cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Gao Xingjian vs. Martin Crimp in between modernism and postmodernism.
Creators: name: Mazzilli, Mary
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2009

description: This thesis deals with the plays by Gao Xingjian- a Chinese contemporary playwright and Nobel Prize winner for literature in 2000- and Martin Crimp a contemporary English playwright. The plays from both authors will be looked at from a comparative perspective within the theoretical framework linked to the debate between modernism and postmodernism, as inspired by Calinescu's theory. Calinescu's theory is based on the idea that Postmodernism is a 'face of modernism': he speaks about recurrent aspects ('similarities') of Modernism in Postmodernism, not only in terms of the repetition of patterns from the past in the present culture, but in terms of a natural historical evolution of Modernism into new cultural forms. The aim of this thesis is, therefore, to prove Calinescu's idea of continuity between Modernism and Postmodernism through the work by the two playwrights and by doing this it inevitably demonstrates a link between two writers coming from two different continents, hence a connection between Eastern and Western Literature. This thesis carries out an investigation into the two \vriters' dramatic texts and searches for signs of modem and postmodern elements and highlights how these elements coexist. In particular, in each chapter the thesis will carry out a close reading analysis of one or more plays by each author: in the case of Gao, we focus on post-exile plays, written after he left China in 1986 and are analysed chronologically; in the case of Crimp, the plays in question are not in strict chronological order but almost in parallel order to Gao's plays as they were written from the 1990s up to the present day.
Ionic reactor Paper-1
Creators: name: Rashan, M.Muhamed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 340602
subject: Chemical thermodynamics and energetics
classificationCode: 340604
subject: Electrochemistry

description: This is hypothesis of a chemistry and electronics based energy generators that works with Chlorine gas.This comes under clean energy and use the sodium chlorine and other chlorides that we get from purifying sea water , instead of throwing them back to the sea , we can use them for energy generation.Its make by high school student with no institutional or educational institution backups or funding. completely own idea.In simple ionic reactor
title: Towards universalism: Rabindranath Tagore and Srecko Kosovel: A joint perspective in a disjointed world.
Creators: name: Jelnikar, Ana
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2009

description: This thesis is the first in-depth exploration of the connection between the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) and the Slovene poet Srecko Kosovel (1904- 1926). It proceeds from a key observation that, in spite of their differences, they share a worldview that derives from a structurally similar positioning within their respective historical situations. Both wrote from the awareness of their region's subjugated status and endorsed an anti-imperialist stance that rejected nationalism as a viable means of liberation, embracing instead a creative universalist ideal. While seeking to establish the reasons, relevance, and manner in which Tagore inspired Kosovel, the thesis also traces broader parallels and shared concerns between the two poets, situating their "universalisms" in their respective culture-historical contexts. The introduction and chapter one lay out the comparative and theoretical framework, exploring "universalism" in its embattled relationship with "nationalism" in the context of anti-imperialist/colonial struggles to arrive at a workable definition with which to approach the two poets. Part II looks at the personal and historical factors shaping Tagore's theory and practice of liberation, as he came to reject nationalism and deconstruct the binary logic of colonial modernity so as to reposition India and the individual in a global framework. The importance of his post-Nobel Prize travels for his world vision is explored in conjunction with Tagore's reputation in the West, particularly in Europe's Central and Eastern peripheries, such as Slovenia. Part III introduces Kosovel and establishes the framework conjoining the two poets across the vastly different culturo-geographic space. Kosovel's reading of Tagore is framed through the paradigms of (cross-colonial) situational identifications and global modernity. It proposes a new reading of Kosovel's poetry, analyzing Kosovel's shift from a romantic to modernist sensibility in the light of his endorsement of Tagore's universalist idea(l)s.
checkcif_O3 – Supplemental material for Synthesis, spectroscopic properties, crystal structures, DFT studies, and the antibacterial and enzyme inhibitory properties of a complex of Co(II) 3,5-difluorobenzoate with 3-pyridinol
Creators: name: Sertçelik, Mustafa
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, checkcif_O3 for Synthesis, spectroscopic properties, crystal structures, DFT studies, and the antibacterial and enzyme inhibitory properties of a complex of Co(II) 3,5-difluorobenzoate with 3-pyridinol by Mustafa Sertçelik in Journal of Chemical Research
title: We may have read - but the reality!' Narrating Baptist missions in Bengal, 1800-1855.
Creators: name: Brooke, Jonathan
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2010

