cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Network Coding Performance Evaluation and an Application to Underwater Networks
Creators: name: Ding, Xiake
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Network Coding
Performance Tradeoff
Underwater

description: Network coding is a promising technology that many researchers have advocated due to its potentially significant benefits to improve the efficiency of data transmission. In this thesis, we use simulations to evaluate the performance of different network topologies using network coding. By comparing the results with networks without network coding, we confirm that network coding can improve the network throughput. It also has a potential to decrease the end to end delay and improve the reliability. However, there are tradeoff (between delay and reliability) when network coding is used, and some limitations which we summarize. Finally, we have also implemented network coding to a three-dimensional underwater network by using parameters that truly reflect the underwater channel. Our performance evaluations show a better throughput and end-to-end delay but not the PDR (Packet Delivery Rate) in the underwater topology we used.
Development of a Coupled TRNSYS-MATLAB Simulation Framework for Model Predictive Control of Integrated Electrical and Thermal Residential Renewable Energy System
Creators: name: Narayanan, Muthalagappan
name: De Lima, Aline Ferreira
name: De Azevedo Dantas, André Felipe Oliveira
name: Commerell, Walter
Publisher: name: Technische Hochschule Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: energy optimization
subject: whitebox MPC
subject: HVAC-building MPC
subject: self-consumption
subject: residential prosumer
subject: building optimization
subject: particle swarm optimization
subject: genetic algorithm optimization
subject: global pattern search optimization
subject: optimizer performance analysis
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations

description: An integrated electrical and thermal residential renewable energy system consisting of solar thermal collectors, gas boiler, fuel cell combined heat and power, a photovoltaic system with battery, inverter, and thermal storage for a single-family house of Sonnenhaus standard is investigated with a model predictive controller (MPC). The main focus of this article is to define a multi-objective mathematical function, develop a coupled simulation framework for the nonlinear time-varying deterministic discrete-time problem of the energy system using TRNSYS and MATLAB. With the developed methodology, a sensitivity analysis of maximum optimization time, swarm (or population or mesh) size of a typical spring day and a typical summer day assuming a 100% accurate weather and load forecast with three different algorithms: particle swarm optimization (PSO), genetic algorithm (GA) and global pattern search (GPS) are analyzed. Finally, the obtained results are compared with a status quo controller. Results show that the PSO algorithm optimizer performs the best in this MPC for such a complex and time-consuming MPC model in both the spring day and the summer day. The obtained results show that the PSO with swarm size 50 in the selected typical spring day and the PSO with swarm size 40 in the selected summer day reduces the objective function’s fitness value from 413 to −177 within 6 h optimization time and from 1396 to 1090 in 4 h optimization time respectively.
There and back again: past, present, and future of OpenCitations
Creators: name: Peroni, Silvio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: open citations
OpenCitations
open scholarly metadata
open infrastructure
open science
wooc 2020

description: OpenCitations is an independent infrastructure organization for open scholarship dedicated to the publication of open bibliographic and citation data by the use of Semantic Web (Linked Data) technologies. In my talk, I will briefly introduce the evolution of OpenCitations over the past few years, starting from the release of the new instance of the OpenCitations Corpus in 2016 to the creation of the OpenCitations Indexes and related tool, services, and software. As a consequence of being selected by the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) as an open infrastructure deserving of crowdfunding support from the scholarly community, we have defined a three-year plan which involves new governance structure and future services that I then will outline.
Editoriale/Editorial/Éditorial/Editorial
Creators: name: Emanuele Monegato, (A Cura Di)
name: Nicoletta Vallorani, (A Cura Di)
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Orientalismi
description: Altre Modernità, N° 8 (2012): Orientalismi
Is supported self-management for depression effective for adults in community-based settings in Vietnam?: a modified stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Murphy, Jill K.
name: Xie, Hui
name: Nguyen, Vu C.
name: Chau, Leena W.
name: Oanh, Pham T.
name: Nhu, Tran K.
name: O’Neil, John
name: Goldsmith, Charles H.
name: Van Hoi, Nguyen
name: Ma, Yue
name: Lou, Hayami
name: Jones, Wayne
name: Minas, Harry
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: This study tested the effectiveness of a supported self-management (SSM) intervention to reduce symptoms of depression among adults compared with enhanced treatment as usual in community-based and primary care settings in Vietnam. Methods: The cluster randomized trial included 376 adults in 32 communes in eight provinces. Eligible participants scored > 7 on the SRQ-20 depression scale. Patients with severe symptoms were excluded and referred to tertiary care. Randomization took place at the commune level. The immediate intervention group included 16 communes with 190 participants and the delayed group included 16 communes with 186 participants. Participants in communes randomized to the immediate intervention group received a two-month course of SSM, consisting of a workbook and supportive coaching. Those in communes randomized to the delayed group received enhanced treatment as usual and, for ethical purposes, received the SSM intervention after 4 months. The primary outcome is the effect of SSM on reduction in depression scores as indicated by a reduced proportion of participants with SRQ-20 scores > 7 at 2 months after commencement of SSM intervention. Blinding was not possible during intervention delivery but outcome assessors were blinded. Analysis was intention-to-treat. Results: At 2 months, 26.4% of the intervention group and 42.3% of the delayed group had SRQ-20 scores > 7. The adjusted odds ratio of having depression between the intervention and control was 0.42 (p < 0.0001), 95% CI (0.28, 0.63). Receiving the intervention thus reduces the odds of having depression by 58%, compared with receiving the control after 2 months of treatment. No adverse events were reported. Conclusions: Results suggest that SSM is effective for decreasing depression symptoms among adults in community-based settings in Vietnam. Trial Registration This trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT03001063.
Human biomonitoring reference values: Differences and similarities between approaches for identifying unusually high exposure of pollutants in humans
Creators: name: Apel, Petra
name: Conrad, André
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Rucic, Enrico
name: Vogel, Nina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Referenzwert
Human-Biomonitoring

