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Climate Risk in the Electricity Sector: Legal Obligations to Advance Climate Resilience Planning by Electric Utilities
Creators: name: Webb, Romany M.
name: Panfil, Michael
name: Ladin, Sarah
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Electric utilities
Electric utilities--Environmental aspects
Climatic changes--Law and legislation
Climatic changes--Risk management
Environmental law

description: Electricity generation, transmission and distribution, and load are all impacted by weather patterns. Electric system assets have been designed for historic weather conditions, with the goal of ensuring reliability and quick recovery following extreme events. However, climate change is causing major shifts in historic weather patterns and more frequent and severe extremes, which are creating new risk profiles for the electric system. Proactive climate resilience planning by electric utilities to identify, respond, and rationally allocate these climate risks is thus increasingly salient. This paper argues that it is also legally required. Recently published industry studies demonstrate that accurate, specific, and actionable climate resilience planning is possible. Nevertheless, and despite the significant benefits of climate resilience planning, relatively few electric utilities have engaged in the process. This paper explores two legal doctrines, public utility law and tort law, which we argue obligate electric utilities to plan for the impacts of climate change on their assets and operations. Public utility law requires electric utilities to meet, among other things, prudent investment and reliability standards. Tort law establishes a duty of care that obligates electric utilities to, among other things, avoid foreseeable harm when performing acts that could injure others. We argue that, as climate science becomes more precise and predictive, these legal standards take on new meaning and require electric utilities to engage in climate resilience planning.
Northward dispersal of dinosaurs from Gondwana to Greenland at the mid-Norian (215–212 Ma, Late Triassic) dip in atmospheric pCO2
Creators: name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Clemmensen, Lars B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Paleoclimatology
Paleomagnetism
Dinosaurs
Triassic Geologic Period

description: The earliest dinosaurs (theropods and sauropodomorphs) are found in fossiliferous early Late Triassic strata dated to about 230 million years ago (Ma), mainly in northwestern Argentina and southern Brazil in the Southern Hemisphere temperate belt of what was Gondwana in Pangea. Sauropodomorphs, which are not known for the entire Triassic in then tropical North America, eventually appear 15 million years later in the Northern Hemi- sphere temperate belt of Laurasia. The Pangea supercontinent was traversable in principle by terrestrial vertebrates, so the main barrier to be surmounted for dispersal between hemispheres was likely to be climatic; in particular, the intense aridity of tropical desert belts and unstable climate in the equatorial humid belt accompanying high atmospheric pCO2 that characterized the Late Triassic. We revisited the chronostratigraphy of the dinosaur- bearing Fleming Fjord Group of central East Greenland and, with additional data, produced a correlation of a detailed magnetostra- tigraphy from more than 325 m of composite section from two field areas to the age-calibrated astrochronostratigraphic polarity time scale. This age model places the earliest occurrence of sauro- podomorphs (Plateosaurus) in their northernmost range to ∼214 Ma. The timing is within the 215 to 212 Ma (mid-Norian) window of a major, robust dip in atmospheric pCO2 of uncertain origin but which may have resulted in sufficiently lowered climate barriers that facilitated the initial major dispersal of the herbivorous sau- ropodomorphs to the temperate belt of the Northern Hemisphere. Indications are that carnivorous theropods may have had dis- persals that were less subject to the same climate constraints.
On the Depolarization Factors for Anisotropic Ellipsoids in Anisotropic Media
Creators: name: Apresyan, L. A.
name: Vlasov, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A definition of depolarization factors for anisotropic ellipsoid in an anisotropic medium is considered. The expressions for these factors are derived, which generalize some results known for special cases, and differences from the usual depolarization factors for ellipsoid in isotropic medium are described. The concept of "reduced" ellipsoid, allowing visually describe the effect of the medium anisotropy on depolarization is also introduced.
description: 9 pages 1 figures
Parameterized Verification of Asynchronous Shared-Memory Systems
Creators: name: Esparza, Javier
name: Ganty, Pierre
name: Majumdar, Rupak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We characterize the complexity of the safety verification problem for parameterized systems consisting of a leader process and arbitrarily many anonymous and identical contributors. Processes communicate through a shared, bounded-value register. While each operation on the register is atomic, there is no synchronization primitive to execute a sequence of operations atomically. We analyze the complexity of the safety verification problem when processes are modeled by finite-state machines, pushdown machines, and Turing machines. The problem is coNP-complete when all processes are finite-state machines, and is PSPACE-complete when they are pushdown machines. The complexity remains coNP-complete when each Turing machine is allowed boundedly many interactions with the register. Our proofs use combinatorial characterizations of computations in the model, and in case of pushdown-systems, some language-theoretic constructions of independent interest.
description: 26 pages, International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV'13)
Circular design of composite products: a preliminary framework based on insights from literature and industry
Creators: name: Joustra, Jelle
name: Flipsen, Bas
name: Balkenende, Ruud
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik
subject: 600 Technik, Technologie
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
subject: design
subject: circular economy
subject: composite products