description: This project examines the ways in which missionary periodicals served as a vehicle for ideas about India in the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on Baptist missions in Bengal, it traces the parallel themes of 'the family' and 'the heathen' in published missionaries' accounts and explores how they served pragmatic and rhetorical functions throughout the period. By reconstructing these narratives and following these themes over time, we can get a better sense of the role they played in developing the connections between missionaries and converts, metropole and periphery. Beginning with the establishment of the Serampore mission in 1800, 1 utilize the parallel stories of the 'Serampore mission family' and two families of converts to show how these concepts underpinned the structure and organization of the mission and were incorporated into the missionaries' narratives. As the years progressed, these themes-often closely interrelated-assumed more rhetorical value as missionaries became more conscious of the role of their own narratives in generating support among their home audiences, especially women and children. From Serampore 1 broaden the perspective from individuals to communities. With the establishment of 'Christian villages' for converts and the development of what I call 'spotlight' mission stations, many missionaries became keenly aware of the central role of their narratives in the maintenance and extension of missions. From communities 1 shift to institutions, examining the increasingly rhetorical nature of these themes in connection with the Baptists' schools in Calcutta. The study ends with the 1855 conference of Baptist missionaries in Bengal, which represented a turning point in both management and narration as both became more centralized, and as these themes had fully evolved from structural to rhetorical.
Imaging and Image Processing Techniques for High-Resolution Visualization of Connective Tissue with MRI: Application to Fascia, Aponeurosis, and Tendon
Creators: name: Perera, Meeghage Randika
name: Handsfield, Geoffrey G.
name: Bydder, Graeme M.
name: Holdsworth, Samantha J.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2025

description:
Recent interest in musculoskeletal connective tissues like tendons, aponeurosis, and deep fascia has led to a greater focus on in vivo medical imaging, particularly MRI. Given the rapid T2* decay of collagenous tissues, advanced ultra-short echo time (UTE) MRI sequences have proven useful in generating high-signal images of these tissues. To further these advances, we discuss the integration of UTE with Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) and explore image processing techniques to enhance the localization, labeling, and modeling of connective tissues. These techniques are especially valuable for extracting features from thin tissues that may be difficult to distinguish. We present data from lower leg scans of 30 healthy subjects using a non-Cartesian MRI sequence to acquire axial 2D images to segment skeletal muscle and connective tissue. DTI helped differentiate aponeurosis from deep fascia by analyzing muscle fiber orientations. The dual echo imaging methods yielded high-resolution images of deep fascia, where in-plane spatial resolutions were between 0.3 × 0.3 mm to 0.5 × 0.5 mm with a slice thickness of 3–5 mm. Techniques such as K-Means clustering, FFT edge detection, and region-specific scaling were most effective in enhancing images of deep fascia, aponeurosis, and tendon to enable high-fidelity modeling of these tissues.
Fermion-antifermion pairs in Bonnor-Melvin magnetic space-time with non-zero cosmological constant
Creators: name: Guvendi, Abdullah
name: Mustafa, Omar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the relativistic dynamics of fermion-antifermion pairs in the Bonnor-Melvin magnetic (BMM) spacetime in non-zero cosmology. We focus on the $(1+2)$-dimensional cylindrically symmetric BMM-spacetime background. Within the context of such a magnetized universe, we rigorously investigate the fully-covariant two-body Dirac equation. We derive the corresponding radial part of the equation and obtain an exact closed form analytical solution for the problem at hand. Moreover, we report some intriguing parallels with relativistic and non-relativistic quantum oscillators in flat spaces. Notably, our findings suggest a compelling correlation between the cosmological constant and the energy spectrum of fermion-antifermion systems, hinting at profound connections between quantum realms and cosmology.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure
Appendix – Supplemental material for On the vibration analysis of coupled transverse and shear piezoelectric functionally graded porous beams with higher-order theories
Creators: name: Askari, Mahmoud
name: Brusa, Eugenio
name: Delprete, Cristiana
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, Appendix for On the vibration analysis of coupled transverse and shear piezoelectric functionally graded porous beams with higher-order theories by Mahmoud Askari, Eugenio Brusa and Cristiana Delprete in The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design
Improving Data Labelling Efficacy with Deep Neural Network via Active Learning
Creators: name: TAN, WEI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 461199
subject: Machine learning not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis revolutionizes Active Learning (AL) in Deep Learning, tackling the scarcity of labeled
data. Introducing the Bayesian Estimate of Mean Proper Scores (BEMPS) and novel acquisition
functions, it enhances AL across various domains. BEMPS is adapted for image classification
with Monte-Carlo dropout and dialogue act classification, showing remarkable outcomes. The
work also features a Deep AUC Maximization approach for Named Entity Recognition,
leveraging AUC-Optimized Latent Sigmoid Embedding for precise uncertainty estimation. In
its culmination, the thesis presents BESRA for multi-label text classification, extensively tested
and proven on specialized medical datasets, marking a significant leap in AL's efficiency and
applicability.
title: The impact of legislation and regulation on the freedom of movement of capital in Estonia, Poland and Latvia.
Creators: name: Baber, Graeme S.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2009

