jimnoneill/paper-to-field-training huggingface dataset:
Playing the double: Pirandello's disjunctive effects on dramaturgy in liberal and fascist Italy (1860--1936)

This study examines how contents and structures of Luigi Pirandello's theatre subvert hegemonic discourses circulating in bourgeois, regional and nationalist dramatic production from the years of the Liberal State (1860-1922) to Fascist Italy (1922-1936). As part of the "disciplinary" project of the new Italian State, such production elaborates a stable model of gender, ethnic, and national subjects. Based on identification techniques, this model shapes the theatre of the adultery, the regional production of verismo, and nationalist drama. By way of a number of alienating devices, including meta-theatrical reflexivity, parodic doubling, and paradigmatic repetition, Pirandello disrupts essentialist visions of gender, Sicilian-ness, and collective models of national identity. Pirandello's alienating devices, which are the product of a dynamic relation between social and structural elements, constitute a repertoire of disjunctive figures that shape four distinct groups of plays: grotesque (La morsa, La ragione degli altri, Come prima, meglio di prima, L'uomo, la bestia, la virtù, La signora Morli, una e due, Come to mi vuoi); regional ('A birritta cu' i ciancianeddi, Liolà, 'A patenti, Pensaci Giacuminu!); metatheatrical (Sei personaggi in cerca di autore, Questa sera si recita a soggetto, Ciascuno a suo modo ); "mythical" (La nuova colonia, Lazzaro, I giganti della montagna). ^ The first chapter focuses on the subversion of bourgeois morality that is encoded in the staging of the adulterine love triangle of the grotesque plays. Pirandello fragments the unity of character in a conflict of different roles, thereby breaking the model of a stable family based upon marital authority, female subordination, and the double standard that ensues from the rigidity of such gender roles. ^ The second chapter addresses Pirandello's Sicilian theatre and focuses on the dramatist's use of parodic doubles as means to question national stereotypes of Sicily as an archive of tradition and the essence of Italian-ness. ^ Pirandello's meta-theatrical reflexivity, as opposed to both Fascist ritual theatricality and D'Annunzio's dramaturgy, is analyzed in chapter three. Meta-theatre becomes the means to prompt the audience to espouse a position of critical distance that was discouraged by the consensual structure that shaped Fascist collective performances. ^ The fourth and last chapter, devoted to Pirandello's "myths", challenges critical opinion that in this production the dramatist falls prey to the lure of Fascist mythical thought. This chapter examines how the assertive and optimist mythical structure of Fascist dramatic practices are questioned in the unveiling of the ideology that informs them: the nationalist desire for a colonial empire, the alignment of the Catholic Church with the regime, and art's loss of autonomy towards the totalitarian regime. ^

Topic: Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Work diaries

This seventh article in the Performance Technologist's Toolbox series explains the data collection method of work diaries. It provides an example of a work diary and then discusses the dimensions of inclusiveness, content, format, and media. The advantages and disadvantages of using work diaries to collect data are summarized and their applications in performance technology are outlined. The article provides several examples of published studies in which work diaries were employed. The previous six articles were published in 2004 and 2005.

Topic: Cultural Industries and Urban Development
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
L.—<i>Two new</i> Bittacidæ (<i>Mecoptera</i>)

(1928). L.—Two new Bittacidae (Mecoptera) Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 395-396.

Topic: Fossil Insects in Amber
Subfield: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Association between STAT4 polymorphisms and the risk of juvenile idiopathic arthritis in Han Chinese populations.

The G allele of rs11893432 was significantly associated with JIA risk, particularly oligoarticular JIA, in Han Chinese populations. SNPs at rs1018981 and rs10931481 were correlated with higher risk of polyarticular JIA.

Topic: Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research
Subfield: Hematology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Mucilage Extraction from Opuntia Spp for Production of Biofilms

