cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
THE ROLE OF PLASTICS AS CARRIER OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO ASSESS TOXICITY ON AQUATIC AND TERRESTRIAL SPECIES.
Creators: name: PARENTI, CAMILLA CARLA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2021

description: La plastica � un materiale unico per i suoi numerosi vantaggi, tra cui l?essere economico, versatile, leggero, flessibile e resistente. Sono proprio queste indubbie qualit� ad aver fatto crescere esponenzialmente la produzione dei polimeri plastici negli ultimi 70 anni, dando vita parallelamente ad una nuova minaccia ambientale, causata soprattutto dalla inadeguata gestione dei rifiuti plastici, la cui maggior parte viene tutt?ora abbandonata in discarica, se non rilasciata direttamente in ambiente. I rischi della dispersione della plastica negli ecosistemi aumentano quando si fa riferimento ai frammenti di minor dimensione, sia derivanti dalla degradazione di macroplastiche sia appositamente prodotti per applicazioni industriali. Infatti, una ridotta dimensione pu� aumentare la capacit� dei frammenti plastici di accumularsi a livello dei tessuti degli organismi, ma anche di agire da vettori di contaminanti chimici. Lo scopo del progetto � stato valutare l?impatto ambientale dovuto alla presenza delle micro- e delle nanoplastiche, attraverso l?esposizione di specie acquatiche e terrestri e l?osservazione dei potenziali effetti ai diversi livelli dell?organizzazione biologica. Sono stati condotti diversi esperimenti di laboratorio utilizzando sia specie modello d?acqua dolce, Danio rerio e Dreissena polymorpha, che, per la prima volta, un modello terrestre, il baco da seta Bombyx mori. � stato inoltre approfondito il ruolo delle plastiche come carrier di contaminanti ambientali. In tutti gli organismi � stato dimostrato l?accumulo delle plastiche e la conseguente infiltrazione nei diversi tessuti. Le analisi biochimiche hanno evidenziato lievi effetti dell?esposizione a micro- e nanoplastiche, mentre risultati pi� rilevanti e da approfondire sono emersi dai test comportamentali. Gli effetti a livello individuale, uniti alle analisi di proteomica, hanno inoltre indicato un cambiamento della tossicit� di plastiche e contaminanti chimici quando amministrati in combinazione, invece che singolarmente, suggerendo una relazione ben pi� complicata che un semplice effetto additivo o sinergico. Lo studio ha infine aperto le porte all?utilizzo delle larve di B. mori come organismo modello per la valutazione degli effetti dei frammenti di plastica su organismi terrestri, ancora ampiamente sconosciuti.
Substances prioritaires DCE : Etude de détermination de facteurs de bioaccumulation (BAF) sur les mollusques en milieu marin
Creators: name: Amouroux, Isabelle
name: Gonzalez, Jean-Louis
name: Menet-Nedelec, Florence
name: Maheux, Frank
name: Brach-Papa, Christophe
name: Ravel, Christophe
name: Chavanon, Fabienne
name: Munaron, Dominique
name: Guillou, Jean-Louis
name: Guesdon, Stephane
name: Seugnet, Jean-Luc
name: Pierre-Duplessix, Olivier
name: Schmitt, Anne
name: Lebrun, Luc
name: Terre Terrillon, Aouregan
name: Rozuel, Emmanuelle
name: Bely, Nadege
Publisher: name: Ifremer
Year: 2020

description: Pour permettre d’évaluer la qualité chimique des masses d’eau en utilisant les résultats de la surveillance opérée sur les bivalves via le ROCCH ou le RINBIO, il est nécessaire de transposer les seuils existants applicables dans les eaux marines en seuils « mollusques » et ainsi d’adapter les NQE eau marine (Normes de Qualité Environnementale) en VGE mollusques (Valeur Guide Environnementale). Cette adaptation nécessite d’utiliser des facteurs de conversion eau-biote : les facteurs de bioconcentration (BCF) ou les facteurs de bioaccumulation (BAF) spécifiques de couples substance-espèce. Les BAF sont les facteurs à privilégier autant que possible car plus représentatifs de ce qui se passe dans le milieu avec notamment la prise en compte des différentes voies d’exposition des organismes aquatiques aux contaminants, i.e. la voie directe (eau) et la voie trophique (ingestion de proies contaminées). Cette démarche de détermination de VGE mollusques est engagée par Ifremer - OFB depuis 2015, et plusieurs étapes ont été réalisées : proposition de VGE mollusques (1) sur la base de données existantes, élaboration d’une méthodologie de détermination de BAF pour les mollusques en milieu marin afin d’acquérir des données BAF terrain. Cette étude de détermination des BAF sur les mollusques en milieu marin a été conduite entre 2016 et 2019, elle concerne 27 substances prioritaires : 3 composés métalliques et 24 substances organiques. Sept sites ont été échantillonnés en parallèle sur les matrices eau marine et mollusques. Suivant les points, les mollusques échantillonnés étaient des moules sauvages (ou d’élevage) et / ou des moules encagés, et deux sites disposaient en plus d’huîtres encagées. Les concentrations dans l’eau marine ont été mesurées sur eau brute et / ou eau filtrée. En dépit des nombreuses difficultés logistiques rencontrées, cette étude souligne d’un point de vue technique, l’intérêt de la SBSE (Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction), pour la recherche de certaines substances organiques dans l’eau marine, la pertinence de rechercher ces substances sur eau brute mais également sur eau filtrée. Cette étude permet de disposer de résultats acquis en parallèle à la fois sur moules encagées, sur moules sauvages ou d’élevage et de mesurer des BAF pour 10 substances : Cd, Ni, Pb, anthracène, PBDE, DDT total, HCH, naphtalène, octylphénol, TBT, permettant d’affiner les VGE mollusques.
