cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Magnetization in electron- and Mn- doped SrTiO3
Creators: name: Choudhury, D.
name: Pal, B.
name: Sharma, A.
name: Bhat, S. V.
name: Sarma, D. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mn-doped SrTiO_3.0, when synthesized free of impurities, is a paramagnetic insulator with interesting dielectric properties. Since delocalized charge carriers are known to promote ferromagnetism in a large number of systems via diverse mechanisms, we have looked for the possibility of any intrinsic, spontaneous magnetization by simultaneous doping of Mn ions and electrons into SrTiO_3 via oxygen vacancies, thereby forming SrTi_(1-x)Mn_xO_(3-d), to the extent of making the doped system metallic. We find an absence of any enhancement of the magnetization in the metallic sample when compared with a similarly prepared Mn doped, however, insulating sample. Our results, thus, are not in agreement with a recent observation of a weak ferromagnetism in metallic Mn doped SrTiO_3 system.
description: 10 pages and 4 figures
Exposure to fogger trucks and breast cancer incidence in the Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project: a case–control study
Creators: name: White, Alexandra J.
name: Teitelbaum, Susan L.
name: Wolff, Mary S.
name: Stellman, Steven D.
name: Neugut, Alfred I.
name: Gammon, Marilie D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Epidemiology
Environmental health
Breast--Cancer--Environmental aspects
Breast--Cancer--Risk factors
DDT (Insecticide)

description: Background: Few studies have supported an association between breast cancer and DDT, usually assessed with biomarkers that cannot discern timing of exposure, or differentiate between the accumulation of chronic low-dose versus acute high-dose exposures in the past. Previous studies suggest that an association may be evident only among women exposed to DDT during biologically susceptible windows, or among those diagnosed with estrogen receptor/progesterone receptor-positive (ER+PR+) breast cancer subtypes. Self-reported acute exposure to a fogger truck, which sprayed DDT prior to 1972, was hypothesized to increase the risk of breast cancer, particularly among women exposed at a young age or diagnosed with ER+PR+ breast cancer. Methods: We examined these possibilities in the Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project (LIBCSP) (1,508 cases, 1,556 controls), which included exposure assessment by structured questionnaire and serum samples collected between 1996–1998, using adjusted logistic and polytomous regression to estimate ORs and 95% CIs. Results: Women with ER+PR+ breast cancer had a 44% increased odds of ever seeing a pre-1972 fogger truck compared to other subtypes (OR = 1.44; 95% CI 1.08-1.93). However, there was little variation in the observed increase in breast cancer risk when considering all women who reported seeing a pre-1972 fogger truck at their residence (OR = 1.16; 95% CI 0.98, 1.37), or during hypothesized susceptible windows. Self-reported acute exposure was not correlated with serum concentrations, a biomarker of long-term exposure. Conclusions: These findings support the hypothesis that seeing a fogger truck, a proxy measure for acute DDT exposure, may be associated with ER+PR+ tumors, the most commonly diagnosed breast cancer subtype among American women.
La «gestión de la diversidad» a través del patrimonio cultural. Entre la reificación de «la comunidad» y la reflexividad cultural
Creators: name: López López, Juan De Dios
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2018

description: The main aim of this article is to analyze the heritage processes, carried out by cultural institutions, as an instrument for the «management of diversity». In this way and indirectly, it is intended to show a possible way to take the reflection on cultural diversity and other associated phenomena, such as interculturality or multiculturalism, beyond migrant subjects or ethnicized and racialized groups, over whom the research on diversity are usually revolved around. The text begins by explaining the link between heritage policies and the “management of diversity”, and the notion of culture behind this link. Next, I consider the role of cultural heritage in the definition and conformation of certain collective subjects. And, finally, heritage processes are shown as privileged contexts for cultural reflexivity and the possibilities of involvement of critical social sciences in these processes are examined.
description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 2 No. 4 (2017)
Modules with many non-associates and norm form equations with many families of solutions
Creators: name: Voutier, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11D57, 11R27

description: For every number field $\mathbb{K}$, with $[\mathbb{K}:\mathbb{Q}] \geq 3$, we show that the number of non-associates of the same norm in a full module in $\mathbb{K}$ does not depend only on $\mathbb{K}$, but can also depend on the module itself. As a corollary, the same can be true for the number of families of solutions of degenerate norm form equations. So the uniform bound obtained by Schmidt for the number of solutions in the non-degenerate case does not always hold in the degenerate case. For three-variable norm forms not arising from full modules, we do obtain a Schmidt-type bound for the number of families of solutions that, together with the above result, completes this aspect of the study of three-variable norm forms.
description: Journal of Number Theory (to appear)
Las concepciones de cultura e identidad en las propuestas multiculturalistas sobre los derechos de las minorías étnicas
Creators: name: Dávila Aguilar, Carlos A.
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2018

