192 research outputs found
Time, torture and Manus island: an interview with Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofigian
No full textFormer asylum seeker detainee and journalist Behrouz Boochani (author of No Friend but the Mountains) and his collaborator Omid Tofighian speak about the experience of indefinite incarceration on Australia’s Manus Island and the psychological toll of waiting. They compare this form of detention to prison and the existential impact to torture. This Kyriarchal System, they argue, strips the individual of identity and humanity and they explain how such a system can perhaps be better questioned through the poetic fiction that Boochani has used in his path-breaking narrative than to appeal to dry rational facts and figures
Diverging author/translator interventions in the Dutch, French and US translations of the Cuban novel Tres tristes tigres: some explanatory factors
No full textThe conditions in which the Cuban novel Tres tristes tigres (Cabrera Infante 1967) was translated into French, English and Dutch were very different, particularly as regards (1) the type of collaboration between the original author and the translators and (2) the publication dates of these translations. In this respect, the French and the US English translations are very similar: both Trois tristes tigres and Three Trapped Tigers were realized in collaboration with the author and both were published in the target cultures shortly after the original (1970 and 1971 respectively). The making of the Dutch translation, on the other hand, is very different: Drie trieste tijgers was published for the first time in 1997 (with a revision in 2002) and was realized without virtually any sort of collaboration between the author and the Dutch translators Fred de Vries and Tessa Zeiler. In the light of these data, it was expected that the collaboration between the author and the French and American translators (Albert Bensoussan and Suzanne Jill Levine respectively), as well as the proximity of the publication dates would affect the textual features of the translations. More precisely, it was expected that the French and US translations would be comparable and that these two would show substantial differences compared to the Dutch one. These initial assumptions were verified on the basis of three stylistic features, selected because they enforce decision-making processes on the translators: (a) intralingual speech variety, (b) (monolingual) language play and (c) intertextual irony. The initial assumption, though, was not corroborated. In fact, for two of the three categories analyzed, similarities were observed not between the US and French translations but between the US and Dutch translations. We will briefly exemplify these data and then explore clarifying factors beyond the two conditions privileged initially. These explanatory elements are organized in a framework that draws on two of Bourdieu’s key concepts (capital and field) but also includes data gathered by ethnographical modes of inquiry that enrich the predominantly relational focus of Bourdieu’s concepts as used in TS. We focus on (1) the cultural and social capital of the different translators and their position in their respective literary fields, (2) the author’s opinion regarding translation as an unlimited creation, and his unequal attitude towards the target cultures and languages involved and (3) the translators’ poetics (including the translators’ stance towards language, their own (in)visibility and the author’s intention and original creation)
Correction: Corrigendum: Wafer-scale two-dimensional semiconductors from printed oxide skin of liquid metals
No full textNature Communications 8: Article number: 14482; published: 17 February 2017; Updated: 22 March 2017 The original version of this Article contained a typographical error in the spelling of the author Omid Kavehei, which was incorrectly given as Omid Kevehei. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.</jats:p
Is there fame bias in editorial choice?
No full textNature’s Correspondence items are reviewed only by the editors (see go.nature.com/cmchno). To investigate whether editorial bias towards internationally renowned correspondents might be at play in selecting candidates for publication, we analysed the scientific status
of Correspondence authors published in 2014.
We used the following pointers to gauge author reputation: faculty member in one of the world’s top 100 universities
(as listed in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings; see go.nature. com/bhgfxd); authorship of Nature or Science publications; high h index. We classed correspondents as established scholars if they fulfilled any or all of these criteria.
The number of letters published in Correspondence
in 2014 was 239, each with
one ‘corresponding author’ responsible for submission and communication with the editors. We found that 54% of these authors met some or all of our criteria. Some 13% of authors came from the developing world.
Within the limitations of our ‘fame factors’ (for example, some correspondents were well known but from outside academia)
and of sampling only the corresponding authors, we infer that scientific celebrity does not notably influence the selection of Correspondence for publication
Compiling contextualized lists of frequent vocabulary from user- supplied corpora using natural language processing techniques
No full textSubmission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-08-01The student, Omid Abdar, accepted the attached license on 2016-07-14 at 15:51.The student, Omid Abdar, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-07-14 at 16:00.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-07-15 at 17:00.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9948 on 2016-11-10 at 12:20:49Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-10T18:27:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 2016-07-15Since there are thousands of words to learn in a new language, one common challenge for language learners and teachers is knowing which vocabulary items to prioritize over the others and, in general, setting vocabulary-learning goals. Within vocabulary teaching research, one approach has been to focus on lists of the most common vocabulary. West (1953) proposed a list of the 2000 most frequent word families in English that, it was argued, were most important for learners to master. Along the same lines, Coxhead (2000) offered a list of the most common words in academic English known as the Academic Word List (AWL). Arguing that AWL did not adequately reflect the learners’ specialized vocabulary needs, however, corpus linguists began to develop wordlists in specialized subject areas with an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) perspective for students in Business, Engineering, Medical, and Law majors and so on.
A central theme in almost all previous endeavors to develop better wordlists has been the notion of 'representativeness'—the extent to which a wordlist 'represents' the language needs of leaners. In this study, it is proposed that an alternative way to maximize representativeness in a wordlist is to enable users to compile a wordlist from any text or corpus that is of interest to them and to provide the means of compiling a wordlist using that text. Using Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), this study shows how a few Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques may be used to compile a list of the most common words in the Europarl corpus along with retrieving example sentences from the corpus for each word. This new approach can have applications for both language leaners as well as for the purposes of preparing instructional materials in an ESP setting.Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 95375
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Corrigendum: Wafer-scale two-dimensional semiconductors from printed oxide skin of liquid metals.
No full textNature Communications 8: Article number: 14482; published: 17 February 2017; Updated: 22 March 2017 The original version of this Article contained a typographical error in the spelling of the author Omid Kavehei, which was incorrectly given as Omid Kevehei. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.</jats:p
Genomic and microscopic dissection of large-scale chromatin compaction
No full textLarge-scale chromatin compaction varies across the human genome, and these variations correlate with differences in transcriptional activity in a limited number of model systems. However, without validated genome-wide methods directly measuring large-scale chromatin compaction, the degree to which this level of chromatin organization correlates with defined features of genome organization remains unknown. Existing methods assess chromatin compaction indirectly, based on, for example, the accessibility of DNA to enzymes or susceptibility to mechanical shear, and probe lower--level chromatin organization, primarily at the nucleosome level. Therefore, these existing measures of chromatin compaction may not translate to measurements of large-scale chromatin compaction. In this dissertation I explore new methods for measuring large-scale chromatin compaction using genomic and microcopic tools. I have developed a new genomic method, based on TSA-seq, to measure chromatin compaction. TSA-Seq is a genomic method that directly probes the average physical distances of chromosome loci relative to different nuclear structures. Here I use the first derivative, or slope, of the TSA-Seq signal to identify unusually decondensed large-scale chromatin domains (DLCDs). These DLCDs have an average size of ~70 kb and correlate with nearby enrichment of active chromatin marks, enhancers and especially super-enhancers, and cohesin and CTCF binding sites. They map closely to a large fraction of genome organization domain boundaries identified by Hi-C, LAD/innerLAD boundaries defined by lamin B1 DamID, and rapid transitions in the Hi-C principal eigenvector signal. Moreover, cluster analysis reveals DLCDs map most frequently to divisions between chromatin domains of varying epigenetic marks. To validate the existence of DLCDs, I have created a digital image processing package, Angler, for analyzing DNA--FISH experiments with minimal supervision using established computer vision algorithms. Angler can measure spatial properties of FISH loci in a high throughput manner. In conclusion, my results demonstrate the non-random placement of large-scale chromatin decondensed regions, which may contribute to the functional division of the genome into discrete and independently-regulated chromatin domains.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-08-01The student, Omid Gholamalamdari, accepted the attached license on 2021-07-15 at 15:43.The student, Omid Gholamalamdari, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2021-07-15 at 15:53.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2021-07-15 at 16:36.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16967 on 2022-01-12 at 12:55:22Made available in DSpace on 2022-01-12T22:35:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Diagnostic performance of an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to detect bovine leukemia virus antibodies in bulk-tank milk samples.
No full textThis study assessed the diagnostic performance of a commercial ELISA for detecting bovine leukemia virus antibodies in bulk-tank milk samples from eastern Canada. Sensitivity and specificity of the test were estimated at 97.2% and 100%, respectively. The test was recommended as a cost-efficient tool for large-scale screening programs.journal article2016 Julimporte
Onchodellus squamosus
No full textOnchodellus squamosus (Koroleva, 1977) Pachylaelaps squamosus Koroleva, 1977a: 134. Pachylaelaps squamosus.— Koroleva, 1977b: 444. Onchodellus squamosus.— Mašán, 2007: 111; Mašán & Halliday, 2014: 20. Using the identification key prepared by Mašán (2007), this species was identified and reported by Mojahed et al. (2017), because all key morphological characteristics fitted O. squamosus. Mašán (January 2017, personal communications) informed the senior author (AA) that this specimen should be conspecific with that species which was identified and illustrated as O. siculus by Koroleva (1977a), then listed as a misidentification by Mašán & Halliday (2014). Therefore, it represents an undescribed species. By this reason, O. squamosus was removed from the acarofauna of Iran.Published as part of Ahadiyat, Ali, Moghadam, Sahebeh Ghasemi, Kermani, Reyhaneh Abutaleb & Harchi, Omid Jo-, 2020, Review of the Iranian species of Pachylaelapidae, with description of a new species of Onchodellus (Acari: Mesostigmata) in Zootaxa 4778 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4778.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/382364
Development of a Geomechanics Program for Wellbore Stability Analysis
No full textA geomechanics program for wellbore stability analysis has been developed consisting of two modules: an analytical-based solution and a numerical-based solution. In the first part, input data are imported, including petrophysical well logs, pressure data, formation well tops, and a well path. Lithology intervals are set with proper prediction equations to calculate rock mechanical properties based on laboratory tests. In-situ stress and pore pressure are determined using different methods, including the poroelastic plane strain model and stress polygon. From the theory of plane strain, new equations are solved to determine horizontal tectonic strains (ϵ h, ϵ H) from drilling events such as total mud loss and breakout during drilling. Safe mud weight bounds are calculated through depth and in different azimuths and inclinations applying the Mohr-Coulomb and the Mogi-Coulomb failure criteria. The latter underestimated the minimum mud weight to prevent wellbore breakout. The transversely vertical isotropy of shale formation is programmed with multiple stress transformations via the weak-plane method. In the second module, a 3D model around the wellbore is discretized with hexahedral eight-point elements and programmed using the finite-element (FE) method. Rock mechanical property and displacement boundary conditions are applied to solve FE equations. Stress from the numerical model matched to the Kirsch model and results show that maximum stress concentration around the wellbore corresponds to the wellbore breakout, which has analytically been established. A new well plan across the 3D model was examined to obtain the safe mud weight bounds and results were in agreement with the analytical calculations. Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Applied Geophysics and Petrophysic
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