Bibliopedia

Bibliopedia is a tool that will perform advanced data-mining & cross-referencing between secondary literature & primary texts & original documents. It will search repositories like JSTOR, Google Scholar, & Project MUSE for full-text citations that mention an original document, analyze the articles & books found, and save the results in a publicly accessible database that will form the basis of an online research collaboratory. The platform will also allow for human-machine collaboration to correct errors in metadata. Bibliopedia will also allow users to create browsable & customizable bibliographies of all the works cited by each article & book. Most importantly, it will perform automated textual analysis, data extraction, cross-referencing, & visualizations of the relationships between texts & authors. Our aim is to serve the research and pedagogical needs of the broadest possible range of humanities scholars

Reinventing Race, Colonization, and Globalisms across Deep Time: Lessons from the Longue Durée

Critically surveys the long premodern history of race and racism, colonization and imperialism, and globalism, across c. 1000-1500 CE

The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages I: Race Studies, Modernity, and the Middle Ages

“The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages”—a two-part article—questions the widely held belief in critical race theory that “race” is a category without purchase before the modern era. Surveying a variety of cultural documents from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries—chronicles, hagiography, literature, stories, sculpture, maps, canon law, statuary, illustrations, religious commentary, and architectural features—the study considers racial thinking, racial law, racial formation, and racialized behaviors and phenomena in medieval Europe before the emergence of a recognizable vocabulary of race. One focus is how a political hermeneutics of religion—so much in play again today—enabled the positing of fundamental human differences in biopolitical and culturalist ways to create strategic essentialisms demarcating human kinds and populations. Another focus is how race figures in the emergence of homo europaeus and the identity of Western Europe (beginning as Latin Christendom) in this time. Part I—“Race Studies, Modernity, and the Middle Ages”—surveys the current state of race theory, and puts in conversation race studies and medieval studies, fields that exist on either side of a vast divide. Part II—“Locations of Medieval Race”—identifies and analyzes specific concretions of medieval race, while continuing to develop the theoretical arguments of Part I

Linguistic features in the introduction section of the hospitality and management research articles

This paper reports a corpus-based genre analysis of the use of linguistic features in the introduction section of Hospitality and Management research articles (HM RAs). It explores the frequently used linguistic features such as modal verbs, personal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, tenses, conjuncts, hedging, citations- integral and non-integral and the use of questions. The samples used were 20 RAs taken from the Journal of Hospitality and Management and published between the years 2004 - 2006. The linguistic features of the introduction section were identified using the Wordsmith program (Scott, 1998) and manually recording and counting the frequency of occurrence in each move. It is noted that the modals ‘can’ and ‘may’ are used simultaneously in all the three moves identified in the HM RA introductions. Interestingly, the analysis of the linguistic features in the present study shows that it is necessary for the HM RA writers to use different linguistic features while discussing certain moves such as the use of the present tense, which is predominant in Move 1, Move 2 and Move 3 while the present perfect and past tense are found in Move 1 and 3. The study indicates that identification of the linguistic features in the introduction section of the HM RAs may be helpful for students and novice writers in the field because they may be able to use these features as an initial suggested list of choices that they can effectively use in their writing

Large-scale evolutionary surveillance of the 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus using resequencing arrays

In April 2009, a new influenza A (H1N1 2009) virus emerged that rapidly spread around the world. While current variants of this virus have caused widespread disease, particularly in vulnerable groups, there remains the possibility that future variants may cause increased virulence, drug resistance or vaccine escape. Early detection of these virus variants may offer the chance for increased containment and potentially prevention of the virus spread. We have developed and field-tested a resequencing kit that is capable of interrogating all eight segments of the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) virus genome and its variants, with added focus on critical regions such as drug-binding sites, structural components and mutation hotspots. The accompanying base-calling software (EvolSTAR) introduces novel methods that utilize neighbourhood hybridization intensity profiles and substitution bias of probes on the microarray for mutation confirmation and recovery of ambiguous base queries. Our results demonstrate that EvolSTAR is highly accurate and has a much improved call rate. The high throughput and short turn-around time from sample to sequence and analysis results (30 h for 24 samples) makes this kit an efficient large-scale evolutionary biosurveillance tool

Calibration and validation of the AquaCrop water productivity model for cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)

FAO’s water-driven crop growth simulation model, AquaCrop, was calibrated and validated for cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz). Existing datasets, used in similar published works, were shared covering several years and regions (Colombia, Nigeria and Togo). Different varieties were tested for the case of Colombia and a single variety (TME-419) for Nigeria and Togo. Overall calibrated biomass simulations resulted in an R² of 0.96 and a RMSE of 1.99 tonne DM/ha. As for dry tuber yield estimates, it was not possible to find a single harvest index for the ensembled varieties given their varying characteristics and limited data per variety. However, for the TME-419 variety (Nigeria and Togo) calibrated root tuber simulations yielded and R² of 0.94 and a RMSE of 2.37 tonne DM/ha. A single crop-file was developed for different cassava varieties and agro-ecological regions, which can be applied with confidence to further study cassava related food security, water productivity, improved agronomic practices, etc

Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements