cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Il significato degli Orti botanici oggi e nel futuro: il caso dell'Orto di Brera di Milano
Creators: name: Visconti, Agnese
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: Una conversazione con Cristina Puricelli
(18 Marzo 2013)
di Agnese Visconti
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
Kambrium-Vendi töörühma välipäevik 62
Creators: name: Mens, Kaisa
name: Pirrus, Enn
Publisher: name: Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli Geoloogia Instituut
Year: 1975
Subjects: Cambrian
geological descriptions

description: Field notebook with descriptions of Cambrian and Vendian drill cores from Leningrad oblast.
Unconditionally verifiable blind computation
Creators: name: Fitzsimons, Joseph F.
name: Kashefi, Elham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Blind Quantum Computing (BQC) allows a client to have a server carry out a quantum computation for them such that the client's input, output and computation remain private. A desirable property for any BQC protocol is verification, whereby the client can verify with high probability whether the server has followed the instructions of the protocol, or if there has been some deviation resulting in a corrupted output state. A verifiable BQC protocol can be viewed as an interactive proof system leading to consequences for complexity theory. The authors, together with Broadbent, previously proposed a universal and unconditionally secure BQC scheme where the client only needs to be able to prepare single qubits in separable states randomly chosen from a finite set and send them to the server, who has the balance of the required quantum computational resources. In this paper we extend that protocol with new functionality allowing blind computational basis measurements, which we use to construct a new verifiable BQC protocol based on a new class of resource states. We rigorously prove that the probability of failing to detect an incorrect output is exponentially small in a security parameter, while resource overhead remains polynomial in this parameter. The new resource state allows entangling gates to be performed between arbitrary pairs of logical qubits with only constant overhead. This is a significant improvement on the original scheme, which required that all computations to be performed must first be put into a nearest neighbour form, incurring linear overhead in the number of qubits. Such an improvement has important consequences for efficiency and fault-tolerance thresholds.
description: 46 pages, 10 figures. Additional protocol added which allows arbitrary circuits to be verified with polynomial security
Intersection Cohomology. Simplicial Blow-up and Rational Homotopy
Creators: name: Chataur, David
name: Saralegi-Aranguren, Martintxo
name: Tanré, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55N33, 55P62, 57N80

description: Let X be a pseudomanifold. In this text, we use a simplicial blow-up to define a cochain complex whose cohomology with coefficients in a field, is isomorphic to the intersection cohomology of X, introduced by M. Goresky and R. MacPherson. We do it simplicially in the setting of a filtered version of face sets, also called simplicial sets without degeneracies, in the sense of C.P. Rourke and B.J. Sanderson. We define perverse local systems over filtered face sets and intersection cohomology with coefficients in a perverse local system. In particular, as announced above when X is a pseudomanifold, we get a perverse local system of cochains quasi-isomorphic to the intersection cochains of Goresky and MacPherson, over a field. We show also that these two complexes of cochains are quasi-isomorphic to a filtered version of Sullivan's differential forms over the field Q. In a second step, we use these forms to extend Sullivan's presentation of rational homotopy type to intersection cohomology. For that, we construct a functor from the category of filtered face sets to a category of perverse commutative differential graded Q-algebras (cdga's) due to Hovey. We establish also the existence and unicity of a positively graded, minimal model of some perverse cdga's, including the perverse forms over a filtered face set and their intersection cohomology. Finally, we prove the topological invariance of the minimal model of a PL-pseudomanifold whose regular part is connected, and this theory creates new topological invariants. This point of view brings a definition of formality in the intersection setting and examples are given. In particular, we show that any nodal hypersurface in CP(4), is intersection-formal.
description: This new version contains a chapter of examples. In particular, we prove the intersection-formality of the Calabi-Yau quintic
Necessità delle immagini: artisti a fianco dei botanici nel Sei-Settecento
Creators: name: Finocchi, Anna
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: The art of botanic illustration takes place in two fields: illustrating to botanic texts and still life.

From the first half of the XVII Century the plantes introduced in Europe from faraway land, Asia and the New World, encourage a more attentive study than before by the naturalists. The paintings are no more purely ornamental, but they become an integral part of the text. Naturalists try to solicite the collaboration of the best contemporary painters for the illustrational part of their work.

The first part of this text is dedicated to the relationship between botanists and artists particularly regarding plants introduced into Europe from America. Of great interest are the result of the Earl of Nassau-Siegen’s expedition (1637-1644), whose following included cartographs, naturalists and painters, the latter's whose task was to document the scenary, the indigenous population, the flora and the fauna.

The second part deals with still life, a kind of painting that might seem timeless, at least as to the subjects, but even in this field changes in history may be observed, some of which are illustrated in the text. The iconographic sources, however must always be examined very carefully and together with other sources, because they are often tied to traditional schemes.
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
Plants from Abroad: Botanical Terminology in 18th-century British Encyclopaedias
Creators: name: Lonati, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: "18th-century encyclopaedias" "colonial botany" "theoretical/applied botany" "botanical taxonomy" "medicine" "commerce"

description: During the 18th century British encyclopaedias included in their lemmata an increasing number of botanical lexis, that is the terminology pertaining to “that branch of natural history which treats of the uses, characters, classes, orders, genera, and species of plants. […] and what useful and ornamental purposes may be expected from the cultivation of it [i.e. botany]” (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1768-1771, s.v. Botany). More often than not, these terms represented migrating plants coming from exotic places, new geographical areas, whether eastwards or westwards.

The general aim of this survey is to investigate the representation of the botanical science in 18th-century universal and specialized encyclopaedias, starting from prefaces and going on with the micro-texts of the single entries s.v. Botany. The starting point is thus theoretical botany. A further point in the analysis focuses on applied botany and discusses those plants such as Camellia Sinensis, Coffea Arabica, Theobroma Cacao, Saccharum Officinarum and Cinchona Officinalis which were mostly exploited for commercial and/or medical reasons.

The individual entries include the most tiny details on the single headwords-topics and also display an acceptable plurality of beliefs, viewpoints and perspectives, focussing on botanical descriptions, historical information, socio-cultural issues, legal, political and commercial considerations.
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
The relative efficiency of staircase and stepped wedge cluster randomised trial designs
Creators: name: Grantham, Kelsey
name: Forbes, Andrew
name: Hooper, Richard
name: Kasza, Jessica
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 490502
subject: Biostatistics

description: The stepped wedge design is an appealing longitudinal cluster randomised trial design. However, it places a large burden on participating clusters by requiring all clusters to collect data in all periods of the trial. The staircase design may be a desirable alternative: treatment sequences consist of a limited number of measurement periods before and after implementation of the intervention. In this article we explore the relative efficiency of the stepped wedge design to several variants of the “basic staircase” design which has one control followed by one intervention period in each sequence. We model outcomes using linear mixed models and a sampling scheme where each participant is measured once. We first consider a basic staircase design embedded within the stepped wedge design, then basic staircase designs with the same total number of participants as the stepped wedge design, via either larger cluster-period sizes or additional clusters. The relative efficiency of the designs depends on the intracluster correlation structure, correlation parameters and the trial configuration, including the number of sequences and cluster-period size. For a wide range of realistic trial settings, a basic staircase design will deliver greater statistical power than a stepped wedge design for the same number of participants.
A model for a large investor trading at market indifference prices. I: single-period case
Creators: name: Bank, Peter
name: Kramkov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52A41, 60G60, 91G10, 91G20

description: We develop a single-period model for a large economic agent who trades with market makers at their utility indifference prices. A key role is played by a pair of conjugate saddle functions associated with the description of Pareto optimal allocations in terms of the utility function of a representative market maker.
description: Shorten from 69 to 30 pages due to referees' requests; a part of the previous version has been moved to "The stochastic field of aggregate utilities and its saddle conjugate", arXiv:1310.7280
Trasmigrazione di piante trasferimenti di concetti: la lettura scientifica ed estetica del paesaggio sud americano in Alexander von Humboldt
Creators: name: Di Bartolo, Alexander
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Alexander von Humboldt ; geografia delle piante ; paesaggio ; categorie estetiche

description: The institution of plant geography as a science in Alexander von Humboldt implies for the first time the emergence of concept of migration concerning plants and animals. But plant geography and the study on vegetation in Humboldt’s books aims to conjugate various natural sciences in order to reach an understanding of the geographical distribution of vegetation. A new approach in South American analysis, connected with an aestethic lecture of Tropical lands of New Word, redefines the idea of “New” thanks to use of analogic concepts based on science and European aestethic lexicon.
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
title: R/V SHINSEI MARU Cruise report KS-23-16
Creators: name: Itoh, Sachihiko
Publisher: name: JAMSTEC
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cruise report
subject: R/V SHINSEI MARU
subject: oceans

description: [CRUISE REPORT]
 This document is a preliminary report of KS-23-16 on R/V SHINSEI MARU from 2023-09-15 to 2023-09-22.
title: R/V SHINSEI MARU Cruise report KS-23-13
Creators: name: Takahashi, Kazutaka
Publisher: name: JAMSTEC
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cruise report
subject: R/V SHINSEI MARU
subject: oceans