description: Article 56 of the EC Treaty requires Member States to remove restrictions on the free movement of capital between States and between States and third countries, with few exceptions. This research investigates to what extent Estonia, Poland and Latvia have complied with the European legislation, and whether any restrictions on the free movement of capital that these Member States have maintained affect capital flows to and from these countries. A functional comparative law method is used to inspect the national legislation and regulations for compliance with EU Law on the free movement of capital. National laws are compared for the degree to which they restrict such free movement, also using a functional method. A legal index is constructed from these differences in national laws, and is subdivided by direction and location of capital flows and by business sector. A graphical method is used to compare these indices with the corresponding cross-border capital flows to and from the three States. A questionnaire is sent to companies in the relevant sectors to test the research results. Estonia and Poland limit cross-border capital flows to a similar extent, but less than Latvia. National law restricts flows between these States and third countries more than within the EEA, but some laws concerning the provision of services to and from third countries are absent. The level of national legal restriction to the movement of capital is inversely related to the volume of cross-border capital flows. The validation study results tend to support these findings. The research affords evidence of originality both by discovering new facts in the compliance of national law with EU law and by the exercise of independent critical power in the reasoning applied both to such compliance and to the analysis of the effect of the capital restrictions on capital flows.
title: The political economy of higher education and labour markets: The case of Malaysia.
Creators: name: Aihara, Akihito
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2009