description: In exposure and risk assessment, the indication of unusually high exposure levels in humans to chemicals has been considered as an important objective for decades. To realize this objective, reference values (RV) need to be derived. However, while there is a tendency towards using the 95th percentile as a basis for deriving these reference values there is still no consensus. Moreover, side approaches have evolved including deriving RVs based on other percentiles, reporting multiple RVs or only reporting percentiles. The purpose of this article is to give an overview of the current literature, to point out differences and similarities between existing approaches, and to highlight important criteria for the derivation of RVs. We observe the majority of studies to base RVs on the 95th percentile and its 95% confidence interval which can been justified by statistical paradigms, present arguments for a single defined reference value, and discuss characteristics which call for more consistency. To conclude, our overview provides a first step towards a more homogenous and standardized derivation procedure to identify unusually high exposures in exposure science. © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH.
Uni Ulm intern - das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin, Nr. 208 (26. Jg.), Oktober 1996
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Uni Ulm intern
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Ulm / Universität

description: N/A
Queued and Pooled Semantics for State Machines in the Umple Model-Oriented Programming Language
Creators: name: Alghamdi, Aliaa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Umple
Model-Oriented Programming Language
Queued State Machine (QSM)
Pooled State Machine (PSM)
Unspecified Reception
Finite State Machine (FSM)
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Communicating Finite state Machine (CFSM)
Unified Modelling Language (UML)
Specification and Description Language (SDL)

description: This thesis describes extensions to state machines in the Umple model-oriented programming language to offer queued state machines (QSM), pooled state machines (PSM) and handing of the arrival of unexpected events. These features allow for modeling the behavior of a system or protocol in a more accurate way in Umple because they enable detecting and fixing common design errors such as unspecified receptions. In addition, they simplify the communication between communicating state machines by allowing for asynchronous calls of events and passing of messages between state machines. Also, a pooled state machine (PSM) has been developed to provide a different policy of handling events that avoid unspecified receptions. This mechanism has similar semantics as a queued state machine, but it differs in the way of detecting unspecified receptions because it helps handling these errors. Another mechanism has been designed to use the keyword ‘unspecified’ in whatever state of a state machine the user wants to detect these errors. In this thesis, the test-driven development (TDD) process has been followed to first modify the Umple syntax to add ‘queued,’ ‘pooled,’ and ‘unspecified’ keywords to Umple state machine’s grammar; and second, to make a change to the Umple semantics in order to implement these extensions in Umple. Then, additional modifications have been made to allow for Java code generation from those types of state machines. Finally, more test cases have been written to ensure that these models are syntactically and semantically correct. In order to show the usefulness and usability of these new features, an example is shown as a case study that is modeled using the queued state machine (QSM) besides other small tests cases.
Alan Turing creator of Artificial Languages
Creators: name: Gobbo, Federico
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Bilingual article. (En / Eo) In this paper an evaluation of the contribution to philosophical investigation by Alan Turing is provided in terms of creation of Artificial Languages (ALs). After a discussion of the term AL in the literature, and in particular within the theoretical model offered by Lyons, the legacy of Turing is presented with a special attention to what remains after a century by his birth and what is still to be investigated in this area.
description: InKoj. Philosophy & Artificial Languages, Vol 3, No 2 (2012): New Languages for new Means of Communication
Acceleration of Block-Aware Matrix Factorization on Heterogeneous Platforms
Creators: name: Somers, Gregory W.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: multi-GPU
Parallel LU Factorization
Circuit Simulation

