cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Il Giovane e il Sordo
Creators: name: PsykoSapiens
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Una terrazza affacciata sull’Atlantico. Due donne vestite di tessuti impalpabili sorseggiano vino, immerse in un dialogo tagliente sulla corsa dell’uomo verso Singularity. Parole come aghi di ghiaccio trafiggono l’aria densa di algoritmi, mentre un giovane aborigeno osserva nell’ombra. Egli non parla lingue, eppure le comprende tutte. Non ha bisogno di suoni, perché sente oltre le parole.

Più tardi, nella notte, il giovane scrive sulla sabbia accanto a un vecchio saggio. Disegna quel mondo: il lusso, la frenesia, il progresso che divora se stesso. Traccia il muro del tempo, la barriera invisibile oltre la quale ogni pensiero si frantuma. Ma il vecchio cancella il muro con un gesto lento e disegna un cerchio evanescente: il tempo non si ferma, né si accelera, ma può essere dimenticato.

Mentre il giovane lotta con il significato della dimenticanza, le parole delle donne riecheggiano ancora: la velocità è una fuga? Un’illusione? Una condanna? Forse, al di là del muro, resta solo la eco mineralizzata di ciò che un tempo fu umano.
the relationship between religious identity and mental health of educated women of Shahsevan,
Creators: name: Javani, Hojjatollah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: هویت دینی؛ سلامت روان؛ زنان ؛عشایر ایل شاهسون.

description: هدف از پژوهش حاضر بررسی رابطه بین هویت دینی با سلامت روان زنان تحصیل کرده عشایر

ایل شاهسون بود.

روش پژوهش : تحقیق حاضر توصیفی و از نوع همبستگی می باشد. جامعه آماری مورد مطالعه در این

پژوهش شامل کلیه زنان تحصیل کرده عشایر ایل شاهسون بود. تعداد 101 نفر به روش نمونه گیری در دسترس و

هدفمند انتخاب شدند. ابزار مورد استفاده در پژوهش عبارتند از آزمون

	 هویت دینی با 41 سوال و پایایی 87 %
	پرسشنامه سالمت روان (GHQ) با 28 سوال و پایایی92%

آزمون های آماری مورد استفاده آزمون همبستگی پیرسون بود.

داده ها: یافته های پژوهش نشان داد بین هویت دینی و سلامت روان رابطه‌ی معناداری وجود ندارد؛  بجز در بعد مناسکی05/0<p .

نتیجه گیری: با توجه به اینکه 91/. از جمعیت مورد مطالعه از هویت دینی باالایی برخوردار بودند اما با وجود این

بین هویت دینی با سلامت روان رابطه ی معناداری دیده نشد. این بیانگر آن است که ممکن است هویت دینی نتواند رابطه مثبت و معنادار با سلامت روان داشته باشد.
description: ارتباط هویت دینی با سلامت روان زنان تحصیل کرده عشایر ایل شاهسون
Dephasing superchannels
Creators: name: Puchała, Zbigniew
name: Korzekwa, Kamil
name: Salazar, Roberto
name: Horodecki, Paweł
name: Życzkowski, Karol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We characterise a class of environmental noises that decrease coherent properties of quantum channels by introducing and analysing the properties of dephasing superchannels. These are defined as superchannels that affect only non-classical properties of a quantum channel $\mathcal{E}$, i.e., they leave invariant the transition probabilities induced by $\mathcal{E}$ in the distinguished basis. We prove that such superchannels $Ξ_C$ form a particular subclass of Schur-product supermaps that act on the Jamiolkowski state $J(\mathcal{E})$ of a channel $\mathcal{E}$ via a Schur product, $J'=J\circ C$. We also find physical realizations of general $Ξ_C$ through a pre- and post-processing employing dephasing channels with memory, and show that memory plays a non-trivial role for quantum systems of dimension $d>2$. Moreover, we prove that coherence generating power of a general quantum channel is a monotone under dephasing superchannels. Finally, we analyse the effect dephasing noise can have on a quantum channel $\mathcal{E}$ by investigating the number of distinguishable channels that $\mathcal{E}$ can be mapped to by a family of dephasing superchannels. More precisely, we upper bound this number in terms of hypothesis testing channel divergence between $\mathcal{E}$ and its fully dephased version, and also relate it to the robustness of coherence of $\mathcal{E}$.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure. Published version
Capsicum annuum subsp. plant
Creators: name: Mohammadbagheri, Leila
name: Nasr-Esfahani, Mehdi
name: Abdossi, Vahid
name: Naderi, Davood
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Capsicum
Capsicum annuum

