cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Synthesis of Novel Glycolipid Mimetics of Heparan Sulfate and Their Application in Colorectal Cancer Treatment in a Mouse Model
Creators: name: Spijkers-Shaw, S
name: Campbell, K
name: Shields, NJ
name: Miller, John
name: Rendle, Phillip
name: Jiao, Wanting
name: Young, SL
name: Zubkova, Olga
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Heparan sulfate (HS) is a highly sulfated natural carbohydrate that plays crucial roles in cancer, inflammation, and angiogenesis. Heparanase (HPSE) is the sole HS degrading endoglycosidase that cleaves HS at structure-dependent sites along the polysaccharide chain. Overexpression of HPSE by cancer cells correlates with increased tumor size and enhanced metastasis. Previously we have shown that a tetramer HS mimetic is a potent HPSE inhibitor displaying remarkable anticancer activity in vivo. Building on that work, we report the synthesis and testing of a novel library of single entity trimer glycolipid mimetics that effectively inhibit HPSE at low nanomolar concentrations. A lipophilic arm was introduced to assess whether an improvement of pharmacokinetics and plasma residence time would offset the reduction in charge and multivalency. Preclinical tests in a mouse syngeneic model showed effective tumor growth inhibition by the tetramer but not the trimer glycomimetic.
Second Sight in the Nineteenth Century: Prophecy, Imagination and Nationhood, by Elsa Richardson
Creators: name: Wadoux, Charlotte
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2020

description: BOOK REVIEW Second Sight in the Nineteenth Century: Prophecy, Imagination and Nationhood“, by Elsa Richardson (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). 260 pp. Hardback £79.99. Reviewed by Charlotte Wadoux.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 9 (2020): Victorian Visions
Merger states and final states of black hole coalescences: a numerical-relativity-assisted effective-one-body approach
Creators: name: Damour, Thibault
name: Nagar, Alessandro
name: Villain, Loic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study to what extent the effective-one-body description of the dynamical state of a nonspinning, coalescing binary black hole (considered either at merger, or after ringdown) agrees with numerical relativity results. This comparison uses estimates of the integrated losses of energy and angular momentum during ringdown, inferred from recent numerical-relativity data. We find that the values, predicted by the effective-one-body formalism, of the energy and angular momentum of the system agree at the per mil level with their numerical-relativity counterparts, both at merger and in the final state. This gives a new confirmation of the ability of effective-one-body theory to accurately describe the dynamics of binary black holes even in the strong-gravitational-field regime. Our work also provides predictions (and analytical fits) for the final mass and the final spin of coalescing black holes for all mass ratios
description: 10 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
βIII-tubulin overexpression in cancer: Causes, consequences, and potential therapies
Creators: name: Kanakkanthara, A
name: Miller, John
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Class III β-tubulin (βIII-tubulin) is frequently overexpressed in human tumors and is associated with resistance to microtubule-targeting agents, tumor aggressiveness, and poor patient outcome. Understanding the mechanisms regulating βIII-tubulin expression and the varied functions βIII-tubulin may have in different cancers is vital to assess the prognostic value of this protein and to develop strategies to enhance therapeutic benefits in βIII-tubulin overexpressing tumors. Here we gather all the available evidence regarding the clinical implications of βIII-tubulin overexpression in cancer, describe factors that regulate βIII-tubulin expression, and discuss current understanding of the mechanisms underlying βIII-tubulin-mediated resistance to microtubule-targeting agents and tumor aggressiveness. Finally, we provide an overview of emerging therapeutic strategies to target tumors that overexpress βIII-tubulin.
Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing, by Heather Tilley
Creators: name: Shubert, Amanda
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2020

description: BOOK REVIEW Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing“, by Heather Tilley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). 294 pp. Hardback, £75.00. Paperback, £22.99. Reviewed by Amanda Shubert.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 9 (2020): Victorian Visions
Analytic matrix elements for the two-electron atomic basis with logarithmic terms
Creators: name: Liverts, Evgeny Z.
name: Barnea, Nir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two-electron problem for the helium-like atom/ions in $S$-state is considered. The basis containing the integer powers of $\ln r$, where $r$ is a radial variable of the Fock expansion, is studied. In this basis, the analytic expressions for the matrix elements of the corresponding Hamiltonian are presented. These expressions include only special functions presented by the built-in $Mathematica$ codes, what enables very fast and accurate computation of the matrix elements. The decisive contribution of the correct logarithmic terms to the behavior of the two-electron wave function in the vicinity of the triple-coalescence point is reaffirmed.
description: 19 pages, 1 table, 5 figures
Pyrroloquinoline derivatives from a Tongan specimen of the marine sponge Strongylodesma tongaensis
Creators: name: Taufa, T
name: Gordon, RMA
name: Hashmi, MA
name: Hira, K
name: Miller, John
name: Lein, M
name: Fromont, J
name: Northcote, Peter
name: Keyzers, Robert
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 30499 Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Organic Chemistry

