cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Editoriale
Creators: name: La Redazione, (A Cura Di)
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Altre modernità/ Otras modernidades/ Autres modernités/ Other modernities: la rivista elettronica curata dalla Sezione di Studi Culturali del Corso di Laurea in Mediazione Linguistica e Culturale (Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Milano) esplicita sin dal titolo le sue intenzioni . Promossa da studiosi di lingue, letterature e culture ispanofone, anglofone e francofone, essa ambisce ad informare e riflettere sulla produzione culturale che la modernità istiga come critica, problematizzazione, alternativa alle nozioni di centralità, potere e procedure di produzione artistica dominanti.
description: Altre Modernità, No 1 (2009): Miscellanea
The multivariate Piecing-Together approach revisited
Creators: name: Aulbach, Stefan
name: Falk, Michael
name: Hofmann, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62G32 (Primary) 62H99, 60G70 (Secondary)

description: The univariate Piecing-Together approach (PT) fits a univariate generalized Pareto distribution (GPD) to the upper tail of a given distribution function in a continuous manner. A multivariate extension was established by Aulbach et al. (2012a): The upper tail of a given copula C is cut off and replaced by a multivariate GPD-copula in a continuous manner, yielding a new copula called a PT-copula. Then each margin of this PT-copula is transformed by a given univariate distribution function. This provides a multivariate distribution function with prescribed margins, whose copula is a GPD-copula that coincides in its central part with C. In addition to Aulbach et al. (2012a), we achieve in the present paper an exact representation of the PT-copula's upper tail, giving further insight into the multivariate PT approach. A variant based on the empirical copula is also added. Furthermore our findings enable us to establish a functional PT version as well.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the Journal of Multivariate Analysis
Neutrino speed anomaly as signal of Lorentz violation
Creators: name: Lingli, Zhou
name: Ma, Bo-Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We make a reanalysis on the issue of neutrino speed anomaly by taking into account the newly reported data from the ICARUS experiment and other CNGS collaborations. We examine the consequence of the Lorentz violation on the neutrino speed in a new framework of standard model supplement (SMS), and find that the Lorentz violating parameters are constrained at least one order stronger than that of the earlier OPERA report. The combination with other phenomenological considerations puts more stringent constraints on the Lorentz violation of neutrinos.
description: 14 pages. Significantly improved version with updated analysis on the relevant experiments related to neutrino speed. Matches to the final published version
Long-run patterns in the participation and representation of women in western Canadian provincial elections: 1917-2019.
Creators: name: Hayes, Alex Daniel Woolliams
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: History--Canadian
subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Using the Canadian Elections Database, this thesis codes the gender of all candidates in western Canada’s provincial elections from 1917 to 2019. It then explores the trends and patterns apparent in women’s rate of participation (running for office), and representation (elected to office). A descriptive overview of the region of western Canada is undertaken first. This thesis then analyzes women’s electoral participation and success further into the effect of province, political party, and of ideology (left-right divide). It explores the percentages of female candidates running for office and elected over time, women’s success compared to men, and the effect of gender on difference in average votes. The rates of women running and elected have increased over time. Women have always run and been elected at lower rates than men. Depending on election context, women sometimes receive more average votes than men. More interesting is that this thesis finds women’s increasing direct role in provincial politics in western Canada is not linear. The importance of 1970 for women’s rate of participation and 1980 for women’s rate of representation are highlighted. Before these respective dates, women ran for office and were elected in low static numbers. After these dates women’s rate of participation and representation began to increase much more dramatically and substantively.
Fragments de modernité urbaine: formes de régénération et rénovation parisiennes
Creators: name: Gavinelli, Dino
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009
Subjects: Paris ; France

