cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Phthalate Concentrations in Personal Care Products and the Cumulative Exposure to Female Adults and Infants in Shanghai
Creators: name: Wang, Min
name: Ning, Xiaojun
name: Gao, Xi
name: Li, Shuguang
name: Chen, Bo
name: Bao, Jiaqin
name: Zhou, Yaobin
name: He, Yuping
name: Yang, Jielin
name: Ding, Zhuoping
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Medicine

description: Phthalate esters (PE) are synthetic chemicals widely used in industry, and have been detected in personal care products (PCP). Recent findings of human reports demonstrated endocrine-disrupting action associated with phthalate exposures. The aims of this study were to (1) measure levels of 11 PE in 198 PCP collected from retail markets in Shanghai and (2) assess daily dermal exposure in adult females and infants. The health risk of cumulative exposure to eight PE on reproductive system function derived from dermal PCP use was further assessed by utilizing the hazard index (HI) approach. Diethyl phthalate (DEP) was the most frequently detected compound (29.8%), followed by diisobutyl phthalate (DiBP) (6.6%). The geometric mean (GM) concentrations of daily exposure to DEP, bis(2-methoxyethyl) phthalate (DMEP), DiBP, dibutyl phthalate (DBP), diphenyl phthalate (DPP), and bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) in female adults were 0.018, 0.012, 0.002, 0.001, 0.003, and 0.002 μg/kg body weight (bw)/d, respectively. The GM daily exposure levels to PE in infants and adult females were similar except for DEHP, which was higher in infants. DEP exposure was highest in both subpopulations at either GM or maximal level. All HI of 8 PE were far less than 1, ranging from 0.0002 to 0.005, indicating no cumulative reproductive risks to these populations. DBP, DMEP, and DEHP were three major contributors to the cumulative HI. In summary, the level of phthalate in PCP from Shanghai retail markets posed no apparent cumulative risk to adult females and infants in China.
Recuperating the Virtual Past Through Recollection: Wordsworth’s “Immortality Ode”
Creators: name: Cameron, Rachael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200503 British and Irish Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This essay offers a close reading of Wordsworth's poem, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood," published in 1807. It responds to Beth Lau's invitation for "literary scholars to join in the interdisciplinary dialogue on the workings of memory and apply its important findings to new ways of reading Wordsworth's poetry."
“Different Songs Sung Together”: The Impact of Translation on the Poetry of José Juan Tablada
Creators: name: Rosenow, Ce
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200506 North American Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: José Juan Tablada was one of Mexico's leading modern poets. During his lifetime (1871-1945) he was not only a literary writer but also an artist, art critic, and journalist. Tablada's interests also included translation. For many years, he edited Revista Moderna, a magazine he founded which featured poetry translations as well as original poetry and art. After translating a number of classical Japanese poems, Tablada wrote and published his own Spanish-language haiku and haiga. His haiku and haiga did not adhere to the criteria established by Japanese versions of these forms but combined the Japanese tradition with references to religion and Mexican culture. By integrating elements of the Japanese and Mexican poetic traditions, Tablada's translations ultimately led him to create new forms of poetry and art.
If Creation is a Gift: From Derrida to the Earth (An Introduction)
Creators: name: Manolopoulos, Mark
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: In the late 1990s I was introduced to Continental philosophy. I was particularly drawn to Jacques Derrida's thoughts on the gift. As many of you will know, Derrida's Given Time (published in English in 1992) scandalously problematized one of our most treasured and—one would think—straightforward phenomena: gift-giving. For those of you unfamiliar with this argument, it goes something like this: the gift is a problem or aporia because, while it is ordinarily understood as that which is given gratuitously (without condition), there is nevertheless always an exchange of some kind, ranging from responses like gratitude, thanksgiving, counter-gifting, indebtedness, and so on.