description: Block-structured matrices arise in several contexts in circuit simulation problems. These matrices typically inherit the pattern of sparsity from the circuit connectivity. However, they are also characterized by dense spots or blocks. Direct factorization of those matrices has emerged as an attractive approach if the host memory is sufficiently large to store the block-structured matrix. The approach proposed in this thesis aims to accelerate the direct factorization of general block-structured matrices by leveraging the power of multiple OpenCL accelerators such as Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). The proposed approach utilizes the notion of a Directed Acyclic Graph representing the matrix in order to schedule its factorization on multiple accelerators. This thesis also describes memory management techniques that enable handling large matrices while minimizing the amount of memory transfer over the PCIe bus between the host CPU and the attached devices. The results demonstrate that by using two GPUs the proposed approach can achieve a nearly optimal speedup when compared to a single GPU platform.
Neutral hydrogen gas in star forming galaxies at z=0.24
Creators: name: Lah, Philip
name: Chengalur, Jayaram N.
name: Briggs, Frank H.
name: Colless, Matthew
name: De Propris, Roberto
name: Pracy, Michael B.
name: de Blok, W. J. G.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We use observations from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) to measure the atomic hydrogen gas content of star-forming galaxies at z = 0.24 (i.e. a look-backtime of ~3 Gyr). To measure the HI 21 cm emission signal we stack the signal from 121 galaxies with known optical positions and redshifts. We find an average HI mass for the galaxies of (2.26 ± 0.90) x 10^9 M-sun. We translate this HI measurement into a cosmic density of neutral gas at z=0.24 of Ωgas = (0.91 ± 0.42) x 10^-3. This value is consistent with that estimated from damped Lyα systems around this redshift.
The Evidence on Police Contributions to Crime Reduction: What Do We Know and What Does the Ottawa Police Service Do About It?
Creators: name: Norton, Adam P.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Crime prevention
Policing
Evidence based

description: There are two main objectives of this thesis. First, to review the social science evidence on the extent to which different police practices have been proven to reduce crime, or not reduce crime, as well as those cases where the evidence is not clear. This thesis synthesizes crime reduction strategies to short-list those practices that are proven to reduce crime. Second, it uses the evidence collected to facilitate an exploratory case study with three key informants from the Ottawa Police Service (OPS). The case study examines the current use and perceived future role of the police in evidence-based crime prevention efforts. Overall, the research study seeks to answer the following four research questions: 1. What sources of literature provide well-researched and reliable data on effectiveness of policing in crime reduction? 2. In this literature, what policing strategies/practices are shown to reduce crime, not reduce crime or are promising in reducing crime? 3. To what extent is the OPS using evidence-based knowledge to guide their policing strategy/practices? 4. To what extent is the OPS open to using evidence-based knowledge to guide their policing strategy/practices in the future?
C. Bazzanella - Numeri per parlare. Da 'quattro chiacchiere' a 'grazie mille'
Creators: name: Tagliafico, Daniela
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: InKoj. Philosophy & Artificial Languages, Vol 3, No 2 (2012): New Languages for new Means of Communication
Supplementary document for Influence of Temperature and Plasma Parameters on the Properties of PEALD HfO2 - 5223630.pdf
Creators: name: Lapteva, Margarita
name: Beladiya, Vivek
name: Riese, Sebastian
name: Hanke, Philipp
name: Otto, Felix
name: Fritz, Torsten
name: Stenzel, Olaf
name: Tünnermann, Andreas
name: Szeghalmi, Adriana
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical Properties of Materials

description: Supplementary Material
Topical Structure in Long Informal Documents
Creators: name: Kazantseva, Anna
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Natural Language Processing
topic modelling
topical segmentation
discourse structure

description: This dissertation describes a research project concerned with establishing the topical structure of long informal documents. In this research, we place special emphasis on literary data, but also work with speech transcripts and several other types of data. It has long been acknowledged that discourse is more than a sequence of sentences but, for the purposes of many Natural Language Processing tasks, it is often modelled exactly in that way. In this dissertation, we propose a practical approach to modelling discourse structure, with an emphasis on it being computationally feasible and easily applicable. Instead of following one of the many linguistic theories of discourse structure, we attempt to model the structure of a document as a tree of topical segments. Each segment encapsulates a span that concentrates on a particular topic at a certain level of granularity. Each span can be further sub-segmented based on finer fluctuations of topic. The lowest (most refined) level of segmentation is individual paragraphs. In our model, each topical segment is described by a segment centre -- a sentence or a paragraph that best captures the contents of the segment. In this manner, the segmenter effectively builds an extractive hierarchical outline of the document. In order to achieve these goals, we use the framework of factor graphs and modify a recent clustering algorithm, Affinity Propagation, to perform hierarchical segmentation instead of clustering. While it is far from being a solved problem, topical text segmentation is not uncharted territory. The methods developed so far, however, perform least well where they are most needed: on documents that lack rigid formal structure, such as speech transcripts, personal correspondence or literature. The model described in this dissertation is geared towards dealing with just such types of documents. In order to study how people create similar models of literary data, we built two corpora of topical segmentations, one flat and one hierarchical. Each document in these corpora is annotated for topical structure by 3-6 people. The corpora, the model of hierarchical segmentation and software for segmentation are the main contributions of this work.
Real-Time Recognition of Planar Targets on Mobile Devices. A Framework for Fast and Robust Homography Estimation
Creators: name: Bazargani, Hamid
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: homography
Augmented Reality
real-time mobile vision