description: Pyrroloquinoline alkaloids are well known bioactive metabolites commonly found from latrunculiid sponges. Two new pyrroloquinoline alkaloids, 6-bromodamirone B (1) and makaluvamine W (2), were isolated from the Tongan sponge Strongylodesma tongaensis. Makaluvamine W (2) contains an oxazole moiety, which is rare in this large group of natural products, and is the first example of a pyrroloquinoline with nitrogen substitution at C-8. Both 1 and 2 lacked activity against a human promyelocytic leukemia cell line (HL-60), supporting the premise that an intact iminoquinone moiety plays a key role in the cytotoxicity of this compound class. The chemotaxonomic impact of these makaluvamine-type compounds is also discussed.
Gauge invariant composite operators of QED in the exact renormalization group formalism
Creators: name: Sonoda, Hidenori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the exact renormalization group (ERG) formalism, we study the gauge invariant composite operators in QED. Gauge invariant composite operators are introduced as infinitesimal changes of the gauge invariant Wilson action. We examine the dependence on the gauge fixing parameter of both the Wilson action and gauge invariant composite operators. After defining ``gauge fixing parameter independence,'' we show that any gauge independent composite operators can be made ``gauge fixing parameter independent'' by appropriate normalization. As an application, we give a concise but careful proof of the Adler-Bardeen non-renormalization theorem for the axial anomaly in an arbitrary covariant gauge by extending the original proof by A. Zee.
description: 35 pages, no figure
Why Do Less Capable States Go Nuclear?
Creators: name: Ballus, Spencer
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: nuclearization
subject: nuclear weapons
subject: prestige
subject: security
subject: Pakistan

description: Given the great cost and effort that go into nuclearization, it would be natural to assume that the most powerful states would acquire them before less capable ones. While this trend did initially hold, more recent nuclear acquirers have been less capable than their forerunners. This paper explores whether or not the existing logics of nuclear proliferation hold for these less capable "second generation" nuclear acquirers, using Pakistan as a case study. While traditional security-focused approaches to nuclearization logic appear to hold true, there appear to be even more emphasis given to non-security aspects of nuclearization, such as national prestige and domestic power politics.
Two Models of Nonadaptive Group Testing for Designing Screening Experiments
Creators: name: D'yachkov, A. G.
name: Macula, A. J.
name: Torney, D. C.
name: Vilenkin, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We discuss two non-standard models of nonadaptive combinatorial search which develop the conventional disjunct search model for a small number of defective elements contained in a finite ground set or a population. The first model is called a search of defective supersets. The second model is called a search of defective subsets in the presence of inhibitors. For these models, we study the constructive search methods based on the known constructions for the disjunct model.
description: 10 pages
title: Bericht des Ausschusses für die österreichisch-slavische Frage; [1848]
title: Vorgetragen von dem Abgeordneten Beisler
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Beisler, Hermann ¬von
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Beilage Nr. 1 zum Protokoll der 18. öffentlichen Sitzung vom 19. Juni 1848
Victorian Photography, Literature, and the Invention of Modern Memory: Already the Past, by Jennifer Green-Lewis
Creators: name: Ennis, Emily
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2020