description: A variety of social movements concerned with the defense of the cultural rights of ethnic minorities have pressed towards the institution of differentiated and collective rights for these groups during the last for decades in western countries. International organizations have thus responded with the creation of a regulatory framework on this issue, which has evolved in dialogue with reforms held within some national states, as in the case of Mexican reforms. The instruments that compose this framework have tended to favor these demands, but the notions of culture and identity implied in their formulations are usually based on demonstrably wrong assumptions in the light of actualized theory of culture and identity. These incorrect conceptual bases provoke counterproductive effects for these populations’ ability to exercise their own rights.
description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 2 No. 4 (2017)
title: Heroicae Dei, Legisque Vindiciae; [1760]
title: Auf offentlicher Schau-Bühne vorgestellet, Da Aus höchster Freygebigkeit des Heil. Römischen Reichs Hochgräfl. Seinsheimischen Haus In dem Churfürstl. Gymnasio der Gesellschaft Jesu Der Haupt- und Regierungs-Stadt Straubing Die Praemia ausgetheilt worden Den 3. und 5. Herbst Monath 1762 = Grosser Heldenmuth Für Gott, Unt Sein Gesatz
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Geislmayr, Joachim
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2011

description: Perioche. - Text teilw. lat., teilw. dt.
Equilibrium models of radially anisotropic spherical stellar systems with softened central potentials
Creators: name: Polyachenko, E. V.
name: Polyachenko, V. L.
name: Shukhman, I. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a new class of equilibrium two-parametric distribution functions of spherical stellar systems with radially anisotropic velocity distribution of stars. The models are less singular counterparts of the so called generalized polytropes, widely used in works on equilibrium and stability of gravitating systems in the past. The offered models, unlike the generalized polytropes, have finite density and potential in the center. The absence of the singularity is necessary for proper consideration of the radial orbit instability, which is the most important instability in spherical stellar systems. Comparison of the main observed parameters (potential, density, anisotropy) predicted by the present models and other popular equilibrium models is provided.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, 1 table; accepted to MNRAS
MutComFocal: an integrative approach to identifying recurrent and focal genomic alterations in tumor samples
Creators: name: Rabadan, Raul
name: Trifonov, Vladimir
name: Pasqualucci, Laura
name: Favera, Riccardo Dalla
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cytology

description: Background: Most tumors are the result of accumulated genomic alterations in somatic cells. The emerging spectrum of alterations in tumors is complex and the identification of relevant genes and pathways remains a challenge. Furthermore, key cancer genes are usually found amplified or deleted in chromosomal regions containing many other genes. Point mutations, on the other hand, provide exquisite information about amino acid changes that could be implicated in the oncogenic process. Current large-scale genomic projects provide high throughput genomic data in a large number of well-characterized tumor samples. Methods: We define a Bayesian approach designed to identify candidate cancer genes by integrating copy number and point mutation information. Our method exploits the concept that small and recurrent alterations in tumors are more informative in the search for cancer genes. Thus, the algorithm (Mutations with Common Focal Alterations, or MutComFocal) seeks focal copy number alterations and recurrent point mutations within high throughput data from large panels of tumor samples. Results: We apply MutComFocal to Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) data from four different high throughput studies, totaling 78 samples assessed for copy number alterations by single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array analysis and 65 samples assayed for protein changing point mutations by whole exome/whole transcriptome sequencing. In addition to recapitulating known alterations, MutComFocal identifies ARID1B, ROBO2 and MRS1 as candidate tumor suppressors and KLHL6, IL31 and LRP1 as putative oncogenes in DLBCL. Conclusions: We present a Bayesian approach for the identification of candidate cancer genes by integrating data collected in large number of cancer patients, across different studies. When trained on a well-studied dataset, MutComFocal is able to identify most of the reported characterized alterations. The application of MutComFocal to large-scale cancer data provides the opportunity to pinpoint the key functional genomic alterations in tumors.
Expresiones de racismo y discriminación en grupos autistas en Facebook
Creators: name: Pérez Salazar, Gabriel
name: Hernández Rodríguez, Carlos Rafael
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2018

description: Based on a qualitative approach and the use of ethnographic techniques such as the semi-structured interview and participant observation, an analysis is presented of how diverse racist and discriminatory expressions take place within a non-representative and non-probabilistic selection of “autistic” closed groups in Facebook, in which young people from all Latin America participate. Results suggest that, although the observed racism correspond to aspects based on characteristics such as ethnic group and skin color; this form of discrimination is also present from diverse cultural issues.
description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 2 No. 4 (2017)
Estudiantes Guaraníes, interculturalidad y educación superior en misiones, Argentina
Creators: name: Irupé Nuñez, Yamila
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2018

description: Currently, intercultural education in Latin America, with special regard to indigenous people’s education has come to constitute a particularly relevant field of anthropological inquiry, which encompasses a wide range of subjects (Rebolledo, 2009). In Argentina, the articulation between Anthropology and Education has contributed to produce multiple discourses and texts in the field of social sciences, which inform a variety of research groups and applied projects in educational contexts. As a part of this collective endeavor, this article aims to analyze the most recurring constrictions that the Guaraní People from the State of Misiones (Argentina) face in their effort to access into the State’s Higher Education Level. The data we present was produced during an intensive anthropological fieldwork in Institutions of Higher Education and Guaraní communities in Misiones. We believe that by applying a comparative, critical and denaturalizing perspective, anthropology may assist the study of educational processes where multiple actors and diverse perspectives are taken into account (Rockwell, 2009). In this regard, our current research seeks to ponder about educational experiences within intercultural learning and teaching environments.
description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 2 No. 4 (2017)
The Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project: description of a multi-institutional collaboration to identify environmental risk factors for breast cancer
Creators: name: Gammon, Marilie D.
name: Neugut, Alfred I.
name: Santella, Regina M.
name: Teitelbaum, Susan L.
name: Britton, Julie A.
name: Wolff, Mary S.
name: Terry, Mary Beth
name: Stellman, Steven D.
name: Levin, Bruce
name: Eng, Sybil M.
name: Kabat, Geoffrey C.
name: Bradlow, H. Leon
name: Hatch, Maureen
name: Beyea, Jan
name: Camann, David
name: Trent, Martin
name: Senie, Ruby T.
name: Garbowsk, Gail C.
name: Maffeo, Carla
name: Montalvan, Pat
name: Berkowitz, Gertrud S.
name: Kemeny, Margaret
name: Citron, Marc
name: Schnabel, Freya
name: Schuss, Allan
name: Vincguerra, Vincent
name: Hajdu, Steven
name: Collman, Gwen W.
name: Obrams, G. Iris
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Oncology
Breast--Cancer
Breast--Cancer--Epidemiology
Breast--Cancer--Research

description: The Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project is a federally mandated, population-based case-control study to determine whether breast cancer risk among women in the counties of Nassau and Suffolk, NY, is associated with selected environmental exposures, assessed by blood samples, self-reports, and environmental home samples. This report describes the collaborative project’s background, rationale, methods, participation rates, and distributions of known risk factors for breast cancer by case-control status, by blood donation, and by availability of environmental home samples. Interview response rates among eligible cases and controls were 82.1% (n=1,508) and 62.8% (n=1,556), respectively. Among case and control respondents who completed the interviewer-administered questionnaire, 98.2 and 97.6% self-completed the food frequency questionnaire; 73.0 and 73.3% donated a blood sample; and 93.0 and 83.3% donated a urine sample. Among a random sample of case and control respondents who are long-term residents, samples of dust (83.6 and 83.0%); soil (93.5 and 89.7%); and water (94.3 and 93.9%) were collected. Established risk factors for breast cancer that were found to increase risk among Long Island women include lower parity, late age at first birth, little or no breast feeding, and family history of breast cancer. Factors that were found to be associated with a decreased likelihood that a respondent would donate blood include increasing age and past smoking; factors associated with an increased probability include white or other race, alcohol use, ever breastfed, ever use of hormone replacement therapy, ever use of oral contraceptives, and ever had a mammogram. Long-term residents (defined as 15+ years in the interview home) with environmental home samples did not differ from other long-term residents, although there were a number of differences in risk factor distributions between long-term residents and other participants, as anticipated.
Emozioni e paure. Come la politica utilizza l'Altro
Creators: name: Faedda, Barbara
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social psychology

description: Il tema della paura e' centrale in questo saggio che considera il ruolo delle emozioni nell'uso strumentale delle questioni pertinenti al tema dell'immigrazione e delle relazioni interetniche e multiculturali. Vengono analizzate soprattutto le strategie impiegate quando i politici fanno leva sulle insicurezze della popolazione per attrarre l'attenzione dell'elettorato e creare maggiore consenso.
Spin liquid phase due to competing classical orders in the semiclassical theory of the Heisenberg model with ring exchange on an anisotropic triangular lattice
Creators: name: Holt, Michael
name: Powell, Ben J.
name: Merino, Jaime
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Linear spin wave theory shows that ring exchange induces a quantum disordered region in the phase diagram of the title model. Spin wave spectra show that this is a direct manifestation of competing classical orders. A spin liquid is found in the `Goldilocks zone' of frustration, where the quantum fluctuations are large enough to cause strong competition between different classical orderings but not strong enough to stabilize spiral order. We note that the spin liquid phases of $κ$-(BEDT-TTF)${_2}X$ and $Y$[Pd(dmit)$_2$]$_2$ are found in this Goldilocks zone.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
The Economics of Relational Contracts
Creators: name: MacLeod, W. Bentley
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The legal scholarship on relational contracts highlights the fact that commercial transactions rely upon a large number of institutions, including trade norms and the good reputation of industry participants. This complexity is in contrast to the simple models that are often used in economics analysis of the law, leading Macauley (2002) to suggest one can view “law and economics as a desert, and law and society as a swamp". The purpose of this paper is to show that the economic analysis of relational contracts touches upon several elements of modern micro-economics that can be distinguished by different meanings of the term “price” . The term “economic price” refers to the true resource cost of a commodity, and can explain the role of standards setting by trade organizations. “Trade price” refers to terms of trade, but can be distorted due to asymmetric information. This effect may be mitigate via reputational mechanisms. Finally, “contract price” refers to contingent prices such as warranties, as well as legally enforceable agreements for which courts can be asked to impose damages where there is con- tract breach.
Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation
Creators: name: Borshch, Volodymyr
name: Kim, Young-Ki
name: Xiang, Jie
name: Gao, Min
name: Jákli, Antal
name: Panov, Vitaly P.
name: Vij, Jagdish K.
name: Imrie, Corrie T.
name: Tamba, Maria-Gabriela
name: Mehl, Georg H.
name: Lavrentovich, Oleg D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A state of matter in which molecules show a long-range orientational order and no positional order is called a nematic liquid crystal. The best known and most widely used (for example, in modern displays) is the uniaxial nematic, with the rod-like molecules aligned along a single axis, called the director. When the molecules are chiral, the director twists in space, drawing a right-angle helicoid and remaining perpendicular to the helix axis; the structure is called a chiral nematic. In this work, using transmission electron and optical microscopy, we experimentally demonstrate a new nematic order, formed by achiral molecules, in which the director follows an oblique helicoid, maintaining a constant oblique angle with the helix axis and experiencing twist and bend. The oblique helicoids have a nanoscale pitch. The new twist-bend nematic represents a structural link between the uniaxial nematic (no tilt) and a chiral nematic (helicoids with right-angle tilt).
description: 31 pages: 8 Figures and Supplementary Information with 3 Figures
SOUND CULTURE OF SPEECH AS A LANGUAGE BASIS FOR MASTERING SPEECH SKILLS IN PRESCHOOL CHILDHOOD
Creators: name: Bakirova, Umida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: During preschool childhood, a child learns only one form of speech, oral speech. Oral speech is a sounding speech, the basis of which is the phonetic means of the language, namely: its phonetic system, intonation, stress.
Linear Extensions of N-free Orders
Creators: name: Felsner, Stefan
name: Manneville, Thibault
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 06A05, 06A07, 68R99

description: We consider the number of linear extensions of an N-free order P. We give upper and lower bounds on this number in terms of parameters of the corresponding arc diagram. We propose a dynamic programming algorithm to calculate the number. The algorithm is polynomial if a new parameter called activity is bounded by a constant. The activity can be bounded in terms of parameters of the arc diagram.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Gate-defined coupled quantum dots in topological insulators
Creators: name: Ertler, Christian
name: Raith, Martin
name: Fabian, Jaroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider electrostatically coupled quantum dots in topological insulators, otherwise confined and gapped by a magnetic texture. By numerically solving the (2+1) Dirac equation for the wave packet dynamics, we extract the energy spectrum of the coupled dots as a function of bias-controlled coupling and an external perpendicular magnetic field. We show that the tunneling energy can be controlled to a large extent by the electrostatic barrier potential. Particularly interesting is the coupling via Klein tunneling through a resonant valence state of the barrier. The effective three-level system nicely maps to a model Hamiltonian, from which we extract the Klein coupling between the confined conduction and valence dots levels. For large enough magnetic fields Klein tunneling can be completely blocked due to the enhanced localization of the degenerate Landau levels formed in the quantum dots.
description: 8 pages, 14 figures
title: Aetius Tragoedia Oder Seltsames Beyspiel Der Treue Gegen seinem Landsfürsten; [1763]
title: Ein Trauerspiel Vorgestellet Von der studirenden Jugend Da Aus höchster Freygebigkeit des Heil. Röm Reichs Hochgräfl. Seinsheimischen Hauses In dem Churfürstl. Gymnasio der Gesellschaft Jesu der Haupt- und Regierungs-Stadt Straubing die Praemia ausgetheilet worden. Den 5. und 6. Herbstmonats 1763
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2011

description: Perioche. - Text teilw. lat., teilw. dt.
A rasch model to test the cross-cultural validity in the positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) across six geo-cultural groups
Creators: name: Khan, Anzalee
name: Yavorsky, Christian
name: Liechti, Stacy
name: Opler, Mark
name: Rothman, Brian
name: DiClemente, Guillermo
name: Lucic, Luka
name: Jovic, Sofija
name: Inada, Toshiya
name: Yang, Lawrence
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Background: The objective of this study was to examine the cross-cultural differences of the PANSS across six geo-cultural regions. The specific aims are (1) to examine measurement properties of the PANSS; and (2) to examine how each of the 30 items function across geo-cultural regions. Methods: Data was obtained for 1,169 raters from 6 different regions: Eastern Asia (n = 202), India (n = 185), Northern Europe (n = 126), Russia and Ukraine (n = 197), Southern Europe (n = 162), United States (n = 297). A principle components analysis assessed unidimensionality of the subscales. Rasch rating scale analysis examined cross-cultural differences among each item of the PANSS. Results: Lower item values reflects items in which raters often showed less variation in the scores; higher item values reflects items with more variation in the scores. Positive Subscale: Most regions found item P5 (Excitement) to be the most difficult item to score. Items varied in severity from −0.93 [item P6. Suspiciousness/persecution (USA) to 0.69 item P4. Excitement (Eastern Asia)]. Item P3 (Hallucinatory Behavior) was the easiest item to score for all geographical regions. Negative Subscale: The most difficult item to score for all regions is N7 (Stereotyped Thinking) with India showing the most difficulty Δ = 0.69, and Northern Europe and the United States showing the least difficulty Δ = 0.21, each. The second most difficult item for raters to score was N1 (Blunted Affect) for most countries including Southern Europe (Δ = 0.30), Eastern Asia (Δ = 0.28), Russia and Ukraine (Δ = 0.22) and India (Δ = 0.10). General Psychopathology: The most difficult item for raters to score for all regions is G4 (Tension) with difficulty levels ranging from Δ = 1.38 (India) to Δ = 0.72. Conclusions: There were significant differences in response to a number of items on the PANSS, possibly caused by a lack of equivalence between the original and translated versions, cultural differences among interpretation of items or scoring parameters. Knowing which items are problematic for various cultures can help guide PANSS training and make training specialized for specific geographical regions.
Esperienza di educazione di genere nella scuola italiana. Il caso del Centro antiviolenza La Nara di Prato
Creators: name: Cuccarese, Francesca
name: Maurizi, Elisa
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2017

description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 2 No. 3 (2017)
Aportes teórico-metodológicos para una etnografía de las audiencias de televisión (trans)nacionales en la Argentina
Creators: name: Balsas, María Soledad
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2017

description: This article is based on some methodological considerations related to the conduction of a focus group session with native Italian residents in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the context of the latest phase of a publicily-funded research project aimed at problematizing the role of (trans)national television in the political engagement of Italian citizens abroad. In spite of the several criticisms that tend to present it in terms of a depoliticizing, easy and quick-result oriented methodological strategy, in this context the focus group technique proved itself to be particularly useful to (re)define daily situation in a political fashion, to address generational gap issues as well as to offer communication opportunities in order to foster a participatory political culture.
description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 2 No. 3 (2017)
Decay and fragmentation in an open Bose-Hubbard chain
Creators: name: Kordas, Georgios
name: Wimberger, Sandro
name: Witthaut, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the decay of ultracold atoms from an optical lattice with loss form a single lattice site. If the initial state is dynamically stable a suitable amount of dissipation can stabilize a Bose-Einstein condensate, such that it remains coherent even in the presence of strong interactions. A transition between two different dynamical phases is observed if the initial state is dynamically unstable. This transition is analyzed here in detail. For strong interactions, the system relaxes to an entangled quantum state with remarkable statistical properties: The atoms bunch in a few "breathers" forming at random positions. Breathers at different positions are coherent, such that they can be used in precision quantum interferometry and other applications.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures
Expandable external support device to improve Saphenous Vein Graft Patency after CABG
Creators: name: Ben-Gal, Yanai
name: Taggart, David P.
name: Williams, Mathew R.
name: Orion, Eyal
name: Uretzky, Gideon
name: Shofti, Rona
name: Banai, Shmuel
name: Yosef, Liad
name: Bolotin, Gil
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Surgery
Medicine

description: Objectives: Low patency rates of saphenous vein grafts remain a major predicament in surgical revascularization. We examined a novel expandable external support device designed to mitigate causative factors for early and late graft failure. Methods: For this study, fourteen adult sheep underwent cardiac revascularization using two vein grafts for each; one to the LAD and the other to the obtuse marginal artery. One graft was supported with the device while the other served as a control. Target vessel was alternated between consecutive cases. The animals underwent immediate and late angiography and were then sacrificed for histopathologic evaluation. Results: Of the fourteen animals studied, three died peri-operatively (unrelated to device implanted), and ten survived the follow-up period. Among surviving animals, three grafts were thrombosed and one was occluded, all in the control group (p = 0.043). Quantitative angiographic evaluation revealed no difference between groups in immediate level of graft uniformity, with a coefficient-of-variance (CV%) of 7.39 in control versus 5.07 in the supported grafts, p = 0.082. At 12 weeks, there was a significant non-uniformity in the control grafts versus the supported grafts (CV = 22.12 versus 3.01, p
Being a Sub-Saharan Migrant: a Glance at the Italian Case in a Gender-Aware Perspective
Creators: name: Lapov, Zoran
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2017

description: Resting on a gender-oriented approach, Zoran Lapov's text aims to retrace the migratory experiences of Sub-Saharan women taking them from their native lands to Europa, with a focus on the Italian case. Starting from the results of the international LeFamSol Project addressing Sub-Saharan migrant women in Italy, Greece and Turkey (2014-15), the present work is split into two parts: the first one, examining Africa-to-Europe migrations with particular attention to Sub-Saharan segments in Italy, is largely interested in push and pull factors underlying the phenomenon of Sub-Saharan female migrations, and in the most recent statistics on the topic; the second part, instead, sheds light on the mechanisms of inclusion, while delving into integration paths and strategies of Sub-Saharan African communities, esp. women, in Italy, and offering a panorama of their community organisation and social mobilisation (associations, networks, groups, etc.), including their specific needs and priorities. While treating the issue in terms of participatory processes in a gender-aware perspective, the paper has the ambition to contribute to the multilevel study and debate leading women, migrations and frontiers to meet.
description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 2 No. 3 (2017)
Salud e interculturalidad en Ecuador: las mujeres indígenas como sujetos de intervención de las políticas públicas
Creators: name: Mozo González, Carmen
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2017

description: This text focuses on the analysis of the Intercultural Health Public Policy at Ecuador, using the Inter-Andean region of Ecuador as the empirical reference, and using the period in the beginning of the 1990s at the 20th Century as the timeframe. The aim is to show the conception and the location of indigenous persons in them, and in particular indigenous Ecuadorian women. To this end, we will focus on the “culturally appropriate childbirth”, a main action on these policies and, at the same time, an example of how indigenous women become intervention subjects in them. Specifically, we will deal with the case of the Hospital of San Luis in Otavalo, in the province of Imbabura, one of the most outstanding and publicized experiences of integrating "traditional medicine" into the National Health System, by the Ecuadorian government.
description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 2 No. 3 (2017)
Reflecting on international academic mobility through feminist lenses: moving beyond the obvious
Creators: name: França, Thais
name: Padilla, Beatriz
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2017

description: Academic mobility has always been a reality in academia, however nowadays it has gained new meanings and features. On the one hand, it brings benefits such as knowledge circulation, international network promotion, and reduction in experimental costs. On the other hand however, it reproduces old social hierarchies and power asymmetries. Gender is on important marker of difference that shape academic mobility experiences unevenly, therefore women face more obstacles than men to develop their academic career. This paper analyses academic mobility through a feminist perspective aiming to reinforce the importance of taking gender differences in account in this dynamics.
description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 2 No. 3 (2017)
Relationship between the symmetry energy and the single-nucleon potential in isospin-asymmetric nucleonic matter
Creators: name: Xu, Chang
name: Li, Bao-An
name: Chen, Lie-Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this contribution, we review the most important physics presented originally in our recent publications. Some new analyses, insights and perspectives are also provided. We showed recently that the symmetry energy $E_{sym}(ρ)$ and its density slope $L(ρ)$ at an arbitrary density $ρ$ can be expressed analytically in terms of the magnitude and momentum dependence of the single-nucleon potentials using the Hugenholtz-Van Hove (HVH) theorem. These relationships provide new insights about the fundamental physics governing the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy. Using the isospin and momentum (k) dependent MDI interaction as an example, the contribution of different terms in the single-nucleon potential to the $E_{sym}(ρ)$ and $L(ρ)$ are analyzed in detail at different densities. It is shown that the behavior of $E_{sym}(ρ)$ is mainly determined by the first-order symmetry potential $U_{sym,1}(ρ,k)$ of the single-nucleon potential. The density slope $L(ρ)$ depends not only on the first-order symmetry potential $U_{sym,1}(ρ,k)$ but also the second-order one $U_{sym,2}(ρ,k)$. Both the $U_{sym,1}(ρ,k)$ and $U_{sym,2}(ρ,k)$ at normal density $ρ_0$ are constrained by the isospin and momentum dependent nucleon optical potential extracted from the available nucleon-nucleus scattering data. The $U_{sym,2}(ρ,k)$ especially at high density and momentum affects significantly the $L(ρ)$, but it is theoretically poorly understood and currently there is almost no experimental constraints known.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, Review paper, Contribution to the "Topical Issue" on "Nuclear Symmetry Energy" in European Physical Journal A
HCM Map: Interactive Knowledge Resource About Molecular Mechanisms of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Creators: name: Mila, Glavaški
name: Lazar, Velicki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, signaling pathways, disease maps, knowledge graphs

description: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetic cardiac disease, characterized by left ventricular hypertrophy unexplained by secondary causes. HCM has marked variability in expression, ranging from asymptomatic to sudden cardiac death or heart failure. Many studies have been conducted to decipher molecular mechanisms underlying HCM, however, genotype-phenotype associations remain incompletely understood. Biomedical knowledge in form of graphs facilitates the study of complex processes: both as a visual and thereby more intuitive representation, as well as a standardized data structure that is human- and computer-readable. Disease maps are tools for new discoveries and bridges between experimental laboratory research, computational research, and medicine. Knowledge about molecular aspects of HCM is dispersed in scientific papers and grows continuously. Our aim was to generate a disease-specific knowledgebase containing a formalized summary of all major molecular pathways involved in HCM. HCM Map was built using CellDesigner software in standard SBML (Systems Biology Markup Language) format and visualized as an SBGN (Systems Biology Graphical Notation) diagram using MINERVA (Molecular Interaction NEtwoRks VisuAlization) platform. HCM Map was constructed manually, using molecular interactions retrieved from PubMed database articles about human HCM. First, a well-established “consensus” information was retrieved from major reviews, and then details from recent original publications were added. In addition to a detailed visual representation, HCM Map contains information about the entities and links to descriptions in biomedical databases (Gene IDs, UniProt accession numbers, PubMed IDs, etc.). The HCM Map interfaces with DrugBank, CHEMBL, CTD, and miRTarBase. HCM Map can be exported into different formats for further analysis. This map represents a body of knowledge available today, but some interactions have yet to be identified. Since each component of the HCM Map can be commented by users, the map will be continuously updated and improved involving the community of HCM signaling experts. HCM Map is the only publicly available knowledge resource dedicated to HCM. It represents a basis for in silico exploration, as well as a platform for sharing and gathering molecular mechanisms of HCM. HCM Map is available at https://silicofcm.eu/interactive-map/.
Conocimiento de las mujeres, educación y desarrollo. Modelo educativo desde una investigación-acción participativa con un grupo de mujeres Mayas en Guatemala
Creators: name: Galeotti, Glenda
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2017

description: This article starts from a reflection on the relationship between women's knowledge, education and practices of development that moves from an action research with a group of Mayan women of Guatemala. The study shows an educational model able to promote social inclusion of women, starting from valorization of their know-how on nature, with also positive effects on the well-being of the whole community. The article finally outlines the possible contribution of adult education to international cooperation projects also in terms of governance of cultural and gender differences.
description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 2 No. 3 (2017)
Derivas epistemológicas y metodológicas de un estudio sobre procesos de movilidad y migración transnacional en América Latina
Creators: name: Gimena, María
name: Marino, Perret
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2017

description: This paper aims to critically reflect on the epistemological and methodological challenges involved in the study of contemporary mobility and migration processes. We take as starting point, our own research on Chilean migration in Argentina so our goal in this paper is to raise some thoughts regarding ethnographic field work, its limits, specifically in investigations in which an intensive ethnographic practice in a specific territory is not a task easy to achieve.
description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 2 No. 3 (2017)
title: Der in seiner Einbildung heilige Bauer; [1767]
title: ein Lustspiel auf der öffentlichen Schaubühne zur Fastnachtzeit vorgestellet von der sechsten Schule zu Straubing den 25 und 27 Hornung im Jahre 1767
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2011

description: Programm. - In Fraktur
Periodicity in Class II methanol masers in high mass star forming regions
Creators: name: Goedhart, S.
name: Maswanganye, J. P.
name: Gaylard, M. J.
name: van der Walt, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of 10 years of monitoring of six regularly varying 6.7 GHz methanol masers using the Hartebeesthoek 26m telescope. Observations were done at intervals of 1--2 weeks, with faster sampling during flaring episodes. Four of the sources were also monitored at 12.2 GHz and show correlated variations. We find the Lomb-Scargle periodogram to be the most sensitive method to search for periodicity but possibly prone to false detections. Periods range from 132.8 days (with 26 cycles observed) to 509 days (with 7 cycles observed). Five of the sources show arguably periodic variations, while G331.13-0.24 shows strong periodicity in one peak, with large and variable delays in other peaks.
description: Accepted by MNRAS. 13 pages, 26 figures
FULFILLMENT OF THE CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS IN WARTIME: UKRAINE'S EXPERIENCE
Creators: name: Kostruba, Anatoliy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Kostruba
Civil Law
contracts
obligation law
CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS IN WARTIME
Force Majeure
martial law in Ukraine