ЧТO ВКЛЮЧAEТ В СEБЯ СИСТEМA ИНКЛЮЗИВНOГO OБPAЗOВAНИЯ?
Creators: name: Aбдуллaeвa, Гулчeхpa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: В дaннoй стaтьe пpивoдится кpaткoe oписaниe инклюзивнoгo oбpaзoвaния и удeляeтся внимaниe нa нeкoтopыe aспeкты в paбoтe с дeтьми с oгpaничeнными вoзмoжнoстями в систeмe сoвpeмeннoгo oбpaзoвaния, peaлизуeмыe гoсудapствeннoй пoлитикoй в Peспубликe Узбeкистaн. В нaстoящee вpeмя дeтeй с oгpaничeнными вoзмoжнoстями в сpeднeoбpaзoвaтeльныe учpeждeния пpинимaют нa всeх этaпaх oбpaзoвaтeльнoгo пpoцeссa. Дeти мoгут быть зaчислeны, нaчинaя с пepвoгo и зaкaнчивaя oдиннaдцaтым клaссoм. Для этoгo нeoбхoдимo письмeннoe зaявлeниe peбёнкa и eгo poдитeлeй нa имя диpeктopa шкoлы, a тaкжe спpaвкa oт психoлoгo-мeдикo-пeдaгoгичeскoй кoмиссии.
Additional file 1 of Attitudes and precaution practices towards COVID-19 among pregnant women in Singapore: a cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Lee, Ryan Wai Kheong
name: See Ling Loy
name: Liying Yang
name: Chan, Jerry Kok Yen
name: Lay Kok Tan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Guiding Attention in End-to-End Driving Models
Creators: name: Porres, Diego
name: Xiao, Yi
name: Villalonga, Gabriel
name: Levy, Alexandre
name: López, Antonio M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Vision-based end-to-end driving models trained by imitation learning can lead to affordable solutions for autonomous driving. However, training these well-performing models usually requires a huge amount of data, while still lacking explicit and intuitive activation maps to reveal the inner workings of these models while driving. In this paper, we study how to guide the attention of these models to improve their driving quality and obtain more intuitive activation maps by adding a loss term during training using salient semantic maps. In contrast to previous work, our method does not require these salient semantic maps to be available during testing time, as well as removing the need to modify the model's architecture to which it is applied. We perform tests using perfect and noisy salient semantic maps with encouraging results in both, the latter of which is inspired by possible errors encountered with real data. Using CIL++ as a representative state-of-the-art model and the CARLA simulator with its standard benchmarks, we conduct experiments that show the effectiveness of our method in training better autonomous driving models, especially when data and computational resources are scarce.
description: Accepted for publication at the 35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2024)
Sugarcane Stem Derived Hybrid Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering via Top-down Approach
Creators: name: Jiawei, Shi
name: Xuemeng, Bai
name: Yahui, Zheng
name: Jianfei, Che
name: Yinghong, Xiao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A novel bone tissue engineering material with a merit of good biocompatibility and excellent mechanical properties was fabricated with a top-down method. In this work, sugarcane was first treated in NaClO2/acetate buffer to remove lignin, i.e. delignification, and the effect of delignification on pore size of sugarcane is explored bby varying the soaking time in the buffer. Results show that 4 h is the optimal delignification time to ensure good mechanical properties of the sugarcane. The subsequent surface modification with alendronate trihydrate has an advantage to facilitate the final deposition of hydroxyapatite (HAp) due to the fact that the introduction of phosphate groups can effectively improve the nucleation efficiency of HAp. We found that the deposited HAp on sugarcane stem templates can form a bioactive hybrid scaffold material with a hierachical pore structure. Fortunately, during the delignification process of the cellulose structure in the sugarcane stem is not destroyed, thus the hierarchical pore structure remains. The final obtained hybrid scaffold presents a three-dimensional anisotropic porous structure and its longitudinal strength is much higher than the radial strength. The anisotropic property can provide a good mechanical support for scaffold applications. Moreover, the CCK-8 test shows that the cell viability is higher than 95%, indicating that the scaffold exhibits no cytotoxicity. Our investigation demonstrates that the presented hybrid scaffold derived from sugarcane stem has a great potential in the application of bone tissue engineering.
PRIVACY PRESERVATION IN LOCATION-BASED PROXIMITY SERVICES
Creators: name: FRENI, DARIO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: One of the most common location-based services (LBS) in the geo-aware social network market is the notification of friends geographically in proximity. In addition to the privacy threats related to the use of traditional LBS, there are other privacy threats specific to proximity services. Existing privacy-preserving solutions for LBS are not effective or directly applicable. For this reason, we developed techniques that specifically address the privacy threats of this type of services. The proposed techniques let a user control what is disclosed about her location and formally guarantee that these requirements are satisfied. An extensive empirical evaluation was performed, by using a dataset of user movement generated using an agent-based simulator, in which agents reflect the behavior of typical users of proximity services. The techniques were also integrated in a fully functional privacy-aware proximity service, for which we developed desktop and mobile clients.
Simple fits for the neutrino luminosities from protoneutron star cooling
Creators: name: Lucente, Giuseppe
name: Heinlein, Malte
name: Janka, H. -Thomas
name: Mirizzi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a simple fit function, $L_{ν_i}(t) = C\, t^{-α}\, e^{-(t/τ)^{n}}$, to parametrize the luminosities of neutrinos and antineutrinos of all flavors during the protoneutron star (PNS) cooling phase at post-bounce times $t \gtrsim 1$ s. This fit is based on results from a set of neutrino-hydrodynamics simulations of core-collapse supernovae in spherical symmetry. The simulations were performed with an energy-dependent transport for six neutrino species and took into account the effects of convection and muons in the dense and hot PNS interior. We provide values of the fit parameters $C$, $α$, $τ$, and $n$ for different neutron star masses and equations of state as well as correlations between these fit parameters. Our functional description is useful for analytic supernova modeling, for characterizing the neutrino light curves in large underground neutrino detectors, and as a tool to extract information from measured signals on the mass and equation of state of the PNS and on secondary signal components on top of the PNS's neutrino emission.
description: 32 pages, 16 figures, 12 tables. Additional references included. Added Appendix F on the parameters for the symmetry energies for the different Equations of State. Matches the version published on PRD
MICROCHIMERISMO CELLULARE FETALE NEL CARCINOMA PAPILLARE DELLA TIROIDE: ANALISI SU TESSUTI E SU SANGUE PERIFERICO
Creators: name: COLOMBO, CARLA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The fetal cell microchimerism (FCM) is defined as the persistence for decades after pregnancy of fetal cells in maternal circulation and organs without any apparent form of rejection. The FCM is a common occurrence during pregnancy and, in fact, was detected at a frequency of 20-75% in the peripheral blood of women with sons and of 40-100% in the tissues of patients with malignant or benign diseases. Nevertheless, the physiological consequences of this phenomenon remain to be clarified in both healthy women and in those affected by carcinoma. There are conflicting data about the pathogenic role of FCM in autoimmune diseases and in tumors. In short, most of the studies provides that the FCM can play a pathogenic role in autoimmune diseases and conversely a protective role for neoplastic diseases. In this context, our group has recently demonstrated a possible role of FCM in the damage-induced thyroid cancer and in the recovery or protection of the affected tissue. In particular, male cells were found in a high proportion of women than had a male pregnancy before the diagnosis of cancer. These cells were found to be significantly represented in contralateral cancer tissue compared to healthy tissue. To extend in the peripheral blood our knowledge of the FCM in thyroid cancer and to explore the possible relationship between the presence of microchimerism and the development of this tumor were enrolled 106 women with a previous male pregnancy, including 57 patients with papillary carcinoma thyroid cancer (PTC) diagnosed after pregnancy and 49 healthy controls. At the level of peripheral blood FCM was found less frequently in women with PTC compared with healthy controls. These findings suggest a protective role of microchimerism on the development of cancer. However additional data are needed to know in depth the role of FCM is the development of cancer and autoimmune diseases.
Additional file 2 of The impact of change in neighborhood poverty on BMI trajectory of 37,544 New York City youth: a longitudinal study
Creators: name: Schroeder, Krista
name: Day, Sophia
name: Konty, Kevin
name: Dumenci, Levent
name: Lipman, Terri
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. BMI z-score trajectory, with 95% confidence interval, after moving to higher versus lower poverty neighborhood for youth attending New York City schools from 2006/2007 through 2016/2017.
Meditation Practices and Their Implications for Cortisol Secretion and Heart Rate Variability: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta Analysis
Creators: name: Knutssøn, Iver Hansson
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: HRV
subject: Heart rate variability
subject: cortisol
subject: meditation
subject: stress

description: Protocol for a systematic review and meta analysis investigating the effect of meditation practices and their implications for cortisol secretion and heart rate variability.
