cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
(501827) Campbell Cameron Forster Dickson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Process algebra with strategic interleaving
Creators: name: Bergstra, J. A.
name: Middelburg, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.1.3; D.4.1; F.1.2

description: In process algebras such as ACP (Algebra of Communicating Processes), parallel processes are considered to be interleaved in an arbitrary way. In the case of multi-threading as found in contemporary programming languages, parallel processes are actually interleaved according to some interleaving strategy. An interleaving strategy is what is called a process-scheduling policy in the field of operating systems. In many systems, for instance hardware/software systems, we have to do with both parallel processes that may best be considered to be interleaved in an arbitrary way and parallel processes that may best be considered to be interleaved according to some interleaving strategy. Therefore, we extend ACP in this paper with the latter form of interleaving. The established properties of the extension concerned include an elimination property, a conservative extension property, and a unique expansion property.
description: 19 pages, this version is a revision of the published version
Symmetrized topological complexity
Creators: name: Grant, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55S40, 55P91 (Primary), 55R91, 55M99, 55S15, 68T40 (Secondary)

description: We present upper and lower bounds for symmetrized topological complexity $TC^Σ(X)$ in the sense of Basabe-González-Rudyak-Tamaki. The upper bound comes from equivariant obstruction theory, and the lower bounds from the cohomology of the symmetric square $SP^2(X)$. We also show that symmetrized topological complexity coincides with its monoidal version, where the path from a point to itself is required to be constant. Using these results, we calculate the symmetrized topological complexity of all odd spheres.
description: v2: 15 pages, 2 figures
(501826) William Dickson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Anomaly detection in mixed high dimensional molecular data
Creators: name: Buck, Lena
name: Schmidt, Tobias
name: Feist, Maren
name: Schwarzfischer, Philipp
name: Kube, Dieter
name: Oefner, Peter J.
name: Zacharias, Helena U.
name: Altenbuchinger, Michael
name: Dettmer, Katja
name: Gronwald, Wolfram
name: Spang, Rainer
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Motivation Mixed molecular data combines continuous and categorical features of the same samples, such as OMICS profiles with genotypes, diagnoses, or patient sex. Like all high dimensional molecular data it is prone to incorrect values that can stem from various sources as for example the technical limitations of the measurement devices, errors in the sample preparation or contamination. Most anomaly detection algorithms identify complete samples as outliers or anomalies. However, in most cases, not all measurements of those samples are erroneous but only a few one-dimensional features within the samples are incorrect. These one-dimensional data errors are continuous measurements that are either located outside or inside the normal ranges of their features but in both cases show atypical values given all other continuous and categorical features in the sample. Additionally, categorical anomalies can occur for example when the genotype or diagnosis was submitted wrongly. Results We introduce ADMIRE (Anomaly Detection using MIxed gRaphical modEls), a novel approach for the detection and correction of anomalies in mixed high dimensional data. Hereby, we focus on the detection of single (one-dimensional) data errors in the categorical and continuous features of a sample. For that the joint distribution of continuous and categorical features is learned by Mixed Graphical Models, anomalies are detected by the difference between measured and model-based estimations and are corrected using imputation. We evaluated ADMIRE in simulation and by screening for anomalies in one of our own metabolic data sets. In simulation experiments ADMIRE outperformed the state-of-the-art methods Local Outlier Factor, stray and Isolation Forest. Availability All data and code is available at https://github.com/spang-lab/adadmire. ADMIRE is implemented in a python package called adadmire which can be found at https://pypi.org/project/adadmire.
(501825) Mary West Thorp Dickson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Two-temperature logistic regression based on the Tsallis divergence
Creators: name: Amid, Ehsan
name: Warmuth, Manfred K.
name: Srinivasan, Sriram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We develop a variant of multiclass logistic regression that is significantly more robust to noise. The algorithm has one weight vector per class and the surrogate loss is a function of the linear activations (one per class). The surrogate loss of an example with linear activation vector $\mathbf{a}$ and class $c$ has the form $-\log_{t_1} \exp_{t_2} (a_c - G_{t_2}(\mathbf{a}))$ where the two temperatures $t_1$ and $t_2$ ''temper'' the $\log$ and $\exp$, respectively, and $G_{t_2}(\mathbf{a})$ is a scalar value that generalizes the log-partition function. We motivate this loss using the Tsallis divergence. Our method allows transitioning between non-convex and convex losses by the choice of the temperature parameters. As the temperature $t_1$ of the logarithm becomes smaller than the temperature $t_2$ of the exponential, the surrogate loss becomes ''quasi convex''. Various tunings of the temperatures recover previous methods and tuning the degree of non-convexity is crucial in the experiments. In particular, quasi-convexity and boundedness of the loss provide significant robustness to the outliers. We explain this by showing that $t_1 < 1$ caps the surrogate loss and $t_2 >1$ makes the predictive distribution have a heavy tail. We show that the surrogate loss is Bayes-consistent, even in the non-convex case. Additionally, we provide efficient iterative algorithms for calculating the log-partition value only in a few number of iterations. Our compelling experimental results on large real-world datasets show the advantage of using the two-temperature variant in the noisy as well as the noise free case.
(501824) Frances Creuze Dickson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Supplemental table 1: Differentially expressed genes in pinching versus steady state animals from Environmental and molecular regulation of asexual reproduction in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
Creators: name: Al-Shaer, Layla
name: Leach, Whitney
name: Baban, Noor
name: Yagodich, Mia
name: Gibson, Mathew C.
name: Layden, Michael J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: NVEC200 transcript IDs and annotations for select differentially expressed genes.
Marianne Nicolson’s Land-Based Knowledgescape Cliff Painting
Creators: name: Grunewald, Amina
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 820 Englische und altenglische (Angelsächsische) Literaturen