description: The introduction of the martial law by the Presidential Decree as of 24th February, 2022 No. 64/2022 significantly affected the traders, in particular, the opportunity of due and timely fulfillment of obligations Force majeure is a contractual term that exempts the party from the liability to fulfill its obligations, if an extraordinary event prevents directly from fulfilling the obligations Acknowledgement of the fact that non- fulfillment of the contract took place due to force majeure circumstances shall not exempt from the liability whatsoever It was further confirmed that as of 24th February, 2022 the above circumstances shall be considered as force majeure, irreversible und objective for business entities and/or natural persons under the contract The Letter of 28th February 2022 No. 2024/02.0-7.1 of CCI has acknowledged force majeure circumstances – the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, which has become a reason for introduction of the martial law At the same time, the certificate of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry confirming the existence of force majeure circumstances cannot be considered as an indisputable proof of their existence, but shall be estimated by the court critically taking into account the established particulars of the case and together with other evidences Force Majeure circumstances have nonprejudicial (established in advance) character, and the concerned party shall prove the fact of their occurrence and led the fact that the circumstances are force majeure for the certain case
description: https://cejec.parisnanterre.fr/evenements/war-in-ukraine-a-challenge-for-legal-normality
Mechanism, Meaning, Mystery: George Soares-Prabhu's Plea for Creative Science-Religion Dialogue
Creators: name: Pandikattu, Kuruvilla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Soares-Prabhu, George
Science Religion Dialogue
Science and Religion

description: A. Soares-Prabhu I: Science-Scholar (Origin and End of the World) 1. What Science Says 2. What the Bible Says B. Soares-Prabhu II: Biblical Scholar (Rooted in India) 1. Open to Science 2. Challenging Historical Criticism C. Need for Science-Religion Dialogue D. Conclusion 1. Paul Ricoeur and the Second Naïveté 2. Take science seriously, not absolutely
Contractions with necessarily unbounded matrices
Creators: name: Popovych, Dmytro R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B81, 17B30

description: We prove that for each dimension not less than five there exists a contraction between solvable Lie algebras that can be realized only with matrices whose Euclidean norms necessarily approach infinity at the limit value of contraction parameter. Therefore, dimension five is the lowest dimension of Lie algebras between which contractions of the above kind exist.
description: 8 pages
Dicuonzo, A.R., Benhabib, S. (2005), La rivendicazione dell’identità culturale. Eguaglianza e diversità nell’era globale, Il Mulino, Bologna
Creators: name: Galeotti, Glenda
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2016

description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 1 No. 2 (2016)
Predictors of serum concentrations of polybrominated flame retardants among healthy pregnant women in an urban environment: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Factor-Litvak, Pam
name: Whyatt, Robin M.
name: Wapner, Ronald J.
name: Bousleiman, Sabine Z.
name: Jones, Richard
name: Sjodin, Andreas
name: Liu, Xinhua
name: Horton, Megan K.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Environmental health
Epidemiology

description: Background: Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are a class of brominated flame retardants commonly used in a wide range of products. Prenatal exposure to PBDEs has been associated with adverse neurodevelopment. Our objective was to characterize predictors of exposure to PBDEs among a multi-ethnic, low-income cohort of pregnant women enrolled from highly urban communities in New York City between years 2009–2010. Methods: During the first half of pregnancy we collected 316 maternal serum samples and administered an extensive questionnaire including items on demographics, diet and lifestyle. We measured 12 PBDE congeners in blood samples. Using bivariate and multivariate approaches, we regressed the most commonly detected PBDE congeners (PBDE-47, -99, -100 and -153) against potential demographic, dietary and lifestyle predictor variables. Results: At least one PBDE congener was detected in each serum sample. Our analyses demonstrate unique predictor patterns for PBDE-47, -99, -100 and -153 based on demographic, lifestyle and dietary characteristics of women. Higher education and increased use of household electronics were associated with higher levels of all 4 congeners. Six characteristics were associated with PBDE-153 serum concentrations, more than for any other congener. These include maternal education, household income, body mass index, solid dairy consumption, processed meat consumption and frequent use of household electronics. Conclusions: PBDE exposure in this widespread in this cohort, though levels are lower than previous assessments of US pregnant women. Lower levels may be in response to legislation restricting the production, sale and use of these compounds. In our cohort, we did not observe any individual predictor or a consistent pattern of several predictors representing a significant source of PBDE exposure. These data suggest that legislation and policy may be more effective at reducing exposure than personal lifestyle modifications.