cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Surgeon Education, Engaging with the Immanence of Events of Practice: an exploration of the ontological and ethical dimensions of surgical training and practice
Creators: name: Mahendran, Arunthathi Oormila
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: pedagogy, surgical events, affect, immanence, transcendence, events of practice, surgeon education, surgical education, training, clinical practice, professional education, ethics, individuation, hylomorphism, Alfred North Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze, Brian Massumi, Gilbert Simondon

description: This thesis contrasts the construction of medical knowledge that surgeons must acquire to practice with the kind of knowing that arises unpredictably, through actual events of surgical practice. Such knowing is demonstrated through the research process in which surgeons discuss events of practice and their strategies for coping. As such, the thesis argues that this kind of knowing is central to the onto- epistemological task of becoming a surgeon and is therefore, a crucial pedagogic dimension of such becoming. 

In actual situations of practice, surgeons may be forced to respond, act and think in ways that exceed the approved teachings of surgical knowledge and technical skills. This is not to diminish or disregard the structured programmes of education and training. Instead, I advocate reconfiguring the dominant models of surgical teaching and learning to include pedagogies that are sensitive to the immanent nature of clinical relations and practice. Whilst established clinical knowledge may be said to be abstracted from actual occasions of practice, knowing that emerges through the contingencies of such occasions is grounded in the ‘thisness’ of practice. In this practical immediacy, affective experiencing is a critical precursor to clinical strategies. 

The thesis draws upon theories of affect and becoming from Alfred North Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze, Brian Massumi and Gilbert Simondon. In analysing the policy documentation and training materials, the thesis draws from the theories of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu. This investigation identified affective relations that form and develop within the local flows of experiencing of an event of practice. These forms of ‘thinking-feeling’ contribute to the entangled subjectivities and heterogenous obligations that can expand surgeons’ capacities of becoming. A pedagogy of the surgical event attempts to engage with a learner’s ideas and intensities of experience, triggered by the affective connections that arise when coping with the thisness of contingent events of practice. These immanent relations express how an event of practice comes to matter to a surgeon, how it attains significance.
Additional file 7 of Efficacy of supervised immersive virtual reality-based training for the treatment of chronic fatigue in post-COVID syndrome: study protocol for a double-blind randomized controlled trial (IFATICO Trial)
Creators: name: Tesarz, Jonas
name: Lange, Hannah
name: Kirchner, Marietta
name: Görlach, Axel
name: Eich, Wolfgang
name: Friederich, Hans-Christoph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 7. Patient information after randomisation in intervention group.
Beyond Independent Error Assumptions in Large GNN Atomistic Models
Creators: name: Ock, Janghoon
name: Tian, Tian
name: Kitchin, John
name: Ulissi, Zachary
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The practical applications of determining the relative difference in adsorption energies are extensive, such as identifying optimal catalysts, calculating reaction energies, and determining the lowest adsorption energy on a catalytic surface. Although Density Functional Theory (DFT) can effectively calculate relative values through systematic error cancellation, the accuracy of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in this regard remains uncertain. To investigate this issue, we analyzed approximately 483 million pairs of energy differences predicted by DFT and GNNs using the Open Catalyst 2020 - Dense dataset. Our analysis revealed that GNNs exhibit a correlated error that can be reduced through subtraction, thereby challenging the naive independent error assumption in GNN predictions and leading to more precise energy difference predictions. To assess the magnitude of error cancellation in chemically similar pairs, we introduced a new metric, the subgroup error cancellation ratio (SECR). Our findings suggest that state-of-the-art GNN models can achieve error reduction up to 77% in these subgroups, comparable to the level of error cancellation observed with DFT. This significant error cancellation allows GNNs to achieve higher accuracy than individual adsorption energy predictions, which can otherwise suffer from amplified error due to random error propagation.
title: (Po)ethical Indigenous Language Practices: Redefining Revitalisation and Challenging Epistemic Colonial Violence in Colombia
Creators: name: Camello Pinilla, Sandra Milena
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: (po)ethics, indigenous language practices, revitalisation, agonistic translation, colonial epistemic violence, ecology, decoloniality

description: This research addresses the colonial legacies traversing understandings of indigenous languages and their “revitalisation” in Colombia, arguing that neither language theories nor policies escape power-knowledge relations. It shows how alphabets and grammars have operated as colonial normalising technologies and defined indigenous languages as “illiterate” or “incomplete” languages, forcing them to adjust to foreign models and justifying the intervention of colonisers, missionaries and academic experts (who sought to “transform” indigenous languages into “complete” grammatical and alphabetical languages). It examines the asymmetrical clashes regarding the validation of “expert knowledge” over indigenous knowledge practices. Additionally, it acknowledges the contributions of postcolonial, decolonial, ecological, critical and cultural theories for decentring alphabetical, grammatical and monolingual normalisations and relocating indigenous languages in complex (non-anthropocentric) relations and community filiations. 