Identifying Halos in Cosmological Simulations with Continuous Wavelet Analysis: The 2D Case
Creators: name: Li, Minxing
name: Wang, Yun
name: He, Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Continuous wavelet analysis is gaining popularity in science and engineering for its ability to analyze data across spatial and scale domains simultaneously. In this study, we introduce a wavelet-based method to identify halos and assess its feasibility in two-dimensional (2D) scenarios. We begin with the generation of four pseudo-2D datasets from the SIMBA dark matter simulation by compressing thin slices of three-dimensional (3D) data into 2D. We then calculate the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) directly from the particle distributions, identify local maxima that represent actual halos, and segment the CWT to delineate halo boundaries. A comparison with the traditional friends-of-friends (FOF) method shows that our CWT-identified halos, while contain slightly fewer particles, have smoother boundaries and are more compact in dense regions. In contrast, the CWT method can link particles over greater distances to form halos in sparse regions due to its spatial segmentation scheme. The spatial distribution and halo power spectrum of both CWT and FOF halos demonstrate substantial consistency, validating the 2D applicability of CWT for halo detection. Our identification scheme operates with a linear time complexity of $\mathcal{O}(N)$, suggesting its suitability for analyzing significantly larger datasets in the future.
description: 19 pages, 13 figures, 2 table, comments welcome, accepted by ApJ
Benchmarking Representations for Speech, Music, and Acoustic Events
Creators: name: La Quatra, Moreno
name: Koudounas, Alkis
name: Vaiani, Lorenzo
name: Baralis, Elena
name: Cagliero, Luca
name: Garza, Paolo
name: Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Limited diversity in standardized benchmarks for evaluating audio representation learning (ARL) methods may hinder systematic comparison of current methods' capabilities. We present ARCH, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating ARL methods on diverse audio classification domains, covering acoustic events, music, and speech. ARCH comprises 12 datasets, that allow us to thoroughly assess pre-trained SSL models of different sizes. ARCH streamlines benchmarking of ARL techniques through its unified access to a wide range of domains and its ability to readily incorporate new datasets and models. To address the current lack of open-source, pre-trained models for non-speech audio, we also release new pre-trained models that demonstrate strong performance on non-speech datasets. We argue that the presented wide-ranging evaluation provides valuable insights into state-of-the-art ARL methods, and is useful to pinpoint promising research directions.
Phylogenetics and taxonomy of the scleractinian coral family Euphylliidae
Creators: name: Arrigoni, Roberto
name: Stolarski, Jarosław
name: Terraneo, Tullia I.
name: Hoeksema, Bert W.
name: Berumen, Michael L.
name: Payri, Claude
name: Montano, Simone
name: Benzoni, Francesca
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: The family Euphylliidae consists of reef-building zooxanthellate scleractinian corals distributed across the Indo-Pacific. Seven extant genera comprising a total of 22 valid species are currently recognised. Recent studies have re-organised the taxonomy of the family at the genus level based on molecular and morphological data, including a comprehensive revision of Euphyllia and the resurrection of Fimbriaphyllia. Here, three mitochondrial loci (COI, 12S rRNA, and 16S rRNA) were sequenced and morphological examinations were conducted at three scales (macro/micromorphology and microstructure of the skeleton, and polyp morphology) to study the phylogeny and taxonomy of Euphylliidae. We analysed a total of 11 valid species collected from seven Indo-Pacific localities. The monotypic genus Coeloseris, currently in Agariciidae, was also investigated since previous molecular data suggested a close relationship with the Euphylliidae. Molecular and morphological phylogenetic trees were broadly concordant in the definition of genus-level clades. All analysed genera, i.e., Ctenella, Euphyllia, Fimbriaphyllia, Galaxea, and Gyrosmilia, were reciprocally monophyletic based on molecular results. Coeloseris was nested within the family and, therefore, is formally moved into Euphylliidae. Updated morphological diagnoses are provided for each investigated genus. This study further demonstrated that a phylogenetic classification of scleractinian corals can be achieved by applying a combined morpho-molecular approach. Finally, we encourage phylogenetic and taxonomic studies of the euphylliid taxa not yet analysed molecularly, such as the monotypic genera Montigyra and Simplastrea.
title: Skandalöse Körper
Creators: name: Jessner, Carmen
Year: 2021

description: Das Phänomen Literaturskandal vermag einiges über eine Gesellschaft und die in ihr geltenden literarischen und sozialen Normen auszusagen. Skandale beleuchten wo die Grenzen des „guten Geschmacks“ zu einem spezifischen Zeitpunkt, in einer spezifischen Umgebung liegen. Betrachtet man die Skandalliteratur des letzten Jahrzehnts zeichnet sich, neben politisch-moralischen Übertretungen, vor allem Entrüstung über Darstellungen von weiblichen Körpern und deren Sexualität ab. In einer Kultur, die sich als frei und freizügig, aufgeklärt und selbstbestimmt konstituiert, scheint der Diskurs um den (weiblichen) Körper immer noch von unausgesprochenen Grenzen umgeben. An Charlotte Roches Feuchtgebiete, E. L. James Fifty Shades of Grey, Lena Dunhams Not That Kind of Girl und Stefanie Sargnagels Statusmeldungen lassen sich die Limitierungen des Sprechens über Körperlichkeit auf unterschiedliche Weise nachverfolgen. Als Ausdruck und Weiterentwicklung eines postfeministischen Körperverständnisses, dienen die Texte und ihre Rezeption als eine Art Standortbestimmung im Diskurs um (Post)Feminismen und zeichnen ein Bild einer Gesellschaft, die zwischen Emanzipation und Patriarchat changiert.