description: Composite materials are an attractive material choice as they enable lightweight, low maintenance products with a long lifespan. But closing the loop for these materials in a Circular Economy (CE) is challenging, especially for thermoset composites. In a CE, products should be designed for minimal impact while preserving their environmental and economic value for as long as possible. However, design strategies for composite products in a CE are currently largely unexplored. Insights from literature on design for a CE as well as on composites recovery are combined to create a set of design principles for composites in a CE. In addition to well-known long life, lifetime extension and product recovery approaches, literature indicates the potential value of structural recycling. Structural recycling preserves most of the functional value of the product, which is largely lost in materials recycling. Experts from composites industry were interviewed in focus groups to further explore CE strategies and design principles for a set of reference products, such as car interior components. The resulting framework connects Circular strategies to design principles for composite products and supports design of new composite products for use, reuse and recycling in a CE.
Three new polyketides from the endophytic fungus Penicillium purpurogenum
Creators: name: Xia, Gui-Yang
name: Wang, Ling-Yan
name: Xia, Huan
name: Wu, Yu-Zhuo
name: Wang, Ya-Nan
name: Lin, Peng-Cheng
name: Lin, Sheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
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: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Three new polyketides including two benzophenone derivatives, penibenzones A and B (1 and 2), and a new phthalide derivative, penibenzone C (3), along with six known compounds, were isolated from the solid-substrate cultures of the endophytic fungus Penicillium purpurogenum IMM003. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic data (UV, IR, HRESIMS, 1D and 2D NMR). All compounds were evaluated for inhibitory activity against pancreatic lipase, but none of them displayed activity.
A Late Permian paleopole from the Ikakern Formation (Argana basin, Morocco) and the configuration of Pangea
Creators: name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Olsen, Paul E.
name: Muttoni, Giovanni
name: Et-Touhami, Mohammed
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Paleomagnetism
Permian Geologic Period