description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner (De Gruyter) freely accessible.
description: Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies are connected to tribal lands, resilience, and claims for sovereignty. These ways of knowing offer an indispensable resource for Indigenous communities in surviving and resisting assimilationist policies. Modes of Indigenous knowledge are not only discussed in academia and practiced in local spaces but are also integrated into artworks that promote public access to First Nations political agendas within settler nation states. Knowledgescapes can be created as conversive artscapes. They can be placed translocally but also re-integrated into First Nations lands. A reworking of the land as a tribally marked space can be traced in artworks that attack bio- and geopolitical manners of settler societies. The land-marker, place-maker, and artscape Cliff Painting (1998) by Marianne Nicolson shall serve as an exemplification of a specific knowledgescape – created for Indigenous audiences to support their claims, and for non-Indigenous audiences to open up a dialogue on colonial issues within a step-by-step decolonizing discourse.
Nonrelativistic Yang-Mills Theory for a Naturally Light Higgs Boson
Creators: name: Berthier, Laure
name: Grosvenor, Kevin T.
name: Yan, Ziqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We continue the study of the nonrelativistic short-distance completions of a naturally light Higgs, focusing on the interplay between the gauge symmetries and the polynomial shift symmetries. We investigate the naturalness of nonrelativistic scalar quantum electrodynamics with a dynamical critical exponent $z=3$ by computing leading power law divergences to the scalar propagator in this theory. We find that power law divergences exhibit a more refined structure in theories that lack boost symmetries. Finally, in this toy model, we show that it is possible to preserve a fairly large hierarchy between the scalar mass and the high energy naturalness scale across 7 orders of magnitude, while accommodating a gauge coupling of order 0.1.
description: 37 pages; v2: clarifications added in Section 2, fixed typos; v3: clarifications added in Appendix B, references added; v4: updates in Appendix A
(501823) Dorothy Manisty Dickson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Distance sets, orthogonal projections, and passing to weak tangents
Creators: name: Fraser, Jonathan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A80 (Primary), 28A78 (Secondary)

description: We consider the Assouad dimension analogues of two important problems in geometric measure theory. These problems are tied together by the common theme of `passing to weak tangents'. First, we solve an analogue of Falconer's distance set problem for Assouad dimension in the plane: if a planar set has Assouad dimension strictly greater than 1, then its distance set has Assouad dimension 1. We also obtain partial results in higher dimensions. Second, we consider how Assouad dimension behaves under orthogonal projection. We extend the planar projection theorem of Fraser and Orponen to higher dimensions, provide estimates on the (Hausdorff) dimension of the exceptional set of projections, and provide a recipe for obtaining results about restricted families of projections. We provide several illustrative examples throughout.
description: 20 pages, corrected a typo in the statement of Theorem 2.10: one instance of min should have been a max
Biosynthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoates for cardiac tissue engineering applications
Creators: name: Bagdadi, Andrea
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2013

description: As a result of the enormous clinical need, cardiac tissue engineering has become a prime focus of research within the field of tissue engineering. In this project, Poly(3- hydroxyoctanoate), P(3HO), a medium chain length (mcl-PHAs) biodegradable, biocompatible and elastomeric polyhydroxyalkanoate, was studied as a potential material for cardiac tissue engineering. Mcl-PHAs are an alternative source of polymers produced by Pseudomonas sp. As Gram-negative bacteria, Pseudomonas sp. contains lipopolysaccharides in the membrane, which are co-purified with PHAs and may cause immunogenic reactions. This limits the biomedical applications of the mcl-PHAs in several cases. In this work, the Pseudomonas mendocina PHA synthase gene (phaC1) was expressed in the LPS free, GRAS, Gram-positive microorganism, Bacillus subtilis so as to produce LPS-free mcl-PHAs. Our results showed that the recombinant Bacillus subtilis containing the phaC1 gene produced poly(3-hydroxybutirate), P(3HB), with a maximum yield of 32.3 % DCW, an unexpected result. This result thus revealed the unusually broad substrate specificity of the PHA synthase from P. mendocina, which is able to catalyse both medium and short chain length PHAs biosynthesis depending on the metabolic pool available in the host organism. Sequence comparison of this PHA synthase with stringent mcl-PHA synthases revealed possible residues influencing the substrate specificity of PHA synthases. As studies on mcl-PHAs remain limited mainly because of the lack of availability of mcl- PHAs in large quantities, the capacity to scale-up P(3HO) production from 2 L to 20 L and 72 L pilot plant bioreactors, based on constant oxygen transference, was studied. The interaction of freshly isolated rat cardiomyocytes with the P(3HO) polymer, during contraction, was studied when cells were stimulated at a range of frequencies of electrical pulses or calcium concentrations. These results showed that P(3HO) did not have any deleterious effects on the contraction of adult cardiomyocytes. P(3HO) cardiac patches nonporous, porous or with P(3HO) electrospun fibres deposited on their surface were developed. Our results showed that the mechanical properties of the final constructs were close to that of the cardiac structures, with a Young’s modulus value of 0.41±0.03 MPa. Myoblast (C2Cl2) cell proliferation was studied on the different constructs showing an enhanced cell adhesion and proliferation when both porous and fibrous structures were incorporated together. Finally, for further enhancement of the cardiac patch function, VEGF and RGD peptide were incorporated. Results obtained in this project showed that the P(3HO) multifunctional cardiac patches were potentially promising constructs for efficient cardiac tissue engineering.
(501822) Constantia Dickson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Cohen-Macaulay modules over the algebra of planar quasi-invariants and Calogero-Moser systems
Creators: name: Burban, Igor
name: Zheglov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study properties of the algebras of planar quasi-invariants. These algebras are Cohen-Macaulay and Gorenstein in codimension one. Using the technique of matrix problems, we classify all Cohen-Macaulay modules of rank one over them and determine their Picard groups. In terms of this classification, we describe the spectral modules of the planar rational Calogero-Moser systems. Finally, we elaborate the theory of the algebraic inverse scattering method, computing a new unexpected explicit example of a deformed Calogero-Moser system.
description: 50 pages, some misprints corrected
(501821) Frances West
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Children’s theatre in the UK: representing cultural diversity on stage through the practices of interculturalism, multiculturalism and internationalism
Creators: name: Schuitema, Karian
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012

description: The UK is a diverse society. It has had a colonial past and is now part of an interconnected global world. Past and present immigration have continuously shaped and re-shaped the ethnical, racial and cultural made up of its people. Children’s theatre can be understood as a theatrical dialogue between the adult practitioner and the child as an audience member that takes place at a specific time and place, while set in a wider social historical context. As such, it is important to understand how this diversity, found within the society, is represented on stage and how it informs this theatrical communication between adult and child. This thesis will therefore focus on the related practices of interculturalism, multiculturalism and internationalism, to discuss the importance but also the problems associated with representing cultural diversity. It will specifically focus on interculturalism which, in short, attempts to stage the interaction between multiple cultural influences. Understanding children’s theatre as a dialogue, this practice is particularly interesting as the cultural interaction between the representation on stage and the cultural background of the young audience members should also be considered. The central argument of this thesis is that intercultural productions can acknowledge and contribute to the cultural diversity found in the UK and offer children and young people from a range of different backgrounds, cultural representation and an opportunity to feel included in what is presented on stage. This in turn counters the desire to construct national identities as homogeneous, authentic and superior, excluding the cultural ‘other’ not just from the theatrical experience but denying access and participation in the ‘nation’s culture’. The thesis will discuss the problems associated with interculturalism, as staging the 3 ‘other’ culture might risk stereotypical and exotic representations as well as cultural appropriation and exploitation to underline creative processes. It will also take into account the increasingly negative perception of the terms ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘globalisation’ that generally inhibits the attempts of representing cultural diversity on stage. Overall, this research highlights the difficulties of cultural representation on the stage, but also focuses on the reasons and benefits of creating theatrical productions that more accurately represents the UK’s ‘globalised’ and ‘diverse’ society.
Smooth operators: architectural Deleuzism in societies of control
Creators: name: Spencer, Douglas
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012

description: This thesis is concerned with the contributions of certain tendencies in architecture to the operation of contemporary modalities of power, especially in respect of its processes of subjectivation. Focused upon the mechanisms of what the philosopher Gilles Deleuze termed a ‘society of control’, it also attends to the presentation by figures prominent within architectural theory and practice—through their own translations of Deleuze, and his writings with Félix Guattari, as well as their mobilisations of ‘complexity theory’—of their servicing of this emergent mode of power as being in some way ‘progressive’. Naming this tendency in contemporary architectural discourse and practice ‘architectural Deleuzism’, and drawing upon a range of thought including that of Deleuze and Guattari themselves, as well as the work of Michel Foucault, the Frankfurt School and more contemporary critical perspectives, I contest its claims to the progressive in any sense other than that in which it serves the advancement of the marketisation of everyday life, its conditions of precarity, and its concomitant instrumentalisation of the communicative and affective capacities of human subjectivity. This critique is pursued through an analysis of the ways in which figures such as Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Farshid Moussavi and Jeff Kipnis, in their mobilisations of conceptual figures drawn from the thought of Deleuze and Guattari, have attempted to annul the practice of critique within architectural culture so as to clear the ground for a ‘post-critical’ affirmation of architecture’s contributions to corporate, entrepreneurial and governmental operations. I also attend, as the means through which to contest this affirmation, to the analysis of key architectural projects in the fields of industrial manufacture, office work, education, consumerism and media production, and the orientation of their design toward the production of swarm-modelled labourers, ‘citizen-consumers’, ‘nomadic’ student-entrepreneurs and re-engineered publics.
Banach space actions and $L^2$-spectral gap
Creators: name: de Laat, Tim
name: de la Salle, Mikael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Żuk proved that if a finitely generated group admits a Cayley graph such that the Laplacian on the links of this Cayley graph has a spectral gap $> \frac{1}{2}$, then the group has property (T), or equivalently, every affine isometric action of the group on a Hilbert space has a fixed point. We prove that the same holds for affine isometric actions of the group on a uniformly curved Banach space (for example an $L^p$-space with $1 < p < \infty$ or an interpolation space between a Hilbert space and an arbitrary Banach space) as soon as the Laplacian on the links has a two-sided spectral gap $>1-\varepsilon$. This criterion applies to random groups in the triangular density model for densities $> \frac{1}{3}$. In this way, we are able to generalize recent results of Druţu and Mackay to affine isometric actions of random groups on uniformly curved Banach spaces. Also, in the setting of actions on $L^p$-spaces, our results are quantitatively stronger, even in the case $p=2$. This naturally leads to new estimates on the conformal dimension of the boundary of random groups in the triangular model. Additionally, we obtain results on the eigenvalues of the $p$-Laplacian on graphs, and on the spectrum and degree distribution of Erdős-Rényi graphs.
description: v2: Major revision; substantial improvements of the main results; 28 pages v3: Minor revision; 29 pages
(501820) Frank Aidan Long
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Network Structure and Naive Sequential Learning
Creators: name: Dasaratha, Krishna
name: He, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Theoretical Economics (econ.TH)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study a sequential-learning model featuring a network of naive agents with Gaussian information structures. Agents apply a heuristic rule to aggregate predecessors' actions. They weigh these actions according the strengths of their social connections to different predecessors. We show this rule arises endogenously when agents wrongly believe others act solely on private information and thus neglect redundancies among observations. We provide a simple linear formula expressing agents' actions in terms of network paths and use this formula to characterize the set of networks where naive agents eventually learn correctly. This characterization implies that, on all networks where later agents observe more than one neighbor, there exist disproportionately influential early agents who can cause herding on incorrect actions. Going beyond existing social-learning results, we compute the probability of such mislearning exactly. This allows us to compare likelihoods of incorrect herding, and hence expected welfare losses, across network structures. The probability of mislearning increases when link densities are higher and when networks are more integrated. In partially segregated networks, divergent early signals can lead to persistent disagreement between groups.
Retrieval induced forgetting in depression and schizophrenia: role of mood and the cholinergic system
Creators: name: Sterkaj, Fiorentina
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012

