cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Geometrical Evaluation of Star Products
Creators: name: Zachos, Cosmas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The geometric picture of the star-product based on its Fourier representation kernel is utilized in the evaluation of chains of star-products and the intuitive appreciation of their associativity and symmetries. Such constructions appear even simpler for a variant asymmetric product, and carry through for the standard star-product supersymmetrization.
description: 6 pages, LaTeX2e
ASSOCIATION OF INSULIN RESISTANCE AND SERUM 25–OH VITAMIN-D IN INDIAN WOMEN WITH POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME
Creators: name: AMAR NAGESH KUMAR
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110199 Medical Biochemistry and Metabolomics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Introduction: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrinological disorder in women of
reproductive age group. It is the leading cause of infertility in females presenting a wide range of clinicalmanifestations. Aim: To investigate the glycaemic status, calcium, phosphorus, insulin and 25- OH vitamin D levels in womenwith polycystic ovary syndrome and to compare these parameters with age and BMI matched healthy controlwomen. To find out the correlation between insulin resistance and vitamin D among PCOS women.Materials and Methods: The study comprised of 80 newly diagnosed polycystic ovary syndrome women inthe age range of 23 to 33 years. The biochemical parameters measured in the study includes fasting bloodsugar, fasting insulin, calcium, phosphorus and vitamin D. The values obtained were compared with equalnumber of age and body mass indexed (BMI) matched healthy controls.Results and Discussion: In the present study the levels of fasting glucose, fasting insulin were increased,whereas serum calcium and 25 – OH vitamin D levels were decreased in PCOS women when compared withhealthy controls. Though serum phosphorous levels appear to be decreased in PCOS women, it is notstatistically significant when compared to controls. Conclusion: A high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and low calcium levels were observed in PCOS womenfrom our population when compared to controls. Insulin resistance was predominantly seen in PCOS subjectswhen compared with controls, indicating the association of vitamin D levels with insulin resistance.
The Consumer Psychology of Fun
Creators: Oh, Tae Seok
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Consumers--Attitudes--Research
subject: Amusements
subject: Selfies (Photography)
subject: Consumers' preferences

description: From amusement parks to casinos, cruises to video games, large sectors of the economy market consumer fun. Yet surprisingly, little research has been devoted to understanding the consumer psychology of fun—both the experience and its main psychological drivers in marketplace settings. This dissertation aims to develop a psychological theory of consumer fun that can help inform how fun experiences are engineered and managed by both businesses and consumers. I use a multimethod approach combining in-depth interviews and narrative analyses with controlled experiments, structural equation modeling, and field data analysis of consumer selfies. Two psychological pillars of consumer fun are identified: (1) hedonic engagement and (2) a sense of liberation. Each pillar in turn rests on two sub-pillars: (1a) perception of novelty and (1b) connectedness, and (2a) a sense of spontaneity and (2b) impressions of boundedness. My dissertation research shows that fun is an experience of liberating engagement, a temporary release from psychological restriction via a hedonically engaging activity. Importantly, a digital ethnography of consumer selfies showed that compared to other positive experiences such as happiness, pride, or relaxation, fun is much more likely to be situated in commercial settings, thus substantiating the business relevance of fun. Through five experiments, I show that marketers can engineer fun by directly activating feelings of liberation through situational cues such as boundedness. Using a proprietary dataset by Brand Asset Valuator, I show that fun emerges as a major brand image attribute that is significantly related to brand preference and key financial outcomes such as revenue. Broadly, my dissertation reveals that fun leads to increased consumer well-being, independently from the meaningful, eudaimonic path toward happiness.
The Contemporary Chinese Art Dilemma: From Communist Government Control to Capitalist Market Control
Creators: Huang, Lisa
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Propaganda in art
Art, Modern
Art

description: This thesis will explore the effects of Chinese globalization and modernization on contemporary Chinese art. Contemporary Chinese art is an important case study because of its unusual development. Unlike western art practices, which grew out of gradual historical evolution of the traditional canon, contemporary Chinese art finds its origins in 1976 at the end of the Cultural Revolution. During Mao Zedong’s governance of the Communist Party of China from 1949 to 1976, Chinese culture was virtually eliminated save officially sanctioned propaganda art. Thus at the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, Chinese art found itself at a tabula rasa. The events following the revolution encouraged artists to take inspiration from western art and philosophy, incorporating western techniques into their discussion of the Chinese experience. Although contemporary Chinese art appropriates western practices, the foundational history of the art differs vastly from that of the west. Unlike contemporary western art, which developed as a series of reactions against previous movements, contemporary Chinese art has grown out of a desire to find alternative modes of expression in attempt to discuss the Chinese experience. Central to the discussion of contemporary Chinese art is the introduction of global arts institutions such as the market to artistic concerns. Beyond the country’s new cultural beginnings, China’s shift from a communist to a capitalist state has brought forth significant complications regarding the production, circulation, and distribution of art.
Lipid profile level on the second day of acute MI.pdf
Creators: name: AMAR NAGESH KUMAR
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110104 Medical Biochemistry: Lipids
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: The main objective of this study is to note the changes that occur in the lipid profile levels following an acute myocardial ischemic attack and also correlate the changes in the lipid profile levels to the ischemic markers (Cardiac troponin-I and AST). The study included two groups; the first group consisted of 50 patients who were admitted to the hospital with Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI). The second group patients were normal healthy controls. Serum levels of Cardiac troponin-I (cTnI) and AST were assessed immediately and 12hrs fasting blood drawn for assessing the lipid profile levels. The patients with AMI had shown significant rise in cTnI and AST and the lipid parameterslike High density lipoprotein (HDL) had shown significant decrease and the Very Low Density Lipoprotein (VLDL) and triglycerides (TG) had shown significant increase in cases compared to normal healthy individuals. Total Cholesterol (TC) and Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) in cases had shown decrease compare to controls but not significant statistically. The cTnI showed a significant negative correlation with decrease in the TC and HDL and LDL. The AST showed significant negative correlation with TC and LDL only. So routine diagnosis of lipid parameter for assessing the clinical risk should be reliably assessed within 24 hours and the lipid parameters assessed after 24 hours are invalid for risk assessment for patients with AMI.
Perfect fluid and test particle with spin and dilatonic charge in a Weyl-Cartan space
Creators: name: Babourova, O. V.
name: Frolov, B. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equation of perfect dilaton-spin fluid motion in the form of generalized hydrodynamic Euler-type equation in a Weyl-Cartan space is derived. The equation of motion of a test particle with spin and dilatonic charge in the Weyl-Cartan geometry background is obtained. The peculiarities of test particle motion in a Weyl-Cartan space are discussed.
description: 25 July 1997. - 9 p. Some corrections in the text and formulars (2.4) and (2.8) are perfomed, the results being unchanged
Novel constraints on $ΔL=1$ interactions from neutrino masses
Creators: name: Borzumati, Francesca
name: Lee, Jae Sik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reanalyze the constraints imposed on lepton-number violating interactions by radiative contributions to neutrino masses at the one- and two-loop level in supersymmetric models without R-parity. The interactions considered are the $ΔL=1$ superpotential operators $λ_{ijk} L_i L_j E^c_k$ and $λ^\prime_{ijk} L_i Q_j D^c_k$, and the $ΔL=1$ soft terms $A_{ijk} \tilde{L}_i \tilde{L}_j \tilde{E}^c_k$ and $A_{ijk}^\prime \tilde{L}_i \tilde{Q}_j \tilde{D}^c_k$. It is shown how the constraints on the couplings $λ_{ijk}$ and $λ^\prime_{ijk}$ coming from the one-loop analysis can be evaded. In such a case, the two-loop contributions to neutrino masses become important. The combined one- and two-loop analysis yields constraints on the couplings $λ_{i33}$ and $λ^\prime_{i33}$ that are rather difficult to escape. The two-loop analysis yields also new constraints on $A_{i33}$ and $A^\prime_{i33}$, which are not bounded at the one-loop level. More freedom remains for couplings $λ_{ijk}$, $λ^\prime_{ijk}$, and $A_{ijk}$, $A^\prime_{ijk}$, when $j$ and $k$ are first- or second-generation indices.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures, and 2 tables. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
A Born-Infeld Scalar and a Dynamical Violation of the Scale Invariance from the Modified Measure Action
Creators: name: Vulfs, T. O.
name: Guendelman, E. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting with a simple two scalar field system coupled to a modified measure that is independent of the metric, we, first, find a Born-Infeld dynamics sector of the theory for a scalar field and second, show that the initial scale invariance of the action is dynamically broken and leads to a scale charge nonconservation, although there is still a conserved dilatation current.
description: 10 pages
Senecio schweinfurthii O. Hoffm.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Senecio
Senecio schweinfurthii

description: Senecio schweinfurthii O.Hoffm.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: BZ, UMF, HZ, AZ, NZ; 2 200–4 900 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Chogoria Track, near Waterfall, Alt. 3 184 m, 25 Jan. 2015, SAJIT 002823 (HIB).