description: 5.1. Capsicum annuum plant material sources and growth conditions
In this study, accessions of Capsicum annuum L. (Solanaceae) previously screened for resistance to Phytophthora capsici (Leon.) (Pythiaceae, Peronosporales), thirty seven exotic and domestic hybrids and inbreeding lines of commercial C. annuum accessions from different seed companies were utilized for genetic variability (Supplementary Table 2) (Bagheri et al., 2020). Out of which, three resistant (‘37ChilPPaleo’, ‘19OrnP-PBI’ and ‘23CherryPOrsh’) and three susceptible (‘2BP-PBI’, ‘24BP-301’ and ‘26BPRStarlet’) C. annuum accessions were used for enzyme activities analysis by inoculating an active P. capsici isolate on susceptible ‘Bell Pepper-301 ′ under “accession no. MH924840 ”, provided from Plant Protection Research Department, Agricultural and Natural Resource Research and Education Center, Isfahan, AREEO, Iran (Bagheri et al., 2020).
description: Published as part of Mohammadbagheri, Leila, Nasr-Esfahani, Mehdi, Abdossi, Vahid & Naderi, Davood, 2021, Genetic diversity and biochemical analysis of Capsicum annuum (Bell pepper) in response to root and basal rot disease, Phytophthora capsici, pp. 1-10 in Phytochemistry (112884) (112884) 190 on page 7, DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2021.112884, http://zenodo.org/record/8257941
Driven Spin Systems as Quantum Thermodynamic Machines: Fundamental Limits
Creators: name: Henrich, M. J.
name: Michel, M.
name: Mahler, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that coupled two level systems like qubits studied in quantum information can be used as a thermodynamic machine. At least three qubits or spins are necessary and arranged in a chain. The system is interfaced between two split baths and the working spin in the middle is externally driven. The machine performs Carnot-type cycles and is able to work as heat pump or engine depending on the temperature difference of the baths $ΔT$ and the energy differences in the spin system $ΔE$. It can be shown that the efficiency is a function of $ΔT$ and $ΔE$.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E
Technical: A Methodical Approach for PCB PDN Decoupling Minimizing Overdesign with Genetic Algorithm Optimization
Creators: F. de Paulis
Y. Ding
M. Cocchini
C. Hwang
S. Connor
M. Doyle
S. Scearce
W.D. Becker
A. Ruchli
J. Drewniak
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2022

EMC + SIPI 2022
title: The Visual Music Imaginary of 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein: Exploring Philosophical Concepts through Digital Rhetoric
Creators: name: Meza, Nohelia
name: di Rosario , Giovanna
Publisher: name: Electronic Book Review
Year: 2021

description: 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein (To be Played with the Left Hand) (2008) by Canadian artist David Clark is a web-based Flash creation that explores the life and works of Austrian-born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. In this paper, we show how rhetoric and digital technologies join to visually express philosophical concepts. The idea of “visual music” has been previously addressed in various fine arts such as literature, film, painting, sculpture, and music itself. We argue that in electronic literature it is possible to explore this concept by means of what we propose to call “gestural melodic manipulation”, which is the interplay of semiotic units (e.g. videos, sounds, images, linguistic texts) that the reader can add to the narrative by means of interaction and manipulation. In Clark’s e-lit work, “visual music” triggers the literary characteristics of the text by exposing different discourses and diverse thematic through intertextual and intermedial practices.
Instantons and Donaldson-Thomas Invariants
Creators: name: Cirafici, Michele
name: Sinkovics, Annamaria
name: Szabo, Richard J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We review some recent progress in understanding the relation between a six dimensional topological Yang-Mills theory and the enumerative geometry of Calabi-Yau threefolds. The gauge theory localizes on generalized instanton solutions and is conjecturally equivalent to Donaldson-Thomas theory. We evaluate the partition function of the U(N) theory in its Coulomb branch on flat space by employing equivariant localization techniques on its noncommutative deformation. Geometrically this corresponds to a higher dimensional generalization of the ADHM formalism. This formalism can be extended to a generic toric Calabi-Yau.
description: 7 pages, To appear in the proceedings of the RTN workshop "ForcesUniverse", Valencia, October 1-5 2007
Isotope effect in quasi-two-dimensional metal-organic antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Goddard, P. A.
name: Singleton, J.
name: Maitland, C.
name: Blundell, S. J.
name: Lancaster, T.
name: Baker, P. J.
name: McDonald, R. D.
name: Cox, S.
name: Sengupta, P.
name: Manson, J. L.
name: Funk, K. A.
name: Schlueter, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although the isotope effect in superconducting materials is well-documented, changes in the magnetic properties of antiferromagnets due to isotopic substitution are seldom discussed and remain poorly understood. This is perhaps surprising given the possible link between the quasi-two-dimensional (Q2D) antiferromagnetic and superconducting phases of the layered cuprates. Here we report the experimental observation of shifts in the Néel temperature and critical magnetic fields ($ΔT_{\rm N}/T_{\rm N}\approx 4%$; $ΔB_{\rm c}/B_{\rm c}\approx 4%$) in a Q2D organic molecular antiferromagnets on substitution of hydrogen for deuterium. These compounds are characterized by strong hydrogen bonds through which the dominant superexchange is mediated. We evaluate how the in-plane and inter-plane exchange energies evolve as the hydrogens on different ligands are substituted, and suggest a possible mechanism for this effect in terms of the relative exchange efficiency of hydrogen and deuterium bonds.
Asterostegus Mortensen 1933
Creators: name: Okanishi, Masanori
name: Fujita, Toshihiko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Ophiuroidea
Euryalida
Euryalidae
Asterostegus