description: [CRUISE REPORT]
 This document is a preliminary report of KS-23-13 on R/V SHINSEI MARU from 2023-08-16 to 2023-08-21.
Dynamics of $(2+1)$-dimensional SOS surfaces above a wall: Slow mixing induced by entropic repulsion
Creators: name: Caputo, Pietro
name: Lubetzky, Eyal
name: Martinelli, Fabio
name: Sly, Allan
name: Toninelli, Fabio Lucio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Glauber dynamics for the $(2+1)\mathrm{D}$ Solid-On-Solid model above a hard wall and below a far away ceiling, on an $L\times L$ box of $\mathbb{Z}^2$ with zero boundary conditions, at large inverse-temperature $β$. It was shown by Bricmont, El Mellouki and Fröhlich [J. Stat. Phys. 42 (1986) 743-798] that the floor constraint induces an entropic repulsion effect which lifts the surface to an average height $H\asymp(1/β)\log L$. As an essential step in understanding the effect of entropic repulsion on the Glauber dynamics we determine the equilibrium height $H$ to within an additive constant: $H=(1/4β)\log L+O(1)$. We then show that starting from zero initial conditions the surface rises to its final height $H$ through a sequence of metastable transitions between consecutive levels. The time for a transition from height $h=aH$, $a\in(0,1)$, to height $h+1$ is roughly $\exp(cL^a)$ for some constant $c>0$. In particular, the mixing time of the dynamics is exponentially large in $L$, that is, $T_{\mathrm{MIX}}\geq e^{cL}$. We also provide the matching upper bound $T_{\mathrm{MIX}}\leq e^{c'L}$, requiring a challenging analysis of the statistics of height contours at low temperature and new coupling ideas and techniques. Finally, to emphasize the role of entropic repulsion we show that without a floor constraint at height zero the mixing time is no longer exponentially large in $L$.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AOP836 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Basic statistics for probabilistic symbolic variables: a novel metric-based approach
Creators: name: Irpino, Antonio
name: Verde, Rosanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In data mining, it is usually to describe a set of individuals using some summaries (means, standard deviations, histograms, confidence intervals) that generalize individual descriptions into a typology description. In this case, data can be described by several values. In this paper, we propose an approach for computing basic statics for such data, and, in particular, for data described by numerical multi-valued variables (interval, histograms, discrete multi-valued descriptions). We propose to treat all numerical multi-valued variables as distributional data, i.e. as individuals described by distributions. To obtain new basic statistics for measuring the variability and the association between such variables, we extend the classic measure of inertia, calculated with the Euclidean distance, using the squared Wasserstein distance defined between probability measures. The distance is a generalization of the Wasserstein distance, that is a distance between quantile functions of two distributions. Some properties of such a distance are shown. Among them, we prove the Huygens theorem of decomposition of the inertia. We show the use of the Wasserstein distance and of the basic statistics presenting a k-means like clustering algorithm, for the clustering of a set of data described by modal numerical variables (distributional variables), on a real data set. Keywords: Wasserstein distance, inertia, dependence, distributional data, modal variables.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures
Speed exponents of random walks on groups
Creators: name: Amir, Gideon
name: Virag, Balint
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C81, 20E08, 20F65, 60B15

description: For every 3/4 <= beta < 1 we construct a finitely generated group so that the expected distance of the simple random walk from its starting point is within a constant factor of n^beta. In fact, the speed can be set precisely to equal any nice prescribed function up to a constant factor.
description: 30 pages
Dalle Americhe all’Europa: la sfortunata trasmigrazione degli erbari di Carlo Luigi Giuseppe Bertero (1789-1831)
Creators: name: Borri, Claudia
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Carlo Bertero; viaggi botanici; El Mercurio chileno

description: Carlo Bertero was trained in Alba and then in Turin, studying with very good teachers who taught him, in addition to botany, political and ethical principles. After having studied the domestic flora, the young botanist travelled to the Antilles (1816-1821), to Chile (1827-1830) and to Tahiti (1830-1831). Thanks to his scientific works many new species were recognized and many specimina were sent to Europe to collectors as well as to botanic gardens, being spread out in different places. When, in 1831, the boat, on which Bertero was boarded, sank into Pacific ocean, all his collection of Tahitian plants disappeared with him. Despite of the dispersion of the collected materials, the botanists have been successful in reconstructing a good part of his activity. Nevertheless his unique writing appeared on the magazine El Mercurio Chileno, when the botanist was living in Santiago during the government of F.A. Pinto, the first liberal president of such country. The historical documentation has disclosed that, during his co-operation with the magazine, the Italian botanist supported the governmental policy, being consistent with his juvenile principles. When Pinto was overthrown, after a fierce civil war, which brought the conservative party to the power, Bertero fell into disgrace and had to leave the country, while the mission to write a natural story of Chile was granted to his competitor, the French botanist Claude Gay, who joined the new political course.
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
Preparation of gelatin/genipin nanofibrous membrane for tympanic member repair
Creators: name: Li, Longfei
name: Zhang, Weizheng
name: Huang, Mengjia
name: Li, Jie
name: Chen, Jia
name: Zhou, Mi
name: He, Jianguo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Hematology