Reference: Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
The Consumer Dictator: Theories and Representations of Agency in Neoliberal Argentina, 2001-2010
Creators: Dzaman, Jessica Cullen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Neoliberalism
subject: Latin American literature
subject: Latin Americans

description: This dissertation examines the co-evolution of consumption and production as competing models of agency in Argentine culture in the era of global consumer capitalism. Tracing the influence of several key political and intellectual developments in Latin America, the US, and Europe on the symbolic language of regional politics, I map out how participation in the global consumer market came to be understood as an expression of power and authority in the context of Argentina's disastrous experiment with neoliberalism in the last three decades of the 20th century. Then, using films and literary texts including works by Lisandro Alonso, Adrián Caetano, and Aníbal Jarkowski together with critical projects by George Yúdice and Josefina Ludmer, I examine how a model of subjectivity that exaggerates the economic, social, and cultural agency of consumers has managed to persist in Argentina's cultural imagination despite growing disillusionment with the neoliberal model and the disenfranchisement of the nation's consumers. Through close readings that reveal work as the site of a restored order that is ultimately incomplete, fantastical, and contradictory, I show how the myth of the consumer dictator perpetuates itself through a system of intellectual values, including abstract, absolutist visions freedom and tolerance, that isolate the subject and divert communication, inscribing an extreme version of consumer agency even upon production itself. Together, these instances of interrupted reform suggest that a model of agency suited to the era of global
      consumer capitalism must understand production and consumption not as alternative options, but as distinct, integral modes of creativity.
Correlation functions and boundary conditions in RCFT and three-dimensional topology
Creators: name: Felder, Giovanni
name: Fröhlich, Jürg
name: Fuchs, Jürgen
name: Schweigert, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a general construction of correlation functions in rational conformal field theory on a possibly non-orientable surface with boundary in terms of 3-dimensional topological quantum field theory. The construction applies to any modular category. It is proved that these correlation functions obey modular and factorization rules. Structure constants are calculated and expressed in terms of the data of the modular category.
description: latex, 45 pages. The new version has a new introduction and various minor corrections
Emerging Raman spectroscopy and saliva-based diagnostics: from challenges to applications
Creators: name: Buchan, Emma
name: Hardy, Mike
name: de Carvalho Gomes, Paulo
name: Kelleher, Liam
name: Chu, Hin On Martin
name: Oppenheimer, Pola Goldberg
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Space Science
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: The study of salivary manifestation of various health disorders via Raman spectroscopy, as a noninvasive molecular sensing technique to analyze molecular signatures in the saliva projections of health, is an emerging field of investigation of combined spectroscopy-biofluidics for early-diagnostics and monitoring, enabling structural and chemical biomarkers to be monitored overtime to predict prognosis for translation to real-world sensing applications. Here, we review the potential uses in healthcare, illicit drug detection, forensics and dental/orthodontic uses, and expound the specific challenges related to the detection of certain classes of biomolecules or smaller compounds. We highlight the potential of extracellular vesicles, a salivary constituent and its potential as an emerging vehicle for medical applications. Furthermore, portable devices for Raman-saliva based detection are discussed with a specific attention on the associated microfluidic advances for miniaturization and integration of such technologies and multimodal systems are examined. Given the low concentrations of target analytes and thus, the high analytical sensitivity required, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) methods are noted across the different application areas and for development of portable devices.
Fundamental Matter and the Deconfining Phase Transition in 2+1 D
Creators: name: Dunne, Gerald V.
name: Kovner, Alex
name: Nishigaki, Shinsuke M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the effect of heavy fundamentally charged particles on the finite temperature deconfining phase transition in the 2+1 dimensional Georgi-Glashow model. We show that in the presence of fundamental matter the transition turns into a crossover. The near critical theory is mapped onto the 2 dimensional Ising model in an external magnetic field. Using this mapping we determine the width of the crossover region as well as the specific heat as a function of the fundamental mass.
description: 7 pp, REVTeX4. Comment and references added (v2)
Organisation, Personal und Geschäftsanfall bei den Gerichten und Staatsanwaltschaften im Freistaat Sachsen 2013
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Justiz , Sachsen , Statistik
subject: 360

description: Diese Veröffentlichung beinhaltet die Ergebnisse der Justizgeschäftsstatistiken, die zu den koordinierten Länderstatistiken gehören und bundeseinheitlich durchgeführt werden. Um die Organe der Justizverwaltung, die gesetzgebenden Körperschaften und die Öffentlichkeit mit den notwendigen Informationen versorgen zu können, werden ausgewählte Daten über die ordentliche Gerichtsbarkeit, Fachgerichtsbarkeiten und Staatsanwaltschaften monatlich erhoben und aufbereitet. Dabei werden der Geschäftsanfall (Neuzugänge), die Geschäftsentwicklung und bei den Erledigungen detaillierte Angaben zum Verfahren erfasst. Die dargestellten Ergebnisse enthalten bei Neuzugängen und erledigten Verfahren keine Abgaben innerhalb des Gerichts. Korrekturen in den Beständen durch die Gerichte führen dazu, dass der Endbestand eines Jahres vom Anfangsbestand des darauf folgenden Jahres abweichen kann. Seit 1993 bzw. 1994 liegen in Sachsen verlässliche Jahresergebnisse vor.
From 2D Integrable Systems to Self-Dual Gravity
Creators: name: Dunajski, M.
name: Mason, L. J.
name: Woodhouse, N. M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explain how to construct solutions to the self-dual Einstein vacuum equations from solutions of various two-dimensional integrable systems by exploiting the fact that the Lax formulations of both systems can be embedded in that of the self-dual Yang--Mills equations. We illustrate this by constructing explicit self-dual vacuum metrics on $\R^2\times Σ$, where $Σ$ is a homogeneous space for a real subgroup of $SL(2, \C)$ associated with the two-dimensional system.
description: 9 pages, LaTex, no figures
Ways of thinking about Economic Growth
Creators: name: Carlaw, Kenneth
name: Easton, Brian
name: Grimes, Arthur
name: Mare, David
name: Sautet, Frederic
name: Carlaw, Kenneth
name: Easton, Brian
name: Grimes, Arthur
name: Mare, David
name: Sautet, Frederic
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: economic growth
subject: economic development
subject: productivity
subject: innovation
subject: entrepreneur
subject: endogenous growth
subject: Austrian economics

description: The Ministry of Economic Development ran a series of seminars about economic growth in 2004. One was an economic history of economic growth in New Zealand, three were on different and sometimes contradictory conceptual ways of thinking about economic growth – endogenous growth theory, Austrian economics, and structuralist-evolutionary theory of economic growth. The final seminar outlined the lessons from the previous four seminars and drew conclusions. The papers are nontechnical and non-mathematical, and are designed for an audience with only limited knowledge of economics. This Occasional Paper brings the papers produced for the five seminars together as a resource for those interested in different ways of thinking about economic growth and development. It is intended as a companion to MED Occasional Paper 08/08.
Senecio subsessilis Oliv. & Hiern
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Senecio
Senecio subsessilis

description: Senecio subsessilis Oliv. & Hiern  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: BZ, UMF, HZ; 1 700–3 600 m. Distribution:II.
 Voucher: Chogoria Track, near Waterfall, Alt. 3 184 m, 25 Jan. 2015, SAJIT 002823 (HIB).
Reference: Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Classical Simulation of Quantum Systems
Creators: name: Van Den Nest, Maarten
name: Verstraete, Frank
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: The study of quantum computations that can be simulated efficiently classically is of interest for numerous reasons. On a fundamental level, such an investigation sheds light on the intrinsic computational power that is harnessed in quantum mechanics as compared to classical physics. More practically, understanding which quantum computations do not offer any speed-ups over classical computation provides insights in where (not) to look for novel quantum algorithmic primitives. On the other hand, classical simulation of many-body systems is a challenging task, as the dimension of the Hilbert space scales with the number of particles. Therefore, to understand the properties of the systems, suitable approximation methods need to be employed. The lectures will be divided into two parts. In the first part we discuss classical simulation of quantum computation from several perspectives. We review a number of well-known examples of classically simulatable quantum computations, such as the Gottesman-Knill theorem, matchgate simulation and tensor contraction methods. We further discuss simulation methods that are centred on classical sampling methods (‘weak simulation’), and illustrate how these techniques outperform methods that rely on the exact computation of measurement probabilities (‘strong simulation’). The second part focuses on "Entanglement and variational wavefunctions in quantum many body physics". We review the idea of entanglement in quantum many-body systems and how it helps us to understand the success of numerical renormalization group methods. In particular we will discuss a few variational wave-function based methods for simulating strongly correlated quantum systems, which include (1) matrix product states (2) multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz (3) projected entangled pair states and (4) continuous matrix product states for quantum field theories.