description: Paris is a widespread urban system: a space and a landscape which have progressively become polycentric, according to logics of spatial organization which are in syntony with the city’s historical development, from the center towards its peripheral areas. The center has always been the privileged ensemble of famous places which record the succession of the different historical phases of the city. The peripheral areas, on the other hand, are spaces marked by social imbalance, ethnic miscegenation and segregation. There are therefore two Parises: the one of the symbolic landmarks and of the vivacity of its social encounters and the one of the immigrants and of their exclusion. Both these Parises, in spite of their striking differences, are involved in a process of renovation and reassembling.
 Through the years, several modernizing projects have touched various sectors of the city, and the criteria of intervention have been adapted to their changing problems. Among this criteria is the notion of lasting development, which should realize a link between the old and new areas of the city and, and at the same time, make the urban environment easier to access by all its inhabitants.
 The social and environmental commitment on the one hand improves the livability of the public areas and empowers traditional collective practices, while on the other helps contextualize the remains of the past on the basis of modern exigencies such as the improvement of the living conditions and a steadily increasing pollution safeguard.
 In order to understand the complex urban texture of a city like Paris we should proceed with an epistemological, aestetic, political and social interpretation which also takes into consideration the economic and territorial components, because all these interwoven aspects concur to the richness of the metropolitan landscape of Paris. The historico-geographic stratification of the French capital is the very basis of its inestimable value and can become a key factor of its modernity.
description: Altre Modernità, No 1 (2009): Miscellanea
The primacy of the ethical in a cosmopolitan education : Fukushima Daiichi and other global risks
Creators: name: Spector, Hannah
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: While this dissertation responds to and builds upon various iterations of why cosmopolitanism?, I also articulate the meaning of a cosmopolitan education in ways that are different from previous arguments and descriptions: as actually existing global phenomena and as an ethical response to such phenomena. Drawing upon Ulrich Beck’s writings on world risk theory and cosmopolitan realism, I discuss the Fukushima nuclear disaster as a case of actually existing cosmopolitanism, or world risk turned catastrophe. At once a local and global environmental disaster that has consequences for a “non-excludable plurality,” the irresponsibility that contributed to and continues to be at play regarding fallout from Fukushima summons a transnational, planetary ethic of responsibility. Whereas nuclear meltdowns and warfare, pandemics, and global financial crises are world risks turned catastrophes whose consequences can be validated empirically, I also consider world risks that are intangible, impossible to ascertain with evidence-based research. By way of the faculty of the imagination, I draw a link between Chernobyl heart deform and United States “school deform”; I also read Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, specifically Raskolnikov’s dream of a worldwide plague as an allegory for the breakdown of the faculty of judgment across time and place. What might an ethic of responsibility in response to world risks look like? Drawing upon theoretical writings on cosmopolitanism and empirical realities that solicit responsible actions, I contend that acting with the faculty of judgment and a compassionate heart are vital to re/creating the world. In writing upon judgment, I turn to Hannah Arendt whose style of writing about totalitarianism and its antithesis, freedom, is just as important for understanding what it means to judge and to act responsibly as is the content of what she writes. I question if judgment is the only faculty needed to live an ethical life, to act ethically toward others in an increasingly interconnected, codependent world. While Arendt is critical, even dismissive of the role that compassion has played in politics, I contend that a both/and rather than either/or ethic which includes judgment and compassion ought to work together to re/fashion a world habitable for all.
Low-mass X-ray binaries indicate a top-heavy stellar initial mass function in ultra compact dwarf galaxies
Creators: name: Dabringhausen, Jörg
name: Kroupa, Pavel
name: Pflamm-Altenburg, Jan
name: Mieske, Steffen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been shown before that the high mass-to-light ratios of ultra compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs) can be explained if their stellar initial mass function (IMF) was top-heavy, i.e. that the IMF was skewed towards high mass stars. In this case, neutron stars and black holes would provide unseen mass in the UCDs. In order to test this scenario with an independent method, we use data on which fraction of UCDs has a bright X-ray source. These X-ray sources are interpreted as low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), i.e. binaries where a neutron star accretes matter from an evolving low-mass star. We find that LMXBs are indeed up to 10 times more frequent in UCDs than expected if the IMF was invariant. The top-heavy IMF required to account for this overabundance is the same as needed to explain the unusually high mass-to-light ratios of UCDs and a top-heavy IMF appears to be the only simultaneous explanation for both findings. Furthermore, we show that the high rate of type II supernovae (SNII) in the star-burst galaxy Arp 220 suggests a top-heavy IMF in that system. This finding is consistent with the notion that star-burst galaxies are sites where UCDs are likely to be formed and that the IMF of UCDs is top-heavy. It is estimated that the IMF becomes top-heavy whenever the star formation rate per volume surpasses 0.1 Solar masses per year and cubic parsec in pc-scale regions.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures, ApJ, in press
AcadeMedium: Manifesting Power Relationships in Research through Expressive Arts-Based Creativity
Creators: name: Marlow, Sophia
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Learning Sciences
subject: Expressive Arts
subject: Reflexivity
subject: Creativity
subject: Decolonizing Research
subject: Embodied Knowledge
subject: Ethical Turns
subject: Education

description: This autoethnography explores the connections between institutionalized learning, creativity, and reflexivity, hoping to understand some of the many invisible ways that power works through ontological commitments, knowledge systems, and institutions and how that is all reflected in our bodies. It explores topics of conscious political engagement as a researcher, decolonizing and indigenizing research practices, drawing from nature-based expressive arts therapies in pursuit of alternate research practices, as well as methods and forms of representation. A growing body of scholarship recognizes the importance of embodied ways of knowing as central to learning and un-silencing marginalized perspectives (Vossoughi et al., 2020). Embodiment and arts-based practices offer critical and essential connections with Indigenous ways of knowing, which position our bodies in quest of ethical relationships with the world (Marin, 2020; Bang, 2020). Developing methods for axiological reflexivity in researchers through creative and grounded engagement with the phenomena of research data, researchers’ body, researcher identity, and lands/waters. Centering the body through a relational ontology encourages a deep interpersonal reflective journey in which knowing, doing, and being are inseparable aspects of the same process” (Bellefeuille & Bekikoff, 2020, p. 16), yet, such entanglements are rarely modeled and made public in the labor of academic writing and researching. Furthermore, the researcher’s body and creativity within the research process have not been widely centered as a topic of inquiry (Peppler & Davis, 2010). Inspired by Megan Bang’s contributions to the ethical and affective turns, my project aims to explore how axiological transformations reaching for the “good, right, true, and beautiful” (Bang et al., 2016, p. 29) can occur when researchers partner with their (more-than-human) bodies through intermodal, reflexive, and relational expressions of their research.
Brick Lane Patchwork
Creators: name: Monegato, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009
Subjects: London ; Brick Lane ; London East End ; Patchwork

