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Dataset for "Books, Speech, and Dissent: A Network Analysis of Religious Communication among the Coventry Lollards, 1511–12"
October, 2026 • Dataset
Anonymous
This deposit supports the under-review article "Books, Speech, and Dissent: A Network Analysis of Religious Communication among the Coventry Lollards, 1511–12"Study abstract:The intertwining of …
This deposit supports the under-review article "Books, Speech, and Dissent: A Network Analysis of Religious Communication among the Coventry Lollards, 1511–12"Study abstract:The intertwining of textual culture and religious dissent in late medieval England was asserted first by those who repressed heresy and has since been broadly upheld by those who study it. How that intertwining operated, however, has been treated largely from the perspective of access to texts, their content, and the general cohesion they may have given to groups, rather than communication itself. Since the interplay of books and speech emerges only across many interactions, this article applies social network analysis to those recorded in the depositions of the Lichfield Court Book, which documents Bishop Geoffrey Blyth's investigation of suspected Lollards at Coventry in 1511–12. Communication is captured as structured data and resolved into three overlapping layers: physical book transmission, reading aloud, and purely oral conversation. These prove structurally distinct, yet the same central figures recur across them. While the content of oral communication is typically described in terms of views, and book transmission and reading in terms of specific texts, overlaps between otherwise distinct interactions within the network suggest that particular texts fed particular strands of dissident opinion. Patterns in the recording of the language of communicated texts raise the possibility that Latin scriptural books circulated alongside English ones. Inferential modelling then shows that a book transmitted or read between two people accompanied their speaking together, and that those involved with texts turned their talk primarily inward, toward others likewise involved. Books and their reading structured the communication of dissent at Coventry, to some degree even defining its bounds.This supporting deposit contains the data and R code underlying the article. It comprises the coded communication edge list, node attributes, and book-keeping notices derived from the depositions of the Lichfield Court Book (Stafford, Staffordshire Record Office, MS B/C/13), recording Bishop Geoffrey Blyth's investigation of suspected Lollards at Coventry in 1511–12; the R scripts that build the three-layer communication network and produce every table and figure in the published article; and the outputs as published.
Communication is captured at three levels – book transmission, reading aloud, and oral exchange – as 657 interactions among 142 individuals, coded from the depositions using the CASTEMO method. Analyses include network descriptives, content and language analysis, an exponential random graph model, permutation tests, and QAP regression, together with sensitivity checks.
Documentation is in the READMEs at the top level and in data/, covering the data dictionary, coding scheme, source coverage, and the relationship between interactions, statements, and network ties. Running analyses.R regenerates everything from the source CSVs.
A Surface-Decorated BFACF Framework for Essential Surfaces in Lattice Knot Exteriors
October, 2026 • Preprint
Ozawa, Makoto
We introduce the \emph{surface-decorated BFACF framework}, a finite-state extension of lattice-polygon move graphs in which the fiber over a representative records encoded surfaces in its exterior. &n…
We introduce the \emph{surface-decorated BFACF framework}, a finite-state extension of lattice-polygon move graphs in which the fiber over a representative records encoded surfaces in its exterior. It separates four reusable ingredients: a local move system, a bounded decoration scheme, verification procedures, and certified transport. A finite-state lifting theorem shows that every fixed complexity window gives a finite, constructible decorated graph, and certified ambient isotopies along move paths induce a surface-transport functor on isotopy classes in the exteriors.
For the simple cubic lattice and classical BFACF moves the framework is realized in two complementary layers. The square-cubical layer is a fast front end whose states are bounded-area unions of lattice square faces. The cubical-normal layer is an exact backend whose decorations are normal-coordinate vectors in a triangulation of the capped cubical exterior, where complete procedures decide essentiality. At fixed length, box, area, collar and weight bounds, and for fixed finite libraries of certified local templates, all state spaces and move graphs are finite and enumerable.
Every compact orientable essential surface in a lattice-knot exterior is isotopic to a normal surface in the canonical triangulation. Hence the directed union of the finite cubical-normal tables exhausts all orientable essential-surface isotopy classes, and certified BFACF paths transport such classes between representatives, lifting the theorem that unbounded BFACF components are knot types. The framework yields exact finite-window decisions, computable boundary-slope and Seifert spectra, finite reduction and disjointness complexes, birth parameters, and a stable local realization of PL isotopy.
Two applications are developed. Releasing the knot type in the base turns the realization problem for the triple consisting of genus, number of boundary components and boundary-slope denominator into an increasing union of explicitly computable finite sets, so that the minimal genus of a realizable triple is the infimum of certified finite-window upper bounds, together with a short discrete proof of the parity obstruction and a falsifiable test for the strong cabling conjecture. For discretely presented surfaces the framework settles the counterpart of the compressibility question left open in \cite{OzawaGeomFinite}, and the purely metric comparison with that theory is analysed: an explicit local model, a pillow around one rounded fold, has relative surface thickness of the exact order of the mesh, uniformly in the collar budget. This proves a thick-tube local-fold variant of the comparison; the comparison as posed remains open for surfaces all of whose folds are peripheral, the local model does not represent the same knot--surface pair, and the analysis isolates in two concrete steps what a smoothing that does would require. Translating an analytic pair into the discrete model remains an open problem.