description: The wound healing for tympanic membrane (TM) perforations is one of the most common clinical treatment in otomicrosurgery. Recently, tissue-engineered composites and grafts, also new designs of biomaterials are applied to the management of TM perforation. In this work, a series of gelatin/genipin nanofibrous films were prepared as a patch for repairing TM perforation. Gelatin, a type of biomaterial with excellent electrospinning performance, has been used for preparing the nanofibers. The genipin, as a crosslinking agent, has been blended into the gelatin nanofibers. The reaction between gelatin and genipin engender suitable tensile strength and water-resistance for TM patch. The survival rate of human umbilical vein endothelial cells and fibroblasts demonstrated that the gelatin/genipin nanofiber scaffolds had good biocompatibility, which indicated the genipin was a kind of effective and nontoxic crosslinking agent for improving the mechanical property and water-resistance of gelatin films. In short, our work provides a novel macromolecular material with good mechanical properties, water-tolerance and excellent biocompatibility which could be used as a potential patch for TM repair.
title: S/V YOKOSUKA Cruise report YK23-16S
Creators: name: Tani, Kenichiro
Publisher: name: JAMSTEC
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cruise report
subject: S/V YOKOSUKA
subject: oceans

description: [CRUISE REPORT]
 This document is a preliminary report of YK23-16S on S/V YOKOSUKA from 2023-09-15 to 2023-09-29.
kLog: A Language for Logical and Relational Learning with Kernels
Creators: name: Frasconi, Paolo
name: Costa, Fabrizio
name: De Raedt, Luc
name: De Grave, Kurt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6; I.2.3; D.3.2

description: We introduce kLog, a novel approach to statistical relational learning. Unlike standard approaches, kLog does not represent a probability distribution directly. It is rather a language to perform kernel-based learning on expressive logical and relational representations. kLog allows users to specify learning problems declaratively. It builds on simple but powerful concepts: learning from interpretations, entity/relationship data modeling, logic programming, and deductive databases. Access by the kernel to the rich representation is mediated by a technique we call graphicalization: the relational representation is first transformed into a graph --- in particular, a grounded entity/relationship diagram. Subsequently, a choice of graph kernel defines the feature space. kLog supports mixed numerical and symbolic data, as well as background knowledge in the form of Prolog or Datalog programs as in inductive logic programming systems. The kLog framework can be applied to tackle the same range of tasks that has made statistical relational learning so popular, including classification, regression, multitask learning, and collective classification. We also report about empirical comparisons, showing that kLog can be either more accurate, or much faster at the same level of accuracy, than Tilde and Alchemy. kLog is GPLv3 licensed and is available at http://klog.dinfo.unifi.it along with tutorials.
The Symbolic and cancellation-free formulae for Schur elements
Creators: name: Zhao, Deke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16G99 (Primary) 20C20, 20G05 (Secondary)

description: In this paper we give a symbolical formula and a cancellation-free formula for the Schur elements associated to the simple modules of the degenerate cyclotomic Hecke algebras. As some direct applications, we show that the Schur elements are symmetric with respect to the natural symmetric group action and are integral coefficients polynomials and we give a different proof of Ariki-Mathas-Rui's criterion on the semi-simplicity of degenerate cyclotomic Hecke algebras.
description: To appear in Monatshefte fur Mathematik
Kambrium-Vendi töörühma välipäevik 63
Creators: name: Pirrus, Enn
name: Mens, Kaisa
Publisher: name: Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli Geoloogia Instituut
Year: 1974
Subjects: Cambrian
geological descriptions

description: Field notebook with descriptions of Cambrian and Vendian drill cores from Estonia.
“Yo te sé peña a peña y rama a rama”: la cultura geo-botanica di Antonio Machado ed il suo interesse per gli esemplari “nimios” della natura
Creators: name: Fimiani, Cristiana
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: A. Machado; paesaggi dell’anima; “nimios” botanici; Institución Libre de Enseñanza; Scientia vs. Poesis

description: The landscape plays a leading role in the poetry of Antonio Machado (1875–1936), whose “simple love of Nature” is innate, inherited within his family environment and cultivated during his formative years at the Instituciόn Libre de Enseñanza. According to an original reversal of the traditional aesthetic perspective, the poet shows a peculiar interest towards the imperceptible and insignificant vegetal specimens (“nimios”) of the peninsular “emotional lanterns”.

This bifronted author offers a fruitful intersection between the fields of Natural Sciences and Humanities and constantly mentions a diverse range of plants, trees, herbs and flowers, which are seen, remembered, dreamed or imagined; these botanic elements are filtered through the naturalist’s meticulous look and, at the same time, the poet’s emotional prism, who emerges as the living embodiment of post-romantic dialectic between Symbolism and Existentialism.

