cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: A Commentary on Disruption as a State of Being and (Anti)Practice: Challenging ‘Resilience’ as the Late-Modern Recipe for Happiness
Creators: name: Edwards, Nico
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2022

description: In this commentary, I challenge the popular notion of ‘resilience’ as the 21st century recipe for happiness. I do so through exploring ‘disruption’ as a political imaginary and practice, by which the narrative of resilience-equals-happiness can be disrupted. I draw on key texts that theorise about practices of ‘speculation’, ‘failure’, and ‘narration’ to situate both the personal (cognitive) ability to disrupt neoliberal subjectification processes and the systemic disruption brought about by Covid-19 as essential channels for rethinking the contemporary. I argue that this is the moment to re-imagine the templates for human co-existence and build on the personal to global experiences of disruption occasioned by global capitalism and the coronavirus, as productive, though painful, opportunities for counter-narration.
Investigating the effects of synbiotic supplementation on functional movement, strength and muscle health in older Australians: a study protocol for a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial
Creators: name: Barry, David J
name: Farragher, JB
name: Betik, AC
name: Fyfe, JJ
name: Convit, L
name: Cooke, Matthew
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 4201
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science
classificationCode: 4202
subject: Epidemiology

description: Background: Aging has been associated with a progressive loss of skeletal muscle quality, quantity and strength, which may result in a condition known as sarcopenia, leading to a decline in physical performance, loss of independence and reduced quality of life. While the cause of impaired physical functioning observed in elderly populations appears to be multifactorial, recent evidence suggests that age-associated alterations in gut microbiota could be a contributing factor. The primary objective will be to assess the effects of a dietary synbiotic formulation on sarcopenia-related functional outcomes such as handgrip strength, gait speed and physical performance within older individuals living independently. The secondary objective will be to examine associations between changes in gut microbiota composition, functional performance and lean muscle mass. Methods: Seventy-four elderly (60–85 years) participants will be randomized in a double-blind, placebo-controlled fashion to either an intervention or control group. The intervention group (n = 37) will receive oral synbiotic formulation daily for 16 weeks. The control group (n = 37) will receive placebo. Assessments of physical performance (including Short Physical Performance Battery, handgrip strength and timed up-and-go tests) and muscle ultrasonography will be performed at 4 time points (baseline and weeks 8, 16 and 20). Likewise, body composition via bioelectric impedance analysis and blood and stool samples will be collected at each time point. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry will be performed at baseline and week 16. The primary outcomes will be between-group changes in physical performance from baseline to 16 weeks. Secondary outcomes include changes in body composition, muscle mass and architecture, fecal microbiota composition and diversity, and fecal and plasma metabolomics. Discussion: Gut-modulating supplements appear to be effective in modifying gut microbiota composition in healthy older adults. However, it is unclear whether these changes translate into functional and/or health improvements. In the present study, we will investigate the effects of a synbiotic formulation on measures of physical performance, strength and muscle health in healthy older populations.
French_Spanish_abstract_846144 – Supplemental material for Reassessing the relationship between elections and democratization
Creators: name: Kim, Nam Kyu
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, French_Spanish_abstract_846144 for Reassessing the relationship between elections and democratization by Nam Kyu Kim in International Political Science Review
Journal of Undergraduate Research (jur), Volume 18, Issue 2, Spring 2020
Creators: name: Journal Of Undergraduate Research
name: Arya, Nisha
name: Chen, Xueying
name: Arsalan Ghani, Syed
name: Maillie, Colleen
name: Rozowsky, Jacob
name: Begum, Himi
name: Quazi, Nadim
name: Sahin, Tayfun
Publisher: name: University of Rochester
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 4905
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
classificationCode: 310913
subject: Invertebrate biology
classificationCode: 4004
subject: Chemical engineering
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: The Journal of Undergraduate Research (JUR) is an organization dedicated to providing the University of Rochester student body with intellectual perspectives from various academic disciplines. JUR serves as a forum for the presentation of original research, thereby encouraging the pursuit of significant scholarly endeavors.For more information, please visit the Journal of Undergraduate Research homepage.
title: Information and Liable Relations of Wellbeing During Covid19: an Ethnographic Exploration of Disruption in London
Creators: name: Saksena, Gitika
name: Mohanty, Abhishek
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2022