This research proposes a comprehensive “(po)ethical” approach that dialogues with indigenous language practices in their poetical, ethical and political dimensions. This has three important effects. Firstly, it challenges reductive models of literacy and grammaticality, consolidated since the colonial encounter. Secondly, it highlights the deep articulation of indigenous language practices with the recreation of traditions and community filiations. Thirdly, it redefines “revitalisation” as a process that goes beyond linguistics insofar as, conceived otherwise, it challenges colonial epistemic violence, rebuilds community filiations, and enables healing. 

(Po)ethical practices are agonistic. They emerge from the pain of the conflicts, historical conditions and violent asymmetries that are inscribed in the bodies and the languages we inhabit. In contrast to colonial technologies and policies of multiculturalism, (po)ethical practices do not pursue the elimination or assimilation of difference. Through agonistic translations, they acknowledge and connect creative processes of resistance and healing, allowing dialogue between adversaries instead of “eradicating conflict” by eliminating difference. The research stresses the local and global potential of agonistic translations of (po)ethical language practices in challenging coloniality and rebuilding communities.
title: Thinking ‘Emancipation’ after Marx: A Conceptual Analysis of Emancipation between Citizenship and Revolution in Marx and Balibar
Creators: name: Bromberg, Svenja
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Emancipation, Marx, Balibar, Equaliberty, Citizenship, Political Theory

description: In light of an increasing embrace of the notion of ‘emancipation’ by various theoretical and 
political perspectives in recent years, this thesis aims to scrutinise the philosophical 
connotations of the concept itself. It therefore returns to Karl Marx’s distinction between 
political and human emancipation, developed in his text ‘On the Jewish Question’, with the aim of 
excavating its theoretical stakes. The core argument of the first part is that Marx draws a line of 
demarcation between citizenship as the modern form of political, bourgeois emancipation realised by 
the American and French Revolutions, and human emancipation as necessitating a different kind of 
revolution that would allow for the constitution of a new type of social bond between the 
individual and the social. Marx’s formulation of the need for human emancipation is grounded in his 
critique of political emancipation, which he regards as failing to recognise the dialectical 
constitution of its social bond by both political and economic relations. The bourgeois social bond 
moreover makes ‘man’ exist as an individualised being who can only relate to his or her political 
existence and dependency on others in a mediated and abstract way. The second part turns to the 
post-Marxist critiques of ‘On the Jewish Question’, starting in the late 1970s with Claude Lefort, 
which coincide with a broader re-evaluation of the revolutionary legacy in France. It specifically 
interrogates Étienne Balibar’s alternative understanding of the form of emancipation achieved by 
the French Revolution under the name of ‘equaliberty’, with which he defends the struggle for 
citizenship as the unsurpassable horizon of a contemporary politics of emancipation. The aim is 
here to develop a deeper understanding of Balibar’s criticism of Marx’s  dividing  line,  which allows the French thinker's contribution to 'thinking emancipation after Marx' to be disentangled from his decision to distance himself from the Marxian approach.
title: Ethics as a Path: Kantian Dimensions of Early Buddhist Ethics
Creators: name: Whitaker, Justin
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Buddhism, ethics, philosophy, early Buddhism, Immanuel Kant, comparative religious ethics

description: In recent decades, Buddhist scholars have begun serious exploration into the theoretical dimensions of Buddhist ethics. However, due to the diversity of moral proclamations found in traditional texts and commentaries, it has been difficult to formulate a widely acceptable theory of Buddhist ethics. Working with the textual analyses of the Buddhist Pāli Canon and recent scholars of Buddhism, I present arguments for viewing early Buddhist ethics as broadly Kantian (deontological) in nature. The methodology follows that of previous authors in Buddhist ethics and in Comparative Religious Ethics with a focus on philosophical ethics and historical and textual studies.  

