cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Die Rolle und der Wert von ORCID im Open Science Kontext
Creators: name: Marín-Arraiza, Paloma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: In den letzten Jahren hat sich die Forschungspraxis substantiell geändert. Sie ist kollaborativer, internationaler und offener geworden. Zurzeit spricht man von Open Science, ein Begriff, der eine neue Verfahrensweise in der Forschungspraxis bezeichnet. Open Science beschreibt auch eine Reihe von Maßnahmen, die während des gesamten Forschungsprozesses durchgeführt werden sollen, von der Planungsphase bis zur Veröffentlichung der Forschungsergebnisse.In diesem Zusammenhang sollen die Forschenden nicht nur ihre endgültigen Texte (z.B. Artikel), sondern auch andere Forschungsergebnisse veröffentlichen, die sie während des gesamten Prozesses erstellt haben. Um eine direkte Anerkennung dieser Ergebnisse zu erhalten, ist insbesondere die eindeutige Identifizierung der Autoren_innen erforderlich. Hier spielt der Personenidentifikator ORCID iD eine wesentliche Rolle.Im Rahmen der wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation gibt es verschiedene Personenidentifikatoren. ORCID iD ist aber der erste, der nicht mit einer bestimmten Plattform, einem Herausgeber, Land oder Forschungsgebiet verbunden ist. Aus diesem Grund hat sich die ORCID iD als Standard für die Identifizierung von Autoren_innen etabliert und ihre Verwendung wird in verschiedenen öffentlichen Richtlinien (z. B. von Forschungsförderern und Organisationen wie LIBER oder LERU) empfohlen.Die Open-Science-Bewegung und ORCID haben mehrere Punkte gemeinsam. Neben dem cross-platform Charakter ist auch der nutzergesteuerte Charakter von ORCID wesentlich. Darüber hinaus sind die Verwendung verschiedener Sprachen in der Kommunikation und auf der ORCID-Plattform sowie die Veröffentlichung von mit ORCID verknüpften Daten unter CC0-Lizenzen weitere Indikatoren für die Befolgung der Open-Science-Practices, die zur wachsenden globalen Verbreitung von ORCID beitragen. Außerdem wird ORCID auf Plattformen wie SciELO, Redalyc, KoreaMed oder BASE implementiert, die den freien Zugang zu Informationen fördern. In Österreich ist die Zahl der registrierten ORCID iDs im vergangenen Jahr um rund 30 % gestiegen. ORCID wird von zehn österreichischen Universitäten und dem FWF, der seit 2016 bei jeder Antragstellung eine ORCID iD voraussetzt, unterstützt. Diese elf Einrichtungen bilden das ORCID-Austria-Konsortium, dessen Ziel es ist, die Akzeptanz und Relevanz der ORCID iD als eindeutiger Identifikator für Forschende in Österreich zu erhöhen.
Il tópos del tiranno sconfitto nel De mortibus persecutorum di Lattanzio
Creators: name: Zappalà Marelli, Francesca
Publisher: name: ACME
Year: 2021

