cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Exploring the linkages between university technology transfer and entrepreneurship education programs: attitudes and perceptions amongst entrepreneurship academics
Creators: name: Moroz, Peter
name: Hindle, Kevin
name: Anderson, Robert B.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: As the University Spin Out (USO) has become a highly desirable outcome for commercialization efforts, the development of entrepreneurial capacity within the university system becomes increasingly more important. We hypothesize that entrepreneurship education (EE) programs (ceterus paribus) may play a role in developing this capacity. This paper examines the attitudes and perceptions of academics who are directly involved in the field of EE with four research goals in mind: to determine whether or not there are (1) perceived advantages to collaboration between EE programs and technology transfer offices (TTO) in spinning out technology, (2) identifiable university specific variables that influence these perceptions, (3) perceived barriers to collaboration, and (4) to identify whether these collaborations may already exist in some form.
title: 01_0635
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Self-based Organization: Transcending Capitalism
Creators: name: Alejo Giraldo, Dimitri Esteban
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Capitalism
subject: Organizational Model
subject: Transcending Capitalism
subject: Self-based Organization
subject: Business (General)
subject: Business and Economics

description: NOTE 1: The Recording of the presentation can also be found here: https://umich.zoom.us/rec/share/H29hGwAPc3bzyBxN81rh9f6AqGTUgwt0HnVgBwFb5G2vZEUQ1mV6NuVlN4j0Wiyc.GXvBibJQdokhrYKu
description: NOTE 2: This written is not an academic or research paper, rather it is a Manifesto declaring the vision and intention of the author.
description: Capitalism has brought innovation, wealth and new possibilities; however, it no longer satisfies the humanity needs and higher level of consciousness. Currently it brings inequality, financial crises, environmental degradation and more. Capitalism doesn’t need to be reexamined or amended because its own essence will always be the pursuit of capital. We need to transcend Capitalism and move to something totally new that vibrates equal to our new consciousness. In this document I manifest the vision and perspective of an organization paradigm called Self-based Organization. An organization that exists for the purpose of experiencing who it really is (highest Self) by being the Organism that embodies all the organisms (stakeholders). Also, a redefinition of growth and success is manifested: from the paradigm of maximizing and growing profits and market value to Coherence, Harmony and Unity of the organization's truest purpose. A description of the process to follow in order to create and run a Self-based Organization and the vision of how this type of organization will substitute the Capitalism Market to a Self-based Network, are also exhibited. That new and more conscious era is awaiting us and is only up to us to become it. And I chose to manifest this reality because I Am Awakening, I Am Creation, I Am Consciousness. My truest purpose, my Spirit is to help awake the consciousness of the Self and the Creation.
Associations between socio-economic status and school-day dietary intake in a sample of grade 5–8 students in Vancouver, Canada
Creators: name: Ahmadi, Naseam
name: Black, Jennifer L.
name: Velazquez, Cayley E.
name: Chapman, Gwen E.
name: Veenstra, Gerry
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2015

description: Objective: To examine associations between students’ socio-economic status (SES) and school-day dietary intake, and the roles of parents and peers in shaping these associations. Design: A cross-sectional survey measured school-day intake of vegetables, whole grains, low-fat milk, packaged snack foods and sugar-sweetened beverages. Logistic regression models examined associations between SES (parental education and food insecurity status) and dietary outcomes during or en route to or from school, and examined whether peer modelling or parental norms potentially mediated the associations between SES and dietary outcomes. Setting: Twenty-six public schools in Vancouver, Canada in 2012. Subjects: Nine hundred and fifty students in grades 5–8. Results: Students whose parents completed some college, compared with those completing high school or less, were significantly more likely to consume vegetables daily (unadjusted OR = 1⋅85; 95 % CI 1⋅06, 3⋅22) and students whose parents completed college or university were significantly less likely to consume sugarsweetened beverages daily (unadjusted OR = 0⋅67; 95 % CI 0⋅47, 0⋅94). Food secure students were also significantly less likely to consume sugar-sweetened beverages daily compared with food insecure students (unadjusted OR = 0⋅52; 95 % CI 0⋅29, 0⋅92). Parental norms, but not peer modelling, emerged as a potential mediator of the association between SES and vegetable intake. SES was not significantly associated with the remaining dietary outcomes. Conclusions: Higher SES was significantly associated with two of five school-day dietary outcomes and predicted higher likelihood of daily nutritious food choices at school. The study suggests that there is room for improvement in school-day dietary quality for students from all SES backgrounds in Vancouver.
Leigh Goodmark, Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence, University of California Press, 2018
Creators: name: Porter, Antonia
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2019

