cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bistable flows in precessing spheroids
Creators: name: Cébron, D
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precession driven flows are found in any rotating container filled with liquid, when the rotation axis itself rotates about a secondary axis that is fixed in an inertial frame of reference. Because of its relevance for planetary fluid layers, many works consider spheroidal containers, where the uniform vorticity component of the bulk flow is reliably given by the well-known equations obtained by Busse in 1968. So far however, no analytical result on the solutions is available. Moreover, the cases where multiple flows can coexist have not been investigated in details since their discovery by Noir et al. (2003). In this work, we aim at deriving analytical results on the solutions, aiming in particular at, first estimating the ranges of parameters where multiple solutions exist, and second studying quantitatively their stability. Using the models recently proposed by Noir \& C{é}bron (2013), which are more generic in the inviscid limit than the equations of Busse, we analytically describe these solutions, their conditions of existence, and their stability in a systematic manner. We then successfully compare these analytical results with the theory of Busse (1968). Dynamical model equations are finally proposed to investigate the stability of the solutions, which allows to describe the bifurcation of the unstable flow solution. We also report for the first time the possibility that time-dependent multiple flows can coexist in precessing triaxial ellipsoids. Numerical integrations of the algebraic and differential equations have been efficiently performed with the dedicated script FLIPPER (supplementary material).
Exact results for Wilson loops in orbifold ABJM theory
Creators: name: Ouyang, Hao
name: Wu, Jun-Bao
name: Zhang, Jia-ju
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the exact results for circular 1/4 and 1/2 BPS Wilson loops in the $d=3$ ${\mathcal N}=4$ super Chern-Simons-matter theory that could be obtained by orbifolding Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena (ABJM) theory. The partition function of the ${\mathcal N}=4$ orbifold ABJM theory has been computed previously in the literature. In this paper, we re-derive it using a slightly different method. We calculate the vacuum expectation values of the circular 1/4 BPS Wilson loops in fundamental representation and of circular 1/2 BPS Wilson loops in arbitrary representations. We use both the saddle point approach and Fermi gas approach. The results for Wilson loops are in accord with the available gravity results.
description: V1, 19 pages, 1 figure; V2, 24 pages, 1 figure, general representations added; V3, 26 pages, no figure, published version
(101521) William Kinchin Outerbridge
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Exocytotic release from individual granules exhibits similar properties at mast and chromaffin cells
Creators: name: Wightman, R. Mark
name: Borges, Ricardo
name: Travis, Eric R.
name: Pihel, Karin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: The effects of temperature on granular secretion were studied in individual bovine adrenal chromaffin and rat peritoneal mast cells. It was found that more molecules are released from individual granules at physiological temperature than at room temperature, where such experiments are normally performed. In mast cells, there is also a dramatic decrease in the time required for exocytosis to be complete at 37 degrees C compared to room temperature. In the presence of some cations, the amount released from individual granules at room temperature from both types of cells could be altered. The amount of secretion decreased with the divalent cation zinc but increased with the monovalent cation cesium. These experiments used two electrochemical techniques: cyclic voltammetry and amperometry. With amperometry, the concentration gradient created by the electrode near the cell further increased the amount of release. Similar responses to changes in the extracellular environment in chromaffin and mast cells suggest that the mechanism of extrusion of the granule contents is similar in both cell types.
Antihypertensive effect of a nanoemulsion of baccharis dracunculifolia leaves extract in sodium-dependent hypertensive rats
Creators: name: Batista, Marcos Adriano Carlos
name: Freitas, Flavio Eduardo dias Araujo
name: de Assis Braga, Daiane Cristina
name: de Souza, Jaqueline Aparecida
name: Antunes, Vagner Roberto
name: de Souza, Gustavo Henrique Bianco
name: dos Santos, Orlando David Henrique
name: Brandão, Geraldo Celio
name: Kohlhoff, Markus
name: Ceron, Carla Speroni
name: de Moura, Sandra Aparecida Lima
name: Cardoso, Leonardo Máximo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Baccharis dracunculifolia (DC) is an important botanical source of Brazilian green propolis and have many compounds with potential antihypertensive activity. However, little is known about the specific antihypertensive properties of DC, or the mechanisms involved. Here we aimed to chemically characterise an ethanolic DC extract (eDC), test its antihypertensive properties and the involvement of neurogenic mechanisms using an animal model of salt-dependent hypertension. The chemical analysis of the eDC revealed the presence of many antihypertensive compounds. Administering the eDC in a nanoemulsion formulation (25 to 50 mg/kg) effectively normalised blood pressure in hypertensive rats. The result also suggested that neurogenic mechanisms are involved in the antihypertensive action of eDC. The treatment with p-coumaric acid (0.32 to 3 mg/kg), a polyphenol abundant in the eDC, produced no significant antihypertensive effect. The findings indicate that the eDC has antihypertensive properties, and that these effects may be mediated through neurogenic pressor mechanisms.