In constructing a framework of Buddhist ethics, this work draws from the ancient sources, primarily the Buddhist Pāli Canon, as well as the philological and historical work of previous Buddhist commentators and scholars. A similar construction of the ethics of Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is based primarily on the recent writings on both the philosophy and life of Kant, and for source material critical English editions of Kant's primary works. The uniqueness of this work is found in the discussion of Buddhist ethics in the context of its theories of human nature and cosmology and secondarily in its revaluation of Kantian thought as a legitimate interlocutor for scholars of Buddhist ethics. This Kantian perspective, when combined with the insights gained from virtue ethics and consequentialist perspectives, provides a fuller understanding of Buddhist ethics. The findings suggest that Buddhist ethics may claim not only many of the same strengths, but also suffer the same weaknesses, as Kantian deontological moral theory.
ESSA accountability and assessment policies and practices for English language learners
Creators: name: Li, Chen
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: On December 10, 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), legislation to extend and revise the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), was reauthorized. Almost two years later, the Illinois ESSA plan was approved on August 31, 2017. This new reauthorization made extensive amendments, including its state accountability and testing policy requirements, which have significant implications on English language learners (ELLs). This study aims to explore the critical policy actors' interpretation of policy requirements and implementation by examining their exercises of power, values, and the use of policy instruments during their decision-making process. Taking Illinois as a case, interpretive policy analysis and general qualitative analysis were utilized to analyze official documents and related texts, newspaper articles, and interview data.
 The findings reveal that operating with different values, policy actors’ exercise of various power entangles the policy implementation processes and significantly affect ELL education. Results also suggest that the assessment flexibility provided by federal policy can be deceptive given its stringent requirements and the state's limited capacity. Therefore, the new innovative assessment demonstration authority in the ESSA is not necessarily facilitating the assessment innovation, promoting the educational equity by highlighting and closing achievement gaps between ELL and non-ELLs. Furthermore, it is found that state and Chicago public schools have competing accountability and assessment systems and values. More importantly, local power and politics have more control over the policy implementation and enactment at local level, which always have effects or consequences on educating ELLs that are unanticipated. This study has also shown that economic value plays a critical role in policy implementation at state and local level. The implications on ELL education include prioritizing the development and implementation of an effective ELL/Bilingual curriculum and minimizing the influences of local control and assessment time by excluding ELLs from various high-stakes assessments.
title: Research Processes, Knowledge Production and Processual Creativity: Schizoanalytic Cartographies in Brazil
Creators: name: Thorstenberg Ribas, Cristina
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: schizoanalysis, cartography, research processes, processuality, processual creativity, transversality, Felix Guattari, Brazil

description: In this thesis I analyse Félix Guattari's notion of schizoanalytic cartography in its theoretical and pragmatic development in Brazil. Cartographic practices have been developed extensively in Brazil since the 1980's, stemming from the theories and practice of Guattari and from French and Italian institutional analysis. Schizoanalytic cartographies are broadly developed as a tool to work through collective processes, as a device to analyse the collective agency of desire. Cartographies both map and create: they are realised by those who want to produce their own lives, while resisting oppression, and modes of capitalist subjectivation subsuming desire, affect and creativity itself. This thesis therefore traces schizoanalytic cartographies that devise new research processes and new propositions of organisation, subjectivation and institutionalization in Brazil. It explores key Guattarian terms ‘transversality’ and ‘micropolitics’, to analyse the practices of research processes in academia, such as Contemporary Subjectivity Research Group, and  theatre groups working in transversal with mental health care, such as Ueinzz Theatre Company. I focus on how these processes work across institutions, theatre practices, the clinic and the social field. The thesis traces their work on “processual subjectivation” and “processual creativity”, proposing the “processual” as the core form of assemblage between subjects, modes of expression and institutions. This thesis argues against reductive notions of politically engaged art that pose oppositions between aesthetics and political practice, and against institutionally circumscribed definitions of practice-based research. Instead, the thesis proposes new frameworks and different genealogies of practice that transversalise and radicalise aesthetic production, connecting it in new ways to political grounds, outside of the agenda of larger cultural institutions, art worlds and markets. Through the examples of practices analysed, it argues that schizoanalytic cartographies bring “processual creativity” and the “production of subjectivity” into relation, and allow us to reassemble the fields of politics, aesthetics and knowledge production.
Additional file 8 of Efficacy of supervised immersive virtual reality-based training for the treatment of chronic fatigue in post-COVID syndrome: study protocol for a double-blind randomized controlled trial (IFATICO Trial)
Creators: name: Tesarz, Jonas
name: Lange, Hannah
name: Kirchner, Marietta
name: Görlach, Axel
name: Eich, Wolfgang
name: Friederich, Hans-Christoph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 8. Patient information after randomisation in control group.
title: Use of Drawing as a Communication Tool for alleviating digital anxiety:
Exploring digital anxiety in smart mobile users
Creators: name: Lee, Bo Ram
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Smart Mobile, Digital Anxiety, Drawing, Communication

