cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
One equal eternity : from ethnic to civic identity : the European experience
Creators: name: Grover, AB
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This study examines the nature and evolution of European supranationalism and its relationship to European identity formation, together with the factors promoting and inhibiting the development of such an identity. The central proposition of the study is that there exist certain conditions for the emergence of an European identity. This identity is developing, in accordance with a 'civic' model based on a common sense of European belonging rooted in constitutionalism, participative citizenship, civil and humanitarian rights and shared democratic institutions. The question of how political communities, increasingly ethnically heterogeneous, socially fragmented and territorially dispersed, yet institutionally and functionally linked, can aid a common consciousness and a sense of identity is addressed. This work predicates that there is a relationship between supranational institutional development and the development of European identity. It explores how supranational institutions developed within post-war Europe and demonstrates how such institutions affect communal European identity formation. The study establishes that in common with the historical experience of European state formation in early modernity, that enlarged polities are closely and causally linked to the rise of broad identification amongst their named populations. We demonstrate that as European supranational institutions have become politically and socially entrenched that the appropriate conditions for the creation of European identity have emerged. Such an identity, necessarily civic in nature, is inclusive of, and sympathetic to, the diverse range of pre-existing European ethnonational identifications. The study utilises an analytical framework which allows for the examination of European identification from a variety of perspectives. Utilising a typology of communal identity synthesised from sociology, social psychology and political science the study demonstrates that communal identity is a multdimentional phenomena. It is made up not only of shared feeling of community and belonging, but is further exhibited in collective self-description, shared values, collective attachment to common symbols, common actions and a common cognitive boundary separating `us' from the 'other'. The study demonstrates that there is a viable European identity. It finds that such an identity exists concurrently with pre-existing national, regional and local identities. European identity is found to exist, in part, as a result of the institutional recognition and securing of such pre-existent identities. The study concludes that it is from the construction of a dense and socially inclusive European civil society that European identity emerges.
Simulating quantum systems using real Hilbert spaces
Creators: name: McKague, Matthew
name: Mosca, Michele
name: Gisin, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a means of simulating the evolution and measurement of a multipartite quantum state under discrete or continuous evolution using another quantum system with states and operators lying in a real Hilbert space. This extends previous results which were unable to simulate local evolution and measurements with local operators and was limited to discrete evolution. We also detail applications to Bell inequalities and self-testing of quantum apparatus.
description: 4 pages
Polanyi, Callon, and Amazon: Institutionalist, ANT, and DRAN Approaches to Platform Economies
Creators: name: Caliskan, Koray
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2021

description: Drawing on a detailed analysis of Grabher and König’s study of platformization (Grabher & König, 2020), this essay develops a revision of Actor-Network Theory by proposing how a Device, Representation, Actor and Network or a DRAN Approach can be more helpful in making sense of platform economic processes. First, it locates the ways in which Grabher & König’s article approach platforms from an updated Polanyian perspective. Second, it elaborates on how the aforementioned article critiques static Polanyian perspectives while at the same time building a double tension by a) not being clear whether we observe "the platform economy" as an object or platform economization as a process, and b) not paying sufficient attention to how platforms that draw on intangible materialities move beyond being mere marketization relations. Third, it presents how to address these tensions by drawing on novel theoretical advances of DRAN Approaches and fresh empirical research concerning platform economies, located at the intersection between computer science and social sciences. Proposing a possibility to integrate historical and contemporary studies of economic processes, the essay ends by elaborating on how Grabher & König’s article has a potential to enable a multi-perspective dynamic research strategy in making sense of not only the contemporary working of platforms, but their historical and socio-technical condition of possibility.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2020): Power and Control in Platform Monopoly Capitalism
РАЗВИТИЕ КОММУНИКАТИВНЫХ НАВЫКОВ В НЕЯЗЫКОВЫХ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНЫХ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЯХ
Creators: name: Джураева, Н.Б.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: В этой статье мы обрисуем в общих чертах причины, по которым общение в а имеет такое значение. Вы также узнаете о некоторых стратегиях, которые помогут вам и вашим ученикам достичь наилучших результатов.
Platform Works as Stack Economization: Cryptocurrency Markets and Exchanges in Perspective
Creators: name: Caliskan, Koray
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2021

description: What is an economic platform? I address this question by focusing on the case of cryptocurrency exchange platforms. The research draws on interviews with platform actors, fieldwork in one exchange, and computational text analysis of the terms of service of all cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. I argue that cryptocurrency exchange platforms go beyond market processes by fulfilling a variety of functions including banking, infrastructure development, gift-giving, barter, money making, payment system operation, software production, security providing, and centralized extra-blockchain accounting. I propose the concept of “stack” to describe such a process of socio-digital economization that takes place in these data money exchanges. Demonstrating that it is inadequate to describe platforms as mere digital infrastructures, devices, places or markets, I argue that cryptocurrency exchange platforms can best be understood as economization stacks that weave multiple layers and types of interaction, and facilitate an empirically observable range of variegated economic activities.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2020): Power and Control in Platform Monopoly Capitalism
Documenting the Undocumented: A Review of the United States' First Municipal ID Program
Creators: name: Lagunes, Paul Felipe
name: Levin, Brian M.
name: Ditlmann, Ruth K.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Immigrants
Emigration and immigration
Citizenship
Identification cards
Hispanic Americans

description: The City of New Haven, CT, sought to promote the assimilation of its immigrants by becoming the first American city to provide a government-backed ID, the Elm City Resident Card, to all residents. This article tests the policy's effectiveness in commerce. We find that Hispanics/Latinos are asked to present an ID more than Whites/Anglos, showing that the former are in greater need of documentation, regardless of their citizenship status. When a Hispanic/Latino presented the Elm City Resident Card to a cashier, it fared only as well as an unofficial ID. Thus, we conclude that the card has negligible utility as a form of documentation.
The (Identification) Cards You Are Dealt: Biased Treatment of Anglos and Latinos Using Municipal-Issued versus Unofficial ID Cards
Creators: name: Ditlmann, Ruth K.
name: Lagunes, Paul Felipe
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Identification cards
Citizenship
Hispanic Americans
Immigrants
Discrimination
Race discrimination

description: The current field experiment investigated if and how Latinos versus Anglos experience biased treatment in a setting where documentation is relevant. In an audit experiment, Latino customers were treated differently than a matched team of Anglo customers when making $10 check payments at retail stores. Specifically, Latinos were asked to present an identification card (ID) more frequently than Anglo customers, were quoted a higher minimum-dollar amount for purchasing a gift certificate, and received more negative affect from salespersons. Among those who were asked for identification, a municipal-issued ID card was declined at equal rates from Latinos and Anglos, while an unofficial ID card was declined more from Anglos than Latinos. The association of Latino identity with foreignness and undocumented immigration, and the potential of municipal-ID card programs to serve undocumented immigrants are discussed.
Calculated Cleavage Behavior and Surface States of LaOFeAs
Creators: name: Eschrig, Helmut
name: Lankau, Alexander
name: Koepernik, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The layered structure of the iron based superconductors gives rise to a more or less pronounced two-dimensionality of their electronic structure, most pronounced in LaOFeAs. A consequence are distinct surface states to be expected to influence any surface sensitive experimental probe. In this work a detailed density functional analysis of the cleavage behavior and the surface electronic structure of LaOFeAs is presented. The surface states are obtained to form two-dimensional bands with their own Fermi surfaces markedly different from the bulk electronic structure.
Additional file 2 of Screening for subjective cognitive decline in the elderly via subjective cognitive complaints and informant-reported questionnaires: a systematic review
Creators: name: Wasef, Sara
name: Laksono, Isabelle
name: Kapoor, Paras
name: Tang-Wei, David
name: Gold, David
name: Saripella, Aparna
name: Riazi, Sheila
name: Islam, Sazzadul
name: Englesakis, Marina
name: Wong, Jean
name: Chung, Frances
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S-2: List of Subjective Cognitive Complaint Questions.
Heavy-quarks in the QGP: study of medium effects through euclidean propagators and spectral functions
Creators: name: Beraudo, A.
name: Blaizot, J. P.
name: Faccioli, P.
name: Garberoglio, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The heavy-quark spectral function in a hot plasma is reconstructed from the corresponding euclidean propagator. The latter is evaluated through a path-integral simulation. A weak-coupling calculation is also performed, allowing to interpret the qualitative behavior of the spectral function in terms of quite general physical processes.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures - To appear in the conference proceedings for Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennessee
NIME Publication Ecosystem Workshop
Creators: name: Jensenius, Alexander Refsum
name: McPherson, Andrew
name: Xambó Sedó, Anna
name: Martin, Charles
name: Armitage, Jack
name: Granieri, Niccolo
name: Fiebrink, Rebecca
name: Naveda, Luiz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: music technology
open access
conference
journal
community

description: How can we develop an open, future-oriented, multimedia-rich, and institutionally recognised publication ecosystem for NIME practitioners and researchers? This workshop will continue previous discussions about the need for a NIME journal, and for solutions to share ideas, hardware designs, code, scores, and performances, systematically. Concerns about C19, climate change, and accessibility make these discussions urgent and demand reimagining our expectations for a publication venue. What solutions can we start implementing right away, and which goals do we have as a community? This open workshop will lay the ground for concrete experimentation in the year(s) to come.
description: This is the material used for the NIME Publication Ecosystem Workshop held during the 2020 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression on 21 July 2020.
Physical activity, black carbon exposure and airway inflammation in an urban adolescent cohort
Creators: name: Lovinsky-Desir, Stephanie
name: Jung, Kyung Hwa
name: Rundle, Andrew G.
name: Hoepner, Lori A.
name: Bautista, Joshua B.
name: Perera, Frederica P.
name: Chillrud, Steven N.
name: Perzanowski, Matthew S.
name: Miller, Rachel L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Environmental health
Airway (Medicine)
Soot--Environmental aspects
Soot--Toxicology
Inflammation

description: Objective Regular physical activity can improve cardiopulmonary health; however, increased respiratory rates and tidal volumes during activity may increase the effective internal dose of air pollution exposure. Our objective was to investigate the impact of black carbon (BC) measured by personal sampler on the relationship between physical activity and fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO), a marker of airway inflammation. We hypothesized that higher personal BC would attenuate the protective effect of physical activity on airway inflammation. Methods We performed a cross-sectional study nested in a birth cohort of African American and Dominican children living in the Bronx and Northern Manhattan, New York City. Children were recruited based on age (target 9–14 year olds) and presence (n=70) or absence (n=59) of current asthma. Children wore wrist mounted accelerometers for 6 days and were classified as ‘active’ if they had ≥60 min of moderate-to-vigorous activity (MVA) each day and ‘non-active’ if they had <60 min of MVA on any given day, based on CDC guidelines. Personal BC measured using a MicroAeth, was assessed during two 24-h periods, at the beginning and end of physical activity assessment. High BC was defined as the upper tertile of BC measured with personal sampler. FeNO measurements were sampled at the beginning and end of the of physical activity assessment. Results In multivariable linear regression models, ‘active’ children had 25% higher personal BC concentrations (p=0.02) and 20% lower FeNO (p=0.04) compared to ‘non-active’ children. Among children with high personal BC (n=33), there was no relationship between activity and FeNO (p=1.00). The significant protective relationship between activity and airway inflammation was largely driven by children with lower personal BC (n=96, p=0.04). Conclusions Children that live in an urban environment and are physically active on a daily basis have higher personal exposure to BC. High BC offsets the protective relationship between physical activity and airway inflammation.
The Rise of Online Platforms and the Triumph of the Corporation
Creators: name: Frenken, Koen
name: Fuenfschilling, Lea
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2021

description: Rather than viewing online platforms as digital marketplaces, we analyze platforms as corporations and platform participants as a workforce. Online platforms perform very similar functions as any other corporation, but in different ways (applying terms and conditions as a legal framework and data, reviews, and algorithms for decentralized control) and mostly in different contexts (informal labor markets, sharing communities, social media) than traditional corporations did hitherto. The corporation perspective helps us to understand the transformative power of platforms, while at the same time shedding light on the historical continuation of the corporation as a basic institution in society. We argue that platforms’ transformative capacity lies in their continuous development of new institutions that they impose on their workforce and their clientele, codified in terms and conditions. It is the re-coding capacity that provides platforms the ability to continuously adapt the course of institutionalization in largely autonomous manners.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2020): Power and Control in Platform Monopoly Capitalism
Pulse of the seafloor: Tidal triggering of microearthquakes at 9°50′N East Pacific Rise
Creators: name: Stroup, Danielle F.
name: Bohnenstiehl, Delwayne R.
name: Tolstoy, Maria
name: Waldhauser, Felix
name: Weekly, R. T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Submarine geology

description: Unequivocal evidence of tidal triggering is observed for microearthquakes (−0.4 to 2.0 M_L) recorded between October 2003 to April 2004 near 9°50′N on the East Pacific Rise (EPR). Although semidiurnal tidal stress changes are small (<2 kPa), seismicity exhibits a significant (>99.9%) nonrandom temporal distribution, with events occurring preferentially near times of peak extension. Due to the proximity of this site to an ocean tidal node, where changes in sea surface height are minimal, periodic stress changes are dominated by the solid Earth tide. In contrast, previous studies on the Juan de Fuca Ridge have shown microearthquake triggering to be a response to seafloor unloading during times of low ocean tide. The modulation of 9°50′N microearthquakes by small-amplitude periodic stresses is consistent with earthquake nucleation within a high stressing rate environment that is maintained near a critical state of failure by on-axis magmatic and hydrothermal processes.
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description: In this project, the calculation was carried out thyristor self-excitation system for turbogenerator Ð¢ÐÐ¤-120-2Ð£3. When writing the work was designed and matched: rectifier transformer for thyristor converter fuse to protect the thyristor parameters RC-protective circuit for protecting the rectifier overvoltage. Selected automatic damping field, calculated and selected arrester setting. Along with this was carried out technical and economic calculations of the excitation system.
Additional file 3 of Screening for subjective cognitive decline in the elderly via subjective cognitive complaints and informant-reported questionnaires: a systematic review
Creators: name: Wasef, Sara
name: Laksono, Isabelle
name: Kapoor, Paras
name: Tang-Wei, David
name: Gold, David
name: Saripella, Aparna
name: Riazi, Sheila
name: Islam, Sazzadul
name: Englesakis, Marina
name: Wong, Jean
name: Chung, Frances
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S-3: Characteristics of Subjective Cognitive Complaint Questionnaire. Abbreviations: AD8: Alzheimer Disease 8; A-MIC, abbreviated memory inventory for the Chinese; CFQ, Cognitive Failures Questionnaire; IADLs - Instrumental Activities of Daily Living; IQCODE, Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly; KDSQ-C, Korean Dementia Screening Questionnaire-Cognition; NR, Not Reported; PRMQ, Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire; PROMIS, Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System; SCC, subjective cognitive complaint; subjective cognitive decline, subjective cognitive decline; SIRQD, Seoul Informant Report Questionnaire for Dementia; SMA, subjective memory assessment; SMC, subjective memory complaint; SMCQ, Subjective Memory Complaints Questionnaire; MMQ, Meta-Memory Questionnaire.
From Performativity to Performances: Reconsidering Platforms’ Production of the Future of Work, Organizing, and Society
Creators: name: Lee, Kevin Woojin
name: Watkins, Elizabeth Anne
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2021

description: This essay takes as its starting point Gernot Grabher and Jonas König's (2020) piece, "Disruption, Embedded. A Polanyian Framing of the Platform Economy," and suggests focusing on how digital platforms are realized on the ground. We propose that the people experiencing platformization have a strong influence over the futures that platforms can evoke. To illuminate this interplay between people and platforms, we offer a taxonomy of three ways that people intervene in how platforms produce the future: innovation, articulation, and opposition. In doing so, we build on Grabher and König’s essay to enrich the analytical and predictive power of their framework. Moreover, we provide the beginnings of a theoretical framework of our own - namely, a sociology of people’s performances and their role in future-making - which we believe can contribute to ongoing discussions on the future of work and organizing.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2020): Power and Control in Platform Monopoly Capitalism
Epidemiology of amoebic gill disease
Creators: name: Douglas-Helders, Greetje Marianne
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Amoebic gill disease (AGD) is the main disease affecting the salmon industry in Australia, however inadequate information is available on the epidemiology of amoebic gill disease (AGD) and the biology of the pathogen, Neoparamoeba pemaquidensis (Page, 1987). Thus far no convenient mass screening test was available. In this project a pathogen specific and non-lethal dot blot test was developed and validated against indirect fluorescence antibody testing (IFAT), the 'gold standard'. The agreement between the 300 paired gill mucus samples that were analysed using both tests was high, with a corrected kappa value of 0.88. The overall aim of this project was to investigate distributions and seasonal patterns of the pathogen, identify risk factors for the disease and reservoirs of N. pemaquidensis, and develop and review husbandry methods in order to reduce AGD prevalence. Results of an infection trial implied that transmission of AGD infections in the field do not only occur from fish to fish, but also from water to fish. Therefore distribution of paramoebae in the water column and seasonal patterns were investigated. The spatial and temporal distribution of paramoebae was determined using the dot blot test and most probable number techniques for the identification and quantification respectively. Associations between paramoebae densities and environmental conditions were also explored. Potential reservoirs were investigated in both field and laboratory trials. In a laboratory study it was determined that dead AGD infected fish may be a reservoir of N. pemaquidensis when left in sea cages. In the laboratory trial, N. pemaquidensis remained on infected gills for at least 30 hours after death of the host, and these protozoa from dead infected fish could colonise gills of previously uninfected dead fish. This would potentially increase the bio-burden of N. pemaquidensis on infected farms. AGD was not detected in wild fish and wild fish did not seem to be a reservoir of the pathogen. Five different husbandry options were evaluated in extensive field trials with the aim to minimise the impact of AGD. Three of the husbandry options seemed beneficial in reducing either cost due to the disease and/or AGD prevalence on Tasmanian salmon farms. All three options could easily be incorporated into existing management plans.