The paysage de l'âme of the “old Spanish tree” (a famous metaphor by Pablo Neruda to describe Machado) is captured in the herbs and fruit trees of his Sevillian “huerto”, the domestic garden where the lyrical subject projects the melancholy of his first Soledades (1903); or in the varied tree species of Castilian vegetation, which are a symbol of past glory against present decadence, according to the ’98 generation’s view of Campos de Castilla (1912); or, last but not least, in the plants of the rarefied and idealized landscape of Nuevas canciones (1924).
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
Le classificazioni fitoclimatiche: uno strumento scientifico per l'introduzione delle specie esotiche nell'Italia del XX secolo
Creators: name: Sulli, Mario
name: Zanzi Sulli, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: Trattare delle classificazioni fitoclimatiche come strumento scientifico per
l’introduzione delle specie esotiche forestali richiede di rifarsi ai motivi che hanno
suggerito in Italia come altrove tale ordine di studi: in prima istanza la necessità di
condurre a razionalità scientifica le numerose osservazioni che accompagnarono fin
dall’inizio le prove di introduzione in Europa di specie arboree esotiche. I primi
tentativi di trasferimento di alcune specie arboree nordamericane sono stati intrapresi
soprattutto per l'interesse tecnico economico per i legni impiegati nei cantieri navali
stabiliti nelle colonie.
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
On the Wings of Myth. A Review of Serge Dunis’s Pacific Mythology
Creators: name: Sofo, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: This article follows the steps of Serge Dunis’s book Pacifc Mythology, Ty Name Is Woman; a complex work, arguing that the settlement of the Pacifc has happened from West to East, relying on a broad variety of studies and disciplines. The author of this book operates a multifaceted investigation of all the aspects that could favour a better understanding of how the Pacifc has come to life, of how the frst settlers have reached these far-away islands, and of how their cultural background has influenced the new cultures that were born here. Setting out on the vast ocean of anthropological research, as the settlers of these islands had set out on the Pacifc Ocean, reaching all the way across, Dunis has given us the opportunity to land on aunknown country, where the settlement from West to East of the Pacifc becomes a fact, supported by a complex amount of evidence, ranging from archaeology to meteorology, from geography to anthropology. And, although “the challenges of 'Oceanian Mythology' undoubtedly overcome those of this work and it will take some more time to validate their scientifc validity”, as Raymond Mayer writes, “Dunis has certainly opened the way”. And he especially has shown that “nature and cultureare [...] never at rest”, and that “objects and plants never travel on their own: the cultural side is part and parcel of the package”.
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
L’azione degli Orti botanici per l’introduzione di piante utili o scientificamente importanti
Creators: name: Clauser, Marina
name: Cecchi, Lorenzo
name: Grigioni, Andrea
name: Lombardini, Carolina
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Orti botanici; esplorazioni naturalistiche; Amorphophallus tituanum; Dahlia; Passiflora; Coffea

description: The Botanical Gardens have always played a central role in the transfer of plants, aimed, among other objectives, to scientific research and economic use. On this issue the Botanical Gardens of Florence, Meise (Belgium) and Madrid thanks to a European Partnership, as part of the Lifelong Learning Programme, aimed at creating new educational tools in the field of botanical.
The three Botanical Gardens, so different for origine, history, location, have found in the history of the scientific expeditions of their home countries, the matter common to build, each in its own reality, a self-guided trail. The attention has been focused on plants which are sgnificant for the scientific research and for economic use, introduced in Europe from the eighteenth century till to the present day.
The plants chosen from the three gardens - including Amorphophallus titanum and some species within the genus Coffea, Dahlia and Passiflora - represent the link who joins the history of explorations and the new challenges that the Botanical Gardens facing in the complex modern reality.
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
Hodge cohomology of some foliated boundary and foliated cusp metrics
Creators: name: Gell-Redman, Jesse
name: Rochon, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58J10, 53C12

description: For fibred boundary and fibred cusp metrics, Hausel, Hunsicker, and Mazzeo identified the space of $L^2$ harmonic forms of fixed degree with the images of maps between intersection cohomology groups of an associated stratified space obtained by collapsing the fibres of the fibration at infinity onto its base. In the present paper, we obtain a generalization of this result to situations where, rather than a fibration at infinity, there is a Riemannian foliation with compact leaves admitting a resolution by a fibration. If the associated stratified space (obtained now by collapsing the leaves of the foliation) is a Witt space and if the metric considered is a foliated cusp metric, then no such resolution is required.
description: 22 pages, 1 figure, corrected typos, added examples, Mathematische Nachrichten, 2014
Synophis niceforomariae Pyron, Arteaga, Echevarria
Creators: name: Pyron, R. Alexander
name: Arteaga, Alejandro
name: Echevarría, Lourdes Y.
name: Torres-Carvajal, Omar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Synophis
Synophis niceforomariae