description: The ever-present smart mobile device has changed the everyday life of users in both positive and negative ways, and connects users’ lives online and offline. The existence of fewer gaps between online and offline worlds has shaped a new form of social relationship, new ways of thinking, and had sparked changes in smart mobile users’ behaviour. This thesis investigates the problem of digital anxiety among smart mobile users. The aim of this research project is to investigate how digital drawing affects digital anxiety in the smart mobile user. The research is based on the premise that drawing is a communication tool, and it investigates what types of digital drawing content help the smart mobile user relieve their digital anxiety. 

	This research proposes guidelines for the use of drawing to help the smart mobile user who is experiencing digital anxiety. First, I established digital anxiety as a theoretical construct, and then conducted exploratory studies to investigate the practical problems faced by the smart mobile user. I determined the meaning of digital anxiety, and the precise symptoms experienced by the user suffering from digital anxiety, through a theoretical framework and an exploratory study. Lastly, I conducted empirical studies aimed at designing a method of measuring the level of digital anxiety. This method was tested with hundreds of participants, and was used for conducting the digital drawing experiment at the end of my research project.  

	Overall, this thesis establishes the scope for determining digital anxiety, provides a method of quantifying digital anxiety, and demonstrates the use of digital drawing to relieve digital anxiety in the smart mobile user. I conclude that my research investigates the use of drawing as a communication tool for smart mobile users as a way of improving their memory, emotional wellbeing, and social relationships. I hope my research can serve as a guideline or a methodology in the design of an educational programme or high-tech industries on the basis of a cognition-mediated model.
title: Towards Vivencia: A dance training methodology that generates a peak performative state through the ritualisation of actions
Creators: name: Crecis, Jorge
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Towards Vivencia, dance training methodology, performance, peak performative state, ritualisation, praxis

description: This thesis establishes the basis for a dance training methodology entitled
Towards Vivencia, which aims to allow performers to modify their initial state of being
in order to achieve peak performative experiences through the ritualisation of their
actions. This practice as research draws from theoretical investigation and, primarily
from the author’s current professional practice as a choreographer/director and from
his background in different somatic practices such as martial arts, sports, and
contemporary dance. The findings apply a new working term for the peak
performative state the author associates with performance presence: vivencia, to refer
to this particular state, as well as the experience that remains engraved in the
performer’s existence as a result of an episode of extreme awareness of praxis during
the continuous present moment in performance. The examination of whirling dervish
dance and research on ritual behavior explain the process of ritualisation as an
elaboration of the neurobiological propulsion towards constructing temporal
communities. The way in which ritualising can be used to reify abstract concepts such
as vivencia is explored. By contextualising what constitutes performance training and
by analysing the methododology certain other directors and choreographers have
employed to train performers, this research distils, condenses and reconstructs
selected elements from dance training as well as from selected acting methodologies
and adapts, synthesises and applies these for the purposes of Towards Vivencia. The
last three chapters of this thesis, together with the videos that accompany it, form the
kernel of a training methodology aimed at ritualising action in performance whose
objective is to render the concept of vivencia real.
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-gei-10.1177_02614294211042333 - Development of an instrument to measure opportunities for imagination, creativity, and innovation (ICI) in schools
Creators: name: Renzulli, Joseph
name: Beghetto, Ronald
name: Brandon, Laurel
name: Karwowski, Maciej
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Education

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-gei-10.1177_02614294211042333 for Development of an instrument to measure opportunities for imagination, creativity, and innovation (ICI) in schools by Joseph Renzulli, Ronald Beghetto, Laurel Brandon and Maciej Karwowski in Gifted Education International
Additional file 9 of Efficacy of supervised immersive virtual reality-based training for the treatment of chronic fatigue in post-COVID syndrome: study protocol for a double-blind randomized controlled trial (IFATICO Trial)
Creators: name: Tesarz, Jonas
name: Lange, Hannah
name: Kirchner, Marietta
name: Görlach, Axel
name: Eich, Wolfgang
name: Friederich, Hans-Christoph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 9. CONSORT-Statement for Randomized Trials of Nonpharmacologic treatments (2017).
Racialized College Admissions
Creators: name: Petts, Amy
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sociology not elsewhere classified