description: Review of Leigh Goodmark's Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence (University of California Press, 2018).
description: feminists@law, Vol 9 No 2 (2019)
The Archers, The Radio, Violence against Women and Changing the World at Teatime
Creators: name: Samuels, Harriet
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2020

description: Feminists working on Violence Against Women (VAW) have often been disappointed by the failure of law to produce profound change. Ill-informed and stereotypical views about VAW held by judges, lawyers, law enforcement officers, those in the media and the general public have undermined laws intended to tackle violence including domestic violence. As a consequence, VAW activists have sought new methods to shift the public discourse and facilitate the operation of the law. This article examines how campaigners used a highly publicised storyline on coercive control in the long running BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers to circulate feminist knowledge on domestic violence. It discusses the reasons for the success of the activists on this occasion and reflects on the potential of popular culture combined with other forms of activism to embed feminist understandings of VAW and enhance the effectiveness of the law. It argues that popular culture can influence not only the legal professionals and others responsible for implementing and applying the law, but the broader public consciousness of domestic violence and VAW.
description: feminists@law, Vol 9 No 2 (2019)
Interpreting the Feminine in the Criminal Trial: Can the Insights of Rape Myth Scholarship Help Mothers Accused of Killing Their Children?
Creators: name: Orr, Gaye
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2019

description: In cases where mothers were wrongfully convicted of killing their children, both forensic and non-forensic evidence was admitted. Although the expert opinions and evidence were subsequently robustly scrutinised, the same is not true for informal evidence of maternal behaviour. The paper proposes that if we consider an analogous area of criminal justice which has seen interpretations of the feminine strongly challenged, such as in rape trials, then we might learn from rape myth scholarship how better to analyse child death cases. The article explores the difficult issues in rape myth scholarship in identifying what a rape myth is, how widely it is held, and how complex layers of functionality and connections constitute belief systems. By focussing on behavioural normativity and the deployment of fixed beliefs the article proposes a device based on the insights of rape myth scholarship with which to interrogate the behaviour evidence admitted in child death cases. Using the concept of modern mothering myths may prevent the possibility of background evidence being used as a vehicle for smuggling in prejudicial material of little probative value.
description: feminists@law, Vol 9 No 2 (2019)
The Archaeology of the Courts' Domestic Violence Discourse: Discourse as a Knowledge-Sustaining System
Creators: name: Ohana, Natalie
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2020