The analysis of predictability of alpha-decay half-life formulae and the alpha partial half-lives of some exotic nuclei
Creators: name: Dasgupta-Schubert, N.
name: Reyes, M. A.
name: Tamez, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The predictabilities of the three alpha-decay half-life formulae, the Royer GLDM, the Viola-Seaborg and the Sobiczewski-Parkhomenko formulae, have been evaluated by developing a method based on the ansatz of standard experimental benchmarking. The coefficients of each formula were re-derived using the reliable data of the alpha-standards nuclei. The modified formulae that resulted were used to evaluate the accuracies of the formulae towards the prediction of half-lives of a set of nuclides with well-studied alpha- spectroscopic data as well as a set of exotic alpha-emitters. Further, a simple linear optimization of the modified formulae allowed adjustments for the insufficient statistics of the primary data set without changing the modified formulae. While the three modified formulae showed equivalent results for all the medium heavy nuclei except the odd-odd, the modified GLDM showed relatively the best figures of merit for the odd-odd and superheavy nuclides.
description: 16 pages, 4 tables, 2 figures
The temperature of the ionosphere in the auroral zone
Creators: name: Dowden, RL
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: In the absence of man-made interference and atmospherics, it has been found possible to measure radio frequency thermal radiation from the ionosphere at medium frequencies. The temperature of the ionospheric D-region has been previously measured by this method at 2 Mc/s in temperate latitudes (Pawsey, McCreddy and Gardner, 1951, and Gardner, 1954). In a companion paper (Gardner and Pawsey, 1953), the absorbing structure of the lower ionosphere was determined from D-region echoes to find the heights to which the temperatures applied. However, it was felt that conditions might be very different in an auroral zone. Echoes from the D6-region (apparently) of much greater intensity and at only half the height of those observed by the above authors, were reported at Macquarie Island which is close to the centre of the auroral zone. Experiments were carried out by the author at the Australian National Antarctic Research Station at Macquarie Island as a member of the 1956 party. The apparent D-region echoes mentioned above were found to be not from the ionosphere, however, but from sea waves (Dowden, 1957). This thesis describes radio noise experiments at a number of medium frequencies carried out at a site twenty miles from the Main Station where interference was negligible. This thesis is divided into two parts. The first part describes observations of high accuracy at 2 Mc/s using a half wave dipole aerial to provide a direct comparison with Gardner's (1954) observations in a temperate latitude (300 0. The second part describes observations of lower accuracy at a number of frequencies (7 Mc/s., 5.6 Mc/s., 2.0 Mc/s. and 450 Kc/s.), using a terminated \long wire\" aerial."
Minimal (k)-groups, their structure and relevance to (G,x)-spaces
Creators: name: Chan, Gin Hor
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The problem of finding a necessary and sufficient condition for the triviality of a (G,x)-space leads us to study and classify the properties of a minimal (k)-group G acting on N = {1,2,...,N} (i.e. for each partition P = {X₁,X₂,...X[sub k]} on N , there exists 1 ≠ g ε G with g(X[sub i]) = X[sub i] for all i ) . In this thesis, we construct and classify all the minimal (k)-groups of degree ≤ 3k and tabulate the results. We also obtain all the non-primitive (k)-groups of degree ≤ 4k . We then apply our results to determine., which of the (G, X) -spaces are trivial. We found that for some of the (k)-groups, no appropriate character exists while for most of the remaining, the associated character has range {1,-1} . Finally, a table has been made to show the number of the appropriate characters on some (k)-groups.
Pre-Automation: Insourcing and Automating the Gig Economy
Creators: name: Vertesi, Janet A.
name: Goldstein, Adam
name: Enriquez, Diana
name: Liu, Larry
name: Miller, Katherine T.
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2021

description: This paper examines a strategic configuration in the technology, logistics, and robotics industries that we call “pre-automation”: when emerging platform monopolies employ large, outsourced labor forces while simultaneously investing in developing the tools to replace these workers with in-house machines of their own design. In line with socioeconomic studies of imagined futures, we elaborate pre-automation as a strategic investment associated with a firm’s ambitions for platform monopoly, and consider Uber, Amazon Flex and Amazon Delivery Services Partnership Program drivers as paradigmatic cases. We attempt detection of firms' pre-automation strategies through analysis of patenting, hiring, funding and acquisition activity and highlight features of certain forms of gig work that lay the infrastructural foundations for future automation. We argue that certain forms of platform labor may be viewed dynamically as an intermediate arrangement that stages outsourced tasks for subsequent insourcing through automated technologies, and discuss the implications of this configuration for existing theories of outsourcing and technology-driven job displacement.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2020): Power and Control in Platform Monopoly Capitalism
Spinor model of a perfect fluid
Creators: name: Saha, Bijan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Different characteristic of matter influencing the evolution of the Universe has been simulated by means of a nonlinear spinor field. We have considered two cases where the spinor field nonlinearity occurs either as a result of self-action or due to the interaction with a scalar field.