description: This thesis starts by critically assessing human capital theory in the study of education and labour markets. It is argued that, while revealing the statistical significance of factors like ethnicity in education and labour markets, it does not help us to imderstand how education is provided and how labour markets are structured. The reason for this is that it leaves aside the historical and institutional contexts from the analysis, so that the question of why factors like ethnicity gain significance in education and labour markets carmot be addressed appropriately. These fundamental flaws undermine the relevance of human capital theory in the study of higher education and labour markets, and they are indeed compounded in the empirical application to the Malaysian case. Rather than applying the theory or remedying its analytical deficiencies, therefore, this thesis breaks with it and instead adopts a political economy approach that places the role of government at the analytical centre. Being a multi-ethnic coimtry, Malaysia's higher education and labour market policies reflect the trade-off between equity, or inter-ethnic distribution, and efficiency, or economic growth. The main purpose for this is to maintain social stability by lifting up the socio-economic status of Malays whilst increasing the economic pie to distribute. The New Economic Policy set the institutional foundation on which these policies are introduced and implemented. Access to higher education and provision of higher educational services are institutionally arranged in favour of Malays, and the public sector is geared towards employing them. Empirical analysis of the Population and Housing Census Malaysia 2000 points to ethnic differentials in access to higher education and sector selection in labour markets. It is also found that the ethnic factor persists from higher education through to labour markets, implying that the decisions of higher education enrolment and sector selection are made simultaneously.
Raising Confident Girls: A pragmatic school-based trial of a body image and parenting program for mothers of adolescent girls
Creators: name: Forbes, J
name: Paxton, Susan
name: Yager, Z
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: This study evaluated Raising Confident Girls (RCG), delivered to mothers of Year 8 students (mean age 12.8-years) who were receiving the classroom-based Dove Confident Me (DCM) program. RCG is an interactive, multi-session intervention designed to improve body image in mothers in order to enhance their capacity to parent and role model this to their daughters. A pragmatic non-randomised controlled trial involved delivery of the program to mothers (n = 69) over three, 2-hour seminars in evenings, compared with a comparison group (n = 51). The study took place at an independent all-girls secondary school in Australia. Multilevel mixed modelling analyses compared pre- and post-test scores on standardized scales. Mothers who participated in the program had significantly higher scores on primary outcome variables of body esteem and body appreciation compared to the comparison group at post-test. Further, participation significantly improved mother's knowledge, confidence, and skills for parenting, and improved role modeling of positive body image. Mothers were well engaged, with low attrition rates, and rated the program highly. The RCG program was effective and engaging for mothers, offering deeper insight into improving parental engagement in body image interventions delivered within the school context.
Setting the stage for the search for life with the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Properties of 164 promising planet survey targets
Creators: name: Harada, Caleb K.
name: Dressing, Courtney D.
name: Kane, Stephen R.
name: Ardestani, Bahareh Adami
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 (Astro2020) has recommended that NASA realize a large IR/O/UV space telescope optimized for high-contrast imaging and spectroscopy of ~25 exo-Earths and transformative general astrophysics. The NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP) has subsequently released a list of 164 nearby (d<25 pc) targets deemed the most accessible to survey for potentially habitable exoplanets with the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). We present a catalog of system properties for the 164 ExEP targets, including 1744 abundance measurements for 14 elements from the Hypatia Catalog and 924 photometry measurements spanning from 151.6 nm to 22 μm in the GALEX, Strömgren, Tycho, Gaia, 2MASS, and WISE bandpasses. We independently derive stellar properties for these systems by modeling their spectral energy distributions with Bayesian model averaging. Additionally, by consulting the literature, we identify TESS flare rates for 46 stars, optical variability for 78 stars, and X-ray emission for 46 stars in our sample. We discuss our catalog in the context of planet habitability and draw attention to key gaps in our knowledge where precursor science can help to inform HWO mission design trade studies in the near future. Notably, only 33 of the 164 stars in our sample have reliable space-based UV measurements, and only 40 have a mid-IR measurement. We also find that phosphorus, a bio-essential element, has only been measured in 11 of these stars, motivating future abundance surveys. Our catalog is publicly available and we advocate for its use in future studies of promising HWO targets.
description: Published in ApJS. 34 pages, 15 figures, 4 tables. Data available at https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/spores-hwo
Exploring the feasibility of conducting a randomised controlled trial of group-based pregnancy care and education: a pilot randomised controlled trial in Melbourne, Australia
Creators: name: Forster, Della
name: Matthews, Robyn
name: Hyde, Rebecca
name: Fox, Deborah
name: Dyson, Kaye
name: Ryan, Trish
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4204
subject: Midwifery
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 420403
subject: Psychosocial aspects of childbirth and perinatal mental health
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: In group-based pregnancy models, antenatal care and childbirth/parenting education are provided in groups of eight to 10 women, usually with two midwives, and six to eight sessions. Current evidence is inconclusive regarding potential benefit or harm. We aimed to explore the feasibility of implementing an adequately powered randomised controlled trial (RCT). Methods: A two-arm pilot RCT was conducted in a tertiary maternity hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Women were randomly allocated to either the intervention to receive group-based antenatal care and education (group care) or to usual care, which included hospital-based midwife, caseload midwifery, team midwifery, or GP shared care. Participants were English-speaking, primiparous, low risk, and < 24 weeks gestation at booking. Data collection: feasibility measures throughout pilot, baseline questionnaire at recruitment, clinical outcome data from the medical record, and a telephone-administered questionnaire 6 weeks postpartum. A focus group explored midwives’ views. Results: Seventy-four women were recruited from May to June 2017 (group care = 40, usual care = 34). Study uptake was 35%. Women allocated to group care rated their overall pregnancy care more highly (88% good/very good vs 77% in usual care). There was no evidence of harm related to group care. Overarching themes from the midwives were that group care helped ‘build connections’ and ‘empower women’. All midwives would work in the model again and believed it should be expanded. Conclusion: Group care was acceptable to both women and midwives with no evidence of harm. The pilot demonstrated the feasibility of undertaking a large adequately powered RCT, important given the inconclusive evidence on clinical outcomes regarding the model, and its current relatively widespread implementation.
Supplemental_material - When and how does volunteering influence wages? – Evidence from panel data
Creators: name: Eberl, Andreas
name: Krug, Gerhard
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental_material for When and how does volunteering influence wages? – Evidence from panel data by Andreas Eberl and Gerhard Krug in Acta Sociologica
DS_10.1177_2380084420934746 – Supplemental material for Disparities in Dental Use and Untreated Caries Prevalence by Income
Creators: name: S.O. Griffin
name: G. Thornton-Evans
name: L. Wei
name: P.M. Griffin
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, DS_10.1177_2380084420934746 for Disparities in Dental Use and Untreated Caries Prevalence by Income by S.O. Griffin, G. Thornton-Evans, L. Wei and P.M. Griffin in JDR Clinical & Translational Research
The_usefulness_of_EULAR_nurse_role_recommendations_in_China_was_investigated – Supplemental material for Assessment of the practicability of implementing the EULAR recommendations for the role of nurses in the management of chronic inflammatory arthritis in China
Creators: name: Ma, Ling
name: Liang, Yan
name: Yu, Sheng-nan
name: Wang, Ying
name: Oliver, Susan M
name: Chen, Yan-ling
name: Zhao, Yi
name: Cao, Yu-qiong
name: Liu, Xue-mei
name: Zhang, Zi-yun
name: Chen, Li-hong
name: Liu, Yi
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Aged Health Care
subject: Paediatrics
subject: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Respiratory Diseases
subject: Veterinary Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, The_usefulness_of_EULAR_nurse_role_recommendations_in_China_was_investigated for Assessment of the practicability of implementing the EULAR recommendations for the role of nurses in the management of chronic inflammatory arthritis in China by Ling Ma, Yan Liang, Sheng-nan Yu, Ying Wang, Susan M Oliver, Yan-ling Chen, Yi Zhao, Yu-qiong Cao, Xue-mei Liu, Zi-yun Zhang, Li-hong Chen and Yi Liu in European Journal of Inflammation
title: A reconstruction of Proto Northern Chin in Old Burmese and Old Chinese perspective.
Creators: name: Button, Christopher
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2009