Two Dimensional Clustering of Gamma-Ray Bursts using durations and hardness
Creators: name: Bhave, Aishwarya
name: Kulkarni, Soham
name: Desai, Shantanu
name: Srijith, P. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) have been traditionally divided into two categories: "short" and "long" with durations less than and greater than two seconds, respectively. However, there is a lot of literature (with conflicting results) regarding the existence of a third intermediate class. To investigate this issue, we carry out a two-dimensional classification using the GRB hardness and duration, and also incorporating the uncertainties in both the variables, by using an extension of Gaussian Mixture Model called Extreme Deconvolution (XDGMM). We carry out this analysis on datasets from two detectors, viz. BATSE and Fermi-GBM. We consider the duration and hardness features in log-scale for each of these datasets and determine the best-fit parameters using XDGMM. This is followed by information theoretic criterion-based tests (AIC and BIC) to determine the optimum number of classes. For BATSE, we find that both AIC and BIC show preference for two components with close to decisive and decisive significance, respectively. For Fermi-GBM, AIC shows preference for three components with decisive significance, whereas BIC does not find any significant difference between two and three components. Our analysis codes have been made publicly available.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures. Replaced GMM with XDGMM. Also now using only BATSE and Fermi-GBM. Accepted for publication in APSS
Complaint Management System for Municipal Corporation
Creators: name: Nisha Ajay Pawar, Sankesha Ashok Rajguru
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The main purpose of this project is to help public in knowing their place details and get their issuessolved in online mode without going to the office regularly. By this system public can save their time. Thisapplication will provide interface to a common man to deliver his complaint and problem to the municipalauthority and let the authorities of municipal to address the problem as early as possible.
Offspring DNA methylation of the aryl-hydrocarbon receptor repressor gene is associated with maternal BMI, gestational age, and birth weight
Creators: name: H Burris, Heather
name: A Baccarelli, Andrea
name: Byun, Hyang-Min
name: C Just, Allan
name: Pantic, Ivan
name: Svensson, Katherine
name: Zhao, Yan
name: O Wright, Robert
name: M Téllez-Rojo, Martha
name: Cantoral, Alejandra
name: Solano-Gonzalez, Maritsa
name: Tamayo y Ortiz, Marcela
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Prenatal smoke exposure, maternal obesity, aberrant fetal growth, and preterm birth are all risk factors for offspring metabolic syndrome. Cord blood aryl-hydrocarbon receptor repressor (AHRR) DNA methylation is responsive to maternal smoking during pregnancy. AHRR serves not only to inhibit aryl-hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) transcription, which is involved in mediating xenobiotic metabolism, but it is also involved in cell growth and differentiation. Other than maternal smoking, other predictors of offspring AHRR DNA methylation status remain unknown; we sought to identify them among newborns. We enrolled pregnant women in the PROGRESS birth cohort in Mexico City. Using pyrosequencing, we analyzed DNA methylation of 3 CpG sites within the AHRR gene promoter from the umbilical cord blood of 531 infants. We used generalized estimating equations to account for the correlation of DNA methylation between CpG sites. Multivariable models were used to adjust for maternal age, BMI, education, parity, smoke-exposure, infant sex, gestational age, and birth weight-for-gestational age. AHRR DNA methylation was positively associated with maternal BMI (P = 0.0009) and negatively associated with the length of gestation (P < 0.0001) and birth weight-for-gestational age (P < 0.0001). AHRR DNA methylation was 2.1% higher in offspring of obese vs. normal weight mothers and 3.1% higher in preterm vs. term infants, representing a third and a half standard deviation differences in methylation, respectively. In conclusion, offspring AHRR DNA methylation was associated with maternal obesity during pregnancy as well as infant gestational age and birth weight-for-gestational age. Further work to discover the health impacts of altered AHRR DNA methylation is warranted.
Numerical approximation of a mechanochemical interface model for skin appendage
Creators: name: Vilaca, Luis Miguel De Oliveira
name: Milinkovitch, Michel C.
name: Baier, Ricardo Ruiz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce a model for the mass transfer of molecular activators and inhibitors in two media separated by an interface, and study its interaction with the deformations exhibited by the two-layer skin tissue where they occur. The mathematical model results in a system of nonlinear advection-diffusion-reaction equations including cross-diffusion, and coupled with an interface elasticity problem. We propose a Galerkin method for the discretisation of the set of governing equations, involving also a suitable Newton linearisation, partitioned techniques, non-overlapping Schwarz alternating schemes, and high-order adaptive time stepping algorithms. The experimental accuracy and robustness of the proposed partitioned numerical methods is assessed, and some illustrating tests in 2D and 3D are provided to exemplify the coupling effects between the mechanical properties and the advection-diffusion-reaction interactions involving the two separate layers.