description: Nella mia ricerca ho approfondito il tόpos del tiranno sconfitto dalla giustizia divina all’interno di un testo apologetico attribuito al retore Lucio Cecilio Firmiano Lattanzio, il De mortibus persecutorum. Si tratta di un’opera poco nota, sulla quale poco si è scritto e indagato. Con questo lavoro mi propongo di analizzare, spiegare e commentare il rabbioso canto di vittoria dell’autore. Un cristiano imbevuto di cultura classica e un appassionante narratore, che attraverso una prosa tacitianamente essenziale descrive le strazianti e dolorose morti toccate a quanti tra gli imperatori romani si sono resi protagonisti di violente persecuzioni anticristiane. In obbedienza a un disegno provvidenziale, i principes si troveranno a essere vittime della loro stessa crudeltà e dei propri vitia, per i quali subiranno la giusta punizione divina; le pene saranno commisurate all’inumanità dei peccati da loro commessi. Da un punto di vista storico-politico, l’opera si inquadra perfettamente all’interno della propaganda costantiniana: Costantino stesso è presentato, infatti, come un princeps tollerante e illuminato dalla giustizia trascendente di Dio, in un processo di cristianizzazione della teologia della vittoria romana. Egli solo sarà capace di rovesciare un governo tirannico anticristiano per donare al mondo quella che Lattanzio definisce con compiaciuta iperbole una pax iucunda et serena.
description: ACME, V. 73 N. 2 (2020)
Timing the Neutrino Signal of a Galactic Supernova
Creators: name: Hansen, Rasmus S. L.
name: Lindner, Manfred
name: Scholer, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study several methods for timing the neutrino signal of a Galactic supernova (SN) for different detectors via Monte Carlo simulations. We find that, for the methods we studied, at a distance of $10\,$kpc both Hyper-Kamiokande and IceCube can reach precisions of $\sim1\,$ms for the neutrino burst, while a potential IceCube Gen2 upgrade will reach submillisecond precision. In the case of a failed SN, we find that detectors such as SK and JUNO can reach precisions of $\sim0.1\,$ms while HK could potentially reach a resolution of $\sim 0.01\,$ms so that the impact of the black hole formation process itself becomes relevant. Two possible applications for this are the triangulation of a (failed) SN as well as the possibility to constrain neutrino masses via a time-of-flight measurement using a potential gravitational wave signal as reference.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures, 8 tables
Supplementary figures S1 to S5 from The molecular chaperone Hsp33 is activated by atmospheric-pressure plasma protecting proteins from aggregation
Creators: name: Krewing, Marco
name: Stepanek, Jennifer Janina
name: Cremers, Claudia
name: Jan-Wilm Lackmann
name: Schubert, Britta
name: Müller, Alexandra
name: Awakowicz, Peter
name: Leichert, Lars I. O.
name: Jakob, Ursula
name: Bandow, Julia E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 29903 Medical Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-equilibrium atmospheric-pressure plasmas are an alternative means to sterilize and disinfect. Plasma-mediated protein aggregation has been identified as one of the mechanisms responsible for the antibacterial features of plasma. Heat shock protein 33 (Hsp33) is a chaperone with holdase function that is activated when oxidative stress and unfolding conditions coincide. In its active form, it binds unfolded proteins and prevents their aggregation. Here we analyse the influence of plasma on the structure and function of Hsp33 of Escherichia coli using a dielectric barrier discharge plasma. While most other proteins studied so far were rapidly inactivated by atmospheric-pressure plasma, exposure to plasma-activated Hsp33. Both, oxidation of cysteine residues and partial unfolding of Hsp33 were observed after plasma treatment. Plasma-mediated activation of Hsp33 was reversible by reducing agents, indicating that cysteine residues critical for regulation of Hsp33 activity were not irreversibly oxidized. However, the reduction yielded a protein that did not regain its original fold. Nevertheless, a second round of plasma treatment resulted again in a fully active protein that was unfolded to an even higher degree. These conformational states were not previously observed after chemical activation with HOCl. Thus, although we could detect the formation of HOCl in the liquid phase during plasma treatment, we conclude that other species must be involved in plasma activation of Hsp33. E. coli cells over-expressing the Hsp33-encoding gene hslO from a plasmid showed increased survival rates when treated with plasma while an hslO deletion mutant was hypersensitive emphasizing the importance of protein aggregation as an inactivation mechanism of plasma.
