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Alien Registration- Phillips, Charles A. (Amherst, Hancock County)
https://digitalmaine.com/alien_docs/19714/thumbnail.jp
Evaluation of the Wellspring Model for Improving Nursing Home Quality
Examines how successfully the Wellspring model improved the quality of care for residents of eleven nonprofit nursing homes in Wisconsin. Looks at staff turnover, and evaluates the impact on facilities, employees, residents, and cost
Bend, Engage, Wait, and Watch: Rethinking Political Agency in a World of Flows
We inhabit an era of accelerated pace and a precarity of being that rivals vulnerabilities encountered regularly by the Greek polis. And yet our operative conceptions of political agency have yet to catch up with this condition. Drawing initially upon Sophocles and Lucretius, this study seeks to retune modern models of agency to fit the late-modern condition. As you work creatively upon Sophocles to appreciate the swerve in Lucretius, the wisdom of minor characters in his tragic trilogy becomes even more visible, particularly as they respond with flexibility and insight to surprising events and binds. We next turn to Catherine Malabou’s exploration of body/brain “plasticity”, to bolster and extend these insights. Friedrich Nietzsche is drawn upon to teach us the importance of periodic hesitation, as we allow multifarious intensities to work upon us in the hopes that a new, creative response will bubble up to respond to an uncanny event. The focus on flexibility, plasticity, periodic hesitation, creativity, and cultivation of existential gratitude is carried into contemporary life through an analysis of media techniques adopted by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. By parodying the rhythm, pace and tone of news programs, these commentators teach us both how the media work on the passive syntheses that infuse agency and how we can turn its operations into creative political thinking and action. The study ends by examining Machiavelli on the precarious relations between virtu and fortuna through the lens of these strategies, doing so to retune our practices of political agency
Robust Inference of Genetic Exchange Communities from Microbial Genomes Using TF-IDF
Bacteria and archaea can exchange genetic material across lineages through processes of lateral genetic transfer (LGT). Collectively, these exchange relationships can be modeled as a network and analyzed using concepts from graph theory. In particular, densely connected regions within an LGT network have been defined as genetic exchange communities (GECs). However, it has been problematic to construct networks in which edges solely represent LGT. Here we apply term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF), an alignment-free method originating from document analysis, to infer regions of lateral origin in bacterial genomes. We examine four empirical datasets of different size (number of genomes) and phyletic breadth, varying a key parameter (word length k) within bounds established in previous work. We map the inferred lateral regions to genes in recipient genomes, and construct networks in which the nodes are groups of genomes, and the edges natively represent LGT. We then extract maximum and maximal cliques (i.e., GECs) from these graphs, and identify nodes that belong to GECs across a wide range of k. Most surviving lateral transfer has happened within these GECs. Using Gene Ontology enrichment tests we demonstrate that biological processes associated with metabolism, regulation and transport are often over-represented among the genes affected by LGT within these communities. These enrichments are largely robust to change of k
Phase fluctuations in anisotropic Bose condensates: from cigars to rings
We study the phase-fluctuating condensate regime of ultra-cold atoms trapped
in a ring-shaped trap geometry, which has been realized in recent experiments.
We first consider a simplified box geometry, in which we identify the
conditions to create a state that is dominated by thermal phase-fluctuations,
and then explore the experimental ring geometry. In both cases we demonstrate
that the requirement for strong phase fluctuations can be expressed in terms of
the total number of atoms and the geometric length scales of the trap only. For
the ring-shaped trap we discuss the zero temperature limit in which a
condensate is realized where the phase is fluctuating due to interactions and
quantum fluctuations. We also address possible ways of detecting the phase
fluctuating regime in ring condensates.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, minor edit
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