cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p697
title: Free choice in the making: Vaccine-related activism as an alternative form of citizenship during the Covid-19 pandemic.

description: The paper analyzes how free vax communities reframe health emergency during Covid-19 pandemic. We examined, through a digital ethnography on the main Italian free-vax online communities - Comilva, Corvelva and Movimento 3V – the public contestation of anti-Covid health policies by comparing their different styles of vaccine-related activism. Contesting health policy during pandemic was not just a matter of misinformation or related to the spreading of fake news, but actions and claims of free vax communities were based on specific processes of knowledge-making and biopolitics. The Science and Technology Studies (STS) framework, adopted throughout the analysis, provides the opportunity to review the vaccination controversies debate, by focusing on free vax public activities, aimed at counteracting mainstream knowledge and health policies adopted by the government to face the Covid-19 emergency. The analysis offers an entry point for understanding the nexus among the claims of free vax communities and the emerging idea of citizenship related to health, individual rights, and public participation in contemporary society.
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p720
title: Waves in Cycle: The protests against anti-contagion measures and vaccination in Covid-19 times in Italy

description: Since the beginning of the pandemic, while progressive movements have mainly focused on social inequalities exacerbated by the sanitary emergency, a number of protests emerged and quickly became visible that initially targeted the policies taken to reduce contagion and subsequently focused on the vaccine and vaccination. In the attempt to account for the rapid development of these protests, social scientists have mostly turned to classical approaches used in the analysis of far-right organizations and sects, looking at broad transformations in society or at fear and a sense of insecurity at the individual level. In this article, we build upon a social movement approach to look at the main characteristics of the protests against anti-contagion measures. From a theoretical point of view, we point to the importance of disentangling the specific waves happening within broader protest cycles. Empirically, focusing on the Italian case, we present a novel development in protest event analysis looking at the specific forms of action, the actors involved, and their claims in two waves of contention during the pandemic in Italy, between 2020 and 2021.
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p741
title: The Anti-Restrictions Movement and the Populist Counterpublics in Denmark

description: Despite less restrictive governmental Covid-19 measures than in other European countries, Denmark also witnessed the rise of mobilisations against vaccine measures and corona-related restrictions. While most protests did not assemble many participants, nor garnered much media attention, the anti-restrictions scene consists of a vast and diverse array of activists and organisations united in the call for less governmental intervention in the freedoms of the citizens, as also witnessed elsewhere across the globe. We conceptualise the anti-restrictions groups as 'populist counterpublics', since the counterdiscourses emerging from the Covid-19 measures deepen the antagonist divide between the ordinary people and the elites. We focus on three of the most prominent groups: Men in Black (MIB), the Freedom Movement's Joint Council (FBF), and Earth Freedom Knowledge 21 (JFK21). By analysing arenas and frames, we show how the Danish anti-restrictions movement uses the diagnostic frames of totalitarian government and global complot to blame the Danish government and international elites, and the prognostic frames of power and rights to the people and individual freedom as solutions to the articulated problems. Although these groups employed similar frames and enemy constructions, they failed in promoting internal alliances and in shaping a new and accepted idea of who makes up 'the people', leading to a limited level of public support for their cause.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.21699200
title: Supplementary Material for: Genomic Landscape of Circulating-Tumor DNA in a Diverse Cohort of Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients

description: Introduction Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death among women in the United States. Liquid biopsy is becoming a more commonly accepted method in clinical practice, thus there is a need to investigate ways to utilize ctDNA in metastatic breast cancer (mBC). The primary objective of this study is to characterize the genomic landscape of ctDNA in a diverse patient population and across different subtypes of mBC. Methods We analyzed the ctDNA profile in patients (n=45) with mBC who received a Guardant360 liquid biopsy test. Patient demographics, age at diagnosis, race, subtype and mutations were included in the analysis. Results The majority of patients (n=39, 86.7%) had at least one gene alteration detected in their liquid biopsy. We found no statistically significant differences in genomic landscape according to race, however there were differences seen in tumor genomics according to age and subtype. Postmenopausal patients were more likely to have detectable disease on liquid biopsy compared to premenopausal patients (p=0.001). Mutations in ESR1 (n=10) and PIK3CA (n=8) were more commonly seen in hormone positive (HR+) mBC where known tailored treatment options are available (ie. fulvestrant and alpelisib respectively). The most common alterations detected include TP53 (n=22) followed by PIK3CA (n=15), ESR1 (n=11), CCND1 (n=7) and ERBB2 (n=7). Conclusion Liquid biopsies are effective tools that can reveal clinically relevant information including mutational status and therapeutic options.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.21699200.v1
title: Supplementary Material for: Genomic Landscape of Circulating-Tumor DNA in a Diverse Cohort of Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients

description: Introduction Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death among women in the United States. Liquid biopsy is becoming a more commonly accepted method in clinical practice, thus there is a need to investigate ways to utilize ctDNA in metastatic breast cancer (mBC). The primary objective of this study is to characterize the genomic landscape of ctDNA in a diverse patient population and across different subtypes of mBC. Methods We analyzed the ctDNA profile in patients (n=45) with mBC who received a Guardant360 liquid biopsy test. Patient demographics, age at diagnosis, race, subtype and mutations were included in the analysis. Results The majority of patients (n=39, 86.7%) had at least one gene alteration detected in their liquid biopsy. We found no statistically significant differences in genomic landscape according to race, however there were differences seen in tumor genomics according to age and subtype. Postmenopausal patients were more likely to have detectable disease on liquid biopsy compared to premenopausal patients (p=0.001). Mutations in ESR1 (n=10) and PIK3CA (n=8) were more commonly seen in hormone positive (HR+) mBC where known tailored treatment options are available (ie. fulvestrant and alpelisib respectively). The most common alterations detected include TP53 (n=22) followed by PIK3CA (n=15), ESR1 (n=11), CCND1 (n=7) and ERBB2 (n=7). Conclusion Liquid biopsies are effective tools that can reveal clinically relevant information including mutational status and therapeutic options.
DOI: 10.5258/soton/d2449
title: Experimental data for the journal paper: Modelling fine scale route choice of upstream migrating fish as they approach an instream structure

description: Experimental data collected in the process of modelling fine scale route choice of upstream migrating fish as they approach an instream structure. Specifically, river lamprey at Buttercrambe Weir, Yorkshire, UK. Data include PIT and acoustic (XXXX.csv files) telemetry detections, hydraulic model outputs (QXX.xyz files) and bank elevation measurements.
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p761
title: The technocratic reason in the government of emergency. A theoretical analysis on the management of the Covid-19 epidemic

description: The assumption on which this contribution is based that in liberal democracies the "political space" represents the confrontational space of coexistence in which lives are governed by "legitimate" power of politics. What we have observed over the course of about two years now is that the epidemic must be understood within this space and, as happens for the observation of all "social facts", it cannot be considered as an isolated phenomenon. The history of epidemics is therefore mainly a "social and political history"; just think of the way in which the use of measures to counter the contagion redesigns the meaning of coexistence and power relations. The Covid-19 epidemic comes at the end of an economic crisis that began in 2008 and should not be disconnected from this, despite the tendency in public opinion and the media to consider it an "external factor", exclusively a health issue relating above all to "vital processes". Therefore, this contribution intends to propose an examination of the "government of the emergency" in liberal, capitalist, de-collectivized societies through a theoretical approach (biopolitical and dialectical) which, on the one hand, investigates the relationship between government, power and contagion control devices and, on the other hand, explores the presuppositions of the crisis of knowledge that increasingly gives way to "technique" which becomes an administrative tool.
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc2dmg2l
title: CCDC 2223229: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

description: Related Article: Appanapalli N. V. Satyanarayana, Nilanjana Mukherjee, Tanmay Chatterjee|2023|Green Chemistry|25|779|doi:10.1039/D2GC04101D
description: An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc2d4wq5
title: CCDC 2209237: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

description: Related Article: Appanapalli N. V. Satyanarayana, Nilanjana Mukherjee, Tanmay Chatterjee|2023|Green Chemistry|25|779|doi:10.1039/D2GC04101D
description: An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p779
title: The Conspiracy Theory/Vaccine Hesitancy nexus as rhetorical boundary work. A critical analysis of the production of scientific ignorance in literature reviews

description: With the Covid-19 outbreak the request for useful knowledge to inform policy measures rapidly escalated. On the verge of infodemics, vaccine hesitancy and conspiracy theories have been individuated as major threats to society which need rapid responses. In this context of uncertainty, literature reviews are a great way to retrieve useful knowledge from the large and dispersed amount of knowledge produced in the last two years. Nevertheless, the structural process of reviewing is not a neutral process of evidence retrieval and can lead to the deformation of initial knowledge through synthesis and simplification. Furthermore, the boundary work in the review process, if not properly critically assessed, can polarize the distinction between scientists and non-experts. Drawing from STS literature on boundary work and scientific ignorance production, this article critically analyzes 12 literature reviews regarding the nexus between conspiracy theory and vaccine hesitancy. The results highlight how the rhetorical construction of the ignorance areas leads to the neglected arguments in the form of an implicit elitist discourse which reproduce the deficit model of policy intervention through the preference for the psychological explanation. Furthermore, the uncritical assumption of the rightfulness of the evidence retrieval leads to polarization in the construction of otherness and depoliticization of agency. The implications are discussed, along with examples of more creative and emancipative reviews.
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p800
title: From Loopholes to Deinstitutionalization: The Platform Economy and the Undermining of Labor and Social Security Institutions

