University of California, Berkeley

With the Loss of a Master-Signifier: Modernism and Translation in Lamed Shapiro’s American Yiddish Stories

This article explores translational modes of literary representation intwo American Yiddish stories by Lamed Shapiro: “Nuyorkish” (New Yorkish, 1931) and “Oyfn yam” (At sea, 1909). Shapiro narrates in Yiddish events that take place in English, thus shifting much of the thematic “...

Characterization of Formation Deformation during Production Test from Gas Hydrate in Alaska: A Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing Approach

Abstract Reliable monitoring of geomechanical responses is essential for the safe and sustainable production of gas hydrate reservoirs. This study reports the first field-scale application of distributed strain sensing (DSS) during a 10 month extended gas production test on Alask...

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...

Mechanistic Study of CO2 Reduction in a Metal Nanoparticle/Ligand-Based Nanoconfined Pocket

Abstract Electrochemically reducing CO2 holds promise for producing value-added chemicals. Achieving this requires electrocatalysts with high selectivity and energy efficiency. Nanopocket engineering enhances catalytic activity by modulating interfacial reactivity and stabilizing...

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...

Scaffold Fiber Architecture and Uniaxial Stretch Differentially Regulate Cell and Nuclear Morphology in Human Dermal Fibroblasts.

Cellular and nuclear morphology, together with directional alignment, are fundamental determinants of cell function and play critical roles in the formation, organization, and maintenance of functional fibrous connective tissues. In tissue-engineered systems, these characteristic...

Proper solutions of the $1/H$-flow and the Green kernel of the $p$-Laplacian

We show existence and optimal growth estimate for the weak inverse mean curvature flow issuing from a point, on manifolds with certain curvature and isoperimetric conditions. These theorems imply analogous ones for the flow issuing from relatively compact sets. Some of the result...

Direct Manipulation and Natural Language Programming, Together at Last?

Decades of programming languages research has contributed novel approaches to program editing that go beyond modifying text, including direct manipulation programming, structure editing, and automated refactoring tools. However, the rapid growth of natural language programming la...

Enhanced screening and bacterial sexually-transmitted infection diagnoses after HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis initiation

BACKGROUND: Recipients of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) experience higher rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia diagnoses than non-recipients. However, it is unclear if these observations reflect a causal relationship between PrEP initiation and acquisition of sexually transmitt...

Deadwood Labor? The Effects of Eliminating Employment Protection for Older Workers

We analyze mandatory retirement in Sweden, which eliminates employment protection at age 67. Employment falls by about 10 percent and total average earnings by about 20 percent immediately at age 67. Eight percent of jobs separate immediately due to loss of protection, with effec...

Globalization, Capital Taxation, and Development: Evidence from a Macrohistorical Database

This paper builds and analyzes a new global macrohistorical database of effective tax rates on capital and labor in 154 countries. We establish a new stylized fact: While effective capital tax rates fell in developed countries between 1965 and 2018, they rose in developing countr...

World model for robot learning: A comprehensive survey

World models, which are predictive representations of how environments evolve under actions, have become a central component of robot learning. They support policy learning, planning, simulation, evaluation, data generation, and have advanced rapidly with the rise of foundation m...

Many-Body Ground State Manifold of Flat Band Interacting Hamiltonian for Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Abstract At a magic relative twist angle, magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has an octet of flat bands that can host strong correlation physics when partially filled. A key theoretical discovery in MATBG is the existence of ferromagnetic Slater determinants as exact gr...

Multilingual Hispanic Speech in California (MuHSiC): A Large-Scale Open-Access Spanish–English Bilingual Corpus

Aims and Objectives / Purpose / Research Questions: This article introduces the Multilingual Hispanic Speech in California (MuHSiC) corpus. It addresses two primary questions: (a) how can a large-scale, open-access corpus be designed to capture the linguistic diversity of Spanish...

An RNA-seq data resource for time-of-day-dependent cold responses in sorghum and foxtail millet

Abstract Objectives The purpose of this dataset is to identify transcripts showing time-of-day-dependent responses to low temperature in the panicoid grasses sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) and foxtail millet ( Setaria italica ). These data support a larger effort to understand how c...

Revisiting evidence for an attentional tunneling effect caused by scarcity

Abstract People in poverty sometimes behave in ways that perpetuate their socioeconomic condition. By one influential account, these behaviors arise from psychological effects of scarcity on attention that create greater focus toward managing scarce resources, at the cost of atte...

Actin conformation dynamics precede force generation in cytotoxic T lymphocytes

Abstract Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) are cells of the adaptive immune system that are able to recognise and kill cancerous or virally infected target cells. The biochemical basis of CTL-mediated killing has been examined in great detail. Recent work has underscored the importa...

Water-Enabled Conversion of NO and CO to NH3 over CuO x Clusters via Hydrolysis of Surface –NCO Intermediates

Abstract The catalytic conversion of gaseous NO to NH3 offers a promising dual-benefit strategy for environmental remediation and sustainable chemical synthesis. Herein, CuO/Al2O3 catalysts with varied CuO loadings (x wt %, xCu/Al) were developed for the possible NH3 production f...

Estimating VO 2 max With the Timed Mile Run: An Updated Equation for Today's Youth

ABSTRACT Background School‐based physical fitness testing (SB‐PFT) is an important tool to address youth physical inactivity. However, the widely used Fitnessgram equation that converts timed mile run performance into estimates of cardiorespiratory fitness (VO 2 max) may not be v...

Macrophage restriction in Drosophila wounds and tumors via a matrix degradation–moderating protease inhibitor

Breaches of epithelial homeostasis trigger an inflammatory response. Not only initiation but also negative regulation of the response is critical, as autoinflammation can cause tissue damage and chronic disease. Epithelial breaches can be signaled by damage-associated molecular p...