description: The phonology, morphology and semantics of six Northern Chin languages are investigated in terms of their relationships with Old Burmese and Old Chinese. Regular correspondences are achieved through a vertical two vowel system and a segmentally derived three tone system. A word list with reconstructed Northern Chin forms, of which several are used in the comparisons with Old Burmese and Old Chinese throughout the work, is included as an appendix.
title: Why do we need the White man's God? African contributions and responses to the formation of a Christian movement in Cameroon, 1914-1968.
Creators: name: Thomas, Guy A.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2001

description: This study analyses local processes of appropriating Christianity in anglophone Cameroon. It centres upon Christian communities which were established under the auspices of the Swiss/German Basel Mission (BM). Earlier research on the BM in Cameroon deals mainly with metropolitan, colonial and institutional dimensions of mission history. Other related work on the relevance of the missionary enterprise to specific areas and peoples barely extends beyond the 1920s. With few exceptions, "native" agents - African clergy, sub-clergy and lay people - and their functions in mediating Christian faith have received little attention during the period under review here. Thus the necessity to overcome this limitation is addressed by placing African agency at the core of my thesis, employing a comprehensive comparative approach. The study takes up two suggestions put forward by several serious scholars from the mid-1960s: first, to recognise Christian advance in Africa as a black advance and second, to shift the emphasis from metropolitan mission history to local histories of religious encounters and Christianity. Bearing this reorientation in mind, the present research interlaces two strands of historical reconstruction. The first strand maps out the broader context of interaction between the key parties who influenced the BM's agenda: European missionaries, colonial officials, merchants, planters and African Christians and non-Christians. The second strand relates to local levels of contest or accommodation between African traditional belief systems and social institutions on one side, and "native" agents, evangelism and conversion experiences on the other. African participation in the evangelisation programme is examined from several vantage points. The partially overlapping themes are presented in seven chapters. They include the impact of the First World War, connections between colonial rule and missionary activity, linkages between religion and economic development, the role of traditional authorities (precepts and practices of chiefs and secret societies) in legitimising religious change, the vemacularisation of Christianity, nationalism and autonomy, and conversion, Christian adherence, and "native" agency. To conclude, the path from foreign missionary control to African church leadership is appraised. Written sources, interviews and photographs feed into a multi-pronged approach geared to elaborate the social-historical dimension of the missionary enterprise. The analysis of encounters with Christianity through biographical evidence is combined with reflections on the political, economic and social transformation of the mission field. Through its comparative framework the study seeks to add to a large picture of the interplay between colonial rule, Christian movements and the evolving concepts of traditional authority, identity, and modernity in 20th century sub-Saharan Africa.
title: The beloved unveiled: Continuity and change in modern Turkish love poetry (1923-1980).
Creators: name: Mignon, Laurent J-N.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2002