description: The paper presents a consideration of information as constitutive of the individual experiences of wellbeing, community, and responsibility. Situated in the context of the COVID19 pandemic and its manifestation across the year 2020, the paper traces the multiple and ever-changing epistemological and ontological formations within an online residents’ group set up and run by the local council of a borough in London. The authors note the othering by the group as a mirroring of inherent structural differences and similarities in contrast to the cohesive and essentialized social unit narrative advanced by the local council. Exhortations regarding wellbeing and responsibility in the pandemic are realised and continue to be realised through evolving assemblages of data, information, and probability on the one hand, and testing, tracing, and vaccination on the other. They are in a relation of becoming: manifestly and at once the becoming-data-and-information by the virus and the becoming-data-and-information by the community. In this manner, information constructs liable relations and, consequently, engenders individual responsibility and mutual reciprocity which shape the understanding and experiences of wellbeing. Finally, the paper argues that while information was a measure by the state to build individual responsibility, it was further enmeshed by the group members themselves as community resilience, thus, shaping reciprocity and liable relations amongst them. As Homo Reciprocans, they were (and are) not only the objects but also the subjects of information. This paper is rooted in research which was presented at the 2021 annual conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK (ASA).
Il romanzo veneziano e la tradizione musicale italiana
Creators: name: Oliva, Gianni
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

If the Fuoco is usually interpreted as the Wagnerian novel par excellence, it does not have to be underestimated the support that d’Annunzio gives the Italian music, especially the tradition that comes from Palestrina to Benedetto Marcello and to the divine Claudio Monteverdi, whose name, linked to the Lamento di Arianna, generates a devotional respect among the guests of Foscarina’s house. The exploration of d'Annunzio's wide musical culture is not original but finds its sources in the Histoire de l'Opera en Europe by Romain Rolland, already reported by Guy Tosi and now investigated with original results.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
La novella dannunziana e la sua vocazione alla scena
Creators: name: Puppa, Paolo
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

Surely Gabriele d’Annunzio used the theatre as a support for his career. Apart from this, his dramas focus on the essential dynamics of obsessive metaphors and myths which were personal of the author. The theatre enables such dynamics to be fully realized. The essay explores La nave as a perfect paradigm of this approach, and also examines La figlia di Iorio and Le Martyr de Saint Sébastien, seeking gestures and developments which reveal impulses towards an endless metamorphosis. This applies to his characters as well, who are transformed from insecure teenagers into heroes who wield power over women and the masses. The combined elements of brutal sex and the search for spiritual purity are already to be found in his early novels, and are a hallmark throughout his work. It follows that silent cinema and great melodrama could only make these elements more explicit ― and here one can find a true legacy from Ibsen. The furious reaction of Catholics to the performance of La nave at La Fenice in Venice in 1908 was due to its most transgressive message: the juxtaposition of the prayers to the Holy Virgin Mary and the hymn to the goddess Venus.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
French_Spanish_abstract_866845 – Supplemental material for Economic governance: Does it make or break a dominant party equilibrium? The case of India
Creators: name: Sharma, Chanchal Kumar
name: Swenden, Wilfried
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, French_Spanish_abstract_866845 for Economic governance: Does it make or break a dominant party equilibrium? The case of India by Chanchal Kumar Sharma and Wilfried Swenden in International Political Science Review
Al seguito di d’Annunzio
Creators: name: Dal Canton, Giuseppina
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

During the First World War, painter Astolfo de Maria is attached to the staff of the Terza Armata and assigned to the service of d’Annunzio as motorcyclist and draftsman. In those war years, the artist writes a diary and does drawings of military subject; thirteen of these are kept at the Vittoriale, while the others, nearly all of which formerly belonging to the archive or to the collection of Adele Macchi de Maria, are now partly at the Venice Foundation, partly in private collections, not always easy to identify. In these drawings, de Maria oscillates between a realism deriving from the direct observation of his subjects – war scenes or persons, the latter  being sometimes clearly outlined, sometimes, on the contrary, quickly sketched – and an indulgence to the stylization typical of the Secession. Two works of great importance in de Maria’s artistic career also date back to the war years: Erotic Allegory and Dogaressa (i.e. Doge’s Wife), both adorning the walls of the so-called «Leda’s room» at the Vittoriale. Later on – probably between 1921 and 1922 – Astolfo de Maria would paint a realistic portrait of his commander (tempera grassa on canvas, now at the Venice Foundation), availing himself of photos of the poet taken by his father, Mario de Maria.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
title: Disrupting the Colonial Subjectivity Imposed by Borders: The Experience of the Guarani People in Brazil
Creators: name: Sarmet, Gabriela
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2022