description: Genus Asterostegus Mortensen, 1933
Asterostegus Mortensen, 1933a: 4, 40; 1933b: 297.
Asterostegus – Fell 1960: 10. — McKnight 2003: 385-386.
Type species: Asterostegus tuberculatus Mortensen, 1933, by monotypy.
Diagnosis
Arms simple, not branching. Tubercles present on radial shields and aboral arms. Oral interradial plates present on distal side of adoral shields. Teeth triangular. Oral papillae domed, granule-shaped, present laterally on the jaws. Tentacle pores with two (rarely three) arm spines from fourth arm segment. Oral side of vertebrae with an oral bridge. Lamina of distal arm spines smooth.
Remarks
Based on this study, Asterostegus is currently composed of three species, A. sabineae sp. nov., A. maini McKnight, 2003 and A. tuberculatus Mortensen, 1933. A tabular key to the species of Asterostegus is provided (Table 1).
Species of this genus are distributed in the Indian Ocean, off Madagascar (Mortensen 1933b) and in the Western Pacific, south-east of New Caledonia (McKnight 2003), at a depth of 382-500 m (Fig. 1).
description: Published as part of Okanishi, Masanori & Fujita, Toshihiko, 2014, A taxonomic review of the genus Asterostegus (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), with the description of a new species, pp. 1-18 in European Journal of Taxonomy 76 (76) on pages 3-4, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.76, http://zenodo.org/record/3835020
Deterministic Factors of Stock Networks based on Cross-correlation in Financial Market
Creators: name: Eom, Cheoljun
name: Oh, Gabjin
name: Kim, Seunghwan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stock market has been known to form homogeneous stock groups with a higher correlation among different stocks according to common economic factors that influence individual stocks. We investigate the role of common economic factors in the market in the formation of stock networks, using the arbitrage pricing model reflecting essential properties of common economic factors. We find that the degree of consistency between real and model stock networks increases as additional common economic factors are incorporated into our model. Furthermore, we find that individual stocks with a large number of links to other stocks in a network are more highly correlated with common economic factors than those with a small number of links. This suggests that common economic factors in the stock market can be understood in terms of deterministic factors.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Probing non-unitary neutrino mixing via long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments based at J-PARC
Creators: name: Soumya, C
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper investigates the capability of long-baseline experiments, which are making use of neutrinos that are coming from Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), in establishing the unitarity of active-neutrino mixing by ruling out the non-unitary mixing scheme as a function of true values of CP-violating phase $δ_{\mathrm{CP}}$. It is found that T2HK can establish unitarity of active neutrino mixing at above 2$σ$ C.L. irrespective of neutrino mass hierarchy and true value of $δ_{CP}$, if non-unitary (NU) parameter $α_{21}$ is of the order of $10^{-2}$. Further, this paper is also discuss the bound on NU parameter in 21 sector and sensitivity limit of these experiments in determining NU parameter. It is found that the bounds on $\left(α_{21}/2\right)$ are 0.028, 0.0026, 0.005 at 2$σ$ C.L. respectively for T2K, T2HK, and T2HKK. Moreover, it is also found that the sensitivity limit of T2HK on NU parameter is far better than that of both T2HKK and T2K.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures
title: “A Snap of the Universe”: Digital Storytelling, as in Conversation with Caitlin Fisher
Creators: name: Fan, Lai-Tze
name: Fisher, Caitlin
Publisher: name: Electronic Book Review
Year: 2021

description: In this conversation with ebr Editor Lai-Tze Fan, internationally acclaimed artist Caitlin Fisher talks through her origins, inspirations, and processes with a clear message: things can always be unlocked with more than one key and stories can always be told with more than one method. Fan asks Fisher about the 20th anniversary of These Waves of Girls at the end of Flash, the archival impulse of her stories from doll collections to hand-held museums, and the importance of creating tiny stories out of high technologies and giant institutional labs. Of the many lives Fisher has already lived and of her works to come, this conversation gives only a glimpse—a snap of the universe.
Retrodictive Curriculum Reform, or, Imagination is Silly; It Makes You Go ’Round Willy Nilly'
Creators: name: Appelbaum, Peter
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2010

