cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
High-Order Composite Likelihood Inference for Max-Stable Distributions and Processes
Creators: name: Castruccio, Stefano
name: Huser, Raphaël
name: Genton, Marc G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In multivariate or spatial extremes, inference for max-stable processes observed at a large collection of points is a very challenging problem and current approaches typically rely on less expensive composite likelihoods constructed from small subsets of data. In this work, we explore the limits of modern state-of-the-art computational facilities to perform full likelihood inference and to efficiently evaluate high-order composite likelihoods. With extensive simulations, we assess the loss of information of composite likelihood estimators with respect to a full likelihood approach for some widely used multivariate or spatial extreme models, we discuss how to choose composite likelihood truncation to improve the efficiency, and we also provide recommendations for practitioners. This article has supplementary material online.
title: Comparativ, Vol. 32 No. 2 (2022): Every Book an Adventure: The Walter Markov Prize Turns 30
title: Every Book an Adventure: The Walter Markov Prize Turns 30
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Comparativ
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2022

description: B. M. Jain: The Geopsychology of International Relations in the 21st Century: Escaping the Ignorance Trap, Lanham et al.: Lexington Books, 2021, 249 S....306-309
Felix Wemheuer: A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change, 1949–1976, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 331 pp....304-306
Pierre Rosanvallon: Das Jahrhundert des Populismus. Geschichte, Theorie, Kritik, Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2020, 266 S....300-303
Andreas Fahrmeir (Hrsg.): Deutschland. Globalgeschichte einer Nation, München: C. H. Beck, 2020, 936 S....296-300
Adom Getachew: Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, 274 S....293-295
John Connelly: From People into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020, 956 pp....291-293
Jorun Poettering: Migrating Merchants: Trade, Nation, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Hamburg and Portugal, transl. by Kenneth Kronenburg, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019, 389 pp....289-291
Putting a Nation on the Map: The Construction of a Geographical Imaginary through the Project for a National Atlas of Ethiopia, 1962–1987*...264-288
“Mafia Tactics” and Spirited Improvisation: Walter Markov and the International Congresses of Historical Sciences...245-263
Malian Student Mobility to Turkey through the Lens of Historically Marginalized Actors*...228-244
The Tielman Brothers as Wanderer ohne Ziel: A Post-colonial Perspective on Indorock*...216-227
On the Unreachability of Anti-colonial Internationalism*...208-215
Circulation of a Centre-Narrative: The “École de Paris” and Exhibition Networks between Santiago de Chile, Recife, São Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, and Paris (1921–1930)...190-207
“Those Were Difficult Days Indeed”: Transport Labour in German East Africa’s State-Organized Caravans*...172-189
The Walter Markov Prize: A Look Back at 30 Years of Global History...153-171
Inhaltsverzeichnis | Contents...149-150
Editorial...151-152
Implications of formulation design on lipid-based nanostructured carrier system for drug delivery to brain
Creators: name: Salunkhe, Sachin S.
name: Bhatia, Neela M.
name: Bhatia, Manish S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Context & Objective: The aim of present investigation was to formulate and develop lipid-based nanostructured carriers (NLCs) containing Idebenone (IDE) for delivery to brain. Attempts have been made to evaluate IDE NLCs for its pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic profile through the objective of enhancement in bioavailability and effectivity of drug. Methods: Nanoprecipitation technique was used for development of drug loaded NLCs. The components solid lipid Precirol ATO 5, oil Miglyol 840, surfactants Tween 80 and Labrasol have been screened out for formulation development by consideration of preformulation parameters including solubility, Required Hydrophilic lipophilic balance (HLB) of lipids and stability study. Developed IDE NLCs were subjected for particle size, zeta potential, entrapment efficiency (%EE), crystallographic investigation, transmission electron microscopy, in vitro drug release, pharmacokinetics, in vivo and stability study. Results: Formulation under investigation has particle size 174.1 ± 2.6 nm, zeta potential −18.65 ± 1.13 mV and% EE 90.68 ± 2.90. Crystallographic studies exemplified for partial amorphization of IDE by molecularly dispersion within lipid crust. IDE NLCs showed drug release 93.56 ± 0.39% at end of 24 h by following Higuchi model which necessitates for appropriate drug delivery with enhancement in bioavailability of drug by 4.6-fold in plasma and 2.8-fold in brain over plain drug loaded aqueous dispersions. In vivo studies revealed that effect of drug was enhanced by prepared lipid nanocarriers. Conclusions: IDE lipid-based nanostructured carriers could have potential for efficient drug delivery to brain with enhancement in bioavailability of drug over the conventional formulations.
Histopathology of hepatitis C in children, a systematic review: implications for treatment
Creators: name: Indolfi, Giuseppe
name: Guido, Maria
name: Azzari, Chiara
name: Resti, Massimo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Medicine