description: In the last several years, the harm of coercive control has been increasingly acknowledged as a domestic violence harm by the England and Wales legal system. In this process of growing acknowledgement of the harm it inflicts in intimate relationships, coercive control is being inserted into existing discourses around domestic violence. The article examines the impact of a discourse on the understanding of a harm: how can the understanding of coercive control be impacted by the structure of the discourse into which it is inserted? The courts’ civil domestic violence discourse in England and Wales and its potential impact on the understanding of coercive control is examined as a case study. Using critical theory which links knowledge to social power as an analytical lens, the discourse is seen as not only founded upon a harm that is entirely detached from women’s experiences but also as a knowledge-sustaining system, operating on an everyday basis to protect and to further strengthen that alienated knowledge. Through its knowledge-sustaining operation, the discourse prevents a meaningful change in the legal understanding of domestic violence, a change that is required for coercive control to be integrated into the discourse in a way that will reflect its essence and severity.
description: feminists@law, Vol 9 No 2 (2019)
Th17/Treg ratio derived using DNA methylation analysis is associated with the late phase asthmatic response
Creators: name: Singh, Amrit
name: Yamamoto, Masatsugu
name: Ruan, Jian
name: Choi, Jung Y.
name: Gauvreau, Gail M.
name: Olek, Sven
name: Hoffmueller, Ulrich
name: Carlsten, Christopher Russell
name: FitzGerald, J. M.
name: Boulet, Louis-Philippe
name: O’Byrne, Paul M., 1951-
name: Tebbutt, Scott J.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: The imbalance between Th17 and Treg cells has been studied in various diseases including allergic asthma but their roles have not been fully understood in the development of the late phase asthmatic response. Objectives: To determine changes in Th17 and Treg cell numbers between isolated early responders (ERs) and dual responders (DRs) undergoing allergen inhalation challenge. To identify gene expression profiles associated with Th17 and Treg cells. Methods: 14 participants (8 ERs and 6 DRs) with mild allergic asthma underwent allergen inhalation challenge. Peripheral blood was collected prior to and 2 hours post allergen challenge. DNA methylation analysis was used to quantifiy the relative frequencies of Th17, Tregs, total B cells, and total T cells. Gene expression from whole blood was measured using microarrays. Technical replication of selected genes was performed using nanoString nCounter Elements. Results: The Th17/Treg ratio significantly increased in DRs compared to ERs post allergen challenge compared to pre-challenge. Genes significantly correlated to Th17 and Treg cell counts were inversely correlated with each other. Genes significantly correlated with Th17/Treg ratio included the cluster of genes of the leukocyte receptor complex located on chromosome 19q 13.4. Conclusions: Th17/Treg imbalance post-challenge may contribute to the development of the late phase inflammatory phenotype.
The role of home and place in social inclusion: expanding the agenda
Creators: name: Hulse, Kathleen
name: Spinney, Angela
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: An opinion is presented that the social inclusion agenda should be expanded to tackle the cumulative problems in housing processes which lead to homelessness of individuals and families. It is suggested that the issues of failure in access to housing and housing insecurities due to escalating rentals in the private housing market should be addressed, considering that a sense of security, home and place is the basis of social inclusion.
SuperBIT Superpressure Flight Instrument Overview and Performance: Near diffraction-limited Astronomical Imaging from the Stratosphere
Creators: name: Gill, Ajay S.
name: Benton, Steven J.
name: Damaren, Christopher J.
name: Everett, Spencer W.
name: Fraisse, Aurelien A.
name: Hartley, John W.
name: Harvey, David
name: Holder, Bradley
name: Huff, Eric M.
name: Jauzac, Mathilde
name: Jones, William C.
name: Lagattuta, David
name: Leung, Jason S. -Y.
name: Li, Lun
name: Luu, Thuy Vy T.
name: Massey, Richard
name: McCleary, Jacqueline E.
name: Nagy, Johanna M.
name: Netterfield, C. Barth
name: Paracha, Emaad
name: Redmond, Susan F.
name: Rhodes, Jason D.
name: Robertson, Andrew
name: Romualdez, L. Javier
name: Schmoll, Jürgen
name: Shaaban, Mohamed M.
name: Sirks, Ellen L.
name: Vassilakis, Georgios N.
name: Vitorelliand, André Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SuperBIT was a 0.5-meter near-ultraviolet to near-infrared wide-field telescope that launched on a NASA superpressure balloon into the stratosphere from New Zealand for a 45-night flight. SuperBIT acquired multi-band images of galaxy clusters to study the properties of dark matter using weak gravitational lensing. We provide an overview of the instrument and its various subsystems. We then present the instrument performance from the flight, including the telescope and image stabilization system, the optical system, the power system, and the thermal system. SuperBIT successfully met the instrument's technical requirements, achieving a telescope pointing stability of 0.34 +/- 0.10 arcseconds, a focal plane image stability of 0.055 +/- 0.027 arcseconds, and a PSF FWHM of ~ 0.35 arcseconds over 5-minute exposures throughout the 45-night flight. The telescope achieved a near-diffraction limited point-spread function in all three science bands (u, b, and g). SuperBIT served as a pathfinder to the GigaBIT observatory, which will be a 1.34-meter near-ultraviolet to near-infrared balloon-borne telescope.
description: 17 pages, 25 pages, published in the Astronomical Journal
title: Analysis of DNA and recombinant viral vaccines against P. falciparum in malaria-naïve and malaria-exposed humans
Creators: name: Moorthy, Vasee S.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2004