Crops like Opuntia spp grows essentially in the tropical and subtropical regions, under arid climate conditions, preventing soil degradation and being helpful in the control of desertification processes. The fruits are widely used for human consumption and the cladodes are essentially used as feed. The cladodes have in its composition mucilage, a complex polymeric carbohydrate structure with the ability to retard water loss and being able to form viscous or gelatinous colloids. Its gelling, thickening and emulsifying properties turn cactus mucilage useful to be applied in different areas such as cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and some other industries. In the food industry, it could find application in food packaging as edible films and coatings because of its elastic flow characteristic and its ability in forming a molecular network. Therefore, the aim of this work is to develop an efficient and sustainable method to extract the mucilage from the cladodes with characteristics suitable to be used as a biofilm material. The methodologies tested comprised the same general steps: 1) Removal of the outer layers from cladodes; 2) Washing and cutting step; 3) Mix with a solvent (water or ethanol); 4) Pressing or centrifugation; 5) Precipitation with ethanol; 6) Drying step to obtain mucilage powder (drying and lyophilization). Based on preliminary results, a yield (in dry basis) of 0.72 and 15.29%, was obtained for pulp and peel, respectively. A critical assessment of the methods tested indicate that there are still options for improvement (e.g. use of different solvents and solvents mixtures) and that higher yield can be obtained.

Topic: Botanical Research and Applications
Subfield: Food Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Species‐Level Impacts on Chaparral Root Zone Hydrology

A set of four unconfined (earthen‐walled) lysimeters in the San Dimas Experimental Forest near Los Angeles, CA, provides a unique opportunity to examine the effect of species‐level vegetation on root zone hydrology under highly controlled experimental conditions. The 28.1‐m 2 by 2.1‐m deep lysimeters were specifically designed to minimize variation of all environmental conditions except vegetation. Monocultures of buckwheat ( Eriogonum fasciculatum Benth. var. foliolosum Nutt.), chamise ( Adenstomata fasciculatum Hooke &amp; Arn.), scrub oak ( Quercus dumosa Nutt.), and Coulter pine ( Pinus coulteri D. Don.) were planted in 1946. In 1997 two sets of soil cores were sampled from each lysimeter to evaluate species level effects resulting from 50 yr of growth. The cores were analyzed for water content, soil water potential, and pore water chloride. The chloride mass balance approach was used to estimate long‐term average fluxes and residence times of water in the lysimeters. One core from each lysimeter was also analyzed for pore water stable isotope (δ 2 H) composition. Only small differences were observed between the four species in terms of the shapes of the depth profiles and the absolute values of the hydrologic characteristics and fluxes. However, some differences were statistically significant. For example, differences in some characteristics were found between the chamise and the other species. We also observed differences between the lowest aboveground biomass group (buckwheat and chamise) versus the highest aboveground biomass group (oak and pine). These results suggest that although species‐ and biomass‐level differences in root zone hydrologic behavior appear to be minor, there are detectible differences in how these vegetation types affect the water budget in chaparral ecosystems.

Topic: Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
The boundedness of the solutions of a nonlinear differential equation

with a small nonlinear term f(x, y). The exact conditions satisfied by r, q, and f will be given in ??2 and 3. If r, q, and (rq)' are real-valued continuous functions on the positive x-axis, in a recent paper [1 ] Walter Leighton proved that the following conditions rq>O and (rq)' >0 for x_?0 are sufficient for the boundedness of the solutions of the linear differential equation (ry')'+qy = 0 on the positive x-axis. It is the purpose of this note to point out that, even if rq is not differentiable (in fact, even the continuity of rq is not required), under certain suitable conditions satisfied by r, q, and f as stated in Theorems 1 and 2, we still can test the boundedness of the solutions of (1) by a method which includes Leighton's method as a special case. In ?2 we assume that r, q, and f are real-valued functions; in ?3, complex-valued.

Topic: Functional Equations Stability Results
Subfield: Applied Mathematics
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Metal Forming Smoothing of Flat Surfaces by Rolling

Metal forming smoothing processes are used to improve the surface quality of soft materials or of those materials that must withstand extreme fatigue and wear conditions. This paper highlights the influence of the main technological parameters upon the deformation force, as well as upon the hardness and the roughness of the processed surface.

Topic: Engineering Technology and Methodologies
Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Influence of bottom ash as a sand replacement material on durability of self-compacting concrete exposed to seawater

Concrete strength and durability performance under marine environment have been considered as challenging issue for many decades because seawater contains aggressive salts and it could affect the service life of concrete structure that is expected for the marine environment, such as offshore, harbour and coastal structures. Therefore, this study investigated the strength and durability
performance of self-compacting concrete (SCC) containing Bottom Ash (BA) exposed to seawater under wetting-drying cycles. The exposure period for seawater was considered up to 180 days. Concrete mix incorporated BA from 10% to 30% by weight of sand with fixed water to binder ratio 0.4 with superplasticizer to produce 40 MPa concrete at 28 days. The performance of SCC was evaluated based on compressive strength, rapid migration test and depth of carbonation test. SCC with 10% BA gives satisfactory compressive strength and exhibits good resistance to chloride migration rate and it gives around 4.5% reduction in carbonation depth as compared to control mix at 180 days. The microstructural study also indicated that 10% BA form well shape calcium
silicate hydrate gel, which delivers adequate compressive strength development. It was concluded that 10% BA as a sand replacement was found to be optimum, provides satisfactory strength and durability performance.

Topic: Concrete and Cement Materials Research
Subfield: Civil and Structural Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Redesign of flight space shuttle main engine nozzle G-15 seal area based on the thermal analysis and flow models

The main objective is to understand the present sealing area response to environmental conditions of the supersonic turbulent combustion gases which has led to both stress rupture cracks and hot gas leakage. A review of the existing thermal analysis and flow modeling has been performed of the present design and seal alternatives have been suggested to possibly reduce or eliminate the hot gas flow recirculation problem and the associated seal cracking.

Topic: Rocket and propulsion systems research
Subfield: Aerospace Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Life History and Control of Cinara winonkae1

Journal Article Life History and Control of Cinara winonkae Get access D. F. Bray D. F. Bray Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Economic Entomology, Volume 46, Issue 1, 1 February 1953, Pages 103–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/46.1.103 Published: 01 February 1953

Topic: Insect behavior and control techniques
Subfield: Insect Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Conclusion: Clinical social work practice in community‐based systems of care

Abstract The system of care concept and philosophy is considered as a dynamic means for preventing school violence and meeting the mental health needs of children and adolescents. It is vital that community‐based clinical social workers take leadership in collaborations that build systems of care. This paper examines the system of care paradigm in contrast to traditional mental health services for children, youth, and families. Examples of how systems of care are evolving and implications for developing community‐based clinical practice are presented as opportunities that would entail changing systems and practice paradigms.

Topic: Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Agents Based Visualization and Strategies

This paper describes a flexible visualization architecture based on software agents, which enables the abstraction\nand reuse of rendering strategies. Using a reification of the rendering environment, the system is able to add new\nrendering strategies (such as distributed rendering or progressive rendering) to an existing pipeline, without any\nmodification of the other components (controls components, display components, rendering algorithms, etc. ). The\nability of changing strategies on the fly leads to a better adaptability to runtime constraints. The system uses an\nagent-based graphic pipeline, where each agent/component can be located on different computers; communications\nbetween agents use XML/RPC and data stream in order to easily integrate existing code in the system. Agents can\nadd specific behavior to graphic pipelines, such as saving environments to reuse them, adapt information and\nknowledge from another pipeline, and generally modify and improve the entire system. Various visualization and\ncontrol clients exist, enabling collaboration between platforms such as PDAs, Windows, Linux, MacOS X, and\nWeb (using Java applets).

Topic: Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
The Role Of Radionuclide Angiocardiography In The Preoperative Prediction Of Pain Relief And Prolonged Survival Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Radionuclide angiocardiography (RNA) provides noninvasive measurements of left ventricular function during rest and exercise, which appear to reflect the magnitude of fibrosis and ischemia in patients with coronary artery disease. This investigation evaluated the usefulness of these measurements for providing prognostic information, useful in selecting therapy. The RNA study group included 278 patients with a low resting ejection fraction and coronary artery disease documented by angiography. Patients were followed for up to three years to define survival and incidence of complete pain relief. The 172 patients treated medically had less favorable survival and pain relief than the 106 surgically treated patients. In the medically treated patients, a positive RNA defined a subgroup of 113 patients, with a 20% lower 3-year survival than the 59 patients with a negative RNA. Moreover, comparison of patients receiving medical and surgical therapy following a positive RNA documented a clear improvement in both survival and pain relief for those who showed significant ischemia during exercise and subsequently underwent coronary bypass procedures. In patients with a negative RNA, medical and surgical therapy resulted in a similar survival rate and little difference in pain relief. Calculations comparing the maximal potential increase in survival and complete pain relief, using multiple criteria known to provide prognostic information, identified the exercise response on RNA as the single most important variable for selection of therapy. Therefore, the left ventricular response to exercise provides important prognostic information in patients with low resting ejection fractions, and the results of this procedure can be used to define subgroups of patients who will and will not benefit from coronary artery bypass grafting.

Topic: Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Biological substance characterization in water matrices with raman microscopy

Raman microspectroscopy is investigated for spectral information from bacteria and protein biological substances in distilled and tap water matrices. Laser energy flux, multivariate dataspace biological differentiation, and substance aging in water matrices were investigated.