description: Despite growing racial inequality in access to selective colleges, popular beliefs abound that college admissions practices are advantaging racial minorities over White students. Because racial minorities face numerous forms of inequality prior to applying college, there are two assumptions held about college admissions. First, people assume that colleges utilize affirmative action based admission practices to help students of color gain admittance and to increase racial diversity on-campus. Second, people assume that most people, particularly Whites, are opposed to all forms of affirmative action. In my dissertation, I challenge both assumptions. I consider how college admissions practice may disadvantage students of color and contribute to racial gaps in access to selective colleges. I ask how organizational and racial processes influence which racialized factors a college considers and how the factors a college considers influence enrollments for specific racial groups. In addition, I ask how the admission factors a college considers influence public sentiment. I find that an increase in racial minority enrollments results in colleges desisting in the consideration of factors known to increase racial minority enrollments. I argue that what a college considers when making admission decisions may be a mechanism for protecting the often-invisible White culture at selective colleges. In addition, I uncover how different racialized admission factors are associated with the representation of different racial groups—indicating that because the meaning of diversity is malleable, the criteria colleges use to admit students may be associated with divergent forms of diversity. Taken together my findings challenge the idea that college admission practices always advantage racial minorities and indicate that in some instances they can disadvantage students of color. Finally, I also discover that Americans, regardless of racial identity, tend to be opposed to admission practices that are perceived to be un-meritocratic like advantaging legacy students or explicitly considering race; but they do not oppose all attempts to increase racial minority representation—indicating that there are some forms of affirmative action that may have wider support in the general public than typically acknowledged
Endo-cannabinoids system and the toxicity of cannabinoids with a biotechnological approach
Creators: name: Niaz, Kamal
name: Khan, Fazlullah
name: Maqbool, Faheem
name: Momtaz, Saeideh
name: Ismail Hassan, Fatima
name: Nobakht-Haghighi, Navid
name: Rahimifard, Mahban
name: Abdollahi, Mohammad
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2017
Subjects: synthetic cannabinoids
acute
chronic
toxicity
biotechnology

