cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reviewer_2_v.1 – Supplemental material for Relieving exertional dyspnea during the 3-min constant speed shuttle test in patients with COPD with indacaterol/glycopyrronium versus tiotropium: the RED trial
Creators: name: Beaulieu, Jessie
name: Jensen, Dennis
name: O’Donnell, Denis E.
name: Brouillard, Cynthia
name: Tracey, Lauren
name: Vincent, Sandra
name: Éric Nadreau
name: Bernard, Emmanuelle
name: Bernard, Sarah
name: Maltais, François
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Reviewer_2_v.1 for Relieving exertional dyspnea during the 3-min constant speed shuttle test in patients with COPD with indacaterol/glycopyrronium versus tiotropium: the RED trial by Jessie Beaulieu, Dennis Jensen, Denis E. O’Donnell, Cynthia Brouillard, Lauren Tracey, Sandra Vincent, Éric Nadreau, Emmanuelle Bernard, Sarah Bernard and François Maltais in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
title: Institution Building, Organisational Restructuring and Everyday Negotiations in Uganda's Roads Sector
Creators: name: Zhou, Hang
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2024

description: This thesis aims to understand the process of building state institutions in Uganda’s roads sector. Through centering on Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA), its recent restructuring exercise as well as its historical predecessors in this sector, I seek to illuminate how they were built, restructured and deployed to carry out the core state agenda of road making throughout different periods from the colonial Protectorate and early postcolonial decades to, most importantly, the contemporary context that witnesses an increasingly polycentric development landscape epitomised by China’s ‘South-South’ interactions with Africa. It is based on a one-year ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda, mainly including participant observation in UNRA, and interviews with Chinese construction contractors, in addition to archival research on Public Works Department in the Uganda Protectorate. This study finds that, firstly, the colonial creation of Public Works Department and later the development interventions by traditional donors, particularly World Bank, in the early postcolonial decades have left sedimented institutional features for Uganda’s roads sector and enabled their long-lasting role in engineering institutional changes therein. The recent effort to transform UNRA – itself a sedimented institutional upshot of Western development interventions – into a pocket of effectiveness (PoE) continued to witness heavy imprints from traditional donors. Second, by seeing PoE as a process of always-in-the-making and being embedded within societal relations, my analysis highlights the actual tensions and contestations between the patrimonial and legalrational logics and practices within the restructuring of UNRA. The success of this restructuring was likely to hinge more on the precise combination of or the full reconciliation between these competing logics in lieu of an attempt to make UNRA imperviously waterproof from patrimonialism. Third and finally, contrary to popular portrayals of China dominating Africa or displacing Western influence in the continent, China’s growing engagement in Uganda’s roads did not yet translate into a noticeable influence on sectorial governance and institution building therein. The content, focus and ways of quotidian mise en oeuvre of Western development interventions remained starkly different from Chinese ones, ensuring its long-lasting influence on sectorial institution building. Chinese actors also did not have a privileged access to shape the restructuring of UNRA, but were learning to grapple with both the formality and informality ingrained in Uganda’s roads sector and scrambling around on the outside at times of institutional uncertainty in UNRA.
title: Terrorismiohust teavitamine: ohutasemete hoiatussüsteemid
Creators: name: Maasing, Helina
Publisher: name: Estonian Academy of Security Sciences
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/011fxed53
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: classificationCode: 5.6
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Terrorismi hoiatussüsteemid said populaarseks pärast 11. septembri 2001. aasta rünnakuid Ameerika Ühendriikide vastu (Heilbrun, Wolbransky, Shah, Kelly, 2010). Nende peamine eesmärk on avalikkuse teavitamine võimalikust ohust, sh inimeste ja asutuste ettevalmistamine võimalikuks ohuks ja selle tagajärgedeks. Terroriohu hoiatussüsteemid annavad üldistava indikatsioon terroriakti toimumise võimalikkuse kohta. Selles dokumendis on analüüsitud, mis on terrorismi ohutasemete süsteemi eesmärk ja võimalikud probleemkohad. Vaadeldud on 16 riigis kehtestatud süsteeme. Dokument on sisendiks edaspidiseks analüüsiks terrorismi hoiatussüsteemide loomisel Eestis. Seetõttu tõstatatakse kokkuvõttes küsimusi, mida võiks edasi analüüsida juhul, kui Eestis rakendatakse sarnaselt paljude teiste riikidega hoiatussüsteemi.