description: As a phenomenon, literary scandals are somewhat revealing about the literary and societal norms that apply in a society. Scandals highlight where the boundaries of “good taste” lie at a specific point in time and place. Looking at works of the past decade that classified as scandalous literature, it was - apart from political and moral transgressions - mostly the representation of female bodies and sexuality that triggered public indignation. In a culture that constitutes itself as free and permissive, enlightened and self-determined, discourses about (female) bodies still seem to be surrounded by unspoken boundaries. In Charlotte Roche’s Wetlands, E. L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey, Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl and Stefanie Sargnagel’s Statusmeldungen the limitations of speech regarding physicality can be traced in different ways. As an expression and development of a postfeminist understanding of the body, the texts and their reception serve as a kind of positioning in the discourses on (Post)Feminisms and paint a picture of a society that oscillates between emancipation and patriarchy.
BEHIND AN EYE BLINK: A NEW EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVE ON INTENTIONAL ACTION
Creators: name: DERCHI, CHIARA CAMILLA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2018

description: Il ?blink? o ?batter d?occhi? � un movimento di rapida chiusura e riapertura delle palpebre. Il ?blink? pu� essere un movimento spontaneo, riflesso o volontario. ?Blink? con identiche caratteristiche cinematiche possono avere differenti origini e significati. Per esempio, un blink pu� essere spontaneo quando ha la funzione fisiologica di creare un film lacrimale evitando la seccazione della cornea, pu� essere riflesso in riposta a stimoli esterni ed infine pu� essere volontario per comunicare un messaggio attraverso un canale comunicativo preservato, per esempio quando un paziente locked in cerca di comunicare gioia, accordo o disaccordo, frustrazione attraverso gli occhi (Laureys et al., 2005). Lo scopo principale di questo studio � stato quello di trovare una misura oggettiva relativa alla distinzione tra un blink spontaneo e uno volontario: il ?potenziale di preparazione? (Readiness Potential). Il presente studio � quindi rilevante per due ragioni: 1. Nei soggetti sani, i blink spontanei appaiono con una frequenza di circa 1 ogni 5 secondi. Allo stesso tempo, i soggetti sani possono ?controllare? il movimento spontaneo e riprodurlo in maniera intenzionale se opportunamente istruiti. In questo modo, il ?blink? o ?ammiccamento oculare? offre un contrasto ideale tra atto conscio e inconscio, a parit� di cinematica. In questa prospettiva, l?analisi dell?attivit� cerebrale che precede un atto spontaneo o automatico messa a confronto con l?attivit� che precedere un ?blink? volontario pu� offrire uno sguardo unico sui correlati neurali di un atto cosciente. 2. Nei pazienti con gravi cerebrolesioni, il ?blink? � spesso l?unico atto motorio che pu� essere individuato. � infatti impossibile per molti pazienti effettuare movimenti pi� complessi. Per questo motivo, attraverso un condizionamento operante in cui ad uno specifico comportamento viene associato un rinforzo positivo, il nostro scopo � quello di indirizzare i pazienti ad associare un determinato tipo di ?blink?, opportunamente selezionato, con un rinforzo positivo rappresentato da voci familiari/amiche che si suppone possano avere una valenza emotiva positiva per il paziente. Nella prima parte della tesi verranno introdotte le premesse teorico/sperimentali alla base dello studio e verranno presentati i materiali e metodi e i risultati relativi alla popolazione di controllo (soggetti sani). Nella seconda parte, verr� introdotto il ?disturbo di coscienza? dal punto di vista clinico, il nuovo protocollo sperimentale applicato ai pazienti con disturbo di coscienza e i risultati preliminari. In conclusione, verranno valutate le potenzialit� dello studio da un punto di vista teorico, da un punto di vista clinico/riabilitativo ed infine da un punto di vista etico.
