyzing moment will become the focus of this essay, and will attempt to investigate the series of memories surrounding and forming this exceptional house.
zfit: extending to binned and template fits
Creators: name: Eschle, Jonas
name: Navarro, Albert Puig
name: Coutinho, Rafael Silva
name: Serra, Nicola
name: Marinangeli Matthieu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: zfit is a scalable, pythonic model fitting library that aims at implementing likelihood fits in HEP. So far, the main functionality was focused on unbinned fits. With zfit 0.10, the concept of binning is introduced and allows for binned datasets, PDFs and losses such as Chi2 or Binned likelihoods. All of these elements are interchangeable and convertable to unbinned counterparts and allow for an arbitrary mixture of both.
 In this talk, we will introduce the binned part of zfit and its integration into the existing Scikit-HEP ecosystem.
Off the Grid Left Out and Over
Creators: name: Douglas, Carl
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: In James Graham Ballard’s novella Concrete Island, architect Robert Maitland crashes his Jaguar over a motorway embankment onto a traffic  island,  a  thin  triangle  of  waste  ground  two  hundred  meters  long.1 Here, in a parody of Robinson Crusoe, he finds himself ma-rooned: His jacket and trousers were stained with sweat, mud and en-gine grease. Few drivers, even if they did notice him, would be eager to give him a lift. Besides, it would be almost impossible to slow down here and stop. The pressure of the following traf-fic,  free  at  last  from  the  long  tail-backs  that  always  blocked  the Westway interchange during the rush hour, forced them on relentlessly. The fast-flowing arms of the motorway continue to operate perfectly, ensuring the rapid movement of bodies and objects; but their opera-tion is inaccessible to Maitland. Immobilized by the infrastructure of mobility, he has not simply exited urban life, he has slipped off the grid while remaining firmly within its network of effects.
Distributions of Short-Lived Radioactive Nuclei Produced by Young Embedded Stellar Clusters
Creators: name: Adams, Fred C.
name: Fatuzzo, Marco
name: Holden, Lisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most star formation in the Galaxy takes place in clusters, where the most massive members can affect the properties of other constituent solar systems. This paper considers how clusters influence star formation and forming planetary systems through nuclear enrichment from supernova explosions, where massive stars deliver short-lived radioactive nuclei (SLRs) to their local environment. The decay of these nuclei leads to both heating and ionization, and thereby affects disk evolution, disk chemistry, and the accompanying process of planet formation. Nuclear enrichment can take place on two spatial scales: [1] Within the cluster itself ($\ell\sim1$pc), the SLRs are delivered to the circumstellar disks associated with other cluster members. [2] On the next larger scale ($\ell\sim2-10$pc), SLRs are injected into the background molecular cloud; these nuclei provide heating and ionization to nearby star-forming regions, and to the next generation of disks. For the first scenario, we construct the expected distributions of radioactive enrichment levels provided by embedded clusters. Clusters can account for the SLR mass fractions inferred for the early Solar Nebula, but typical SLR abundances are lower by a factor of $\sim10$. For the second scenario, we find that distributed enrichment of SLRs in molecular clouds leads to comparable abundances. For both the direct and distributed enrichment processes, the masses of $^{26}$Al and $^{60}$Fe delivered to individual circumstellar disks typically fall in the range $10-100pM_\odot$ (where $1pM_\odot=10^{-12}M_\odot$). The corresponding ionization rate due to SLRs typically falls in the range $ζ_{SLR}\sim1-5\times10^{-19}$ sec$^{-1}$. This ionization rate is smaller than that due to cosmic rays, $ζ_{CR}\sim10^{-17}$ sec$^{-1}$, but will be important in regions where cosmic rays are attenuated (e.g., disk mid-planes).