The record contains the PDF, the LaTeX source, and ancillary Python scripts and data (directories anc/ete and anc/pilot) reproducing every reported computation.
lattice knot; BFACF algorithm; local move system; essential surface; cubical surface; normal surface; surface transport; finite-state graph; computational knot theory
This dataset contains version 3.0.1 of the Rub al-Khali microbial survey knowledge graph, integrating microbiome and environmental data from five expeditions covering 60 core sampling sites and 10 nam…
This dataset contains version 3.0.1 of the Rub al-Khali microbial survey knowledge graph, integrating microbiome and environmental data from five expeditions covering 60 core sampling sites and 10 named locations of special interest in the Rub al-Khali (Empty Quarter), Saudi Arabia.
The graph connects 16S rRNA amplicon profiles and taxon read abundances with sampling metadata, environmental observations, climate data, archived-soil pH measurements, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) geochemistry, and provenance. It supports investigation of desert microbial diversity and its associations with environmental conditions through linked-data queries and integration with other datasets.
Version 3.0.1 contains 45,707,660 asserted RDF triples, distributed across 16 modules. The accompanying OWL ontology provides English-language definitions for 342 project terms and reuses established vocabularies, including SIO, ENVO, PATO, and UO. The release contains asserted statements only; inferred triples are not included.
Release resources include the compressed graph in N-Quads format, individual RDF modules, the project ontology, rebuild materials, machine-readable discovery metadata, validation records, and checksums. Project-authored RDF data, ontology terms, and metadata are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Imported ontologies and other third-party resources retain their respective licences and attribution requirements, as documented in the accompanying notices. Software is licensed separately under MIT.
Interactive exploration and documentation: https://rubalkhali.science/ Source code and reproducibility materials: https://github.com/bio-ontology-research-group/empty-quarter-data-paper
Pattern and Morphological Spectrum of Craniocerebral Trauma and Cranio-Cervical Junction Injuries in Fatal Falls from Height: An Autopsy-Based Study
October, 2026 • Journal article • International Journal of Medical Science in Clinical Research & Review
Dr. Sudhanshu Saran1, Dr. Manish Kumar2, Dr. Sunil Kumar3, Dr. SumantaDutta4
ABSTRACT
Background:Falls from height (FFH) are a principal cause of blunt neurotrauma encountered in forensic mortuaries. Craniocerebral trauma remains the leading causeof lethality. Objectives:To ev…
ABSTRACT
Background:Falls from height (FFH) are a principal cause of blunt neurotrauma encountered in forensic mortuaries. Craniocerebral trauma remains the leading causeof lethality. Objectives:To evaluate the morphological spectrum, intracranial haemorrhage patterns, skull fracture distributions, and cranio-cervical junction disruptions in fatal fall-from-height autopsies. Materials and Methods:An observational autopsy study of 100 fatal FFH cases autopsied at SMS Medical College, Jaipur between September 2024 and September 2025. Data regarding scalp injuries, skull fractures, meningeal/parenchymal bleeds, brain contusions, and upper cervical spine injuries were recorded systematically. Results:Cranio-cerebral involvement was identified in 83% of victims. Direct head impact was the primary point of contact in 68% of cases. Intracranial haemorrhages occurred in 64% of cases, and cerebral contusions in 60%. Subdural haemorrhage (SDH, 48%) and subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH, 48%) were the predominant intracranial lesions, followed by extradural haemorrhage (EDH, 13%) and intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH, 9%). Skull vault fractures were observed in 36% of cases. Associated cervical spine fractures occurred in 23% and cord trauma in 18%. Coma was the mode of death in 57% of subjects, directly attributable to lethal head injury in 58%. Conclusion:Craniocerebral trauma, especially diffuse contusional and extra-axial subdural/subarachnoid injury, is the primary fatal mechanism in falls from height. Routine post-mortem evaluation must combine duralreflection with cranio-cervical dissection to uncover occult neuroaxial injuries.
Keywords:Fall from height, Craniocerebral trauma, Skull fracture, Subdural haemorrhage, Autopsy.
haqueshenas/Canopy-GSM-Python: Canopy GSM for Python v1.0.0
October, 2026 • Software
Abbas Haghshenas
Canopy GSM for Python v1.0.0
Canopy GSM for Python is an open-source Python implementation of the
Green-gradient based Canopy Segmentation Model (GSM) for quantitative
RGB canopy image analysis and cr…
Canopy GSM for Python v1.0.0
Canopy GSM for Python is an open-source Python implementation of the
Green-gradient based Canopy Segmentation Model (GSM) for quantitative
RGB canopy image analysis and crop phenotyping.
This release provides:
Batch Processing for image collections
Canopy GSM Explorer for interactive single-image analysis
Multiple ST1 segmentation methods
RGB and HSV-based segmentation
Custom ST1 segmentation support
GSM graph generation and export
ST3 analysis
Optional curve fitting in Explorer
Full-resolution image processing
CSV, PDF, and processed-image outputs
A standalone Windows application package
Windows application
No Python installation is required to use the packaged Windows application.
Download:
CanopyGSM-v1.0.0-Windows-x64.zip
Extract the complete CanopyGSM folder and run:
CanopyGSM.exe
Do not move the executable outside the extracted CanopyGSM folder.
A desktop shortcut may be created after extraction.
Source code
The Python source code is available in this repository under the MIT License.
Version:
1.0.0
Copyright (c) 2026 Abbas Haghshenas
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