description: Retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) is a robust phenomenon, which holds that recalling information from long-term memory can suppress the accessibility of related representations. Both inhibitory and interference processes have been identified as potential mechanisms that may underlie these automatic effects of retrieval. Depression and schizophrenia are known to be associated with inhibitory deficits and there is evidence demonstrating a reduced RIF among these disorders. Very few studies have however investigated RIF in these disorders and the mixed findings reported in the literature are inconclusive. This programme of research addressed methodological issues surrounding the RIF procedure along with mediating factors contributing to the inhibitory processes that underlie this mechanism. These factors have been largely ignored thus far, however there is evidence that mediation of the cholinergic system with nicotine increases RIF whilst low mood reduces the RIF effect. In a series of studies, selected neuropsychological measures, RIF, smoking status and mood were assessed in a sample of individuals with clinical depression, individuals with schizophrenia, healthy control comparisons, a group of twin pairs diagnosed with schizophrenia and a group of healthy twin pairs. Within depression and schizophrenic both groups demonstrated the standard pattern of RIF. However this effect was significantly reduced in the clinical groups in comparison to the healthy controls, indicating an impaired RIF effect in individuals with depression and schizophrenia. A study investigating the different RIF procedures revealed that RIF may be a stable measure over time. However it may not be a heritable aspect of cognition as the study of twin pairs revealed no evidence of a genetic association. RIF was however, found to be associated with smoking status and mood in both patients and controls with a reduction in RIF with low mood and an increase in RIF with smoking status. These findings confirm that RIF is an important factor in depression and schizophrenia with potential implications for clinical settings. The twin study suggests that RIF is most likely influenced by environmental factors. Indeed modulation of the cholinergic system and mood were found to play a part in mediating inhibitory processes that underlie RIF. These findings have important implications for the theoretical accounts of RIF and the neurochemical bases of inhibitory processes.
The Interstellar Medium in nearby galaxies
Creators: name: Casasola, Viviana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The Interstellar Medium (ISM) is of crucial importance for the formation and evolution of galaxies. It is in the environment from which stars are formed, the reservoir that fuels galaxy growth via star formation, the repository of material formed by stars, and a main tracer of internal and external processes affecting whole galaxies (e.g., AGN activity, galaxy interaction). For these reasons, significant efforts have been and are devoted to the characterization of the ISM in the galaxies of the Local Universe, where the proximity allows us to deeply explore the physics, the composition, and the distribution of the ISM. I will present a review of the main results emerging from recent studies on the ISM in nearby galaxies highlighting the heterogeneity of galaxy properties and the importance of resolved studies in the Local Universe in the context of galaxy evolution. Indeed, these studies also provide fundamental observational constraints to theoretical models and updated references for high-redshift studies.
(501819) M [Thorp[e]]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Inverse problem on conservation laws
Creators: name: Popovych, Roman O.
name: Bihlo, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A30 (Primary) 37K05, 76M60, 86A10 (Secondary)

description: The explicit formulation of the general inverse problem on conservation laws is presented for the first time. In this problem one aims to derive the general form of systems of differential equations that admit a prescribed set of conservation laws. The particular cases of the inverse problem on first integrals of ordinary differential equations and on conservation laws for evolution equations are studied. We also solve the inverse problem on conservation laws for differential equations admitting an infinite dimensional space of zeroth-order conservation-law characteristics. This particular case is further studied in the context of conservative first-order parameterization schemes for the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations. We exhaustively classify conservative first-order parameterization schemes for the eddy-vorticity flux that lead to a class of closed, averaged Euler equations possessing generalized circulation, generalized momentum and energy conservation.
description: 29 pages, extended version
Development initiatives in programming on privately-ownedArab satellite television and their reception amongdisadvantaged Saudi women
Creators: name: Alsaied, Najat
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2013

description: This study analyses how media initiatives have sought to improve the coverage on private pan-Arab television channels, of poverty, illiteracy, and violence against disadvantaged Arab women. This was achieved by studying how women‘s status has been critiqued on MBC1, an entertainment channel, and on Al Arabiya, a news channel. Programmes on MBC1 that related to poverty, illiteracy and violence were examined through the eyes of young disadvantaged women in a Saudi Arabian village. How Al Arabiya and MBC1 applied media initiatives in their programming to improve women‘s status was also examined through interviews with key players in Queen Rania‘s Media Office and in the Middle East Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Group. A textual analysis of programmes on MBC1 and Al Arabiya was also undertaken. The study not only contributed to knowledge by covering areas not generally explored in existing research, such as development related programmes about women‘s status on privately-owned pan-Arab satellite television, but it also explores the tug of war between two opposing powers in Saudi society: the reformists and the conservatives. The study used different methods, including ethnographic research, focus groups, and interviews with disadvantaged Saudi women, interviews with key players and decision makers involved in media output and, finally, a textual analysis of programmes dealing with the issues of poverty, illiteracy and violence. It discovers that the ontradictory forces in Saudi society are reflected in the way women‘s status and female empowerment are handled in television programmes. This study underlines the dominant ideology that forms the essence of initiatives aimed at developing women‘s status through media, especially those launched by 'first ladies‘, and the policies made by MBC Group officials in broadcasting development programmes for women. This dominant ideology was also examined in the light of the preconceptions and responses of disadvantaged women.
(501818) Robert Thorp[e]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(501817) ___ ? [Dickson]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Growth of values of binary quadratic forms and Conway rivers
Creators: name: Spalding, K.
name: Veselov, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11H55, 34D08

description: We study the growth of the values of binary quadratic forms $Q$ on a binary planar tree as it was described by Conway. We show that the corresponding Lyapunov exponents $Λ_Q(x)$ as a function of the path determined by $x\in \mathbb RP^1$ are twice the values of the corresponding exponents for the growth of Markov numbers \cite{SV}, except for the paths corresponding to the Conway rivers, when $Λ_Q(x)=0.$ The relation with Galois results about continued fraction expansions for quadratic irrationals is explained and interpreted geometrically.
description: A few typos and the claim in Proposition 5 about semidefinite case are corrected
(501816) Patrick Dickson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(501815) Patrick Thorp Dickson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Embodiment and the senses in travelogue filmmaking
Creators: name: Carrillo Quiroga, Perla
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2013

description: This practice-based research presents an analysis of the representation of embodied experience in the travelogue film genre. It reflects upon the embodied and synaesthesic nature of the cinematic experience by tracing a shift in travelogue filmmaking from the ocular realism characteristic of early travelogue films to the emergence and proliferation of subjective approaches. Moreover, it analyses experimental travelogue films and the capacity of non-linear and non-narrative structures to express sensuous, embodied perception. 9 Meditations is the practice component of this thesis. It is an experimental travelogue film. Through its production this research explores the translation of embodied experience as a multi-sensory process into filmmaking practice. In the field of film studies, the travelogue has not been widely discussed outside historical approaches, and it has certainly never been discussed in relation to phenomenology and embodied sensation. This research articulates a new conceptual framework for both the production and theorisation of the travelogue film, as a form that is intrinsically related to performance, subjectivity and embodied perception. Moreover, this research concerns both the production process in filmmaking practice and the cinematic experience as grounded in synaesthesic, embodied perception. This approach brings to the forefront the capacity of audiovisual practice to both encode and produce sensuous knowledge.
Is Spectral Width a Reliable Measure of GRB Emission Physics?
Creators: name: Burgess, J. Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectral width and sharpness of unfolded, observed GRB spectra have been presented as a new tool to infer physical properties about GRB emission via spectral fitting of empirical models. Following the tradition of the 'line-of-death', the spectral width has been used to rule out synchrotron emission in a majority of GRBs. This claim is investigated via reexamination of previously reported width measures. Then, a sample of peak-flux GRB spectra are fit with an idealized, physical synchrotron model. It is found that many spectra can be adequately fit by this model even when the width measures would reject it. Thus, the results advocate for fitting a physical model to be the sole tool for testing that model. Finally, a smoothly-broken power law is fit to these spectra allowing for the spectral curvature to vary during the fitting process in order to understand why the previous width measures poorly predict the spectra. It is found that the failing of previous width measures is due to a combination of inferring physical parameters from unfolded spectra as well as the presence of multiple widths in the data beyond what the Band function can model.
description: Accepted in A&A
(501814) Mary Anne Thorp Dickson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Targeted RNA editing in brainstem alleviates respiratory dysfunction in a mouse model of rett syndrome
Creators: name: Sinnamon, John R.
name: Jacobson, Michael E.
name: Yung, John F.
name: Fisk, Jenna R.
name: Jeng, Sophia
name: McWeeney, Shannon K.
name: Parmelee, Lindsay K.
name: Chan, Chi Ngai
name: Yee, Siu-Pok
name: Kragness, Sabrina
name: Mandel, Gail
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Rett Syndrome
subject: Nervous System Diseases
subject: Mutation
subject: RNA Editing
subject: Targeted RNA editing
subject: Neurological disorder
subject: Humans

description: Rett syndrome is a neurological disease due to loss-of-function mutations in the transcription factor, Methyl CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2). Because overexpression of endogenous MECP2 also causes disease, we have exploited a targeted RNA-editing approach to repair patient mutations where levels of MECP2 protein will never exceed endogenous levels.
Universality for critical heavy-tailed network models: Metric structure of maximal components
Creators: name: Bhamidi, Shankar
name: Dhara, Souvik
name: van der Hofstad, Remco
name: Sen, Sanchayan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study limits of the largest connected components (viewed as metric spaces) obtained by critical percolation on uniformly chosen graphs and configuration models with heavy-tailed degrees. For rank-one inhomogeneous random graphs, such results were derived by Bhamidi, van der Hofstad, Sen [Probab. Theory Relat. Fields 2018]. We develop general principles under which the identical scaling limits as the rank-one case can be obtained. Of independent interest, we derive refined asymptotics for various susceptibility functions and the maximal diameter in the barely subcritical regime.
description: Final published version. 47 pages, 6 figures
(501813) Sarah Dickson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.