description: Cannabinoids have shown diverse and critical effects on the body systems, which alter the physiological functions. Synthetic cannabinoids are comparatively innovative misuse drugs with respect to their nature of synthesis. Synthetic cannabinoids therapy in healthy, chain smokers, and alcoholic individuals cause damage to the immune and nervous system, eventually leading to intoxication throughout the body. Relevant studies were retrieved using major electronic databases such as PubMed, EMBASE, Medline, Scopus, and Google Scholar. The extensive use of Cannabis Sativa L. (C. Sativa) and its derivatives/analogues such as the nonpsychoactive dimethyl heptyl homolog (CBG-DMH), and tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV) amongst juveniles and adults have been enhanced in recent years. Cannabinoids play a crucial role in the induction of respiratory, reproductive, immune and carcinogenic effects; however, potential data about mutagenic and developmental effects are still insufficient. The possible toxicity associated with the prolong use of cannabinoids acts as a tumor promoter in animal models and humans. Particular synthetic cannabinoids and analogues have low affinity for CB1 or CB2 receptors, while some synthetic members like Δ9-THC have high affinity towards these receptors. Cannabinoids and their derivatives have a direct or indirect association with acute and long-term toxicity. To reduce/attenuate cannabinoids toxicity, pharmaceutical biotechnology and cloning methods have opened a new window to develop cannabinoids encoding the gene tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCA) synthase. Plant revolution and regeneration hindered genetic engineering in C. Sativa. The genetic culture suspension of C. Sativa can be transmuted by the use of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to overcome its toxicity. The main aim of the present review was to collect evidence of the endo-cannabinoid system (ECS), cannabinoids toxicity, and the potential biotechnological approach of cannabinoids synthesis.
description: EXCLI Journal; 16:Doc688; ISSN 1611-2156
Bodies for Sale, Souls for Rent: A Marxist Perspective on the Commodification of Bodies and Souls. - A Study on "Sex Workers"
Creators: name: S, Rohindh
name: M, Vasantha Mayurani
name: R, Smirthy
name: Nair, Vismaya Jayachandran
name: Sah, Lishanth
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: CRIME AGAINST VULNERBALES AND THEIR VICTIMIZATION:Sex workers are often criminalized and viewed as offenders rather than recognized as workers in need of protection and support. Trapped within societal constructsof virginity and chastity, they face significant physical and mental health risks, exacerbated by marginalization and inadequate access to healthcare. This researchcritically examines the exploitation and alienation of sex workers within capitalist society, drawing on Marx's theory of labor exploitation. The study utilizesautobiographical accounts, such as those of Nalini Jameela, a sex worker from Kerala, to uncover the vulnerabilities within this community. It also explores howoccupational diseases, like PTSD, may contribute to criminal behavior, perpetuating a cycle of violence.Through a newly developed framework based on primary data and a mixed-methods approach, this research compares sex workers to the labor class and mainstreamsociety to capitalists, highlighting the systemic commodification and marginalization of sex work. Primary data were collected through surveys of the general publicand college students to understand societal attitudes toward sex work. Secondary data were analyzed using the Taguchi sampling method, providing an in-depthexamination of sex workers' experiences and optimizing data variation while minimizing case numbers. The study offers insights into prevention strategies tomitigate the health risks and social disadvantages faced by sex workers.
LaMD: Latent Motion Diffusion for Image-Conditional Video Generation
Creators: name: Hu, Yaosi
name: Chen, Zhenzhong
name: Luo, Chong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The video generation field has witnessed rapid improvements with the introduction of recent diffusion models. While these models have successfully enhanced appearance quality, they still face challenges in generating coherent and natural movements while efficiently sampling videos. In this paper, we propose to condense video generation into a problem of motion generation, to improve the expressiveness of motion and make video generation more manageable. This can be achieved by breaking down the video generation process into latent motion generation and video reconstruction. Specifically, we present a latent motion diffusion (LaMD) framework, which consists of a motion-decomposed video autoencoder and a diffusion-based motion generator, to implement this idea. Through careful design, the motion-decomposed video autoencoder can compress patterns in movement into a concise latent motion representation. Consequently, the diffusion-based motion generator is able to efficiently generate realistic motion on a continuous latent space under multi-modal conditions, at a cost that is similar to that of image diffusion models. Results show that LaMD generates high-quality videos on various benchmark datasets, including BAIR, Landscape, NATOPS, MUG and CATER-GEN, that encompass a variety of stochastic dynamics and highly controllable movements on multiple image-conditional video generation tasks, while significantly decreases sampling time.
description: accepted by IJCV
PARTICLE MECHANICS APPROACH TO MODELING DISINTEGRATION OF CONFINED GRANULAR SYSTEMS DUE TO HYDRATION AND SWELLING
Creators: name: Martins, Pedro Henrique Cidreiro
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified
Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation
Solid mechanics
Powder and particle technology
Polymers and plastics
Pharmaceutical sciences