description: The hypotheses under test were as follows. Firstly that sequential immunisation of humans with two candidate vaccines recombinant for the same malarial DNA sequence would be safe, would produce higher frequencies of antigen-specific T cells in peripheral blood and greater efficacy than repeated immunisation with one vaccine. Secondly that recombinant viral malaria immunization would be more immunogenic in malaria-exposed than malaria-naive individuals. The third hypothesis was contingent on the conduct of a field efficacy trial; liver-stage specific T cells induced by the regimen with greatest immunogenicity would provide protection against natural infection. Three delivery systems were evaluated - a circular plasmid DNA molecule (DNA), modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) and fowlpox strain 9 (FP9); each recombinant for the multiple epitope - thrombospondin related anonymous (or adhesion) protein (ME-TRAP) P. falciparum DNA sequence. DNA ME-TRAP and MVA ME-TRAP were safe but poorly immunogenic when given alone in both UK and Gambian adults. Two doses of 1mg DNA ME-TRAP administered intramuscularly followed by one dose of 3 x 107 plaque forming units (pfu) MVA ME-TRAP administered intradermally induced higher effector T cell frequencies as measured by ex vivo γ-interferon ELISPOT (enzyme-linked immunospot) assay than three doses of either alone. A second MVA ME-TRAP immunisation did not increase immunogenicity above that after a single immunisation. At these doses the DNA/MVA regimen was more immunogenic in malaria-experienced Gambian adults than in malaria-naive British adults. Increasing the dose of DNA to 2mg and MVA to 1.5 x 108 pfu increased immunogenicity further. Two doses of FP9 ME-TRAP showed a trend towards to being less immunogenic than two doses of DNA ME-TRAP prior to a single MVA immunisation. The heterologous DNA/MVA regimen afforded protection manifested by delay in time to parasitaemia in a clinical challenge model in the UK. Therefore a randomised double-blind controlled trial was conducted in men aged 15 45 in The Gambia. This trial confirmed safety and high immunogenicity but there was 10.3% (95%CI -22% to +34%) efficacy for the time to infection primary endpoint. Potential reasons for failure of the intervention include an unfavourable CD4+/CD8+ T cell ratio, inadequate TRAP expression in infected hepatocytes, inadequate cross-reactivity and the duration or magnitude of the peak T cell immunogenicity.
Supporting Early Childhood STEM Education During the Pandemic (and Afterwards): Examining Parents' and Early Childhood Educators' Perceptions of Digital Resources
Creators: name: Bradley, Hannah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2022
Subjects: Early Childhood Resources
Online Resources
Pinterest
STEM in Early Childhood

description: This thesis addresses the need for more accessible, high-quality early childhood STEM resources for early childhood educators, caregivers, and parents of young children to use during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. As the primary researcher, I assisted a team of educators and researchers with creating STEM learning experiences which are freely available on Pinterest and our website (www.STEMintheEarlyYears.com). To ensure the team is producing high-quality resources, I explored users' perceptions of our resources' pedagogical quality, technical/design quality, and user satisfaction with a questionnaire that I created which included closed-and open-ended questions. Statistical analyses results suggested that respondents (who used our resources) perceived our resources to have good pedagogical and technical/design quality and were satisfied. However, respondents perceived our resources' pedagogical quality to be significantly better than the technical/design quality. Furthermore, respondents' perceptions about the pedagogical and technical/design quality influenced their satisfaction with our resources; with technical/design quality having a stronger influence on their satisfaction. The reflexive thematic analysis results also indicated that respondents perceived our resources to be of good pedagogical and technical/design quality and were satisfied; however, I captured respondents' recommendations on how the resources' quality may improve within the generated themes. The STEM in the Early Years' team will use the results to reflect on our resources' successes and will consider modifying the resources according to the areas that respondents suggested needed improvement.
title: Dominique Baudon
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques (1942-2020)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Pièce jointe : Guillaume Lachenal, "Franco-African Familiarities: A History of the Pasteur Institute of Cameroon, 1945-2000 ". 1 fichier (31 pages).
Design and introduction of a quality of life assessment and practice support system: perspectives from palliative care settings
Creators: name: Sawatzky, Richard; Laforest, Esther; Schick-Makaroff, Kara; Stajduhar, Kelli; Reimer-Kirkham, Sheryl; Krawczyk, Marian; Öhlén, Joakim; McLeod, Barbara; Hilliard, Neil; Tayler, Carolyn; Cohen, S. Robin
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Libraries
Year: 2018

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Utilization patterns and reimbursement options for diabetes test strips in British Columbia
Creators: name: Law, Michael R.
name: Kratzer, Jillian
name: Cheng, Lucy
name: Donovan, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR)
Year: 2014

description: "In 2012, British Columbia spent $22.6 million on self-monitoring blood glucose (SMBG) for patients with diabetes – one of the highest single expenditures for PharmaCare. We also pay significantly more for test strips when compared to government purchasing prices in the US and New Zealand. Ontario has recently implemented a policy that sets limits for testing. Given the high cost of SMBG test strip use, we conducted a retrospective study and modelled potential policy options for reductions in price and test strip for BC if PharmaCare implemented a policy similar to Ontario.We estimated that implementing the quantity limits in the Ontario Policy would have reduced BC PharmaCare expenditures by $4.4 million in 2012. About 12% of SMBG test strip users would have hit the limit set out in Ontario in 2012, and very few of these patients would be insulin users. We also found that international prices were substantially lower for the top ten most commonly used brands of test strips in BC." -CHSPR website
A Very Binary Drama: The Conceptual Struggle for Gender's Future
Creators: name: Cooper, Davina
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2019