Enzymatic dimerization of phenylacetylene by laccase immobilized on magnetic nanoparticles via click chemistry
Creators: name: Mogharabi-Manzari, Mehdi
name: Heydari, Marjan
name: Salar Sadeghian-Abadi
name: Yousefi-Mokri, Mahsa
name: Faramarzi, Mohammad Ali
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A heterogeneous biocatalyst composed of laccase immobilized on Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles was prepared via a click chemistry reaction for dimerization of phenylacetylene. The physical and chemical characteristics of the catalyst were investigated. Yield and efficiency of immobilization were 68.7% and 76.4%, respectively. The apparent Km value of the immobilized laccase on nanoparticles was 1.5-fold greater than the value of the free enzyme, and the calculated Vmax of free and immobilized laccase was 65 mM min‒1 and 43 mM min‒1, respectively. While the free enzyme completely lost its activity, more than 60% of the initial activity of immobilized laccase was conserved after 30 days. Oxidative dimerization of phenylacetylene was performed using the prepared catalyst and 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine1-oxyl (TEMPO) as a mediator. The maximum yield was obtained at optimal conditions: immobilized laccase (100 mg, ∼80 U), TEMPO (4 mol%), 40 °C, pH 4.5, and 6 h incubation time. Additional environmental and eco-friendly aspects of this heterogeneous biocatalyst are its potential catalytic activity and ease of separation of the catalyst from the reaction mixture by an external magnetic field. HighlightsA heterogeneous biocatalyst was prepared by immobilization of laccase on Fe3O4 nanoparticles.6-Hepynoic acid was used as a linker via a click reaction.The heterogeneous biocatalyst was used in dimerization of phenylacetylene.A maximal yield was obtained after a 6 h-incubation at 40 °C and a pH of 4.5.The catalyst was reused up to 15 runs with more than 80% conversion. A heterogeneous biocatalyst was prepared by immobilization of laccase on Fe3O4 nanoparticles. 6-Hepynoic acid was used as a linker via a click reaction. The heterogeneous biocatalyst was used in dimerization of phenylacetylene. A maximal yield was obtained after a 6 h-incubation at 40 °C and a pH of 4.5. The catalyst was reused up to 15 runs with more than 80% conversion.
The Contentious Classroom: Education in Postcolonial Literature from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia
Creators: Twohig, Erin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Decolonization
Language policy
Arabs--Education
Education in literature
Comparative literature

description: My dissertation examines literary portraits of education in French- and Arabic-language literature from the Maghreb. The texts that I study recount their protagonists' experience, as students or teachers, in the school system following independence in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. I focus, in particular, on debates relating to the "Arabization" of education. Arabizing education in the Maghreb was considered a fundamental act of decolonization, yet its promotion of a single national language provoked much criticism. I examine how authors use literary depictions of the classroom to treat critical topics surrounding language policy, national identity projects, the legacy of the colonial past, and the future of the education system. The chapters of this work explore four critical issues in discussions of education: the relationship between "colonial" and "postcolonial" education systems, the place of Amazigh (Berber) minorities in an Arabized education system, the effect of education on gender dynamics, and the "economics of education" which exclude many students from social mobility. This work examines thirteen literary texts, seven written in French and six in Arabic: `Abd al-Ghani Abu al-`Azm's Al Darih and Al al Darih al-akhar, Leila Abouzeid's Ruju' ila al-tufulah and Al- Fasl al-Akhir, Wahmed Ben Younes's Yemma, Karima Berger's L'enfant des deux mondes, Maissa Bey's Bleu blanc vert, Wahiba Khiari's Nos silences, Fouad Laroui's "L'Etrange affaire du cahier bounni," Mohamed Nedali's Grâce à Jean de la Fontaine!, Brick Oussaïd's Les coquelicots de l'oriental, Habib Selmi's Jabal al-`anz, and Zohr Wanissi's Min Yawmiyat Mudarrisah Hurrah.
      	I adopt a comparative disciplinary approach, connecting the literary form of works to a larger discussion of the social roles of literature. I argue that the texts I examine are all concerned with the tension inherent in using the literary form to engage in discussion, and often critique, of the educational institutions that provide conditions for literature's existence. My dissertation elucidates the stakes of this complicated relationship between education and literature in the Maghreb, asking how it is continuing to evolve. There is a marked anxiety in each of these works as to whether the student will become a reader of the literary text. This anxiety colors approaches to all of the issues that surround education, and brings into question the place of literature in contemporary Maghrebi cultures.
Choosing a conformal frame in scalar-tensor theories of gravity with a cosmological constant
Creators: name: Fujii, Yasunori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological solutions of the Brans-Dicke theory with an added cosmological constant are investigated with an emphasis to select a conformal frame in order to implement the scenario of a decaying cosmological constant, featuring an ever growing scalar field. We focus particularly on Jordan frame, the original frame with the nonminimal coupling, and conformally transformed Einstein frame without it. For the asymptotoic attractor solutions as well as the "hesitation behavior," we find that none of these conformal frames can be accepted as the basis of analyzing primordial nucleosynthesis. As a remedy, we propose to modify the prototype BD theory, by introducing a scale-invariant scalar-matter coupling, thus making Einstein frame acceptable. The invariacne is broken as a quantum anomaly effect due to the non-gravitational interactions, entailing naturally the fifth force, characterized by a finite force-range and WEP violation. A tentative estimate shows that the theoretical prediction is roughly consistent with the observational upper bounds. Further efforts to improve the experimental accuracy is strongly encouraged.