description: Tablets are the most common form of pharmaceutical solid oral dosages, and they are manufactured by die-compaction of powder blends comprised of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and excipients. Excipients (such as absorbents, disintegrants, dissolution modifiers, and wetting agents) are responsible for controlling the tablet disintegration time and dissolution rate and, ultimately, the drug release profile--making each tablet formulation unique. However, the understanding of the underlying coupled mechanics of imbibition, swelling, and disintegration still poses open questions. Therefore, developing a new formulation for a desired drug release profile is challenging and frequently guided by trial and error. This dissertation contributes to understanding these coupled mechanisms in compacted powder mixtures by developing mechanistic particle-based models and numerical techniques that can potentially assist and accelerate product development. In order to model the disintegration of granular material due to liquid sorption, we identify four modeling milestones: (i) a particle mechanics approach to model microstructure formation during die-compaction and particles interaction during swelling, (ii) a network-like, particle-to-particle solvent diffusion model to account for imbibition across the contact interfaces created during the compaction process, (iii) an efficient grain-based pore-network construction model, to characterize the pores-space of die-compacted granular materials, and (iv) an absorptive, dynamic, two-phase flow, pore-network model to account for capillary imbibition. This dissertation covers the first three modeling milestones, aiming to model pharmaceutical tablets disintegration from a particle-pore scale perspective. However, our models can be easily extended to any sorptive granular media. The proposed multi-physics modeling approach then predicts disintegration by accounting for solid-bridge breakage during the stress relaxation process induced by particle swelling and softening upon sorption. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the seamless integration of experimental and computational methods is paramount for advancing the development of pharmaceutical solid dosage formulations.
Additional file 2 of Core genome sequencing and genotyping of Leptospira interrogans in clinical samples by target capture sequencing
Creators: name: Grillova, Linda
name: Cokelaer, Thomas
name: Mariet, Jean-François
name: da Fonseca, Juliana Pipoli
name: Picardeau, Mathieu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1 L. interrogans strains used for the design of probes. Table S2 Database of Leptospira core genomes used for variant calling. Table S3 Genes showing SNPs and INDELs. The genome of L. interrogans serovar Copenhageni strain Fiocruz L1-130 (id246) was compared with the sequences from samples which were assigned to L. interrogans serovars Copenhageni and Icterohaemorrhagiae (Tables 1, 2)
Universal dynamics and non-thermal fixed points in quantum fluids far from equilibrium
Creators: name: Mikheev, Aleksandr N.
name: Siovitz, Ido
name: Gasenzer, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Closed quantum systems far from thermal equilibrium can show universal dynamics near attractor solutions, known as non-thermal fixed points, generically in the form of scaling behavior in space and time. A systematic classification and comprehensive understanding of such scaling solutions are tasks of future developments in non-equilibrium quantum many-body theory. In this tutorial review, we outline several analytical approaches to non-thermal fixed points and summarize corresponding numerical and experimental results. The analytic methods include a non-perturbative kinetic theory derived within the two-particle irreducible effective-action formalism, as well as a low-energy effective field theory framework. As one of the driving forces of this research field are numerical simulations, we summarize the main results of exemplary cases of universal dynamics in ultracold Bose gases. This encompasses quantum vortex ensembles in turbulent superfluids as well as recently observed real-time instanton solutions in one-dimensional spinor condensates.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 1 of Radiomics-based prediction of FIGO grade for placenta accreta spectrum
Creators: name: Bartels, Helena C.
name: O’Doherty, Jim
name: Wolsztynski, Eric
name: Brophy, David P.
name: MacDermott, Roisin
name: Atallah, David
name: Saliba, Souha
name: Young, Constance
name: Downey, Paul
name: Donnelly, Jennifer
name: Geoghegan, Tony
name: Brennan, Donal J.
name: Curran, Kathleen M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1.
AN EXAMINATION OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CLIMATE AND FISH COMMUNITIES IN AGRICULTURAL HEADWATER STREAMS
Creators: name: Shoemaker, Darren J
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Freshwater ecology
Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)

description: Fish communities in agricultural headwater streams are known to be impacted by a variety of factors, including water chemistry, habitat modification, and hydrology. Little research has been conducted on how climate change influences these communities, yet the effects of climate on lake and river fish have been well documented. I hypothesized that fish community metrics would be reduced by the effects of climate change. I examined the effects of climate and hydrology metrics on fish communities at nine sites in the Saint Joseph River, Indiana and Michigan and at 18 sites in the Upper Big Walnut Creek, Ohio watersheds, from 2006 to 2019. Air temperature, water temperature, precipitation, water discharge, width, velocity, and depth metrics were calculated seasonally for each sampling year. Fish were examined seasonally with backpack electrofishing and seine netting and identified to species level. Principal component analyses were used to create axes which represented gradients of climate and hydrology metrics. Linear mixed effect and logistic regression modeling suggested that hydrology is a stronger predictor than climate, but that both influence fish communities. Percent Percidae, percent herbivore, and percent open substrate spawner were positively correlated with precipitation and water temperature. Presence herbivore was negatively correlated with precipitation and positively correlated with water temperature. My data only somewhat supported the hypothesis that climate would reduce fish community metrics. Gradients of hydrology were observed to be stronger predictors than gradients of climate. However, one must acknowledge relationships between climate and hydrology and the potential for climate to have indirect effects on fish communities through influences on hydrology. This study increases understanding of how fish communities in agriculturally dominated headwater streams are influenced, and emphasizes the need for further research on how these fishes will be impacted by a changing climate.
Additional file 1 of Ecological risk assessment and source tracing of heavy metals in surface sediments of a hilly riverine reservoir in Chongqing, China
Creators: name: Ao, Liang
name: Chang, Ruiting
name: Tang, Yanqiu
name: Zhang, Sheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Additional file 1: Summary statistics for each metal in all sampling sites and seasons.
title: War, Asylum, and Everyday Life: The Experiences of Chechen and Ingush Refugees in Poland
Creators: name: Sipos, Michal
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Violence, Loss, Trauma, Refugee Experience, Chechens, Central-Eastern Europe