description: This paper aims to show how the imposed demarcation of borders by the Brazilian State has contributed to the establishment of other frontiers - not only physical but also epistemic and symbolic ones - against indigenous peoples. This practice has artificially constructed colonial subjectivities, whose representation has been dragged on since the colonial period, having been reinforced amidst the corporate-military dictatorship (1964-1985), and today is materialised in the anti-indigenous government of Jair Bolsonaro. Above all, this research shows how the Guarani cosmology - i.e., world narrative - has been reformulated due to the multiple forms of violence committed against their people. This has resulted in alternative territorialisation strategies that disrupt these colonial subjectivities in the form of migratory movements and the repossession of ancestral territories, their Tekohas.
title: Edward Colston, Nostalgia and Resistance: How Does Britain (Mis)Remember and (Re)Imagine Colonialism?
Creators: name: Oliver, Adele
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2022

description: The toppling of the Edward Colston statue by Black Lives Matter protestors in Bristol became one of the defining moments of the British summer of 2020. The removal of the statue reignited conversations around how Britain conceptualises colonialism and empire today. This paper seeks to evaluate and contextualise these conversations and argues that the toppling of the statue was an act of anti-colonial theatricality that disrupted Britain’s official narratives of post-colonial bliss. Using a critical, postcolonial framework, this paper seeks to explore what public memory of Edward Colston reveals about Britain’s relationship with colonialism, and what countermemory can do to resist (mis)remembrance and (re)imagining of colonialism, past and present.
title: Structuring Hierarchies: Archaeological and Museum Projects of the Government-General of Korea and its Colonial Legacy
Creators: name: Koo, Lina Shinhwa
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2022

description: Imperial Japan planned and executed a series of archaeological surveys, excavation projects and museum displays in Korea throughout the first half of the twentieth century. The cultural projects led by the Government-General of Korea, the chief administrator of the Japanese colonial government, carried out various tenets of global imperialism and coloniality. For instance, the colonial government used particular display methods to structure the hierarchical order of ‘inferior’ and ‘superior’ cultures and turned historical objects to materials for mere aesthetic appreciation or knowledge acquisition. In addition, Imperial Japan sought to justify its colonial governance over the Korean peninsula by using excavated and displayed objects as the historical basis for their claims. As such, Imperial Japan’s excavation and museum projects were implemented as political apparatus that generated and circulated the colonial narrative. Such colonial legacy has exerted influences on the scholarship of and exhibitions on Korean art despite vigorous attempts to deconstruct the narrative and de-colonise museum practices. By examining images and documents provided by Japanese archaeologists and the Government-General of Korea, this paper aims to interrogate the extent to which Imperial Japan devised cultural essentialism whilst suggesting a new perspective to mediate the exploitive practices in the present time.
title: The Disrupt Project: Nikki S. Lee and Transcategorical Identities
Creators: name: Nickols, Joe
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2022

description: In the series Projects (1997-2001), Nikki S. Lee defies the globalist demand to present and perform predefined cultural conventions by photographing themself assimilated into multiple American social groups. Demonstrating the body’s potential for multiplicity, Lee’s integration into varying social and cultural groups resists the boundaries of social containment projected onto bodies due to assumptions of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, or age. The series questions the social command that the body must represent a naturalisation of a projected identity. Lee’s integration into social groups challenged the programme of identity homogenisation that was emanating from America, fuelled by the multiculturalist discourse. The repetition of Lee’s self-transformations provokes impassioned responses from the audience, with the photographs creating a reflexive dialogue about the conscious act of seeing as a tool of social containment. However, some early critics branded the series as cultural appropriative, challenging the veracity of Lee’s assimilation. Through applying Homi Bhabha’s theory of mimicry and Judith Butler’s assessment of performativity, this article offers a reconsideration of Projects as a decolonial work that subverts the global colonial matrix that commands fixed identities.
D’Annunzio fruitore di musica a Venezia
Creators: name: Uras, Lara Sonja
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

Through an examination of the correspondence, published and unpublished, the comparison of the press of the time with the biography and literary production of d’Annunzio, it is possible to know which music he listened to and comprehend his relationships with important musicians during his stays in Venice. This overview of sources can offer useful elements to understand musical references present in the literary works of d’Annunzio. In Venice, early music sacred and profane coexists - like a counterpoint - with contemporary and folk music, the sounds of war combined with the city’s sounds and silence. In Venice there are plenty of organists and organ music; the city gets «resonant like a huge organ», as the musical instrument described in the manuscript entitled Chiomazzurra, conserved by the poet and signed R. Bossi: an «arciorgano» with seven thousand glass pipes reminiscent of the fable told in Il fuoco. The organ becomes the favorite musical instrument, prevails like a basso ostinato in the poet’s life, conducts a «thematic function» in his literary ‘polyphony’ to become, sometimes, ‘leitmotif’ in his train of thoughts.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
D’Annunzio e Venezia negli studi di Guy Tosi
Creators: name: Rasera, Maddalena
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