description: The nearly 2000 m-thick Ikakern Formation is the basal sedimentary unit in the Argana basin of Morocco, consisting of fluvial red and purple conglomerates in the lower part and interbedded red conglomerates, sand- stones, siltstones and mudstones in the upper part. It unconformably overlies deformed and metamorphosed Variscan basement rocks and is unconformably overlain by the finer grained lacustrine to fluvial sediments of the?Early to Late Triassic Timesgadiouine Formation. Vertebrate fossil and chronostratigraphic constraints indi- cate a post-Kiaman, Late Permian age for at least the sampled upper member (t2) of the Ikakern Formation. A sta- ble, high unblocking temperature dual polarity characteristic magnetization that passes a local fold test gives a paleomagnetic pole for 14 sites at 48.8°N 246.3°E A95 = 7.2° after correction for inclination flattening and indi- cates a paleolatitude of 14°N for the nominal sampling location at 30.75°N 9.10°W. The Ikakern pole agrees well with poles of similar age deemed reliable in a recent assessment of published data from South America, Africa, Adria, and Australia, which together (N = 7) provide a mean Gondwana pole for an age bin centered on 260 Ma at 52.2°N 239.8°E A95 = 5.0° (NW Africa coordinates). In conjunction with a robust mean 260 Ma pole form Laurasia, these results confirm a Pangea A configuration for the Late Permian. This is in contrast to some recently published interpretations of paleomagnetic data from the Gondwanides of South America that would prolong the existence of a Pangea B configuration from the Late Carboniferous-Early Permian through the Late Permian but which instead probably reflect effects of remagnetization or local rotation.
The Clusters AgeS Experiment (CASE): The blue straggler Star M55-V60 caught amidst rapid mass exchange
Creators: name: Rozyczka, M.
name: Kaluzny, J.
name: Thompson, I. B.
name: Rucinski, S. M.
name: Pych, W.
name: Krzeminski, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze light and velocity curves of the eclipsing blue straggler V60 in the field of the globular cluster M55. We derive Mp=1.259+-0.025 Msun, Rp=1.102+-0.021 Rsun, Mbol,p=3.03+-0.09 mag for the primary and Ms=0.327+-0.017 Msun, Rs=1.480+-0.011 Rsun, Mbol,s=4.18+-0.12 mag for the secondary. We derive an apparent distance modulus (m-M)V=14.04_-0.09 mag. Based on the systemic velocity, distance, and proper motion of V60 we conclude that the system is a member of the cluster and argue that its present state is a result of rapid but conservative mass exchange which the binary is still undergoing. We report a peculiar blue excess on the ascending branch of the primary eclipse of V60 and discuss its possible origin.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, accepted by Acta Astronomica
A new xanthyletin-type coumarin from the roots of Peucedanum praeruptorum
Creators: name: Li, Xin-Yu
name: Zu, Yuan-Yuan
name: Ning, Wei
name: Tang, Ming-Xu
name: Gong, Chi
name: Niu, Sheng-Li
name: Hua, Hui-Ming
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
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: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: A new xanthyletin-type coumarin, neopeucedalactone (1), was isolated from the roots of Peucedanum praeruptorum Dunn. Its chemical structure was elucidated based on extensive spectroscopic interpretation. The absolute configurations of xanthyletin-type coumarin were determined by comparing experimental and calculated ECD spectra for the first time. Compound 1 exhibited moderate cell growth inhibitory activities in vitro against human leukemic HL-60, THP-1 cell lines, and human prostate cancer PC-3 cell lines, with IC50 values of 9.97, 27.80, and 48.68 µM, respectively.
Bethe Ansatz solution of the small polaron with nondiagonal boundary terms
Creators: name: Karaiskos, Nikos
name: Grabinski, André M.
name: Frahm, Holger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The small polaron with generic, nondiagonal boundary terms is investigated within the framework of quantum integrability. The fusion hierarchy of the transfer matrices and its truncation for particular values of the anisotropy parameter are both employed, so that the spectral problem is formulated in terms of a TQ equation. The solution of this equation for generic boundary conditions is based on a deformation of the diagonal case. The eigenvalues of the model are extracted and the corresponding Bethe Ansatz equations are presented. Finally, we comment on the eigenvectors of the model and explicitly compute the eigenstate of the model which evolves into the Fock vacuum when the off-diagonal boundary terms are switched off.
description: 24 pages, Latex; Improved presentation, an appendix and references added; Published version
Non-equilibrium dynamics of charged dual-unitary circuits
Creators: name: Foligno, Alessandro
name: Calabrese, Pasquale
name: Bertini, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interplay between symmetries and entanglement in out-of-equilibrium quantum systems is currently at the centre of an intense multidisciplinary research effort. Here we introduce a setting where these questions can be characterised exactly by considering dual-unitary circuits with an arbitrary number of $U(1)$ charges. After providing a complete characterisation of these systems we show that one can introduce a class of solvable states, which extends that of generic dual unitary circuits, for which the non-equilibrium dynamics can be solved exactly. In contrast to the known class of solvable states, which relax to the infinite temperature state, these states relax to a family of non-trivial generalised Gibbs ensembles. The relaxation process of these states can be simply described by a linear growth of the entanglement entropy followed by saturation to a non-maximal value but with maximal entanglement velocity. We then move on to consider the dynamics from non-solvable states, combining exact results with the entanglement membrane picture we argue that the entanglement dynamics from these states is qualitatively different from that of the solvable ones. It shows two different growth regimes characterised by two distinct slopes, both corresponding to sub-maximal entanglement velocities. Moreover, we show that non-solvable initial states can give rise to the quantum Mpemba effect, where less symmetric initial states restore the symmetry faster than more symmetric ones.
description: 31 pages, 8 figures; v2 improved presentation
Continuous Wavelet Transform in Quantum Field Theory
Creators: name: Altaisky, Mikhail V.
name: Kaputkina, Natalia E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the application of the continuous wavelet transform to calculation of the Green functions in quantum field theory: scalar $ϕ^4$ theory, quantum electrodynamics, quantum chromodynamics. The method of continuous wavelet transform in quantum field theory presented in M.Altaisky Phys. Rev. D81(2010)125003 for the scalar $ϕ^4$ theory, consists in substitution of the local fields $ϕ(x)$ by those dependent on both the position $x$ and the resolution $a$. The substitution of the action $S[ϕ(x)]$ by the action $S[ϕ_a(x)]$ makes the local theory into nonlocal one, and implies the causality conditions related to the scale $a$, the region causality J.D. Christensen and L. Crane, J.Math. Phys 46 (2005) 122502. These conditions make the Green functions $G(x_1,a_1,..., x_n,a_n)= $ finite for any given set of regions by means of an effective cutoff scale $A=\min (a_1,...,a_n)$.
description: 15 pages, RevTex, 8 eps figures
Somewhere between Human, Nonhuman, and Woman: Shanta Apte's Theory of Exhaustion
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Debashree
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Indian motion picture actors and actresses
Motion picture industry
Labor
Caste
Strikes and lockouts