description: The essay Brick Lane Patchwork takes its roots in the consideration that the most effective cultural representations of London Brick Lane are explicitly or implicitly linked to the nature of a patchwork. Many contemporary cultural representations made a vain and ambitious effort to portray the real soul(s) of Brick Lane, without taking into consideration its complexity and, therefore, delivering a distinctive image of the area as if it was a single piece of cloth, not a whole quilt. Starting from already existing cultural representations of Brick Lane (Monica Ali's first novel Brick Lane and its filmic adaptation directed by Sarah Gavron, the poetic memoir Salaam Brick Lane - a Year in the New East End and the short film Brick Lane by Paul Makkar, which are going to be privileged squared cloths to be sewn in the above mentioned patchwork), the aim of this essay is both to detect its proper cultural representations and to sew an imaginative patchwork quilt, a new and multiple image of this London area enhancing its hybrid soul(s), its blending procedure and contemporary facets.
Ali M., 2004, Brick Lane, Doubleday Black Swan, London.Gavron S., 2007, Brick Lane, Sony Pictures Classics.Hall T., 2005, Salaam Brick Lane - A Year in the New East End, John Murray Publishers, London. Makkar P., 2002, Brick Lane, Anapurna Films.
description: Altre Modernità, No 1 (2009): Miscellanea
La città scrive: "détournements" nella cultura contemporanea di lingua francese
Creators: name: Riva, Silvia
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: The marks of the events on the urban landscape are a city's writing.
More than writings on a city - amongst which are the memorable work of Baudelaire, the ";flâneur";, and Apollinaire's Lettre-Océan -  they represent the analysis of the city that writes on its own texture.

This phenomenon relies on a procedure of diversion and estrangement which turns famous places into uncommon areas and it finds amongst its founding models the cinematographic production of Francois Truffaut (Fahrenheit 451). A similar approach allows us to capture the significance of the work of Dominique Fourcade, one of the most important contemporary French poets. In MW Chute, a  poem dated 5th October 2001, he describes the horror of the collapse of New York City's twin towers.

In this piece, Fourcade describes what happened to him on 9/11 not much from a man's perspective but rather from . a poetic standpoint. Ground Zero allows his writing to jump forward, and turn into a verbal city and labyrynth. His reflections on the urban landscape  which, collapses under the explosion become a map of dispersed images made of innumerabile détournements (detour aheads), of endless variants and deviations. The event becomes the model and shape of his writing.
description: Altre Modernità, No 1 (2009): Miscellanea
Zero modes and charged Skyrmions in graphene bilayer
Creators: name: Lu, Chi-Ken
name: Herbut, Igor F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the electric charge of the Skyrmion in the vector order parameters that characterize the quantum anomalous spin Hall state and the layer-antiferromagnet in a graphene bilayer is four and zero, respectively. The result is based on the demonstration that a vortex configuration in two broken symmetry states in bilayer graphene with the quadratic band crossing has the number of zero modes doubled relative to the single layer. The doubling can be understood as a result of Kramers' theorem implied by the "pseudo time reversal" symmetry of the vortex Hamiltonian. Disordering the quantum anomalous spin Hall state by Skyrmion condensation should produce a superconductor of an elementary charge 4e.
description: 4+ pages, one table, one figure; (v2) improved pedagogy, new expression for the Pontryagin index derived, additional explanations; (v3) new and updated references, minor typos corrected, published version
La tierra entre derecho y cultura indígena en Argentina
Creators: name: Rosti, Marzia
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009
Subjects: Argentina ; indigeni ; terra

description: The paper considers the relationships between the indigenous peoples and the Argentinian State since the XIX century until 1994, when it was introduced in the Constitution the provision acknowledging to the indigenous peoples “la posesión y propiedad comunitarias de las tierras que tradicionalmente ocupan”, “la entrega de otras aptas y suficientes para el desarrollo humano” and granting them “la parcipación en la gestión referida a sus recursos naturales y a los demás intereses que los afecten” (art. 75, inc. 17). The paper describes then the issue concerning the claim for indigenous land – raised by the new constitutional provision – and focuses on some significant cases and the more recent jurisprudence on that issue.
description: Altre Modernità, No 1 (2009): Miscellanea
title: Die Lüneburger Prüfliste für Corrective Feedback in digitalen Fremdsprachlernprogrammen
title: Checklist for corrective feedback in digital language learning software
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Wucherpfennig, Svea Carolyn
name: Schmidt, Torben
Publisher: name: Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: Feedback
Korrektur
Sprachenlernen
Englisch
Form
Qualität
Fremdsprachenerwerb
Lernsoftware
Sprachlernprogramm
Digitales Lernen
Üben
Prüfliste
Kategorisierung
Correction
Language Learning
English
Foreign Language
Quality
Learning Software
Language Learning Application
Digital Learning
Practice
Checklist
Categorization

description: Auf Grundlage vorhandener Forschungsergebnisse und bestehender Literatur zum formfokussierten Üben im kommunikativen Fremdsprachenunterricht allgemein sowie Formen und Funktionen korrektiven Feedbacks wurde eine theoriebasierte Prüfliste zur qualitativen Analyse von Feedbackformen innerhalb digitaler Fremdsprachlernprogramme entworfen. Dieses Instrument wird auf die Lernsoftware Duolingo als eine der weitverbreitetsten Sprachlernapplikationen angewandt, um Formen des dort zum Einsatz kommenden Feedbacks kritisch zu beschreiben und dabei die Praxistauglichkeit des Instruments zu reflektieren. Bei der Entwicklung wurden in einem ersten Schritt auf theoretischer Grundlage Kriterien guten Feedbacks und unterschiedliche Arten des korrektiven Feedbacks erarbeitet. In einem zweiten Schritt wurden relevante Aspekte aus den wenigen bestehenden Prüflisten ermittelt. Abschließend wurde die vorliegende Checkliste generiert, indem zunächst auf Basis der vorangegangen Recherche Hauptkategorien und Unterkategorien definiert wurden, die relevant für gutes korrektives Feedback sind. Diese Kategorien wurden mit Fragen untermauert, um einen einfachen Umgang und eine anschließende Aussage zu gewährleisten. Die Prüfliste soll den Nutzer bzw. die Nutzerin dazu befähigen, die Feedbackquantität und Feedbackqualität zu beurteilen.
description: Other
description: Prüfliste
title: DEPRECATED: Population growth in a high amenity area: migration and socio-economic change in Cornwall
Creators: name: Kowalczuk, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2011
Subjects: Migration
Counterurbanisation
Cornwall
Socio-economic growth

description: The thesis was carried out in collaboration with Cornwall County Council
description: The thesis provides a deeper understanding of migration flows to high amenity areas using the example of migration to and from Cornwall. Cornwall is a remote, non-metropolitan county which has been experiencing very strong population growth since the 1970s almost solely due to in-migration. There are several aspects of the project that should contribute to an understanding of internal migration in England and Wales. First, a cohort analysis of migrants brings insights into the migration strategies of in-migrants and out-migrants throughout the period. Using the case of Cornwall allows the examination of migration patterns in a peripheral location where commuting opportunities are limited, and allows comparison with a more accessible rural area, Wiltshire. Secondly, through the creation of a new area type classification the project helps to explore the environmental dimension of migration. The typology is used to investigate the residential patterns of migrants and non-migrants and to test the hypothesis that environmental preferences are significant in the choice by in-migrants of where to live. Finally, The research investigates some pressing issues in Cornwall, issues which are relevant also for other non-metropolitan areas, such as the shortage of affordable housing, the detrimental impact of tourism and poor economic development, and their links with migration. The research focuses especially on labour market problems and housing need, due to their policy relevance. Comparisons between the migrant and non-migrant populations provide the basis for estimating the impacts of migration on the restructuring of labour and housing markets in Cornwall.
Ein kritischer Blick zurück: Provenienzforschung in Sammlungen und Museen
Creators: name: Theiß, Alissa
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sammlungs- und Objektforschung
subject: Objektkompetenz
subject: Universitätssammlungen
subject: Lehre
subject: 060 Allgemeine Organisationen und Museumswissenschaft

description: Einleitung
Self-healing of Direct Written Conductive Inks for Curvilinear Circuits
Creators: name: Jeong, Chan Woo (Robin)
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: direct written circuits
subject: copper nanoparticle
subject: self-healing
subject: intense pulsed light
subject: sintering
subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Materials Science
subject: Metallurgy

description: The increased electrification of vehicles in both automotive and aerospace industries has introduced new challenges in manufacturing complexities and weight management. Complex and heavy wirings are currently being utilized and conventional printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing methods are limited in 2D geometries. Alternatively, a direct-writing approach presents weight and materials saving opportunities where planar substrates with circuits already printed are formed to a final shape. However, designing a circuit or a printed ink formula able to withstand the high strain of substrate forming is challenging. Instead, a circuit able to regain functionality after sustaining strain induced cracks presents a more versatile approach. In this study, a conductive ink with self-healing capabilities is developed. A copper-nanoparticle based ink compatible with existing lithographic methods is developed and printed on planar polymeric substrates. Intense pulsed light (IPL) is utilized to photothermally heat, reduce, and sinter copper nanoparticles within milliseconds. By utilizing light-matter energy absorption and the plasmonic effect, heat sensitive polymeric substrates are unaffected while conductive copper tracks are formed. After printing, drying, and IPL flashing, the substrate and printed tracks are subjected to cyclic bending and thermoforming. Afterwards flashing is performed once again to initiate the healing process through reflow of indium microparticles. These indium healing agents added to the ink bridges microcracks via capillary forces to recover severed electron pathways. Mechanisms of photothermal heating and sintering is simulated to better understand the underlying physical phenomena. Ultimately, a planarly written copper nanoparticle ink capable of surviving substrate deformation to produce curvilinear circuits is achieved. This direct writing method can provide drastic wiring weight reduction imparting fuel savings in the next generation of electronics in vehicles.
A Waste of a Desert: Nevada and the Cold War Chemical Legacy
Creators: name: Scarpino, Cinzia
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Taking the lead from Don DeLillo’s epic novel Underworld (1997) – with its overarching theme of “waste” functioning as its unifying metaphor and its picture of the American deserts turned into hazardous waste dumps or missile depots – this essay provides a close reading of the empty spaces of the Nevada desert, spaces that bear the mark left by the nuclear exploitation and the hazardous waste which have plagued Nevada since the Fifties. By linking the history of Nevada to the Cold War, and to the chemical legacy of those years, with its notions of “containment” and “weather control”, Scarpino argues that they be read as interwoven threads of the same discourse.
description: Altre Modernità, No 1 (2009): Miscellanea
Weyl's Law and Connes' Trace Theorem for Noncommutative Two Tori
Creators: name: Fathizadeh, Farzad
name: Khalkhali, Masoud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove the analogue of Weyl's law for a noncommutative Riemannian manifold, namely the noncommutative two torus $\mathbb{T}_θ^2$ equipped with a general translation invariant conformal structure and a Weyl conformal factor. This is achieved by studying the asymptotic distribution of the eigenvalues of the perturbed Laplacian on $\mathbb{T}_θ^2$. We also prove the analogue of Connes' trace theorem by showing that the Dixmier trace and a noncommutative residue coincide on pseudodifferential operators of order -2 on $\mathbb{T}_θ^2$.
description: 17 pages. Derivation of small time heat kernel expansion and the construction of the Dixmier trace is expanded, one reference added, to appear in Letters in Mathematical Physics
The Alien in Greenwich - Iain Sinclair & the Millennium Dome
Creators: name: Vallorani, Nicoletta
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009
Subjects: London ; Sinclair ; Millenium Dome

description: This essays looks at Sorry Meniscus Excursions to the Millennium Dome (Profile Books, 1999), by I Sinclair. The book collects two ";;Expeditions to the building site on Bugsby's Marshes";;, made in 1997   and 1999 and commissioned by the London Review of Books. The two resulting essays were published first separately, on the review, and  then in a volume by Profile Books. The booklet is a curious meditation on the metropolis that is the sinclairian life-project, and it focuses on the most recent urban enterprise that can be labelled  as an experiment in selling fake history for a fake political credit, giving voice to a fraud born and thriving in the fairyland of Blair's New Labour. Sinclair's journey also  shows how any urban imagination, when applied to London, tends to become curiously self-directed: it acquires its own life, and, as the creature of Frankenstein, it claims its own right to narrate its story. Sinclair proves to be very good at listening to this story, and even better at re-narrating it, trying not to intrude too much and keeping the voice of the city as clean as possible. And in this case, it is the voice of an alien.
description: Altre Modernità, No 1 (2009): Miscellanea
Für die Tonne? Wenn Provenienzforschung entzaubert
Creators: name: Heide, Anna-Magdalena
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Bergbau
subject: Kunst
subject: Sammlungsforschung
subject: Technikmuseum
subject: 060 Allgemeine Organisationen und Museumswissenschaft