In studies, more than forty, that the French academic Guy Tosi has dedicated to his favorite Italian author, Gabriele d’Annunzio, between 1942 and 1987, the name «Venice» appears many times. First, Venice is the city where d’Annunzio met French writers and artists: his translator Georges Hérelle, the musician Claude Debussy, the writer Maurice Barres, the dancer Ida Rubinstein. Secondly, Venice is associated primarily to the novel Il Fuoco that Guy Tosi has studied in numerous papers. Retracing these studies, importants also for the discovery of many previously unpublished documents (especially correspondences), this paper aims to highlight the main contribution of the French academic about contacts and reminiscences of French literature in the work of d’Annunzio.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
Analisis Putusan Pengadilan Agama Watampone Terhadap Pengembalian Uang Belanja Dan Mahar Ditinjau Dari Hukum Islam  (Studi Putusan Nomor 680/Pdt.G/2021/PA.Wtp)
Creators: name: Reza Mahbub Fathoni, Muh. Saleh Ridwan, Nurfaikah Ishak
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Penelitian ini mengenai “Analisis Putusan Pengadilan Agama Watampone Terhadap Pengembalian Uang Belanja Dan Mahar Ditinjau Dari Hukum Islam (Studi Putusan Nomor 680/Pdt.G/2021/PA.Wtp)”. Uang belanja dikenal sebagai salah satu syarat pernikahan dalam tradisi Bugis Makassar dimana uang belanja merupakan pemberian pihak laki-laki kepada pihak perempuan untuk digunakan membiayai pesta pernikahn, sedang mahar adalah pemberian wajib calon mempelai pria kepada calon mempelai wanita. Dalam hukum Islam hanya diatur mengenai pengembalian mahar dalam pernikahan tetapi tidak diatur mengenai pengembalian uang belanja, hal tersebut dikarenakan uang belanja merupakan adat pernikahan di Suku Bugis Makassar. Oleh karena itu, penulis ingin mengkaji terkait dasar dan pertimbangan hakim dalam putusan pengembalian uang belanja dan mahar ditinjau dari hukum Islam mengenai pengembalian uang belanja dan mahar.
title: A Cry for Justice: Reimagining the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Through the 2004 Kangla Fort Protest in Manipur
Creators: name: Krishna, Koshika
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2022

description: This paper aims to critically examine the naked protest that was performed by twelve imas (mothers) in the State of Manipur in 2004 outside the army headquarters in Assam, India. The protest was against the rape and murder of a women named Manorama by the armed forces and the draconian emergency law, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 (AFSPA), that allowed these armed forced, to act with impunity. I will analyse the disruptiveness of this protest to indicate the parallel lines that exist between policy frameworks in place and the reality on the ground. I will indicate that on a large scale, this protest served as an important space for reflection on the women, peace and security agenda (WPS) under the international law framework and its heavy focus on the criminal justice system for addressing such incidents of violence against women. This essay will indicate how the lack of accountability and monitoring mechanisms for the implementation of this agenda by member states has frustrated the process of seeking justice and redressal especially in cases of violence at the hands of perpetrators who are an extension of the colonising nation state. On a regional level, this protest, through its disruptive resistance, paved the way for a new form of civil disobedience and public participation. These mothers used the intimate and personal language of their ageing bodies rather than the clinical discourse of the judiciary and the law to collectively voice their grief. In doing so, they compelled ‘both the complacent Indian army, accustomed to complete impunity for its actions and a jaded citizenry numbed by regular army excesses’ to look at the Indian state’s systemic dehumanisation and objectification of its citizens.
Per una lettura dei notturni veneziani di d’Annunzio
Creators: name: Crotti, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