description: In 1939, at the height of her stardom, the actress Shanta Apte went on a spectacular hunger strike in protest against her employers at Prabhat Studios in Poona, India. The following year, Apte wrote a harsh polemic against the extractive nature of the film industry. In Jaau Mi Cinemaat? (Should I Join the Movies?, 1940), she highlighted the durational depletion of the human body that is specific to acting work. This article interrogates these two unprecedented cultural events—a strike and a book—opening them up toward a history of embodiment as production experience. It embeds Apte's emphasis on exhaustion within contemporaneous debates on female stardom, industrial fatigue, and the status of cinema as work. Reading Apte's remarkable activism as theory from the South helps us rethink the meanings of embodiment, labor, materiality, inequality, resistance, and human-object relations in cinema.
A new bioactive coumestan from the seeds of Psoralea corylifolia
Creators: name: Chai, Ming-Yan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
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: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: A new coumestan named bavacoumestan D (1), together with five known compounds (2-6), was isolated from EtOAc-soluble extract of seeds of Psoralea corylifolia. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic and physico-chemical analyses. All compounds were evaluated for in vitro inhibitory activity against DGAT1, DGAT2 and α-glucosidase. Among them, compounds 1–2, 5–6 showed potential inhibitory activity on DGAT1 with IC50 values ranging from 52.3 ± 1.3 to 81.0 ± 1.0 μM. Compounds 1–3, 6 displayed the significant inhibitory activity on α-glucosidase with IC50 values ranging from 31.2 to 89.1 μM.
title: РАЙГРАС ОДНОЛЕТНИЙ ДЛЯ ПОВЫШЕНИЯ КОРМОПРОИЗВОДСТВА
Creators: name: Кравцов,  Виктор Васильевич
name: Кравцов,  Василий Анатольевич
name: Лебедева,  Надежда Сергеевна
name: Капустин,  Андрей Сергеевич
Publisher: name: ФГБНУ "Северо-Кавказский федеральный научный аграрный центр"
Year: 2019

description: С целью создания прочной кормовой базы для животноводства в ФГБНУ Северо-Кавказский ФНАЦ проводятся исследования по повышению продуктивности и качества однолетних культур. После обработки селекционного материала создан новый сорт райграса однолетнего Близнец – скороспелая высокоурожайная кормовая культура. Сорт получен методом внутривидового скрещивания и отбора растений, устойчивых в экстремальных погодных условиях. Сорт Близнец не требователен к теплу, может выращиваться в районах неустойчивого, достаточного и избыточного увлажнения. На орошении его можно выращивать во всех почвенно-климатических зонах юга России. Сорт обладает коротким вегетационным периодом (70–75 дней) и высокой отавностью. Он быстро формирует надземную массу, за вегетационный период даёт 2–3 укоса с урожайностью зелёной массы 50–55, сена – 10–15, семян – 0,8–1,0 т/га. Райграс однолетний имеет высокую кормовую ценность, его можно выращивать в одновидовых ценозах и в травосмесях. Благодаря мощной мочковатой корневой системе райграс однолетний Близнец улучшает плодородие и структуру почвы.
Thermodynamic stability of alkali metal/zinc double-cation borohydrides at low temperatures
Creators: name: Huan, Tran Doan
name: Amsler, Maximilian
name: Sabatini, Riccardo
name: Tuoc, Vu Ngoc
name: Le, Nam Ba
name: Woods, Lilia M.
name: Marzari, Nicola
name: Goedecker, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the thermodynamic stability at low temperatures of a series of alkali metal/zinc double-cation borohydrides, including LiZn(BH$_4$)$_3$, LiZn$_2$(BH$_4$)$_5$, NaZn(BH$_4$)$_3$, NaZn$_2$(BH$_4$)$_5$, KZn(BH$_4$)$_3$, and KZn$_2$(BH$_4$)$_5$. While LiZn$_2$(BH$_4$)$_5$, NaZn(BH$_4$)$_3$, NaZn$_2$(BH$_4$)$_5$ and KZn(BH$_4$)$_3$ were recently synthesized, LiZn(BH$_4$)$_3$ and KZn$_2$(BH$_4$)$_5$ are hypothetical compounds. Using the minima-hopping method, we discover two new lowest-energy structures for NaZn(BH$_4$)$_3$ and KZn$_2$(BH$_4$)$_5$ which belong to the $C2/c$ and $P2$ space groups, respectively. These structures are predicted to be both thermodynamically stable and dynamically stable, implying that their existence may be possible. On the other hand, the lowest-energy $P1$ structure of LiZn(BH$_4$)$_3$ is predicted to be unstable, suggesting a possible reason elucidating why this compound has not been experimentally identified. In exploring the low-energy structures of these compounds, we find that their energetic ordering is sensitive to the inclusion of the van der Waals interactions. We also find that a proper treatment of these interactions, e.g., as given by a non-local density functional such as vdW-DF2, is necessary to address the stability of the low-energy structures of these compounds.
description: Final version
Stability and Orientation of Lamellae in Diblock Copolymer Films
Creators: name: Weith, Vanessa
name: Krekhov, Alexei
name: Zimmermann, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of microphase separation and the orientation of lamellae in diblock copolymers is investigated in terms of a mean-field model. The formation of lamellar structures and their stable states are explored and it is shown that lamellae are stable not only for the period of the structure corresponding to the minimum of the free energy. The range of wavelengths of stable lamellae is determined by a functional approach, introduced with this work, which is in agreement with the results of a linear stability analysis. The effects of the interaction of block copolymers with confining plane boundaries on the lamellae orientation are studied by an extensive analysis of the free energy. By changing the surface property at one boundary, a transition from a preferentially perpendicular to a parallel lamellar orientation with respect to the boundaries is found, which is rather independent of the distance between the boundaries. Computer simulations reveal, that the time scale of the lamellar orientational order dynamics, which is quantitatively characterized in terms of an orientational order parameter and the structure factor, depends significantly on the properties of the confining boundaries as well as on the quench depth.
title: «Италия и Россия: взгляд сквозь века»
Creators: name: Семенова, Александра
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2019