description: 5 pages, some misprints are corrected, some new expressions are added
Additional file 1 of Associations of FKBP5 polymorphisms and methylation and parenting style with depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents
Creators: name: Guo, Lan
name: Wang, Wanxin
name: Guo, Yangfeng
name: Du, Xueying
name: Shi, Guangduoji
name: Lu, Ciyong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1 Table S1. Genotype frequency distribution of the FKBP5 polymorphisms between students with and without depressive symptoms. Fig. S1. The linkage disequilibrium plots for the SNPs in FKBP5. D′ is a measure of linkage disequilibrium between two genetic markers. A value of D′ = 1 (complete LD) indicates that SNPs have not been separated by recombination, while values of D′
Introduction: Oligocene to Pleistocene Eustatic Change at the New Jersey Continental Margin--a Test of Sequence Stratigraphy
Creators: name: Austin Jr., J. A.
name: Christie-Blick, Nicholas
name: Malone, M. J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Submarine geology
subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ocean engineering

description: The emergence of seismic/sequence stratigraphy since the late 1970s has led to a revolution in stratigraphy and a renewal of interest in the stratigraphic response to eustasy. Two arguments were advanced in support of the eustatic interpretation. One involved widespread seismic evidence for the existence of regional unconformities (sequence boundaries) characterized by apparently abrupt basinward shifts in onlap, which were interpreted to imply relatively rapid falls of sea level with amplitudes of up to several hundred meters. The second was based on the purported global synchroneity of these unconformities, which, if correct, would be difficult to explain by other than a eustatic mechanism. The primary goals of Leg 174A are the following: 1. To date as precisely as possible sequence boundaries of Oligocene—Pleistocene age, and to compare this stratigraphic record with the timing of glacial-eustatic changes inferred from deep-sea d18O variations; 2. To place constraints on the amplitudes and rates of sea-level change that may have been responsible for unconformity development; 3. To assess the relationships between depositional facies and sequence architecture; and 4. To provide a baseline for future scientific ocean drilling that will address the effects and timing of sea-level changes on this and other passive continental margins. An additional goal for Leg 174A is technical. The leg represents the first attempt by scientific ocean drilling in almost 30 years to sample a thickly sedimented continental margin in water depths less than 150 m. Two sites (Sites 1071 and 1072) are located on the outer part of the continental shelf in water depths of 88-90 and 98-100 m, respectively. An additional site (Site 1073) is located on the uppermost continental slope, part of the Hudson Apron, in a water depth of 639 m.
The environmental values of Tasmanian decision makers and environmental professionals
Creators: name: Dettrick, David
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The thesis uses qualitative research methods to examine the environmental values of environmental professionals and decision makers active in Tasmania during the period 1996‚ÄövÑvÆ 2001. It uses 'insider' based research, grounded research theory, and maximum variation sampling strategies to examine 12 in depth interviews with the participants from the selected study group. Grounded research methods have been combined with personal construct psychology to develop a system for analysis and grouping of the values data. Open coding was undertaken using dichotomy scales to rate individual's values. Basic numerical methods of correlation, based on Microsoft's Excel program, where used to group the responses for the purposes of analysis. 8 main trends where identified in the data. These trends are examined critically and compared to existing qualitative, quantitative and theoretical research on environmental values. It was concluded that of the study groups, the Green politicians had the strongest environmental values, followed by the environmental professionals, and the Labor politicians. The Liberal politician interviewed had the least developed environmental values of the study group. Opportunities for further quantitative and qualitative research were identified.