Empirical Analysis of Multinational S&T Collaboration Priorities –The Case of Russia
Creators: name: Kotsemir, Maxim
name: Nasybulina, Elena
name: Pikalova, Anna
name: Kuznetsova, Tatiana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: 160511 Research, Science and Technology Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2699134

The problem of rationalizing S&T cooperation, including identifying the most promising areas and forms for S&T cooperation (geographical and thematic) and state support instruments, is critically important to many countries. In view of the growing complexity of global trends and domestic restrictions on development and the emergence of new factors affecting contacts with foreign countries, there are increasing demands in the international arena to collect and analyse relevant information required to make substantiated administrative decisions on various levels, including with regard to international S&T collaboration. In these conditions, researchers and experts tend to resort to a broad range of empirical methods, while politicians make more active use of their results in administrative practice and international contacts. This working paper describes and systematizes analysis results in the field of international S&T collaboration based on a bibliometric study. The authors combine quantitative methods of bibliometrics and sociology to identify prospective partners and promising areas for collaboration. In addition, the possibility of using the proposed approach to provide information support for current state policy-making is assessed, and key results of the study are examined.
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2699134
Surface modification of TiO2 nanotube arrays with metal copper particle for high efficient photocatalytic reduction of Cr(VI)
Creators: name: Wu, Mengyao
name: Duan, Tigang
name: Chen, Ye
name: Wen, Qing
name: Wang, Yuyang
name: Xin, Hongmei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Physics

description: Highly ordered TiO2 nanotube arrays (NTs) have been widely used for photocatalysis application. In this study, to further improve the photocatalysis activity of TiO2 NTs, Cu/TiO2 NTs were prepared through an anodic oxidation and impregnation–reduction method. The morphology and crystalline phase of the pure TiO2 NTs and Cu/TiO2 NTs were characterized by SEM and X-ray diffraction. The photocatalytic performance of Cu/TiO2 NTs was evaluated by photocatalytic reduction of Cr(VI) under UV light. The rate constant of photocatalytic reduction of Cr(VI) on Cu0.01/TiO2 NTs which had the optimal Cu loading content was 9.5 times higher than that on unmodified TiO2 NTs. And the experiment results of different initial concentration of Cr(VI) and pH demonstrated that they greatly influenced the removal efficiency of Cr(VI). The photoelectric properties of TiO2 NTs with Cu particle loading were investigated by photoelectrochemical characterization, including photocurrent response, open-circuit voltage, electro-chemical impedance spectroscopy Nynquist plots, and Mott–Schottky plots. The enhancement of the photocatalytic performance of Cu/TiO2 NTs indicated that the electrons could transfer faster and be utilized more easily due to the formation of Schottky barrier on the interface of Cu and TiO2. The detailed electrons transfer mechanism of Cu/TiO2 NTs was proposed.
Generating Hard Examples for Pixel-wise Classification
Creators: name: Lee, Hyungtae
name: Kwon, Heesung
name: Kim, Wonkook
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Pixel-wise classification in remote sensing identifies entities in large-scale satellite-based images at the pixel level. Few fully annotated large-scale datasets for pixel-wise classification exist due to the challenges of annotating individual pixels. Training data scarcity inevitably ensues from the annotation challenge, leading to overfitting classifiers and degraded classification performance. The lack of annotated pixels also necessarily results in few hard examples of various entities critical for generating a robust classification hyperplane. To overcome the problem of the data scarcity and lack of hard examples in training, we introduce a two-step hard example generation (HEG) approach that first generates hard example candidates and then mines actual hard examples. In the first step, a generator that creates hard example candidates is learned via the adversarial learning framework by fooling a discriminator and a pixel-wise classification model at the same time. In the second step, mining is performed to build a fixed number of hard examples from a large pool of real and artificially generated examples. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed HEG approach, we design a 9-layer fully convolutional network suitable for pixel-wise classification. Experiments show that using generated hard examples from the proposed HEG approach improves the pixel-wise classification model's accuracy on red tide detection and hyperspectral image classification tasks.
description: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS)
Surface modification of TiO2 nanotube arrays with metal copper particle for high efficient photocatalytic reduction of Cr(VI)
Creators: name: Wu, Mengyao
name: Duan, Tigang
name: Chen, Ye
name: Wen, Qing
name: Wang, Yuyang
name: Xin, Hongmei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Highly ordered TiO2 nanotube arrays (NTs) have been widely used for photocatalysis application. In this study, to further improve the photocatalysis activity of TiO2 NTs, Cu/TiO2 NTs were prepared through an anodic oxidation and impregnation–reduction method. The morphology and crystalline phase of the pure TiO2 NTs and Cu/TiO2 NTs were characterized by SEM and X-ray diffraction. The photocatalytic performance of Cu/TiO2 NTs was evaluated by photocatalytic reduction of Cr(VI) under UV light. The rate constant of photocatalytic reduction of Cr(VI) on Cu0.01/TiO2 NTs which had the optimal Cu loading content was 9.5 times higher than that on unmodified TiO2 NTs. And the experiment results of different initial concentration of Cr(VI) and pH demonstrated that they greatly influenced the removal efficiency of Cr(VI). The photoelectric properties of TiO2 NTs with Cu particle loading were investigated by photoelectrochemical characterization, including photocurrent response, open-circuit voltage, electro-chemical impedance spectroscopy Nynquist plots, and Mott–Schottky plots. The enhancement of the photocatalytic performance of Cu/TiO2 NTs indicated that the electrons could transfer faster and be utilized more easily due to the formation of Schottky barrier on the interface of Cu and TiO2. The detailed electrons transfer mechanism of Cu/TiO2 NTs was proposed.
Gravitational form factors of light mesons
Creators: name: Freese, Adam
name: Cloët, Ian C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the gravitational form factors of the pion, sigma meson, and rho meson in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model of quantum chromodynamics. The canonical energy-momentum tensor (EMT) is used in their derivation, allowing the possibility of an antisymmetric contribution when the hadron has intrinsic spin. We show that the asymmetric graviton vertex arising from the canonical EMT satisfies a simpler Ward-Takahashi identity (WTI) than the symmetric graviton vertex of the Belinfante EMT. The necessity of fully dressing the graviton vertex through the relevant Bethe-Salpeter equation is demonstrated for observing both the WTI and a low-energy pion theorem. Lastly, we calculate static moments of the meson EMT decompositions, obtaining predictions for the meson mass radii. We find light cone mass radii of 0.27 fm for the pion, 0.32 fm for the sigma, and 0.25 fm for the rho. For the pion and rho, these are smaller than the light cone charge radii, respectively 0.51 fm and 0.45 fm, while we have a sigma charge radius of zero. Our light cone pion mass radius agrees with a phenomenological extraction from KEKB data.
description: 20 pages, 11 figures
“An Outstretched Hand…”: From Fragment to Fragmentary
Creators: name: Hill, Leslie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: A hand, perhaps yours or mine, hers or his, extends itself or is ex-tended, and reaches out. In that selfsame gesture, or shortly after, it with-draws, retreats, and resists. Not given, not taken: the hand, it seems, has always already eluded our grip.But what is at stake in this meeting or missed encounter, this contact or loss of contact between one hand and another?In other words, what is the reach the extent, import, and address of the gesture described and enacted by Blanchot s fragmentary words? And what is it that Blanchot hands on to us, his readers, or down to us, who are last to speak? But who are we?
An orthotropic electro-viscoelastic model for the heart with stress-assisted diffusion
Creators: name: Propp, Adrienne
name: Gizzi, Alessio
name: Levrero-Florencio, Francesc
name: Ruiz-Baier, Ricardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 65M60, 92C10, 74S05, 74F99, 74D10

description: We propose and analyse the properties of a new class of models for the electromechanics of cardiac tissue. The set of governing equations consists of nonlinear elasticity using a viscoelastic and orthotropic exponential constitutive law (this is so for both active stress and active strain formulations of active mechanics) coupled with a four-variable phenomenological model for human cardiac cell electrophysiology, which produces an accurate description of the action potential. The conductivities in the model of electric propagation are modified according to stress, inducing an additional degree of nonlinearity and anisotropy in the coupling mechanisms; and the activation model assumes a simplified stretch-calcium interaction generating active tension or active strain. The influence of the new terms in the electromechanical model is evaluated through a sensitivity analysis, and we provide numerical validation through a set of computational tests using a novel mixed-primal finite element scheme.
MoËT: Mixture of Expert Trees and its Application to Verifiable Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Vasic, Marko
name: Petrovic, Andrija
name: Wang, Kaiyuan
name: Nikolic, Mladen
name: Singh, Rishabh
name: Khurshid, Sarfraz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Rapid advancements in deep learning have led to many recent breakthroughs. While deep learning models achieve superior performance, often statistically better than humans, their adoption into safety-critical settings, such as healthcare or self-driving cars is hindered by their inability to provide safety guarantees or to expose the inner workings of the model in a human understandable form. We present MoËT, a novel model based on Mixture of Experts, consisting of decision tree experts and a generalized linear model gating function. Thanks to such gating function the model is more expressive than the standard decision tree. To support non-differentiable decision trees as experts, we formulate a novel training procedure. In addition, we introduce a hard thresholding version, MoËTH, in which predictions are made solely by a single expert chosen via the gating function. Thanks to that property, MoËTH allows each prediction to be easily decomposed into a set of logical rules in a form which can be easily verified. While MoËT is a general use model, we illustrate its power in the reinforcement learning setting. By training MoËT models using an imitation learning procedure on deep RL agents we outperform the previous state-of-the-art technique based on decision trees while preserving the verifiability of the models. Moreover, we show that MoËT can also be used in real-world supervised problems on which it outperforms other verifiable machine learning models.