description: The thesis explores the ideological aspect of modern Turkish love poetry by focusing on the works of major poets and movements between 1923 and 1980. The approach to the theme of love was metaphorical and mystical in classical Ottoman poetry. During the period of modernisation (1839-1923), poets either rejected the theme of love altogether or abandoned Islamic aesthetics and adopted a Parnassian approach arguing that love was the expression of desire for physical beauty. A great variety of discourses on love developed during the republican period. Yahya Kemal sets the theme of love in Ottoman Istanbul and mourns the end of the relationship with the beloved who incarnates his conservative vision of national identity. The Five Syllabists contrast treacherous and sensual love in the city with pure and simple love in the Anatolian countryside, thus reflecting the Anatolianism of the nationalist intelligentsia. Nazim Hikmet approaches the theme from a variety of angles. He explores the links between love and human solidarity and humanises the beloved by writing about her in a realistic context. The Bizarre movement discusses the theme of love in the framework of its subjective realism and focuses more on the effects of love on the individual than on love itself Socialist poets do not approach the theme uniformly but all of them advocate a socially engaged realism and are opposed to the individualism of Bizarre. The movement of the Second Renewal equates love with sexuality and explores its impact on human relationships. Islamist poets too adopt a realist stance. They abandon the idealised gardens of the divan tradition and go on a mystical quest in the harshness of everyday reality. The ideological convictions of all these movements and poets are mainly expressed in the choice of setting of the relationship, in the image of the beloved and in the definition of love.
Threshold-Independent Fair Matching through Score Calibration
Creators: name: Moslemi, Mohammad Hossein
name: Milani, Mostafa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Entity Matching (EM) is a critical task in numerous fields, such as healthcare, finance, and public administration, as it identifies records that refer to the same entity within or across different databases. EM faces considerable challenges, particularly with false positives and negatives. These are typically addressed by generating matching scores and apply thresholds to balance false positives and negatives in various contexts. However, adjusting these thresholds can affect the fairness of the outcomes, a critical factor that remains largely overlooked in current fair EM research. The existing body of research on fair EM tends to concentrate on static thresholds, neglecting their critical impact on fairness. To address this, we introduce a new approach in EM using recent metrics for evaluating biases in score based binary classification, particularly through the lens of distributional parity. This approach enables the application of various bias metrics like equalized odds, equal opportunity, and demographic parity without depending on threshold settings. Our experiments with leading matching methods reveal potential biases, and by applying a calibration technique for EM scores using Wasserstein barycenters, we not only mitigate these biases but also preserve accuracy across real world datasets. This paper contributes to the field of fairness in data cleaning, especially within EM, which is a central task in data cleaning, by promoting a method for generating matching scores that reduce biases across different thresholds.
title: The Yaozhou kilns A re-evaluation.
Creators: name: Rastelli, Sabrina
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2002

description: Despite its undeniable beauty, the blue/green ware of Yaozhou was not included among the five famous wares of the Song dynasty, and to this day, despite the evidence of intensive archaeological excavations, its primacy in the history of Chinese ceramics has not been recognised. Chinese literary sources dating from the eighth to the nineteenth centuries reveal that during the Northern Song (960-1126), the Yaozhou kilns had in fact gained official recognition, but from the Southern Song (1127-1279) onwards this perception had become negative. Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) scholars hardly referred to Yaozhou ware at all, and by the beginning of the twentieth century, Yaozhou ware was not even identified. This may account for the negative view held by ceramic experts up to the first major archaeological excavation in 1958, but why scholars world-wide have continued to under-rate Yaozhou kilns despite the astonishing discoveries of 1973 and of the seasons from 1984 to 1997 is baffling. This dissertation shows how advanced this kiln centre was by reconstructing the manufacturing process from the preparation of raw materials to firing, on the basis of the archaeological materials. From the analysis of the architectural remains and their contents there emerges a continuous development of techniques and equipment pioneered or adapted by Yaozhou potters from the Tang (618-907) to the Jin dynasty (1115-1234). Finally, the examination of both the macrostructure and microstructure of the body and the glaze of a consistent group of celadon shards dating from the Tang to the Jin dynasty completes the reconstruction of the manufacturing process. Together with the study of the factors influencing the visual appearance of Yaozhou blue/green ware, this dissertation shows how well Yaozhou potters knew local raw materials, how swiftly they adapted to new circumstances, and the full extent of their contribution to the development of Chinese ceramics.
Supplementary_Table_S1 – Supplemental material for Treatment effects of cumulative cisplatin dose during radiotherapy following induction chemotherapy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: propensity score analyses
Creators: name: Peng, Liang
name: Chen, Jia-Luo
name: Zhu, Guang-Li
name: Huang, Cheng-Long
name: Li, Jun-Yan
name: Ma, Jun
name: Wen, Wei-Ping
name: Tang, Ling-Long
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
Aged Health Care
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary_Table_S1 for Treatment effects of cumulative cisplatin dose during radiotherapy following induction chemotherapy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: propensity score analyses by Liang Peng, Jia-Luo Chen, Guang-Li Zhu, Cheng-Long Huang, Jun-Yan Li, Jun Ma, Wei-Ping Wen and Ling-Long Tang in Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
title: These difficult days: Mission church reactions to Bantu education in South Africa 1949-56.
Creators: name: Overy, Neil G.R.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2002