Gaussian Process-Based Refinement of Dispersion Corrections
Creators: name: Proppe, Jonny
name: Gugler, Stefan
name: Reiher, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ Gaussian process (GP) regression to adjust for systematic errors in D3-type dispersion corrections introducing the associated, statistically improved model D3-GP. We generated a data set containing interaction energies for 1,248 molecular dimers, which resemble the dispersion-dominated systems contained in the S66 data set. Our systems do not only represent equilibrium structures, but also dimers with various relative orientations and conformations at both shorter and longer distances. To train our D3-GP model, we engineered two different vectorial representations of (supra-)molecular systems, both derived from the matrix of atom-pairwise D3(BJ) interaction terms: (a) a distance-resolved interaction energy histogram and (b) eigenvalues of the interaction matrix ordered according to their decreasing absolute value. We harness the prediction variance obtained from GP regression to select optimal training sets in an automated fashion. The larger the variance, the more information the corresponding data point may add to the training set. For a given set of molecular systems, variance-based sampling can approximately determine the smallest subset being subjected to reference calculations such that all dispersion corrections for the remaining systems fall below a predefined accuracy threshold. Our refined learning algorithm selects multiple (instead of single) systems which can be subjected to reference calculations simultaneously. We refer to the underlying selection strategy as batch-wise variance-based sampling (BVS). BVS-guided active learning is an essential component of our D3-GP workflow, which is implemented in a black-box fashion. This approach leads overall to a self-improving model (D3-GP) that predicts system-focused and GP-refined D3-type dispersion corrections for any given system of reference data.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures
Le canyon de Capbreton - Carte morpho-bathymétrique - Échelle 1/50 000
Creators: name: Bourillet, Jean-Francois
name: Augris, Claude
name: Cirac, Pierre
name: Maze, Jean-Pierre
name: Normand, Alain
name: Loubrieu, Benoit
name: Crusson, Alban
name: Gaudin, Mathieu
name: Poirier, Dominique
name: Satra Le Bris, Catherine
name: Simplet, Laure
Publisher: name: Ifremer
Year: 2007
Subjects: cartographie
morpho-bathymétrie
géologie
canyon.
mapping
morpho-bathymetry
geology

description: The morpho-bathymetric mapping of the Capbreton canyon is based on the results of eight oceanographic surveys conducted between 1993 and 2004 on board the oceanographic vessels the Thalia and Le Suroit. The explored part of the canyon extends avers 150 km with a variation in level of 2 1OO m. lt features a deep embankment and a tier-shaped head. Bath documents published illustrate these features : a morpho-bathymetric map (2 sheets) to the scale 1/50 000 and a 30 relief map.
description: La cartographie morpho-bathymétrique du canyon de Capbreton s'appuie sur les résultats de huit campagnes océanographiques effectuées entre 1993 et 2004, à bord des navires océanographiques de l'lfremer Thalia et Le Suroît. Dans sa partie reconnue, le canyon étend son cours sur 150 km et atteint 2 100 m de dénivelé; son fort encaissement, sa proximité de la côte et une tête en amphithéâtre permettent de le classer dans la catégorie des goufs. Les deux types de document édités illustrent ces caractéristiques : une carte morpho-bathymétrique en 2 feuilles à l'échelle 1/50 000 et une représentation en relief (30).
The Structural Equation Model of Actual Use of Cloud Learning for Higher Education Students in the 21st Century
Creators: name: Amornkitpinyo, Thanyatorn
name: Yoosomboon, Sathaporn
name: Sopapradit, Sunti
name: Amornkitpinyo, Pimprapa
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2021

description: The purposes of this research were to 1) develop the structural equation model of the actual use of cloud learning for higher education students in the 21st century (SEMAC), 2) investigate the validity of the SEMAC, and 3) study the effects of the SEMAC. This study was a correlation research. The research sample consisted of 1,170 undergraduate students, randomly selected using multi-staging, from 18 universities in Thailand. The research instruments were questionnaires about system quality, convenience, social interaction, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and actual use. Data analyses were descriptive statistics and the analysis for model validation used LISREL 9.2. The study found that the validation of the structural equation model indicating actual use of cloud learning showed that the model fit to the empirical data (χ2 = 34.659 df = 23 p = .056 GFI = .989 AGFI = .974 RMR = .006). The variables in the structural equation model could explain 62.4 of the variance in actual use. The research results can be used as data to improve the actual use of cloud learning.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 17 No 1 (2021): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Regular Issue N. 1/2021
Effect of humid air exposure on photoemissive and structural properties of KBr thin film photocathode
Creators: name: Rai, R.
name: Triloki
name: Ghosh, N.
name: Singh, B. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the influence of water molecule absorption on photoemissive and structural properties of potassium bromide (KBr) thin film photocathode under humid air exposure at relative humidity (RH) 65%. It is evident from photoemission measurement that the photoelectron yield of KBr photocathode is degraded exponentially with humid air exposed time. Structural studies of the "as-deposited" and "humid air aged" films reveal that there is no effect of RH on film's crystalline face centered cubic (fcc) structure. However, the average crystallite size of "humid air exposed film" KBr film has been increased as compared to "as-deposited". In addition, topographical properties of KBr film are also examined by means of scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and atomic force microscope (AFM) and it is observed that granular characteristic of film has been altered, even for short exposure to humid air.
Cahier des charges des Centres de Données du Pôle de Données Océan – ODATIS de l’Infrastructure de Recherche Data Terra
Creators: name: Maudire, Gilbert
name: Schmidt, Sabine
name: Sudre, Joel
Publisher: name: ODATIS
Year: 2020

description: Ce document spécifie les fonctions qu’un Centre de Données (CD) doit assumer afin d’être éligible à une intégration au sein du Pôle Odatis, le pôle de données et de services Océan de l’Infrastructure de Recherche Data Terra (Pôle de données et services pour le système Terre). Ce documentdoit donc être considéré comme les clauses d’un «Engagement de Service» (Service Level Agreement), telque décrit par la norme ISO20000. Cet engagement définit en particulier le périmètre thématique des données à gérer telles que: - Données provenant d’un ou de plusieurs systèmes d’observation labellisés par les partenaires (par exemple, données observées par un ou plusieurs SNOou un sous-ensemble de celles-ci); - Données observées par une organisation nationale ou supranationale (Infrastructure de Recherche nationale ou européenne, composante nationale d’un programme d’observation international). Un CD assemble, harmonise, maintient et rend accessible le jeu de données pour le périmètre dont il a la charge. Les fonctions à assurer sont des fonctions opérationnelles, devant être conduites dans la durée et dans le cadre d’un mandat du ou des organisme(s) partenaire(s) qui s’engage(nt) à en garantir les moyens humains, financiers et techniques adaptés à ces fonctions. Tous les Centres de Données n’assumeront pas la totalité des fonctions. Aussi, seront distingués deux types de centres: - Les Centres de Collecte («Assembling Centres»), qui géreront principalement l’interface de proximité avec les équipes d’observation productrices de données, au sein des OSUs par exemple; - Les Centres de Données et de Services («Scientific Data Centres»), assumant l’intégralité des fonctions,et en particulier, l’organisation de la pérennisation du jeu dont ils ont la charge et qui est considérée comme la copie de référence, les services de diffusion et de traitement vers l’ensemble des utilisateurs dans le cadre d’une exploitation certifiée.
Spanning Tree Matching Decoder for Quantum Surface Codes
Creators: name: Forlivesi, Diego
name: Valentini, Lorenzo
name: Chiani, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce the spanning tree matching (STM) decoder for surface codes, which guarantees the error correction capability up to the code's designed distance by first employing an instance of the minimum spanning tree on a subset of ancilla qubits within the lattice. Then, a perfect matching graph is simply obtained, by selecting the edges more likely to be faulty. A comparative analysis reveals that the STM decoder, at the cost of a slight performance degradation, provides a substantial advantage in decoding time compared to the minimum weight perfect matching (MWPM) decoder. Finally, we propose an even more simplified and faster algorithm, the Rapid-Fire (RFire) decoder, designed for scenarios where decoding speed is a critical requirement.
description: To be published in IEEE Communications Letters
Campagne MAYOBS20 : récupération LotOBS
Creators: name: Pelleau, Pascal
name: Gouriou, Jeremie
Publisher: name: Ifremer
Year: 2022
Subjects: MAYOTTE
MAYOBS
OBS
LOTOBS
SISMOLOGIE
DRUMBEATS

description: The campaigns of the MAYOBS series aim to carry out work on seismic activity to the EAST of the island of MAYOTTE. The MAYOBS20 campaign (July 2021) made it possible to collect 6 LotOBS v4 type OBS which were deployed in April 2021 from the oceanographic vessel Pourquois Pas? During the MAYOBS18 campaign. Some difficulties due to the weather were overcome thanks to an unexpected window of calm in this July season in Mayotte. The 6 LotOBS-V4 were recovered, including one in August thanks to a security escalation protocol. All 6 instruments provided data.
description: Les campagnes de la série MAYOBS visent à mener des travaux sur l’activité sismique à l’EST de l’île de MAYOTTE. La campagne MAYOBS20 (juillet 2021) a permis de récolter 6 OBS de type LotOBS v4 qui ont été déployés en Avril 2021 depuis le navire océanographique Pourquois Pas ? Durant la campagne MAYOBS18. Quelques difficultés dues à la météo ont été surmontées grâce à une fenêtre de calme inespérée en cette saison de juillet à Mayotte. Les 6 LotOBS-V4 ont été récupérés, dont un en Août grace à un protocole de remontée de sécurité. L’ensemble des 6 instruments ont fourni des données.
ESSAY ON ADVERTISING IN DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND THEIR TAXATION
Creators: name: CHIAROMONTE, NICOLA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2020

description: The present work constitutes a first attempt of understanding the digitalization of economy for what concerns platforms, which exploit two sides of market to make profits, by using targeted advertising built on personal ?free? data. First, we analyse the nature of targeted advertising. We focus on the impact of ads on well-being of consumers. The possibility of having too much advertising calls for a government fiscal action that can be welfare-enhancing under some circumstances. Moreover, in a context of open economy, the decisions made by a government may spread their effects also abroad. Then, we study in deep how a two-sided platform works. We introduce a new element to the related literature. Users care about their privacy, but they do not know the actual level of their data mining. We deal with two issues: privacy protection and the need for government of raising fiscal revenue. Finally, we enlarge our approach by asking why a government should intervene by changing the market equilibrium. In an optimal taxation framework, we draw a method to address persuasive advertising when ?undesired? by the government and show how it mixes with distributional concerns.