description: The present thesis is concerned with the problem of robust pose estimation for planar targets in the context of real-time mobile vision. As a consequence of this research, individual developments made in isolation by earlier researchers are here considered together. Several adaptations to the existing algorithms are undertaken yielding a unified framework for robust pose estimation. This framework is specifically designed to meet the growing demand for fast and robust estimation on power-constrained platforms. For robust recognition of targets at very low computational costs, we employ feature based methods which are based on local binary descriptors allowing fast feature matching at run-time. The matching set is then fed to a robust parameter estimation algorithm in order to obtain a reliable homography. On the basis of our experimental results, it can be concluded that reliable homography estimates can be obtained using a device-friendly implementation of the Gaussian Elimination algorithm. We also show in this thesis that our simplified approach can significantly improve the homography estimation step in a hypothesize-and-verify scheme. The author's attention is focused not only on developing fast algorithms for the recognition framework but also on the optimized implementation of such algorithms. Any other recognition framework would similarly benefit from our optimized implementation.
Supplementary document for Influence of Temperature and Plasma Parameters on the Properties of PEALD HfO2 - 5223630.pdf
Creators: name: Lapteva, Margarita
name: Beladiya, Vivek
name: Riese, Sebastian
name: Hanke, Philipp
name: Otto, Felix
name: Fritz, Torsten
name: Stenzel, Olaf
name: Tünnermann, Andreas
name: Szeghalmi, Adriana
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Optical Properties of Materials

description: Supplementary Material
title: Umweltbedingte Krankheitslasten und Ansätze zu ihrer monetären Bewertung
title: Umweltbedingte Krankheitslasten und Ansätze zu ihrer monetären Bewertung
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Best, Aaron
name: Chelminska, Marte
name: Schock, Michael
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Gesundheitsökonomie
subject: Kostenanalyse
subject: Ökonomie
subject: Umweltbedingte Krankheitslast
subject: Gesundheit

description: Für die monetäre Bewertung der Auswirkungen umweltbedingter Erkrankungen sowie der daraus resultierenden Todesfälle liegen verschiedene ökonomische Methoden vor. In diesem Bericht wird eine Prüfung der Eignung dieser Methoden zur monetären Bewertung der gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen von Umweltbelastungen in Deutschland vorgenommen. Der Bericht identifiziert die jeweiligen Merkmale der Methoden, fasst ihre Hauptstärken und -schwächen zusammen und bewertet ihre Eignung für die kombinierte Verwendung der Methoden innerhalb ökonomischer Analysen. Schließlich enthält der Bericht Empfehlungen für die praktische Anwendung der Methoden. Dieser Bericht dient auch als Basis für die Erarbeitung konkreter monetärer Bewertungen von umweltbedingten Krankheitslasten, was anhand der Berechnung von drei Fallstudien zu Umweltrisikofaktoren exemplarisch veranschaulicht wird. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Several monetisation methods are available for estimating the economic costs of disease and premature death resulting from adverse environmental burdens. This report evaluates the suitability of these methods for attaching a monetary value to the health impacts of environmental pollution in Germany. The report identifies the respective characteristics of the methods, summarizes their key strengths and weaknesses, and assesses their suitability for combined use within economic valuations. Lastly, the report provides recommendations for the practical application of the methods. This report also serves as a basis for the development of three case studies, in which the disease burden related to environmental risk factors is monetized. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Für die monetäre Bewertung der Auswirkungen umweltbedingter Erkrankungen sowie der daraus resultierenden Todesfälle liegen verschiedene ökonomische Methoden vor. Ziel des Projekts war die Prüfung der Eignung dieser Methoden zur monetären Bewertung der gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen von Umweltbelastungen in Deutschland. Die Kernmerkmale ausgewählter Methoden wurden identifiziert, die Hauptstärken und -schwächen zusammengefasst sowie ihre Eignung für die Verwendung innerhalb gesundheitsökonomischer Analysen bewertet. Dieser Bericht dient zudem als Basis für die Erarbeitung konkreter monetärer Bewertungen von umweltbedingten Krankheitslasten, was anhand von drei Fallstudien veranschaulicht wird.
Vulnerability and Agency: Reframing Disability through the Capabilities Approach. A Case Study of Women with Physical Disabilities in Lusaka, Zambia
Creators: name: Meilleur Sarazin, Michèle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: disability
agency
vulnerability
women
capability
capabilities
Zambia
development
gender
actor
actors
functioning
functionings
Actor's Oriented Approach
Capabilities Approach
Amartya Sen
human development