description: Latex 29 pages, including 9 figures
Water Characteristic Curve for Soils in Kazakhstan
Creators: name: A. Satyanaga, A. B. Ibrahimi
Publisher: name: Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: Soil-water characteristic curve
Unsaturated soil mechanics
Soil properties
Soil profile

description: The Geotechnical Engineering Journal of the SEAGS & AGSSEA, 53, 4, pp 1-8
Shuffling quantum field theory
Creators: name: Kreimer, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We discuss shuffle identities between Feynman graphs using the Hopf algebra structure of perturbative quantum field theory. For concrete exposition, we discuss vertex function in massless Yukawa theory.
description: 13p, 5 fig.(eps), ref. updated, to appear in Lett.Math.Physics
Arithmetical structures on bidents
Creators: name: Archer, Kassie
name: Bishop, Abigail
name: Diaz-Lopez, Alexander
name: Puente, Luis David Garcia
name: Glass, Darren
name: Louwsma, Joel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: An arithmetical structure on a finite, connected graph $G$ is a pair of vectors $(\mathbf{d}, \mathbf{r})$ with positive integer entries for which $(\operatorname{diag}(\mathbf{d}) - A)\mathbf{r} = \mathbf{0}$, where $A$ is the adjacency matrix of $G$ and where the entries of $\mathbf{r}$ have no common factor. The critical group of an arithmetical structure is the torsion part of the cokernel of $(\operatorname{diag}(\mathbf{d}) - A)$. In this paper, we study arithmetical structures and their critical groups on bidents, which are graphs consisting of a path with two "prongs" at one end. We give a process for determining the number of arithmetical structures on the bident with $n$ vertices and show that this number grows at the same rate as the Catalan numbers as $n$ increases. We also completely characterize the groups that occur as critical groups of arithmetical structures on bidents.
description: 32 pages
Current quark mass and g-2 of muon and ee-->ππ
Creators: name: Li, Bing An
name: Wang, Jian Xiong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on an effective chiral theory of mesons the dependences of $ρ-ω$ mixing and the vertex $ωππ$ on $m_d-m_u$ are found. The form factor of pion agrees with data in both space- and time-like regions. CVC is satisfied. The values of g-2 of muon from $ππ$ channel are calculated in the range of $q^2<1.3^2 GeV^2$.
description: 14 pages anf three figures 14 pages and three figures
Mean curvature flow in asymptotically flat product spacetimes
Creators: name: Kroencke, Klaus
name: Petersen, Oliver Lindblad
name: Lubbe, Felix
name: Marxen, Tobias
name: Maurer, Wolfgang
name: Meiser, Wolfgang
name: Schnürer, Oliver C.
name: Szabó, Áron
name: Vertman, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C44 (Primary) 53C50, 58J35 (Secondary)

description: We consider the long-time behaviour of the mean curvature flow of spacelike hypersurfaces in the Lorentzian product manifold $M\times\mathbb{R}$, where $M$ is asymptotically flat. If the initial hypersurface $F_0\subset M\times\mathbb{R}$ is uniformly spacelike and asymptotic to $M\times\left\{s\right\}$ for some $s\in\mathbb{R}$ at infinity, we show that a mean curvature flow starting at $F_0$ exists for all times and converges uniformly to $M\times\left\{s\right\}$ as $t\to \infty$.
description: 23 pages, final version
The Context-Sensitivity of Rationality and Knowledge
Creators: Kim, Brian Hyun
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: My dissertation argues that the beliefs, desires, and preferences that count as rational may change from one deliberative context to another.  The argument rests on the premise that rational deliberation requires one to identify all the possibilities that are relevant to a decision problem.  How does a decision maker accomplish this task?  What impact does this demarcation have on the beliefs and desires that she uses to deliberate?  The answers I propose suggest changes to the way we view rational agents and what they know.  Appealing to empirical research and normative concerns, I argue that an agent's deliberative beliefs, desires, and preferences are "constructed'' on a case to case basis and are distinct from the agent's stable set of background attitudes.  For deliberative judgments depend upon the ways one specifies what is relevant for a decision problem and this may change from one context to the next.  Upon articulating a suitable context-sensitive view of rational decision making, I develop accounts of warranted assertion, rational full belief and knowledge that are similarly context-sensitive.  These views criticize simple constitutive norms of assertion, like the knowledge norm, and propose a way to connect degrees of belief and full belief.  In addition, the proffered account of knowledge explains how knowledge precludes epistemic luck, as required by Gettier cases, by appealing to the way the standards of knowledge vary from one deliberative context to the next.