description: This doctoral thesis builds upon long-term and predominantly single-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted with Chechen and Ingush asylum seekers in one particular asylum centre in Eastern Poland between 2007 and 2009. It is concerned with some of the processes that constitute what some scholars have regarded as the unsettled and uprooted identity of refugees. Acknowledging that the thing that all immigrants from the North Caucasus had in common was the fact that their lives had been dramatically affected by the post-socialist Russo-Chechen wars, I consider war and displacement to be extreme disruptive events. Focusing on refugees’ voices, their narratives, life stories, utterances, paintings, but also silences, I examine the variety of ways in which these subjects attempted to make sense of a world, which had been radically changed by violence. Besides, the thesis does not overlook that refugee identity is also produced through the historically specific institutional practices and discourses of those who take part in political and humanitarian intervention. After delineating the way in which the notion ‘refugee’ was constructed in post-socialist Poland, I describe this political-legal construction as it existed and reproduced itself in the context of everyday life. Last, I consider the way in which these definitions became part of refugees’ lived experiences. Describing the people I encountered in the field—mostly refugees but also low-level bureaucrats, social workers, teachers, or local inhabitants of the surrounding urban and economically deprived neighbourhood—this doctoral thesis explores how violent disruption becomes integrated in the everyday life of victims of war and displacement within a specific political, socio-economic and historical setting.
title: Postmigrant Theatre and Cultural Diversity in the Arts: Race, Precarity and Artistic Labour in Berlin
Creators: name: Komurcu, Onur
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cultural Diversity in the Arts, Postmigrant Theatre, Germany, Multiculturalism, Diversity, Racism, Race, Ethnicity, Precarious Labour, Artistic Labour, Cultural Policy

description: This study analyses the ways in which artistic labour is racialised and made precarious. It examines the working and living conditions of Turkish German artists throughout the institutionalisation of postmigrant theatre and the implementation of cultural diversity in the arts policies in Berlin’s cultural landscape. It illuminates the dynamics that unfold with regards to cultural diversity in the arts and the labour involved in its practices. The main argument of the thesis is, that the emergence and development of postmigrant theatre needs to be understood as the successful establishment and institutionalisation of new aesthetic, narrative and political tools, which, on the one hand, signal the arrival of Turkish German and other artists of colour and of the language of cultural diversity in the field of the arts in the midst of a new globalised urban cosmopolitanism. On the other hand, however, this thesis also accounts for the still limited access of Turkish German and other artists of colour to institutions of high culture, for their precarious and racialised labour conditions and the lack of material resources available for the diversity work that the artists of the postmigrant theatre movement do. 

As a critical ethnography conducted over the span of seven years, this study maps out the field of opportunities and the restrictions that Turkish German artists working in postmigrant theatre experience in their everyday lives and in negotiating their position in institutional life. This includes their experience in arts school education, the artistic labour market, the sphere of cultural policy, existing funding structures and public discourses about migration, gentrification, cultural diversity and the arts in Germany. The study shows how postmigrant theatre artists’ representational practices produce new postmigrant ethnicities, and challenge narrow conceptions of ethnicity, German culture, national identity as well as power relations in Germany’s theatre landscape. Postmigrant theatre artists perform acts of memory by reaffirming intergenerationally transmitted cultural memories and lived experiences of migration. These become political through acts of remembrance that counteract the long neglect of Turkish German hi/stories. Ultimately, the artists of the postmigrant theatre movement determine the meaning of “diversity in the arts” by working collaboratively to establish sustainable funding and employment structures, networks of solidarity and by giving voice to an increasingly well-organised movement of artists who critique the racialised division of labour in the state-subsisided theatre and cultural landscape.
sj-pdf-4-pmj-10.1177_02692163211040187 – Supplemental material for Timely short-term specialized palliative care service intervention for older people with frailty and their family carers in primary care: Development and modelling of the frailty+ intervention using theory of change
Creators: name: de Nooijer, Kim
name: Pivodic, Lara
name: Van Den Noortgate, Nele
name: Pype, Peter
name: Evans, Catherine
name: Van den Block, Lieve
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-4-pmj-10.1177_02692163211040187 for Timely short-term specialized palliative care service intervention for older people with frailty and their family carers in primary care: Development and modelling of the frailty+ intervention using theory of change by Kim de Nooijer, Lara Pivodic, Nele Van Den Noortgate, Peter Pype, Catherine Evans and Lieve Van den Block in Palliative Medicine