description: This study explores the concepts of vulnerability, agency, and actors with relation to the capability development and deprivation of women with physical disabilities in Lusaka, Zambia. Based in the human development paradigm and Sen and Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach, it seeks to critically explore what impact being born, raised, and living as a woman with a physical disability in a developing country has on the development of capabilities. It also seeks to identify and analyze the involved processes, actors, and environmental factors. A main finding is that capability deprivation for women with physical disabilities is not simply caused by disability, or by gender, but by a multitude of factors. These include: the environment, social contexts, and relative poverty in which the women live; the particular cultural repertoires that surround them; and the actors with whom they interact. However, disability can, and often does, exacerbate the complex life situations in which the women find themselves.
The association between treatment modality, lipid profile, ,metabolic control in children with type 1 diabetes and celiac disease—data from the international sweet registry
Creators: name: Marino, Monica
name: Eckert, Alexander J.
name: Tell, Shoshana
name: Krnic, Nevena
name: Deja, Grazyna
name: Faber Rasmussen, Vinni
name: Coelho, Raquel
name: Todorovic, Sladjana
name: Jefferies, Craig A.
name: Sherif, Eman
name: Martinez Mateu, Carolina
name: Elena Lionetti, Maria
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: type 1 diabetes
subject: continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion
subject: lipid profile
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Diabetes mellitus, Type 1; Drug therapy
subject: Celiac disease
subject: Insulin infusion systems
subject: Glycemic control
subject: Diabetes mellitus Typ 1
subject: Zöliakie
subject: Blutzucker
subject: Insulin
subject: Infusion

description: Background and Aims: A higher frequency of dyslipidemia is reported in children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and celiac disease (CD). Recently, continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) has been associated with better lipid profiles in patients with T1D. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between treatment modality and lipid profile, metabolic control, and body mass index (BMI)-SDS in children with both T1D and CD. Methods: Cross-sectional study in children registered in the international SWEET database in November 2020. Inclusion criteria were children (2–18 years) with T1D and CD with available data on treatment modality (CSII and injections therapy, IT), triglyceride, total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, dyslipidemia, HbA1c, and BMI-SDS. Overweight/obesity was defined as > +1 BMI-SDS for age. Data were analyzed by linear and logistical regression models with adjustment for age, gender, and diabetes duration. Results: In total 1009 children with T1D and CD (female 54%, CSII 54%, age 13.9 years ±3.6, diabetes duration 7.2 years ±4.1, HbA1c 7.9% ±1.4) were included. Significant differences between children treated with CSII vs. IT were respectively found; HDL 60.0 mg/dL vs. 57.8 mg/dL, LDL 89.4 mg/dL vs. 94.2 mg/dL, HbA1c 7.7 vs. 8.1%, BMI-SDS 0.4 vs. 0.6, overweight and obesity 17% vs. 26% (all p < 0.05). Conclusions: CSII is associated with higher HDL and lower LDL, HbA1c, BMI-SDS, and percentage of overweight and obesity compared with IT in this study. Further prospective studies are required to determine whether CSII improves lipid profile, metabolic control and normalize body weight in children with both T1D and CD.
Filosofia e luogo pubblico
Creators: name: Ronchi, Rocco
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Il luogo della filosofia, almeno per chi frequenta una certa tradizione e un certo strumentario filosofico, è quello genealogico e autobiografico, cioè quello che consiste nel chiedere conto del luogo stesso della filosofia, della sua pratica, della sua verità. Ora, questo cortocircuito, lungi dal configurare una condizione di paralisi, costituisce l'assoluto stesso della pratica filosofica e il fondamento in atto della verità a cui quella pratica dà legittimamente accesso. In questa stessa prospettiva va riaffrontata la questione "fenomenologica" della coscienza e della correlazione coscienza mondo, nonché il suo esito più avanzato, che riguarda, nel lessico della tradizione filosofica di cui si è detto, il problema dell'evento come nodo di relazioni.
description: Nóema, N° 1 (2010): Il luogo pubblico della filosofia
Bergson e la filosofia oggi
Creators: name: Sini, Carlo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: L'autore prende spunto dal libro di Rocco Ronchi Bergson. Una sintesi (Marinotti, Milano 2011), per una riflessione sulla posizione di Bergson all'interno della tradizione filosofica, sulle indicazioni che il suo pensiero della durata può offrire per il superamento dei tradizionali dualismi metafisici, sul modo in cui intendere il suo appello al divenire come "realtà" ultima delle cose: al modo, cioè, di un'ontologia del processo, o piuttosto di un'etica di quella diveniente differenza che noi stessi siamo?
description: Nóema, N° 1 (2010): Il luogo pubblico della filosofia
Strength distributions of silicon devices determined by wafer backgrinding
Creators: name: Cook, Robert F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The effects of wafer backgrinding on the strength of silicon devices in the form of dies are investigated experimentally and analytically. In particular, the scale and orientation of striations generated by in-feed grinding on wafer and die back faces are shown to be critical factors in determining the spatial arrangement of die strengths over a wafer and the strength distributions of dies sampled from a wafer. The scale of the striations is considered in the context of controlled indentation and scratch flaw experiments, leading to the assessment that strength-controlling grinding striations are formed by translated sharp contacts with approximately 0.1 N normal load. The effect of striation orientation is described by a simple expression fit to experimental die strength measurements. An analytical formulation of striation orientation based on in-feed grinding geometry parameters implements the expression to generate wafer strength maps and sample strength distributions. The maps and distributions are of direct engineering applicability.
Solitario o solidale?
Creators: name: Della Valle, Erica
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Riflettendo sulle proposte formulate nei "Saggi" del presente numero, l'Autrice suggerisce per la filosofia il compito di un nuovo modo di frequentare il senso della "philia" come condivisione nella differenza. Solo nella differenza si può infatti dare comunanza e solo nella distanza si può instaurare quella che Nietzsche chiamò "amicizia stellare".
description: Nóema, N° 1 (2010): Il luogo pubblico della filosofia
Supplementary document for Characterization of a fiber-coupled EvenField illumination system for fluorescence microscopy - 5223821.pdf
Creators: name: Nicovich, Philip
name: Berry, Kyla
name: Nguyen, Thuc
name: Serafin, Robert
name: Taormina, Mike
name: Maltzer, Zoe
name: Turner, Kristen
name: Gorham, Melissa
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Figures S1-S6
Template matching for radar-based orientation and position estimation in automotive scenarios
Creators: name: Schlichenmaier, Johannes
name: Selvaraj, Niranjan
name: Stolz, Martin
name: Waldschmidt, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Transforms
subject: Microwave FET integrated circuits
subject: Automotive engineering
subject: Shape
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Estimation theory
subject: Radar
subject: Microwave integrated circuits
subject: Motor vehicles; Design and construction
subject: Field-effect transistors
subject: Wandler
subject: Feldeffekttransistor
subject: Mikrowellenschaltung
subject: Radar
subject: Fahrzeugbau