Oxidation-precipitation of magnetic Fe3O4/AC nanocomposite as a heterogeneous catalyst for electro-Fenton treatment
Creators: name: Nazari, Pegah
name: Askari, Neda
name: Shahrbanoo Rahman Setayesh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: The oxidation-precipitation method was used for the synthesis of Fe3O4/AC. The characterization of the catalyst was accomplished by XRD, FT-IR, FE-SEM, BET, and VSM techniques. The obtained results indicated that magnetite nanoparticles were successfully prepared with cubic spinel structures and uniform distribution on the surface of activated carbon by the oxidation-precipitation method. The effect of operating parameters was evaluated to determine the optimum operating condition for the electro-Fenton (EF) removal of catechol as a phenolic pollutant model. At the optimum operating conditions (pH 3, Fe3O4/AC: 0.9 g L−1, Catechol: 8.0 × 10−4 mol L−1 at I: 120 mA), the catechol and COD removal reached 98.2 and 76.1% in 120 min, respectively. Only 2.1% of ferrous and 3.44% of ferric ions were leached into the solution. Regarding the results from utilization of oxidant scavengers (isopropanol and BQ), it can be inferred that hydroxyl radical (responsible for 57% catechol removal) and superoxide anion radical (responsible for 40% catechol removal) is the main oxidants in acidic (pH 3) and basic (pH 10) conditions, respectively. The kinetics of EF removal of catechol was studied and the rate constant for the pseudo-first-order kinetic model was found to be 3.37 × 10−2min−1 (R2 = 0.9924). The GC-MS analysis was carried out to detect the intermediate products and a possible degradation mechanism was proposed. The reusability of Fe3O4/AC was examined for six cycles. It can be concluded that Fe3O4/AC is an applicable ultimate catalyst for EF removal of organic pollutants.
The Corsair
Creators: Naka, Katherine Chiyeko
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Theater

description: I chose The Corsair as my thesis for many reasons. The fact that it’s not a play was one of the foremost and it cuts right to the core of some of my largest theatrical proclivities. It broke my heart to tell my well intentioned, very handsome and rugged looking playwriting teacher from undergrad that no; I didn’t think I was going to direct “plays”. There is something happening in live performance right now on a larger scale, and unfortunately I don’t think it has very much to do with traditional playwrights.
Additional file 1 of Megabase-scale presence-absence variation with Tripsacum origin was under selection during maize domestication and adaptation
Creators: name: Huang, Yumin
name: Huang, Wei
name: Meng, Zhuang
name: Braz, Guilherme Tomaz
name: Li, Yunfei
name: Wang, Kai
name: Wang, Hai
name: Lai, Jinsheng
name: Jiang, Jiming
name: Dong, Zhaobin
name: Jin, Weiwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Hi-C interaction matrix near representative PAVs with different B73 genome assembly version. Figure S2. Genotype variation and percentage of presence bin among different lines in the other representative B73 PVs. Figure S3. Genotype variation and percentage of presence bin among different lines in the other representative Mo17 PVs. Figure S4. Syntenic dotplot between B73 AGPv4 (Chr6) and genomes of PH207, B104, Mo17, W22, 24 NAM founders and some other outgroup species (rice and setaria). Figure S5. The majority of RegionA genes are either completely present or absent in diversity lines. Figure S6. RegionA genotypes in the diversity panel of maize. Figure S7. Characteristics of RegionA transposable elements. Figure S8. Gene flow detected among Tripsacum and Zea for (a-b) RegionA when (a) m=2 and (b) m=3; for (c-e) maize whole chromosome 6 when (c) m=1, (d) m=2 and (e) m=3. Figure S9. Absolute sequence divergence (dxy) between Tripsacum and Zea. Figure S10. Genetic diversity and selection signals among different populations. Figure S11. Transcription profiling of the genes in PAVs by RNA-seq for (a-c) diploid cells and (d-f) triploid cells. Figure S12. Histone modification change with PAVs genes in (a-i) seedling shoot (diploid cells) and (j-m) 12 DAP endosperm (triploid cells) dissected from B73, Mo17 and the reciprocal hybrids. Figure S13. Venn diagram of intersections of non-additive RegionA genes in different tissues. Figure S14. Schematic diagram shows genotype of the B73-Mo17 Near-Isogenic Lines (NILs) and their parental inbreds selected for transcriptome sequencing. Figure S15. Transcriptomic response resulting from the RegionA PAV on the genome background. Figure S16. Presence or absence of RegionA was significantly associated with altitude of maize landrace. Figure S17. FISH analysis of the relative localization of the RegionA (red signal, marked as Oligo) and 45S rDNA (green signal, marked as 45S) on metaphase chromosomes of Zea genus and Tripsacum.