Mitigating spikes in fermion Monte Carlo methods by reshuffling measurements
Creators: name: Ulybyshev, Maksim
name: Assaad, Fakher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to mitigate heavy-tailed distributions in fermion Quantum Monte Carlo simulations originating from zeros of the fermion determinant. In this case the second moment of the observables might be not well defined, and we show that by merely changing the synchronization between local updates and computation of observables, one can reduce the prefactor of the heavy-tailed distribution, thus substantially suppressing statistical fluctuations of observables. We also show that the average, or the first moment, is well defined and hence is independent on our measuring scheme. The method is especially suitable for local observables similar to e.g. double occupancy, where the resulting speedup can reach two orders of magnitude. For observables, containing spatial correlators, the speedup is more moderate, but still ranges between five and ten. Our results are independent on the nature of the auxiliary field, discrete or continuous, and pave the way to improve measurement strategies for Hybrid Monte Carlo simulations.
description: A proof for the independence of the mean value on the synchronization scheme is added. The style of the figures is updated
“It is not a small thing to defeat a king”. The Servant/Messenger’s Tale in Euripides’ Electra
Creators: name: Avezzù, Guido
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2016

description: In Euripides’ Electra, the narrative of Aegisthus’ murder (774-858) is generally appreciated for its vividness. Yet, both the dialogue that precedes the speech and the speech itself constitute an exception among the messenger-speeches in Attic tragedies for their length and emphasis upon dramatized speech, respectively. Furthermore, the unexpected opposition between ‘words’ and ‘deeds’ made by Orestes himself after his victory over Aegisthus (893-4) seems to substantially relativize the dramatic convention of the messenger-speech as a whole. This essay aims at exploring (a) the complex way in which the Servant/Messenger establishes a contact with his addressees, and (b) his peculiar interlacing of diegesis and mimesis, narrative and dialogue, which suggests a distinctive metatheatrical function with symbolic implications regarding the offstage/onstage space in relation to Aegisthus’ murder.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 2 No 2 (2016): Diegesis and Mimesis
The Mass and Spin of The Extreme Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy 1H 0707-495 and Its Implications for The Trigger for Relativistic Jets
Creators: name: Done, Chris
name: Jin, Chichuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Relativistic reflection models of the X-ray spectrum of the `complex' Narrow Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) 1H 0707-495 require a high spin, moderate inclination, low mass black hole. With these parameters fixed, the observed optical/UV emission directly determines the mass accretion rate through the outer disc and hence predicts the bolometric luminosity. This is $140-260~\times$ the Eddington limit. Such a disc should power a strong wind, and winds are generically expected to be clumpy. Changing inclination angle with respect to a clumpy wind structure gives a possible explanation for the otherwise puzzling difference between `complex' NLS1 such as 1H 0707-495 and `simple' ones like PG 1244+026. Lines of sight which intercept the wind show deep absorption features at iron from the hot phase of the wind, together with stochastic dips and complex absorption when the clumps occult the X-ray source (complex NLS1), whereas both these features are absent for more face-on inclination (simple NLS1). This geometry is quite different to the clean view of a flat disc which is assumed for the spin measurements in relativistic reflection models, so it is possible that even 1H 0707-495 has low spin. If so, this re-opens the simplest and hence very attractive possibility that high black hole spin is a necessary and sufficient condition to trigger highly relativistic (bulk Lorentz factor $\sim 10-15$) jets.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. This is a much expanded version of the original paper, with much more detailed disc modelling and longer discussion of the possible role of spin in triggering jets
Introduction
Creators: name: Bigliazzi, Silvia
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2016

description: This Journal issue deals with the relation between diegesis and mimesis in drama and in genres which share aspects of drama, consciously and metatextually blending narrative and dialogue. It assumes that there exists a theoretical problem concerning different conceptions of these two notions, which derives from Plato’s and Aristotle’s different treatment of them and, today, by the opposite approaches shown by narratologists and theatre semioticians. The articles here collected do not discuss such theoretical questions. Instead, they examine the function of narration and dialogue within a selected number of significant examples foregrounding their generic, performative, and ‘ideological’ functions from the Antiquity to contemporaneity. The notion of mimesis as artistic representation is also questioned when theatre comes to interrogate the idea of counterfactuality vis-a-vis its power to construct and deconstruct our historical memories on stage. It is also explored in the context of postdramatic theatre when mimesis enters the field of a generative ontology eroding the concept itself of representation. In all cases, whether narrative on stage concerns messenger-speeches or other types of diegetic performances, diegesis is considered as a collaborative mode, rather than an antagonistic category in respect to mimetic dialogue. The introduction draws a synopsis of some of the main issues and theoretical questions currently debated by narratologists and semioticians alike, laying the ground for the following articles to explore the possibilities for a fruitful integration of diegesis and mimesis over time.