Development of a facile sensor for the determination of Brilliant Blue FCF in beverages
Creators: name: Wang, Meiling
name: Yang, Mengzhi
name: Sun, Qian
name: Gao, Yunqiao
name: Zhao, Jianwei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Engineering

description: A facile method was developed for the detection of Brilliant Blue FCF (BB FCF) (E133), a synthetic soluble colorant in common beverages. The method is based on a new composite of multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT)-graphite oxide (GO)-room temperature ionic liquids (MWCNT/GO-RTIL) of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate with high dispersibility and strong conductivity. Differential pulse stripping voltammetry (DPSV) and the MWCNT/GO-RTIL composite-modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) were used to determine the BB FCF in this work. Under the optimum experimental conditions, the oxidation current of BB FCF was proportional to its concentration in two linear ranges, from 6.34 μg kg−1 to 7.93 × 102 μg kg−1 and 7.93 × 102 μg kg−1 to 7.93 × 103 μg kg−1.The detection limit was down to 3.01 μg kg−1 at signal-to-noise ratio of 3. Also, this method has been successfully applied in the determination of BB FCF in common beverage samples, including RIO cocktail, Bacardi Breezer and Reinnbow rum dinks. The assay results of BB FCF in drink samples obtained by the proposed method were in a good agreement with the reference values detected by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The proposed method provided a useful tool for the assay of BB FCF in drink samples.
The Anxiety of Place: Peter Read. Haunted Earth. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2003 [Review essay]
Creators: name: Potter, Emily
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: History
subject: 80601 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Information and Knowledge Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The work of historian Peter Read has, for the last ten years, focused largely on the question of non-indigenous "place belonging" in Australia. Over three critical texts, Returning to Nothing (1996), Belonging (2000), and the recent Haunted Earth (2003), he explores the attachments to specific sites that non-indigenous Australians feel and articulate. Informed by a postcolonial politics that admits the illegitimacy of European invasion and the devastations caused to indigenous culture and country over two centuries, Read is concerned with restoring some legitimacy to settler Australian presence, attainable, his books propose, through meaningful engagements with the land over time.
Remarks on classical number theoretic aspects of Milnor-Witt K-theory
Creators: name: Kolderup, Håkon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We record a few observations on number theoretic aspects of Milnor-Witt K-theory, focusing on generalizing classical results on reciprocity laws, Hasse's norm theorem and K_2 of number fields and rings of integers.
Back to the Other Levinas: Alain P. Toumayan’s Encountering the Other: The Artwork and the Problem of Difference in Blanchot and Levinas. Pittsburgh, Penn.: Duquesne U. P., 2004 [Review Article]
Creators: name: Fagenblat, Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Since the exultant reception of Levinas work, particularly in the United States, an imposing obstacle to this oeuvre has steadily been erected. It is not Levinas complicated, often unstated philosophical disputations, nor his exhortatory style, nor even the originality of his argument that constitute the most formidable obstructions to his work today. On the contrary, the great-est difficulty today is the ease with which Levinas is arrogated, a facility that risks making him so accessible as to be wholly irrelevant. The ubiquity in contemporary intellectual circles of an ethics of the other leads, from ever diverse paths, directly to Levinas; and it is just this that prevents us from reading him well.
Christophe Bident. Reconnaissances: Antelme, Blanchot, Deleuze. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 2003 [Book Review]
Creators: name: Salzani, Carlo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Reconnaître: to recognise, to acknowledge. As Christophe Bident states in the incipit of his book, this verb predicates something ambiguous, fluctuat-ing, evasive; but, he adds, at the same time decisive and necessary. Espe-cially in our time, the age of the TV-reality, when everything is proclaimed recognisable in anything else, and therefore everything is undifferentiated. Bident s slender but dense book is a meditation on the acts of recognition which strongly argues for the inescapable necessity of the reconnaissance, recurring principally but not exclusively in the works of Robert Antelme, Maurice Blanchot and Gilles Deleuze.
Comparative analysis of microbial community between different cathode systems of microbial fuel cells for denitrification
Creators: name: Li, Chao
name: Xu, Ming
name: Lu, Yi
name: Fang, Fang
name: Cao, Jiashun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Two types of cathodic biofilm in microbial fuel cells (MFC) were established for comparison on their performance and microbial communities. Complete autotrophic simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (SND) without organics addition was achieved in nitrifying-MFC (N-MFC) with a total nitrogen (TN) removal rate of 0.35 mg/(L·h), which was even higher than that in denitrifying-MFC (D-MFC) at same TN level. Integrated denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis based on both 16S rRNA and nirK genes showed that Alpha-, Gammaproteobacteria were the main denitrifier communities. Some potential autotrophic denitrifying bacteria which can use electrons and reducing power from cathodes, such as Shewanella oneidensis, Shewanella loihica, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Starkeya novella and Rhodopseudomonas palustris were identified and selectively enriched on cathode biofilms. Further, relative abundance of denitrifying bacteria characterized by nirK/16S ratios was much higher in biofilm than suspended sludge according to real-time polymerase chain reaction. The highest enrichment efficiency for denitrifiers was obtained in N-MFC cathode biofilms, which confirmed autotrophic denitrifying bacteria enrichment is the key factor for a D-MFC system.
Comparative analysis of microbial community between different cathode systems of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) for denitrification
Creators: name: Li, Chao
name: Xu, Ming
name: Lu, Yi
name: Fang, Fang
name: Cao, Jiashun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Microbiology

description: Two types of cathodic biofilm in microbial fuel cells (MFC) were established for comparison on their performance and microbial communities. Complete autotrophic simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (SND) without organics addition was achieved in nitrifying-MFC (N-MFC) with TN removal rate of 0.35 mg/(L•h), which was even higher than denitrifying-MFC (D-MFC) at same total nitrogen (TN) level. Integrated denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis based on both 16S rRNA and nirK genes showed Alpha-, Gamma- proteobacteria were the main denitrifier communities. Some potential autotrophic denitrifying bacteria which can use electrons and reducing power from cathodes, such as Shewanella oneidensis, Shewanella loihica, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Starkeya novella and Rhodopseudomonas palustris were identified and selectively enriched on cathode biofilm. Further, relative abundance of denitrifying bacteria characterized by nirK/16S ratios were much higher in biofilm than suspended sludge according to real time PCR. The highest enrichment efficiency for denitrifiers was obtained in N-MFC cathode biofilm which confirmed autotrophic denitrifying bacteria enrichment is the key factor for MFC denitrification system.
Approximating posteriors with high-dimensional nuisance parameters via integrated rotated Gaussian approximation
Creators: name: Boom, Willem van den
name: Reeves, Galen
name: Dunson, David B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Posterior computation for high-dimensional data with many parameters can be challenging. This article focuses on a new method for approximating posterior distributions of a low- to moderate-dimensional parameter in the presence of a high-dimensional or otherwise computationally challenging nuisance parameter. The focus is on regression models and the key idea is to separate the likelihood into two components through a rotation. One component involves only the nuisance parameters, which can then be integrated out using a novel type of Gaussian approximation. We provide theory on approximation accuracy that holds for a broad class of forms of the nuisance component and priors. Applying our method to simulated and real data sets shows that it can outperform state-of-the-art posterior approximation approaches.
description: 35 pages, 8 figures
Kevin Hart and Geoffrey H. Hartman (eds). The Power of Contestation: Perspectives on Maurice Blanchot. Baltimore: John Hopkins U. P., 2004 [Book Review]
Creators: name: Khatab, Rhonda
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The principle of contestation is a pivotal theme in the thought of Blanchot, the scope of its significance being enduringly observable throughout the span of the French intellectual s career, and traversing the diversity of his critical concerns. When approached with the manifold notion of contestation in mind, the complex connections between these various intellectual concerns are elaborated, and a new dimension is brought to each, as is illustrated by each of the readings in The Power of Contestation.
Imperatives: Andrew Benjamin. Disclosing Spaces: On Painting. Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2004 [Review essay]
Creators: name: Vardoulakis, Dimitris
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Art

description: Announcing the operation of imperatives in the review of a book on art has at least three registers. First, there is the laudatory imperative, which calls for an appraisal of the work by the reviewer. Second, given that Andrew Benjamin's Disclosing Spaces is, as its subtitle indicates, a book On Painting, then the imperative alludes also to the rules or precepts that any critical enterprise of art calls forth. Value judgements on particular paintings would depend on such rules. However, besides these two obvious registers of the imperative, there is a further one, maybe implicit but from a philosophical perspective even more crucial. Namely, the imperative of the examination of the imperatives' extension. In other words, this is the question of the work that laws, limits, borders, and so on, do in an explication of the art work. Or, vis-à-vis the law, what are the conditions of the possibility of the art work, and of the critical act, as well as the art work and criticism taken together? How does the imperative of the imperatives unfold?
Complete mitochondrial genome of the brown alga Sargassum fusiforme (Sargassaceae, Phaeophyceae): genome architecture and taxonomic consideration
Creators: name: Liu, Feng
name: Pang, Shaojun
name: Luo, Minbo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Microbiology

description: Sargassum fusiforme (Harvey) Setchell (=Hizikia fusiformis (Harvey) Okamura) is one of the most important economic seaweeds for mariculture in China. In this study, we present the complete mitochondrial genome of S. fusiforme. The genome is 34,696 bp in length with circular organization, encoding the standard set of three ribosomal RNA genes (rRNA), 25 transfer RNA genes (tRNA), 35 protein‐coding genes, and two conserved open reading frames (ORFs). Its total AT content is 62.47%, lower than other brown algae except Pylaiella littoralis. The mitogenome carries 1571 bp of intergenic region constituting 4.53% of the genome, and 13 pairs of overlapping genes with the overlap size from 1 to 90 bp. The phylogenetic analyses based on 35 protein‐coding genes reveal that S. fusiforme has a closer evolutionary relationship with Sargassum muticum than Sargassum horneri, indicating Hizikia are not distinct evolutionary entity and should be reduced to synonymy with Sargassum.
Kevin Hart. The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred. Chicago: U. of Chicago P., 2004 [Book Review]
Creators: name: Danta, Chris
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The immediate achieve-ment of Kevin Hart s study, The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sa-cred, is to recognise how Blanchot also gives the dangerous power of fas-cination the most dignified of all names: the sacred.
Marie-Chantal Killeen. Essai sur l’indicible: Jabès, Blanchot, Duras. Siant-Denis: P. U. de Vincennes, 2004 [Book review]
Creators: name: Sheehan, Paul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Reviewing L’Innomable in 1953, Maurice Blanchot conjectured: What is the void that becomes speech in the open intimacy of the one who dis-appears into it? The Unnamable, he suggests, is a being without being who can neither live nor die, cannot cease or begin, the empty place in which the listlessness of an empty speech speaks, one that with great diffi-culty regains a porous and agonizing I (BC 210, 213). The paradox of the title deepens still further given that, roughly since Heidegger, the unnam-able and its surrogates the unspeakable, the unthinkable, the inexpressi-ble, and, by extension, the abject, the irremediable, the impossible have become potent philosophical themes.
Analogs of Dirichlet $L$-functions in chromatic homotopy theory
Creators: name: Zhang, Ningchuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The relation between Eisenstein series and the $J$-homomorphism is an important topic in chromatic homotopy theory at height $1$. Both sides are related to the special values of the Riemann $ζ$-function. Number theorists have studied the twistings of the Riemann $ζ$-functions and Eisenstein series by Dirichlet characters. Motivated by the Dirichlet equivariance of these Eisenstein series, we introduce the Dirichlet $J$-spectra in this paper. The homotopy groups of the Dirichlet $J$-spectra are related to the special values of the Dirichlet $L$-functions. Moreover, we find Brown-Comenetz duals of the Dirichlet $J$-spectra, whose formulas resemble functional equations of the corresponding Dirichlet $L$-functions. In this sense, the Dirichlet $J$-spectra we constructed are analogs of Dirichlet $L$-functions in chromatic homotopy theory.
description: 65 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. Major revisions incorporating the referee suggestions. To appear in Advances in Mathematics
Asymptotic behavior of a matter filled universe with exotic topology
Creators: name: Mondal, Puskar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ADM formalism together with a constant mean curvature (CMC) temporal gauge is used to derive the monotonic decay of a weak Lyapunov function of the Einstein dynamical equations in an expanding universe with a positive cosmological constant and matter sources satisfying suitable energy conditions. While such a Lyapunov function does not, in general, represent a true Hamiltonian of the matter-coupled gravity dynamics (unlike in the vacuum case when it does), it can nevertheless be used to study the asymptotic behavior of the spacetimes. The Lyapunov function attains its infimum only in the limit that the matter sources be `turned off` or, at least, become asymptotically negligible provided that the universe model does not re-collapse and form singularities. Later we specialize our result to the case of a perfect fluid which satisfies the desired energy conditions. However, even in this special case, we show using Shutz's velocity potential formalism cast into Hamiltonian form that unlike the vacuum spacetimes (with or without a positive cosmological constant), construction of a true Hamiltonian for the dynamics in constant mean curvature temporal gauge is difficult and therefore the Lyapunov function does not have a straightforward physical interpretation. Nevertheless, we show, for the fluid with equation of state $P=(γ-1)ρ$ ($1\leqγ\leq2$), that the general results obtained hold true and the infimum of the weak Lyapunov function can be related to the Sigma constant, a topological invariant of the manifold. Utilizing these results, some general conclusions are drawn regarding the asymptotic state of the universe and the dynamical control of the allowed spatial topologies in the cosmological models.