description: This article explores how both the present and change are imagined and enacted in relation to gender’s conceptual future. Its jumping off point is the current British struggle over definitions of gender and sex, and how law and public policy should respond. Two contrasting conceptions have become particularly dominant within wider public discourse: gender as sex-based domination; and gender as identity diversity. The article explores the conceptual lines of friction and the part institutional arenas, particularly law reform debates, have played in shaping the dispute. In its second half, the article locates these conceptual lines in different conceptual tasks. Prefiguring, destabilising, and critiquing gender are all oriented to forging a different conceptual future for gender, but they also seem to rely on different conceptions of what gender means and involves. Arguing that concepts should be approached as invariably plural, rather than as subject to a single right definition, this article asks whether different conceptions of gender can interrelate in less antagonistic, more fruitful ways including in the development of statutory law. This article draws on utopian thinking to explore the challenge of gender’s conceptual future.
description: feminists@law, Vol 9 No 1 (2019)
Genetics and genomics of Parkinson’s disease
Creators: name: Lin, Michelle K
name: Farrer, Matthew J
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressively debilitating neurodegenerative syndrome. Although best described as a movement disorder, the condition has prominent autonomic, cognitive, psychiatric, sensory and sleep components. Striatal dopaminergic innervation and nigral neurons are progressively lost, with associated Lewy pathology readily apparent on autopsy. Nevertheless, knowledge of the molecular events leading to this pathophysiology is limited. Current therapies offer symptomatic benefit but they fail to slow progression and patients continue to deteriorate. Recent discoveries in sporadic, Mendelian and more complex forms of parkinsonism provide novel insight into disease etiology; 28 genes, including those encoding alpha-synuclein (SNCA), leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) and microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT), have been linked and/or associated with PD. A consensus regarding the affected biological pathways and molecular processes has also started to emerge. In early-onset and more a typical PD, deficits in mitophagy pathways and lysosomal function appear to be prominent. By contrast, in more typical late-onset PD, chronic, albeit subtle, dysfunction in synaptic transmission, early endosomal trafficking and receptor recycling, as well as chaperone-mediated autophagy, provide a unifying synthesis of the molecular pathways involved. Disease-modification (neuroprotection) is no longer such an elusive goal given the unparalleled opportunity for diagnosis, translational neuroscience and therapeutic development provided by genetic discovery.
Recension des recherches sur les pratiques d’enseignement en littératie auprès d’apprenants ayant des besoins de communication complexe
Creators: name: RICS, Revue
name: Jolicoeur, Edith
name: Moreau, Andre c.
name: Tremblay, Karine N.
name: Beaulieu, Judith
name: Brassard, Isabelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education

description: Dans les dernières années, des chercheurs s’intéressent à l’accès à la littératie des personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle (DI) et des besoins de communication complexe. Cet article recense et détaille les pratiques d’enseignement de huit articles rédigés entre 2011 et 2018. Les résultats montrent que les élèves ayant une DI et des besoins de communication complexe peuvent réaliser des apprentissages en littératie lorsque ces pratiques répondent à un enseignement direct, systématique et hautement structuré. De même, la formation des acteurs scolaires et des pairs tout-venant favorise l’utilisation de pratiques pertinentes et efficaces.
Setwise and filtered Gibbs samplers for teletraffic analysis
Creators: name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
name: Qian, Guoqi
name: Vazquez-Abad, Felisa J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A setwise Gibbs sampler (SGS) method is developed to simulate stationary distributions and performance measures of network occupancy of Baskett-Chandy-Muntz-Palacios (BCMP) telecommunication models. It overcomes the simulation difficulty encountered in applying the standard Gibbs sampler to closed BCMP networks with constant occupancy constraints. We show Markov chains induced by SGS converge to the target stationary distributions. This article also investigates the filtered Gibbs sampler (FGS) as an efficient method for estimating various network performance measures. It shows that FGS's efficiency is considerable, but may be improperly overestimated. A more conservative performance estimator is then presented.
Gender, Social Networks and Conflict Processes
Creators: name: Marks, Zoe
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2019

description: War is an inherently social process, from the mobilization of new, armed organizations, to the relational aftershocks of violence affecting families and local communities. This essay synthesizes existing feminist research on dynamics of conflict and peacebuilding and brings a social network approach to understanding gendered patterns of intersectional inequality. It presents a framework for understanding how civil war affects social structures vis-à-vis personal support networks, and in turn how that can constrain or enable women’s and men’s social and economic opportunities. Through a descriptive analysis of communities in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, I argue that war’s social processes, and ongoing militarization in particular, can create structural constraints for people seeking to participate peacefully in civilian life, and incentivize maintaining armed group connections. Network research shines light on the social processes that reproduce gendered inequalities and cleavages after conflict. It also reveals opportunities for bridging divides and transforming wartime networks into peacetime support structures.
description: feminists@law, Vol 9 No 1 (2019)
Observations (from 2016 to 2020) of the Geminids from different regions of Russia by an amateur astronomer
Creators: name: Romanov, Filipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I present the results of my observations (visual and photographic) of the Geminid meteor shower in 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020. I observed meteors from different regions (Moscow and Primorsky Krai) of Russia, under different observation conditions: light pollution, Moon phases and weather. I used a DSLR camera with a lens to photograph meteor tracks. I compare the results of my visual observations in different years and determine the coordinates of the meteors from the photographs to graphically demonstrate the radiant.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. Published in the bimonthly Journal of the International Meteor Organization, Vol. 49, No. 6, p. 158
Transforming Responses to Domestic Violence in a Politically Contested Environment: The Case of Northern Ireland
Creators: name: Doyle, Jessica
name: McWilliams, Monica
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2019

description: Domestic violence is a global phenomenon, but it takes on specific modalities in different cultural and geo-political settings. Drawing on evidence from the Northern Irish case, this article is concerned with exploring the relationship between domestic violence and the international and national sociopolitical context which domestic violence is perpetrated in and responded to. The Northern Irish case reveals a high level of political, religious and ethnic contestation at a societal level, a patriarchal social structure and conservative attitudes, each of which influence experiences of and responses to domestic violence. These factors exist alongside a number of groundbreaking changes to the overall political context and to domestic violence policies in Northern Ireland. This article seeks to explore the impact of these sociopolitical factors and changes on patterns of domestic violence in Northern Ireland over the last thirty years. The article is concerned with identifying how domestic violence responses are shaped by the sociopolitical context, what progress has been made in policy responses to domestic violence and the gaps that remain.
description: feminists@law, Vol 9 No 1 (2019)
International Gender Equality Norms and their Fragmented Protection in Conflict
Creators: name: O'Rourke, Catherine
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2019

description: Normative and legal developments in the protection of gender equality in conflict have proliferated in recent decades across diverse regimes of public international law. Nevertheless, the ultimate impact of such international norms on domestic conflict-affected settings is unclear. This article sets out to elucidate how international gender equality norms, underpinned by proliferating soft and hard legal sources, and implemented by separate institutions with widely varying powers of monitoring and enforcement, bring traction to women’s and girls’ rights in conflict-affected settings. While much discussion of fragmentation focuses on conflict between norms – and how to resolve such conflict within the non-hierarchical structure of international law – this article examines gender equality norms as they are operationalized by the institutions of international law charged with their monitoring and enforcement. International Relations literature suggests that, while international institutions are formally empowered through the consent and consensus of participating states, they in fact operate with considerable autonomy, due to their ‘expertise’ and consequent pedagogic function as ‘teachers’ of norms to states. The article investigates this thesis through the case study of the prohibition of sexual violence against girl soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, focusing on institutional activities under international humanitarian law, international criminal law and the United Nations Security Council. The case study reveals that the institutions of international law not only monitor and enforce relevant gender equality norms, but they in fact give substance to often-vague international norms through their operational activities in conflict-affected settings, though not necessarily in a consistent or coherent manner. The article concludes that studying international institutions in their operational activities in conflict settings is essential to understanding the impact of international gender equality norms on women’s and girls’ experiences of conflict.
description: feminists@law, Vol 9 No 1 (2019)
Gendered Political Settlements and Peacebuilding: Mapping Inclusion in Practice
Creators: name: Yousuf, Zahbia
name: Close, Sophia
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2019

description: This paper looks at practice-research methods used by Conciliation Resources (CR), an international peacebuilding organisation, as part of the Political Settlements Research Project. Between 2015 and 2017, Conciliation Resources and its partners convened three learning workshops in Nepal, Colombia, and Bougainville. The workshops ‘tested’ understandings of political settlements in conflict-affected contexts, with a specific focus on gender, through participatory practice-based research. The paper explores how co-learning approaches were developed and designed between CR and its partners: including how questions of inclusion, gender and political settlements were adapted to specific contexts; the approaches and methods developed; and the challenges and potential for research to influence peacebuilding practice. It also provides a critical reflection on the processes and outcomes of co-learning between international and local partners.
description: feminists@law, Vol 9 No 1 (2019)
Artefacts of Emergency Law, Gender and Anti-Colonial Resistance in Mandatory Palestine
Creators: name: Zichi, Paola
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2019