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 2 No 2 (2016): Diegesis and Mimesis
Esfir Shub
Creators: Dogo, Dunja
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Esfir’ Shub was born in the town Surazhe in the Chernigovsky governatorate (which is now the Brianskaya province), in the southwest part of the Russian Empire. By the mid-1910s, she settled in Moscow to study literature at the Institute for Women’s Higher Education, where she got involved in the revolutionary movement that was becoming popular among young female students. In 1918, Shub started her career in the Soviet administration at the head office of the TEO Theatre Department of the Narkompros (People’s Commissariat of Education) although she was originally hired only for minor secretarial tasks. Having a fascination for the theatre, she began collaborating with the stage director Vsevolod Meyerhold and the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and endorsed the manifesto for a renewal of Russian theatre written by the director Evgenii Vakhtangov. Together with the poetess Nina Rukavishnikova, Shub conceived a mass pantomime involving hundreds of extras that was to be staged at the Moscow circus in 1921. During her time at the Narkompros, she also collaborated on issues of the journal Vestnik Teatr and got acquainted with the Left Front of the Arts (LEF) group. LEF was an ensemble of artists with whom Shub would be associated till the end of the decade; its founder, Mayakovsky, became one of Shub’s most vocal supporters when, in the mid-1920s, she turned her expertise to film direction. Later between 1928 and 1931 she took part in the artistic avant-garde group “October,” considered to be the last constructivist collective of the century.
Imaging fluorescence correlation spectroscopy: nonuniform IgE distributions on planar membranes
Creators: name: Thompson, Nancy L.
name: Huang, Zhengping
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy is useful for detecting and characterizing molecular clusters that are smaller than or approximately equal to optical resolution in size. Here, we report the development of an approach in which the pixel-to-pixel fluorescence fluctuations from a single fluorescence image are spatially autocorrelated. In these measurements, tetramethylrhodamine-labeled, anti-trinitrophenyl IgE antibodies were specifically bound to substrate-supported planar membranes composed of trinitrophenyl-aminocaproyldipalmitoylphosphatidylethanolamine and dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine. The antibody-coated membranes were illuminated with the evanescent field from a totally internally reflected laser beam, and the fluorescence arising from the IgE-coated membranes was recorded with a cooled CCD camera. The image was corrected for the elliptical Gaussian shape of the evanescent illumination after background subtraction. The spatial autocorrelation functions of the resulting images generated two useful parameters: the extrapolated initial values, which were related to the average cluster intensity and density; and the correlation distances, which were related to the average cluster size. These parameters varied with the IgE density, and unlabeled polyclonal anti-IgE enhanced the nonuniform IgE distributions. The autocorrelation functions calculated from images of planar membranes containing fluorescently labeled lipids rather than bound, labeled IgE demonstrated that the spatial nonuniformities were prominent only in the presence of IgE. Fluorescent beads were used to demonstrate the principles and the methods.
Matrix exponentials, SU(N) group elements, and real polynomial roots
Creators: name: Van Kortryk, T. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The exponential of an NxN matrix can always be expressed as a matrix polynomial of order N-1. In particular, a general group element for the fundamental representation of SU(N) can be expressed as a matrix polynomial of order N-1 in a traceless NxN hermitian generating matrix, with polynomial coefficients consisting of elementary trigonometric functions dependent on N-2 invariants in addition to the group parameter. These invariants are just angles determined by the direction of a real N-vector whose components are the eigenvalues of the hermitian matrix. Equivalently, the eigenvalues are given by projecting the vertices of an (N-1)-simplex onto a particular axis passing through the center of the simplex. The orientation of the simplex relative to this axis determines the angular invariants and hence the real eigenvalues of the matrix.