Configuration spaces of points on the circle and hyperbolic Dehn fillings, II
Creators: name: Yamashita, Yasushi
name: Nishi, Haruko
name: Kojima, Sadayoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M50, 53C15

description: In our previous paper, we discussed the hyperbolization of the configuration space of n(> 4) marked points with weights in the projective line up to projective transformations. A variation of the weights induces a deformation. It was shown that this correspondence of the set of the weights to the Teichmüller space when n = 5 and to the Dehn filling space when n= 6 is locally one-to-one near the equal weight. In this paper, we establish its global injectivity.
description: 14 pages, 14 figures
Hsa_circRNA_0000284 acts as a ceRNA to participate in coronary heart disease progression by sponging miRNA-338-3p via regulating the expression of ETS1
Creators: name: Dinh, PhongSon
name: Tran, ChauMyThanh
name: Dinh, ThiPhuongHoai
name: Ali, Awais
name: Pan, ShangLing
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a prevalent global cause of death. Research suggests that circular RNAs (circRNAs) play a role in the development of CHD. In this study, we investigated the expression of hsa_circRNA_0000284 in peripheral blood leukocytes (PBLs) obtained from a cohort of 94 CHD patients aged over 50 years, as well as 126 age-matched healthy controls (HC). An in vitro inflammatory and oxidative injury cell model that simulates CHD was used to evaluate changes in hsa_ circRNA _0000284 under stress. CRISPR/Cas9 technology was used to evaluate changes in hsa_circRNA_0000284 expression. An hsa_ circRNA_0000284 overexpression and silencing cell model was used to analyze the biological functions of hsa_circRNA_0000284. Bioinformatics, qRT-PCR, viral transfection technology, and luciferase assays were used to evaluate the potential hsa_circRNA_0000284/miRNA-338-3p/ETS1 axis. Western blotting analysis was performed to detect protein expression. Herein, PBLs from CHD patients exhibited downregulation of hsa_circRNA_0000284 expression. Exposure to oxidative stress and inflammation can induce damage to human umbilical endothelial cells, resulting in the downregulation of hsa_circRNA_0000284 expression. The expression of hsa_circRNA_0000284 in EA-hy926 cells was significantly reduced after the AluSq2 element of hsa_circRNA_0000284 had been knocked out. The expression of hsa_circRNA_0000284 affected proliferation, cycle distribution, aging, and apoptosis in EA-hy926 cells. Consistent with the results of cell transfection experiments and luciferase assays, Western blotting showed that hsa_circRNA_0000284 plays a role in the regulation of hsa-miRNA-338-3p expression. Subsequently, hsa-miRNA-338-3p was found to be involved in the regulation of ETS1 expression. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
A domain wall between single-mode and bimodal states and its transition to dynamical behavior in inhomogeneous systems
Creators: name: van Hecke, M.
name: Malomed, B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider domain walls (DW's) between single-mode and bimodal states that occur in coupled nonlinear diffusion (NLD), real Ginzburg-Landau (RGL), and complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGL) equations with a spatially dependent coupling coefficient. Group-velocity terms are added to the NLD and RGL equations, which breaks the variational structure of these models. In the simplest case of two coupled NLD equations, we reduce the description of stationary configurations to a single second-order ordinary differential equation. We demonstrate analytically that a necessary condition for existence of a stationary DW is that the group-velocity must be below a certain threshold value. Above this threshold, dynamical behavior sets in, which we consider in detail. In the CGL equations, the DW may generate spatio-temporal chaos, depending on the nonlinear dispersion.
description: 16 pages (latex) including 11 figures; accepted for publication in Physica D
For Alma Mater: Fighting for Change at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Creators: Alford, James Edward
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: African American universities and colleges
Student movements
African American college students
Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae

description: The contributions that Black Americans made towards advancing their own educational institutions have often been overlooked. These men and women were quite instrumental in developing, organizing and determining the future direction of their own schools. From 1920 to 1950, a shift in attitudes and culture began to take shape at Black colleges and universities concerning more student autonomy and more alumni involvement. This shift in attitude was primarily due to Black students and alumni who rebelled against the paternalistic White power structure that existed at their schools. At the core of this conflict, stood frustrated students and alumni petitioning their predominately White Boards of Trustees/administration to recognize their status as institutional stakeholders. This dissertation focuses on alumni and student activism at three HBCUs, Lincoln University, Fisk University, and Hampton Institute, between 1920 and 1950. What will be examined in this study is the role that Black alumni and Black students played in waging a campaign against White administrators to bring about institutional change at these three schools. Additional points of inquiry are 1) Who were the institutional stakeholders and what were their goals, 2) How did alumni and student activism influence administrative change, and 3) What compromises were made at these three schools to address students and alumni concerns?  There are no in-depth historical studies regarding student and alumni activism at HBCUs during this period in Black higher education. The absence in the literature is particularly unfortunate because the period between 1920 and 1950 was an important time in the development of historically Black colleges and universities. An examination of the protests on Lincoln's, Fisk's, and Hampton's campuses can help to illuminate some of the issues that HBCUs were wrestling with during the wave of campus unrest that swept the country between1920 and 1950.
Ercole tipo Farnese e tipo Caserta: le repliche di formato colossale
Creators: name: Colzani, Giovanni
Publisher: name: ACME
Year: 2021

description: L’articolo propone un aggiornamento e una revisione delle sequenze copistiche relative allo schema di Ercole in riposo nelle sue declinazioni tipologiche “Farnese” e “Caserta”. Le tredici sculture colossali appartenenti a queste sequenze mostrano tante e tali affinità reciproche in termini di composizione e formato da rendere evidente il ricorso a modalità di riproduzione di tipo meccanico-copistico. Le loro dimensioni si aggirano invariabilmente tra i 290 e i 300 cm (senza includere il plinto), pressoché equivalenti a un modulo di 10 piedi nei sistemi di misurazione antichi. Questa corrispondenza permette di sviluppare una serie di considerazioni relative non solo alle relazioni reciproche tra i due tipi, ma anche alla nozione di “colossalità” nell’ambito della produzione scultorea di età greca e romana.
description: ACME, V. 73 N. 2 (2020)
IR-VIC: Unsupervised Discovery of Sub-goals for Transfer in RL
Creators: name: Modhe, Nirbhay
name: Chattopadhyay, Prithvijit
name: Sharma, Mohit
name: Das, Abhishek
name: Parikh, Devi
name: Batra, Dhruv
name: Vedantam, Ramakrishna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a novel framework to identify sub-goals useful for exploration in sequential decision making tasks under partial observability. We utilize the variational intrinsic control framework (Gregor et.al., 2016) which maximizes empowerment -- the ability to reliably reach a diverse set of states and show how to identify sub-goals as states with high necessary option information through an information theoretic regularizer. Despite being discovered without explicit goal supervision, our sub-goals provide better exploration and sample complexity on challenging grid-world navigation tasks compared to supervised counterparts in prior work.
Piante, pietre e animali tra magia e astrologia
Creators: name: Freni, Giulia
Publisher: name: ACME
Year: 2021