description: The article focuses on the account given by Hilda Wilson, during a year spent as an English schoolteacher in Palestine, of the emergency regulations adopted by the British authorities to quell the Great Arab Revolt which unfolded in the years 1936-1939. The article attempts to offer a more detailed inquiry into the real-life experience of women in order to give a more contextual, complex and relational account of the life of law in the Mandatory ‘peripheries’ during an anti-colonial uprising. Wilson’s account and her relationship with the indigenous anti-colonial revolt is investigated through a feminist and post-colonial legal approach which aims to re-write legal histories from below. As part of a broader critical legal approach to the history of law, this article aims to intervene in the discussion on methods and methodology in the writing of legal histories. In terms of methods, the paper relies on primary materials such as diaries and material objects as the primary tools for legal research. In terms of methodology, it applies interdisciplinary insights to the understanding of legal order/disorder and to the construction of hybrid legal subjectivities. In this sense, the article contributes to feminist perspectives on international law, focusing on the intersections between gender, race and law in order to give a different account of the space for women’s self-determination in Mandatory Palestine.
description: feminists@law, Vol 9 No 1 (2019)
Reshaping How Political Settlements Engage with Conflict-Related Violence Against Women
Creators: name: Swaine, Aisling
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2019

description: The exceptionalism attributed to acts of sexualised violence in war has reinforced the idea that what happens in war is different from that occurring outside of war. This counters long-standing feminist scholarship which has argued that violence against women (VAW) in conflict is a reflection of the everyday, mundane ways that women experience violence in their everyday lives. The paper presents a new ‘pre, during- and post-conflict framework’ to map, on the basis of theory and empirics, the inter-relationship between VAW within and outside conflict. Applied to the case study of Timor-Leste, the paper finds that common across time and space are the sustained presence of gendered harms, and that VAW is ambulant in nature and responsive to context, identifying connections and distinctions in VAW across conflict-time and peace-time. Through analysis of the Timor-Leste truth commission’s outcomes, the paper argues that an understanding of this complexity to VAW is essential to advancing gender-inclusive political settlements. The findings underline that sustaining an approach to conflict-time violence out of sync with how women experience violence within political processes means sustaining the structural inequalities that cause that violence, regardless of whether it is during or outside of armed conflict.
description: feminists@law, Vol 9 No 1 (2019)
Introduction to the number of $e$-folds in slow-roll inflation
Creators: name: Di Marco, Alessandro
name: Orazi, Emanuele
name: Pradisi, Gianfranco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this review, a pedagogical introduction to the concepts of slow-roll inflationary Universe and number of $e$-folds is provided. In particular, the differences between the basic notion of number of $e$-folds ($N_e$), total number of $e$-folds ($N_T$) and number of $e$-folds before the end of inflation ($N$), are outlined. The proper application of the number of $e$-folds before the end of inflation is discussed both as a time-like variable for the scalar field evolution and as a key parameter for computing inflationary predictions.
description: 23 pages, Review for the Special Issue Universe: Feature Papers 2024 - 'Cosmology'
We Have a Plan: Feminist Plan to Combat Male Violence Against Women and Gender-Based Violence
Creators: name: Meno, Non Una
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2019

description: Non Una Meno is an Italian trans-feminist, intersectional, anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-capitalist political movement, independent of any party, which aims at the radical transformation of society starting from the fight against male and gender violence and against social hierarchies. It emerged in Italy in 2016 in the wake of the Argentine movement, Ni Una Menos, that campaigns against gender-based violence in all its forms. As an anti-systemic movement, it seeks to dictate a new political agenda to counter attacks from the increasingly numerous neo-conservative governments and neoliberal economic policies that exploit and marginalize people within and between countries. It claims the right of women to decide about their bodies, opposing all those reactionary logics that try to impose gender roles. It argues against sexual violence and femicides, and is opposed to all those forces of government ready to exploit violence against women to justify racist and security policies. It fights against economic violence, the blackmail of precarious work or a residence permit, which have women and migrants as an easy target. It​ intends to subvert power relations that generate harassment, violence, racism and economic and social inequalities. It has a plan and it will not stop until it is realised. This is its English translation.
description: feminists@law, Vol 9 No 2 (2019)
Effects of chronic estradiol, progesterone and medroxyprogesterone acetate on hippocampal neurogenesis and adrenal mass in adult female rats
Creators: name: Chan, Melissa
name: Chow, Carmen
name: Hamson, Dwayne K.
name: Lieblich, Stephanie E.
name: Galea, Liisa A. M.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2017

description: Both natural estrogens and progesterone influence synaptic plasticity and neurogenesis within the female hippocampus. However, less is known of the impact of synthetic hormones on hippocampus structure and function. There is some evidence that administration of the synthetic progestin, medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) is not as beneficial as natural progesterone and can attenuate estrogen-induced neuroprotection. Although estradiol’s effects have been well studied, little is known about the effects of natural and synthetic progestins alone and in combination with estradiol on adult neurogenesis in the female. In the present study, we investigated the effects of chronic estradiol, progesterone, MPA, and a co-administration of each progestin with estradiol on neurogenesis within the dentate gyrus of adult ovariectomized female rats. Twenty-four hours following a bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU; 200mg/kg) injection, female rats were repeatedly administered with either progesterone (1 or 4 mg), MPA (1 or 4 mg), estradiol benzoate (EB), progesterone or MPA in combination with EB (10<g), or vehicle for 21 days. Rats were perfused on day 22 and brain tissue was analyzed for number of BrdU-labeled and Ki67 (an endogenous marker of cell proliferation)-expressing cells. EB alone and MPA+EB significantly decreased neurogenesis and surviving BrdU-labeled cells in the dorsal region of the dentate gyrus, independent of any effects on cell proliferation. Furthermore, MPA (1mg and 4mg) and MPA+EB treated animals had significantly lower adrenal/body weight ratios, and reduced serum corticosterone (CORT) levels. In contrast, P+EB treated animals had significantly higher adrenal/body weight ratios and 1mg P, P+EB, and EB significantly increased CORT levels. The results of the current study demonstrate that different progestins alone and in combination with estradiol can differentially affect neurogenesis (via cell survival) and regulation of the HPA axis. These findings have implications for women using hormone replacement therapies with MPA for both neuroprotection and stress-related disorders.
title: Folkbotanical Knowledge in the Chacao Sub-valley, Caracas-Venezuela
Creators: name: Leizaola, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2007

description: Today, the conservation of biodiversity is a major international goal of policy makers and scientific researchers whose work informs policy. Increasingly, indigenous and folk knowledge of biodiversity is addressed as a significant source of insight into the ways in which ethnobotanical knowledge is not practically useful but constitutes intellectually coherent systems of knowledge. Critical analysis of biodiversity has shown that indigenous and folk ecological knowledge is gendarme to the survival of cultural identity as well as the broader biosystem and, in recent years, much attention has been drawn to the anthropogenic character of what were previously assumed to be natural features of the ecosystem. As the pressures on traditional and indigenous communities mount, the search for effective forms of documentation to support the study, conservation and transmission of indigenous knowledge is becoming increasingly urgent. This thesis explores and documents the folkecological knowledge of the people of Pedregal, an urban neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela. It examines those domains and aspects of folkecological and folkbotanical knowledge that have persisted throughout the transformation of Pedregal from a rural hamlet to an urban neighbourhood exploring the effects of drastic social changes on the conservation and renewal of nature related systems of knowledge.
Increase in the Brightness of the Cosmic Radio Background toward Galaxy Clusters
Creators: name: Grebenev, S. A.
name: Sunyaev, R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the possibility of detecting the excess of the cosmic radio background (CRB) toward galaxy clusters due to its Compton scattering by electrons of the hot intergalactic gas. When mapping the background fluctuations at frequencies < 800 MHz, this effect gives rise to a radio source at the cluster location. At higher frequencies, where the microwave (CMB or relic) radiation dominates in the background, a 'negative' source is observed at this location due to the transfer of some of the relic photons upward along the frequency axis (into the range > 217 GHz) upon their scattering. We have computed the spectra of the expected CRB distortions for various clusters and show that in many cases in the range 30 MHz - 3 GHz their measurement will be hindered by the thermal bremsstrahlung from the intergalactic gas and the scattered radio emission from cluster galaxies associated with their past activity (and the synchrotron radiation from relativistic electrons). Below 20 MHz the scattering effect always dominates over the thermal gas radiation due to the general increase in the CRB intensity. We have found the frequency ranges that are optimal for searching for the Compton CRB excess and show that hot (kTe > 8 keV) clusters at high (z > 0.5) redshifts are most promising for its observation. Because of the strong concentration of the bremsstrahlung to the cluster center, the peripheral observations of this excess must be more preferable than the central ones. The transition from the 'negative' source on the map of background fluctuations to the 'positive' one must occur not gradually but through the stage of a 'hybrid source' (a bright spot surrounded by a dark ring). This shape of the source in projection is explained by its unusual three-dimensional shape (a narrow bremsstrahlung peak rising from the center of a wide deep hole associated with the Compton scattering of the CMB).
description: 24 pages, 16 figures, 1 table