The analysis is dedicated to one of the most pervasive semantic fields of the Notturno, that is the ‘space-time’ of the night: a domain that has fostered the development of metamorphic images. Alternating variations and recoveries, the night-related themes – intending night also as epiphanic ‘space-time’ of mourning, of sacrifice, of self-giving – are analyzed both by a rhetorical point of view and stylistic, while the Venetian promenades that set the rhythm of the textual syntax, describing even the urban space of a Venice obscured by war, are vivid occasions to discover the persistent polymorphism of the first person that lives and writes.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
Suppl_Mat – Supplemental material for Material flow analysis and heavy hydrocarbon removal in a full-scale biopile and soil washing plant in northern Italy
Creators: name: Vaccari, Mentore
name: Castro, Francine Duarte
name: Stolfini, Martina
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Supplemental material, Suppl_Mat for Material flow analysis and heavy hydrocarbon removal in a full-scale biopile and soil washing plant in northern Italy by Mentore Vaccari, Francine Duarte Castro and Martina Stolfini in Waste Management & Research
Venezia Città-Donna nel Fuoco
Creators: name: Giacon, Maria Rosa
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

D’Annunzio’s Il fuoco is largely founded on a complex symbolic ground. Analyzing the tissue of the novel as well as d’Annunzio’s Venetian Taccuini, the essay tries to demonstrate such symbolism with special regard to the representation of Venice. Unlike d’Annunzio’s I World War works Notturno and Licenza, in Il fuoco (1900) Venice embodies mainly positive meanings such as the joy of love, life and artistic creation. Hence, other values are derived and developed: Venice becomes ‘Città anadiomene’, a female symbol of pleasure. Consequently, d’Annunzio’s vision deeply differs from that of other fin de siècle famous writers, who saw in Venice the symbol of melancholy, illness and death. Although d’Annunzio does not deny these features, he efficaciously balances them by opposing positive meanings. Such a narrative strategy finds its fundamental medium in Foscarina, since the woman-actress embodies melancholy as well as vitality and artistic enthusiasm. Indeed a deep link between the woman and the city is traced: Foscarina, whom d’Annunzio often describes as frightened by the flight of Time, is metaphorically associated with the melancholy of lonely places like Calle Gambara as well as with the strong vitality of Venetian garden vegetation. Thanks to this ambivalence, Foscarina emerges as a more complete character than the hero Stelio Èffrena who is connected only to positive values.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
Il ‘fuoco giorgionesco’ da Angelo Conti a d’Annunzio
Creators: name: Ricorda, Ricciarda
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

The friendship between Gabriele d’Annunzio and Angelo Conti is particularly intense in the years 1894-1900, in the context of Venice. Both of them reflect about Venetian painters and especially Giorgione, whose picture they interpret as an expression of Venetian magnificent life. I analyze the meaning of the form  fuoco giorgionesco, also used by Walter Pater in his well-known essay The School of Giorgione. I examine in particular Conti’s references to this text, in order to verify their accuracy. I put forward the hypothesis that, when Conti wrote the monograph Giorgione, his knowledge of the English author was incomplete and came largely from articles published in magazines, from conversations with friends, and from the translation into Italian of only short extracts. I argue that it was unlikely that Conti (and d’Annunzio) had read Pater’s whole work in English, which at the time was little known in Italy.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
Exact relations between running of $α_s$ and $α$ in ${\cal N}=1$ SQCD+SQED
Creators: name: Kataev, A. L.
name: Stepanyantz, K. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In ${\cal N}=1$ supersymmetric QCD-like theories we derive the (all-order) exact equations relating the renormalization group behaviour of the strong and electromagnetic couplings and prove that they are valid in the HD+MSL renormalization prescription. In particular, the $β$-function of ${\cal N}=1$ SQCD can be expressed in terms of the Adler $D$-function. If all favors have the same absolute value of the electromagnetic charges, it is also possible to write a simple relation between the $β$-functions for the strong and electromagnetic coupling constants. In this particular case there is a special renormalization group invariant relation.
description: 8 pages; affiliation of the corresponding author specified
title: Chinese Roots of Political Religion: Statism in Modern China, 1897-1924
Creators: name: Lu, Junda
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2022

description: The concept of “political religion” has not been adequately applied to the study of political thought in modern China. This article intends to demonstrate the theoretical potential of political religion in deepening our understanding of Chinese political thought by offering a preliminary analysis of the evolution of statism in China at the turn of the twentieth century. As a political aspiration of constructing a strong China in the modern world, statism has led many Chinese political thinkers to imbue the search for ways of strengthening the state with eschatological fervour. By examining the thoughts of Liang Qichao, Sun Yat-sen, and early Chinese Marxists, I argue that the persistent theme of viewing a strong state as the guardian of Chinese civilization and the trailblazer for future humanity has contributed substantially to the popularization of the political religion of Marxism-Leninism. The tenacity of statist ideals in today’s party-state can also be seen as having inherited the religiosity of the quest for a modern China that began in the early twentieth century.
Does decoherence violate decoupling?
Creators: name: Burgess, C. P.
name: Colas, Thomas
name: Holman, R.
name: Kaplanek, Greg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent calculations in both flat and de Sitter spacetimes have highlighted a tension between the decoupling of high-energy physics from low-energy degrees of freedom and the expectation that quantum systems decohere due to interactions with unknown environments. In effective field theory (EFT), integrating out heavy fields should lead to Hamiltonian time evolution, which preserves the purity of low-energy states. This is consistent with the fact that we never observe isolated quantum states spontaneously decohering in the vacuum due to unknown high-energy physics. However, when a heavy scalar of mass $M$ is traced out, the resulting purity of a light scalar with mass $m$ typically appears to scale as a power of $1/M$ (when $m\ll M$), an effect that cannot be captured by a local effective Hamiltonian. We resolve this apparent paradox by showing that the purity depends on the resolution scale of the EFT and how the environment is traced out. We provide a practical method for diagnosing the purity of low-energy states consistent with EFT expectations, and briefly discuss some of the implications these observations have for how ultraviolet divergences can appear in decoherence calculations.
description: 17 pages + appendices, 2 figures
title: Constructing the Burma-Thailand Railway: The War Crimes Trials and the Shaping of an Episode of WWII
Creators: name: Hashimoto, Kazunori
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: The history of the Burma-Thailand Railway has been constructed on the basis of ex-POWs' perceptions. Numerous memoirs and literature have been published by ex-POWs and shaped popular history. Nevertheless, officer POWs' account has been most influential owing to their duty to produce official reports for the army authorities and evidence for the war crimes trials. The findings of the trials, reported sensationally by the press, influenced the public image of the railway and the POWsʼ plight. Accordingly, the experience of the most tragic POWs, F Force, has become the standard in describing various POWsʼ experiences on the railway. Notably, Colonel Cyril Wild, a former F Force officer and a war crimes investigator, played a crucial role to consolidate this ʻatrocityʼ effect. Besides, the POWs' version of events did not reflect the perspectives of the IJA's railway engineers and camp personnel. As the POWs had different viewpoints according to the rank and the unit, so did the Japanese. Inside the IJA, there were frictions between the Imperial Headquarters and the Railway Corps; also, the railway engineers and POW camp staff. Thus, this thesis focuses on differences not only between the enemies but also among the friends on the same side. Particularly, on the POWsʼ side, gaps were conspicuous between officers and other ranks. Furthermore, among the officers, medical officers had different views from combatant officers, and those with civilian experience were more flexible than career officers. Besides, the British and the Australians behaved quite differently from each other. This thesis explores how the railwayʼs history was formed among the various groups and how other perspectivesʼ inclusion changes this history.
Journal of Undergraduate Research (jur), Volume 19, Issue 1, Fall 2020
Creators: name: Journal Of Undergraduate Research
name: Akif, Oion
name: Alarie, Michaela
name: Sharathchandra, Akshay
name: Abumuaileq, Mohammed
name: Figarola, Victoria
name: Miklavčič, Marija
Publisher: name: University of Rochester
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4004
subject: Chemical engineering
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering
classificationCode: 4003
subject: Biomedical engineering
classificationCode: 430321
subject: North American history

description: The Journal of Undergraduate Research (JUR) is an organization dedicated to providing the University of Rochester student body with intellectual perspectives from various academic disciplines. JUR serves as a forum for the presentation of original research, thereby encouraging the pursuit of significant scholarly endeavors.For more information, please visit the Journal of Undergraduate Research homepage.
sj-pdf-1-qhr-10.1177_1234567891011122 – Supplemental material for Racism in European Health Care: Structural Violence and Beyond
Creators: name: Hamed, Sarah
name: Thapar-Björkert, Suruchi
name: Bradby, Hannah
name: Ahlberg, Beth Maina
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-qhr-10.1177_1234567891011122 for Racism in European Health Care: Structural Violence and Beyond by Sarah Hamed, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Hannah Bradby and Beth Maina Ahlberg in Qualitative Health Research
title: Industrialisation through regionalism? Policy space, industrial policy and upgrading in the textiles and apparel value chains of the East African Community
Creators: name: Boys, Julian
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: Regional integration is increasingly viewed by policymakers as a key driver of industrial development, yet there is a lack of academic research on the key channels by which this is supposed to occur. This gap is addressed through examining firstly the impact of regional cooperation on policy space, secondly the potential for industrial upgrading in regional value chains, and thirdly how policy space and upgrading are linked through specific industrial policy rents at the national, regional and global levels. The research takes the East African Community (EAC) as a case study, with a particular focus on the textiles and apparel (T&A) subsectors. Fieldwork was carried out in Tanzania and Kenya consisting of a firm survey and semi-structured interviews with industry stakeholders. Policy space is necessary to allow states to implement industrial policies, but there is little agreement about its definition or analysis. The thesis proposes a conceptual framework for industrial policy space, defined as the set of legally permitted, economically viable and politico-institutionally feasible policy options at the national, regional and global levels which can promote industrialisation of an economy. This framework is then used to analyse policy space in the EAC T&A sector. Contrary to the literature which sees regional cooperation between countries in the South as having a negligible or positive effect on policy space, we argue that the impact of the EAC on members’ policy space in the T&A sector has been significant, and both positive and negative across different dimensions. The purpose of industrial policy space, industrialisation, is increasingly understood by scholars as a process of industrial upgrading in value chains. With increased regionalisation of trade, regional value chains (RVCs) and national value chains (NVCs) have emerged as possible alternatives to global value chains (GVCs) for countries pursuing late industrialisation. In presenting the firm survey results we introduce the concept of value chain directionality, arguing that NVCs, RVCs and GVCs each offer distinct opportunities in terms of functional, product, process and end market upgrading. Explaining these results, we develop a multi-scalar approach to industrial policy analysis and argue that rents at the national, regional and global levels were critical to the investment and upgrading decisions of firms integrated into NVCs, RVCs and GVCs.
CUIfy the XR: An Open-Source Package to Embed LLM-powered Conversational Agents in XR
Creators: name: Buldu, Kadir Burak
name: Özdel, Süleyman
name: Lau, Ka Hei Carrie
name: Wang, Mengdi
name: Saad, Daniel
name: Schönborn, Sofie
name: Boch, Auxane
name: Kasneci, Enkelejda
name: Bozkir, Efe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent developments in computer graphics, machine learning, and sensor technologies enable numerous opportunities for extended reality (XR) setups for everyday life, from skills training to entertainment. With large corporations offering affordable consumer-grade head-mounted displays (HMDs), XR will likely become pervasive, and HMDs will develop as personal devices like smartphones and tablets. However, having intelligent spaces and naturalistic interactions in XR is as important as technological advances so that users grow their engagement in virtual and augmented spaces. To this end, large language model (LLM)--powered non-player characters (NPCs) with speech-to-text (STT) and text-to-speech (TTS) models bring significant advantages over conventional or pre-scripted NPCs for facilitating more natural conversational user interfaces (CUIs) in XR. This paper provides the community with an open-source, customizable, extendable, and privacy-aware Unity package, CUIfy, that facilitates speech-based NPC-user interaction with widely used LLMs, STT, and TTS models. Our package also supports multiple LLM-powered NPCs per environment and minimizes latency between different computational models through streaming to achieve usable interactions between users and NPCs. We publish our source code in the following repository: https://gitlab.lrz.de/hctl/cuify
description: 7th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & eXtended and Virtual Reality (IEEE AIxVR 2025)
title: Making Sense of China’s ‘New Normal’ Economy, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Connections in Between
Creators: name: Zou, Longcan
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: A few years ago, two concepts, namely the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the ‘New Normal’ Chinese economy, caught the attention of many economists. They both received an overwhelming amount of attention and are still centres of discussion today, as they arose at about the same time and both concern the Chinese economy. This thesis conjectures a close connection between the two concepts and, therefore, has grouped them together for analysis. The intention of this thesis is to find out 1) the intrinsic reason behind the emergence of China’s ‘New Normal’ economy and what needs to be done in response to the ‘New Normal’; 2) the dynamics behind the promotion of the BRI (or alternatively what the BRI can actually bring to the countries involved); and 3) what the BRI has to do with China’s ‘New Normal’. Building on a systematic conceptual interpretation and descriptive statistics exploration, this thesis derives some implications: 1) China’s ‘New Normal’ economy arises from its unique path of market reform and development, which leads to imbalances in several areas, and that China’s integration into neoliberal globalisation has exacerbated such imbalances. 2) Instead of harming the economies and hampering the development of other countries involved in the BRI (or developing countries in general), the initiative facilitates an alternative model of globalisation which is production-oriented and developmental for every participant.
Intrinsic exceptional point -- a challenge in quantum theory
Creators: name: Znojil, Miloslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In spite of its unbroken ${\cal PT}-$symmetry, the popular imaginary cubic oscillator Hamiltonian $H^{(IC)}=p^2+{\rm i}x^3$ does not satisfy all of the necessary postulates of quantum mechanics. The failure is due to the ``intrinsic exceptional point'' (IEP) features of $H^{(IC)}$ and, in particular, to the phenomenon of a high-energy asymptotic parallelization of its bound-state-mimicking eigenvectors. In the paper it is argued that the operator $H^{(IC)}$ (and the like) can only be interpreted as a manifestly unphysical, singular IEP limit of a hypothetical one-parametric family of certain standard quantum Hamiltonians. For explanation, an ample use is made of perturbation theory and of multiple analogies between IEPs and conventional Kato's exceptional points.
description: 44 pp
When Theory Meets Experiment: What Does it Take to Accurately Predict $^1$H NMR Dipolar Relaxation Rates in Neat Liquid Water from Theory?
Creators: name: Paschek, Dietmar
name: Busch, Johanna
name: Tony, Angel Mary Chiramel
name: Ludwig, Ralf
name: Strate, Anne
name: Stolte, Nore
name: Forbert, Harald
name: Marx, Dominik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this contribution, we compute the $^1$H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation rate of liquid water at ambient conditions. We are using structural and dynamical information from Coupled Cluster Molecular Dynamics (CCMD) trajectories generated at CCSD(T) electronic structure accuracy while considering also nuclear quantum effects in addition to consulting information from X-ray and neutron scattering experiments. Our analysis is based on a recently presented computational framework for determining the frequency-dependent NMR dipole-dipole relaxation rate of spin $1/2$ nuclei from Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations, which allows for an effective disentanglement of its structural and dynamical contributions, and is including a correction for finite-size effects inherent to MD simulations with periodic boundary conditions. A close to perfect agreement with experimental relaxation data is achieved if structural and dynamical informations from CCMD trajectories are considered including a re-balancing of the rotational and translational dynamics, according to the product of the self-diffusion coefficient and the reorientational correlation time of the H-H vector $D_0\timesτ_\mathrm{HH}$. The simulations show that this balance is significantly altered when nuclear quantum effects are taken into account. Our analysis suggests that the intermolecular and intramolecular contribution to the $^1$H NMR relaxation rate of liquid water are almost similar in magnitude, unlike to what was predicted earlier from classical MD simulations.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, added references, corrected authors list in metadata
Supplement_Syntax_and_Results – Supplemental material for Anticipated and Experienced Ethnic/Racial Discrimination and Sleep: A Longitudinal Study
Creators: name: Gordon, Amie M.
name: Prather, Aric A.
name: Dover, Tessa
name: Espino-Pérez, Kathy
name: Small, Payton
name: Major, Brenda
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, Supplement_Syntax_and_Results for Anticipated and Experienced Ethnic/Racial Discrimination and Sleep: A Longitudinal Study by Amie M. Gordon, Aric A. Prather, Tessa Dover, Kathy Espino-Pérez, Payton Small and Brenda Major in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
title: Anticolonial imaginaries in the ‘failed state’: epistemic violence and the representation of the Congo in cultural discourse
Creators: name: Sandhu, Hana Lisa
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2021