description: Chronic hepatitis C in children is usually considered a clinically mild and slowly progressive disease. Few pediatric studies focused on histopathology of children with hepatitis C are available. Those available show, overall, a wide spectrum of findings ranging from normal liver to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. The present systematic review provides a comprehensive overview of the studies that explored histopathology in children with hepatitis C. Factors affecting the presence and the degree of necroinflammation, fibrosis and steatosis and the risk of progression to advanced liver disease were extensively evaluated. Insights on the possible role of histopathology findings in the decision-making process of whether or not to treat children with hepatitis C are provided.
Psilopogon rafflesii
Creators: name: Wilson, John-James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Piciformes
Megalaimidae
Psilopogon
Psilopogon rafflesii

description: 2140. Red-crowned Barbet Psilopogon rafflesii (Lesson, 1839)
 Listed as Bucco versicolor ȱ byȱ Rafflesȱ(1822),ȱ aȱ nameȱ alsoȱ usedȱ forȱ anȱ unsexedȱ specimenȱ byȱ Stanley in 1825. However, this name was already in use for a South American species, Versicoloured Barbet (now Eubucco versicolor Statius Muller, 1776). Stanley later annotated his manuscript with ‘ Barbu bigarrè ȱ Pl.ȱ Col.ȱ 309’,ȱ referringȱ toȱ Vigors’ȱ catalogueȱ (Rafflesȱ 1830). Subsequently, while cataloguing the collection of Abeillé, Lesson (1839) named the Sumatran species eponymously as ‘ Bucco Rafflesii ’. Lack of a traceable specimen in NML, or a number in Moore’s stock books, suggests it was not part of the 1851 bequest.
description: Published as part of Wilson, John-James, 2021, Birds from Sumatra given by Sir Stamford Raffles to Lord Stanley: links to names, types and drawings, pp. 39-49 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 141 (1) on page 42
title: Comparativ, Vol. 32 No. 1 (2022): Remunerating Labour in a Long-Term Perspective
title: Remunerating Labour in a Long-Term Perspective
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Comparativ
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2022

description: Editorial...7-8
John Siko/Jonah A. Victor: African Security. An Introduction, London: I. B. Tauris, 2020, 266 pp....137-139
Joachim von Puttkamer / Włodzimierz Borodziej / Stanislav Holubec (Hrsg.): From Revolution to Uncertainty. The Year 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe, New York: Routledge, 2020, 284 pp....134-136
Janet M. Hartley: The Volga. A History, New Haven, CT/London: Yale University Press, 2021, 379 S....131-134
Irene Fattacciu: Empire, Political Economy and the Diffusion of Chocolate in the Atlantic World (Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts: Connexions), London: Routledge, 2021, 220 pp....129-131
Karen Struve: Wildes Wissen in der Encyclopédie. Koloniale Alterität, Wissen und Narration in der französischen Aufklärung (=Romanische Literaturen der Welt, Bd. 79), Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter, 2020, 506 S....125-129
Christine D. Beaule / John G. Douglass (eds.): The Global Spanish Empire. Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2020, 305 pp....123-125
Exhibition: L’Abîme. Nantes dans la traite atlantique et l’esclavage colonial 1707–1830 / The Abyss. Nantes’s role in the slave trade and colonial slavery 1707–1830. Château des Ducs de Bretagne / Musée d’Histoire, Nantes, 16 October 2021– 19 June 2022. C...117-123
Jeffrey D. Sachs: The Ages of Globalization. Geography, Technology, and Institutions, New York: Columbia University Press, 2020, 262 pp....141-142
Stefan Haas / Michael C. Schneider / Nicolas Bilo (Hrsg.): Die Zählung der Welt. Kulturgeschichte der Statistik vom 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019, 261 S....141
Brandon Mills: The World Colonization Made. The Racial Geography of Early American Empire, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020...140
The Determination of Workers’ Remuneration in a Cotton-Spinning Factory. A (Re)Reading of the Payrolls of the Voortmann Spinning Mill in Ghent, 1850–1890...96-117
From Practice to Memory: Bargaining and Remuneration in European Papermaking, 1550–1850...75-94
Wages Unpacked. Remuneration, Negotiation, and Coercion in the Medici Silver Mines...55-74
Builders’ Wages in Fourteenth-Century Piedmont: The Role of Labour Markets and Seigneurial Dependency...39-54
Regulating Work, Wages, and Time in the Craft Institutions of Medieval Normandy (Twelfth to Fourteenth Century)...17-38
Remunerating Labour in a Long- Term Perspective: An Introduction...9-16
Inhaltsverzeichnis...5-6
High-order Composite Likelihood Inference for Max-Stable Distributions and Processes
Creators: name: Castruccio, Stefano
name: Genton, Marc G.
name: Huser, Raphaël
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Neuroscience

description: In multivariate or spatial extremes, inference for max-stable processes observed at a large collection of locations is a very challenging problem in computational statistics, and current approaches typically rely on less expensive composite likelihoods constructed from small subsets of data. In this work, we explore the limits of modern state-of-the-art computational facilities to perform full likelihood inference and to efficiently evaluate high-order composite likelihoods. With extensive simulations, we assess the loss of information of composite likelihood estimators with respect to a full likelihood approach for some widely-used multivariate or spatial extreme models, we discuss how to choose composite likelihood truncation to improve the efficiency, and we also provide recommendations for practitioners. This article has supplementary material online.
title: Catalogus Realis. VII. Geschichte. VIIa : Allgemeine Geschichte
Creators: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: Systematischer Katalog
Library and information sciences
Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft
Hassiaca