description: Future high-resolution radars enable new functionalities in advanced driver assistance systems, such as estimation of contour, position, and orientation of vehicles on the road. However, straightforward approaches like that of Oriented Bounding Box generally fail in challenging automotive scenarios, when only one side of the vehicle is visible to the radar. In this paper, an estimation approach based on Generalized Hough Transform matching is presented and examined for its use in such automotive scenarios. An optimization method is discussed and finally, the algorithm is compared against a classic approach.
Esperienza ed evento della verità. Pratica filosofica e astrazione scientifica nel pensiero di A.N. Whitehead
Creators: name: Brioschi, Maria Regina
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Il presente articolo analizza il rapporto tra filosofia, esperienza ed evento nel pensiero di A.N. Whitehead. L’autrice ripercorre e descrive, a partire dalla critica al concetto di oggetto, la peculiare dialettica di astratto e concreto al centro dalle indagini whiteheadiane sull’esperienza percettiva. Successivamente, viene mostrato come la pratica filosofica differisca da ogni genere di scienza, pur necessitandone in virtù della co-implicazione di oggetto ed evento, astrazione e riconoscimento.Experience and event of truth. Philosophical practice and scientific abstraction in A.N. Whitehead's thought This article analyzes the relationship between philosophy, experience and event in A.N. Whitehead’s thought. From the critic of the concept of object, the author retraces and describes the peculiar “abstract-concrete dialectic”, at the center of the researches concerning the perceptual experience.
Furthermore, according to Whitehead’s later works, she demonstrates how the philosophical practice is different from all other kinds of science, although it requires science itself because of the co-implication of object and event, abstraction and recognition.
description: Nóema, N° 2 (2011): Oggettività e realismo: l'ultima impresa della verità
Enhancing mental health, well-being and active lifestyles of university students by means of physical activity and exercise research programs
Creators: name: Herbert, Cornelia
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical activity
subject: Well-being
subject: Low intensity exercise
subject: Perceived stress
subject: Emerging adults
subject: University students
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Mental health
subject: Students; Psychology
subject: Mental disorders; Prevention and control
subject: Depression; Prevention and control
subject: Exercise
subject: Student
subject: Studentin
subject: Psychische Gesundheit
subject: Körperliche Aktivität