description: 1. Synophis niceforomariae Pyron, Arteaga, Echevarría, & Torres-Carvajal, 2016
 Range. Andean highlands of north-central Colombia, Antioquia department, near Medellín, ~ 1300–1700m, possibly with populations south of Medellín, ~ 900m.
 Description. Adult size ~ 410mm SVL and ~ 210mm TL in males, smooth nuchal scales; no nuchal collar; intranasals in contact; 2 postoculars; 10–12 infralabials; 8 supralabials; 184–193 ventrals; 127–131 subcaudals; and 19-19-17 dorsal scale-rows with single, weak keel.
 Notes. Includes specimens referred to as S. bicolor and S. cf. bicolor by previous authors (Nicéforo - María 1970; Pyron et al. 2015; Torres-Carvajal et al. 2015).
description: Published as part of Pyron, R. Alexander, Arteaga, Alejandro, Echevarría, Lourdes Y. & Torres-Carvajal, Omar, 2016, A revision and key for the tribe Diaphorolepidini (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) and checklist for the genus Synophis, pp. 293-320 in Zootaxa 4171 (2) on page 302, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/158885
Invasioni biologiche. Il caso drammatico delle palme e di due specie di insetti, il Punteruolo rosso delle palme (Rynchophorus ferrugineus, Coleotteri) e il castnide delle palme (Paysandisia archon, Lepidotteri) in Italia
Creators: name: Di Domenico, Marco
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: PALME; CASTNIDE DELLE PALME; PUNTERUOLO ROSSO; INVASIONI BIOLOGICHE; PALMA NANA

description: The biological invasions represent today a serious ecological problem, and is one of the main threats to biodiversity, in Italy as in the rest of the world. In the last century several species of palm trees have been introduced in gardens, parks and lanes of great part of Italy, where climate allows their life and growth. Among the others Phoenix canariensis, P. dactylifera, Washingtonia robusta, W. filifera, Jubaea spectabilis and Trachycarpus fortunei. All of these species are exotic, as the only indigenous palm in Italy is the dwarf fan palm (Chamaerops humilis), which occurs along the tirrenian coast from Sicily to Liguria, in Sardinia and most of the smaller islands. Palm trees have become by now part of the Italian landscape, as do pine tree in Rome or cypress in Tuscany. Recently, two different species of exotic insects where recorded for the first time in Italy: the south American moth Paysandisia archon and the chinese beetle Rhynchophorus ferrugineus. Both of them lay their eggs on palm trees, and their larvae feed into the stem and kill the palms. Both arrived in Italy and in other Mediterranean countries as larvae or eggs hidden into the plants imported from the native regions. These insects are rapidly spreading through Italy, following palm plantations, and destroying palms from north to south, with a huge economic damage. Furthermore, they are locally changing probably for ever the Italian landscape. More recently, there is evidence of infestation on dwarf fan palm by both the moth and the beetle. This could cause a local extinction of the palm.
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
Le piante viaggiano, il mondo cambia
Creators: name: Banfi, Enrico
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Wild plants; cultivated plants; discovey of America; invasiveness.

description: Despite being firmly attached to the ground, plants move, just like other organisms. Spores and seeds constitute the usual vehicle, however every journey made by this dispersive structure, even their simple fall under gravitational pull, is conditioned by the random nature of natural processes and does not necessary lead to success. This applies both to natural dissemination, be it mediated (by air, water, animals, etc.) or autonomous (passive fall, active expulsion), and, particularly in this day and age, when dispersion is in some way associated with Homo sapiens. In this last case, it is essential to make a distinction between wild and cultivated, remembering that the dead end of any crop is reached when, due to guided selection, the plant loses all capacity for autonomous life. The whole of human history is characterised by plant transfers (opportunist species) that were largely unplanned and in part outside human control, taking root in the natural environment thereby damaging and deteriorating biodiversity, human economics and health. These transfers increased with the discovery of America as a consequence of the contacts with the colonies established by Europe all over the world. The analysis of the success of international plant transfers, be they voluntary and involuntary, allows us to identify their causes, measure their development and build a general model from which to ascertain the chances offered to each new appearance for its future in foreign soil. Invasiveness indicates the “excess” of an alien presence and figures negatively as an increasingly pressing problem for the future of our planet.
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
Il re si diverte e muore: un itinerario dal grottesco all’assurdo
Creators: name: Monteiro, Paulo Filipe
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: This essay first discusses Victor Hugo’s defence of grotesque, his defence of Shakespeare, his achievements in Le roi s’amuse, and also the limitations due to his prophetic style. Piave and Verdi go further in Il Rigoletto, especially in the dramatic polyphony of opposite voices and points of view. Finally, we follow the creation of new kings, from Jarry’s Ubu to Ionesco’s Le roi se meurt: the absurd dimension which the romanticists had felt but had refused to surrender to is in the absurd and in most post-dramatic theatre a double impossibility of giving sense to the world and language to tragedy.
description: Itinera, No 6 (2013)
MOESM1 of Genome-wide identification, expression profiles and regulatory network of MAPK cascade gene family in barley
Creators: name: Cui, Licao
name: Yang, Guang
name: Yan, Jiali
name: Pan, Yan
name: Nie, Xiaojun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Multiple sequence alignment of the partial sequences of 20 HvMAPK proteins to identify the TDY and TEY motif. The red color marked sequence is the TDY or TEY motif.
Synophis bicolor Peracca 1896
Creators: name: Pyron, R. Alexander
name: Arteaga, Alejandro
name: Echevarría, Lourdes Y.
name: Torres-Carvajal, Omar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Synophis
Synophis bicolor