 Võtmesõnad/Keywords: siseturvalisus; terrorism; hoiatussüsteemid; internal security; warning systems
description: Sissejuhatus ; Terrorismiohu hoiatussüsteemide eesmärgid ja võimalikud ohud ; Terrorismiohu tasemete süsteemid eri riikides ; Kokkuvõte ja edaspidised uurimisküsimused
Respiratory–swallow coordination in Parkinson’s (Curtis et al., 2024)
Creators: name: Curtis, James A.
name: Borders, James C.
name: Kiefer, Brianna
name: Alcalay, Roy N.
name: Huber, Jessica E.
name: S. Troche, Michelle
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320103
subject: Respiratory diseases
classificationCode: 320217
subject: Otorhinolaryngology
classificationCode: 320905
subject: Neurology and neuromuscular diseases

description: Purpose: Respiratory–swallow coordination (RSC) frequently changes in people with Parkinson’s disease (PwPD). Little is known about how these changes relate to impairments in swallowing safety (penetration and aspiration) and efficiency (pharyngeal residue). Therefore, the aims of this study were to assess the relationships between RSC, pharyngeal residue, penetration, and aspiration in PwPD.Method: Twenty-four PwPD were recruited to undergo simultaneous assessment of RSC, swallowing safety, and swallowing efficiency. RSC was assessed using respiratory inductive plethysmography and nasal airflow and included measurements of respiratory pause duration, respiratory phase patterning, and lung volume during swallowing. Swallowing safety and efficiency were assessed using flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing, analyzed using the Visual Analysis of Swallowing Efficiency and Safety, and included measurements of pharyngeal residue, penetration, and aspiration. All data were blindly analyzed, with 20% of the data repeated for interrater reliability assessment. Multilevel statistical models were used to examine the relationships between RSC and swallowing.Results: A total of 812 swallows were analyzed from 24 participants. Only 33.4% of swallows exhibited the typical exhale–swallow–exhale pattern. Additionally, 95% of participants exhibited abnormal swallow function. More severe hypopharyngeal residue ratings were associated with inhaling before the swallow com-pared to exhaling before the swallow. Additionally, more severe events of pene-tration and aspiration were associated with (a) inhaling before the swallow com-pared to exhaling before the swallow, (b) inhaling after the swallow compared to exhaling after the swallow, and (c) longer swallow-related respiratory pause durations. Inhaling after the swallow exhibited the strongest relationship with impairments in swallowing safety when compared to all other RSC variables.Conclusions: RSC exhibited significant relationships with pharyngeal residue, penetration, and aspiration in these PwPD. Clinicians should attend to RSC when assessing swallowing in PwPD. Future research is needed to examine if training an exhale–swallow–exhale pattern can be used to improve disordered swallowing in PwPD.Curtis, J. A., Borders, J. C., Kiefer, B., Alcalay, R. N., Huber, J. E., & Troche, M. S. (2024). Respiratory–swallow coordination and its relationship with pharyngeal residue, penetration, and aspiration in people with Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(11), 4314–4338. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00056
A formalism for the ambiguities of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation
Creators: name: Kaimakkamis, Eftychios
name: Sil, Karunava
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study ambiguities in the precise formulation of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the wavefunction of the Universe that arise due to different operator orderings in the quantum Hamiltonian. We first examine the simpler case of the 1-dimensional minisuperspace model and derive the inner product measure that renders the Hamiltonian hermitian. Based on this, we establish that the Hilbert space inner products and quantum probabilities are universal, free of any ambiguities, at the semiclassical level. Recasting the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in a form invariant under field redefinitions of the minisuperspace variable, we show that all ambiguity functions are contained in a higher order scalar function, which can be used to define classes of models with universal predictions to all orders in $\hbar$. We then generalize to minisuperspace models of arbitrary dimension, upon the inclusion of an arbitrary number of scalar matter fields. We show that the hermiticity of the Hamiltonian in these cases provides a set of constraints, which can be used to cast the WDW equation in a covariant form and establish the universality of the inner products at the semiclassical level. In these cases as well, all ambiguity functions appear in a higher order scalar function of the minisuperspace manifold, which leads to distinct universality classes.
description: Based on presentation at Corfu Summer Institute 2023 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity"(CORFU2023), 10 pages+references
title: Drama and philosophy: a study of selected texts within the Ijaw oral tradition
Creators: name: Titus-Green, Atamunobarabinye Jonathan
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2019

description: This dissertation, titled, Drama and Philosophy: A Study of Selected Texts Within the Ijaw Oral Tradition, aims to examine certain attributes and attitudes about the Ijaw, particularly the founding principles and core values rooted in their identity, which enables them to not only function effectively as a group but also to create a self-sustaining platform for continuity over a long period of time; values which are visibly present in their philosophy and which binds them together and keeps them as a cohesive unit, temporarily or permanently. The Ijaw people of Nigeria upon whom this study is concentrated have a huge reservoir of cultural philosophy that is affirmed in their life-work and other modes of existence. The dissertation aims to explore the various philosophical underpinnings of the Ijaw people as communicated, preserved and portrayed through their various forms of artistic production. This involves differing forms of performing arts such as dance and folklore, which are embedded in the theatrical performances which take place among the various sub-groups within this culture. The performing arts of the Ijaw people though very much projected in different forms would benefit from a continuous re-appraisal and explication as intended in this thesis for the benefit of posterity. While the different types of philosophy that the Ijaw people embrace has brought and bound them together over the centuries, drama is the ultimate defining mode and vehicle through which these philosophies and thought systems are articulated and communicated. Although, it will be a futile task to attempt to compound everything about Ijaw culture into a single thesis, drawing on and evaluating the selected texts within the oral tradition enables us to come to terms with the Ijaw worldview in a sustained manner and gives us some interesting insights into their worldview, material and spiritual cosmogony.
A high-density eeg investigation into steady state binaural beat stimulation
Creators: name: Goodin, Peter
name: Ciorciari, Joseph
name: Baker, Kate
name: Carrey, Anne Marie
name: Harper, Michelle
name: Kaufman, Jordy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520201
subject: Behavioural genetics
classificationCode: 520202
subject: Behavioural neuroscience
classificationCode: 520203
subject: Cognitive neuroscience
classificationCode: 520205
subject: Psychopharmacology
classificationCode: 520206
subject: Psychophysiology
classificationCode: 520207
subject: Social and affective neuroscience
classificationCode: 520301
subject: Clinical neuropsychology
classificationCode: 520401
subject: Cognition
classificationCode: 520403
subject: Learning, motivation and emotion

description: Binaural beats are an auditory phenomenon that has been suggested to alter physiological and cognitive processes including vigilance and brainwave entrainment. Some personality traits measured by the NEO Five Factor Model have been found to alter entrainment using pulsing light stimuli, but as yet no studies have examined if this occurs using steady state presentation of binaural beats for a relatively short presentation of two minutes. This study aimed to examine if binaural beat stimulation altered vigilance or cortical frequencies and if personality traits were involved. Thirty-one participants were played binaural beat stimuli designed to elicit a response at either the Theta (7 Hz) or Beta (16 Hz) frequency bands while undertaking a zero-back vigilance task. EEG was recorded from a high-density electrode cap. No significant differences were found in vigilance or cortical frequency power during binaural beat stimulation compared to a white noise control period. Furthermore, no significant relationships were detected between the above and the Big Five personality traits. This suggests a short presentation of steady state binaural beats are not sufficient to alter vigilance or entrain cortical frequencies at the two bands examined and that certain personality traits were not more susceptible than others.
title: British Muslim Women Between Community, Country and God: A Case Study of Successful Identification
Creators: name: Burney, Saleema Farah
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2020

description: This thesis has developed out of a desire to document the voices of a sample of publicly active yet unheard British Muslim women. In the face of widespread negative narratives around Muslim women particularly, it communicates the concerns of ‘women who were not oppressed’ (van Es, 2017:5). In addition, it explores how these proactive and engaged women have built salient, hybrid identities. The methodological approach taken by this thesis has favoured issues pertaining to the individual rather than the institutional, and has explored ‘beneath the surface’ forces in a focus on ‘lived Islam’. In addition, in applying participatory feminist methods to research the lives of religious women, the thesis has instituted a novel approach to the study of Muslims. The arguments presented here found a theoretical home in the works of Saba Mahmood (2005), championing the alternative agency constructions of religious women, and Tariq Modood (2005, amongst others), in his scholarship around British Muslims (and other minorities) on the national scene. Furthermore, the frames of postcolonial scholar Homi Bhabha (2004) are employed to describe the hybridity of space and identities that respondents exhibited. This study reports the significance of religion in the lives of these women, and the particular finding of an observed trajectory in their lives, leading to a greater desire to mix with non- Muslims. With this unique combination of strong religious belief and spirited agency, these 5 women have been able to uphold core aspects of their identity in a secular society, while also successfully contributing to that very society. The social contributions, integration and interaction of these women can be seen as examples of engaged citizenship, showing possibilities for a pluralist, postsecular society in which minorities and their contributions are valued. In highlighting how these women disrupt stereotypes, this thesis makes a significant contribution to academic discourses seeking the accommodation of religious individuals in otherwise secular spaces.
Novel Pressure-Equilibrium and Kinetic-Energy Preserving fluxes for compressible flows based on the harmonic mean
Creators: name: De Michele, Carlo
name: Coppola, Gennaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Employing physically-consistent numerical methods is an important step towards attaining robust and accurate numerical simulations. When addressing compressible flows, in addition to preserving kinetic energy at a discrete level, as done in the incompressible case, additional properties are sought after, such as the ability to preserve the equilibrium of pressure that can be found at contact interfaces. This paper investigates the general conditions of the spatial numerical discretizations to achieve the pressure equilibrium preserving property (PEP). Schemes from the literature are analyzed in this respect, and procedures to impart the PEP property to existing discretizations are proposed. Additionally, new PEP numerical schemes are introduced through minor modifications of classical ones. Numerical tests confirmed the theory hereby presented and showed that the modifications, beyond the enforcement of the PEP property, have a generally positive impact on the performances of the original schemes.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
title: Contemporary land rush, and dynamics of agrarian change in Senegal (2006-2017)
Creators: name: Dieng, Rama Salla
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2019

description: This thesis critically examines the political economy of the post-2006 land rush in the regions of Saint-Louis and Louga, in the Delta and the Valley of River Senegal. Through a comparative case-study approach, and a feminist lens, it investigates the following questions: i) How and why did the land rush take place in Northern Senegal’s horticultural sector? ii) What are the roles of the different stakeholders at different levels? iii) What are the differentiated outcomes of interactions between “emerging” and “old” classes of capital and labour in this context? Drawing on my own original data – collected over 2 years through my multi-methodological approach including 7 months of immersive fieldwork in villages in Northern Senegal and visits to UK branches of the three selected companies - I investigate the global-local dynamics of agrarian change in northern Senegal. I do so with a longue durée approach to understand what yesteryear processes have sedimented to engender the contemporary land rush, and with what consequences. I argue that workers are not being exploited in a vacuum, and challenge constructions of a genderless, undifferentiated “local community” that falls prey to an “undifferentiated capital”. Rather, I unpack the multidimensional outcomes that have occurred in the decade following the land rush by focusing on social differentiation from below (workers or classes of labour), from above (classes of capital), and on the wider Anthropocene beyond markets. This leads me to conclude that the post-2006 land rush in the Senegalese agricultural sector has exacerbated the pre-existing dynamics of agrarian change. The main contribution of this thesis is that it is one of the first pieces of research to provide empirical evidence on what happens “beyond the hype” of land deals in Francophone West Africa with empirical evidence from private investors, political and traditional leaders, and different relevant social groups.
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-ptd-10.1177_0896860819895364 - International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis practice recommendations: Prescribing high-quality goal-directed peritoneal dialysis
Creators: name: Brown, Edwina
name: Brown, Edwina A
name: Blake, Peter G
name: Boudville, Neil
name: Davies, Simon
name: de Arteaga, Javier
name: Dong, Jie
name: Finkelstein, Fred
name: Foo, Marjorie
name: Hurst, Helen
name: Johnson, David W
name: Johnson, Mark
name: Liew, Adrian
name: Moraes, Thyago
name: Perl, Jeff
name: Shroff, Rukshana
name: Teitelbaum, Isaac
name: Wang, Angela Yee-Moon
name: Warady, Bradley
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-ptd-10.1177_0896860819895364 for International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis practice recommendations: Prescribing high-quality goal-directed peritoneal dialysis by Edwina A Brown, Peter G Blake, Neil Boudville, Simon Davies, Javier de Arteaga, Jie Dong, Fred Finkelstein, Marjorie Foo, Helen Hurst, David W Johnson, Mark Johnson, Adrian Liew, Thyago Moraes, Jeff Perl, Rukshana Shroff, Isaac Teitelbaum, Angela Yee-Moon Wang and Bradley Warady in Peritoneal Dialysis International
Phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo method for cavity-QED matter systems
Creators: name: Weber, Lukas
name: Cunha, Leonardo dos Anjos
name: Morales, Miguel A.
name: Rubio, Angel
name: Zhang, Shiwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a generalization of the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method to cavity quantum-electrodynamical (QED) matter systems. The method can be formulated in both the Coulomb and the dipole gauge. We verify its accuracy by benchmarking calculations on a set of small molecules against full configuration interaction and state-of-the-art QED coupled cluster (QED-CCSD) calculations. Our results show that (i) gauge invariance can be achieved within correlation-consistent Gaussian basis sets, (ii) the accuracy of QED-CCSD can be enhanced significantly by adding the standard perturbative triples correction without light-matter coupling, and (iii) there is a straightforward way to evaluate the differential expression for the photon occupation number that works in any gauge. The high accuracy and favorable computational scaling of our AFQMC approach will enable a broad range of applications. Besides polaritonic chemistry, the method opens a way to simulate extended QED matter systems.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, v2: published version
Appendix – Supplemental material for Headlines for summarizing news or attracting readers’ attention? Comparing news headlines in South Korean newspapers with the New York Times
Creators: name: Lee, Na Yeon
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Supplemental material, Appendix for Headlines for summarizing news or attracting readers’ attention? Comparing news headlines in South Korean newspapers with the New York Times by Na Yeon Lee in Journalism
Care_Differences_Paper_20190925_Supplemental_3_FINAL - Practice Leaders Report Targeting Several Types of Changes in Care Experienced by Patients During Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation
Creators: name: Quigley, Denise D
name: Qureshi, Nabeel
name: Al-Masarweh, Luma
name: Hays, Ron D
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Medicine

description: Care_Differences_Paper_20190925_Supplemental_3_FINAL for Practice Leaders Report Targeting Several Types of Changes in Care Experienced by Patients During Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation by Denise D Quigley, Nabeel Qureshi, Luma Al-Masarweh and Ron D Hays in Journal of Patient Experience
title: Al-Shaʿrānī’s Theological Defence of Ibn ʿArabī in Context
Creators: name: Cheifetz, Haruka
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2020

description: This research undertakes the investigation of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʿrānī’s (d. 973/ 1565) defence of Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ʿArabī’s (d. 638/ 1240) mysticism. It aims to clarify the theological project on which al-Shaʿrānī embarked in an attempt to promulgate Ibn ʿArabī’s thought to a wider audience. The thesis challenges the reductive view agreed upon in recent scholarship that al-Shaʿrānī was an uncritical apologist of Ibn ʿArabī and a mediocre thinker who was not interested in the latter’s mystical worldview. Contrary to the current reading of al-Shaʿrānī, the study argues how he systematically presents Ibn ʿArabī’s ontology of ‘the oneness of existence’ (waḥdat al-wujūd) as a perceptual and visionary experience. It is shown that this interpretive method emerged against a backdrop of polemics over Ibn ʿArabī. I will further demonstrate that, by situating Ibn ʿArabī’s doctrines in the context of theological issues, al-Shaʿrānī integrates them into his own worldview, thereby merging the mystical and theological disciplines. I will also discuss that al-Shaʿrānī was supportive of Ibn ʿArabī’s monistic teachings on condition that the audience are advanced enough to fully understand them. The thesis therefore provides an account of al-Shaʿrānī’s biography, intellectual milieu, and oeuvre (Chapter 1), investigates his interpretation of the oneness of existence as experiential oneness (Chapter 2), considers his support of the monistic worldview (the first part of Chapter 3), then studies his treatment of some of Ibn ʿArabī’s controversial doctrines, focusing in particular on al-Shaʿrānī’s approach to the anthropomorphic attributes of God (the second part of Chapter 3, and Chapters 4 and 5). It will become clear that al-Shaʿrānī’s theological project was formulated through innovative interpretive efforts and in the context of his own intellectual milieu. The research concludes that al-Shaʿrānī’s defence of Ibn ʿArabī’s thought ought to be received in a more positive manner.
title: Linguistic triage: Documentary linguistics and language revitalisation
Creators: name: Baldwin, Victoria
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2021

description: There has been considerable discussion of the question as to whether a linguist engaged in language documentation should also be involved in language maintenance and revitalisation projects. This begs the question of what qualifications are needed to meaningfully engage in revitalisation and maintenance, and whether a linguist should participate even if they lack them. The relationship of the linguist to the language community has altered significantly in recent years, and yet outdated perceptions of the linguist’s role persist. Simultaneously, a new paradigm has emerged wherein there is an expectation on field-working linguists to engage with and contribute to language communities in ways that some fear may interfere with the goal of rigorous linguistic scholarship. This paper will explore the changing expectations of linguistic fieldwork, who is really qualified for revitalisation and maintenance, and how the relationship and responsibilities of the linguist to the community in which they work may impact the way in which language documentation is carried out.
Differential Effects of Sequence-Local versus Nonlocal Charge Patterns on Phase Separation and Conformational Dimensions of Polyampholytes as Model Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Creators: name: Pal, Tanmoy
name: Wessén, Jonas
name: Das, Suman
name: Chan, Hue Sun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Conformational properties of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are governed by a sequence-ensemble relationship. To differentiate the impact of sequence-local versus sequence-nonlocal features of an IDP's charge pattern on its conformational dimensions and its phase-separation propensity, the charge "blockiness'' $κ$ and the nonlocality-weighted sequence charge decoration (SCD) parameters are compared for their correlations with isolated-chain radii of gyration ($R_{\rm g}$s) and upper critical solution temperatures (UCSTs) of polyampholytes modeled by random phase approximation, field-theoretic simulation, and coarse-grained molecular dynamics. SCD is superior to $κ$ in predicting $R_{\rm g}$ because SCD accounts for effects of contact order, i.e., nonlocality, on dimensions of isolated chains. In contrast, $κ$ and SCD are comparably good, though nonideal, predictors of UCST because frequencies of interchain contacts in the multiple-chain condensed phase are less sensitive to sequence positions than frequencies of intrachain contacts of an isolated chain, as reflected by $κ$ correlating better with condensed-phase interaction energy than SCD.
description: 56 pages, 4 main-text figures, Supporting Information (containing supporting text, 1 supporting table, and 9 supporting figures), Table-of-Contents graphics, and 94 references. Accepted for publication The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
title: Temporal information in sentence-final particles: Tse and keh in Modern Shanghai Wu
Creators: name: Jiang, Yan
name: Wang, Wen
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2021

description: This paper scrutinizes the claim that modern Shanghainese has sentence-final particles tse and keh that have tense-marking functions. We review works by Qian (2006; 2009), Chao (1926) and Li, Thompson & Thompson (1982) and analyse Shanghainese missionary texts on the use of these SFPs. Through a functional-discoursal investigation, we identify the IN-cluster use and the END-cluster use of tse. We take the temporal marking function of tse as a consequence of its discourse function, which introduces a current reference time in the discourse. On the other hand, we take keh as an assertion particle, whose occasional sense of recent past comes from its confirmation of a completed event.
Supplemental_File-_Interview_Instrument - Tempering Expectations: A Qualitative Study of Prosecutorial Reform
Creators: name: Richardson, Rebecca
name: Besiki Luka Kutateladze
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental_File-_Interview_Instrument for Tempering Expectations: A Qualitative Study of Prosecutorial Reform by Rebecca Richardson and Besiki Luka Kutateladze in Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
title: Reverse complex predicates or something else?: The case of Hindi de ‘give’ and jaa ‘go’
Creators: name: Koumbarou, Andriana
name: Srivastava, Shubham K.
name: Biswas, Sarada B.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2021

description: “Aspectual” complex predicates (ACPs) in Hindi are formed by a sequence of two verbs that together describe a single event. The main verb is realised in root form and contributes lexical meaning, followed by a light verb which carries TAM morphology and somehow modifies the event (VMAINVLIGHT ordering). However, it has been noted that some verb-verb combinations allow a “reverse” order in which a light verb in root form precedes the main verb inflected for TAM (VLIGHTVMAIN ordering). In this paper we take the light verbs de ‘give’ and jaa ‘go’ as case studies and trace their use in standardly ordered complex predicates, as well as what look like cases of reversal. We present our initial findings and argue that the unusual VLIGHTVMAIN sequences are not simply a reordered variant of a standard complex predicate but, in fact, exhibit interpretational differences (e.g., intentionality) that stem from the initial placement and lexical semantics of directed-action de ‘give’ and directed-motion jaa ‘go’.
title: Koronashokku: Loanwords in Japanese and the Covid-19 pandemic
Creators: name: O'Neill, Tom
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2021

description: Foreign loanwords have come to form a substantial portion of the contemporary Japanese vocabulary. While many studies have been undertaken on language borrowing, the phenomenon of global events, disasters and socio-economic movements precipitating their inception is underexplored. The purpose of this paper is to build on the prior research on well-established loanwords by examining novel usage in the specific context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Data was obtained using tweeted replies to coronavirus-related articles in order to identify which novel loanwords have come into use due to Covid-19. Subsequently, to determine comprehension rates and attitudes, a survey was carried out using 121 participants drawn from members of the Japanese public. It found a low comprehension rate of the novel loanwords, particularly amongst participants over 60 years of age. Drawing from these results, the utility of novel loanwords related to Covid-19 is called into question.
The white-light superflares from cool stars in GWAC triggers
Creators: name: Li, Guang-Wei
name: Wang, Liang
name: Yuan, Hai-Long
name: Xin, Li-Ping
name: Wang, Jing
name: Wu, Chao
name: Li, Hua-Li
name: Haerken, Hasitieer
name: Wang, Wei-Hua
name: Cai, Hong-Bo
name: Han, Xu-Hui
name: Xu, Yang
name: Huang, Lei
name: Lu, Xiao-Meng
name: Bai, Jian-Ying
name: Wang, Xiang-Yu
name: Dai, Zi-Gao
name: Liang, En-Wei
name: Wei, Jian-Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: M-type stars are the ones that flare most frequently, but how big their maximum flare energy can reach is still unknown. We present 163 flares from 162 individual M2 through L1-type stars that triggered the GWAC, with flare energies ranging from $10^{32.2}$ to $10^{36.4}$ erg . The flare amplitudes range from $\triangle G = 0.84$ to $\sim 10$ mag. Flare energy increases with stellar surface temperature ($T_{\rm eff}$) but both $\triangle G$ and equivalent duration $\log_{10}(ED)$ seem to be independent of $T_{\rm eff}$. Combining periods detected from light curves of TESS and K2, spectra from LAMOST, SDSS and the 2.16 m Telescope, and the Gaia DR3 data, we found that these GWAC flare stars are young. For the stars that have spectra, we found that these stars are in or very near to the saturation region, and $\log_{10}(L_{\rm Hα}/L_{\rm bol})$ is lower for M7-L1 stars than for M2-M6 stars. We also studied the relation between GWAC flare bolometric energy $E_{\rm bol}$ and stellar hemispherical area $S$, and found that $\log_{10}E_{\rm bol}$ (in erg) increases with increasing $S$ (in cm$^2$), and the maximum flare energy $\log_{10}E_{\rm bol, max} \geqslant \log_{10}S + 14.25$. For M7-L1 stars, there seem to be other factors limiting their maximum flare energies in addition to stellar hemispherical area.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables
title: Lenition and metathesis in Hawu: A quantity-sensitive language
Creators: name: Ulfsbjorninn, Shanti
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2021

description: Hawu shows highly unusual distributions of strength/weakness. Firstly, it appears unique in restricting schwa to stressed positions, excluding it elsewhere. Secondly, Hawu has undergone rampant intervocalic lenition of consonants, except after schwa where consonants are immune to lenition and are automatically geminated. This situation creates unusual synchronic structural contrasts. Hawu seems to be unique, appearing to violate a linguistic universal, however, this will be revealed to be due to its phonology-to-phonetics mapping known as virtual length. From a revised phonological perspective, Hawu’s strength distribution is actually commonplace: a quantity-sensitive language with metrical bolstering, like Italian. This offers an explanation for, firstly, the otherwise unrelated lack of (C)ə́V word-shapes; and, secondly, the strange diachronic condition on metathesis, that it only applies across consonants: *VαCVβ > VβCVα - *ika > [ə́k:i] ‘tie/bind’ vs. *VαVβ **(> VβVα) *bua > [búe] **[bə́u] ‘fruit’. Both facts are explained via quantity restrictions imposed by Hawu’s metrical system.
Supplementary tables -Supplemental material for Behavior change techniques in mobile applications for sedentary behavior
Creators: name: Dunn, Emily E
name: Gainforth, Heather L
name: Robertson-Wilson, Jennifer E
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cardiology
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Science Policy
subject: 160512 Social Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary tables for Behavior change techniques in mobile applications for sedentary behavior by Emily E Dunn, Heather L Gainforth and Jennifer E Robertson-Wilson in Digital Health
Tamil Language Computing: the Present and the Future
Creators: name: Sarveswaran, Kengatharaiyer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper delves into the text processing aspects of Language Computing, which enables computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language. Focusing on tasks such as speech recognition, machine translation, sentiment analysis, text summarization, and language modelling, language computing integrates disciplines including linguistics, computer science, and cognitive psychology to create meaningful human-computer interactions. Recent advancements in deep learning have made computers more accessible and capable of independent learning and adaptation. In examining the landscape of language computing, the paper emphasises foundational work like encoding, where Tamil transitioned from ASCII to Unicode, enhancing digital communication. It discusses the development of computational resources, including raw data, dictionaries, glossaries, annotated data, and computational grammars, necessary for effective language processing. The challenges of linguistic annotation, the creation of treebanks, and the training of large language models are also covered, emphasising the need for high-quality, annotated data and advanced language models. The paper underscores the importance of building practical applications for languages like Tamil to address everyday communication needs, highlighting gaps in current technology. It calls for increased research collaboration, digitization of historical texts, and fostering digital usage to ensure the comprehensive development of Tamil language processing, ultimately enhancing global communication and access to digital services.
description: 11 pages, This is the write-up of the address delivered at the 30th Annual Sessions of the Jaffna Science Association, held from March 29-31, 2023, at the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
title: Preliminary orthographic design for Ramari Dongosaro
Creators: name: Vita, Vasiliki
name: Pedro, Chelsea
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2021

description: This paper aims at providing a detailed account of a standardisation project currently underway for Ramari Dongosaro, or Sonsorolese (ISO 639-3: sov), an endangered language spoken by less than 400 speakers (Eberhard, Simons & Fennig 2021) in the Republic of Palau. The purpose of this paper is to function as a record of the project, providing a preliminary phonological analysis, along with recommendations for an alphabet for Sonsorolese and potential applications of it. Finally, with this paper, we aim to gain input and feedback from Micronesian languages specialists and linguists specialising in standardisation.
Supplementary table 2 Article Inclusion and Exclusion -Supplemental material for A systematic review of the impact of outpatient clinical pharmacy services on medication-related outcomes in patients receiving anticancer therapies
Creators: name: Maleki, Sam
name: Alexander, Marliese
name: Fua, Tsien
name: Liu, Chen
name: Rischin, Danny
name: Lingaratnam, Senthil
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary table 2 Article Inclusion and Exclusion for A systematic review of the impact of outpatient clinical pharmacy services on medication-related outcomes in patients receiving anticancer therapies by Sam Maleki, Marliese Alexander, Tsien Fua, Chen Liu, Danny Rischin and Senthil Lingaratnam in Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice
title: Tense and aspect comparison between Griko, Modern Greek and Italian for the indicative
Creators: name: Zeikos, Paris Alexandros
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2021

description: This essay investigates how Griko, an Italiot-Greek language, spoken in Italy, forms verbs in comparison to Modern Greek and Italian, by focusing on the present tense, the imperfect, the past tense, the present perfect, the past perfect and lastly, the progressive aspect, as those are the tenses and aspects found in Griko. The primary findings suggest that the verbal morphology of Griko is somewhat cognate to that of Modern Greek, with some influence from Italian, primarily in the present perfect and the progressive aspect, due to Griko being in contact with Italian. The essay concludes by stating that Griko verbal morphology functions the same way as Modern Greek morphology does, due to both languages being typologically similar and due to both languages being derived from Ancient Greek, despite long contact with Italian.
Packing-Inspired Algorithms for Periodic Scheduling Problems with Harmonic Periods
Creators: name: Grus, Josef
name: Hanen, Claire
name: Hanzálek, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We tackle the problem of non-preemptive periodic scheduling with a harmonic set of periods. Problems of this kind arise within domains of periodic manufacturing and maintenance, and also during the design of industrial, automotive, and avionics communication protocols, where efficient scheduling of messages is crucial for the performance of a time-triggered network. We consider the decision variant of the periodic scheduling problem on a single highly-utilized machine. We first prove a bijection between periodic scheduling and a particular (so-called height-divisible) 2D packing of rectangles. We formulate the problem using Constraint Programming and compare it with equivalent state-of-the-art Integer Linear Programming formulation, showing the former's superiority on difficult instances. Furthermore, we develop a packing-inspired first fit heuristic, which we compare with methods described in the literature. We justify our proposed methods on synthetically generated problem instances inspired by the communication of messages on one channel.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures
title: While we are asleep: Master/Mentor-Apprentice language learning initiative in the Ryukyus
Creators: name: Zlazli, Miho
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2021

description: I currently conduct participatory action research with new speakers of Ryukyuan languages by running a project called MAI-Ryukyus, which is designed based on Hinton’s Master/Mentor-Apprentice Language Learning Program, to explore both emotional and cognitive aspects of learning one’s own Indigenous ancestral tongue. The findings of the PhD research will be discussed in a future article. In this paper, I introduce my research design, discuss the issues identified in current language revitalisation efforts through ethnographic observation, and conclude with future directions.
CaLa: Complementary Association Learning for Augmenting Composed Image Retrieval
Creators: name: Jiang, Xintong
name: Wang, Yaxiong
name: Li, Mengjian
name: Wu, Yujiao
name: Hu, Bingwen
name: Qian, Xueming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) involves searching for target images based on an image-text pair query. While current methods treat this as a query-target matching problem, we argue that CIR triplets contain additional associations beyond this primary relation. In our paper, we identify two new relations within triplets, treating each triplet as a graph node. Firstly, we introduce the concept of text-bridged image alignment, where the query text serves as a bridge between the query image and the target image. We propose a hinge-based cross-attention mechanism to incorporate this relation into network learning. Secondly, we explore complementary text reasoning, considering CIR as a form of cross-modal retrieval where two images compose to reason about complementary text. To integrate these perspectives effectively, we design a twin attention-based compositor. By combining these complementary associations with the explicit query pair-target image relation, we establish a comprehensive set of constraints for CIR. Our framework, CaLa (Complementary Association Learning for Augmenting Composed Image Retrieval), leverages these insights. We evaluate CaLa on CIRR and FashionIQ benchmarks with multiple backbones, demonstrating its superiority in composed image retrieval.
description: To appear at SIGIR 2024. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2309.02169
title: Interdisciplinary research in language documentation: The benefits and present limits of a more sustainable documentation methodology
Creators: name: Round, Sarah
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2021

description: Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) in language documentation furnishes linguists with the knowledge they require to access and explain linguistic practices inextricable from their extra-disciplinary context. By heightening the validity of documentation in this way, as well as generating linguistic data of novel importance to other disciplines, the use of interdisciplinary methods moreover creates a more sustainable documentary model. In spite of this, IDR does not secure any sizeable disciplinary and financial interest relative to mono-disciplinary models. The following paper examines the extent to which this lesser uptake of IDR within documentation projects may be caused by the particular disadvantages of its related methods, such as investigating language-specific Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) or cross-disciplinary domain-based concerns, and to what extent this may be caused by its lower levels of exposure and funding in the academic community. Finding the answers to resolve IDR’s lesser prominence within Linguistic academia should, in turn, facilitate its increased teaching and more proficient practice within language documentation. This paper does not present primary research, but instead aims to summarise relevant arguments and studies in a manner accessible to the general reader.