description: 52 pages, 13 figures, accepted to The Astrophysical Journal
Effect of feed-time duration on discrimination of vocalizations in a go/no-go operant paradigm
Creators: Prateek K. Sahu, Carolina Montenegro, Connor T. Lambert, Alexandra Oprea, Moriah Deimeke, Victoria Rennie, Sarah Smeltz, Thomas J. Benowicz, Divya Patel, Leslie S. Phillmore, Christopher B. Sturdy
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Refining and modifying experimental procedures play a vital role in improving methodology while also reducing animal distress. In this study, we asked if an increase in feed time duration affects discrimination in an operant go/no-go task. Specifically, we used zebra finches’ sexually dimorphic distance calls as acoustic stimuli to test whether there were any significant differences in performance on an operant discrimination task requiring zebra finches to classify calls according to the sex of the producer when a key experimental parameter, feed time duration, was increased from 1 second to 2 seconds. We found no differences in learning speed (trials to criterion) between birds that were given 1 sec or 2 sec of food access following a correct go response. Our results indicate doubling food access duration did not impact the speed of acquisition of distance call discrimination in zebra finches. These findings suggest that we can provide twice as much time for zebra finches to access food, potentially improving animal welfare, with no impact on experimental outcomes.
Pet Architecture: Human's Best Friend
Creators: name: Leitão, Carla
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: Characters like Animal from the Muppet show (a creation by Jim Hen-son) are often illustrations through which we can talk about the quali-ties of the wild, the feral and the natural, in contrast to that which is artificial  or  built,  the  man-made.  This  article,  however,  would  like  to  focus on the chain.‘Animal,’  the  character,  offers  the  comic  emerging  out  of  the  usual  play between sophistication and calling, which can define the figure of the invited wild. The sophistication of the chained animal (who is a great musician) plays with the figure of drummers and their often cli-ched position in a band—there are jokes in the music world that refer to the drummer as that member who can have less ‘musical educa-tion’  than  the  other  players  (unfair,  surely).  Obsession  with  playing  often puts Animal in trances that ultimately reveal all dimensions at once, including narratives that are confusing about their actual spe-cies—quite often that Animal’s solos end up with two mental health nurses  catching  him  with  a  butterfly  net  to  take  him  off  stage,  and  suggestively, to some kind of ‘other place.’ Animal, however, is glad to be in his chain and this way be able to play the drums in the com-panion of the other ‘more human’ animals. The unused chain, surely, contains a wilder Animal than his behavior can ever become.
Bread and CIrcus: Agorae Vs Arenas
Creators: name: McIntosh, Eduardo
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: The  aim  of  any  piece  of  writing  is  almost  always  to  be  read  by  as  many  people  as  possible,  to  be  an  instrument  to  spread  an  idea.  Nevertheless,  since  the  times  we  live  in  influence  us  to  disregard  anything that doesn’t offer a good rate of effort/reward form the on-set, I will start this piece by telling a little bit of academic related gos-sip, as sometimes it seems like the trivial is for some of us the most significant.
Motion Architecture
Creators: name: Lugojan-Ghenciu, Oliviu
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: Analyzing  Eadweard  Muybridge’s  work  and  Vladimir  Veličković’s painted motion studies would offer a too-easy way to find a relation-ship between the still objects of architecture and the dynamics of motion. Jean-Luc Godard is also waiting to be taken apart from this perspective, just as is Bruno Zevi’s idea of archiving space through cinematographic methods. Rem Koolhaas is known for his transition from film to architecture. Why is there such a brotherhood between film and architecture? Maybe it is because they share the common idea of assembling building blocks in order to build something that is more than just the  sum  of  its  elements.  The  concept  to  be  proposed  has  little  to  do with these remarkable people and their studies, but builds upon their experience. What I am interested in is not the cinematographic expression, but a fourth dimension added by motion in graphics and how movement can further an architectural product.
title: Identification of factors associated with non-responders to total joint replacement and sustained knee pain in primary osteoarthritis patients by epidemiological and multi-omic studies
Creators: name: Costello, Christie Alyssa
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2023

description: Osteoarthritis (OA) is among the most common rheumatic diseases, affecting 30% of the world’s population over 60 years. Currently, total joint replacement (TJR) is considered the most effective treatment for end-stage OA. However, up to 20% of patients do not see clinically significant improvement in pain or function after the surgery. This thesis aims to identify epidemiological, metabolic, and genetic factors which are significantly associated with non-responders to TJR and patients with sustained, treatment-resistant pain in a large cohort from Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), Canada. First, we identified a number of epidemiological factors significantly associated with non-responders to TJR including clinical depression, younger age, and multisite musculoskeletal pain (MSMP). This highlighted potential roles for altered pain perception and pain sensitization in non-responders. Subsequently, we used a targeted metabolomic approach which profiled 186 metabolites in plasma and identified three metabolite ratios and two metabolite networks which were significantly associated with pain or function non-responders. Our findings highlighted phosphatidylcholines (PCs), branched chain amino acids (BCAAs), and acylcarnitines, all of which are involved in inflammatory processes, as metabolites of interest for further study in non-responders. Next, we used the same metabolomic approach to assess metabolites and metabolite ratios associated with sustained knee pain in two independent cohorts, one from NL and the other from Ontario, Canada. We identified one metabolite and three metabolite ratios to be associated with sustained pain, further highlighting roles for PCs, acylcarnitines, and sphingomyelins (SMs) in OA knee pain. We then investigated mechanisms underlying sustained pain in the NL cohort using a multi-omic approach which identified KALRN as a candidate gene and a significant role for central pain sensitization in sustained knee pain. Finally, we developed and evaluated a method to profile eicosanoids and endocannabinoids, a large group of inflammatory mediators involved in pain generation, in plasma for use in future studies on non-responders and patients with sustained knee pain. Overall, our findings highlighted potential roles for inflammation and pain sensitization in OA pain and non-response to TJR and offer interesting routes for future studies in this area and could have potential utility in predicting surgical outcome or as druggable targets to modify outcomes.
Assessing the Impact of Exogenous Glucocorticoid Exposure on Adrenal Function, Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Profile and Health-Related Quality of Life
Creators: name: Martin-Grace, Julie
Publisher: name: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320208
subject: Endocrinology

description: Tertiary adrenal insufficiency (TAI) occurs as a result of the negative feedback effect of excess exogenous glucocorticoids on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and is associated with exposure to all forms of glucocorticoid preparations (1). All forms of adrenal insufficiency are associated with the risk of life-threatening adrenal crises (2), and impairment in health-related quality of life (3). Chronic glucocorticoid exposure is also associated with iatrogenic Cushing’s syndrome, and its associated adverse cardiometabolic phenotype (4), which can co-exist with TAI (4). However, despite the potentially serious clinical consequences, the true prevalence of TAI remains unclear, particularly in patients exposed to glucocorticoid doses or preparations traditionally considered to carry a low risk of TAI. The existing literature is limited by heterogenous patient populations with differing exposures, varying methods to assess adrenal function, little cumulative glucocorticoid exposure data and retrospective study design, which carries a potential risk of inclusion bias. 
There is also little published data which addresses the clinical consequences of tertiary adrenal insufficiency, in particular regarding features of co-morbid iatrogenic Cushing’s syndrome, and health-related quality of life.
With this in mind, the aim of this thesis is to investigate the impact of glucocorticoid exposure on adrenal function, cardiometabolic risk factors and health-related quality of life by addressing several research questions.
1. What is the prevalence of TAI in patient populations traditionally considered to be at lower risk?
a. Low-dose oral glucocorticoid exposure (≤5mg prednisolone/day)
b. Inhaled glucocorticoid exposure, with or without intermittent oral glucocorticoid exposure
2. Are patients with TAI at increased risk of an adverse cardiometabolic risk profile compared to patients with intact adrenal function ?
3. What is the impact of TAI on health-related quality of life for patients?
4. How effective is a morning serum or salivary cortisol sample as an initial screening tool for TAI in a glucocorticoid-exposed population?