description: BOOK REVIEW Victorian Photography, Literature, and the Invention of Modern Memory: Already the Past“, by Jennifer Green-Lewis (London: Bloomsbury, 2017). 200 pp. Paperback £27.99. Reviewed by Emily Ennis.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 9 (2020): Victorian Visions
Die Brotbitte des Vaterunsers - und wir in einer rationalisierten Lebenswelt
Creators: name: Koch, Traugott
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 58 (2011): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 58
"Lass dich nicht vom Bösen überwinden, sondern überwinde das Böse mit Gutem" (Römer 12,21)
Creators: name: Jēruma-Grīnberga, Jāna
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 58 (2011): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 58
Formal features of a General Theoretical Framework for Decoherence in open and closed systems
Creators: name: Castagnino, Mario
name: Fortin, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two complementary decoherence formalisms, Environment Induced Decoherence (EID) for open systems and Self Induced Decoherence (SID) for close systems are compared under a common General Theoretical Formalism for Decoherence (GTFD). The differences and similarities of EID and SID are studied, e. g. that the main difference is that EID only considers the relevant information of the proper system S and neglects the rest, while SID considers all possible information available from a certain class of measurement instruments and neglects the non available information.
description: 16 pages
The Binding Energy of Triplet Excitons in Non-Fullerene Acceptors: The Effects of Fluorination and Chlorination
Creators: name: Souza, J. P. A.
name: Benatto, L.
name: Candiotto, G.
name: Roman, L. S.
name: Koehler, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One strategy to improve the photovoltaic properties of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) is the rational fluorination or chlorination of those molecules. Although this modification improves important acceptor properties, little is known about the effects on the triplet states. Here, we combine the polarizable continuum model with optimally tuned range-separated hybrid functional to investigate this issue. We find that fluorination or chlorination of NFAs decreases the degree of HOMO-LUMO overlap along these molecules. Consequently, the energy gap between $T_{1}$ and $S_{1}$ states, $ΔE_{ST} = E_{S_{1}} - E_{T_{1}}$, also decreases. This effect simultaneously enhances the generation of triplet excitons and reduce the binding energy of the triplet excitons ($E_{b,T}$) which favor their dissociation into free charges. Interestingly, although Cl has a lower electronegativity than F, the chlorination is more effective to reduce $ΔE_{ST}$. Since chlorination of NFAs is easier than fluorination, Cl substitution can be a useful approach to enhance solar energy harvesting using triplet excitons.
description: 26 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
The theory of coherent dynamic nuclear polarization in quantum dots
Creators: name: Neder, Izhar
name: Rudner, Mark S.
name: Halperin, Bertrand I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the dynamic nuclear spin polarization (DNP) using two electrons in a double quantum dot in presence of external magnetic field and spin-orbit interaction, in various schemes of periodically repeated sweeps through the S-T+ avoided crossing. By treating the problem semi-classically, we find that generally the DNP have two distinct contributions - a geometrical polarization and a dynamic polarization, which have different dependence on the control parameters such as the sweep rates and waiting times in each period. Both terms show non-trivial dependence on those control parameter. We find that even for small spin-orbit term, the dynamical polarization dominates the DNP in presence of a long waiting period near the S-T+ avoided crossing, of the order of the nuclear Larmor precession periods. A detailed numerical analysis of a specific control regime can explain the oscillations observed by Foletti et.~al.~in arXiv:0801.3613.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures
Multigraphs with $Δ\ge 3$ are Totally-$(2Δ-1)$-choosable
Creators: name: Cranston, Daniel W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The \emph{total graph} $T(G)$ of a multigraph $G$ has as its vertices the set of edges and vertices of $G$ and has an edge between two vertices if their corresponding elements are either adjacent or incident in $G$. We show that if $G$ has maximum degree $Δ(G)$, then $T(G)$ is $(2Δ(G)-1)$-choosable. We give a linear-time algorithm that produces such a coloring. The best previous general upper bound for $Δ(G) > 3$ was $\floor{\frac32Δ(G)+2}$, by Borodin et al. When $Δ(G)=4$, our algorithm gives a better upper bound. When $Δ(G)\in\{3,5,6\}$, our algorithm matches the best known bound. However, because our algorithm is significantly simpler, it runs in linear time (unlike the algorithm of Borodin et al.).
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Die St. Petersburger Bibliothek des Heiligsten Regierenden Synods der Russischen Orthodoxen Kirche am Martin-Luther-Bund und an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen
Creators: name: Schaper, Kirsten
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 57 (2010): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 57
title: Question and Answer Session
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1998
Subjects: Pharmacology
Medical ethics