description: 2. Synophis bicolor Peracca, 1896
 Range. Chocoan lowlands of northwestern Ecuador, and presumably southwestern Colombia, ~ 200– 300m.
 Description. Adult size ~ 360–410mm SVL and ~ 230–250mm TL in males, smooth nuchal scales; no nuchal collar; intranasals in contact; 2 postoculars; 9–11 infralabials; 8 supralabials; 174–183 ventrals; 129–143 subcaudals; and 19-19-17 dorsal scale-rows with single, weak keel.
 Synophis calamitus BMNH 1940.2.30.31 Río Solaya, Ecuađor - 0.010213 -78.819510 1008 Synophis calamitus CAS 23612 Chimborazo, Naranjapata, Ecuađor -2.266667 -79.083333 763
 Synophis calamitus KU 164208 9 km SE Tanđayapa, Pichincha Province, Ecuađor - 0.047404 -78.632804 2169 Synophis calamitus KU 197107 4 km SE Tanđayapa, Pichincha Province, Ecuađor - 0.012514 -78.650697 1889 Synophis calamitus MCZ R-164530 Ecuađor, Pichincha, Tanđapi -0.419803 -78.801132 1714 Synophis calamitus MZUTI 3694 Tambo Tanđa, Ecuađor - 0.020108 -78.651012 2048 Synophis calamitus QCAZ 10453 Cotopaxi: Naranjito, Bosque Integral Otonga -0.417820 -78.988030 1655 Synophis calamitus QCAZ 10453 Naranjito, Bosque Integral Otonga (BIO) -0.415967 -79.004800 2110 Synophis calamitus QCAZ 1136 Chiriboga -0.224530 -78.767750 1955 ……continued on the next page Species Collection Number Locality Latitude Longitude Elevation ……continued on the next page Notes. Populations representing S. bogerti, S. calamitus, S. niceforomariae, and S. zamora have previously been referred to as S. " bicolor " (e.g., Bogert 1964; Pyron et al. 2015; Torres-Carvajal et al. 2015).
description: Published as part of Pyron, R. Alexander, Arteaga, Alejandro, Echevarría, Lourdes Y. & Torres-Carvajal, Omar, 2016, A revision and key for the tribe Diaphorolepidini (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) and checklist for the genus Synophis, pp. 293-320 in Zootaxa 4171 (2) on pages 302-303, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/158885
Il brutto e il grottesco tra Macbeth e Luisa Miller
Creators: name: Scaramuzza, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: In Rosenkranz’s definition, the grotesque is a particular kind of ugly. In the 20th Century it gain thus its own dignity and we can say that the grotesque is the form of survival for the ugly in our age (also the kitch inherits some aspects). It has moments of disfigurement and vulgarity; it is restless, variegated, it undermines classical cathegories: it appeals to the comic and the tragic, but it also desectaes them. Annie Ubersfeld’s between a “grotesque du rire” and a “grotesque de l’angoisse” is very useful to get the grotesque in Verdi, where the anguish grotesque prevails. I have searched to trace the presence of the ugly and the grotesque primarily in Macbeth, I Masnadieri, Luisa Miller. Rosenkranz states that the ugly, and the grotesque that is part of it, find their emancipation in art, by running from the comic; on the contrary, Verdi makes the comic an element that is functional to the grotesque and the horrible, and to the “scenic truth” that is communicated through them.
description: Itinera, No 6 (2013)
Building energy modelling and mapping using airborne LiDAR
Creators: name: Tooke, Thoreau Rory
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Globally, buildings are responsible for more than 40% of energy demand and contribute more than 30% of CO₂ emissions. Various strategies and policies have been developed to reduce the negative of effects of energy use in the building sector, specifically targeting energy conservation and energy supply from renewable resources. As a basis for these strategies, decision-makers require estimates of existing energy demand. Traditionally, broad building sector energy estimates are derived using top-down modelling approaches that establish relations between energy use and variables such as income, fuel prices and gross domestic product. In contrast, individual building energy modelling has evolved sophisticated physically based simulations, populated by an abundance of variables related to building construction materials and components. However, for governments and decision-makers tasked with developing local strategies, techniques are needed to provide a detailed itemization of the building and environmental attributes that impact energy demand, as offered in building simulations, while maintaining the scalability to large areas provided in top-down models. Advances to geospatial technologies and datasets offer novel opportunities to satisfy these two conditions. Of particular interest is light detection and ranging (LiDAR), since it provides spatially contiguous measurements of urban form, otherwise unattainable across large areas. This dissertation presents a novel approach that integrates LiDAR data with building energy models to provide detailed and spatially contiguous estimates of energy demand in the residential building sector. LiDAR is used to augment building energy models by relating measured building form to internal energy components including envelope resistivity, fenestration and air leakage, and by assessing building envelope solar gains after accounting for local occlusions. Outcomes demonstrate that a LiDAR-based approach to building energy assessment is able to produce results that closely match those from manually informed building simulation software, thus offering a time and cost effective option for extensive and detailed analysis of energy demand. By presenting methods to decompose building energy demand into the site-specific components that influence energy end-use, this dissertation offers innovative opportunities to analyze and design spatially targeted building energy policies and strategies.
Behaviors of entropy on finitely generated groups
Creators: name: Brieussel, Jérémie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A variety of behaviors of entropy functions of random walks on finitely generated groups is presented, showing that for any $\frac{1}{2}\leq α\leqβ\leq1$, there is a group $Γ$ with measure $μ$ equidistributed on a finite generating set such that \[\liminf\frac{\log H_{Γ,μ}(n)}{\log n}=α,\qquad \limsup \frac{\log H_{Γ,μ}(n)}{\log n}=β.\] The groups involved are finitely generated subgroups of the group of automorphisms of an extended rooted tree. The return probability and the drift of a simple random walk $Y_n$ on such groups are also evaluated, providing an example of group with return probability satisfying \[\liminf\frac{{\log}|{\log P}(Y_n=_Γ1)|}{\log n}=\frac{1}{3},\qquad \limsup\frac{{\log}|{\log P}(Y_n=_Γ1)|}{\log n}=1\] and drift satisfying \[\liminf\frac{\log {\mathbb{E}}\|Y_n\|}{\log n}=\frac{1}{2},\qquad \limsup\frac{\log {\mathbb{E}}\|Y_n\|}{\log n}=1.\]
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AOP761 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Synophis zaheri Pyron, Guayasamin, Penafiel, Bustamante 2015
Creators: name: Pyron, R. Alexander
name: Arteaga, Alejandro
name: Echevarría, Lourdes Y.
name: Torres-Carvajal, Omar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Synophis
Synophis zaheri

