Stanford University

“Full / of Endless Distances”:Forms of Desire in Poetic Attention

This essay explores desire as one mode of poetic attention. Through readings of poems by Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Robert Hass, and Wallace Stevens, Ishow how desire is given form through the formal orchestration of attention. In thesepoems, desire emerges as a mode of attent...

Linking social attention to reproductive state and future reproduction in female monkeys

Abstract The demands of complex social life are thought to drive the evolution of cognition in primates. One important approach to testing this hypothesis is to assess if variation in psychological processes impacts an individual’s fitness outcomes, but this can be challenging in...

Subverting Hebrew’s Gender Binary: Grammar, Poetry, and Performance in the Work of Esther Raab

This article examines antigrammaticality in the work of the so-called first “native” modern Hebrew poet, Esther Raab, focusing in particular on how Raab deploys the constraints of Hebrew’s highly gendered grammar in her poems. I begin by considering the broad implications of gram...

Rhythm as Form

In the present essay, I explore the historical roots of “rhythm” in biblical Hebrew and classical Greek. In both cases, the concept of rhythm arises from an account of material form. In Hebrew, rhythm (ketsev) speaks in the first instance to the limits, cut, or shape of a given o...

Mimicry and Denial: Proliferating Identities in Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question

Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question examines anti-Semitism in the contemporary United Kingdom, in particular Jewish life besieged by anti-Zionist antagonists. More specifically, the novel, with satire and gallows humor, explores the specific character of a postmodern anti-Semi...

Beyond Genotype: Integrating Phenoconversion into Pharmacogenetic Decision-Making in Psychiatry

Interindividual variability in psychotropic drug response contributes to treatment failure, adverse drug reactions, and repeated medication adjustments. Pharmacogenetics supports precision prescribing by identifying genetic variants associated with drug metabolism, efficacy, and...

Lost in Fire, Lost in Letters: Archives of the Algerian War

This article explores the status of the Jeanson archives. Sartrian philosopher Francis Jeanson (1922–2009) was the leader of the most prominent network of metropolitan French nationals who actively supported the Front de libération nationale (FLN) during the Algerian War (1954–62...

Beyond Metaphysics: B'Tselem / In the Image—on Literature and the Arts in Our (Post)Secular Age

Reflecting on poetry, prose, and the visual arts of the post–Second World War era, this short essay points to what I see as a broad tendency in literature and the arts to move away from metaphysical ideas regarding politics and ethics. Specifically, I suggest that many writers an...

The Future of Temple Mount: Imagined Possibilities in Contemporary Palestinian and Israeli Art

This essay analyzes two contemporary video artworks—one by the Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour and one by the Israeli artist Yael Bartana—in an attempt to better comprehend contemporary visions of the future in the arts of this region. I focus on the chronotope of Temple Mount...

Prevalence of chronic pain among U.S. children with neurodevelopmental disorders.

Introduction: Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) affect up to 15% of children in the United States and are associated with co-occurring health challenges such as chronic pain, which can negatively affect development and quality of life. Increased risk of chronic pain in children...

The DESI Y1 RR Lyrae Catalog. I. Empirical Modeling of the Cyclic Variation of Spectroscopic Properties and a Chemodynamical Analysis of the Outer Halo

Abstract We present the catalog of RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) observed in the first year of operations of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. This catalog contains 6240 RRLs out to ∼120 kpc from the Galactic center and over 12,000 individual epochs with homogeneous...

Relight: Simple User-Level Checkpointing and Fast-Forward Replay for Distributed Task-Based Systems

Checkpointing, or periodic saving of program state to storage, is the de facto standard technique used to mitigate risks of nondeterministic bugs, hardware faults, and job wall-time limits in long-running programs. Traditional approaches require users to manually manage the migra...

GrandTour: A legged robotics dataset in the wild for multi-modal perception and state estimation

Accurate state estimation and multi-modal perception are prerequisites for autonomous legged robots in complex, large-scale environments. To date, no large-scale public legged-robot dataset captures the real-world conditions needed to develop and benchmark algorithms for legged-r...

Equivalence Checking of ML GPU Kernels

With the rapid progress of deep learning and large language models (LLMs), companies spend enormous sums executing GPU kernels. These kernels have become prime targets for aggressive optimization. Recent efforts increasingly leverage LLMs to generate GPU kernels, but make no form...

Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Thalamic Brain Metastases: A Retrospective Analysis and Literature Review.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The thalamus, a neural processor and integrator for forebrain activities, is an uncommon site for metastatic lesions. Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) has become a noninvasive treatment for brain metastases. This study assesses the efficacy, safety, and...

Anatomical and Histologic Response to Neoadjuvant Therapy: Recurrence Patterns Among Poor Responders. A Multi-institutional Observational Cohort Study.

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the prognostic implications after hepatectomy for colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) by integrating anatomical response to neoadjuvant therapy (NAT), quantified using the Tumor Burden Score ratio (TBSr), with histologic response assessed by Tumor Regres...

Dual Roles of Cyanopeptides as Substrates and Inhibitors of Enzymes in Surface Waters

Abstract Harmful cyanobacterial blooms produce diverse bioactive metabolites, cyanopeptides, whose environmental persistence remains uncertain. First, we investigated enzymatic reactions with cyanopeptides as substrates in aquatic systems. The aquatic enzyme pool from the riverin...

SafeSpeaker: Voice Obfuscation for Resource-Constrained IoT Devices

Embodied voice assistants offer an intuitive and powerful interaction modality, but they also pose significant privacy-leakage risks when uploading raw voice recordings to the cloud for processing. These voice recordings contain a wealth of private information beyond just spoken...

On the Inhibition of Lipid Peroxidation and Ferroptosis by Fatty Acids

Most inhibitors of lipid peroxidation (LPO) and associated ferroptosis are small molecules that trap LPO-propagating radicals. Among the handful of other inhibitors are select fatty acids: monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) and polyunsaturated fatty acids substituted with deuter...

A versatile fluorescent reporter for Usutu virus drug screening and infection tracking

Abstract Usutu virus (USUV) is an emerging mosquito-borne orthoflavivirus closely related to West Nile and Japanese encephalitis viruses. Despite its increasing prevalence in Europe and reports of neuroinvasive disease in humans, the molecular and immunological determinants of US...