description: Imagine we all wake up tomorrow and education is very different from what it is today. In fact, what is happening in and out of schools is pretty much what we would hope for, for our own children and the children of others. Many of us who once found the purpose of our professional life as critics of common practices, cajolers of innovation, advocates of “best practices,” “critical pedagogies,” “accountability,” “border pedagogies,” “equity,” “excellence,” “social justice,” “exceeding standards,” and so on, now find our work welcomed and embraced as facilitating and supporting a highly valued and respected amalgam of social institutions.
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 6 No 2 (2010)
Informal employment in transition countries: empirical evidence and research challenges
Creators: name: Lehmann, Hartmut
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2014
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its incidence and to a lesser degree its determinants depend on the definition used. We then discuss studies that attempt to test for labor market segmentation in transition economies along the formal-informal divide. The presented results are inconclusive and we come to the conclusion that more work needs to be done before we can make definitive statements about whether labor markets are integrated or segmented in transition economies. Last but not least we introduce a new research area that links risk preferences and selection into labor market states. We show that if individuals have a choice, relatively risk loving workers have an increased likelihood to choose informal employment and self-employment.
Exotic Ground State Phases of $S=1/2$ Heisenberg $Δ$-Chain with Ferromagnetic Main Chain
Creators: name: Hida, Kazuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ground state phase diagram of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg frustrated $Δ$-chain with a ferromagnetic main chain is investigated. In addition to the ferromagnetic phase, various nonmagnetic ground states are found. If the ferromagnetic coupling between apical spins and the main chain is strong, this model is approximated by a spin-1 bilinear-biquadratic chain and the spin quadrupolar phase with spin-2 gapless excitation is realized in addition to the Haldane and ferromagnetic phases. In the regime where the coupling between the apical spins and the main chain is weak, the numerical results which suggest the possibility of a series of phase transitions among different nonmagnetic phases are obtained. Physical pictures of these phases are discussed based on the numerical results.
description: 7 pages, 13 figures; Errata reported in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 79 (2010) 028001 (DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.79.028001) corrected.
title: In Conversation with Bertrand Gervais at the Heart of the Digital World
Creators: name: Gervais, Bertrand
name: Spinosa, Dani
Publisher: name: Electronic Book Review
Year: 2021

description: Dani Spinosa asks Bertrand Gervais about the place of digital literatures across Francophone and Anglophone Canada, the issue of genre and labelling in the field, and his work with NT2. Gervais here foregrounds the ground-breaking contributions of Québécois writers, artists, and scholars that are foundational to Canadian digital humanities and media studies across the country, and speaks to how important it is that digital publishing prioritize accessibility and evolution.
The role of catabolin in experimental osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Sabiston, C. Paul
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The pathogenesis of osteoarthritis (OA) is complex, but likely involves destruction of articular cartilage by endogenous enzymes (Dingle 1979). Factors controlling this are not well understood. Cetabolin, a 21,000 molecular weight peptide structurally end functionally related to interleukin-1, stimulates living but not killed chondrocytes in vitro to degrade their matrix (Fell and Jubb 1977, Saklatvala et al. 1983), suggesting it is not itself a degradative enzyme but functions as a control factor. The work in this thesis investigated the possible role of cetabolin in the pethogenesis of OA by measuring catabolin production by cultures of synovium excised from the canine anterior cruciate ligament transection model of OA. Normal cenine synovium in culture was shown to produce a factor which can stimulate the release of glycoseminoglycens from living cenine articular cartilage in culture. The total emount of cetebolin produced by cultures of synovium from experimentally induced OA synovium is statistically significantly greater (p<0.05) than that produced by normal synovium. When calculated per gram of synovium, there was no statistically significant difference. This suggests that a possible role for cetebolin in the pathogenesis of OA might be related to the degree of synovial hypertrophy.
A Search for the Near-Infrared Counterpart to GCRT J1745-3009
Creators: name: Kaplan, D. L.
name: Hyman, S. D.
name: Roy, S.
name: Bandyopadhyay, R. M.
name: Chakrabarty, D.
name: Kassim, N. E.
name: Lazio, T. J. W.
name: Ray, P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an optical/near-infrared search for a counterpart to the perplexing radio transient GCRT J1745-3009, a source located ~1 degree from the Galactic Center. Motivated by some similarities to radio bursts from nearby ultracool dwarfs, and by a distance upper limit of 70 pc for the emission to not violate the 1e12 K brightness temperature limit for incoherent radiation, we searched for a nearby star at the position of GCRT J1745-3009. We found only a single marginal candidate, limiting the presence of any late-type star to >1 kpc (spectral types earlier than M9), >200 pc (spectral types L and T0-T4), and >100 pc (spectral types T4-T7), thus severely restricting the possible local counterparts to GCRT J1745-3009. We also exclude any white dwarf within 1 kpc or a supergiant star out to the distance of the Galactic Center as possible counterparts. This implies that GCRT J1745-3009 likely requires a coherent emission process, although whether or not it reflects a new class of sources is unclear.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
A Synoptic View of Curriculum Studies in South Africa
Creators: name: Kumar, Ashwani
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2010