description: Nell’antichità si credeva che in natura vi fossero delle particolari energie di affinità e contrasto che connettevano i vari elementi dell’universo. Un particolare legame era quello tra piante, pietre e animali con i sette pianeti individuati dagli antichi, che comprendevano anche il Sole e la Luna. Le corrispondenze tra questi elementi naturali e i corpi celesti sono messe in luce da alcuni opuscoli editi nel Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum, una raccolta di excerpta di manoscritti astrologici conservati nelle maggiori biblioteche europee. Questo articolo si propone di ripercorrere i diversi trattati che discutono delle piante, delle pietre e degli animali associati ai pianeti, rivolgendosi in particolare alla Luna. Saranno analizzate anche le proprietà delle specie e i loro impieghi nella magia e medicina, con l’intento di mostrare alcune pratiche di magia naturale diffuse nel mondo antico.
description: ACME, V. 73 N. 2 (2020)
Darboux Transformation for the Manin-Radul Supersymmetric KdV equation
Creators: name: Liu, Q. P.
name: Manas, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present a vectorial Darboux transformation, in terms of ordinary determinants, for the supersymmetric extension of the Korteweg-de Vries equation proposed by Manin and Radul. It is shown how this transformation reduces to the Korteweg-de Vries equation. Soliton type solutions are constructed by dressing the vacuum and we present some relevant plots.
description: 14 pp, 2 figures, AMS-LaTeX, to appear in Phys. Lett. B
AJP Endo Hormone Supplement.07-31-19.FINAL.docx
Creators: name: Conrad, Kirk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement to "Potential Influence of the Corpus Luteum on Circulating Reproductive and Volume Regulatory Hormones, Angiogenic and Immunoregulatory Factors in Pregnant Women"
Lactobacillaceae
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae

description: Emended description of the family Lactobacillaceae
 The emended family Lactobacillaceae is circumscribed on the basis of phylogenomic analyses reported in the present paper, and includes all the genera previously included in families Lactobacillaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) and Leuconostocaceae Schleifer 2010, i.e. Convivina, Fructobacillus, Lactobacillus, Leuconostoc, Oenococcus, Paralactobacillus, Pediococcus and Weissella.
 Cells are Gram-positive, non-spore-forming facultative or strict anaerobic bacteria. Cells are coccoid or rod-shaped, which may form chains, pairs or tetrads (genus Pediococcus). Main product of the fermentative metabolism is lactate, and other products may be acetate, ethanol, CO2, formate or succinate. Complex nutritional requirements for amino acids, peptides, nucleic acid derivatives, vitamins, salts, fatty acids or fatty acid esters, and fermentable carbohydrates. Lactobacillaceae are the only family in the Lactobacillales that includes homofermentative and heterofermentative micro-organisms.
 Type genus: Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901 212 (Approved Lists).
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2793, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
Un’antenata carismatica. La T. XXIV nell’insediamento peuceta di Jazzo Fornasiello (Gravina in Puglia – Ba)
Creators: name: Lambrugo, Claudia
Publisher: name: ACME
Year: 2021

description: L’indagine archeologica che l’Università degli Studi di Milano conduce dal 2009 nell’insediamento rurale peuceta di Jazzo Fornasiello (Gravina in Puglia, Bari) offre alcuni interessanti spunti di riflessione per la ricostruzione del ruolo della donna peuceta, quale depositaria di speciali competenze e dispensatrice privilegiata del rito. L’articolo trae spunto dall’analisi e dall’interpretazione di un recinto funerario (ambiente G) eretto a Jazzo Fornasiello nell’ambito del c.d. “Complesso Alfa” nella seconda metà del IV sec. a.C. al di sopra di una tomba tardo-arcaica, la cui memoria si era mantenuta nel tempo. La sepoltura, risultata pertinente a una donna anziana, ha restituito un corredo che lascia intuire nella defunta particolari virtù carismatiche; è infatti alla luce di queste che è possibile spiegare, anche nella cornice di più ampi confronti antropologici, il progressivo agglutinarsi intorno a questa speciale antenata di enchytrismoi infantili, sia che il particolare legame topografico e cultuale veicoli il desiderio che dei piccoli si prendano cura proprio gli antenati, sia che tale associazione rappresenti per i viventi un collegamento forte con il passato a promozione del gruppo familiare nella sua continuità futura.
description: ACME, V. 73 N. 2 (2020)
Deformation Quantization of Lagrangian Fiber Bundles
Creators: name: Reshetikhin, Nicolai
name: Yakimov, Milen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let (M, \om) be a symplectic manifold. A Lagrangian fiber bundle π: M -> B determines a completely integrable system on M. First integrals of this system are the pull-backs of functions on the base of the bundle. We show that for each Lagrangian fiber bundle πthere exist star products on C^\infty(M)[[h]] which do not deform the pointwise multiplication on the subalgebra π^*(C^\infty (B)) [[h]]. The set of equivalence classes of such star products is in bijection with formal deformations of the symplectic structure \om for which π: M -> B remains Lagrangian taken modulo formal symplectomorphisms of M.
description: 24 pages, Latex2e, corrected typos
Real-world experience with the IUB Ballerine MIDI copper IUD: an observational study in the French-speaking region of Switzerland
Creators: name: Yaron, Michal
name: Viviano, Manuela
name: Guillot, Cecile
name: Aharon, Arnon
name: Shkolnik, Ketty
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Objective: The aim of the study was to assess the acceptability of the intrauterine ball IUB Ballerine MIDI copper intrauterine device (IUD), using real-world data collected from users and physicians. Methods: In this retrospective, observational study, conducted in the French-speaking region of Switzerland, healthy women (n= 207) who had had an IUB Ballerine MIDI inserted ≥12 months before enrolment, and their physicians completed questionnaires relating to device insertion, user experience and outcome. Questions relating to current menstrual patterns, physical comfort and product satisfaction were only posed to women still using the device. Results: The mean age at insertion was 30.8 ± 7.2 years, with an average 14.2 ± 2.9 month lapse from time of insertion until study commencement. At the time of the study, 140 (67.6%) women were still using the device. The expulsion rate was 5.3% (n= 11) and the pregnancy rate was 1.4% (n= 3). Most of the women still using the device reported no to moderate pain or cramps (80.7%). The majority of women reported moderate to high (65.7%) satisfaction with the device, with 81.4% claiming they would recommend it to friends and relatives. Over 84.8% of physicians reported that the device was easy to insert, with no difficulties encountered during the procedure. Conclusions: The IUB Ballerine MIDI was demonstrated to be safe and acceptable in different clinical settings and risk groups among a socioeconomically and demographically diverse study population.
For The Love of Darkness - A Dark Theology
Creators: Morris, Wesley
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Theology
Liberation theology
African Americans--Social conditions
African diaspora

