cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
OPPORTUNITIES FOR TALENT DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN WITH GENERAL INTELLECTUAL GIFTEDNESS
Creators: name: Hudáková, Jana
Publisher: name: ARS INTER CULTURAS
Year: 2018

description: The aim of the study was to verify the problem of intellectually gifted children, ter- minologically referred to as pupils with general intellectual giftedness. The other partial aim was to point to the lacking musical development of one kind of talent in the pupils. Finally we focused on indication of the new possibilities of how to develop the intellectually gifted pupils in the sense of the musicality with cognitive, psychomotor, and also relaxing effect. The research sample consisted of the pupils from three kinds of schools, aged from 12 to 13 years. We observed the pupils with musical talent (schools of music), pupils who were intellectually gifted (special schools) and pupils from comprehensive classes (without classification of giftedness). In the last group there were excluded the pupils who attended comprehensive elementary school and also music of art. Methods: Based on existing tests of musicality the overview of which we constructed for this study, we elaborated the test of musicality and realised research probe. The evaluation was realised by means of qualitative analysis, observation and questionnaire. Results: The study summarises briefly the knowledge of the intellectually gifted pupils and it shows the possibilities of their education by means of music with the respect to harmonious balance between intellectual and emotional intelligence of the pupils.
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Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 151.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 23.06.1990, 09:00, erstellt von Michele Bianda, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1990

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
On the Dual Structure of Thermodynamics
Creators: name: Porporato, Amilcare
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the properties of exponential distribution families we analyze the Fisher information of the Gibbs canonical ensemble to construct a new state function for simple systems with no mechanical work. Such a function possesses nice symmetry properties with respect to Legendre transform and provides a connection with previous alternative formulations of thermodynamics, most notably the work by Biot, Serrin and Frieden and collaborators. Logical extensions to systems with mechanical work may similarly consider generalized Gibbs ensembles.
Hearing Glenn Gould's Body: Corporeal Liveness in Recorded Music
Creators: name: Sanden, Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Music

description: Relationships between liveness and mediatization must be reconsidered so that, where appropriate, mediatization may be construed as a productive way to project new and necessary understandings of musical meaning. A static livelrecorded binarism, in light of such arguments, no longer seems appropriate. By hearing Glenn Gould's body in his recordings, we hear his liveness. Not only can we then rethink our common conceptions of Gould's musicianship, but also our common conceptions of recorded music. An awareness of liveness reminds us of the sociality of music by emphasizing its performance, even when conventional indicators of performance become reconfigured by the very acts of mediatization I emphasize here. In an era of potentially de-socializing technological practices (internet shopping, automated bank tellers, anonymous on-line communications, etc.), such a reminder seems increasingly important. Sanden shares his music experience while offering thoughts on liveness, mediatization, Gould, and more.
Spectroscopic follow-up of Gaia exoplanet candidates: Impostor binary stars invade the Gaia DR3 astrometric exoplanet candidates
Creators: name: Marcussen, Marcus L.
name: Albrecht, Simon H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we report on the follow-up of five potential exoplanets detected with Gaia astrometry and provide an overview of what is currently known about the nature of the entire Gaia astrometric exoplanet candidate sample, 72 systems in total. We discuss the primary false-positive scenario for astrometric planet detections: binary systems with alike components that produce small photocenter motions, mimicking exoplanets. These false positives can be identified as double-lined SB2 binaries through analysis of high resolution spectra. Doing so we find that three systems, Gaia DR3 1916454200349735680, Gaia DR3 2052469973468984192, and Gaia DR3 5122670101678217728 are indeed near equal mass double star systems rather than exoplanetary systems. The spectra of the other two analyzed systems, HD 40503 and HIP 66074, are consistent with the exoplanet scenario in that no second set of lines can be found in the time series of publicly available high resolution spectra. However, their Gaia astrometric solutions imply radial-velocity semi-amplitudes $\sim$\,3 (HD 40503) and $\sim$\,15 (HIP 66074) larger than what was observed with ground based spectrographs. The Gaia astrometry orbital solutions and ground-based radial-velocity measurements exhibit inconsistencies in six out of a total of 12 exoplanet candidate systems where such data are available, primarily due to substantial differences between observed ground-based radial-velocity semi-amplitudes and those implied by the Gaia orbits. We investigated various hypotheses as to why this might be the case, and though we found no clear perpetrator, we note that a mismatch in orbital inclination offers the most straightforward explanation.
In-out decomposition of boundary integral equations
Creators: name: Creagh, Stephen C
name: Hamdin, Hanya Ben
name: Tanner, Gregor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a reformulation of the boundary integral equations for the Helmholtz equation in a domain in terms of incoming and outgoing boundary waves. We obtain transfer operator descriptions which are exact and thus incorporate features such as diffraction and evanescent coupling; these effects are absent in the well known semiclassical transfer operators in the sense of Bogomolny. It has long been established that transfer operators are equivalent to the boundary integral approach within semiclassical approximation. Exact treatments have been restricted to specific boundary conditions (such as Dirichlet or Neumann). The approach we propose is independent of the boundary conditions, and in fact allows one to decouple entirely the problem of propagating waves across the interior from the problem of reflecting waves at the boundary. As an application, we show how the decomposition may be used to calculate Goos-Hänchen shifts of ray dynamics in billiards with variable boundary conditions and for dielectric cavities.
title: Molecular Characterization of Clinical Linezolid-Resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis in a Tertiary Care Hospital
Creators: name: Campmann, Florian
name: Tönnies, Hauke
name: Böing, Christian Wilhelm
name: Schuler, Franziska
name: Mellmann, Alexander
name: Schwierzeck, Vera
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: Staphylococcus epidermidis (S. epidermidis) is part of the human skin flora but can also cause nosocomial infections, such as device-associated infections, especially in vulnerable patient groups. Here, we investigated clinical isolates of linezolid-resistant S. epidermidis (LRSE) collected from blood cultures at the University Hospital Münster (UHM) during the period 2020–2022. All detected isolates were subjected to whole genome sequencing (WGS) and the relatedness of the isolates was determined using core genome multilocus sequence typing (cgMLST). The 15 LRSE isolates detected were classified as multilocus sequence type (ST) 2 carrying the staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) type III. All isolates showed high-level resistance for linezolid by gradient tests. However, no isolate carried the cfr gene that is often associated with linezolid resistance. Analysis of cgMLST data sets revealed a cluster of six closely related LRSE isolates, suggesting a transmission event on a hematological/oncological ward at our hospital. Among the included patients, the majority of patients affected by LRSE infections had underlying hematological malignancies. This confirms previous observations that this patient group is particularly vulnerable to LRSE infection. Our data emphasize that the surveillance of LRSE in the hospital setting is a necessary step to prevent the spread of multidrug-resistant S. epidermidis among vulnerable patient groups, such as patients with hematological malignancies, immunosuppression or patients in intensive care units.
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
AN OUTLINE OF A TEACHING AID FOR SLOVAK MUSIC PEDAGOGY
Creators: name: Kočišová, Renáta
Publisher: name: ARS INTER CULTURAS
Year: 2018

description: A mission of current as well as future generations of pedagogues is to search for a balance between supranational politico-economic interests and the presentation of national historic-artistic roots. Despite the many efforts by humanists, it is still true that historic memory and veneration of national values is not a strong aspect of Slovak society. Lifelong education through art could bring a shift in the quality of appreciating cultural accom- plishments. Artists and their most significant masterpieces are examples which attract attention abroad as well as at home. In contemporary music education, such development in the dissemination of information which uses new technologies as well as playful and undemanding methods enriches the teaching process with a range of teaching aids and applies an individual approach to each student in the class is expected. An example for opening such a dialogue between a teacher and a student which would allow entrance into the operatic “world” of national schools are the works of such significant personalities as B. Smetana, S. Moniuszko, F. Erkel, E. Suchoň and others. National awakening, relating to traditions, the choice of literary bases, music script, or the composer’s synthetism of these central-European music personalities, are a source of continuous analyses, discussion topics, and educational activities. Opera as an exclusive form for the exacting, so-called gesamtkunstwerk, is, in the pedagogical process, a highly demonstrative form and it is necessary to treat it didactically in such a way so that it is intelligible for younger generations, musically or otherwise gifted. The contribution presents the possibility of introducing the opera “Katrena” – a piece from the period of Slovak musical modernism - with elements of verism, Brechtian and Janáček-esque theatre – swayed by political regulations into the primary school classroom. The teaching aid – a music presentation – comprises a chronologically organised audiovisual overview of the opera. It includes a workbook by means of which teachers obtains feedback about the creativity and knowledge of their students. In this way, the audio information is transferred and intensified by other sensory information, which might bring a memory trace of higher quality. The main objective of this study is to indicate how to involve a Slovak opera – or its audiovisual recording – in teaching music at our schools. The process of involving the matter is taking place within the framework of pedagogical interpretation of a specific opera work. The efforts of the author of the study have resulted in completing a DVD containing the crucial extracts of the opera and a workbook – both representing an interlinked teaching aid for the purposes in question.
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Otto Luening (1900-) and the Theories of Bernhard Ziehn (1845-1912)
Creators: name: Neff, Severine
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1985
Subjects: Music