Lattice study of hybrid static potentials
Creators: name: Wolf, Philipp
name: Wagner, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report about a recently started project with the aim to compute hybrid static potentials using lattice gauge theory. First preliminary results for pure SU(2) Yang-Mills theory are presented.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, talk given at a workshop for young scientists with research interests focused on physics at FAIR (Fairness 2014), September 21-27 2014, Vietri sul Mare, Italy; references added; comment on short distance behavior added
APPROCCIO FREQUENTISTA E BAYESIANO, DUE MODI DIVERSI DI VEDERE LA STESSA REALT�: APPLICAZIONI ALLA MODULAZIONE DEL DOLORE A MISURE RIPETUTE
Creators: name: GIANGRECO, MANUELA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: Abstract Introduction. Placebo effect in the field of pain modulation is still less analyzed and explained, and the reasons of this don?t know. A computational evaluation of this phenomena is proposed trying to find a first explanation. Materials and methods. A comparison between a classical frequentist approach and a Bayesian one is presented basing on a model for repeated measures to test experimental data obtained from eight healthy subjects. Results. The results, in both of the statistical approaches, demonstrates that the placebo effect in the pain modulation, exists and is evident.
Additional file 1 of Artificial intelligence (AI) -integrated educational applications and college students’ creativity and academic emotions: students and teachers’ perceptions and attitudes
Creators: name: Lin, Haozhuo
name: Chen, Qiu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Electroweak boson production in double parton scattering
Creators: name: Golec-Biernat, Krzysztof
name: Lewandowska, Emilia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the $W^+W^-$ and $Z^0Z^0$ electroweak boson production in double parton scattering using QCD evolution equations for double parton distributions. In particular, we analyze the impact of splitting terms in the evolution equations on the double parton scattering cross sections. Unlike the standard terms, the splitting terms are not suppressed for large values of the relative momentum of two partons in the double parton scattering. Thus, they play an important role which we discuss in detail for the single splitting contribution to the cross sections under the study.
description: 9 figures, new version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Supplementary document for Interferometric measurements of the resonant nonlinearity of IR-active minor air constituents - 6046144.pdf
Creators: name: Pigeon, Jeremy
name: Tochitsky, Sergei
name: Tovey, Dana
name: Louwrens, Gerhard
name: zvi, Ilan ben
name: Joshi, Chan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Detailed derivation of equation 2 in the main article
LinkML Workshop, ICBO 2022
Creators: name: Mungall, Chris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: linkml
workshop
tutorial
linked-data
bio-ontologies

description: Slides from the LinkML workshop held at the International Conference for Bio Ontologies (ICBO), University of Michigan, Sept 2022 bit.ly/LinkML-2022
Geometric formulation of generalized root-$T\bar{T}$ deformations
Creators: name: Babaei-Aghbolagh, H.
name: He, Song
name: Morone, Tommaso
name: Ouyang, Hao
name: Tateo, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a generic geometric formalism that incorporates both $T\bar{T}$-like and root-$T\bar{T}$-like deformations in arbitrary dimensions. This framework applies to a wide family of stress-energy tensor perturbations and encompasses various well-known field theories. Building upon the recently proposed correspondence between Ricci-based gravity and $T\bar{T}$-like deformations, we further extend this duality to include root-$T\bar{T}$-like perturbations. This refinement extends the potential applications of our approach and contributes to a deeper exploration of the interplay between stress tensor perturbations and gravitational dynamics. Among the various original outcomes detailed in this article, we have also obtained a deformation of the flat Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity action.
description: 11 pages, no figures; v2: references added
Quantum magnetism of spinor bosons in optical lattices with synthetic non-Abelian gauge fields
Creators: name: Sun, Fadi
name: Ye, Jinwu
name: Liu, Wu-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study quantum magnetism of interacting spinor bosons at integer fillings hopping in a square lattice in the presence of non-Abelian gauge fields. In the strong coupling limit, it leads to the Rotated ferromagnetic Heisenberg model (RFHM) which is a new class of quantum spin model. We introduce Wilson loops to characterize frustrations and gauge equivalent classes. For a special equivalent class, we identify a new spin-orbital entangled commensurate ground state. It supports not only commensurate magnons, but also a new gapped elementary excitation: in-commensurate magnons with two gap minima continuously tuned by the SOC strength. At low temperatures, these magnons lead to dramatic effects in many physical quantities such as density of states, specific heat, magnetization, uniform susceptibility, staggered susceptibility and various spin correlation functions. The commensurate magnons lead to a pinned central peak in the angle resolved light or atom Bragg spectroscopy. However, the in-commensurate magnons split it into two located at their two gap minima. At high temperatures, the transverse spin structure factors depend on the SOC strength explicitly. The whole set of Wilson loops can be mapped out by measuring the specific heat at the corresponding orders in the high temperature expansion. We argue that one gauge may be realized in current experiments and other gauges may also be realized in near future experiments. The results achieved along the exact solvable line sets up the stage to investigate dramatic effects when tuning away from it by various means. We sketch the crucial roles to be played by these magnons at other equivalent classes, with spin anisotropic interactions and in the presence of finite magnetic fields. Various experimental detections of these new phenomena are discussed. Rotated Anti-ferromagnetic Heisenberg model are also briefly mentioned.
description: 18 pages main text, 10 figures; accepted for publication in Phy. Rev. A