description: PROPHYLAXIS OF OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS
QUESTION: In your clinic do you stop prophylaxis for PCP when patients go up above a CD4 count of 200?
DR. CURRIER: Not routinely. I enroll the patients in the ongoing study, if they are interested. Sometimes patients stop prophylaxis on their own and do not tell me that they have decided to discontinue it. But I have not been routinely recommending discontinuation without more data.
MR. FROST (MODERATOR): What about mycobacterium avium complex (MAC)? DR. CURRIER: It is [stopped]. But I do not go around discontinuing it as a matter of routine.
"Wenn einer kalendern kann, kommt er durch die ganze Welt"
Creators: name: Gazer, Hac̣ik Rafi
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 57 (2010): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 57
New Fermi-LAT event reconstruction reveals more high-energy gamma rays from Gamma-ray bursts
Creators: name: Atwood, W. B.
name: Baldini, L.
name: Bregeon, J.
name: Bruel, P.
name: Chekhtman, A.
name: Cohen-Tanugi, J.
name: Drlica-Wagner, A.
name: Granot, J.
name: Longo, F.
name: Omodei, N.
name: Pesce-Rollins, M.
name: Razzaque, S.
name: Rochester, L. S.
name: Sgro, C.
name: Tinivella, M.
name: Usher, T. L.
name: Zimmer, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the experience gained during the four and a half years of the mission, the Fermi -LAT collaboration has undertaken a comprehensive revision of the event-level analysis going under the name of Pass 8. Although it is not yet finalized, we can test the improvements in the new event reconstruction with the special case of the prompt phase of bright Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), where the signal to noise ratio is large enough that loose selection cuts are sufficient to identify gamma- rays associated with the source. Using the new event reconstruction, we have re-analyzed ten GRBs previously detected by the LAT for which an x-ray/optical follow-up was possible and found four new gamma rays with energies greater than 10 GeV in addition to the seven previously known. Among these four is a 27.4 GeV gamma-ray from GRB 080916C, which has a redshift of 4.35, thus making it the gamma ray with the highest intrinsic energy (147 GeV) detected from a GRB. We present here the salient aspects of the new event reconstruction and discuss the scientific implications of these new high-energy gamma rays, such as constraining extragalactic background light models, Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) tests, the prompt emission mechanism and the bulk Lorentz factor of the emitting region.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, accepted by ApJ
Further Inequalities Between Vertex-Degree-Based Topological Indices
Creators: name: Ali, Akbar
name: Bhatti, Akhlaq Ahmad
name: Raza, Zahid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Continuing the recent work of L. Zhong and K. Xu [MATCH Commun. Math. Comput. Chem.71(2014) 627-642], we determine inequalities among several vertex-degree-based topological indices; first geometric-arithmetic index(GA), augmented Zagreb index (AZI), Randi$\acute{c}$ index (R), atom-bond connectivity index (ABC), sum-connectivity index (X)and harmonic index (H).
description: 9 pages and one table, Submitted
Looking Both Ways: Middlemarch, True Skin, and the Dermatological Gaze
Creators: name: De Waal, Ariane
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2020

description: Based on an analysis of a wide range of Victorian dermatology textbooks and previously unexamined articles on the skin in the periodical press, this essay demonstrates George Eliot’s implementation of a dermatological gaze in Middlemarch. The novelty of this gaze lies in a bidirectional movement that combines an optical surface assessment with observations of physiological processes taking place in the inner structures of the skin. The essay argues that this two-fold way of looking emerged in the wake of Victorian dermatology’s turn towards morphological classifications and the popularisation of microscopy. At a time when microscopic images of the skin’s three layers were widely disseminated, the seat of skin diseases moved from inner organs into the thickened, more complex structure of the skin itself, calling for a gaze that simultaneously looks at and into the skin. Contributing to the sparse scholarship that links dermatological history to literary figurations of skin, the article invokes the new dermatological gaze to arrive at a fuller understanding of how we look at character(s) in realist novels. It first traces Eliot’s retreat from physiognomic looking and her introduction of dermatological registers of complexion. Second, it analyses the narrator’s use of a two-fold gaze in passages that magnify the physiological (mal)functioning of the characters’ skin. Third, it interrogates the novel’s shift from visual to tactile impression. The article builds on and extends perspectives on Eliot’s materialist characterology by showing how a dermatology-based reading of Middlemarch crucially helps to clarify the characters’ choices and social behaviours.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 9 (2020): Victorian Visions
The role of electronic bandstructure shape in improving the thermoelectric power factor of complex materials
Creators: name: Graziosi, Patrizio
name: Neophytou, Neophytos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The large variety of complex electronic structure materials and their alloys, offer highly promising directions for improvements in thermoelectric (TE) power factors (PF). Their electronic structure contains rich features, referred to as 'surface complexity', one of them being the highly anisotropic warped energy surface shapes with elongated features and threads in some cases. In this work we use Boltzmann transport simulations to quantify the influence that the shape of the electronic structure energy surfaces has on the PF. Using both analytical ellipsoidal bands, as well as realistic bands from the group of half-Heuslers, we show that band shape complexity alone can offer an advantage to the PF of ~3x in realistic cases. The presence of anisotropic scattering mechanisms such as ionized impurity or polar optical phonon scattering, however, can reduce these improvements by up to ~50%. We show that expressions based on the simple ratio of the density-of-states to the conductivity effective masses, mDOS/mC, together with the number of valleys, can capture the anisotropy shape with a moderate to high degree of correlation. For this, we use a convenient way to extract these masses by mapping the complex bandstructures of materials to parabolic electronic structures, without the need for Boltzmann transport codes. Despite the fact that the PF depends on many parameters, information about the benefits of the band shape alone, would be very useful for identifying and understanding the performance of novel thermoelectric materials.
Seeing in the City: Modern Visuality in M. E. Braddon’s The Trail of the Serpent (1860)
Creators: name: Green, James Aaron
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2020