description: Mission education in South Africa became increasingly untenable in the 1940s because mission churches lacked the finances to be able to maintain a national system of educational provision and because Africans were questioning mission education which they increasingly considered institutionally racist. This crisis led the Nationalist Government to appoint an education commission to make recommendations leading to the reform of 'native education'. This commission argued that mission education was incompatible with the ordering of society envisaged by the government. It suggested that the state should wrestle control of 'native education' from missionaries, enabling it to fashion a policy more in sympathy with apartheid. In 1953 the Bantu Education Act was passed which withdrew state aid from mission schools and made their continued registration dependent on the approval of the Minister for Native Affairs. The Catholic Church, able to raise the necessary finance, decided to continue running alt their schools privately. This decision was based purely on religious doctrine and meant that the Church taught Bantu Education in alt of its schools. Of the remaining denominations only the American Board had the resources to maintain a single privately funded school. Aside from a few politicised figures in the Church of the Province of South Afiica who refused to lease their schools, claiming that to do so was to compromise with apartheid, church leaders leased their schools to the government. This decision was made because Church leaders considered that Bantu Education, despite their abhorrence to its ultimate aims, provided better opportunities to children than an 'education' picked up on the streets. This decision was made with little, if any, consultation with Africans (parents, teachers or students) because church governing structures were undemocratic and racially exclusive, denying Afiicans any meaningful representation. Ironically, the decision to lease was in accord with the wishes of most Africans who reluctantly accepted the fact that Bantu Education, in the absence of any realistic alternative, was better than no education.
Figure_S1_PRISMA – Supplemental material for Current Knowledge and Future Directions: Proportional Reasoning Interventions for Students with Learning Disabilities and Mathematics Difficulties
Creators: name: Nelson, Gena
name: Hunt, Jessica H.
name: Martin, Kristi
name: Patterson, Blain
name: Khounmeuang, Andy
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130312 Special Education and Disability
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Supplemental material, Figure_S1_PRISMA for Current Knowledge and Future Directions: Proportional Reasoning Interventions for Students with Learning Disabilities and Mathematics Difficulties by Gena Nelson, Jessica H. Hunt, Kristi Martin, Blain Patterson and Andy Khounmeuang in Learning Disability Quarterly
title: Nonduality and the karmic cyles of the world: Integral health and development in Thai contexts.
Creators: name: Roncarati, Marco E.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2001

description: This thesis considers ongoing changes in Thai healthcare, seen in wider contexts of development, with particular attention paid to existential issues and human volitional action (karma). Consequently, development is analysed with regard to "external" or material development, as well as "internal" development of consciousness. Moreover, although situations involving curing disease/illness are examined, emphasis is laid on health in light of holistic and preventive measures proposed by main informants, who to varying degrees are influential in providing and reforming healthcare in Thailand. Such people generally adopt Dharma (Buddhist teachings) in promoting awareness of health, considered in physical, mental, societal and spiritual terms. Nevertheless, many also discuss the significance of universals and nondual teachings from other contemplative/mystical traditions, which aim at the same purpose; namely, to transcend narcissistic feelings of individuality, so that suffering inherent in the human condition is ended. Thus, "conventional truths" pertinent to specific cultural contexts are seen as relevant, but also are "absolute truths" that transcend them and other dualities. A central issue of the thesis is consideration of how conceptual analysis and synthesis, and "traditional" and "modem" knowledge (adopting "scientific" modes of inquiry which go beyond empiricism), are currently being integrated in Thailand. This implies both theoretical and practical aspects, and the way that they are adopted in bringing about well-being to the population at large. Using case studies, textual references and primarily experiences of main informants; self-reliance, social engagement, sustainability and dynamic balance are studied in contexts of healing. Furthermore, education (mainstream and alternative modes), the role of teachers and providers of healthcare services (including monks, traditional healers and biomedical practitioners), and implications to policy are examined; as are compassionate, nonviolent, and strategic means to effect change and achieve lasting health and happiness.
Supplemental Material, Appendices_29-5-2020_Copy - The Effectiveness of Educational Interventions on Traditional Bullying and Cyberbullying Among Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Ng, Esperanza Debby
name: Chua, Joelle Yan Xin
name: Shefaly Shorey
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental Material, Appendices_29-5-2020_Copy for The Effectiveness of Educational Interventions on Traditional Bullying and Cyberbullying Among Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Esperanza Debby Ng, Joelle Yan Xin Chua and Shefaly Shorey in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
title: "Tum Teav": A study of a Cambodian literary classic.
Creators: name: Chigas, George V.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2001