description: Elektronische Reproduktion von: Catalogus Realis. VII. Geschichte. VIIa : Allgemeine Geschichte. - Stand: Dezember 2019. - Standort: Universität Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek. - Signatur: Sonderlesesaal. - Bemerkungen: Der Katalog verzeichnet in systematisch-sachlicher Ordnung den Bestand der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg von den Anfängen bis 1957. Später erworbene ältere Literatur ist hier nicht verzeichnet. Mit Hilfe dieses Katalogs ist die Suche nach Literatur zu bestimmten Inhalten und Themen möglich. – Zur Systematik: Die Signaturen der einzelnen Bücher und Zeitschriften geben die Ordnung des Bestands wieder. Alle Signaturen beginnen mit einer römischen Zahl von I (1) bis XX (20), die das jeweilige Fach (Theologie, Geschichte, Medizin usw.) bezeichnet. Die weitere Untergliederung ergibt sich aus den nachfolgenden Kleinbuchstaben und arabischen Zahlen. Beispiel: XVIa A 117. Die Großbuchstaben A, B und C sind nicht Teil der Systematik, sondern bezeichnen das Format der betreffenden Bände: A = Folio (großformatige Bände), B = Quart (mittelgroße Bände), C = Oktav (kleinformatige Bände). - Digitalisiert 2020
description: VII a : Allgemeine Geschichte 7 1 [Übersicht Systematik] 11 1.) Historische Wörterbücher u. Lexika. 23 - A (1 – 8.) 23 - B (1 – 4.) 64 - C (1 – 5.) (16 – 17.) 166 160 2.) Aufgaben, Methoden und Geschichte der Geschichtswissenschaft , … 184 - B (4l – 4z.) 66 - C (7 – 10.) 184 3.) Bibliographien und Quellenkunde. 250 - B (5 – 7.) 67 - C (11 – 15.) 251 245 4.) Sammelpublikationen, auch Mitteilungen aus Archiven. 267 - A (9 – 10.) 28 - B (7 – 10.) 67 - C (18 – 21.) 267 5.) Zeitschriften, gesammelte Abhandlungen mehrerer Verfasser, Festschriften. 285 279 - B (10e.) 72 - C (22 – 32.) 284 6.) Gesammelte Abhandlungen und Werke einzelner Verfasser (alphabet.) … 336 - A (11 – 19.) 29 - C (32g – 46.) 336 7.) Weltgeschichte (Geschichtstafeln, allgem. Kulturgeschichten, Allgem. Geschichte Europas) 372 - A (21 – 41.) 36 - B (11 – 17.) 73 - C (47 – 93h.) 372 366 8.) Geschichtsphilosophie. 473 - B (18.) 92 - C (93m – 94. 97.) 471 461 9.) Anthropologie, Vor- und Urgeschichte, Rassen- u. Völkerkunde … allgem. Kulturgeschichte. 479 - B (18 – 23.) 93 - C (94 – 99d.) (141ff. 143ff.) 479 10.) Allgemeine Volkskunde. 709 - B (18am. 20.) 123 117 - C (98um.) (121 – 141.) 709 11.) Einzelne allgemeine geschichtliche und volkskundliche Fragen. 591 - B (21 – 24.) 132 - C (99 – 119.) 591 12.) Verschiedenes 707 - A (41.) 51 - B (25 – 27.) 145 - C (120.) 707 694 Revisionsvermerk (1887) 802 Gesamtübersicht der Systematik für das Fach Geschichte (VII) 803
Online Updating of Computer Model Output Using Real-time Sensor Data
Creators: name: Huijing Jiang
name: Xinwei Deng
name: Hamann, Hendrik
name: Lopez, Vanessa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences

description: Data center thermal management has become increasingly important because of massive computational demand in information technology. To advance the understanding of the thermal environment in a data center, complex computer models are extensively used to simulate temperature distribution maps. However, due to management policies and time constraints, it is not practical to execute such models in a real time fashion. In this paper, we propose a novel statistical modeling method to perform real-time simulation by dynamically fusing a base, steady-state solution of a computer model and real-time thermal sensor data. The proposed method utilizes a Kalman filter and stochastic gradient descent method as computational tools to achieve real-time updating of the base temperature map. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method through a simulation study and demonstrate its merits in a data center thermal management application.
Assessing patient characteristics and radiation-induced non-targeted effects in vivo for high dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy
Creators: name: Pinho, Christine
name: Timotin, Emilia
name: Wong, Raimond
name: Sur, Ranjan K.
name: Hayward, Joseph E.
name: Farrell, Thomas J.
name: Seymour, Colin
name: Mothersill, Carmel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Hematology
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Purpose: To test whether blood, urine, and tissue based colony-forming assays are a useful clinical detection tool for assessing fractionated treatment responses and non-targeted radiation effects in bystander cells.Materials and methods: To assess patients’ responses to radiation treatments, blood serum, urine, and an esophagus explant-based in vivo colony-forming assay were used from oesophageal carcinoma patients. These patients underwent three fractions of high dose rate (HDR) intraluminal brachytherapy (ILBT).Results: Human keratinocyte reporters exposed to blood sera taken after the third fraction of brachytherapy had a significant increase in cloning efficiency compared to baseline samples (p < 0.001). Such results may suggest an induced radioresistance response in bystander cells. The data also revealed a clear inverse dose-rate effect during late treatment fractions for the blood sera data only. Patient characteristics such as gender had no statistically significant effect (p > 0.05). Large variability was observed among the patients’ tissue samples, these colony-forming assays showed no significant changes throughout fractionated brachytherapy (p > 0.05).Conclusion: Large inter-patient variability was found in the urine and tissue based assays, so these techniques were discontinued. However, the simple blood-based assay had much less variability. This technique may have future applications as a biological dosimeter to predict treatment outcome and assess non-targeted radiation effects.
From Slave Trade to Banking in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Creators: name: Y Alharilla, Martín Rodrigo
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2021

description: In the nineteenth century, there was a certain chronological parallel between the ever-increasing incorporation of the Spanish into the slave trade and the construction of a modern banking system in Spain. On an individual level we find numerous examples of former captains or slave traders who later converted to respectable bankers as Pedro Martínez Pérez de Terán, José de Abarzuza Imbrechts, Mariano Serra Soler, José María Serra Muñoz, Mariano Flaquer Lluch, Esteban Gatell Roig, Jaime Badia Padrines, Antonio Vinent Vives, Manuel Calvo Aguirre, Antonio López y López, and José Canela Raventós, among others. Through their capital or their activity, all of them contributed to the creation of different financial institutions in nineteenth-century Spain. This article offers a first approach to this phenomenon. I will do so on the basis of three different banks founded in 1844, 1846, and 1876, respectively, in two Spanish port cities (Cádiz and Barcelona) and in whose foundation and development former slave traders played a major role. We will therefore analyse the participation of varous slave traders in the Banco de Cádiz and then repeat the same analysis in two financial entitites with their headquarters in the Catalan capital: the Banco de Barcelona and the Banco Hispano Colonial, respectively.
description: Comparativ, Vol. 30 No. 5/6 (2020): The Slavery / Capitalism Debate Global. From “Capitalism and Slavery” to Slavery as Capitalism
Visuality and Slave Management in the Brazilian and Cuban Coffee and Sugar Plantations, c. 1840–1880
Creators: name: De Bivar Marquese, Rafael
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2021

description: The aim of the article is to understand how the new mechanisms of slave management developed in the Cuban and Brazilian sugar and coffee frontiers during the nineteenth century were connected to a new visuality of slavery. The argument is that it is possible to identify a cluster of new strategies aimed at extracting more labour from slaves in the coffee and sugar cane plantations of Brazil and Cuba, which was not only a response to the great reorganization of the world economy under industrial capitalism, but also to new patterns of slave resistance. These strategies can be understood as part of a new visual regime of New World slavery.
description: Comparativ, Vol. 30 No. 5/6 (2020): The Slavery / Capitalism Debate Global. From “Capitalism and Slavery” to Slavery as Capitalism
Dissolution thermodynamics and solubility of silymarin in PEG 400-water mixtures at different temperatures
Creators: name: Faiyaz Shakeel
name: Md Khalid Anwer
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: An isothermal method was used to measure the solubility of silymarin in binary polyethylene glycol 400 (PEG 400) + water co-solvent mixtures at temperatures T = 298.15–333.15 K and pressure p = 0.1 MPa. Apelblat and Yalkowsky models were used to correlate experimental solubility data. The mole fraction solubility of silymarin was found to increase with increasing the temperature and mass fraction of PEG 400 in co-solvent mixtures. The root mean square deviations were observed in the range of 0.48–5.32% and 1.50–9.65% for the Apelblat equation and Yalkowsky model, respectively. The highest and lowest mole fraction solubility of silymarin was observed in pure PEG 400 (0.243 at 298.15 K) and water (1.46 × 10−5 at 298.15 K). Finally, thermodynamic parameters were determined by Van’t Hoff and Krug analysis, which indicated an endothermic and spontaneous dissolution of silymarin in all co-solvent mixtures.
Molecular detection of Neospora caninum in house sparrows (Passer domesticus) in Iran
Creators: name: Abdoli, Amir
name: Arbabi, Mohsen
name: Abdolhossein Dalimi
name: Pirestani, Majid
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry

description: Neospora caninum is an intracellular protozoan parasite with a wide range of intermediate bird hosts. There is little information describing the prevalence and genetic characterization of N. caninum in bird hosts worldwide and in Iran. In this study, a total of 217 brain samples of house sparrow (Passer domesticus) were examined for N. caninum presence by nested polymerase chain reaction targeting the Nc-5 gene. N. caninum DNA was detected in 3.68% (8/217) of sparrows. Sequencing of the Nc5 genomic DNA revealed 97–99% of similarity with N. caninum sequences deposited in Genbank. To our knowledge, this study is the first molecular evidence of N. caninum DNA in bird hosts in Iran. The results of this study highlight the role of the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) in maintaining and spreading N. caninum infection to canines in the feral and domestic environment.
Juliet Furens: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as Senecan Drama
Creators: name: Adkins, David
Publisher: name: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies
Year: 2023

description: In what may be Romeo and Juliet’s most frightening moment, Juliet imagines what it might be like to awake in a crypt. Juliet’s nightmarish fantasy reads as Senecan, owing not least to her vision of Tybalt’s ghost, an element that derives ultimately from Bandello. But though Shakespeare’s version of the speech closely follows its sources, where it is original it greatly expands upon their Senecanism, culminating with a memory of Hercules Furens: rather than imagine the dead dismembering her, as in Bandello, Boaistuau, and Brooke, Shakespeare’s Juliet fears that she, like the mad Hercules, will desecrate the bodies of her family, plucking Tybalt’s corpse from its shroud and wielding a human bone as a club. If the play becomes a tragedy with the deaths of Tybalt and Mercutio, it is here that it becomes Senecan tragedy, for the Roman playwright haunts Romeo and Juliet to its end, hence Juliet’s Polyxena-like radiance before death. This essay argues that Romeo and Juliet – a play that rarely appears in discussions of Shakespeare’s reception of Roman tragedy – channels the terror and fury of Senecan personae, but also an attitude toward death that looks beyond Stoic resignation and toward transcendence.
description: Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies, Vol. 10 (2023): What's Seneca to Him? Senecan Shakespeare
Door to disposition times for obstetric triage visits: Is there a July phenomenon?
Creators: name: S. Mehra
name: J. A. Gavard
name: G. Gross
name: T. Myles
name: T. Nguyen
name: E. Amon
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: The July phenomenon refers to a change in patient outcomes within teaching hospitals with the arrival of new and inexperienced house staff at the start of the academic year (July to June). In our obstetric triage unit we retrospectively evaluated the door to disposition time (DTDT) for 1817 patients who presented across July, December and May of academic years 2009–2010 and 2010–2011. DTDT was examined for three visit levels: non-urgent, urgent and emergent. No significant differences in disposition time were found for emergent visits. For urgent visits the median DTDT significantly decreased from 171 min in July to 155 min in December and 135 min in May (p < 0.001). Similarly for non-urgent visits, the median DTDT was greater during July than May (179 min vs. 133 min; p < 0.05). Electronic medical records (EMRs) were implemented in November 2010. Following the introduction of EMR shorter DTDT was seen in December 2010 versus December 2009 (median, 171 min vs. 150 min; p < 0.05), respectively. Our findings suggest a ‘July Phenomenon’ of greater disposition intervals for urgent and non-urgent obstetric triage visits across the academic year. Additionally the use of EMRs may facilitate patient flow through the OB triage unit.
Slavery, Abstract Labour, and the Constitution of Capitalism
Creators: name: Lamas, Bruno
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2021

description: Capital is a form of “abstract wealth” (Marx), socially and historically specific to modern society and based on undifferentiated combustion of human energy: “abstract labour”. The historical constitution of capitalism is the worldwide process of constituting that nexus between abstract wealth and abstract labour, effectively reducing human beings to mere carriers of bodily energy to be mobilized for the valorization of value. In this article, starting from a theoretical reflection on the historicity of three of the main categories of Marx’s critique of political economy – value, labour, and abstract labour – I intend to (i) provide a general interpretation of the historical process of constitution of capitalism between the sixteenth and nineteenth century, as the transition from a newly created world system of monetary-wealth circulation to a world system of abstract labour; (ii) reflect on the role of slavery in this process and its relationship with the constitution of the specifically modern categories of labour and labour power; and (iii) show that, despite its past and common elements, it is the essential differences between the slave commodity and the labour power commodity through the self-ownership category that will ultimately become decisive for modern struggles for social recognition and the historical constitution of capitalism itself.
description: Comparativ, Vol. 30 No. 5/6 (2020): The Slavery / Capitalism Debate Global. From “Capitalism and Slavery” to Slavery as Capitalism
Dissolution thermodynamics and solubility of silymarin in PEG 400-water mixtures at different temperatures
Creators: name: Faiyaz Shakeel
name: Md Khalid Anwer
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Hematology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: An isothermal method was used to measure the solubility of silymarin in binary polyethylene glycol 400 (PEG 400) + water co-solvent mixtures at temperatures T = 298.15–333.15 K and pressure p = 0.1 MPa. Apelblat and Yalkowsky models were used to correlate experimental solubility data. The mole fraction solubility of silymarin was found to increase with increasing the temperature and mass fraction of PEG 400 in co-solvent mixtures. The root mean square deviations were observed in the range of 0.48–5.32% and 1.50–9.65% for the Apelblat equation and Yalkowsky model, respectively. The highest and lowest mole fraction solubility of silymarin was observed in pure PEG 400 (0.243 at 298.15 K) and water (1.46 × 10−5 at 298.15 K). Finally, thermodynamic parameters were determined by Van’t Hoff and Krug analysis, which indicated an endothermic and spontaneous dissolution of silymarin in all co-solvent mixtures.
Capitalism in Slavery, Slavery in Capitalism: Original Accumulation, Slave Rent, and the Formation of the World Market
Creators: name: Tomich, Dale W.
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2021

description: This chapter examines the relation of capitalism and slavery by reinterpreting the role of slavery in the formation of the capitalist world-economy beginning in the sixteenth century. By distinguishing between Marx’s theory of capital and the history of capitalist development, it construes historical capitalism as a global system embracing multiple forms of social labour. Atlantic slavery, it argues, is a specific form of commodity production that is integral to historical capitalism from its inception. The article proceeds to explore the specific role of Atlantic slavery in the original accumulation of capital, that is, the formation of the system. Surplus production and appropriation were based on slave rent, that is on ownership of the slave as property, not on ownership of the land. This relation created a very mobile and dynamic form of labour organization that was suited to the open commodity frontiers of the tropical and subtropical Atlantic. The expansion of slave labour in the south Atlantic played a fundamental role in creating the world division of labour and world market of the sixteenth century.
description: Comparativ, Vol. 30 No. 5/6 (2020): The Slavery / Capitalism Debate Global. From “Capitalism and Slavery” to Slavery as Capitalism
Pericrocotus flammeus subsp. xanthogaster
Creators: name: Wilson, John-James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Campephagidae
Pericrocotus
Pericrocotus flammeus
Pericrocotus flammeus xanthogaster (raffles, 1822)

description: 2141. Scarlet Minivet Pericrocotus flammeus xanthogaster (Raffles, 1822)
 Theȱ speciesȱ wasȱ listedȱ twiceȱ byȱ Rafflesȱ (1822),ȱ theȱ maleȱ asȱ ‘ Turdus flammeus - Muscicapa flammea, Gmel. [sic]’ and the female (described as a male) under a new name, Lanius xanthogaster. In 1825, Stanley used Muscicapa flammea,ȱasȱinȱVigors’ȱcatalogueȱ(Rafflesȱ1830),ȱ andȱ‘Flammeousȱflycatcher’ȱtoȱlistȱaȱmaleȱspecimen.ȱAȱmaleȱdepictedȱamongȱtheȱpost- Fame drawings (NHD 47.31; Noltie 2009; Fig. 3) could therefore represent Stanley’s specimen. TheȱpopulationȱonȱSumatraȱisȱrecognisedȱsubspecificallyȱunderȱRaffles’ȱnameȱ‘ xanthogaster ’. Lack of a traceable specimen in NML, or a number in Moore’s stock books, suggests it was not part of the 1851 bequest.
description: Published as part of Wilson, John-James, 2021, Birds from Sumatra given by Sir Stamford Raffles to Lord Stanley: links to names, types and drawings, pp. 39-49 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 141 (1) on page 42
Globalization and Coerced Labour in Early Modern Asia and Africa
Creators: name: Dalrymple-Smith, Angus
name: Van Rossum, Matthias
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2021

description: Early modern globalization was accompanied with a simultaneous expansion of systems of coerced labour exploitation across the globe. This article seeks to deepen our understanding of the impact of early globalization by using a comparative approach to examine the effects of the increasing global demand for (coerced) labour on systems of bondage and slavery, especially in West Africa and South Asia. We argue that the developing systems of globalized trade during the early modern era had a transformative impact on many local forms of slavery and bondage in Africa and Asia by connecting them to global demands for closed, commodified (or ‘chattel’) slavery. We conclude that that local systems of slavery and bondage and global systems of commodified slavery were not separate and unconnected, but co-existed and interacted at three levels: that of state formation and expansion; the adaption of socio-political systems to increase slave exports in response to the demands of a globalized labour market; and the modification of local systems of slave and bonded labour. This underlines the need for new global-comparative approaches to deepen our understanding of the coercive roots of global capitalism and the long-term transformations of slavery.
description: Comparativ, Vol. 30 No. 5/6 (2020): The Slavery / Capitalism Debate Global. From “Capitalism and Slavery” to Slavery as Capitalism
Antimicrobial evaluation of selected naturally occurring oxyprenylated secondary metabolites
Creators: name: Giulio, Mara Di
name: Genovese, Salvatore
name: Fiorito, Serena
name: Epifano, Francesco
name: Cellini, Luigina
name: Nostro, Antonia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: This study tested the antimicrobial activity of eight selected naturally occurring oxyprenylated secondary metabolites against Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 29213, S. epidermidis ATCC 35984, Escherichia coli ATCC 8739, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 9027 and Candida albicans ATCC 10231. Results showed a moderate antimicrobial activity. The most active compounds were 3-(4-geranyloxyphenyl)-1-ethanol (4) and 3-(4-isopentenyloxyphenyl)-1-propanol (5) that were tested on mature and in-formation biofilms of all micro-organisms, moreover the cytotoxic activity was evaluated. Except for S. epidermidis, both compounds reduced significantly (p 4 and 5 at each concentration, inhibited E. coli biofilm formation to a greater extent, the biofilm formation was never more than 44% in respect to the control, moreover both compounds showed a low cytotoxic effect. Oxyprenylated derivatives may be of great interest for the development of novel antimicrobial therapeutic strategies and the synthesis of semi-synthetic analogues with anti-biofilm efficacy.
Treatment with denosumab reduces secondary fracture risk in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis
Creators: name: S. Palacios
name: L. Kalouche-Khalil
name: R. Rizzoli
name: C. Zapalowski
name: H. Resch
name: J. D. Adachi
name: J. C. Gallagher
name: R. G. Feldman
name: D. L. Kendler
name: A. Wang
name: R. B. Wagman
name: S. Adami
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Physiology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology

description: Objectives A history of prior fracture is one of the strongest predictors of a future fragility fracture. In FREEDOM, denosumab significantly reduced the risk of new vertebral, non-vertebral, and hip fractures. We carried out a post-hoc analysis of FREEDOM to characterize the efficacy of denosumab in preventing secondary fragility fractures in subjects with a prior fracture.Methods A total of 7808 women aged 60–90 years with a bone mineral density T-score of less than − 2.5 but not less than − 4.0 at either the lumbar spine or total hip were randomized to subcutaneous denosumab 60 mg or placebo every 6 months for 36 months. The anti-fracture efficacy of denosumab was analyzed by prior fracture status, to assess secondary fragility fracture, and by subject age, prior fracture site and history of prior osteoporosis medication use.Results A prior fragility fracture was reported for 45% of the overall study population. Compared with placebo, denosumab significantly reduced the risk of a secondary fragility fracture by 39% (incidence, 17.3% vs. 10.5%; p < 0.0001). Similar results were observed regardless of age or prior fracture site. In the overall population, denosumab significantly reduced the risk of a fragility fracture by 40% (13.3% vs. 8.0%; p < 0.0001), with similar results observed regardless of history of prior osteoporotic medication use.Conclusions Denosumab reduced the risk of fragility fractures to a similar degree in all risk subgroups examined, including those with prior fragility fractures. Identifying and treating high-risk individuals could help to close the current care gap in secondary fracture prevention.
Money, Indenture, and Neo-slavery in the Spanish Gulf of Guinea, 1820s to 1890s
Creators: name: Martino, Enrique
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2021

description: This article looks for the initial configuration of indentured labour in the final stages of the Spanish Empire in the Gulf of Guinea to try to give, from this peculiar historical trajectory, a new spin on the concept of transition, or rather transformation, from slavery to post-slavery forms of unfree labour. The first labour contract in the Spanish colonial island of Fernando Pó, sitting off the coast of Nigeria and Cameroon, was brought over in the 1860s from Cuba, which combined both coolie indentures and emancipado (apprenticeships for slaves freed from slave ships) arrangements. I outline some of the emergent effects of this new colonial contract, such as the appearance of a new generation of labour recruiters by describing and examining the techniques used to try to attract and keep West African Kru workers on the island. By closely connecting Fernando Pó to the process of abolition of slavery in Cuba and to labour recruitment along the West African coast, I show how the founding and the effects of the contract can be tracked back to the partial fragmentation and mutation of slavery. I provide a conceptual outline in the conclusion in relation to a critical discussion of the metaphors of the “slavery of wage labour” and the sometimes just implicitly lingering premises of the concept of imperfect and inhibited transitions still underpinning much of the global labour history and the new histories of capitalism literature.
description: Comparativ, Vol. 30 No. 5/6 (2020): The Slavery / Capitalism Debate Global. From “Capitalism and Slavery” to Slavery as Capitalism
The Political Economy of Slavery in the Dutch Empire
Creators: name: Brandon, Pepijn
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2021

description: The Dutch Republic and its successor state the Kingdom of the Netherlands were deeply involved in slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean world. Its most intense involvement roughly coincides with the period in which this small country played an outsized role in the development of the ligaments of global capitalism – coupling domestic capital accumulation with a prime role in world trade, international finance, commercial warfare and the spread of new forms of calculative reasoning. This combination makes the Dutch case an important one for investigating the ways in which capitalism and slavery co-constituted each other in a crucial phase of transformation of the global economy. However, narrowing down the question of the relationship between capitalism and slavery to the much more limited question whether the profits from slavery fueled a domestic industrial revolution, has led many authors in the past to simply out of hand dismiss the relevance of this problematic for Dutch history. This article seeks to show why and how for the Dutch, over the course of several centuries and in a large number of constellations across and beyond its territorial reach, capitalist development and different forms of commercial slavery became joined at the hip. Since in this relationship neither capitalism nor slavery were stable entities, the ways in which they were mutually integrated (constituting the political economy of the Dutch participation in slavery) also stemmed from different motives and aims across geographies, varied in intensity, and underwent substantial change over time.
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The Slavery / Capitalism Debate Global: From “Capitalism and Slavery” to Slavery as Capitalism. Introduction
Creators: name: Zeuske, Michael
name: Conermann, Stephan
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2021