description: references added
SymmetryGAN: Symmetry Discovery with Deep Learning
Creators: name: Desai, Krish
name: Nachman, Benjamin
name: Thaler, Jesse
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: What are the symmetries of a dataset? Whereas the symmetries of an individual data element can be characterized by its invariance under various transformations, the symmetries of an ensemble of data elements are ambiguous due to Jacobian factors introduced while changing coordinates. In this paper, we provide a rigorous statistical definition of the symmetries of a dataset, which involves inertial reference densities, in analogy to inertial frames in classical mechanics. We then propose SymmetryGAN as a novel and powerful approach to automatically discover symmetries using a deep learning method based on generative adversarial networks (GANs). When applied to Gaussian examples, SymmetryGAN shows excellent empirical performance, in agreement with expectations from the analytic loss landscape. SymmetryGAN is then applied to simulated dijet events from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to demonstrate the potential utility of this method in high energy collider physics applications. Going beyond symmetry discovery, we consider procedures to infer the underlying symmetry group from empirical data.
description: 19 pages, 17 figures
Altered Pasts: Mimesis/Diegesis in Counterfactual Stage Worlds
Creators: name: Sugiera, Malgorzata
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2016

description: The main goal of the article is to investigate the dialogical relationship between mimesis and diegesis in contemporary counterfactual stage worlds since the mid-1980s. It focuses on an extensive analysis of the ways of subverting the spectators’ understanding of historical facts and their plausible artistic representation. That, in consequence, affects both the participants’ individual experience and its theoretical modelling, which is no longer possible without taking into consideration the corporeality of experience (time, place, and bodies of the audience). To illuminate today’s understanding of the intersection of contemporary theatre and performance with counterfactualism, three case studies have been chosen and analyzed as representative examples of different trends in challenging the ability of theatre to plausibly represent the conditions and ramifications of past periods and actions. The article starts with a close look at two contemporary historical plays: Hélène Cixous’s L’Histoire terrible mais inachevée de Norodom Sihanouk, roi du Cambodge (1985) and Suzan-Lori Parks’ The America Play (1994). The first one asks the important questions about human agency within history and truth claims of history stage representations based on the assumption of causality, insisting on past’s contingency. The second one makes visible and reflects upon the forms through which we engage the past, get access to the specific, material details of historical experience. What follows is an indepth analysis of MS 101 (ArtBoom Festival, Cracow 2015), a site-specific performance by the Polish performer and filmmaker Karol Radziszewski, clearly conceived as an experiment with counterfactual and mockumentary strategies. It premièred in the space where the real and the fictional events took place in order to gain a new vantage point on the past through friction between them, one that is inaccessible through other means. This vantage point is, then, used in a broader context of Bruno Latour’s concept of circulating references to theoretically access the relation of mimesis and diegesis in counterfactual stage worlds, built upon an active experience of the audience, and to formulate new research questions that arise as a result of this approach.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 2 No 2 (2016): Diegesis and Mimesis
(101520) Caroline Anne Bourne
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Phytochemical-mediated modulation of cancer-associated proteins: an integrated in-silico and in-vitro study
Creators: name: Soni, Manoj
name: Babu, Yangala Sudheer
name: Brahma, Mettle
name: Kumar, Vijay
name: Maruthi, Mulaka
name: Sharma, Aastha
name: Nara, Shikha
name: Sura, Kiran
name: Dangi, Mehak
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Cancer is a complex and widespread disease affecting various organs and tissues, with an expected significant increase in reported cases. Current treatments like chemotherapy and radiation therapy have limited efficacy and adverse side effects. This study investigated the multi-target therapeutic potential of seven phytochemicals against critical cancer-associated proteins. Computational docking studies analysed the binding interactions between phytochemicals and proteins, supported by in-vitro experiments on cancer cell lines. Vero cells assessed cytotoxicity, and the A549 cancer cell line evaluated anticancer activity. Cytotoxicity assessment on Vero cells revealed concentration-dependent effects of phytochemicals. Anticancer activity evaluation on the A549 cell line demonstrated the ability of certain phytochemicals to inhibit cancer cell proliferation and induce apoptosis. Cancer, Therapeutic agents, Phytochemicals, Computational docking studies, In-vitro experiments, Cytotoxicity, Anticancer activity, Chemotherapy, Vero cells, A549 cell line, multi-targeted therapeutic potential, Critical cancer-associated proteins.