description: In über 90 Jahren Sammlungsgeschichte häuft sich einiges an. Um den Überblick über die Bestände nicht zu verlieren, ist im Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum bereits in den 1940er Jahren damit begonnen worden, Objekte – wie etwa Lampen, Maschinen und Arbeitsgeräte, aber auch Kunstwerke – zu dokumentieren. Die dafür angelegten Karteikarten sind für die Frage nach der Entstehung und Funktion einer Kunstsammlung in einem ursprünglich als „Technikmuseum“ beworbenen Haus eine der wichtigsten Quellen. Und dennoch geben sie manchmal Rätsel auf. Das gilt auch für eine Reiterskulptur, den Berittenen Bergbeamten, aus der Sammlung Erich Winnacker, zu der es mehr Fragen als Antworten gibt: Wenn Oberberghauptmann Winnacker 1944 verstarb, wie ist diese Plastik dann fast zwei Jahre später nach Bochum gekommen? Was veranlasste den Gründungsdirektor, ein reichlich in Mitleidenschaft gezogenes Objekt aus dem Erzgebirge in die Sammlungen aufzunehmen? Wie ist es zu den Datierungen gekommen? Warum tauschte ein Elfenbeinbildhauer aus dem Odenwald Material an einem Museumsobjekt aus und zerstörte damit dessen Originalzustand? Und warum ist das Objekt auf der Vorderseite der Karteikarte als „Original“, rückseitig aber als „Fälschung“ klassifiziert? An diesem Beispiel aus meiner Dissertation „Man kann Bergleute nicht grotesk schnitzen – Bergmännische Repräsentationen im Bochumer Bergbau-Museum in der Ära Heinrich Winkelmann (1928–1966)“ wird demonstriert, dass auch Technikmuseen über Objekte problematischer Herkunft verfügen. Auch welche Hürden bei der Klärung von Provenienzen zu überwinden sind, wird aufgezeigt. Provenienzforschung kann schließlich dazu beitragen, die durch schriftliche Fixierung und anschließende Fortschreibung vermeintlich gesicherten Wissensbestände in der musealen Sammlungsdokumentation und den Wertverlust von Objekten zu problematisieren.
NICU Nurses’ Experiences of Learning to Provide Palliative Care: An Interpretive Description
Creators: name: St Louis, Julia
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: neonatal
subject: NICU
subject: palliative care
subject: nursing education
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Abstract Background: More children die in the neonatal period than any other period of childhood. These infants often live their short lives in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and receive palliative care. NICU nurses who provide quality, family-centred palliative care can help alleviate family and patient suffering. Nurses have identified insufficient education as a barrier to providing palliative care in the NICU. No known studies have explored how NICU nurses learn to provide palliative care without formal educational resources. It is important to identify and assess how nurses learn to provide palliative care in the NICU. Research Aim: The purpose of this study is to describe the experiences of nurses in learning to provide palliative care in the NICU. The research questions for this study were: (a) What are NICU nurses' experiences of learning to provide neonatal palliative care?; and (b) What learning experiences do NICU nurses want to provide optimal neonatal palliative care? Methods: A qualitative study was conducted using interpretive description. Participants were purposively recruited through social media and nursing associations. Inclusion criteria were NICU nurses with one year’s experience who had provided palliative care to at least one infant. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews. Data analysis occurred inductively through data immersion, inductive coding, reflective memoing and thematic analysis. Findings: The nine participants in this study received little or no formal education in neonatal palliative care. They learned to provide neonatal palliative care largely through observation and experience. Three themes emerged from the data: meaning-making in neonatal palliative care, challenges in learning and providing neonatal palliative care, and learning to provide neonatal palliative care. Discussion: Most positive learning experiences identified in this study resulted from nurses being in the right place at the right time to observe a skilled colleague providing neonatal palliative care. A standardized curriculum on neonatal palliative care is recommended, as well as evaluating practice and knowledge outcomes in research assessing future education. Keywords: neonatal, NICU, palliative care, nursing education
Una siciliana chichimeca frente a la Modernidad Americana
Creators: name: Bajini, Irina
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Una siciliana chichimeca frente a la Modernidad Americana