description: As a theologian, I ask myself, how do I take the experiences often claimed as useless, worthless, dangerous, unworthy and named dark or darkness, and bring them into the notion of God’s ultimate promise of communion with human personality.

The geographic context of my research will focus primarily on the present-day socio-political climate of the United States of America and later a broadening to a global context to examine postcolonial language in African diaspora communities. A language is a powerful tool of communication that human beings like other sentient beings have used to exchange and transfer values and information. Although the cultural designation of “dark” as problematic, evil, wicked and lacking in positive spiritual qualities is part of the global white power structure, the primary focus of my decolonization of theological language project is United States (U.S.) specific.

The goal of this project is to weave marginalized voices that emerge from biographical accounts, theological study and social sciences into a transvaluation of the dark in the present moment. This reappraisal is not based in a claim of moral goodness; it is rooted in an unruliness that unbinds Blackness from definitions of darkness that remain anti-Black in their assumptions.
On Maximal Robust Positively Invariant Sets in Constrained Nonlinear Systems
Creators: name: Esterhuizen, Willem
name: Aschenbruck, Tim
name: Streif, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 37B35 (Primary), 93C15 (Secondary), 34H05

description: In this technical communique we study the maximal robust positively invariant set for state-constrained continuous-time nonlinear systems subjected to a bounded disturbance. Extending results from the theory of barriers, we show that this set is closed and that its boundary consists of two complementary parts, one of which we name the invariance barrier, which consists of trajectories that satisfy the maximum principle.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. As published in Automatica
For Democracy and a Caste System? World War II, Race, and Democratic Inclusion in the United States
Creators: White, Steven
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: World War (1939-1945)
subject: African Americans--Civil rights--Government policy
subject: Racism
subject: Whites--Attitudes
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Scholars of American politics often assume World War II liberalized white racial attitudes and prompted a liberal shift in the federal government's position on civil rights. This conjecture is generally premised on the existence of an ideological tension between a war against Nazism and the maintenance of white supremacy at home, particularly the southern system of Jim Crow. A possible relationship between the war and civil rights was also suggested by a range of contemporaneous voices, including academics like Gunnar Myrdal and civil rights activists like Walter White and A. Philip Randolph. However, while intuitively plausible, this relationship is generally not well-verified empirically.
      Using both survey and archival evidence, I argue the war's impact on white racial attitudes is more limited than is often claimed, but that the war shaped and constrained the executive branch's civil rights agenda in ways institutional scholars have generally ignored. The evidence is presented in two parts: First, I demonstrate that for whites in the mass public, while there is some evidence of slight liberalization on issues of racial prejudice, this does not extend to policies addressing racial inequities. White opposition to federal anti-lynching legislation actually increased during the war, especially in the South. There is some evidence of racial moderation among white veterans, relative to their counterparts who did not serve. However, the range of issues is limited in scope. Second, the war had both compelling and constraining impacts on the Roosevelt and Truman administrations' actions on civil rights. The war increased the probability of any change at all occurring, but in doing so it focused the civil rights agenda on issues of military segregation and defense industry discrimination, rather than a more general anti-segregation and job discrimination agenda. In summary, World War II had myriad impacts on America's racial order. It did not broadly liberalize white attitudes, but its effect on the White House was a precursor to the form of "Cold War civil rights" that would emerge in the 1950s.
Explore the underlying oral efficacy of α-, β-, γ-Cyclodextrin against the ulcerative colitis using in vitro and in vivo studies assisted by network pharmacology
Creators: name: Wang, Weiqin
name: Li, Xuefeng
name: Wu, Hangyi
name: Shi, Fanli
name: Zhang, Zhenhai
name: Lv, Huixia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The incidence of ulcerative colitis (UC) is rising worldwide. As a refractory and recurrent disease, UC could seriously affect the patients’ quality of life. However, current clinical medical treatments for UC are accompanied by various side effects, especially for long-term applications. Here, the underlying efficacy of cyclodextrins (CDs) was studied. As common excipients, CDs endow proven safety for long-term applications. Results of predictive methods derived from network pharmacology prompted the potential anti-inflammatory effects of CDs by oral administration. RAW264.7 cell experiments verified that CDs could inhibit the excessive secretion of TNF-α (β-CD > α-CD ≈ γ-CD), IL-6, and NO (α-CD > β-CD ≈ γ-CD) as predicted. In mice with DSS-induced acute UC, oral administration of CDs could effectively mitigate the pathological damage of colon tissue and reduce the level of inflammatory mediators. Moreover, 16S rRNA sequencing displayed that gut microbes disturbed by DSS were significantly regulated by CDs. Conclusively, the study showed the therapeutic application prospects of CDs in UC treatment and indicated the feasibility and advantages of developing ‘new’ therapeutic activities of ‘old’ ingredients. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
G-networks and the optimization of supply chains
Creators: name: Wang, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Supply chains are fundamental to the economy of the world and many supply chains focus on perishable items, such as food, or even clothing that is subject to a limited shelf life due to fashion and seasonable effects. G-networks have not been previously applied to this important area. Thus in this paper, we apply G-networks to supply chain systems and investigate an optimal order allocation problem for a N-node supply chain with perishable products that share the same order source of fresh products. The objective is to find an optimal order allocation strategy to minimize the purchase price per object from the perspective of the customers. An analytical solution based on G-networks with batch removal, together with optimization methods are shown to produce the desired results. The results are illustrated by a numerical example with realistic parameters.
On the Groenewold-Van Hove problem for R^{2n}
Creators: name: Gotay, Mark J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We discuss the Groenewold-Van Hove problem for R^{2n}, and completely solve it when n = 1. We rigorously show that there exists an obstruction to quantizing the Poisson algebra of polynomials on R^{2n}, thereby filling a gap in Groenewold's original proof without introducing extra hypotheses. Moreover, when n = 1 we determine the largest Lie subalgebras of polynomials which can be unambiguously quantized, and explicitly construct all their possible quantizations.
description: 15 pages, Latex. Error in the proof of Prop. 3 corrected; minor rewriting
Training-free Linear Image Inverses via Flows
Creators: name: Pokle, Ashwini
name: Muckley, Matthew J.
name: Chen, Ricky T. Q.
name: Karrer, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Solving inverse problems without any training involves using a pretrained generative model and making appropriate modifications to the generation process to avoid finetuning of the generative model. While recent methods have explored the use of diffusion models, they still require the manual tuning of many hyperparameters for different inverse problems. In this work, we propose a training-free method for solving linear inverse problems by using pretrained flow models, leveraging the simplicity and efficiency of Flow Matching models, using theoretically-justified weighting schemes, and thereby significantly reducing the amount of manual tuning. In particular, we draw inspiration from two main sources: adopting prior gradient correction methods to the flow regime, and a solver scheme based on conditional Optimal Transport paths. As pretrained diffusion models are widely accessible, we also show how to practically adapt diffusion models for our method. Empirically, our approach requires no problem-specific tuning across an extensive suite of noisy linear inverse problems on high-dimensional datasets, ImageNet-64/128 and AFHQ-256, and we observe that our flow-based method for solving inverse problems improves upon closely-related diffusion-based methods in most settings.
description: 40 pages, 30 figures. Added additional qualitative results in the appendix
Glycosylation and charge distribution orchestrates the conformational ensembles of a biotechnologically promissory phytase in different pHs – a computational study
Creators: name: De Souza, Thaís P. P.
name: Cantão, Letícia Xavier Silva
name: Rodrigues, Marina Quádrio Raposo Branco
name: Gonçalves, Daniel Bonoto
name: Nagem, Ronaldo Alves Pinto
name: Rocha, Rafael Eduardo Oliveira
name: Godoi, Renato Ramos
name: Lima, William James Nogueira
name: Galdino, Alexsandro Sobreira
name: de Melo Minardi, Raquel Cardoso
name: de Lima, Leonardo Henrique França
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Computational Biology