description: This research critiques the contemporary representation of the Congo as a ‘failed’ or ‘invisible’ state and argues that this discourse continues in the tradition of epistemic violence fundamental to European colonial history in the Congo and Africa more generally. The idea of the ‘failed state’ crucially silences histories of anticolonial struggle as well as neo-colonial sabotage of Congolese independence through the creation of a (post)colonial state steadfastly inhered within the systems of economic and political control established through Belgian colonization. By erasing this history of neo-coloniality and foreign interference, we have witnessed the re-inscription of imperialist discourses of primordialism, chaos and violence as the permanent condition of the Congo across different forms of cultural discourse such as the media, travel literature and cinema in the post-independence period. In this reading, the ‘failure’ of the Congo is not seen as something constructed through the politics of neocoloniality and the extractive logic of global capitalism but rather as the inevitable fate of the African body politic in the contemporary world order. At this point of epistemic erasure therefore, my thesis draws on a range of texts (literary, visual, archival) that constitute resistant and alternative forms of knowledge production to the dominant mode of discourse. In this way, I construct an alternative archive of the so-called ‘failed state’ demonstrating the continuous history of resistance and struggle against the material extractions and epistemic erasures of colonialism and global capital in the Congo. Approaching the discourse of the ‘failed state’ as an ideological site of power and knowledge production, I critically examine contemporary Congolese fiction, Patrice Lumumba’s speeches, performance art and visual artefacts that rewrite the ‘failed state’ and produce alternative imaginaries and anticolonial visions of the Congo in the political present.