description: This paper will explore the influence of the theory of Bernhard Ziehn (1845-1912) on the work of Ferruccio Busoni's student, the American composer Otto Luening. Otto Luening studied composition with both Busoni and his disciple Philip Jarnach in Zurich from 1917 to 1920. Busoni's lessons featured mystical-philosophical comments on the principles of composition. It was Busoni who suggested Luening read Ziehn's writings. He drew Luening's attention to Ziehn's mastery of contrapuntal techniques and to his theory of symmetrical inversion. When Luening returned to America in 1920, Busoni asked him to convey regards to Wilhelm Middelschulte, with whom Luening subsequently studied Ziehn's theories. Later Luening himself taught Ziehn's theories at his own Chicago Musical Arts Studio.
Trade integration and trade imbalances in the European Union: a network perspective
Creators: name: Krings, Gautier M.
name: Carpantier, Jean-François
name: Delvenne, Jean-Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We study the ever more integrated and ever more unbalanced trade relationships between European countries. To better capture the complexity of economic networks, we propose two global measures that assess the trade integration and the trade imbalances of the European countries. These measures are the network (or indirect) counterparts to traditional (or direct) measures such as the trade-to-GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and trade deficit-to-GDP ratios. Our indirect tools account for the European inter-country trade structure and follow (i) a decomposition of the global trade flow into elementary flows that highlight the long-range dependencies between exporting and importing economies and (ii) the commute-time distance for trade integration,which measures the impact of a perturbation in the economy of a country on another country, possibly through intermediate partners by domino effect. Our application addresses the impact of the launch of the Euro. We find that the indirect imbalance measures better identify the countries ultimately bearing deficits and surpluses, by neutralizing the impact of trade transit countries, such as the Netherlands. Among others, we find that ultimate surpluses of Germany are quite concentrated in only three partners. We also show that for some countries, the direct and indirect measures of trade integration diverge, thereby revealing that these countries (e.g. Greece and Portugal) trade to a smaller extent with countries considered as central in the European Union network.
description: 12 pages + 11 pictures
Exact Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Lattice Random Walks in Hexagonal and Honeycomb Domains
Creators: name: Marris, Daniel
name: Sarvaharman, Seeralan
name: Giuggioli, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60G50, 82B41, 82C41

description: A variety of transport processes in natural and man-made systems are intrinsically random. To model their stochasticity, lattice random walks have been employed for a long time, mainly by considering Cartesian lattices. However, in many applications in bounded space the geometry of the domain may have profound effects on the dynamics and ought to be accounted for. We consider here the cases of the six-neighbour (hexagonal) and three-neighbour (honeycomb) lattice, which are utilised in models ranging from adatoms diffusing in metals and excitations diffusing on single-walled carbon nanotubes to animal foraging strategy and the formation of territories in scent-marking organisms. In these and other examples, the main theoretical tool to study the dynamics of lattice random walks in hexagonal geometries has been via simulations. Analytic representations have in most cases been inaccessible, in particular in bounded hexagons, given the complicated zig-zag boundary conditions that a walker is subject to. Here we generalise the method of images to hexagonal geometries and obtain closed-form expressions for the occupation probability, the so-called propagator, for lattice random walks both on hexagonal and honeycomb lattices with periodic, reflective and absorbing boundary conditions. In the periodic case, we identify two possible choices of image placement and their corresponding propagators. Using them, we construct the exact propagators for the other boundary conditions, and we derive transport related statistical quantities such as first passage probabilities to one or multiple targets and their means, elucidating the effect of the boundary condition on transport properties.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review E
India-US collaboration to prevent adolescent HIV infection: the feasibility of a family-based HIV-prevention intervention for rural Indian youth
Creators: name: Bouris, Alida
name: Burnette, Denise
name: Sharma, Shilpi
name: Soletti, Asha Banu
name: Guilamo-Ramos, Vincent
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Public health

description: Despite the centrality of family in Indian society, relatively little is known about family-based communication concerning sexual behaviour and HIV/AIDS in rural Indian families. To date, very few family-based adolescent HIV-prevention interventions have been developed for rural Indian youth. This study conducted formative research with youth aged 14 to18 years and their parents in order to assess the feasibility of conducting a family-based HIV-prevention intervention for rural Indian adolescents. Eight focus groups were conducted (n = 46) with mothers, fathers, adolescent females and adolescent males (two focus groups were held for each of the four groups). All focus groups consisted of same-gender participants. Adolescents aged 14 to18 years old and their parents were recruited from a tribal community in rural Maharashtra, India. Focus group transcripts were content analyzed to identify themes related to family perceptions about HIV/AIDS and participation in a family-based intervention to reduce adolescent vulnerability to HIV infection. Six primary thematic areas were identified: (1) family knowledge about HIV/AIDS; (2) family perceptions about adolescent vulnerability to HIV infection; (3) feasibility of a family-based programme to prevent adolescent HIV infection; (4) barriers to participation; (5) recruitment and retention strategies; and (6) preferred content for an adolescent HIV prevention intervention. Despite suggestions that family-based approaches to preventing adolescent HIV infection may be culturally inappropriate, our results suggest that a family-based intervention to prevent adolescent HIV infection is feasible if it: (1) provides families with comprehensive HIV prevention strategies and knowledge; (2) addresses barriers to participation; (3) is adolescent friendly, flexible and convenient; and (4) is developmentally and culturally appropriate for rural Indian families.
WYCHOWANIE MUZYCZNE DZIECKA W PRACACH KRAKOWSKICH PEDAGOGÓW 2. POŁOWY XX WIEKU
Creators: name: Ławrowska, Romualda
Publisher: name: ARS INTER CULTURAS
Year: 2018

description: In Poland after the Second World War, the education of children became the central topic of interest of many educators who craved the Polish cultural and intellectual rebirth after war damages. During that time, the pedagogy of cultural and aesthetical upbringing (including music education) was particularly emphasized. The author presents the practical and theoretical research (conducted in Cracow) pertaining to early child develop- ment. They include: the establishment of the first network of musical pre-schools in Poland (the Cracow Curriculum and Methodical Concept) and numerous research publications. The author concludes the essay by offering new pedagogical directions in early education in the period of digitization in the 21 st century.
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Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 240.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 21.09.1990, 07:15, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1990

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
EBERHARD PREUßNER I JEGO WYOBRAŻENIA O ZWIĄZKACH MIĘDZY PEDAGOGIKĄ MUZYCZNĄ I PIELĘGNOWANIEM POWSZECHNEGO ŻYCIA MUZYCZNEGO
Creators: name: Richter, Christoph
Publisher: name: ARS INTER CULTURAS
Year: 2018

description: Since the 1930s, Słupsk-born Eberhard Preußner (1899-1964), who would later become president of the Akademie Mozarteum Salzburg, had been ranking among Leo Kestenberg’s (1882-1962) most important colleagues. From 1930 to 1943 he was the editor of the periodical “Die Musikpflege” which was changed into an official institution following the Enabling Act of 1933. This article systematically and critically pursues the question if and how this periodical, for which Preußner had been able to recruit numerous competent and high-profile authors, has contributed to supporting Kestenberg’s concept of a music-reform in its first three year’s issues before his compulsory retirement and emigration.
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Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 126.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 27.05.1990, 09:45, erstellt von Michele Bianda, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1990