description: This paper intends to provide a synoptic view of curriculum studies in South Africa as portrayed in William F. Pinar’s Curriculum Studies in South Africa: Intellectual Histories, Present Circumstances (2010). Reading the intellectual histories and analyses of present circumstances, as discussed by the South African curriculum theorists in aforementioned volume, I felt related having coming of age India, having studied and taught in Indian educational institutions. Both South Africa and India were British colonies, faced severe social, political and economic discriminations, and have been going through similar educational reforms. For example, postapartheid curriculum reforms in South Africa (epitomized by Curriculum 2005) and paradigm shift in Indian curriculum (due to National Curriculum Framework 2005) under the leadership of Professor Krishna Kumar, show their deep faith in constructivism, faith that has drawn strong criticism. The primary criticism is the uncritical import of constructivist educational philosophy from western world in the face of particular sociological, historical, economic, and political contexts, among them poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition, underdeveloped school infrastructure, and poorly trained teachers, which are likely to prove constructivist principles of learning antithetical in both nations. The analysis of the current policies makes one realize that the political decolonization has not brought with it psychological decolonization in both the nations. Even worse is the invasion of neo-liberal and neo-colonial policies of the West that wants to reduce education to the level of a commodity instead of a rich experience that can help the present and future generations to transform the deeply discriminated social landscape.

I have divided my paper in three major parts: historical legacies, contemporary circumstances, and future orientations. The first part traces and analyses the colonial roots of the contemporary field; the second part discusses the post-apartheid nature of the field dominated by the progressivism-constructivism-outcome-based education nexus; and the final part deals with future directions for the field as suggested by the South African curriculum theorists.
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 6 No 2 (2010)
AAACS Presidential Address
Creators: name: Slattery, Patrick
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2011

description: A Process Philosophy Analysis of the Intersection of Economic Policy, School Reform, and Cultural Commons: Implications for Curriculum Studies and AAACS
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 7 No 1 (2011)
‘Sorry everything’s in bags’: The accountability of selling bread at a market during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Weatherall, Ann
name: Tennent, Emma
name: Grattan, F
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Societies are undergoing enormous upheavals in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. High levels of psychological distress are widespread, yet little is known about the exact impacts at the micro-level of everyday life. The present study examines the ordinary activity of buying bread to understand changes occurring early in the crisis. A dataset of over 50 social interactions at a community market stall were video-recorded, transcribed and examined in detail using multi-modal conversation analysis. With COVID-19 came an orientation to a heightened risk of disease transmission when selling food. The bread was placed in bags, a difference which was justified as a preventative measure and morally normalised by invoking a common-sense prohibition of touching produce. Having the bread out of immediate sight was a practical challenge that occasioned the expansion of turns and sequences to look for and/or confirm what was for sale, highlighting a normative organisation between seeing and buying. The analysis shows how a preventative measure related to the pandemic was adjusted to interactionally. More broadly, this research reveals the small changes to daily life that likely contribute to the overall negative impacts on health and well-being that have been reported.
Fusion cross section of the superheavy $Z$ = 120 nuclei within the relativistic mean-field formalism
Creators: name: Rana, Shilpa
name: Kumar, Raj
name: Bhuyan, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Present theoretical investigations aim to explore the fusion characteristics of various isotopes of Z=120 within the relativistic mean-field (RMF) formalism. We predict the most suitable projectile-target combination for the synthesis of element Z=120. The microscopic nucleon-nucleon R3Y interaction and the RMF density distributions for targets and projectiles are used to calculate the nuclear interaction potential using the double folding approach. 17 different projectile-target combinations that allow a high $N$/$Z$ ratio are considered in the present analysis to calculate the capture and/or fusion cross-section of various isotopes of Z=120 within the $\ell-$summed Wong formula. Further, the equivalent surface diffusion parameter is estimated to correlate the surface properties interacting nuclei with the fusion cross-section. The four Ti-based reactions with the heaviest available target $^{x}$Cf, namely, $^{46}$Ti+$^{248}$Cf, $^{46}$Ti+$^{249}$Cf, $^{50}$Ti+$^{249}$Cf, and $^{50}$Ti+$^{252}$Cf, and also $^{54}$Cr+$^{250}$Cm are found to have the most suitable target-projectile combinations for the synthesis of various isotopes Z=120. We also notice that $^{48}$Ca beams merely provide the required number of protons to synthesize the element with Z=120. We established a correlation among the surface properties of interacting nuclei with the fusion characteristics in terms of the equivalent surface diffusion parameter.
The New Conservative Coalition and Education: A Pragmatic Analysis of Gabbard's Knowledge and Power
Creators: name: Goodman, Jesse
name: Garcia, Antonio
name: Quigley, Cassie
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2011

description: For most of the last thirty years, the United States government and culture has been under the ideological influence of what we call, for the purpose of this analysis, the New Conservative Coalition (NCC). As we’ve discussed elsewhere (Goodman, 2006), this coalition has been made up of many citizens who identify with one or more various groups or classes (e.g., business leaders, the technical intelligentsia, intellectuals at various conservative think tanks, fundamentalist Christians, and up until recently many among the working class - particularly in the South). These classes have been attracted to ideas emerging from what the authors in David Gabbard’s book call “neo-liberalism” and/or “neo-conservativism.” In light of the repudiation of this coalition in the 2008 U.S. national election, some might argue that Gabbard’s latest edition of Knowledge and power in the global economy: The effects of school reform in a neoliberal/neoconservative age (K&P) is out of date. We would disagree and encourage our colleagues to read this expanded edition of the original 2000 publication, especially in light of the 2010 election results.
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 7 No 1 (2011)
The sensitivity of coded mask telescopes
Creators: name: Skinner, Gerald K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simple formulae are often used to estimate the sensitivity of coded mask X-ray or gamma-ray telescopes, but these are strictly only applicable if a number of basic assumptions are met. Complications arise, for example, if a grid structure is used to support the mask elements, if the detector spatial resolution is not good enough to completely resolve all the detail in the shadow of the mask or if any of a number of other simplifying conditions are not fulfilled. We derive more general expressions for the Poisson-noise-limited sensitivity of astronomical telescopes using the coded mask technique, noting explicitly in what circumstances they are applicable. The emphasis is on using nomenclature and techniques that result in simple and revealing results. Where no convenient expression is available a procedure is given which allows the calculation of the sensitivity. We consider certain aspects of the optimization of the design of a coded mask telescope and show that when the detector spatial resolution and the mask to detector separation are fixed, the best source location accuracy is obtained when the mask elements are equal in size to the detector pixels.
description: To be published in "Applied Optics"
The isomorphism conjecture in L-theory: graphs of groups
Creators: name: Roushon, S. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 19G24, 19J25 (Primary), 55N91 (Secondary)

description: We study the Fibered Isomorphism Conjecture of Farrell and Jones in L-theory for groups acting on trees. In several cases we prove the conjecture. This includes wreath products of abelian groups and free metabelian groups. We also deduce the conjecture in pseudoisotopy theory for these groups. Finally in B of Theorem 1.1 we prove the L-theory version of [[7], Theorem 1.2].
description: 20 pages. AMSLATEX file, updated and revised incorporating referee's suggestions and simplified notations
Reconceptualizing High School: Curriculum, Film, and Narrative Assemblies
Creators: name: Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas
name: Sheridan, Kathryn Robayo
name: Noble, Steve
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2011

description: During the late 1960s, a group of American curricularists and documentary filmmakers, notably Dwayne Huebner and Frederick Wiseman, worked to provoke the educational and political issues of their time. In turn, these public intellectuals sought to disrupt, among other things, the institutional borders and everyday realities of racialized segregation, infringements against individual rights, economic exploitation and gendered inequities within the institutions of schooling. The educational questions these filmmakers and curriculum theorists posed more than four decades ago continue to speak to things that matter. Many of these curricularists, like Maxine Greene, Michael Apple, Dwayne Huebner, and William F. Pinar to name a few provoked us to question why some administrators, teachers and students (including the authors of this writing) remain couched in our own indifference and accede ourselves to the political, silent extensions of bureaucratic and technocratic discursive arms.

Are younger generations of politicians, curriculum scholars, principals, teachers and students taking account of our mediated consumption of things that matter? Are we questioning the underpinning causes and multiple literacies of our current environmental crisis, the ongoing racialized, homophobic, physical, psychical, misogynistic, exploitative and epistemic violence taking place inside and outside schools? Or, are we repeating the political and curricular bandwagon songs of the past? Are Iraq and Afghanistan, once again, yet another symbolic curricular recapitulation of Vietnam? Are schools designed to lead, inform and provoke society? Or, are schools merely created to reflect contemporary society’s beliefs, obsessions, preoccupations and frailties? Further, does curriculum mirror school’s focus or does curriculum work in opposition to what schools set out to achieve? In response to such pro/vocations we attempt to bridge a complicated conversation between two historical texts hoping, in turn, to relocate and re-enter the present temporal borders of our current lives beyond…. superficial curricular sighs.
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 7 No 1 (2011)
Neural networks with transient state dynamics
Creators: name: Gros, Claudius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We investigate dynamical systems characterized by a time series of distinct semi-stable activity patterns, as they are observed in cortical neural activity patterns. We propose and discuss a general mechanism allowing for an adiabatic continuation between attractor networks and a specific adjoined transient-state network, which is strictly dissipative. Dynamical systems with transient states retain functionality when their working point is autoregulated; avoiding prolonged periods of stasis or drifting into a regime of rapid fluctuations. We show, within a continuous-time neural network model, that a single local updating rule for online learning allows simultaneously (i) for information storage via unsupervised Hebbian-type learning, (ii) for adaptive regulation of the working point and (iii) for the suppression of runaway synaptic growth. Simulation results are presented; the spontaneous breaking of time-reversal symmetry and link symmetry are discussed.
Autobiography, ‘Nation-ness,’ and the ‘Global Now’: Mapping the Commons of the post-9/11 American National Psyche (A Curriculum Inquiry Project)
Creators: name: Nicholson-Goodman, JoVictoria
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2011

description: The call to address curriculum in terms of the ‘local to global/global to local’ cultural and environmental commons—“those material and cultural spaces that belong to everyone” (AAACS CFP, 2009)—requires some conceptual finesse. This is due in part to the presumption inherent in this call that there are yet, in reality, ‘material and cultural spaces’ at the intersection of the global and the local that ‘belong to everyone’ in an age in which the ownership society has been taken to global scale, the bases for preserving cultural autonomy are increasingly made elusive by ‘neocapitalism’ (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987, p. 20), and the captains of commerce and industry are plundering the cultural and natural resources of the entire planet.

However, the need for conceptual finesse is also due to the fuzziness of the idea that cultural and environmental spaces ‘belong to everyone’ in a de facto sense: that is, in relation to an established foundation of use and/or participation rights supported by genuine and actionable public consensus. Such rights, as we know, have been the focus of struggles for access by people(s) everywhere, and belonging has become a major diacritic of our times. These issues form the core of concerns in this paper, since the focal point here is how the commons of nation-ness has come to be disputed in the ‘global now’ (Appadurai, 1996, p. 2) and how autobiography (Pinar, 2000/1975, 2004, 2006) may assist in understanding the fray—in this case, the fray of post-9/11 American being, becoming, and belonging. To elaborate how such a study may serve as a curriculum inquiry project requires a few words about focus and method.
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 7 No 1 (2011)
As Quiet as it's Kept: The Life of Theory within the Life of A Teacher
Creators: name: Whitaker, Wesley
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2011

description: A girl melodically whines in the background. “Stop,” Frank says. An acoustic guitar softly strums a collection of power chords that quickly build into sharp piercing percussion. An electric guitar joins, the whining continues – louder and somehow more purposeful – yet this time she is allowed to continue. Ten seconds pass while the melody increases until Frank again speaks: “With your feet in the air and your head on the ground/ Try this trick and spin it, yeah/Your head will collapse, but there's nothing in it, and you'll ask yourself/ Where is my mind?” (Francis, 1988, no.7). I sit here for a moment in wonderment about this question that has teasingly tagged along hidden just behind me for as long as I can remember. In song, The Pixies answer the question metaphorically: “Way out on the water, see it swimming.” “How perfect,” I thought sarcastically. A question that once playfully flirted in my thoughts thus suddenly gave me a concussion.