description: История и культура Великого Новгорода связаны с Италией. Гуманитарный институт Новгородского государственного университета имени Ярослава Мудрого расположен на территории бывшего Антониева монастыря. Возникновение этой обители в XII веке связывают с именем Антония Римлянина, так как он был выходцем с Апеннинского полуострова. Монастырь был духовным центром средневекового города и сыграл большую роль в развитии образования, науки, культуры России.
title: Британские зелёные: их место и роль в современной политической жизни Великобритании
Creators: name: Гехт, Антон
name: Цверианашвили, Иван
name: Лосев, Сергей
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2019

description: Рассматривается процесс исторического становления и современная роль британских «зелёных» политических сил в политической жизни Соединенного Королевства Великобритании и Северной Ирландии. Пережив с момента основания ряд структурных и идеологических изменений, к 1990 г. некогда единая «зелёное» движение распалось на представительства в разных частях страны. Придерживаясь традиционных ценностей для данных политических сил взглядов, британские «зелёные» пользуются достаточно скромной поддержкой избирателей. Не являясь пока полноценной оппозицией, рассматриваемые партии выступают альтернативой основным политическим силам в Соединённом королевстве. Невысокий средний возраст сторонников «зелёных» политических сил и постепенный дрейф голосов избирателей от традиционных партий, консерваторов и лейбористов, могут позитивно сказываться на позициях «зелёных» в будущем политической жизни Британии.
title: Проблема вознаграждения М.Е.Месмахера за возведение дворца Великого Князя Михаила Михайловича как пример взаимодействия августейшего заказчика, чиновников и архитектора
Creators: name: Ефимов, Андрей
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2019

description: Статья посвящена одному из аспектов трехстороннего взаимодействия членов императорской фамилии, служащих Министерства императорского двора и архитекторов при решении вопросов, связанных со строительством великокняжеских резиденций. Автор отмечает, что в существующей историографии эта проблема остается недостаточно освещенной и ставит своей целью частично ликвидировать эту лакуну. Статья обращается к проблеме определения вознаграждения зодчим в конце XIX в., когда перестал действовать нормативный акт Придворного ведомства, регламентировавший этот вопрос. Автор рассматривает, как сторона великого князя при каждой возможности старалась добиться для себя снижения размеров выплат, что каждый раз наталкивалось на твердую позицию М.Е.Месмахера, отстаивавшего свою точку зрения, но вместе с тем готового принять во внимание внешние обстоятельства. Итогом «первого раунда переговоров» стало снижение доли вознаграждения архитектора в стоимости постройки, тогда как впоследствии зодчему удалось добиться получения всей запрошенной им суммы. При этом автору удалось установить причину, по которой окончательное решение вопроса с вознаграждением архитектора было принято лишь спустя десять лет после прекращения строительных работ.
Seven new 1-oxygenated cholestane glycosides from Ornithogalum saundersiae
Creators: name: Chen, Qing-Wei
name: Gong, Ting-
name: Zhang, Pei-Cheng
name: Kong, Jian-Qiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Science Policy