description: Mental disorders (e.g., depression) and sedentary behavior are increasing, also among emerging adults. One particular target group of emerging adults with high sitting times and vulnerability to mental disorders are university students. In particular, anxiety and depressive symptoms as well as stress symptoms are very common among university students. The present manuscript discusses whether physical activity and exercise interventions can help to promote the mental health of emerging adults such as university students. The manuscript will summarize current scientific evidence and based on this evidence, introduce an university-based scientific research project that investigates if physical activity, exercise interventions and acute bouts of exercise of low- to moderate intensity can buffer perceived stress, alleviate mental health symptoms and strengthen well-being (psychologically and physiologically) among university students by positively influencing depressive and anxiety symptoms, perceived stress and emotion perception, body awareness and subjective well-being including overall quality of life. The research project, its concept, multimethod approach, and first results from available studies are discussed in relation to current scientific evidence, health care needs and future developments. The results from the studies conducted within the research project so far and that are briefly summarized in this manuscript suggest that physical activity, mental health and well-being are positively related, also in university students as an important group of emerging adults. The results further suggest that exercise interventions comprising aerobic exercises of low- to moderate intensity may work best to improve mental health (alleviate depressive symptoms and perceived stress) among university students after a few weeks of intervention. In addition, acute bouts of certain types of exercises (yoga in particular) seem to be particularly effective in changing perception of bodily signals, cardiac activity and emotion processing immediately after the exercise. The results underscore the importance of systematic investigations of the combined examination of psychological and physiological factors that promote an active lifestyle and that strengthen mental health and well-being (psychologically and physiologically) among emerging adults such as university students.
Echoes of Home: The Diasporic Performer and the Quest for "Armenianness"
Creators: name: Turabian, Michael
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: performer
musician
Armenianness
Diaspora
Komitas
exile
tradition
national identity
nostalgia
cultural identity

description: Current scholarship recognizes that music is a powerful channel that can manifest individual identity. But such research takes for granted music as a symbol of collective cultural identity, and, therefore, neglects examining how music in general, but musical performance in particular, functions to produce and reproduce a society at large. Indeed, what is missing is a rigorous understanding of not only how the act of performing forms collective identity, but also how it acts as an agency, indeed, perhaps the only agency that enables this process. As Thomas Turino suggests, externalized musical practice can facilitate the creation of emergent cultural identities, and help in forming life in new cultural surroundings. The present thesis examines the dynamics between cultural identity and music from the perspective of the performing musician. By examining musical situations in the context of the Armenian – Canadian diaspora, I will show how performers themselves both evoke feelings of nostalgia for the homeland and maintain the traditions of their culture through the performance event, while simultaneously serving as cultural ambassadors for the Armenian – Canadian community. My thesis outlines four key themes that are crucial in understanding the roles of musicians in Armenian culture. They are tradition bearer, educator, cultural ambassador, and artisan. As boundaries between peoples and nations progressively blur, I conclude that performance proves a vital medium where a search for national identity can occur, frequently resulting in the realization of one’s ethnic identity. Ultimately, without the labors of the performing musician, music would be unable to do the social work that is necessary in forming cultural, social, or even personal identities.
A tool to assess alignment between knowledge and action for health equity
Creators: name: Plamondon, Katrina
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Advancing health equity is a central goal and ethical imperative in public and global health. Though the commitment to health equity in these fields and among the health professions is clear, alignment between good equity intentions and action remains a challenge. This work regularly encounters the same power structures that are known to cause health inequities. Despite consensus about causes, health inequities persist—illustrating an uncomfortable paradox: good intentions and good evidence do not necessarily lead to meaningful action. This article describes a theoretically informed, reflective tool for assessing alignment between knowledge and action for health equity. It is grounded in an assumption that progressively more productive action toward health inequities is justified and desired and an explicit acceptance of the evidence about the socioeconomic, political, and power-related root causes of health inequities. Intentionally simple, the tool presents six possible actions that describe ways in which health equity work could respond to causes of health inequities: discredit, distract, disregard, acknowledge, illuminate, or disrupt. The tool can be used to assess or inform any kind of health equity work, in different settings and at different levels of intervention. It is a practical resource against which practice, policy, or research can be held to account, encouraging steps toward equity- and evidence-informed action. It is meant to complement other tools and training resources to build capacity for allyship, de- colonization, and cultural safety in the field of health equity, ultimately contributing to growing awareness of how to advance meaningful health equity action.
Abitare il paradosso
Creators: name: Capra, Daniele
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: L'articolo intende presentare spunti per una rilettura delle tesi esposte da Donald Woods Winnicott secondo una prospettiva filosofica di stampo pragmatico-ermeneutico, con particolare riferimento al tema della istituzione e costituzione della relazione oggettuale, nell’intento di ricercare, rendendolo evidente, il lgouo dvoe un oegtgto copmlesso cmoe qeutsa fsrae asusme un singifiacto e la fliosoifa, sloo in un mdoo più avevrtito riseptto alle sicezne, è psosiblie.To inhabit the paradoxThe article aims to present ideas for a new reading of theses expounded by Donald Woods Winnicott, according to a philosophical perspective of pragmatic-hermeneutic kind, with special reference to the establishment and constitution of the object relationship, in order to search, making it clear, the palce wehre an ojbect as copmelx as tihs prahse tkeas on a maeinng and piholposhy, olny in a way mroe exerpineced tahn secinecs, is psoislbe.
description: Nóema, N° 2 (2011): Oggettività e realismo: l'ultima impresa della verità
Data Files for ANI2 Imager for JGR paper Kelvin-Helmholtz Billow Interactions and Instabilities in the Mesosphere over the Andes Lidar Observatory: 1. Observations by J. Hecht et al.
Creators: name: Hecht, James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Airglow. KHI