Ultrafast observation of critical nematic fluctuations and giant magnetoelastic coupling in iron pnictides
Creators: name: Patz, Aaron
name: Li, Tianqi
name: Ran, Sheng
name: Fernandes, Rafael M.
name: Schmalian, Joerg
name: Budko, Sergey L.
name: Canfield, Paul C.
name: Perakis, Ilias E.
name: Wang, Jigang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many of the iron pnictides have strongly anisotropic normal-state characteristics, important for the exotic magnetic and superconducting behavior these materials exhibit. Yet, the origin of the observed anisotropy is unclear. Electronically driven nematicity has been suggested, but distinguishing this as an independent degree of freedom from magnetic and structural orders is difficult, as these couple together to break the same tetragonal symmetry. Here we use time-resolved polarimetry to reveal critical nematic fluctuations in unstrained Ba(Fe_(1-x)Co_x)_2As_2. The femtosecond anisotropic response, which arises from the two-fold in-plane anisotropy of the complex refractive index, displays a characteristic two-step recovery absent in the isotropic response. The fast recovery appears only in the magnetically ordered state, whereas the slow one persists in the paramagnetic phase with a critical divergence approaching the structural transition temperature. The dynamics also reveal a gigantic magnetoelastic coupling that far exceeds electron-spin and electron-phonon couplings, opposite to conventional magnetic metals.
description: The final, published version in Nature Communications Nat. Commun. 5:3229 doi: 10.1038/ncomms4229 (2014)
Combined exome analysis and exome depth assessment achieve a high diagnostic yield in an epilepsy case series, revealing significant genomic heterogeneity and novel mechanisms
Creators: name: Veltra, Danai
name: Tilemis, Faidon-Nikolaos
name: Marinakis, Nikolaos M.
name: Svingou, Maria
name: Mitrakos, Anastasios
name: Kosma, Konstantina
name: Tsoutsou, Irene
name: Makrythanasis, Periklis
name: Theodorou, Virginia
name: Katsalouli, Marina
name: Vorgia, Pelagia
name: Niotakis, Georgios
name: Vartzelis, Georgios
name: Dinopoulos, Argirios
name: Evangeliou, Athanasios
name: Mouskou, Stella
name: Korona, Anastasia
name: Mastroyianni, Sotiria
name: Papavasiliou, Antigone
name: Tzetis, Maria
name: Pons, Roser
name: Traeger-Synodinos, Joanne
name: Sofocleous, Christalena
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Genetics of epilepsy are highly heterogeneous and complex. Lesions detected involve genes encoding various types of channels, transcription factors, and other proteins implicated in numerous cellular processes, such as synaptogenesis. Consequently, a wide spectrum of clinical presentations and overlapping phenotypes hinders differential diagnosis and highlights the need for molecular investigations toward delineation of underlying mechanisms and final diagnosis. Characterization of defects may also contribute valuable data on genetic landscapes and networks implicated in epileptogenesis. This study reports on genetic findings from exome sequencing (ES) data of 107 patients with variable types of seizures, with or without additional symptoms, in the context of neurodevelopmental disorders. Multidisciplinary evaluation of ES, including ancillary detection of copy number variants (CNVs) with the ExomeDepth tool, supported a definite diagnosis in 59.8% of the patients, reflecting one of the highest diagnostic yields in epilepsy. Emerging advances of next-generation technologies and ‘in silico’ analysis tools offer the possibility to simultaneously detect several types of variations. Wide assessment of variable findings, specifically those found to be novel and least expected, reflects the ever-evolving genetic landscape of seizure development, potentially beneficial for increased opportunities for trial recruitment and enrollment, and optimized, even personalized, medical management.
Adjoint associativity: an invitation to algebra in infinity-categories
Creators: name: Lipman, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16B50, 18D99

description: There appeared not long ago a Reduction Formula for derived Hochschild cohomology, that has been useful e.g., in the study of Gorenstein maps and of rigidity w.r.t. semidualizing complexes. The formula involves the relative dualizing complex of a ring homomorphism, so brings out a connection between Hochschild homology and Grothendieck duality. The proof, somewhat ad hoc, uses homotopical considerations via a number of noncanonical projective and injective resolutions of differential graded objects. Recent efforts aim at more intrinsic approaches, hopefully upgradable to "higher" contexts--like bimodules over algebras in infinity-categories. This would lead to wider applicability, for example to ring spectra; and the methods might be globalizable, revealing some homotopical generalizations of aspects of Grothendieck duality. (The original formula has a geometric version, proved by completely different methods coming from duality theory.) A first step is to extend Hom-Tensor adjunction--adjoint associativity--to the infinity-category setting.