description: Comparativ, Vol. 30 No. 5/6 (2020): The Slavery / Capitalism Debate Global. From “Capitalism and Slavery” to Slavery as Capitalism
Some Uncomfortable Evidence on Slavery and Capitalism
Creators: name: Piqueras, José Antonio
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2021

description: Slavery accompanied, even promoted, capitalism from its birth and continued alongside it until the last decades of the 19th century. It remains for us to examine how capitalism and slavery are related. In the historical analysis we have to ask ourselves at every step what kind of slavery we are dealing with and place it within the set of coercive labour modalities that existed in a certain period of history. We have to ask ourselves what kind of capitalism we are dealing with, because capitalism is also subject to evolution. Considering slavery as a labour system, we will analyse the way in which it is linked to capital and (in a later period, as a “second slavery”) slavery is linked to capitalism. Capitalism sometimes created, sometimes subsumed, but always encouraged non-free, non-voluntary forms of work. But, the slavery, conceived as a unique form of coercive labour, has special characteristics within the framework of the hegemony of capital.
description: Comparativ, Vol. 30 No. 5/6 (2020): The Slavery / Capitalism Debate Global. From “Capitalism and Slavery” to Slavery as Capitalism
Slavery and Industrialization: Williams Redux
Creators: name: Burnard, Trevor
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2021

description: This paper evaluates the standing of Eric Williams, author of the classic work on capitalism and slavery 75 years ago, in the light of new scholarship, notably by historians writing as part of the New History of Capitalism movement. It emphasises how one part of Williams’ argument is especially persuasive, that in the period between 1688 and 1763 all sections of British society supported the planter interest in the Americas and thus slavery without reservation. The Seven Years’ War marked, in retrospect, the peak of planter power within the British Empire. The American Revolution, by contrast, formed, as Williams suggested, a crisis in plantation societies but more so, at least economically, for the American South than for the British Caribbean.
description: Comparativ, Vol. 30 No. 5/6 (2020): The Slavery / Capitalism Debate Global. From “Capitalism and Slavery” to Slavery as Capitalism
Door to disposition times for obstetric triage visits: Is there a July phenomenon?
Creators: name: S. Mehra
name: J. A. Gavard
name: G. Gross
name: T. Myles
name: T. Nguyen
name: E. Amon
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: The July phenomenon refers to a change in patient outcomes within teaching hospitals with the arrival of new and inexperienced house staff at the start of the academic year (July to June). In our obstetric triage unit we retrospectively evaluated the door to disposition time (DTDT) for 1817 patients who presented across July, December and May of academic years 2009–2010 and 2010–2011. DTDT was examined for three visit levels: non-urgent, urgent and emergent. No significant differences in disposition time were found for emergent visits. For urgent visits the median DTDT significantly decreased from 171 min in July to 155 min in December and 135 min in May (p < 0.001). Similarly for non-urgent visits, the median DTDT was greater during July than May (179 min vs. 133 min; p < 0.05). Electronic medical records (EMRs) were implemented in November 2010. Following the introduction of EMR shorter DTDT was seen in December 2010 versus December 2009 (median, 171 min vs. 150 min; p < 0.05), respectively. Our findings suggest a ‘July Phenomenon’ of greater disposition intervals for urgent and non-urgent obstetric triage visits across the academic year. Additionally the use of EMRs may facilitate patient flow through the OB triage unit.
Rollulus rouloul
Creators: name: Wilson, John-James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Galliformes
Phasianidae
Rollulus
Rollulus rouloul

description: 2144 [512g]. Crested Partridge Rollulus rouloul (Scopoli, 1786)
 Listedȱ byȱ Rafflesȱ (1822)ȱ asȱ ‘ Tetrao viridis, Gmel. [sic]’. The species was evidently a major source of taxonomic confusion (see Vigors 1829), with the male described as Columba cristata Pallas, 1764, and the female as Perdix coronata Latham, 1790. In 1825, Stanley matched the femaleȱspecimenȱgivenȱtoȱhimȱbyȱRafflesȱwithȱaȱmaleȱheȱhadȱobtainedȱearlierȱfromȱMelakaȱ (no. 1693 in the ‘General index’) and listed the specimen under Temminck’s (1815) genus as Crytonyx coronatus and the vernacular name ‘Green Partridge’. The male specimen is still at NML (accession number D512c). The species is listed as Crytonyx cristatus Vigors in Vigors’ catalogueȱ(Rafflesȱ1830).ȱ Theȱ skinȱ ofȱ Raffles’ȱ relaxedȱ mountȱ isȱ atȱ NMLȱ(accessionȱ numberȱ D 512g).
description: Published as part of Wilson, John-James, 2021, Birds from Sumatra given by Sir Stamford Raffles to Lord Stanley: links to names, types and drawings, pp. 39-49 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 141 (1) on page 44