description: The files in this set are data obtained from the ANI2 airglow imager located at the Andes Lidar Observatory.in Chile (30.23S, 70.73W, 2530 m). The files are named for a JGR paper Kelvin-Helmholtz Billow Interactions and Instabilities in the Mesosphere over the Andes Lidar Observatory: 1. Observations by J. Hecht et al. This paper should appear in JGR Atmospheres sometime in late 2020 or early 2021. The files are text files but are meant to read with IDL. See readme file for more details
Supplementary document for Characterization of a fiber-coupled EvenField illumination system for fluorescence microscopy - 5223821.pdf
Creators: name: Nicovich, Philip
name: Berry, Kyla
name: Nguyen, Thuc
name: Serafin, Robert
name: Taormina, Mike
name: Maltzer, Zoe
name: Turner, Kristen
name: Gorham, Melissa
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Figures S1-S6
Untangling the web's shifting strands
Creators: name: Salomon, Mandy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Despite the failure of the Howard government's net filter scheme, and Senator Helen Coonan's second, superior attempt, both famously cracked by 16-year-old Tom Wood, the Rudd Government is embarking on a similar quest, starting with a six-week trial. It has invited the internet service providers to enlist, but the good news is that all of us can participate. Judging from comments in the blogosphere, geeks are lining up to be the first to prove how easily the system will be hacked. If redirecting proxies is not your thing, you could join the stop-watch subcommittee, whose job will be to monitor the drag of the content-filtering system on your computer's speed. Another task is to try to trick the system by putting in keywords that might be on the black list: 'jugs', 'hot', and 'doggy', for example. A top-down content-filtering system is doomed to fail. The internet was built to route around blockages.
La verità dalla materia alla prassi. Il realismo pragmatico
Creators: name: Della Valle, Erica
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Giulio Preti in Praxis ed empirismo (1957) elabora un realismo pragmatico che, avvalendosi della connessione fra la filosofia del giovane Marx e le tesi del pragmatismo, nella versione di Dewey, permette di dare un contributo prezioso alla costruzione di una nuova proposta filosofica volta ad affermare che conoscere, interpretare, spiegare e modificare il mondo vanno di pari passo. The truth from the material to the practice. The pragmatic realismGiulio Preti in Praxis and Empiricism (1957) develops a pragmatic realism that, using the connection between the philosophy of the young Marx and the theory of pragmatism, as Dewey, can make a valuable contribution to the construction of a new proposal: knowing, interpreting, explaining and changing the world go hand in hand.
description: Nóema, N° 2 (2011): Oggettività e realismo: l'ultima impresa della verità
Understanding the Help-Seeking Process Among Second Generation Chinese Canadians Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour: What Is the Role of Culture?
Creators: name: Lee, Andrea Ming-Si
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Help-seeking
Chinese Canadians
Theory of Planned Behaviour

description: The underutilization of mental health services among the Chinese Canadian population is a perpetual problem. The present study examined the help-seeking process among second generation Chinese Canadians using the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). The utility of the TPB was tested using both direct and indirect measures and path analyses were used. The influence of additional variables, including self-stigma, anticipated benefits and risks, and cultural variables such as Asian values, European American values, Chinese identity, Canadian identity, family connectedness and self-concealment were investigated. Two hundred and twelve second generation Chinese Canadians participated in the study. Participants had the option to complete the study questionnaire online or in paper format. Results supported the utilization and application of the TPB in understanding help-seeking intentions and highlighted the differential contribution of attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control. The study also supported the notion that perceived behavioural control consists of two inter-related but distinct components: self-efficacy and controllability. Results highlight the importance of self-efficacy in predicting help-seeking intentions among second generation Chinese Canadians. Findings also showed that Asian values, Canadian identity, anticipated benefits and risks, self-concealment, and self-stigma play different roles in predicting attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control in the help-seeking process. In sum, results of the present study served as an important step in further understanding the help-seeking process among second generation Chinese Canadians. Implications for research, clinical practice, and future directions are discussed.