description: This article proposes the metropolitan scenes of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s first novel, The Trail of the Serpent (1860), as engagements with the rapidly shifting and ‘contested terrain’ of modern visuality. Locating much of its action in Paris and London, the paradigmatically modern cities of the mid- nineteenth century, the novel reveals a porous boundary between visual practices used for detection and leisure: the theatre figures as a site of disciplinary potential, and the touristic gaze proves amenable to that of the detective. Seemingly poised to corroborate contemporary anxieties about criminality becoming invisible as a result of urban expansion, in fact Trail resists such a notion by exposing how technological and material changes serve as much to conceal forces of inspection. Yet Trail does not subscribe wholeheartedly to teleological ideas about the direction of modern visuality either, but, as signalled especially by the posthumous condition of its criminal antagonist, offers a more complex and ambiguous situation.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 9 (2020): Victorian Visions
Looking and Learning in the Victorian Classroom
Creators: name: Korda, Andrea
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2020

description: Observation—what to observe and how to observe it—was a frequent topic of discussion in the public discourse around education in nineteenth-century Britain. But in the context of the schoolroom, what did ‘observation’ entail? What, exactly, were students supposed to be looking for? And how was the relationship between looking and learning understood and imagined? To answer these questions, this essay draws on British curricular codes, school inspectors’ reports, schoolbooks, and texts in educational psychology in order to describe three ways that Victorian educators may have approached perception in the classroom. These three approaches to visual pedagogy offer possibilities within a spectrum of approaches to vision and visuals, ranging between: 1) a pedagogical approach that asserts the primacy and power of observation in the learning process; 2) an approach that employs vision and visuals as important accessories to learning; and 3) an approach that employs vision and visuals to secure student attention but does not make use of observation as an integral part of the learning process. Though the printed lessons, inspectors’ reports and curricular codes surveyed here may or may not reveal how individual children were taught, or what they ended up learning, they have potential to tell us a great deal about adult anxieties around vision and visuals, and they offer examples of what some Victorians believed the powers of observation could accomplish. For this reason, Victorian practices of teaching and learning offer a valuable resource for understanding the ideals and anxieties that motivated Victorian aesthetes like John Ruskin and his followers—some of whom were also educationists.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 9 (2020): Victorian Visions
Engineered optical nonlinearities and enhanced light transmission in soft-matter systems with tunable polarizabilities
Creators: name: Man, Weining
name: Fardad, Shima
name: Zhang, Ze
name: Prakash, Jai
name: Lau, Michael
name: Zhang, Peng
name: Heinrich, Matthias
name: Christodoulides, Demetrios N.
name: Chen, Zhigang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we demonstrate that the nonlinear response of certain soft-matter systems can be tailored at will by appropriately engineering their optical polarizability. In particular, we deliberately synthesize stable colloidal suspensions with negative polarizabilities, and observe for the first time robust propagation and enhanced transmission of self-trapped light over long distances that would have been otherwise impossible in conventional suspensions with positive polarizabilities. What greatly facilitates this behavior is an induced saturable nonlinear optical response introduced by the thermodynamic properties of these colloidal systems. This in turn leads to a substantial reduction in scattering via self-activated transparency effects. Our results may open up new opportunities in developing soft-matter systems with tunable optical nonlinearities.
In a Better Light: Vision, Spatiality and the Connoisseurial Practices of the National Gallery, c. 1875–1916
Creators: name: Clarke, Alison Victoria
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2020

description: Visual assessment was crucial to the judgement of artworks throughout the Victorian period and beyond, and yet our understanding of the practice of connoisseurship is too often limited to a largely theoretical approach. This article adopts a spatial methodology to study the practice of institutional connoisseurship of Old Master paintings in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, thus highlighting the extent to which connoisseurship relied on visual analysis in this period. The concept of connoisseurship is widened to encompass not just issues of authenticity and attribution, but also equally important criteria such as condition and beauty that were similarly judged by eye. This article opens with the description of a visual model of connoisseurship, drawing on current psychological theories on vision and expertise. This model posits the practice of connoisseurship as a series of swift judgements based on a visual mental canon built up over years of exposure to comparative images. I then go on to test this model with a case study centring on the professional practices of staff at London’s National Gallery between the 1870s and 1910s. Making particular use of material from the National Gallery archives, my analysis relies far less than previous studies on written theories of connoisseurship, instead using a broad range of sources including museum minutes, private correspondence, photographs, and building plans to consider the physical conditions under which connoisseurial judgements were reached. Using these materials, I explore how the spaces in which connoisseurship was practised overwhelmingly predicated vision as an analytical tool, as opposed to alternatives such as technical examination. There is strong potential for the translation of this approach from the context under review in this article to other periods in history, wider geographical areas, different historical actors, and the judgement of a much broader range of material culture artefacts beyond Old Master paintings. This will help to deepen our understanding of connoisseurship as a flexible practice with divergent aims and methods for different stakeholder groups, each adopting its own particular connoisseurial lens.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 9 (2020): Victorian Visions
The Doctor-Coquette Nexus in Middlemarch“, Villette“, and The Woodlanders“
Creators: name: Rayner (Victoria University Of Wellington, New Zealand), Emma
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2018