Topic: Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
Subfield: Biophysics
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Virus of Avian Myeloblastosis. XV. Structural Loci of Virus Synthesis and Adenosinetriphosphatase Activity by Electron and Light Microscopy of Myeloblasts from Tissue Culture&lt;xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN1"&gt;2&lt;/xref&gt;

Exploratory experiments have been made to effect a correlation between specific structures seen with the light microscope in primitive cells occurring in virus-induced avian myeloblastosis and structures demonstrable in earlier studies in electron micrographs of thin sections of these cells. In thin sections of the cells, growing under suitable conditions in tissue culture, the specific structures, viroplasts, appeared as osmophilic bodies containing virus particles, and were interpreted previously as the sites of virus synthesis. Phase-contrast microscopy revealed intracellular bodies of comparable size, number, and distribution, which have been judged to be representative of the viroplasts identified in thin sections. Evidence has been advanced to indicate that the structures in question exhibit a strong adenosinetriphosphatase reaction as demonstrated by means of the Wachstein-Meisel staining procedure. Normal myeloblasts from bone marrow, as well as those from the circulating blood of chickens with myeloblastosis, showed little or no evidence of the intracellular enzyme, a finding compatible with the infrequent occurrence of viroplasts in myeloblasts taken directly from the circulating blood. Erythroblasts from birds with erythroblastosis showed no evidence of staining. The granules of myelocytes from bone marrow also stained heavily for the enzyme. The possible origin of viroplasts from a common progenitor of mitochondria and granules to account for the presence of adenosinetriphosphatase in the myeloblastosis virus particle is discussed.

Topic: Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
Subfield: Genetics
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
And...WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE EXCESSIVE LATERAL PRESSURE SYNDROME

Poster: ECR 2011 / C-1107 / And...WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE EXCESSIVE LATERAL PRESSURE SYNDROME? by: E. Yllera Contreras, C. Jimenez Zapater, J. Arnaiz, A. Salvador Errasti, T. Piedra Velasco, A. Garcia-Bolado, A. Canga Villegas, R. Garcia Barredo; Santander/ES

Topic: Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies
Subfield: Biomedical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Generalized Friis Transmission Formula Using Active Antenna Available Power and Unnamed Power Gain

We use the concept of active antenna available power to derive a generalization of the Friis transmission formula for multiport antenna systems. With beamformer weights chosen such that the array patterns are the same when transmitting and receiving, the active antenna available power at the receiving antenna divided by the input power at the transmitter is symmetric under link direction reversal in the near field as well as the far field. These results generalize the Friis transmission formula to beamformed multiport antenna systems in an arbitrary reciprocal propagation environment.

Topic: Antenna Design and Analysis
Subfield: Aerospace Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
ROLE OF STAT1 AND CXCL10 IN THE TUMOUR IMMUNE MICROENVIRONMENT OF HIGH-GRADE SEROUS OVARIAN CANCER

Thesis (Master, Biomedical & Molecular Sciences) -- Queen's University, 2016-07-25 11:40:37.845

Topic: Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Geoethics in Science Communication: The Relationship between Media and Geoscientists

The themes addressed by geoethics are becoming central to all scientific debate. A growing number of scientists now consider geoethics as an effective tool to increase, in the scientific community and society as a whole, the awareness of local and global environmental problems that humanity faces. Geoethics deals with ethical, social and cultural aspects related to geosciences. Geoethics addresses fundamental issues such as the prudent and sustainable use of geo-resources, management of natural hazards, defence of geoheritage as a common value to be protected and enhanced. But above all, geoethics aims to raise, in the community of geoscientists, their awareness of responsibilities in conducting scientific and professional activity. In order to extend this awareness to the whole of civil society and also to foster the recognition of the usefulness of geosciences in daily life, geoscience communication should be recognized as a fundamental activity connected with scientific and professional work, since geoscience knowledge is a tool to contribute to the construction of social knowledge for human communities. But today what is the role played by geosciences in the scientific mass culture? Are the geosciences part of a collective “cultural heritage”? Do the publishing world and media offer adequate space to geosciences? Through the analysis of two Italian case studies, the authors highlight the critical features of the relationship between geoscientists and the media and try to suggest some actions that are useful to make the relationship between these two separate fields more functional, with the goal of bringing citizens closer to geosciences and increasing the awareness of the individual and collective responsibility towards the Earth.

Topic: Climate Change Communication and Perception
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences