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Fasti Mariani : Cum Divorum Elogiis In Singulos Anni Dies Distributis
No full textAuctore R. P. Andrea Brunner E Societate Jesu ; [Wilhelm Pfeffer]Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Antverpiæ Typis Henrici Aertssens Anno M. DC. LXIII
Viewer-, Author-, and Ownership in the Work of Andrea Zittel
No full textAndrea Zittel invites others to collapse the distinctions between artist, viewer, and collaborator by interacting with her usable works. This thesis explores the process of interacting with Zittel\u27s works, and how it affects viewer-, author- and ownership
Inhibition of histone deacetylase 3 via RGFP966 facilitates unusually accurate cue memory for excitatory and inhibitory cue-reward associations
No full textEpigenetic mechanisms are key for regulating long-term memory (LTM) and are known to exert control on memory formation in multiple systems of the adult brain, including the sensory cortex. One epigenetic mechanism is chromatin modification by histone acetylation. Blocking the action of histone de-acetylases (HDACs) that normally negatively regulate LTM usually by repressing transcription, has been shown to enable memory formation. Indeed, HDAC inhibition appears to facilitate memory by altering the dynamics of gene expression events for consolidation, however less understood is how molecular-level consolidation processes alter subsequent memory for enhanced storage or retrieval. Here we used a sensory perspective to investigate from a behavioral-level whether the characteristics of memory formed with HDAC inhibitors are different from naturally-formed memory. One possibility is that HDAC-inhibition enables memory to form with greater sensory detail than normal. Because the auditory system undergoes learning-induced remodeling that provides substrates for sound-specific LTM, we aimed to identify behavioral effects of HDAC-inhibition on memory for specific sound features using a standard model of auditory associative cue-reward learning. We found that three systemic post-training treatments of an HDAC3-inhibitor (RGPF966, Abcam Inc.) in rats in the early phase of training facilitated auditory discriminative learning, and increased the specificity for acoustic frequency formed in memory of both excitatory (CS+) and inhibitory (CS-) associations for at least 2 weeks. The findings support that epigenetic mechanisms act on the sensory acuity and precision of memory, which can be revealed by studying the sensory aspects of long-term associative memory formation with HDAC inhibitors
Fine morphology of the myrmecophilous larva of Paussus kannegieteri (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Paussinae: Paussini). Corresponding author
No full textFIGURES 13–18. Paussus kannegieteri third instar larva: 13, thorax, left lateral view; 14, thorax, dorsal view; 15, mesothoracic spiracle; 16, metathoracic spiracle-like structure; 17, mesothoracic leg, anterolateral view; 18, apex of metathoracic leg with lanceolate setae, posterolateral view. CO = coxa, ls = lanceolate setae, m = membrane, ME = mesonotum, MT = metanotum, pe = peritreme, PR = pronotum, un = claw. Scale bars: Figs. 13–14 = 500 µm; Fig. 15 = 10 µm; Fig. 16 = 20 µm; Fig. 17 = 200 µm; Fig. 18 = 50 µm.Published as part of Giulio, Andrea Di, 2008, Fine morphology of the myrmecophilous larva of Paussus kannegieteri (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Paussinae: Paussini), pp. 37-50 in Zootaxa 1741 on page 44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18152
Trusted Tales: Creating Authenticity in Literary Representations from Ex-Yugoslavia
No full textThis research deals with questions of authority and authenticity and how they are expressed, constructed, and appropriated within the Anglophone book market. It considers the body of literature written about ex-Yugoslavia since the 1990s Balkan conflicts by exiled writers from the region which has entered the international literary canon. Books’ routes from original publishers into English translation are discussed through practices of trust, one of the crucial social devices underpinning their exchange. Within these cross-cultural processes, the role of cultural brokers is crucial. Symbolic and cultural resources are specifically mobilised through their powerful author brands.
By exploring authenticity in the context of book publishing, I further look at how ideas and practices of community are employed and negotiated by writers and those who promote their books. My field is multi-sited and fluid, reflecting how different individual and national positions are enacted and performed through strategies ranging from unconscious dispositions to deliberate intentions. This research thus brings together ideas of the author as an authentic, representative voice together with exile as a position that grants them a new lease of relevancy in the post-socialist context.
Although ex-Yugoslav books occupy a ‘high end’ niche of the UK market, constrained by commercial as well as political, cultural, and institutional forces, in public discourse ideas of the ‘free market’ and ‘free speech’ are mobilised to produce various types of modernisation narratives. The (post)socialist production of literature is perceived as having to ‘evolve’ into a capitalist model: this would allow not only healthy competition and consumer choice but guarantee an individual writer ‘free speech’ as a basic human right. Therefore, the most general question this research raises is what kind of foreign literature gets translated into English, under what socio-cultural conditions and which politics of representation it serves within the project of world literature
Gene duplication and exon shuffling by helitron-like transposons generate intraspecies diversity in maize
No full textWe report a whole-genome comparison of gene content in allelic BAC contigs from two maize inbred lines. Genic content polymorphisms involve as many as 10,000 sequences and are mainly generated by DNA insertions. The termini of eight of the nine genic insertions that we analyzed shared the structural hallmarks of helitron rolling-circle transposons. DNA segments defined by helitron termini contained multiple gene-derived fragments and had a structure typical of nonautonomous helitron-like transposons. Closely related insertions were found in multiple genomic locations. Some of these produced transcripts containing segments of different genes, supporting the idea that these transposition events have a role in exon shuffling and the evolution of new proteins. We identified putative autonomous helitron elements and found evidence for their transcription. Helitrons in maize seem to continually produce new nonautonomous elements responsible for the duplicative insertion of gene segments into new locations and for the unprecedented genic diversity. The maize genome is in constant flux, as transposable elements continue to change both the genic and nongenic fractions of the genome, profoundly affecting genetic diversity
Data set for anomaly detection on a HPC system
No full text<p>This data set contains the data collected on the DAVIDE HPC system (CINECA & E4 & University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy) in the period March-May 2018.</p>
<p>The data set has been used to train a autoencoder-based model to automatically detect anomalies in a semi-supervised fashion, on a real HPC system.</p>
<p>This work is described in:</p>
<p>1) "Anomaly Detection using Autoencoders in High Performance Computing Systems", <a href="https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Borghesi%2C+A">Andrea Borghesi</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Bartolini%2C+A">Andrea Bartolini</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Lombardi%2C+M">Michele Lombardi</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Milano%2C+M">Michela Milano</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Benini%2C+L">Luca Benini,</a> IAAI19 (proceedings in process) -- https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08447</p>
<p>2) "Online Anomaly Detection in HPC Systems", <a href="https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Borghesi%2C+A">Andrea Borghesi</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Libri%2C+A">Antonio Libri</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Benini%2C+L">Luca Benini</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Bartolini%2C+A">Andrea Bartolini, </a>AICAS19 (proceedings in process) -- https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05269</p>
<p>See the git repository for usage examples & details --> https://github.com/AndreaBorghesi/anomaly_detection_HPC</p>
International Standards for the Induction Motor Efficiency Evaluation: a Critical Analysis of the Stray-Load Losses Determination
No full textMotor efficiency has to be measured or calculated in accordance with international standards. The most important standards are the IEEE 112-B, IEC 34-2, and JEC 3 . In this paper, a comparison of the measurement procedures defined by these international standards is reported, together with some comments on the prescribed methodologies. The comparison is based on experimental results obtained by tests on four general-purpose three-phase induction motors. The stray-load loss measurement represents a critical key for the correct evaluation of the motor efficiency. For this reason, a critical analysis of this type of losses has been performed. In particular, in order to understand which are the most critical quantities that influence their evaluation, the stray-load loss sensitivity to the measurement errors is analyzed. In the final part of the paper the temperature influence, on the conventional iron losses, is experimentally analyzed. The performed tests show that the temperature difference between the no-load test and the motor real operative conditions is not negligible
Andrea Cesalpino. An Introduction
No full textIn the Dictionaire historique et critique (1697), Pierre Bayle (1647–1706) included a short entry on Andrea Cesalpino that contains a few notes about his biography and intellectual significance. He wrote that Cesalpino “had been a highly skilled scholar in both philosophy and medicine. He was from Arezzo, and worked for a long period in Pisa, before becoming first physician of Pope Clement VIII. He died in Rome on February 23, 1603, aged 84 years.” Yet, he added something more. Influenced by Samuel Parker’s reading of Cesalpino and by the criticisms made by Nicolaus Taurellus (1547–1606), he wrote that Cesalpino “abandoned the way of ordinary Peripatetic scholars in many aspects and to put it bluntly he was a bad Christian with respect to his opinions. His principles barely differed from those of Spinoza,” while notin that “a modern author counts him among the greatest geniuses that has ever been seen.
Chaos, loss, passage and desire. The experience of diaspora in the works of Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Andrea Levy and Dionne Brand
No full textThis thesis brings together the visions of four women writers of West Indian descent (Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Andrea Levy and Dionne Brand) and interprets their works through the most established theories of diaspora and postcolonial studies in the attempt to illustrate the composite nature of the experience of Caribbean diaspora. It lies on the premise that such a complex phenomenon must be interpreted as both an historical event, a private happening and a socio-cultural revolution, and leads to the conclusion that one single voice cannot be enough to represent its comprehensive identity. Multivocality thus becomes a necessity and the idea of assembling the images produced by a group of authors rather, than concentrating on one particular imagery, serves to foster a bird’s eye vision able to render the kaleidoscopic character of this experience. Each chapter turns around one of these writers, whose work is interpreted according to one dominant image. Resorting to a strategy based on the collection of apparently disparate images, this thesis reinforces the idea that the complexity of the Caribbean experience of diaspora cannot be interpreted univocally and that loss, desire, chaos and transition are the leading forces of this phenomenon
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