The Platform Conjuncture
Creators: name: Peck, Jamie
name: Phillips, Rachel
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2021

description: The paper engages the problematic of platform capitalism in the company of Fernand Braudel. Platform capitalism is accordingly located in the opaque zone of the so-called antimarket, “where the great predators roam,” with its characteristic conditions of monopolization, concentrated economic and political power, and cultures of systematic regulatory evasion. The Braudelian schema requires that platform capitalism is situated, both historically and geographically, in this case both as a distinctive conjunctural moment and as an epiphenomenon of variegated and globalizing processes of financialization and neoliberalization. The paper offers an antidote to the mainstream treatment of platforms, with its technological exuberance, its preoccupation with internally generated dynamics, and its exaggerated claims to novelty and indeed revolutionary significance. Thinking conjuncturally about platform capitalism qua Braudelian capitalism does not just counter these problems, it represents a constructive supplement to extant political-economy accounts. It accentuates and problematizes non-repeating historical continuities (against presumptions of a radical technological-organizational break). And it points to constitutive conditions of coexistence (against the imaginary of a separate, self-propelling, and distinct innovation economy). To pose the platform question along with Braudel is to begin with problematics of monopoly power and antimarket behavior, rather than with technological affordances, network capacities, or the market.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2020): Power and Control in Platform Monopoly Capitalism
Quantum Phase Transitions in a Dimerized Bose-Hubbard Model: A DMRG Study
Creators: name: Kundu, Anasuya
name: Pat, Swapan K
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the phase diagram of a dimerized Bose-Hubbard model, using density matrix renormalization group technique. We find a new phase, which is the coexistence of superfluid and bond-wave phases, due to the effect of dimerization. Experimentally dimerization in optical lattice can be realized by using two counter propagating laser beams of different wavelengths. Apart from the conventional superfluid to Mott insulator transition, we find a new quantum phase transition: from superfluid-bond-wave to Mott insulator-bond wave phase. Our study suggests a rich phase diagram which can be easily probed.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Effect  of  Medial  Shift  Taping  of  Patella  with  Strengthening  Exercises  and  Ultrasound  vs  Strengthening  Exercises  with  Ultrasound  in  Osteoarthritis of Knee
Creators: name: People's Journal of Scientific Research
Publisher: name: People's University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Osteoarthritis, visual analog scale, numeric pain rating scale, Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index.

description: ABSTRACT:Background- Osteoarthritis  is a chronic progressive, degenerative disorder characterized by cartilage loss. It affects almost 70-80% of population causing pain, physical disability and decreased quality of life. Medial shift taping of patella is an efficacious treatment of knee osteoarthritis and is significantly better than neutral and lateral taping. Therapeutic ultrasound to increase effectiveness of strengthening exercises  for  knee  osteoarthritis  significantly  lessens  joint  swelling,  increasing  joint  mobility  and reducing inflammation in Osteoarthritis knee patients.Materials & Methods- Total 60 patients suffering from the Osteoarthritis knee were included and randomly grouped.  First group received medial shift taping of patella with strengthening exercise and ultrasound while the other group received strengthening exercise with ultrasound alone. Both groups participated for 3 weeks. Pre & Post treatment outcome measures were analyzed using Mann Whitney U test, Lequesne Knee Scores, Wilcoxon Matched Paired Test, mean and standard deviation.Results- The study indicated that medial shift taping of patella with strengthening exercise and ultrasound for 3 weeks brought significant changes in relieving pain along with improving functional activities. Conclusions- Both treatments were efficient in relieving pain as well as improving function. However medial  shift  taping  of  patella  with  strengthening  exercise  and  ultrasound  was  found  to  be  more contributory.
Sheaf methods applied to coherent rings
Creators: name: Carson, Andrew Bruce
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A commutative ring is called coherent if the intersection of any two finitely generated ideals is finitely generated and the annihilator ideal of an arbitrary element of the ring is finitely generated. Pierce's representation of a ring R as the ring of all global sections of an appropriate sheaf of rings, k , is described. Some theorems are deduced relating the coherence of the ring R to certain properties of the sheaf k . The sheaves from the above representation for R⌈X⌉ and R⌈⌈G⁺⌉⌉ , where R is a commutative von Neumann regular ring and G is a linearly ordered abelian group, are calculated. Applications of the above theorems now show that R⌈X⌉ is coherent and yield necessary and sufficient conditions for R⌈⌈G⁺⌉⌉ to be coherent.
Additional file 1 of Revisiting left atrial volumetry by magnetic resonance imaging: the role of atrial shape and 3D angle between left ventricular and left atrial axis
Creators: name: Kuusisto, Jouni K.
name: Pöyhönen, Pauli A. K.
name: Pirinen, Jani
name: Lehmonen, Lauri J.
name: Räty, Heli P.
name: Martinez-Majander, Nicolas
name: Putaala, Jukka
name: Sinisalo, Juha
name: Järvinen, Vesa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supporting Information.
Survey of excited state neutron spectroscopic factors for Z=8-28 nuclei
Creators: name: Tsang, M. B.
name: Lee, Jenny
name: Su, S. C.
name: Dai, J. Y.
name: Horoi, M.
name: Liu, H.
name: Lynch, W. G.
name: Warren, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have extracted 565 neutron spectroscopic factors of sd and fp shell nuclei by systematically analyzing more than 2000 measured (d,p) angular distributions. We are able to compare 125 of the extracted spectroscopic factors to values predicted by large-basis shell-model calculations and evaluate the accuracies of spectroscopic factors predicted by different shell-model interactions in these regions. We find that the spectroscopic factors predicted for most excited states of sd-shell nuclei using the latest USDB or USDA interactions agree with the experimental values. For fp shell nuclei, the inability of the current models to account for the core excitation and fragmentation of the states leads to considerable discrepancies. In particular, the agreement between data and shell-model predictions for Ni isotopes is not better than a factor of two using either the GXPF1A or the XT interaction.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. accepted for publication in PRL
Autonomic arousal and cognitive performance in seasonal affective disorder
Creators: name: Austen, Margaret L.
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) has generally been seen to be at the extreme end of a continuum of seasonal variation to mood and associated behavioural symptoms in the general population. SAD is currently categorised in the DSM IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) as Seasonal Specifier, a type of recurrent disorder, which may be applied to (non-seasonal) Major Depressive Disorder (NSD). On the other hand, evidence is accumulating for SAD as a disorder distinct from NSD. Hence the thesis investigates the nature of SAD in relation to the seasonality of mood and behaviour in the general population. An epidemiological survey was conducted by administering the Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire (SPAQ) (Rosenthal, 1989) to Tasmanian Psychology 1 participants (N = 502) showing up to 9% and 24 % may have SAD at clinical (C-SAD) and subsyndromal (S-SAD) levels respectively. Statistical analyses on SPAQ variables further confirmed the short day aetiology of SAD and also implicated metabolic factors. Two longitudinal studies were conducted, each using three groups (control, subsyndromal SAD, and clinical SAD) and six bimonthly testing sessions. Participants were screened using the SP AQ and selected according to Rosenthal's (1989) criteria. In each longitudinal study measures of depression, behavioural symptoms and emotion were also obtained at each testing session. Longitudinal Study 1 (n = 23 control, 21 S-SAD, and 18 C-SAD) investigated the proposition that the symptoms of SAD may represent an increased parasympathetic or decreased sympathetic arousal. Longitudinal Study 2 (n = 22 control, 21 S-SAD, and 17 C-SAD) studied cognitive processing across the twelve-month period. Digit Span and Visual Memory Span subtests from the Wechsler Memory Scale measured memory processes and a Mental Rotation task as well as verbal and spatial versions of a Hemispheric Asymmetry Task determined cognitive efficiency, spatial processing, and any differential hemispheric specialisation effects that may be involved in SAD. Distinctions between SAD and NSD were shown from the autumn/ winter specificity of the atypical vegetative behavioural symptoms accompanying decreases in mood and an underlying hypo-arousal showing similarities with hibernation. Impairments to cognitive processing include deficits specific to the spatial tasks that may have implications for differentiating between subsyndromal and clinical levels of SAD and also in understanding vulnerability to SAD. Implications for SAD theories are presented with findings indicative of dual underlying mechanisms consisting of a seasonal component, as well as a depression component in vulnerable SAD participants. Circannual rhythms were documented and several variables were shown to vary with the seasons in control participants, thus extending current knowledge.
Share vs Platform Economy
Creators: name: Pais, Ivana
name: Provasi, Giancarlo
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2021

description: This commentary on the article by Grabher and König focuses on the controversy in the literature between "sharing economy" and "platform economy". In light of the theoretical and historical perspective expressed by Karl Polanyi in his classic The Great Transformation and adopted by the two authors, sharing economy can be interpreted as an attempt of a resocialization of the economy, while platform economy seems to fully realize what Polanyi calls the "market society". Grabher and König rightly criticize Polanyi’s "double movement", but, in our opinion, they do not draw all the consequences of their criticism. In fact, the theoretical structure they propose fails to explain the reasons why the 1929 crisis was followed by a process of re-embedding of the economy through state intervention, while after the 2008 crisis this process did not take place and the neoliberal model continued to rule the society. Indeed, with the diffusion of the platform economy this model has been further strengthened. Nevertheless, we still believe that digital technologies are in themselves open to different forms of underlying social relations and internal governance. Therefore, it is on such relationships that theoretical attention and political action should be focused. A movement that intends to change the present situation can effectively leverage the new technologies, by guiding them towards reciprocity relations capable of revitalizing the civil society and the internal cohesion of the democratic state.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2020): Power and Control in Platform Monopoly Capitalism