description: As the continuous scientific research, seven new 1-oxygenated cholestane glycosides named osaundersiosides 1 A − 1 G were isolated from an EtOH extract of the bulbs of Ornithogalum saundersiae. Their structures were deduced by means of spectroscopic data, chemical evidence and the results of hydrolytic cleavage. The cytotoxicity and anti-inflammatory effects of osaundersiosides 1 A − 1 G were evaluated, but none of them displayed significant activities.
Validity and reliability of a short self-efficacy instrument for hypertension treatment adherence among adults with uncontrolled hypertension
Creators: name: Zhao, Matthew
name: Rodriguez, Maria A.
name: Wang, Binhuan
name: Santa Ana, Elizabeth J.
name: Friedberg, Jennifer
name: Fang, Yixin
name: Allegrante, John P.
name: Natarajan, Sundar
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Hypertension
Diet
Exercise
Patient compliance
Self-efficacy

description: Objective: To establish the reliability and validity of a self-report measure designed to assess self-efficacy for hypertension treatment adherence. Methods: This investigation was embedded within a six-month randomized clinical trial (RCT), which demonstrated that a tailored, stage-matched intervention was more effective at improving hypertension control than usual care among individuals (n = 533) with repeated uncontrolled hypertension. The instrument used to assess self-efficacy for hypertension treatment adherence (SE-HTA) comprised three subscales that assessed diet self-efficacy (DSE), exercise self-efficacy (ESE), and medication self-efficacy (MSE). To determine SE-HTA validity and reliability, we assessed internal consistency using Cronbach's α coefficients, conducted exploratory factor analysis, and evaluated convergent and discriminant validity, as well as test-retest reliability using Spearman's ρ correlation coefficients. Results: Cronbach's α (internal consistency) values for DSE, ESE, and MSE were 0.81, 0.82 and 0.74. Factor analysis and the scree plot demonstrated three distinct factors, which correspond to the three subscales contained in the SE-HTA instrument. SE-HTA possessed good convergent and discriminant validity, and moderate test-retest reliability. Conclusion: The SE-HTA instrument containing diet, exercise, and medication adherence subscales is valid and reliable in adults with uncontrolled hypertension. Practice implications: This SE-HTA instrument measures self-efficacy and could help facilitate behavior change in hypertension.
Two new iridoid glycosides from Callicarpa nudiflora
Creators: name: Fu, Hui-Zheng
name: Ma, Yuan-Yu
name: Ma, Shuang-Cheng
name: Zhou, Zhi-Qiang
name: Luo, Yue-Hua
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Two new iridoid glycosides, callicoside E (1) and callicoside F (2), were isolated from the leaves of Callicarpa nudiflora. Their structures were established by one- and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. In an in vitro bioassay, compounds 1 and 2 showed an pronounced hepatoprotective activity against d-galactosamine-induced toxicity in WB-F344 rat hepatic epithelial stem-like cells.
Demonstration of Weak Measurement Based on Atomic Spontaneous Emission
Creators: name: Shomroni, Itay
name: Bechler, Orel
name: Rosenblum, Serge
name: Dayan, Barak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a new type of weak measurement based on the dynamics of spontaneous emission. The pointer in our scheme is given by the Lorentzian distribution characterizing atomic exponential decay via emission of a single photon. We thus introduce weak measurement, so far demonstrated nearly exclusively with laser beams and Gaussian statistics, into the quantum regime of single emitters and single quanta, enabling the exploitation of a wide class of sources that are abundant in nature. We describe a complete analogy between our scheme and weak measurement with conventional Gaussian pointers. Instead of a shift in the mean of a Gaussian distribution, an imaginary weak value is exhibited in our scheme by a significantly slower-than-natural exponential distribution of emitted photons at the postselected polarization, leading to a large shift in their mean arrival time. The dynamics of spontaneous emission offer a broader view of the measurement process than is usually considered within the weak measurement formalism. Our scheme opens the path for the use of atoms and atomlike systems as sensitive probes in weak measurements, one example being optical magnetometry.
description: Final version as appears in Physical Review Letters
title: Курцио Малапарте как военный корреспондент во время блокады
Creators: name: Гардзонио, Стефано
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2019

description: Автор рассматривает творчество известного итальянского писателя Курцио Малапарте (1898—1957) и, в частности, его репортажи военкора на восточном фронте во время второй мировой войны. На основе его книги «Волга рождается в Европе» и других работ в статье выявляется особая точка зрения писателя на СССР, советский народ и советского солдата на фоне трагических дней блокадного Ленинграда.
title: О старом и новом в итальянских переводах. «Война и Мир» Л.Н.Толстого
Creators: name: Маркуччи, Джулия
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2019