description: Previous research on platform work has concentrated on questions of organization, technology and regulation, while the focus has been much less on institutions and mechanisms by which platform work challenges existing labor market and welfare state institutions. This article deals with platform-driven deinstitutionalization using the example of social security in the conservative German welfare state. We argue that the main feature of platform work is the weakening of labor- and welfare-related institutions. We show how platforms undermine the German social security scheme in a functional perspective by using solo self-employment or minijobs, resulting in varieties of externalization of social protection. Furthermore, the social security institutions are normatively undermined by the strategic use of two main narratives: while the sharing narrative negates power asymmetries and highlights peer-to-peer relationships at eye level, the entrepreneurship narrative promotes ideas of autonomy and self-realization. Both strategies aim at redefining social security institutions and undermining collective protection. We discuss the disruptive effects of platform work and the inability of the social security institutions in Germany to adjust to the digital age and ensure sufficient social protection for workers in non-standard forms of employment. The analysis also implies that future regulatory policies have to take power struggles over cultural framings into account.
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p827
title: We Must Draw a Different Future! Insights from the Frontline Anti-Violence Work During the Pandemic in Italy

description: In this article we analyze the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Italian anti-violence system, through the eyes of the pratictioners of anti-violence centers, who are historically at the forefront in supporting women survivors of male violence. Their perspective is particularly relevant because, in Italy, anti-violence centers hold a "borderline" position, which lies between the political role of transformation and that of an actor of the private social provider of an 'essential' public service. On the basis of international recommendations, our analysis distinguishes two main areas of intervention on which national policies have been called to intervene: on one side, the protection of women victims of violence, and on the other their empowerment. Analyzing either official statistics and data collected through an online survey addressed to the practitioners of anti-violence centers during the lockdown, we highlight strengths and weaknesses of the policy measures implemented in Italy from their situated perspective, with reference both to the protection and the empowerment of survivors.
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p846
title: The Macerata Shooting: Digital Movements of Opinion in the Hybrid Media System

description: The role of Twitter in the organisation of political action – either by supporting existing street-level protests or native digital mobilizations – has attracted a great deal of attention. However, the wider media, political, and cultural context in which mobilizations take place is often overlooked. In this article, we analyse the trajectory of a digital movement of opinion that reacted to the shooting of black people by a right-wing militant in the Italian town of Macerata in 2018. Using a dataset of 571,996 tweets captured over 31 days, and employing a mix of machine learning, network analysis and qualitative investigation, we study how factors both external and internal to the platform sealed the fate of that movement. We maintain that the permeability of Twitter to outer divided arenas and its re-intermediation by political leaders are key to the transformation of protest movements into polarised crowds.
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p865
title: Towards the Formation of Genuine European Parties? Examining and Comparing the Cases of DiEM25 and Volt Europa

description: The 2019 European Parliament (EP) election saw the participation of two transnational parties: DiEM25 and Volt Europa. Both seek to democratise the European Union (EU) by engaging with European institutions and mobilising their supporters across member states, putting the EU's democratic deficit at the centre of their endeavour. They consider the European space as their primary field of appeal and mobilization, adopting a transnational conception of 'the people' as the source of democratic legitimacy. This paper explores the potential of genuine pan-European parties in increasing public contestation and inclusiveness at the European level and in democratising EU politics by treating DiEM25 and Volt as prototypical cases. Through a comparative analysis, we highlight the novelties of the two parties in relation to existing 'Europarties' and assess how these respond to deficiencies related to the democratic deficit. We conclude by reflecting upon what DiEM25 and Volt reveal about the potentials and challenges of 'transnationalising' EU politics.
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p898
title: Teaching Italian and Reconfiguring Citizenship: The Case of Language Volunteers in Migrant Education

description: Pro-migrant volunteering is often denounced as apolitical and patronising. Voluntary initiatives for immigrants' language education, then, have been accused of facilitating the neoliberal governmentality of migration, by fashioning migrants into precarious workers. Based on 20 in-depth interviews with volunteer language teachers in Lombardy, Italy, this article complicates such understandings, by shedding light on the tensions and ambiguities characterising volunteers' activities vis-à-vis the institutional governance of migration. Indeed, whereas such initiatives take on integration tasks for the benefit of the State, and thus can be accused of allying with the State in the governmentality of migration, against a background of growing nationalism, volunteering appears to develop people's empathy and solidarity beyond national belonging, questioning the division between citizens and non-citizens. In particular, it shows that volunteering in language education has the potential to transgress consolidated lines of inclusion and exclusion, turn volunteers from 'active citizens' into 'activist citizens', and offer resources of substantive citizenship to students. Ultimately, these 'humanitarian' actions by citizens belonging to the dominant society may represent acts of citizenship complementary to the initiatives of 'denizens'.
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p916
title: Unemployment and Social Participation: The Joint Role of Individual and Contextual Unemployment in Europe

description: How does unemployment affect social participation? A considerable body of work has analysed the scar effects of unemployment on social participation and exclusion, which are important antecedents of civic and political participation. However, this literature has scarcely addressed the moderating role of contextual unemployment. In this article, we extend a theoretical framework positing that unemployment scars decrease social participation, and that those individual effects are moderated by contextual unemployment. We test these hypotheses relying on Rounds 4–9 (2008–2018) of the European Social Survey, for 33 countries, and more than 100 sub-national units including macro-regions (NUTS1) and regions (NUTS2), measuring participation as the frequency of social meetings with relatives/friends/colleagues. Results from linear regressions with context-year Fixed Effects indicate that those with longer and more recent unemployment experiences participate less socially. However, these individual negative effects vary powerfully according to the contextual unemployment rate: the scar effects of unemployment on social participation are strongest where unemployment rates are smaller, and almost zero and not statistically significant where they are higher. These findings highlight the joint centrality of individual and contextual unemployment to illuminate social participation.
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p956
title: Movements and Parties: An Introduction

description: The article provides an analytical introduction to the Symposium devoted to Sidney Tarrow's "Movements and Parties. Critical Connections in American Political Development". First, it discusses the relevance of the book with regards to the Movement-Parties scholarship. Second, it presents the content of the Symposium, focusing on the main arguments developed by the various authors.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.21952910
title: Reliability and validity of brain-gastric phase synchronization

description: Recent studies have reported that various brain regions, mainly sensory, unimodal regions, display phase synchronization with the stomach’s slow (0.05 Hz) myoelectrical rhythm. We examined this synchrony in 43 subjects that had undergone multiple sessions of concurrent electrogastrography (EGG), brain fMRI, and pulse oximetry. Here we share the unprocessed data. <br> If you use this data, please cite the following: <code>Levakov, G., Ganor, S. & Avidan, G. (2023), “Reliability and validity of brain-gastric phase synchronization”, Human brain mapping, (under review).</code> <br> <code>For available code:</code> <code>https://github.com/GidLev/brain_gastric_synchronization_2023</code> <pre><code><br></code></pre> <pre><code><br></code></pre>
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p962
title: Movements and Parties by Sidney Tarrow
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p967
title: Notes on Sidney Tarrow's Movements and Parties
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7568133
title: Dataset for The effect of charcoal production on carbon cycling in African biomes

description: LPJ-GUESS simulated carbon dynamics data for African biomes under different charcoal management regimes
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7568132
title: Dataset for The effect of charcoal production on carbon cycling in African biomes

description: LPJ-GUESS simulated carbon dynamics data for African biomes under different charcoal management regimes
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p977
title: Overcoming Movement Centrism
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p983
title: Sidney Tarrow Breaches Boundaries
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p988
title: Movements, Parties, and Hybrids
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p993
title: From Parties to Movements: Studying the Radical Right with Sidney Tarrow
DOI: 10.34740/kaggle/dsv/4896266
title: YouTube Daily
DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v15i3p998
title: Understanding the Birth, Quality and Collapse of Democratic Regimes through Movement-Party Interactions

description: This article provides a discussion of Sid Tarrow's "Movements and Parties. Critical Connections in American Political Development". First, it discusses the concept of movementization of parties. Second, it focuses on the main linkage and relational mechanisms that define the interaction between parties and movements. Next, it introduces the comparative part of Tarrow's book highlighting the role that movements play in the processes of democratic anchoring and de-anchoring. Eventually, it critically reviews the concept of hybridity by attempting to uncover the constitutive mechanisms of the process of movementization and its empirical referents in recent U.S. history.