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Creators: name: Banks, Anthony
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Creative fiction in Colloquy
Analysis of etiology, chromosome and prognosis for small left heart system development in 69 fetuses
Creators: name: Liu, Lin
name: Li, Tao
name: Huang, Lei
name: He, Yi-Hua
name: Li, Zhi-An
name: Cui, Cun-Ying
name: Zhang, Lian-zhong
name: Liao, Shi-Xiu
name: Fan, Tai-Bing
name: Peng, Bang-Tian
name: Yao, Hui-Mei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Cancer
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Medicine

description: Objective: To provide a basis for evaluating the prognosis of small left heart system development in fetuses, we analyzed its related factors.Methods: The fetal echocardiogram was performed in 3859 pregnant women, and then small left heart system development was identified in 69 fetuses. The data of prenatal and postnatal echocardiograms, postnatal cardiac surgical treatment, chromosome and autopsy after induced labor were analyzed in the 69 fetuses.Results: Except 1320 cases losing follow-up, 2539 cases had complete data. Among the 2539 cases, small left heart system development was identified in 69 fetuses. Of the 69 fetuses, 12 had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, 20 premature closure of foramen ovale, 13 total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage, 2 common pulmonary vein lumen atresia, 21 aortic coarctation or interruption and 1 right pulmonary hypoplasia. Among the 69 fetuses, chromosome abnormality was found in 7.Conclusion: There are many etiological factors causing small left heart system development. The prognosis is poor in the fetuses with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, common pulmonary vein lumen atresia, pulmonary hypoplasia, other malformations or/and chromosome abnormality. Fetal echocardiography combined with chromosome examination can provide important bases for making diagnosis and evaluating the prognosis regarding small left heart system development.
No-boundary prescriptions in Lorentzian quantum cosmology
Creators: name: Di Tucci, Alice
name: Lehners, Jean-Luc
name: Sberna, Laura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the impact of various boundary conditions on the (minisuperspace) Lorentzian gravitational path integral. In particular we assess the implications for the Hartle-Hawking no-boundary wavefunction. It was shown recently that when this proposal is defined as a sum over compact metrics, problems arise with the stability of fluctuations. These difficulties can be overcome by an especially simple implementation of the no-boundary idea: namely to take the Einstein-Hilbert action at face value while adding no boundary term. This prescription simultaneously imposes an initial Neumann boundary condition for the scale factor of the universe and, for a Bianchi IX spacetime, Dirichlet conditions for the anisotropies. Another way to implement the no-boundary wavefunction is to use Robin boundary conditions. A sub-class of Robin conditions allows one to specify the Hubble rate on the boundary hypersurface, and we highlight the surprising aspect that specifying the final Hubble rate (rather than the final size of the universe) significantly alters the off-shell structure of the path integral. The conclusion of our investigations is that all current working examples of the no-boundary wavefunction force one to abandon the notion of a sum over compact and regular geometries, and point to the importance of an initial Euclidean momentum.
description: 38 pages, 6 figures. v3: corrects an error in Eq. (42)
GGNN: Graph-based GPU Nearest Neighbor Search
Creators: name: Groh, Fabian
name: Ruppert, Lukas
name: Wieschollek, Patrick
name: Lensch, Hendrik P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high dimensions is an integral part of several computer vision systems and gains importance in deep learning with explicit memory representations. Since PQT, FAISS, and SONG started to leverage the massive parallelism offered by GPUs, GPU-based implementations are a crucial resource for today's state-of-the-art ANN methods. While most of these methods allow for faster queries, less emphasis is devoted to accelerating the construction of the underlying index structures. In this paper, we propose a novel GPU-friendly search structure based on nearest neighbor graphs and information propagation on graphs. Our method is designed to take advantage of GPU architectures to accelerate the hierarchical construction of the index structure and for performing the query. Empirical evaluation shows that GGNN significantly surpasses the state-of-the-art CPU- and GPU-based systems in terms of build-time, accuracy and search speed.