description: Итальянские издательства продолжают издавать новые переводы русских классиков. Существует около 15 итальянских переводов романа «Война и мир» Л.Н.Толстого, начиная с 1904 г. и по сегодняшний день. Знаменитое издательство Эйнауди опубликовало перевод данного произведения дважды: в 1942 г. вышел перевод Энрикетты Карафы Герцогини д’Андриа (1863—1941) под редакцией Леоне Гинзбурга (1909—1944), который переиздавался до недавних времен и пользовался большим успехом среди итальянских читателей. Но поскольку язык переводов стареет и оригиналу нужен новый облик, издательство решило опубликовать новый перевод романа, который вышел в 2018 г. Работа была поручена известной переводчице Эмануеле Гверчетти. В данной работе на основе сравнительного анализа романа Толстого и его переводов, изданных Эйнауди, мы постараемся представить на примере нескольких фрагментов оригинала, какие изменения были внесены со временем в одно и то же произведение. Также в статье помещен краткий рассказ о Л.Гинзбурге, сыгравшем огромную роль в распространении русской культуры и литературы в Италии первой половины XX века.
A new xanthyletin-type coumarin from the roots of Peucedanum praeruptorum
Creators: name: Li, Xin-Yu
name: Zu, Yuan-Yuan
name: Ning, Wei
name: Tang, Ming-Xu
name: Gong, Chi
name: Niu, Sheng-Li
name: Hua, Hui-Ming
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
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: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: A new xanthyletin-type coumarin, neopeucedalactone (1), was isolated from the roots of Peucedanum praeruptorum Dunn. Its chemical structure was elucidated based on extensive spectroscopic interpretation. The absolute configurations of xanthyletin-type coumarin were determined by comparing experimental and calculated ECD spectra for the first time. Compound 1 exhibited moderate cell growth inhibitory activities in vitro against human leukemic HL-60, THP-1 cell lines, and human prostate cancer PC-3 cell lines, with IC50 values of 9.97, 27.80, and 48.68 µM, respectively.
A multi-level developmental approach towards understanding adolescent mental health and behaviour: rationale, design and methods of the LIFECOURSE study in Iceland
Creators: name: Halldorsdottir, Thorhildur
name: Kristjansson, Alfgeir L.
name: Asgeirsdottir, Bryndis Bjork
name: Thorisdottir, Ingibjorg E.
name: Sigfusson, Jon
name: Jonsdottir Tolgyes, Erla Maria
name: Valdimarsdottir, Heiddis
name: Allegrante, John P.
name: Sigfusdottir, Inga Dora
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Teenagers--Mental health
Behavioral assessment of teenager
Research--Methodology
Child development--Research--Methodology

description: Purpose: Identifying and understanding modifiable risk and protective factors that can inform early detection and intervention to prevent adolescent emotional problems and harmful behaviours is among the most pressing modern-day public health challenges. This paper describes the rationale, objectives, methods, and anticipated outcomes of the LIFECOURSE study, a multi-level, bio-psychosocial prospective study designed to advance our understanding of factors that shape adolescent mental health and behaviour. Methods: Conducted by the Icelandic Centre for Social Research and Analysis at Reykjavik University, LIFECOURSE is a longitudinal population-based developmental study of Icelandic adolescents born in 2004. The study utilizes a comprehensive multi-informant assessment of individual, societal and biological factors measured across the lifespan. Data assembly and collection were conducted from 2016-2020 and utilize both retrospective and prospective data sources: (a) retrospective registry data assembled from seven national databases, (b) prospectively collected social surveys and (c) biomarker samples. Results: Of the 3914 eligible adolescents, 60.8% (n = 2378) provided informed parental consent and student assent to participate in the study, with approximately half of the participants being female (n = 1175, 49.4%) and the majority being born in the capital area (n = 1455; 61.2%). The coverage of available data from the national databases and participation in the social surveys ranged from 81.7 to 100%. Conclusions: Major gaps remain in our knowledge of how individual, societal and biological factors across the lifespan-from early life to adolescence-interact and shape the risk for emotional problems and harmful behaviours during adolescence. The LIFECOURSE study was designed to address this knowledge gap.
Free Convolution Operators and Free Hall Transform
Creators: name: Cébron, Guillaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We define an extension of the polynomial calculus on a W*-probability space by introducing an abstract algebra which contains polynomials. This extension allows us to define transition operators for additive and multiplicative free convolution. It also permits us to characterize the free Segal-Bargmann transform and the free Hall transform introduced by Biane, in a manner which is closer to classical definitions. Finally, we use this extension of polynomial calculus to prove two asymptotic results on random matrices: the convergence for each fixed time, as N tends to infinity, of the *-distribution of the Brownian motion on the linear group GL_N(C) to the *-distribution of a free multiplicative circular Brownian motion, and the convergence of the classical Hall transform on U(N) to the free Hall transform.
description: Correction of an error in the author's name ; reordering of sections, and minor changes (55 pages, 3 figures)
title: К вопросу о реабилитации майора ВВС КОНРа М.В.Тарновского
Creators: name: Бернев, Станислав
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2019