description: One of the cornerstones of the Cambodian literary canon is the verse novel Turn Teav. There are numerous versions of the story that cover all the major modes of creative expression in Cambodian culture. In addition to the literary and theatrical versions, the story also appears in different historical texts, as it is generally believed that the characters described in the story are based on actual people and events in Cambodian history. Despite Turn Teav's tremendous importance and popularity however, there are no studies that examine the extensive literary criticism on the text or the influence of the story in contemporary Cambodian culture and society. This work is an attempt to present an overview of the literary criticism on Turn Teav and provide the reader w ith an insight into the viewpoints of contemporary Cambodian writers and intellectuals on the major themes in the story. Chapter 1 discusses different versions of the story in various genres, including literary, historical, oral, theatrical, and film, in order to demonstrate the story's importance in Cambodian culture and society. Chapter 2 presents my revised translation of Turn Teav by Venerable Botumthera Som that was begun while completing my MA degree at Cornell. Venerable Botumthera Som's manuscript was completed in 1915 and is the best-known version of the story. 3 Chapter 3 examines different texts of literary criticism on Turn Teav, giving special attention to the controversy concerning the original author of the story. This chapter also discusses major themes in the story, namely traditional codes of conduct, abuse of power, and Justice, and uses various examples from Cambodian literature to illustrate them further. Chapter 4 concludes this work with an analysis of several interviews that I conducted with Cambodian writers and scholars concerning the major themes in the story. Particular attention is given to the influence of Turn Teav in Cambodian culture and society, especially the theme of justice in light of the pending trials of the former members of the Khmer Rouge for crimes of genocide.
Supplemental Material, Appendix_3_Barriers - Clinician Barriers and Facilitators to Routine HIV Testing: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Creators: name: Bagchi, Ann Dalton
name: Davis, Tracy
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material, Appendix_3_Barriers for Clinician Barriers and Facilitators to Routine HIV Testing: A Systematic Review of the Literature by Ann Dalton Bagchi and Tracy Davis in Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (JIAPAC)
Supplemental_Material_updated – Supplemental material for The Olympic paradox: The Olympics and intergroup biases
Creators: name: Youngju Kim
name: Jinkyung Na
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, Supplemental_Material_updated for The Olympic paradox: The Olympics and intergroup biases by Youngju Kim and Jinkyung Na in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
Simulation-driven Approaches in Space Architecture
Creators: name: Vermeulen, Angelo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space exploration
subject: Spacecraft
subject: Interstellar
subject: Starship
subject: Worldship
subject: Asteroids
subject: Asteroid mining
subject: Self-organisation
subject: Emergence
subject: Emergence engineering
subject: Morphogenetic engineering
subject: Self-reproduction
subject: Adaptation
subject: Evolution
subject: NASA
subject: HI-SEAS
subject: ESA
subject: MELiSSA
subject: Analog space mission
subject: Analog
subject: Space habitat
subject: Space architecture
subject: Mars
subject: Simulation
subject: Modeling

description: Talk for the Extra-/terrestrial Architecture program at Delft University of Technology.
20-0079_supplementary_material – Supplemental material for Prognostic Significance of Aneurysm Sac Shrinkage After Endovascular Aneurysm Repair
Creators: name: Antoniou, George A.
name: Aws Alfahad
name: Antoniou, Stavros A.
name: Torella, Francesco
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: Medicine
subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, 20-0079_supplementary_material for Prognostic Significance of Aneurysm Sac Shrinkage After Endovascular Aneurysm Repair by George A. Antoniou, Aws Alfahad, Stavros A. Antoniou and Francesco Torella in Journal of Endovascular Therapy