Music, to me, has always been inspiration for thought: A way for me to relate to others far away in time and space. Today, as I stand again beside my truck staring at both the Atlantic Ocean and another day spent watching two yellow lines zip along an empty stretch of coastal highway, that song is all I can think about. I suddenly understand that if I can answer its question that was first asked of a child nearly twenty years ago, I will finally be able to rest as an adult. My mind, as Descartes put it, is certainly housed within my body “more intimately than a pilot in a ship” (in Raymond, 1991, p. 369) and it falls clumsily, ceaselessly, to the extent that I can’t always control, or define who I am. This struggle, this grappling that is between my individual, sometimes clear, peaceful, subjective being and all that is within materialistic intersubjectivity, has been killing me slowly. I have realized, as did Stevenson’s main character, that “I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two” (1904, p. 383). I am one person, yet inherently I know two intimately who are engaged in an abusive struggle for control of this being.
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 7 No 1 (2011)
Phase reciprocity of spin-wave excitation by a microstrip antenna
Creators: name: Schneider, T.
name: Serga, A. A.
name: Neumann, T.
name: Hillebrands, B.
name: Kostylev, M. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using space-, time- and phase-resolved Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy we investigate the difference in phase of the two counterpropagating spin waves excited by the same microwave microstrip transducer. These studies are performed both for backward volume magnetostatic waves and magnetostatic surface waves in an in-plane magnetized yttrium iron garnet film. The experiments show that for the backward volume magnetostatic spin waves (which are reciprocal and excited symmetrically in amplitude) there is a phase difference of $π$ associated with the excitation process and thus the phase symmetry is distorted. On the contrary, for the magnetostatic surface spin waves (which are non-reciprocal and unsymmetrical in amplitude) the phase symmetry is preserved (there is no phase difference between the two waves associated with the excitation). Theoretical analysis confirms this effect.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Formation and decay of hadronic resonances in the QGP
Creators: name: Markert, C.
name: Bellwied, R.
name: Vitev, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hadronic resonances can play a pivotal role in providing experimental evidence for partial chiral symmetry restoration in the deconfined quark-gluon phase produced at RHIC. Their lifetimes, which are comparable to the lifetime of the partonic plasma phase, make them an invaluable tool to study medium modifications to the resonant state due to the chiral transition. In this paper we show that the heavier, but still abundant, light and strange quark resonances K*, phi, Delta and Lambda* have large probability to be produced well within the plasma phase due to their short formation times. We demonstrate that, under particular kinematic conditions, these resonances can be formed and will decay inside the partonic state, but still carry sufficient momentum to not interact strongly with the hadronic medium after the QCD phase transition. Thus, K*, phi, Delta and Lambda* should exhibit the characteristic property modifications which can be attributed to chiral symmetry restoration, such as mass shifts, width broadening or branching ratio modifications.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Baryon Asymmetry in a Heavy Moduli Scenario
Creators: name: Kawasaki, Masahiro
name: Nakayama, Kazunori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In some models of supersymmetry breaking, modulus fields are heavy enough to decay before BBN. But the large entropy produced via moduli decay significantly dilutes the preexisting baryon asymmetry of the universe. We study whether Affleck-Dine mechanism can provide enough baryon asymmetry which survives the dilution, and find several situations in which desirable amount of baryon number remains after the dilution. The possibility of non-thermal dark matter is also discussed. This provides the realistic cosmological scenario with heavy moduli.
description: 36 pages, 5 figures; added a reference; v3: minor corrections
D6.1 Project Dissemination Report v1
Creators: name: Pia di Buono, Maria
name: Cimiano, Philipp
name: Cooney, Katharine
name: Hartung, Matthias
name: Orlkowski, Matthias
name: Theodoridou, Eva
name: Verissimo, Susana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This document represents the first report on dissemination activities carried out during the first year of the Prêt-à-LLOD project.
 The primary goal of dissemination is twofold: promoting the project’s pilots and services, and identifying actions to promote their further exploitation. The second goal is to disseminate the work done by the scientific partners in the corresponding relevant scientific communities.
 Overall, dissemination of the project aims at ensuring an efficient and effective set of activities to maximise impact and awareness of the project among the research community, standardisation bodies, industrial key stakeholders, Public Authorities, policy-makers,
 entrepreneurial and investors ecosystem, and also a close collaboration with the European Language Grid, in addition to cooperation mechanisms with the other actions and other
 relevant LT projects, initiatives and networks.

 In this document, we detail the industrial and scientific dissemination activities of Prêt-à-LLOD - both those already conducted and those planned for the future
MicroRNA Expression and Muscle Wasting in Chronic Kidney Disease
Creators: name: Robinson, Katherine A.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Skeletal muscle wasting is a common complication of chronic kidney disease (CKD), resulting in a loss of muscle mass, strength and function, reduced quality of life, and increased morbidity and mortality. Research has identified aberrant microRNA (miRNA) expression and regulation in the development of muscle atrophy in both primary and secondary muscle wasting conditions. Data from a limited number of studies that specifically investigate the role of miRNAs in animal models of CKD muscle wasting suggest that miRNAs are pivotal to the dysregulated protein metabolism seen in this population. In addition, there is also emerging evidence for the involvement of miRNAs in a beneficial crosstalk system between skeletal muscle and other organs that may potentially limit CKD progression. However, current knowledge about the role of miRNAs in both muscle wasting and crosstalk is restricted to animal models of CKD, demonstrating a clear need to identify miRNAs central to these processes in human CKD.Next Generation Sequencing identified differential expression of 16 miRNAs in skeletal muscle of CKD patients versus controls. Validation confirmed miRNA-148a-3p expression was significantly decreased in CKD patients, and the role of miRNA-148a-3p was subsequently explored in a novel human primary cell model of CKD skeletal muscle. This model retained the CKD phenotype in vitro and displayed reduced miRNA-148a-3p expression, though, miRNA-148a-3p overexpression did not significantly decrease protein degradation rates or E3 ubiquitin ligase expression. However, target analysis identified several miRNA-148a-3p targets, indicating a role for miRNA-148a-3p in the regulation of apoptosis and autophagy in skeletal muscle. Furthermore, plasma exosome miRNA expression was assessed in CKD patients versus controls and identified increased miRNA-21-5p, miRNA-22-3p, miRNA-191-5p, miRNA-29c-3p, miRNA-126-3p, 148a-3p and miRNA-26a-5p in CKD patients. These miRNAs positively associated with adverse cardiovascular phenotypes in haemodialysis patients, highlighting the potential role of miRNAs in the development and progression of uraemic cardiomyopathy.