description: 3. Synophis zaheri Pyron, Guayasamin, Peñafiel, Bustamante, & Arteaga, 2015
 Range. Pacific Andean slopes of southwestern Ecuador, El Oro province, ~ 800–900m. Description. Adult size ~ 350–370mm SVL and ~ 180–190mm TL in males, smooth nuchal scales; no nuchal collar; intranasals in contact; 2 postoculars; 8–9 infralabials; 8 supralabials; 166–169 ventrals; 111–112 subcaudals; and 19-19-17 dorsal scale-rows with single, weak keel.
 Notes. Known only from the holotype and paratype.
description: Published as part of Pyron, R. Alexander, Arteaga, Alejandro, Echevarría, Lourdes Y. & Torres-Carvajal, Omar, 2016, A revision and key for the tribe Diaphorolepidini (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) and checklist for the genus Synophis, pp. 293-320 in Zootaxa 4171 (2) on page 307, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/158885
Torsion group schemes as iterative differential Galois groups
Creators: name: Maurischat, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We are considering iterative derivations on the function field L of abelian schemes in positive characteristic p>0, and give conditions when the torsion group schemes of this abelian scheme occur as ID-automorphism groups, i.e. are the ID-Galois groups of L over certain ID-subfields. For an explicit example, we even give a construction of (a family of) such iterative derivations.
description: 14 pages; v2: rewritten some proofs for better readability
Additional file 3 of Tubular epithelial cell-derived extracellular vesicles induce macrophage glycolysis by stabilizing HIF-1α in diabetic kidney disease
Creators: name: Jia, Yijie
name: Chen, Jiaqi
name: Zheng, Zhikang
name: Tao, Yuan
name: Zhang, Shuting
name: Zou, Meina
name: Yang, Yanlin
name: Xue, Meng
name: Hu, Fang
name: Li, Yang
name: Zhang, Qian
name: Xue, Yaoming
name: Zheng, Zongji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S2. In vivo biodistribution of EVs in mice. Imaging of the fluorescence intensity in the mouse organs at 24 h after injection.