Experimental generation and characterization of partially spatially coherent qubits
Creators: name: Sharma, Preeti
name: Rao, Sakshi
name: Kanseri, Bhaskar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Partially spatially coherent qubits are more immune to turbulent atmospheric conditions than coherent qubits, which makes them excellent candidates for free-space quantum communication. In this article, we report the generation of partially spatially coherent qubits in a spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) process using a Gaussian Schell model (GSM) pump beam. For this non-linear process, we demonstrate experimentally for the first time, the transfer of spatial coherence features of the pump (classical) to the biphotons (quantum) field. Also, the spatial profiles of partially coherent qubits generated in type-I and type-II non-collinear SPDC process are experimentally observed and multi-mode nature of partially coherent photons (qubit) is ascertained. These investigations pave the way toward the efficient generation of partially spatially coherent qubits with a tunable degree of spatial coherence, which lead to wide range of applications in frontier areas such as quantum cryptography, teleportation, imaging, and lithography.
description: 15 pages
Biophysical, Calorimetric, Zeta Potential, Voltammetric and Computational Insights into the Interaction of An Antimuta-genic Agent with Human Serum Albumin
Creators: name: Naik, Roopa
name: Seetharamappa, J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Several biological processes in the body involve the ligand-protein association and thereby exert a wide spectrum of pharmaceutical activities. Consequently, the research community worked hard for a long time to explore the phenomenon of drug-protein binding. Insights into the molecular and physiological processes of a flavonoid, galangin (GAL) upon binding to human serum albumin (HSA) have been explored in vitro via both experimental and theoretical approaches. GAL is a natural, multifunctional and a potential anticancer drug and HSA is a plentiful protein in the circulatory system of humans. UV absorption, calorimetric, temperature-dependent ellipticity, fluorescence lifetime decay, FRET, electrochemical, zeta potential and in silico studies were used to further investigate GAL-HSA interaction. Results of these investigations suggested the interaction between GAL and HSA. The location of GAL on HSA was identified by site probe experiments and further confirmed by molecular docking and simulation studies.
"All my plots and purposes": Staged Diegesis in Shakespearean Drama
Creators: name: Squeo, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2016

description: The relevance of narrative as a fundamental, although long undervalued aspect of Shakespearean plays has been increasingly explored by scholars in the last few decades (Rees 1978; Richardson 1988; Wilson 1995; Hardy 1997; Holland 2000). Further inquiries into the playwright’s assorted repertoire of diegetic elements (Nünning and Sommer 2011) have also been encouraged by the most recent contributions of post-Genettian, cognitive and trans-medial narratology (Fludernik 1996; Hermann 1999; Ryan 2004) that have re-conceptualized narrativity as an all-embracing human construct crossing literary genres and media. In the light of the ongoing academic debate, this article explores the dynamic interplay of diegesis and mimesis in The Merchant of Venice. A fascinating contamination of the two competitive but complementary modes pervades indeed the whole play, from Bassanio’s long narration in the opening scene (1.1.120-75) to the micro-narratives embedded in Lorenzo and Jessica’s moonlight dialogue in act five (5.1.1-24), that ironically insert the play’s supposedly happy ending within a disturbing parade of stories of unhappy lovers. Along with the numerous instances of narration in the whole Shakespearean corpus, The Merchant of Venice offers a remarkable standpoint, as this article argues, to explore the potential applications to drama of the narrative categories of perspective focalization and point of view. Shylock’s peculiar report of the Biblical story of Jacob and Laban (1.3) or Solanio and Salarino’s mocking account of the Jew’s despair after Jessica’s escape (2.8) particularly illustrate how ‘performed narrations’ may become powerful dramatic instruments for contrasting perspectives or directing sympathies. Going far beyond the mere purpose of providing off-stage information and connecting actions, the play’s several instances of staged diegesis perform a variety of dramatic functions that deserve particular attention in relation to the socio-cultural, economic, and ethical conflicts underlying the play.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 2 No 2 (2016): Diegesis and Mimesis
Imaging the traction stresses exerted by locomoting cells with the elastic substratum method
Creators: name: Ishihara, A.
name: Dembo, M.
name: Oliver, T.
name: Jacobson, K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: The cytoskeletal activity of motile or adherent cells is frequently seen to induce detectable displacements of sufficiently compliant substrata. The physics of this phenomenon is discussed in terms of the classical theory of small-strain, plane-stress elasticity. The main results of such analysis is a transform expressing the displacement field of the elastic substrate as an integral over the traction field. The existence of this transform is used to derive a Bayesian method for converting noisy measurements of substratum displacement into "images" of the actual traction forces exerted by adherent or locomoting cells. Finally, the Monte Carlo validation of the statistical method is discussed, some new rheological studies of films are presented, and a practical application is given.
Neural networks based on ultrafast time-delayed effects in exciton-polaritons
Creators: name: Mirek, Rafał
name: Opala, Andrzej
name: Furman, Magdalena
name: Król, Mateusz
name: Tyszka, Krzysztof
name: Seredyński, Bartłomiej
name: Pacuski, Wojciech
name: Suffczyński, Jan
name: Szczytko, Jacek
name: Matuszewski, Michał
name: Piętka, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that time-delayed nonlinear effects in exciton-polaritons can be used to construct neural networks where information is coded in optical pulses arriving consecutively on the sample. The highly nonlinear effects are induced by time-dependent interactions with the excitonic reservoir. These nonlinearities allow to create a nonlinear XOR logic gate that can perform operations on the picosecond timescale. An optoelectronic neural network based on the constructed logic gate performs classification of spoken digits with a high accuracy rate.
Insights into the complex association of bovine factor Va with acidic-lipid-containing synthetic membranes
Creators: name: Krishnaswamy, Sriram
name: Wu, Jogin R.
name: Lentz, Barry R.
name: Mann, Kenneth G.
name: Cutsforth, Gwyn A.
name: Koppaka, Vishwanath
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: The mechanism of binding of blood coagulation cofactor factor Va to acidic-lipid-containing membranes has been addressed. Binding isotherms were generated at room temperature using the change in fluorescence anisotropy of pyrene-labeled bovine factor Va to detect binding to sonicated membrane vesicles containing either bovine brain phosphatidylserine (PS) or 1,2-dioleoyl-3-sn-phosphatidylglycerol (DOPG) in combination with 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-3-sn-phosphatidylcholine (POPC). The composition of the membranes was varied from 0 to 40 mol% for PS/POPC and from 0 to 65 mol % for DOPG/POPC membranes. Fitting the data to a classical Langmuir adsorption model yielded estimates of the dissociation constant (Kd) and the stoichiometry of binding. The values of Kd defined in this way displayed a maximum at low acidic lipid content but were nearly constant at intermediate to high fractions of acidic lipid. Fitting the binding isotherms to a two-process binding model (nonspecific adsorption in addition to binding of acidic lipids to sites on the protein) suggested a significant acidic-lipid-independent binding affinity in addition to occupancy of three protein sites that bind PS in preference to DOPG. Both analyses indicated that interaction of factor Va with an acidic-lipid-containing membrane is much more complex than those of factor Xa or prothrombin. Furthermore, a change in the conformation of bound pyrene-labeled factor Va with surface concentration of acidic lipid was implied by variation of both the saturating fluorescence anisotropy and the binding parameters with the acidic lipid content of the membrane. Finally, the results cannot support the contention that binding occurs through nonspecific adsorption to a patch or domain of acidic lipids in the membrane. Factor Va is suggested to associate with membranes by a complex process that includes both acidic-lipid-specific and acidic-lipid-independent sites and a protein structure change induced by occupancy of acidic-lipid-specific sites on the factor Va molecule.
Friedrich Laux, Die Äxte und Beile in Niedersachsen I
Creators: name: Rassmann, Knut
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2023

description: Rezension zu: Friedrich Laux, Die Äxte und Beile in Niedersachsen I (Flach-, Randleisten- und Absatzbeile). Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Abteilung IX, Band 23. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2000. 124,- €. ISBN 3-515-07177-6. 239 Seiten mit 101 Tafeln.
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 82 Nr. 2 2004(2005)
Sarcoplasmic reticulum lumenal Ca2+ has access to cytosolic activation and inactivation sites of skeletal muscle Ca2+ release channel
Creators: name: Tripathy, Ashutosh
name: Meissner, Gerhard
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: The effects of sarcoplasmic reticulum lumenal (trans) Ca2+ on cytosolic (cis) ATP-activated rabbit skeletal muscle Ca2+ release channels (ryanodine receptors) were examined using the planar lipid bilayer method. Single channels were recorded in symmetric 0.25 M KCl media with K+ as the major current carrier. With nanomolar [Ca2+] in both bilayer chambers, the addition of 2 mM cytosolic ATP greatly increased the number of short channel openings. As lumenal [Ca2+] was increased from < 0.1 microM to approximately 250 microM, increasing channel activities and events with long open time constants were seen at negative holding potentials. Channel activity remained low at positive holding potentials. Further increase in lumenal [Ca2+] to 1, 5, and 10 mM resulted in a decrease in channel activities at negative holding potentials and increased activities at positive holding potentials. A voltage-dependent activation by 50 microM lumenal Ca2+ was also observed when the channel was minimally activated by < 1 microM cytosolic Ca2+ in the absence of ATP. With microM cytosolic Ca2+ in the presence or absence of 2 mM ATP, single-channel activities showed no or only a weak voltage dependence. Other divalent cations (Mg2+, Ba2+) could not replace lumenal Ca2+. On the contrary, cytosolic ATP-activated channel activities were decreased as lumenal Ca2+ fluxes were reduced by the addition of 1-5 mM BaCl2 or MgCl2 to the lumenal side, which contained 50 microM Ca2+. An increase in [KCl] from 0.25 M to 1 M also reduced single-channel activities. Addition of the "fast" Ca2+ buffer 1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethanetetraacetic acid (BAPTA) to the cls chamber increased cytosolic ATP-, lumenal Ca(2+)-activated channel activities to a nearly maximum level. These results suggested that lumenal Ca2+ flowing through the skeletal muscle Ca2+ release channel may regulate channel activity by having access to cytosolic Ca2+ activation and Ca2+ inactivation sites that are located in "BAPTA-inaccessible" and "BAPTA-accessible" spaces, respectively.
Buckling of paramagnetic chains in soft gels
Creators: name: Huang, Shilin
name: Pessot, Giorgio
name: Cremer, Peet
name: Weeber, Rudolf
name: Holm, Christian
name: Nowak, Johannes
name: Odenbach, Stefan
name: Menzel, Andreas M.
name: Auernhammer, Günter K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the magneto-elastic coupling behavior of paramagnetic chains in soft polymer gels exposed to external magnetic fields. To this end, a laser scanning confocal microscope is used to observe the morphology of the paramagnetic chains together with the deformation field of the surrounding gel network. The paramagnetic chains in soft polymer gels show rich morphological shape changes under oblique magnetic fields, in particular a pronounced buckling deformation. The details of the resulting morphological shapes depend on the length of the chain, the strength of the external magnetic field, and the modulus of the gel. Based on the observation that the magnetic chains are strongly coupled to the surrounding polymer network, a simplified model is developed to describe their buckling behavior. A coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation model featuring an increased matrix stiffness on the surfaces of the particles leads to morphologies in agreement with the experimentally observed buckling effects.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Between Mimesis and Diegesis in Sixteenth-Century Italy: the Case of Girolamo Parabosco
Creators: name: Palma, Flavia
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2016

description: In Renaissance Italy the debate on literary genres almost ignored the novella form and while this theoretical void allowed for freedom in composition, it also caused generic confusion and brought forth peculiar overlaps between novellas and dramas. Girolamo Parabosco (1524-57) is a case in point of this peculiar commixture. The seventeen tales of his collection, entitled I diporti, and his eight comedies partially share common plots, but, if in sixteenth-century Italy tales normally inspired the composition of dramas, Parabosco actually wrote his plays before the novellas, following a quite unusual practice. The employment of dialogues and narrations in these texts is also peculiar; following Boccaccio’s example, many writers blended narrations and direct speeches in order to achieve a vivid representation of the events, while the novellas Parabosco derived from his comedies (7, 9, 13, and 15) are sparing in dialogues and may be defined as notably diegetic and particularly attentive to the narrator’s ‘ideological’ function (Genette 1980: 256) which emerges as especially prominent. In order to differentiate his novellas from their dramatic sources, he originally exploited the moods of speech and provided his readers with a‘new’ product, thus indulging their tastes. Looking at his comedies, this hypothesis may be further supported by the presence of ‘canonical’ soliloquies in addition to clearly narrative ones. Parabosco might have considered the latter to be perfectly suitable for dramatic mimesis, a strategy he possibly derived from the contemporary commedia dell’arte scenarios, at which he also looked in order to satisfy his audience’s taste for this kind of popular theatre.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 2 No 2 (2016): Diegesis and Mimesis
(101517) Henry Lawrence Ormerod
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Revealing a quantum feature of dimensionless uncertainty in linear and quadratic potentials by changing potential intervals
Creators: name: Kheiri, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As an undergraduate exercise, in an article (2012 Am. J. Phys. $\bf{80}$ 780-14), quantum and classical uncertainties for dimensionless variables of position and momentum were evaluated in three potentials: infinite well, bouncing ball, and harmonic oscillator. While original quantum uncertainty products depend on ${\rm{\hbar}}$ and the number of states ($n$), a dimensionless approach makes the comparison between quantum uncertainty and classical dispersion possible by excluding ${\rm{\hbar}}$. But the question is whether the uncertainty still remains dependent on quantum number $n$. In the above-mentioned article, there lies this contrast, on the one hand, the dimensionless quantum uncertainty of the potential box approaches classical dispersion only in the limit of large quantum numbers ($n\to \infty $)-consistent with the correspondence principle. On the other hand, similar evaluations for bouncing ball and harmonic oscillator potentials are equal to their classical counterparts independent of $n$. This equality may hide the quantum feature of low energy levels. In the current study, we change the potential intervals in order to make them symmetric for the linear potential and non-symmetric for the quadratic potential. As a result, it is shown in this paper that the dimensionless quantum uncertainty of these potentials in the new potential intervals is expressed in terms of quantum number $n$. In other words, the uncertainty requires the correspondence principle in order to approach the classical limit. Therefore, it can be concluded that the dimensionless analysis, as a useful pedagogical method, does not take away the quantum feature of the n-dependence of quantum uncertainty in general. Moreover, our numerical calculations include the higher powers of the position for the potentials.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures
Temporally resolved, independent stages of individual exocytotic secretion events
Creators: name: Wightman, R. Mark
name: Amatore, Christian
name: Pihel, Karin
name: Schroeder, Timothy J.
name: Finnegan, Jennifer M.
name: Borges, Ricardo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: The stages of the complex events involved in exocytotic secretion after vesicle-cell membrane fusion have been examined at the level of individual vesicles. Catecholamine flux from single bovine adrenal medullary cells was measured with carbon-fiber microelectrodes firmly touching the cell surface. The data reveal that secretion during exocytotic events has three distinct stages: a small increase in catecholamine flux, a rapid, but not instantaneous, rise to a maximum, followed by an exponential decrease in the flux. These stages are interpreted in the following ways. The initial stage corresponds to catecholamine secretion through a fusion pore. The rate of pore expansion appears to control the rise time of the flux to its maximum value. The final exponential stage is consistent with chemical dissociation of the intravesicular matrix or gel.
Transmorphisms in Sarah Kane’s Cleansed and Laura Wade’s Breathing Corpses
Creators: name: Dimitrova, Zornitsa
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2016

description: This article shows how postdramatic works for the theatre invite us into conceptual regions wherein the distinction between the diegetic and the mimetic modes is effectively blurred. Not only does this interfusion of mimesis and diegesis make the boundaries between the ‘fictitious’ theatrical reality and the non-theatrical somewhat permeable, but it also invites us to re-conceptualize mimesis as an act of production within a work. This auto-generative mimesis accounts for a elfpropelled, non-purposive, and fluxional becoming that allows a given arrangement within a play to ever constitute itself anew. In order to arrive at a definition of mimesis as a dynamic constitutive motion from within a work, I look at the generative ontology of philosopher Gilles Deleuze and his concept of ‘expression’. This type of mimesis becomes capable of showing how plays are involved in selfconstitutive processes that recompose their fabric from within. In being such, mimesis assumes the role of a generative force in the composition of literary worlds in drama.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 2 No 2 (2016): Diegesis and Mimesis
title: Zeugen der Furttaler Industrialisierung
title: Werden, Veränderung und Vergehen von Industriebetrieben
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Egi, Werner
name: Mulle, Peter
name: Stofer, Walter
name: Feier-Erni, Erika
name: Günter, Hans
name: Häberling, Erhard
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 330 Wirtschaft
subject: 949 Geschichte anderer Teile Europas
subject: Furttal
subject: Industrialisierung
subject: Blockmetall AG
subject: Gretag (Regensdorf)
subject: Jelmoli AG
subject: Willi Studer AG
subject: Revox AG
subject: Studer, Willi

description: Enthält: Amrein Apparate AG, Regensdorf von Werner Egi ; Blockmetall AG, Buchs von Peter Mulle ; Gretag AG, Regensdorf von Walter Stofer ; Jelmoli Lager- und Bürohaus, Otelfingen von Dr. Erika Feier-Erni ; Steinfabrik Watt von Hans Günter ; Studer und Revox, Regensdorf von Erhard Häberling