description: 23 pages
Characterisation of the primary X-ray source of an XPS microprobe Quantum 2000
Creators: name: Scheithauer, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The outstanding design feature of an XPS microprobe Quantum 2000 is the double focussing ellipsoidally shaped quartz monochromator of the X-ray source. This device monochromatizes the Alkα radiation and refocuses the X-rays from the Al anode to the sample surface. This way, on one hand a variation of the diameter of the X-ray generating electron beam allows to vary the X-ray beam diameter on the sample surface. On the other hand a scanning of the electron beam across the Al anode scans the X-ray beam across the sample surface. The X-ray source was characterized in detail. The lateral dependency of the primary X-ray intensity and the peaks FWHM were measured as function of the position within the electrostatically rasterable scan area. Additionally, the focussing quality of the monochromator was determined. Therefore the lateral intensity distribution within the primary X-ray beam was estimated far below the 1% intensity level.
Pliorhinus ringstroemi HMV2048.obj
Creators: name: li, shijie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 370506
subject: Palaeontology (incl. palynology)

description: The skull and mandible of a young adult rhino Pliorhinus ringstroemi, collected from the top red clay of the Liushu Formation at Heilingding, Linxia Basin, China, with an age of ~ 6.5 Ma.
Androgen receptor, a possible anti-infective therapy target and a potent immune respondent in SARS-CoV-2 spike binding: a computational approach
Creators: name: Ahmad, Ashfaq
name: Makhmutova, Zhandaulet
name: Cao, Wenwen
name: Majaz, Sidra
name: Amin, Amr
name: Xie, Yingqiu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Although androgen in gender disparity of COVID-19 has been implied, no direct link has been provided. Here, we applied AlphaFold multimer, network and single cells database analyses to highlight specificity of Androgen receptor (AR) against spike receptor binding protein (RBD) of SARS-CoV-2. LXXL motifs in spike RBD are essential for AR binding. RBD LXXA mutation complex with the AR depicting slightly reduced binding energy, as LXXLL motif usually mediates nuclear receptor binding to coregulators. Moreover, AR preferred to bind a LYRL motif in specificity and interaction interface, and showed reduced affinity against Omicron compared to other variants (alpha, beta, gamma, and delta). Importantly, RBD LYRL motif is a conserved antigenic epitope (9 residues) for T-cell response. Network analysis of AR-related genes against COVID-19 database showed T-cell signaling regulation, and CD8+ T-cell spatial location in AR+ single cells, which is consistent with the AR binding motif LYRL in epitope function. We provided the potent mechanisms of AR binding to RBD linking to immune response and vaccination shift. AR could be an anti-infective therapy target for anti-Omicron new lineages.
Valence Change Driven by Constituent Element Substitution in the Mixed-Valence Quasicrystal and Approximant Au-Al-Yb
Creators: name: Matsukawa, Shuya
name: Tanaka, Katsumasa
name: Nakayama, Mika
name: Deguchi, Kazuhiko
name: Imura, Keiichiro
name: Takakura, Hiroyuki
name: Kashimoto, Shiro
name: Ishimasa, Tsutomu
name: Sato, Noriaki K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum criticality has been considered to be specific to crystalline materials such as heavy fermions. Very recently, however, the Tsai-type quasicrystal Au51Al34Yb15 has been reported to show unusual quantum critical behavior. To obtain a deeper understanding of this new material, we have searched for other Tsai-type cluster materials. Here, we report that the metal alloys Au44Ga41Yb15 and Ag47Ga38Yb15 are members of the 1/1 approximant to the Tsai-type quasicrystal and that both possess no localized magnetic moment. We suggest that the Au-Al-Yb system is located near the border of the divalent and trivalent states of the Yb ion; we also discuss a possible origin of the disappearance of magnetism, associated with the valence change, by the substitution of the constituent elements.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures, http://dx.doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.83.034705