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This project is brought to you with the current miracle of modern technologies, AI text and image generation. I can claim no real creative input, aside from the initial idea, and the random choice of ‘authors’ (my apologies to those who’s names I’ve used, it was meant out of respect, as I find their writings interesting).ChatGTP was used to generate the texts, the full prompts are on the following pages. The imagery was all created with Recraft. I used the first lines of the cantos as the prompts and tried various generations until I found one that appealed. Occasionally I asked it to regenerate an image, but usually I took whatever it gave me.All ‘authors’ and ‘authors texts’ are entirely fictional inventions, and any similarities to authors, living or dead, is purely algorithmic.64pp, published by The Caseroom Press

P.Herc. 1077 cols. 49-50. Philodemus, De pietate Drawing by G.B. Malesci

The box-ball system (BBS), which was introduced by Takahashi and Satsuma in 1990, is a soliton cellular automaton. Its dynamics can be linearized by a few methods, among which the best known is the Kerov-Kirillov-Reschetikhin (KKR) bijection using rigged partitions. Recently a new linearization method in terms of "slot configurations" was introduced by Ferrari-Nguyen-Rolla-Wang, but its relations to existing ones have not been clarified. In this paper we investigate this issue and clarify the relation between the two linearizations. For this we introduce a novel way of describing the BBS dynamics using a carrier with seat numbers. We show that the seat number configuration also linearizes the BBS and reveals explicit relations between the KKR bijection and the slot configuration. In addition, by using these explicit relations, we also show that even in case of finite carrier capacity the BBS can be linearized via the slot configuration.

Green techniques to extract natural pigments are gaining prominence among consumers and food industries. This trend is predominantly due to the harmful effects imparted by commonly used synthetic dyes and the unwarranted stress created on our ecosystem. The objectives of this study were to obtain natural pigments (anthocyanins and chlorophyll) from Estonian-gown European green and red gooseberries by ultrasonic-assisted citric acid-mediated extraction method and perform antioxidant profiling (quantification via HPLC analysis). Green gooseberry extracts showed lower content of targeted compounds, with low concentrations of rutin (0.7–1.2 mg/ L) and quercetin 3-glucoside (0.9–1.3 mg/L), while in the red gooseberry extracts, the amount was slightly higher (1.4–6.9 and 1.0–1.3 mg/L, respectively) with 0.6–6.8 mg/L cyanidin 3-glucoside and 0.32–0.35 mg/L peonidin 3 glucoside recorded. Further, the yield of anthocyanins ranged between 1.14–1.79 and 1.86–3.63 mg/100 g in green and red gooseberries, respectively. Total phenols ranged between 162–392 and 263–987 mg GAE/100 g in green and red gooseberry extracts, respectively. The DPPH free radicals scavenging activity showed 73–86% and 87–91% inhibition in both green and red gooseberry, respectively. Results showed significant improvements in pigment extraction with higher values obtained for targeted antioxidant compounds using conventional and UAE extraction (aqueous extract), thus confirming that green extractions are a reliable technique to obtain pigments of interest from natural sources. The results support consumers’ demand and open up the avenue to explore pigments as natural colourants in food and cosmetics applications.

This insight note highlights some implications for action that emerged from a recent RISE synthesis of a set of studies of the political economy of education policy adoption. The results suggest some ‘good fit’ soft governance entry points for improving learning outcomes across a variety of different political and institutional contexts.

Invited talk given at the University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece (30th March 2023)

At first glance, the significance of a piece of research may not be obvious, either from a paper submitted to a journal or from a published article. Its novelty, importance, and future impact are often uncertain. To improve the reception of your own work, you may be tempted to point out its virtues within the paper itself. In this OUPBlog post I consider why this boosterism may lead to unintended consequences.