Parabolic orbits in Celestial Mechanics: a functional-analytic approach
Creators: name: Boscaggin, Alberto
name: Dambrosio, Walter
name: Feltrin, Guglielmo
name: Terracini, Susanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37J45, 37N05, 70F10, 70F15

description: We prove the existence of half-entire parabolic solutions, asymptotic to a prescribed central configuration, for the equation \begin{equation*} \ddot{x} = \nabla U(x) + \nabla W(t,x), \qquad x \in \mathbb{R}^{d}, \end{equation*} where $d \geq 2$, $U$ is a positive and positively homogeneous potential with homogeneity degree $-α$ with $α\in\mathopen{]}0,2\mathclose{[}$, and $W$ is a (possibly time-dependent) lower order term, for $\vert x \vert \to +\infty$, with respect to $U$. The proof relies on a perturbative argument, after an appropriate formulation of the problem in a suitable functional space. Applications to several problems of Celestial Mechanics (including the $N$-centre problem, the $N$-body problem and the restricted $(N+H)$-body problem) are given.
description: 32 pages
A comparison of two discrete mKdV equations
Creators: name: Chandre, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider here two discrete versions of the modified KdV equation. In one case, some solitary wave solutions, Bäcklund transformations and integrals of motion are known. In the other one, only solitary wave solutions were given, and we supply the corresponding results for this equation. We also derive the integrability of the second equation and give a transformation which links the two models.
description: 2 pages, REVTeX
The Cost of Global Competitiveness: Assessing the Impacts of Special Economic Zone Policy on the Working Class in Bangalore
Creators: George, Jessica
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: City planning
Labor economics

description: Bangalore has been lauded as a positive example of economic development in the global South because of its success in attracting investment and fostering the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as well as multi-national corporations (MNCs). The trend of economic liberalization and deregulation within Bangalore in particular has been furthered by the establishment of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) within which firms who operate are granted a variety of tax and duty exemptions, as well as exceptions from several labor laws. This has thereby resulted in tremendous economic growth within the city and established Bangalore as a major global hub of innovation. Simultaneously with the rise of a growing middle class however, inequality has grown within the city, as lucrative opportunities cater to a particular segment of society possessing certain levels of higher educational attainment and skills. The establishment of SEZs has undermined many of the labor rights that have long been established in India for the sake of economic growth. This study examines why individuals choose to work in high-technology SEZs and how employment within these firms impacts workers. Furthermore, this study investigates how the working class has been impacted more broadly by the approach to economic development being taken within the city as exemplified by SEZ policy. It is hypothesized that laborers within SEZs are worse off than those in domestic tariff areas (DTAs) in terms of security of employment and bargaining power, but they are willing to work for firms within these zones because higher average wages translate to compounded benefits to their livelihoods. The impacts of SEZs in Bangalore are explored through a quantitative characterization of government employment and financial data, combined with qualitative data from interviews with government officials, NGOs, trade unions, private sector representatives, and blue-collar workers. Findings suggest that the primary impacts of SEZ policy on workers are the proliferation of subcontracting and associated employment insecurity, heightened barrier to entry for decent employment due to a widened skills gap, and resulting affordability challenges within the city. This study argues that there are opportunities for increased inclusivity in each of these areas existing at the intersection of interests of different stakeholder groups.
Conformal welding problem, flow line problem, and multiple Schramm--Loewner evolution
Creators: name: Katori, Makoto
name: Koshida, Shinji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60D05, 60J67, 82C22

description: A quantum surface (QS) is an equivalence class of pairs $(D,H)$ of simply connected domains $D\subsetneq\mathbb{C}$ and random distributions $H$ on $D$ induced by the conformal equivalence for random metric spaces. This distribution-valued random field is extended to a QS with $N+1$ marked boundary points (MBPs) with $N\in\mathbb{Z}_{\ge 0}$. We propose the conformal welding problem for it in the case of $N\in\mathbb{Z}_{\ge 1}$. If $N=1$, it is reduced to the problem introduced by Sheffield, who solved it by coupling the QS with the Schramm--Loewner evolution (SLE). When $N \ge 3$, there naturally appears room of making the configuration of MBPs random, and hence a new problem arises how to determine the probability law of the configuration. We report that the multiple SLE in $\mathbb{H}$ driven by the Dyson model on $\mathbb{R}$ helps us to fix the problems and makes them solvable for any $N \ge 3$. We also propose the flow line problem for an imaginary surface with boundary condition changing points (BCCPs). In the case when the number of BCCPs is two, this problem was solved by Miller and Sheffield. We address the general case with an arbitrary number of BCCPs in a similar manner to the conformal welding problem. We again find that the multiple SLE driven by the Dyson model plays a key role to solve the flow line problem.
description: 37 pages, 7 figures, to appear in J. Math. Phys