description: Рассматривается преступная деятельность командира авиаэскадрильи «Восток», командира учебной запасной авиаэскадрильи майора ВВС Комитета освобождения народов России (КОНРа) М.В.Тарновского на оккупированных территориях СССР в годы Великой Отечественной войны. На документальных материалах показано его участие в поддержке с воздуха 3 немецких операций против белорусских партизан, бомбардировках 4 партизанских лагерей и в уничтожении советских сел. Немецким командованием за активную борьбу против СССР М.В.Тарновский награжден 2 медалями и знаком «За борьбу с партизанами». Реабилитация М.В.Тарновского в 1999 г. Главной военной прокуратурой послужила его героизации отдельными историками и фальсификации истории Великой Отечественной войны.
Practice-Based Evidence and the Need for More Diverse Methods and Sources in Epidemiology, Public Health and Health Promotion
Creators: name: Green, Lawrence W.
name: Allegrante, John P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Public health
Epidemiology
Health promotion
Participant observation
System theory
Systematic reviews (Medical research)

description: Using practice-based evidence from the field to adapt evidence-based practices in guiding interventions in health promotion and public health has gained some traction in recent years. Although there are multiple sources of practice-based evidence, three—participatory research and Practice-Based Research Networks, systematic reviews and systems science—comprise the most promising potential candidates for collecting and analyzing organized evidence that demonstrates relevance, applicability or generalizability, and effectiveness. This paper argues for generating more diversity and complementarity in the methods and sources of evidence for epidemiology, public health and health promotion, if we are to improve population health and eliminate health disparities.
Phase diagrams and Thomas-Fermi estimates for spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates under rotation
Creators: name: Aftalion, Amandine
name: Mason, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide complete phase diagrams describing the ground state of a trapped spinor BEC under the combined effects of rotation and a Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The interplay between the different parameters (magnitude of rotation, strength of the spin-orbit coupling and interaction) leads to a rich ground state physics that we classify. We explain some features analytically in the Thomas-Fermi approximation, writing the problem in terms of the total density, total phase and spin. In particular, we analyze the giant skyrmion, and find that it is of degree 1 in the strong segregation case. In some regions of the phase diagrams, we relate the patterns to a ferromagnetic energy.
description: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A
Research Update: Alice Guy Blaché at Columbia University
Creators: name: Saccone, Kate
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: In 2017, to mark the centennial of Alice Guy Blaché’s visit to Columbia University, I wrote about her two lectures. It was a fairly open-ended post that outlined both what I knew and still did not know about these ephemeral moments in film history. Thanks to new information from WFPP readers, I am now able to share an update.
Enabling Artificial Intelligence Analytics on The Edge
Creators: name: Tsakanikas, Vasilis
Publisher: name: London South Bank University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis introduces a novel distributed model for handling in real-time, edge-based video analytics. The novelty of the model relies on decoupling and distributing the services into several decomposed functions, creating virtual function chains (V F C model). The model considers both computational and communication constraints. Theoretical, simulation and experimental results have shown that the V F C model can enable the support of heavy-load services to an edge environment while improving the footprint of the service compared to state-of-the art frameworks. In detail, results on the V F C model have shown that it can reduce the total edge cost, compared with a monolithic and a simple frame distribution models. For experimenting on a real-case scenario, a testbed edge environment has been developed, where the aforementioned models, as well as a general distribution framework (Apache Spark ©), have been deployed. A cloud service has also been considered. Experiments have shown that V F C can outperform all alternative approaches, by reducing operational cost and improving the QoS. Finally, a migration model, a caching model and a QoS monitoring service based on Long-Term-Short-Term models are introduced.
Mindscapes and Landscapes: Learning to Adapt in Transnational Climate Adaptation Collaborative in Africa
Creators: name: Manteaw, Bob Offei
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Sustainable development
Climatic changes
Learning
Environmental policy
Adjustment (Psychology)

description: This paper foregrounds notions of learning and how they are framed in transnational adaptive capacity building processes. While supporting emerging adaptation governance mechanisms that recognize the boundlessness of climate change impacts, the paper draws attention to learning and the role it plays in such processes. Learning, for the most part, is framed as an event rather than a series of conscious, reflexive, adaptive and multi-layered processes. Such framing, the paper argues, is limiting and is based on flawed understandings of adaptation to climate change. Instead, learning should reflect the underlying complexity of both the climate change phenomenon and socio-ecological systems change processes. This paper argues that current conceptualization of climate change fails to present climate change as emerging, evolving and complex and, in the process, influences how learning in adaptation is perceived, framed and pursued.