por Irina Bajini

Conversación con Francesca Gargallo (Ciudad de México, Noviembre de 2008)
description: Altre Modernità, No 1 (2009): Miscellanea
A genomic survey of two dinotoms
Creators: name: Imanian, Behzad
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Endosymbiosis has played a major role in shaping eukaryotic cells, their success and diversity. At the base of the eukaryotic tree, an α-proteobacterium endosymbiont in a protoeukaryotic cell was converted into the mitochondrion through its reductive evolution, endosymbiotic gene transfer (EGT) and the development of a protein targeting system to direct the products of the transferred genes to this organelle. Similar events mark the plastid evolution from a cyanobacterium. However, the primary endosymbiosis of plastid, unlike the mitochondrion, was followed by the secondary and tertiary movement of this organelle between eukaryotes through analogous endosymbiotic reduction, EGT and evolution of a protein targeting system and many subsequent independent losses from different eukaryotic lineages. The obligate tertiary diatom endosymbiont in a small group of dinoflagellates called ‘dinotoms’ is exceptional in that it retains most of its ancestral characters including a large nucleus, its own mitochondria, plastids and many other eukaryotic organelles and structures in a large cytoplasm all enclosed in and separated from its dinoflagellate host by a single membrane. This level of conservation of ancestral features in the endosymbiont suggests an early stage of integration. In order to investigate the impacts of endosymbiosis on the organelle genomes and to determine the extent of EGT and the contribution of the host nuclear genome to the proteomes of the organelles, I conducted mass pyrosequencing of the A+T-rich portion of the DNA extracted from two dinotoms, Durinskia baltica and Kryptoperidinium foliaceum, and the SL cDNA library constructed for D. baltica. The plastid and mitochondrial genomes of these two dinotoms were sequenced, and the results indicated that, despite the permanent symbiosis between the host and its endosymbiont in dinotoms and in spite of small variations, the dinotom organelle genomes have changed very little from those of free-living diatoms and dinoflagellates. There was also no sign of EGT to the host in D. baltica, suggesting a strict compartmentalization in which the host mitochondria remain reliant on the host nucleus while the endosymbiont organelles, mitochondria and plastids, stay entirely dependent on the endosymbiont nucleus with no genetic exchange between the host and endosymbiont.
The ‘Noir’ in David Peace’ s Shadow
Creators: name: Barretta, Manuela
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: The ‘Noir’ in David Peace’ s Shadow
by Manuela Barretta
A Conversation with David Peace (Tokyo, April 28, 2008)
description: Altre Modernità, No 1 (2009): Miscellanea
Beable-Guided Quantum Theories: Generalising Quantum Probability Laws
Creators: name: Kent, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the idea of a {\it beable-guided quantum theory}. Beable-guided quantum theories (BGQT) are generalisations of quantum theory, inspired by Bell's concept of beables. They modify the quantum probabilities for some specified set of fundamental events, histories, or other elements of quasiclassical reality by probability laws that depend on the realised configuration of beables. For example, they may define an additional probability weight factor for a beable configuration, independent of the quantum dynamics. BGQT can be fitted to observational data to provide foils against which to compare explanations based on standard quantum theory. For example, a BGQT could, in principle, characterise the effects attributed to dark energy or dark matter, or any other deviation from the predictions of standard quantum dynamics, without introducing extra fields or a cosmological constant. The complexity of the beable-guided theory would then parametrise how far we are from a standard quantum explanation. Less conservatively, we give reasons for taking suitably simple beable-guided quantum theories as serious phenomenological theories in their own right. Among these are that cosmological models defined by BGQT might in fact fit the empirical data better than any standard quantum explanation, and that BGQT suggest potentially interesting non-standard ways of coupling quantum matter to gravity.
description: Minor corrections and edits; closer but not identical to published version
Konstantin Sigov, «Pravda» nel contesto del vocabolario europeo degli «intraducibili». I parte
Creators: name: Sini, Stefania
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Pravda, istina, Dizionari degli intraducibili

description: Presentiamo in prima traduzione italiana dal russo la parte iniziale di uno studio dedicato al termine pravda, al suo complesso spettro semantico e alla storia di questo concetto nei suoi usi, effetti e valori molteplici e interdipendenti: filosofici, teologici, giuridici e politici. Lo studio si inscrive nella cornice dell’esperienza del Vocabulaire Européen des philosophies. Dictionnaires des intradui-sibles, del quale pravda costituisce un lemma esemplare.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 7 (2012)
Coarsening Dynamics in Co-Continuous Polymer Blends and Composites
Creators: name: Shah, Rajas Sudhir
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: confocal microscopy
subject: rheology
subject: microstructure
subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Materials Science
subject: Plastics Technology

description: Co-continuous polymer blends find extensive use across multiple industries. However, the morphology of these blends is thermodynamically unstable, which causes coarsening during processing. As a result, it is essential to understand the coarsening mechanism to improve their performance. Unfortunately, the current literature lacks a comprehensive explanation of the microstructural changes that occur during coarsening. To address this issue, the study employs 4D laser scanning confocal microscopy coupled with rotational rheometry to observe the coarsening dynamics in real-time. The aim is to understand the interplay between viscoelasticity and morphology during coarsening. The results show that when the ratio of interfacial tension to viscosity of blends exceeds a critical value, they tend to break down into droplet-matrix structures. The study also focuses on improving the stability and functionality of blends by incorporating solid particles. In literature, particle surfaces are often chemically modified, requiring complex and costly treatments. Therefore, this study examines the stability of co-continuous blends with pristine particles and how particle size and size distribution affect the stability. The study investigates the coarsening dynamics of blends filled with five different silica particles of diameters ranging from 5 nm to 490 nm. The results show that particle size does not play a role in blend stability when particles are thermodynamically driven to their preferred polymer phase. However, a striking effect is achieved when particles are kinetically trapped at the interface. The interparticle interaction governs their extent of agglomeration and, consequently, their ability to stabilize the morphology. The most effective, 140 nm and 250 nm particles are then added into blends under different loading ratios to simulate polydispersity in four different blends. The study demonstrates that polydispersity in particle size does not negatively affect blend stability. The efficacy of particles to suppress coarsening is dependent on their initial localization in the blend, which is determined by polymer characteristics. Overall, the study's findings provide a better understanding of the coarsening mechanism and stabilization of co-continuous morphology in polymer blends using particles. The results contribute to the fundamental knowledge of these materials and can aid in improving their design in various industries.
Michel de Montaigne. Per una lettura degli Essais
Creators: name: Bottiroli, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Montaigne, Essais, forma, correlativi, flessibilità