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
PRAKTYCZNE ZASTOSOWANIA TEORII PEDAGOGIKI MIĘDZYKULTUROWEJ W EDUKACJI MUZYCZNEJ
Creators: name: Chaciński, Jarosław
Publisher: name: ARS INTER CULTURAS
Year: 2018

description: The primary goal of this essay is to describe the connections between intercultural pedagogical theory and its practical applications in music education. The author stresses the significance of this particular field of education and its impact on young people. When anchored in a variety of cultures, musical phenomena provide a unique opportunity to initiate students into a world in which the beauty and aesthetic values of the other are experienced and reflected upon. At the same time, they encourage students to engage in a dialogue with the other through non-verbal channels of communication. Intercultural music education usually follows two conceptual models: one centered on activities, such as singing, dance, and playing musical instruments, and the other, focusing on the listening experience to world music. Intercultural music education is typically pursued using folk music as the most pri- meval form of human activity. Folk music is also used as an inspiration for musical stylization. It must be emphasized that composers often used this source of inspiration to cre- ate outstanding musical works. Sacred music provides a unique means to engage with the spiritual sphere inherent in other cultures. This particular form helps to discover aesthetic qualities in music and explore the depths of religious experience in other people, as well as the space of their religion-driven existential pursuits that are exemplified in music.
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Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 15.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 15.01.1990, 08:45, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1990

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Graphic analysis of population structure on genome-wide rheumatoid arthritis data
Creators: name: Zhang, Jun
name: Weng, Chunhua
name: Niyogi, Partha
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Principal-component analysis (PCA) has been used for decades to summarize the human genetic variation across geographic regions and to infer population migration history. Reduction of spurious associations due to population structure is crucial for the success of disease association studies. Recently, PCA has also become a popular method for detecting population structure and correction of population stratification in disease association studies. Inspired by manifold learning, we propose a novel method based on spectral graph theory. Regarding each study subject as a node with suitably defined weights for its edges to close neighbors, one can form a weighted graph. We suggest using the spectrum of the associated graph Laplacian operator, namely, Laplacian eigenfunctions, to infer population structures instead of principal components (PCs). For the whole genome-wide association data for the North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium (NARAC) provided by Genetic Workshop Analysis 16, Laplacian eigenfunctions revealed more meaningful structures of the underlying population than PCA. The proposed method has connection to PCA, and it naturally includes PCA as a special case. Our simple method is computationally fast and is suitable for disease studies at the genome-wide scale.
Afinoguénova, Eugenia. El idiota superviviente: artes y letras españolas
frente a la "muerte del hombre", 1969–1990. Madrid: Libertarias, 2003.
Creators: name: Medina, Alberto
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Romance literature

description: Tras un periodo en que los análisis de la llamada transición española fueron casi monopolizados por sociólogos, politólogos y periodistas, una serie de títulos aparecidos en los últimos años ha introducido la perspectiva del análisis cultural. Entre ellos, es llamativo observar una notable uniformidad. Tanto la cercanía temporal de los textos, como el contexto común de sus autores, instalados en las preocupaciones y tendencias de la academia norteamericana y, en concreto, la ‘‘institucionalización’’ de los estudios culturales, han dado lugar a una cierta uniformidad de temáticas, fuentes teóricas e incluso repertorios metafóricos. Dichos textos dan un lugar preferente al ‘‘discurso del trauma’’, a través de imágenes como el mono de la drogadicción, la herida o la melancolía y, paralelamente, privilegian un discurso psicoanalítico que, en la estela de la Escuela de Frankfurt, se nutre de figuras ubicuas en la esfera académica americana de los últimos años como Slavoj Žižek. En ese entorno, una de las muchas virtudes de El idiota superviviente es ofrecer una perspectiva original y claramente diferenciada, en la que un repertorio teórico no muy común en la academia americana (al menos en los departamentos de español) se pone al servicio de un análisis filosófico que, sin ignorarlo, deja atrás el impulso contextualizador de aquellos textos.
RECENZJA KSIĄŻKI PROFESJONALIZM W EDUKACJI MUZYCZNEJ. PROPOZYCJE DLA ZMIENIAJĄCEJ SIĘ SZKOŁY, RED. RENATA GOZDECKA I AGNIESZKA WEINER, WYDAWNICTWO UNIWERSYTETU MARII CURIE-SKŁODOWSKIEJ, LUBLIN 2013, 214 S.
Creators: name: Kreft, Lucyna
Publisher: name: ARS INTER CULTURAS
Year: 2018

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Path Dependence and Privatization Strategies in East Central Europe
Creators: name: Stark, David C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: Economics

description: Across the ruins of Communism, a clear breeze blows from the West. Like the "fresh winds" that had been hailed form the East across the ruins of war more than four decades earlier, it promises prosperity through sacrifice. Like the old vision with its road maps to the promised land, this new vision comes with packaged formulas for applying economic science to the grand project of institutional reconstruction. In 1991, no less than in 1948, devastation is seen as mandating boldness of action but also as presenting an opportunity: the collapse of the old order issues the imperative for ambitious experiments while offering the occasion to build anew, this time, with a fresh start to create capitalism by design.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 209.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 21.08.1990, 10:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1990

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 2.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Chemical pressure effect on Tc in BiS2-based Ce1-xNdxO0.5F0.5BiS2
Creators: name: Kajitani, Joe
name: Omachi, Atsushi
name: Hiroi, Takafumi
name: Miura, Osuke
name: Mizuguchi, Yoshikazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the crystal structure and superconducting properties of the BiS2-based layered superconductor Ce1-xNdxO0.5F0.5BiS2. Bulk superconductivity was observed for x > 0.3, and the transition temperature was enhanced with increasing Nd concentration. The highest transition temperature was 4.8 K for x = 1.0. With increasing Nd concentration, the length of the a axis decreased, while the length of the c axis did not show a remarkable change. The chemical pressure along the a axis upon Nd substitution seemed to be linked with the inducement of bulk superconductivity. We found that the chemical pressure effect did not completely correspond to the external pressure effect.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ISS2013 proceedings
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 252.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 08.10.1990, 08:45, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1990

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 2.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
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Virtual continuity of the measurable functions of several variables, and Sobolev embedding theorems
Creators: name: Vershik, Anatoly
name: Zatitskiy, Pavel
name: Petrov, Fedor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A60, 37A30, 46A380

description: Classical Luzin's theorem states that the measurable function of one variable is "almost" continuous. This is not so anymore for functions of several variables. The search of right analogue of the Luzin theorem leads to a notion of virtually continuous functions of several variables. This probably new notion appears implicitly in the statements like embeddings theorems and traces theorems for Sobolev spaces. In fact, it reveals their nature as theorems about virtual continuity. This notion is especially useful for the study and classification of measurable functions, aswell as in some questions on dynamical systems, polymorphisms and bistochastic measures. In this work we recall necessary definitions and properties of admissible metrics, define virtual continuity, describe some of applications. Detailed analysis is to be presented in another paper.
description: 16 pp., Re 18
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 16.01.1990, 08:45, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1990

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Ebselen oxide attenuates mechlorethamine dermatotoxicity in the mouse ear vesicant model
Creators: name: Tumu, Hemanta C. Rao
name: Cuffari, Benedette J.
name: Pino, Maria A.
name: Palus, Jerzy
name: Piętka-Ottlik, Magdalena
name: Billack, Blase
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Mechlorethamine (HN2) is an alkylating agent and sulfur mustard mimetic. Topical exposure to HN2 is associated with tissue blistering. Previous work in our laboratory has shown that ebselen (EB-1) possesses anti-vesicant, anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and cytoprotective properties, both in vivo and in vitro. We recently reported that ebselen oxide (EB-2), an analog of EB-1 with a tetravalent selenium atom, also possesses anti-bacterial and anti-fungal activity and confers cytoprotection against HN2 in vitro. The purpose of the present study was to determine the vesicant countermeasure potential of EB-2 using the mouse ear vesicant model (MEVM). Compared to control ears, mouse ears exposed to a single dose of HN2 (0.500 µmol/ear) showed an increase in wet weights, ear thickness, hyperplasia, vesication, and inflammatory cell infiltration after 24 h. Fluorescence microscopy of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL)-stained sections showed that the occurrence of apoptosis extended from the epidermis of the HN2-treated side, all the way to the contralateral epidermis. In contrast, HN2-exposed ears treated topically with EB-2 at a test dose of 0.250 mg/ear showed a significant decrease in wet weight (12% less vs. HN2 alone), morphometric thickness (13% less vs. HN2 alone), and vesication. In addition, TUNEL staining revealed that HN2 ears treated with EB-2 (0.250 mg/ear) showed a decrease in apoptosis as compared to the HN2 group. EB-2 also reduced the abundance of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) in ear tissues exposed to HN2. Taken together, our study demonstrates that EB-2 is an efficacious countermeasure to HN2.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 57.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 09.03.1990, 11:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1990

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 60.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 12.03.1990, 08:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1990

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
The Future of World Politics: Will it Resemble the Past
Creators: name: Jervis, Robert
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: International relations

description: History usually makes a mockery of our hopes or our expectations. The events of 1989, perhaps more welcomed than those of any year since 1945, were unforeseen. Much of what analysts anticipate for the 1990s is unpleasant. Nevertheless, it is clear that we are entering a new world, and I present three lines of argument about it. First, I discuss why prediction is so difficult in world politics. Among the reasons: multiple factors are usually at work, actors learn, small events can affect the course of history and, most importantly in this context, many well-established generalizations about world politics may no longer hold. This leads to the second question of the ways and areas in which the future is likely to resemble the past and the sources, areas, and implications of change. It appears that while international politics in much of the world will follow patterns that are familiar in outline although unpredictable in detail, among the developed states we are likely to see new forms of relations. In this new context, my third argument goes, the United States will face an extraordinarily wide range of policy choices and must therefore address fundamental questions that were submerged during the Cold War. Freed from previous constraints, the United States has many goals it can seek, but there are more conflicts among them than are sometimes realized.
Photosensitizing properties of dissolved organic carbon in Canadian prairie pothole wetland ponds change in response to sunlight
Creators: name: Tran, Linh N.
name: Vu, Hoang
name: Hall, Britt D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is an important component of the global carbon cycle providing ecological services such as carbon sources for microorganisms and the provision of a protective barrier between ultraviolet radiation and aquatic organisms. Our study examined the impacts of photodegradation on the optical properties of DOC in prairie wetland ponds in central Saskatchewan, Canada. Surface water was collected from two ponds with seasonal average DOC concentrations of 71.1 mg L−1 (More-DOC Pond) and 32.7 mg L−1 (Less-DOC Pond) and filtered through 1.2 µm GF/Fs into Teflon bottles transparent to UV light. Samples divided into dark and light treatments were incubated in situ at three different depths (surface, 0.25m, and 0.5 m) and collected every 2 weeks for 4 months. Excitation emission matrix scans from 300 to 800 nm and absorbance at 254 nm were measured. Absorbance at 254 nm in the More-DOC Pond and Less-DOC Pond waters decreased by 34% and 50%, respectively. Two fluorescence components were identified corresponding to previous published peaks C and M. Although bulk DOC concentrations did not show significant differences over time, fluorescence intensity of peak C decreased by 39% and 47%, and of peak M increased by 19% and 29%, in the More-DOC Pond and Less-DOC Pond, respectively. Increases in other fluorescence indicators such as fluorescence index (35% and 22%) and FRESH (29% and 30%) were also observed. Overall, terrestrial DOC from our sampling ponds became less aromatic, more aliphatic, of lower molecular weight, and lost absorptivity and fluorescence intensity after 12 weeks of incubation. Results of this study will provide a better understanding of optical characterizations and sources of DOC, and act as a foundation to further study on the role of DOC in prairie wetland ponds.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 76.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 28.03.1990, 08:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1990

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Deterrence and Perception
Creators: name: Jervis, Robert
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: International relations

description: In the most elemental sense, deterrence depends on perceptions. But unless people are totally blind, we need not be concerned with the logical point that, if one actor's behavior is to influence another, it must be perceived. Rather what is important is that actors' perceptions often diverge both from "objective reality" (or later scholars' perceptions of it, which is as good a measure as we can have) and from the perceptions of other actors. These differences, furthermore, both randomly and systematically influence deterrence. Unless statesmen understand the ways in which their opposite numbers see the world, their deterrence policies are likely to misfire; unless scholars understand the patterns of perceptions involved, they will misinterpret the behavior.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 32.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 07.02.1990, 08:45, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1990

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)