description: Although there remains a critical tendency to denounce literary coquettes like Rosamond Vincy as inauthentic, recent developments in gender and cultural theory have led critics to recuperate such anti-heroines. Still yet to be fully realized, however, is the complementary importance of a character type that recurs just as often as the coquette in the nineteenth-century novel: the provincially exiled young doctor. Numerous novels of the mid-Victorian period romantically pair an ambitious coquette – who stage-manages, but does not inhabit her own femininity – with a doctor figure whose ‘scientific’ outlook jars notably with the determinedly superficial self-presentation of the female object in his view.Â Surveying the coquette-doctor relationships forged within George Eliot’s Middlemarch“ (1871–2), Charlotte Brontà«’s Villette“ (1853), and Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders“ (1886–7), this essay promotes an understanding of the coquette as a kind of Frankenstein’s monster of Victorian culture. Despite (or perhaps because of) the stereotype’s origin in the conservative English psyche, the coquette proves a character highly attuned to the performative strategies she must maintain in order to navigate the strict gender standards of the era. The Victorian doctor stands on the other side of the coupling as a representative of the period’s pseudoscientific attitudes toward the female body in particular, his diagnostic tool-box of positivist inquiry and empiricist objectivism proving a dubious match for the coquette’s careful curation of her own sexual and social signs.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 8 (2018): Forgery and Imitation
Der Martin-Luther-Bund im Leben der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Litauen
Creators: name: Sabutis, Mindaugas
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 57 (2010): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 57
Increasing sensing resolution with error correction
Creators: name: Arrad, Gilad
name: Vinkler, Yuval
name: Aharonov, Dorit
name: Retzker, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The signal to noise ratio of quantum sensing protocols scales with the square root of the coherence time. Thus, increasing this time is a key goal in the field. Dynamical decoupling has proven to be efficient in prolonging the coherence times for the benefit of quantum sensing. However, dynamical decoupling can only push the sensitivity up to a certain limit. In this work we present a new approach to increasing the coherence time further through error correction which can improve the efficiency of quantum sensing beyond the fundamental limits of current state of the art methods.
‘I am born’: Writing Corporate Personhood in Victorian It-narratives
Creators: name: Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark), Jakob Gaardbo
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2018

description: The following article analyses two literary texts that emerged from the public discussion of joint stock companies and corporate personhood in Victorian Britain. The Company Acts of 1844, 1855-56 and 1862 gradually made the privileges of incorporation available to the public, thereby ending a period characterised by a strict attitude towards corporate finance. A heated discussion ensued which pitted notions of character and credit associated with traditional partnership businesses against the more aggressive business strategies associated with joint stock companies. Literary texts were anything but silent in this discussion. Victorian novels, for example, drew heavily on plots and characters hewn from the emerging financial sector, but other, more experimental fictions of the corporation also emerged in the turbulent decades following the Limited Liability Acts of midcentury. Edward P. Rowsell’s 1861 corporate novella, The Autobiography of a Joint-Stock Company“, and Laurence Oliphant’s similarly titled periodical essay, ‘Autobiography of a Joint-Stock Company (Limited)’ from 1876, are thus more than just fictional autobiographies; they are literary experiments with the form and function of joint stock companies. Drawing heavily on precedents set in the genre of it-narratives, these texts offer dramatisations of what was uniquely fascinating and problematic about the joint stock company and the concept of corporate personhood.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 8 (2018): Forgery and Imitation
Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War“, by Elizabeth Prettejohn (London: Yale University Press, 2017)
Creators: name: Kilgarriff (University Of Bristol), Tessa
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 8 (2018): Forgery and Imitation
Context factors for pro-social practices in health care
Creators: name: Uhde, Alarith
name: Mesenhöller, Mena
name: Hassenzahl, Marc
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 004 Informatik
subject: Gesundheitswesen
subject: Schichtarbeit
subject: Healthcare
subject: Shift Work
subject: Gesundheitswesen

description: In order to reduce the shortage of healthcare workers, researchers try to find ways to improve nurses’ job conditions. A lot of effort concentrates on organizing shift work in a more agreeable way by providing more autonomy to the nurses, e.g., through self scheduling. However, increased autonomy also means that nurses have to resolve scheduling conflicts within the team. To that end, a good team coherence is essential. In this brief exploratory study we present the pro-social practices of three Japanese nurses, each one working in a different setting that brings specific opportunities for pro-sociality. The findings can serve as a starting point for more focused, context-specific studies on pro-sociality in outpatient, residential, or day care.
Drawing on the Victorians: The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts“, eds. Anna Maria Jones & Rebecca N. Mitchell (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2017)
Creators: name: Scott (University Of St. Thomas), Shannon
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 8 (2018): Forgery and Imitation
Oscar Wilde’s Chatterton: Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery“, by Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell (London: Yale University Press, 2015)
Creators: name: Patnaik (Birla Institute Of Technology And Science, Pilani), Anhiti
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 8 (2018): Forgery and Imitation
The Secret Theatre of Suburbia: Identity and Roleplay in Wilkie Collins’s Basil“
Creators: name: Stewart (University Of Aberdeen, Scotland), Derek F
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2018

description: Victorian popular novelist Wilkie Collins was, like many other writers of the period, fascinated with the stage. Amongst the literal dramatic activities that he engaged in, Collins was, for example, a keen amateur actor, and he regularly wrote theatrical reviews. This essay seeks to contextualise Collins’s knowledge of acting alongside his depiction of the London suburbs in Basil“, his 1852 novel of modern life. In this text, Collins’s presentation of the city as a kind of theatre is prominently established in a key scene where he describes domestic unrest within the imaginary suburban location of Hollyoake Square as ‘the secret theatre of home’. While Collins’s evocation of the theatrical metaphor to superimpose urban with theatrical space is effective in augmenting the novel’s central theme of identity, I demonstrate with close attention to conventions of the popular mid-nineteenth-century stage how Collins takes this further. Developing recent criticism that has considered Collins as an urban writer, I argue London and its surrounding suburbs are, for Collins, a site of roleplay, which serves to underscore the theme of identity that is central to his work and address anxieties relating to identity and selfhood therein.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 8 (2018): Forgery and Imitation
The role of mushrooms in sustainable development
Creators: name: Milenković, Ivanka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: mushrooms
coffee residue
production
sustainability
fungal pathogens

description: Experimental proof-of-concept cultivation of Pleurotus ostreatus was performed on Ekofungi’s farm employing coffee residue delivered from South Africa. Results of the experiment are astonishing. Namely, each technological phase lasted as expected, and the cultivation cycle was realized at the optimal time. This confirms the possibility of using residue for mushroom cultivation on a medium-scale.
description: IPANEMA - 872662 - Integration of PAper-based Nucleic acid testing mEthods into Microfluidic devices for improved biosensing Applications
The Bank Nun’s Tale: Financial Forgery, Gothic Imagery, and Economic Power
Creators: name: Nesvet (University Of Wisconsin, Green Bay, USA), Rebecca
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2018

description: A Victorian urban legend maintains that ‘Miss Whitehead, the Bank Nun’, a black–clothed woman in a nun–like headdress, frequently visited the Bank of England to protest her brother’s 1812 execution for financial forgery. Well–known by 1880, the story is largely neglected by modern scholarship on the depiction of forgery. I reveal that the Bank Nun is a Victorian literary invention, the product of a series of texts that enlist Gothic imagery to debate financial forgery’s impact, prosecution, and punishment and the economic empowerment of women and working–class people. The character’s development begins with the sketch collection Streetology of London, or the Metropolitan Papers of the Itinerant Club“ (1837), which vilifies financial forgery by transforming the historical Miss Whitehead into ‘the Bank Nun’, an update of the venal nun of Gothic literature. Contesting this narrative, ‘Sweeney Todd’ creator James Malcolm Rymer’s penny novel The Lady in Black, or, the Widow and the Wife“ (1847–8) reinvents the Bank Nun as a Gothic heroine whose ordeal demonstrates that forgery prosecution oppresses the productive classes. These angelic and demonic instantiations of the Bank Nun proliferated throughout the Victorian era, generating an enduring myth.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 8 (2018): Forgery and Imitation
Minimum entropy principle guided graph neural networks
Creators: name: Yang, Zhenyu
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the mainstream way of learning graphstructured data consisting of nodes and edges. Generally, GNNs encode nodes and graphs to lower-dimensional vectorized representations for serving node-level and graphlevel downstream tasks, respectively. However, the dimension estimation issue (i.e., estimating the optimal dimension for representations) has been ignored by existing GNNs. Inappropriate representation dimensions will lead to sub-optimal performance of GNNs. To estimate the optimal representation dimensions for both node-level and graph-level representations, we propose a minimum entropy principle-guided dimension estimation framework MEDE. By considering the graph attribute and structure together, we carefully define the graph entropy of a graph. The optimal representation dimension of a single graph and its nodes can be obtained by minimizing the graph entropy. In addition, for graph representation learning involving multi-graphs, MEDE empowers GNNs to embed graphs into a candidate set of optimal graph representation dimensions, and each graph will be assigned a best-fit representation dimension. Experiments on the node and graph classification tasks and the network embedding task verify the effectiveness of minimum entropy principle-guided representation dimension estimation.
Hinweise auf Maßstäbe des Christlichen aus der Situation der Kirche in der Sowjetunion und in Russland
Creators: name: Tikhomirov, Anton
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 57 (2010): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 57
Coining Counterfeit Culture: Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market“
Creators: name: Lobdell (DePauw University, IN, USA), Nicole
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2018

description: Victorian slang is endlessly fascinating, but no readings of Goblin Market“ have considered its use of slang. This article examines Goblin Market“ through nineteenth-century slang, specifically slang connected to money and counterfeiting. For example, the phrase ‘Jimmy O’Goblin’ is nineteenth-century rhyming slang for ‘sovereign’, or a sovereign coin, and ‘fig’is slang for a mediocre counterfeit coin. Tracing elements of slang such as these situates Goblin Market“ in conversation with other counterfeiting narratives of the period. Published in the popular periodical Household Words“, Dickens’s ‘Two Chapters on Bank Note Forgeries’ (1850) about the difficulties in identifying forged banknotes, and Sidney Laman Blanchard’s ‘A Biography of a Bad Shilling’ (1851), a short story told from the perspective of counterfeit coin, conveyed mid-Victorian middle-class fascination with forgery. Goblin Market“ is different in that it focuses on middle-class anxiety. The poem relies on nineteenth-century slang, which has the ability to go undetected, in order to create a sublimated narrative about the perils of deceit. Looking at Goblin Market“ through its slang doubling reveals the hidden Victorian fears of counterfeiting and fraud, in the home and the marketplace.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 8 (2018): Forgery and Imitation
Effects of Geometry and Symmetry on Electron Transport through Graphene-Carbon-Chain Junctions
Creators: name: Dong, Yao-Jun
name: Wang, Xue-Feng
name: Zhai, Ming-Xing
name: Wu, Jian-Chun
name: Zhou, Liping
name: Han, Qin
name: Wu, Xue-Mei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electron transport between two zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) connected by carbon atomic chains has been investigated by the nonequilibrium Green's function method combined with the density functional theory. The symmetry of the orbitals in the carbon chain selects critically the modes and energies of the transporting electrons. The electron transport near the Fermi energy can be well-manipulated by the position and the number of carbon chains contacting the nanoribbons. In symmetric ZGNRs connected by a central carbon chain, a square conductance step appears at the Fermi energy because the antisymmetric modes below it are not allowed to go through the chain. These modes can additionally contribute to the conductance if side carbon chains are added in the connection. By choosing a proper geometry configuration, we can realize Ohmic contact, current stabilizer, or the negative differential resistance phenomenon in the devices.
description: 17pages, 4figures
Transport coefficients from the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model for $SU(3)_f$
Creators: name: Marty, Rudy
name: Bratkovskaya, Elena
name: Cassing, Wolfgang
name: Aichelin, Jörg
name: Berrehrah, Hamza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the shear $η(T)$ and bulk viscosities $ζ(T)$ as well as the electric conductivity $σ_e(T)$ and heat conductivity $κ(T)$ within the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model for 3 flavors as a function of temperature as well as the entropy density $s(T)$, pressure $P(T)$ and speed of sound squared $c_s^2(T)$. We compare the results with other models such as the Polyakov-Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model and the dynamical quasiparticle model (DQPM) and confront these results with lattice QCD data whenever available. We find the NJL model to have a limited predictive power for the thermodynamic variables and various transport coefficients above the critical temperature whereas the PNJL model and DQPM show acceptable results for the quantities of interest.
description: Proceeding of the talk given at SQM2013 in Birmingham, based on arXiv:1305.7180 [hep-ph]
Information quantity in a pixel of digital image
Creators: name: Kharinov, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The paper is devoted to the problem of integer-valued estimating of information quantity in a pixel of digital image. The definition of an integer estimation of information quantity based on constructing of the certain binary hierarchy of pixel clusters is proposed. The methods for constructing hierarchies of clusters and generating of hierarchical sequences of image approximations that minimally differ from the image by a standard deviation are developed. Experimental results on integer-valued estimation of information quantity are compared with the results obtained by utilizing of the classical formulas.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, 1 definition, 5 formulas
Es wird kein Mitglied der National-Versammlung in Abrede ziehen, daß die übergroße Zahl von Anträgen und namentlich von Verbesserungs-Anträgen, welche bei jeder Gelegenheit eingebracht werden, ein wahres Unglück ist. ...; [1848]
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

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