description: Si riflette sullo stile di pensiero degli Essais, in cui, come afferma lo stesso Montaigne «vi è gran libertà di parlare in ogni senso, e pro e contro». Si rileva la capacità del pensatore di conferire un nuovo significato a termini tradizionali, recuperati in accezioni inedite. Emerge per esempio una nozione di forma che sa includere il molteplice senza irrigidirlo nell‟Uno. Ciò che Montaigne ri-fiuta è la concezione tradizionale di forma come essenza rigida, come insieme di tratti o di proprietà; l‟identità del soggetto umano – l‟ humaine condition – è invece una condizione flessibile, cioè aperta a destini divergenti. Il pensiero di Montaigne si può interpretare dunque come un pensiero della flessibilità.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 7 (2012)
Sociologia, semiotica e critica filosofico-letteraria. Ideologia dell’arte e arte dell’ideologia da Rossi-Landi e Bourdieu ad oggi
Creators: name: D'Urso, Andrea
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Rossi-Landi, Bourdieu, Prigent, marxismo, avan-guardia

description: Questo studio propone d‟integrare la riflessione teorico-filosofica e l'approccio semiotico-sociologico all'interno della teoria della letteratura, mostrando le convergenze inesplorate tra la critica di Bourdieu nei confronti dell‟ontologia di Heidegger e le analisi di Rossi-Landi sulla filosofia e l‟ideologia in generale, dando inoltre degli esempi concreti di applicazione e dei prolungamenti ulteriori della metodologia proposta per la critica dell‟ideologia nei discorsi sull‟arte e la letteratura.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 7 (2012)
The contribution of modifiable risk factors to socioeconomic inequities in cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality: a nationally representative population-based cohort study
Creators: name: Nejatinamini, Sara
name: Campbell, David JT
name: Godley, Jenny
name: Minaker, Leia M
name: Sajobi, Tolulope T
name: McCormack, Gavin R
name: Olstad, Dana Lee
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2023

description: This study examined the individual and joint effects of modifiable risk factors mediating the associations between socioeconomic position (SEP) and morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in a nationally representative sample of adults in Canada. Participants in the Canadian Community Health Survey (n=289,800) were followed longitudinally for CVD morbidity and mortality using administrative health and mortality data. SEP was measured as a latent variable consisting of household income and individual educational attainment. Mediators included smoking, physical inactivity, obesity, diabetes and hypertension. The primary outcome was CVD morbidity and mortality, defined as the first fatal/nonfatal CVD event during follow-up (median 6.2 years). Generalized structural equation modeling tested the mediating effects of modifiable risk factors in associations between SEP and CVD in the total population and stratified by sex. Lower SEP was associated with 2.5 times increased odds of CVD morbidity and mortality (OR: 2.52, 95% CI: 2.28, 2.76). Modifiable risk factors mediated 74% of associations between SEP and CVD morbidity and mortality in the total population and were more important mediators of associations in females (83%) than males (62%). Smoking mediated these associations independently and jointly with other mediators. The mediating effects of physical inactivity were through joint mediating effects with obesity, diabetes or hypertension. There were additional joint mediating effects of obesity through diabetes or hypertension in females. Findings point to modifiable risk factors as important targets for interventions along with interventions that target structural determinants of health to reduce socioeconomic inequities in CVD.
Canonical contact structures on some singularity links
Creators: name: Bhupal, Mohan
name: Ozbagci, Burak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M50, 32S25, 53D10

description: We identify the canonical contact structure on the link of a simple elliptic or cusp singularity by drawing a Legendrian handlebody diagram of one of its Stein fillings. We also show that the canonical contact structure on the link of a numerically Gorenstein surface singularity is trivial considered as a real plane bundle.
description: The second version is substantially different from the first version. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 2014
Dalla fenomenologia all’ermeneutica.  Il pensiero analogico di Bachtin come strategia  epistemologica
Creators: name: Pellizzi, Federico
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Michail Bachtin, fenomenologia, ermeneutica, etica, estetica, analogia, monade

description: Si presenta la filosofia etica ed estetica di Michail Bachtin nel suo spazio originale tra fenomeno-logia ed ermeneutica. Riflettendo sulla peculiare logica "analogica" proposta dal pensatore russo, si mostra come tale pensiero riesca a porre in relazione soggettività e mondo, unicità della per-sona e spazio complesso della cultura.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 7 (2012)