description: Phytases [myo-inositol(1,2,3,4,5,6) hexakisphosphate phosphohydrolases] are phytate-specific phosphatases not present in monogastric animals. Nevertheless, they are an essential supplement to feeding such animals and for human special diets. It is crucial, hence, the biotechnological use of phytases with intrinsic stability and activity at the acid pHs from gastric environments. Here we use Metadynamics (METADY) simulations to probe the conformational space of the Aspergillus nidulans phytase and the differential effects of pH and glycosylation in this same space. The results suggest that strategic combinations of pH and glycosylation affect the stability of native-like conformations and alternate these structures from a metastable to a stable profile. Furthermore, the protein segments previously reported as more thermosensitive in phytases from this family present a pivotal role in the conformational changes at different conditions, especially H2, H5-7, L8, L10, L12, and L17. Also, the glycosylations and the pH-dependent charge balance modulate the mobility and interactions at these same regions, with consequences for the surface solvation and active site exposition. Finally, although the glycosylations have stabilized the native structure and improved the substrate docking at all the studied pHs, the data suggest a higher phytate receptivity at catalytic poses for the unglycosylated structure at pH 6.5 and the glycosylated one at pH 4.5. This behavior agrees with the exact change in optimum pH reported for this enzyme, expressed on low or high glycosylating systems. We hope the results and insights presented here will be helpful in future approaches for rational engineering of technologically promising phytases and intelligent planning of their heterologous expression systems and conditions for use. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
title: A Just War for Independence: Public Support, Legitimacy, and the Irish Volunteers General Headquarters
Creators: name: Drake, Kathryn L
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Irish Revolution
subject: military history
subject: guerrilla warfare
subject: Irish Volunteers General Headquarters (GHQ)
subject: Just War theory

description: The Irish Volunteers General Headquarters (GHQ) staff shaped the Irish War for Independence by establishing guidelines for ethical conduct. GHQ ordered and restrained the Volunteers' military operations to promote their image - both nationally and internationally - as a legitimate army operating within a Just War tradition. GHQ has been under-represented in literature on the Irish Revolution because of perpetuated misconceptions about the Headquarters' role and accusations of ineffectiveness outside Dublin. Some county brigade officers argued local initiative won the Irish a seat at the negotiating table, not central control. In reality, GHQ encouraged local initiative, as long as it aligned with their guidelines for ethical conduct. This thesis examines GHQ's strategic role in the Irish War for Independence and how they implemented central control. GHQ resolved to place Britain in the untenable position of a perpetual state of war, forcing them to choose between capitulating or replying with indiscriminate force and risking international condemnation. Knowing that guerrilla operations would likely provoke a disproportionate and indiscriminate response from Crown forces, GHQ crafted a strategy focused on legitimate targets and ethical guidelines around civilian liability. GHQ also realised that the British government considered a respectable code of conduct as a prerequisite for any peace negotiations. The Irish dominated the narrative battlespace by invoking the tradition of Irish rebellion. The British government's inconsistent narrative played a key role in ceding the battlefield to the Irish. [...]
Response to Salas et al. (2019) (bioRxiv: 585752), “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence in the case of asserted mtDNA biparental inheritance.”
Creators: name: Slone, Jesse
name: Shiyu Luo
name: Paldeep Atwal
name: Taosheng Huang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 60802 Animal Cell and Molecular Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60803 Animal Developmental and Reproductive Biology

description: Supplemental material for the article: "Reply to Annis et al: Is Quasi-Mendelian mtDNA competition enough to drive transmission of paternal mtDNA?"
Dall’iconografia allo scavo, riflessioni sulla donna nell’antica Peucezia
Creators: name: Castoldi, Marina
Publisher: name: ACME
Year: 2021

description: Partendo dalla figura femminile dolente raffigurata sul famoso cratere con la violenza a Cassandra, attribuito al Pittore di Licurgo (355-345 a.C.), che si caratterizza per un grosso orecchino circolare, di tradizione indigena, vengono proposte alcune considerazioni sulle figure femminili del mondo peuceta, quali le ‘danzatrici di Ruvo’ e le numerose donne che accolgono i guerrieri vincitori, indicative di una visibilità della donna, che si denota anche nella composizione dei corredi funerari di Monte Sannace e Bitonto. Suffraga questa impressione anche lo scavo del ricco borgo agricolo di Jazzo Fornasiello (Gravina in Puglia, Bari) che offre interessanti spunti di riflessione per la ricostruzione delle funzioni e delle prerogative delle donne peucete.
description: ACME, V. 73 N. 2 (2020)
Ground State Phases and Topological Excitations of Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensate in Twisted Optical Lattices
Creators: name: Li, Tian-Tian
name: Guo, Ze-Hong
name: Wang, Xiao-Ning
name: Zhu, Qizhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, the simulation of moiré physics using cold atom platforms has gained significant attention. These platforms provide an opportunity to explore novel aspects of moiré physics that go beyond the limits of traditional condensed matter systems. Building on recent experimental advancements in creating twisted bilayer spin-dependent optical lattices for pseudospin-1/2 Bose gases, we extend this concept to a trilayer optical lattice for spin-1 Bose gases. Unlike conventional moiré patterns, which are typically induced by interlayer tunneling or interspin coupling, the moiré pattern in this trilayer system arises from inter-species atomic interactions. We investigate the ground state of Bose-Einstein condensates loaded in this spin-1 twisted optical lattice under both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions. We find that the ground state forms a periodic pattern of distinct phases in the homogeneous case, including ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic, polar, and broken axial symmetry phases. Additionally, by quenching the optical lattice potential strength, we examine the quench dynamics of the system above the ground state and observe the emergence of topological excitations such as vortex pairs. This study provides a pathway for exploring the rich physics of spin-1 twisted optical lattices and expands our understanding of moiré systems in synthetic quantum platforms.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
THE LONG TRAIL: A CHIMERA-LIKE FOSSIL CRUSTACEAN INTERPRETED AS DECAPODA, STOMATOPODA, AMPHIPODA AND FINALLY ISOPODA
Creators: name: G. PAZINATO, PAULA
name: HAUG, CAROLIN
name: ROHN, ROSEMARIE
name: ADAMI-RODRIGUES, KAREN
name: PIRANI GHILARDI, RENATO
name: CARDOSO LANGER, MAX
name: HAUG, JOACHIM T.
Publisher: name: RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA
Year: 2021

description: The process of interpreting and evaluating a fossil is a difficult task. Isopoda is a species rich group of peracarid eumalacostracans which represent quite a challenge when found as fossils, independent of whether we are working with fragmentary or more complete specimens. Here we describe a new fossil species of crustacean, Platuropodus odysseus n. gen. n. sp., from the Irati Formation, Permian of Paraná Basin, Brazil. After misinterpretations, the fossil taxon is recognised here as a representative of Isopoda. The new species presents characters found in Phreatoicidea, Asellota and Oniscidea in a unique combination for the fossil and extant record, such as two pairs of sub-chelate anterior trunk appendages, a short region after the anus and flat uropods. This chimera-like morphology and a morphometric analysis of the sub-chelae indicate convergent evolution in the early diversification of Isopoda. The morphological diversification present in the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic fossil record of Eumalacostraca indicate a “push of the past” effect in different ingroups of Peracarida.
description: RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA , V. 127 N. 2 (2021)
Supplemental Table S2 for the paper "Changes in Rumen Epithelial Morphology and Transcriptome, Rumen Metabolome, and Blood Biochemical Parameters in Lactating Dairy Cows with Subacute Rumen Acidosis Following Rumen Content Transplantation".
Creators: name: Mu, Yingyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300303
subject: Animal nutrition

description: Supplemental Table S2. List of raw gene read counts from rumen epithelial transcriptome sequencing for the donor-recipient (DR) and the self-recipient (SR) cows
New tetrahydroisoquinoline-4-carbonitrile derivatives as potent agents against cyclin-dependent kinases, crystal structures, and computational studies
Creators: name: Bakri, Youness El
name: Karthikeyan, Subramani
name: Lai, Chin-Hung
name: Bakhite, Etify A.
name: Ahmad, Iqrar
name: Abdel-Rahman, Abdu E.
name: Abuelhassan, Suzan
name: Marae, Islam S.
name: Mohamed, Shaaban K.
name: Mague, Joel T.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: The synthesis of two new hexahydroisoquinoline-4-carbonitrile derivatives (3a and 3b) is reported along with spectroscopic data and their crystal structures. In compound 3a, the intramolecular O—H···O hydrogen bond constraints the acetyl and hydroxyl groups to be syn. In the crystal, inversion dimers are generated by C—H···O hydrogen bonds and are connected into layers parallel to (10–1) by additional C—H···O hydrogen bonds. The layers are stacked with Cl···S contacts 0.17 Å less than the sum of the respective van der Waals radii. The conformation of the compound 3b is partially determined by the intramolecular O—H···O hydrogen bond. A puckering analysis of the tetrahydroisoquinoline unit was performed. In the crystal, O—H···O and C—H···O hydrogen bonds together with C—H···π(ring) interactions form layers parallel to (01–1) which pack with normal van der Waals interactions. To understand the binding efficiency and stability of the title molecules, molecular docking, and 100 ns dynamic simulation analyses were performed with CDK5A1. To rationalize their structure-activity relationship(s), a DFT study at the B3LYP/6-311++G** theoretical level was also done. The 3D Hirshfled surfaces were also taken to investigate the crystal packings of both compounds. In addition, their ADMET properties were explored. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma