cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gli oneri di urbanizzazione e la garanzia fideiussoria
Creators: name: Gastaldo, Valentina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Nota a Consiglio di Stato, Sez. IV - sentenza 30 luglio 2012 n. 4320 Sommario: I. L'irrilevanza della mancata realizzazione delle opere di urbanizzazione sull'obbligatorietà del relativo contributo – II. Le motivazioni del Consiglio di Stato: a) La natura degli oneri di urbanizzazione b) Il calcolo degli oneri di urbanizzazione c) La garanzia fideiussoria e le sanzioni applicabili al debitore per il mancato pagamento degli oneri – III. Conclusioni
Revisiting constraints on asymmetric dark matter from collapse in white dwarf stars
Creators: name: Steigerwald, Heinrich
name: Marra, Valerio
name: Profumo, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The runaway collapse phase of a small dark matter cluster inside a white dwarf star encompasses a reversible stage, where heat can be transferred back and forth between nuclear and dark matter. Induced nuclear burning phases are stable and early carbon depletion undermines previous claims of type Ia supernova ignition. Instead, mini black holes are formed at the center of the star that either evaporate or accrete stellar material until a macroscopic sub-Chandrasekhar-mass black hole is formed. In the latter case, a 0.1 to 1 second lasting electromagnetic transient signal can be detected upon ejection of the white dwarf's potential magnetic field. Binary systems that transmute to black holes and subsequently merge emit gravitational waves. Advanced LIGO/Virgo should detect one such sub-Chandrasekhar binary black hole inspiral per year, while future Einstein telescope-like facilities will detect thousands per year. The effective spin parameter distribution is peaked at 0.2 and permits future studies to disentangle from primordial sub-Chandrasekhar black holes. Such signatures are compatible with current direct detection constraints, as well as with neutron star constraints in the case of bosonic dark matter, even though they remain in conflict with the fermionic case for part of the parameter space.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Opere integrative previste nella convenzione urbanistica e paventata necessità di una procedura ad evidenza pubblica per la loro realizzazione
Creators: name: Gastaldo, Valentina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Il saggio tenta di risolvere un problema di estrema attualità: se sia necessario ricorrere ad una procedura di gara nel caso in cui la pubblica Amministrazione, stipulando la convenzione, richieda al privato la realizzazione di opere aggiuntive rispetto a quelle di urbanizzazione primaria o secondaria. Dopo una breve ricostruzione sistematica della materia, l’Autore ricollega la previsione di una procedura ad evidenza pubblica all’onerosita' della prestazione aggiuntiva, non soltanto intesa come sinallagma in denaro, ma anche come ‘‘scambio di prestazioni’’ che il privato effettua a fronte di maggiori diritti edificatori o premialità edilizie. Tale fattispecie non ricorre, invece, quando il lottizzante si obbliga a realizzare l’opera integrativa senza ricevere un ulteriore vantaggio dall’Amministrazione.
Hybrid Air Vehicles – The Airlander Project
Creators: name: Daniels, Chris
Publisher: name: AeroLectures
Year: 2017
Subjects: aviation
aircraft
hybrid
air
vehicle
airlander
project
development
aerostatics
aerodynamics
thrust
vector
safety
market
Luftfahrt
Luftschiff
Entwicklung
Aerodynamik
Schub
Schubvektor
aerolectures
aerolectures2017

description: Chris Daniels will describe the development and design of the Airlander, the largest, and one of the most innovative and greenest aircraft in the world today. He will explain how Airlander combines aerostatics, aerodynamics and vectored thrust to provide great flexibility, capability, fuel economy and safety. Chris will also discuss the market opportunities and potential market size of Airlander; and complete his lecture by describing Hybrid Air Vehicles' commitment to projects that aim to help inspire younger generations.
description: Hamburg Aerospace Lecture Series --- Collection of Presentations --- http://www.AeroLectures.de
Out of equilibrium charge transport in molecular electronic devices
Creators: name: Nava, Andrea
name: Giuliano, Domenico
name: Lepori, Luca
name: Rossi, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Lindblad equation approach, we study the nonequilibrium stationary state of a benzene ring connected to two reservoirs in the large bias regime, a prototype of a generic molecular electronic device. We show the emergence of an optimal working point (corresponding to a change in the monotonicity of the stationary current, as a function of the applied bias) and its robustness against chemical potential and bond disorder.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series, proceedings paper from SCES 2020 conference
An Effective Framework of Light-Weight Handling for Three-Level Fine-Grained Recoverable Temporal Violations in Scientific Workflows
Creators: name: Liu, Xiao
name: Ni, Zhiwei
name: Wu, Zhangjun
name: Yuan, Dong
name: Chen, Jinjun
name: Yang, Yun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Temporal violations may often take place and deteriorate the overall QoS of scientific workflows. To handle temporal violations in an automatic and cost-effective fashion, we need to resolve the following issues: 1) how to define fine-grained recoverable temporal violations, 2) which light-weight effective exception handling strategies to be facilitated. This paper proposes an effective exception handling framework. Based on a probability based temporal consistency model, the probability range for recoverable temporal violations is divided into three levels of fine-grained temporal violations. Afterwards, three corresponding light-weight exception handling strategies including TDA (Time Deficit Allocation), ACOWR (Ant Colony Optimisation based two-stage Workflow local Rescheduling) and TDA+ACOWR (the combined strategy of TDA and ACOWR) are presented. The experimental results demonstrate the excellent performance of our framework in reducing both local and global temporal violations.
The Challenging Task of the A321XLR Development and Flight Test
Creators: name: Wilhelm, Thomas
Publisher: name: AeroLectures
Year: 2024
Subjects: aviation
aircraft
Airbus
A321
A321XLR
development
flight
test
single
aisle
certification
performance
operation
long
range
sharklet
winglet
wing
fuselage
engine
cabin
fuel
VMU
Luftfahrt
Flugzeug
Flug
Entwicklung
Zulassung
Reichweite
Flugbetrieb
aerolectures
aerolectures2024

description: The presentation leads briefly through the A320 family tree to understand how Airbus arrived finally at the A321XLR version of its single aisle aircraft. Different development steps and selected flight test events are presented and explained together with the challenges experienced during this program.
description: Hamburg Aerospace Lecture Series --- Collection of Presentations --- http://www.AeroLectures.de
A stochastic Hamiltonian formulation applied to dissipative particle dynamics
Creators: name: Peng, Linyu
name: Arai, Noriyoshi
name: Yasuoka, Kenji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, a stochastic Hamiltonian formulation (SHF) is proposed and applied to dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations. As an extension of Hamiltonian dynamics to stochastic dissipative systems, the SHF provides necessary foundations and great convenience for constructing efficient numerical integrators. As a first attempt, we develop the Störmer--Verlet type of schemes based on the SHF, which are structure-preserving for deterministic Hamiltonian systems without external forces, the dissipative forces in DPD. Long-time behaviour of the schemes is shown numerically by studying the damped Kubo oscillator. In particular, the proposed schemes include the conventional Groot-Warren's modified velocity-Verlet method and a modified version of Gibson-Chen-Chynoweth as special cases. The schemes are applied to DPD simulations and analysed numerically.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures
Relationship satisfaction: The role of love styles and attachment styles
Creators: name: Fricker, Julie
name: Moore, Susan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The current study used three adult attachment styles: secure, avoidant and anxious/resistant (Hazan and Shaver 1987) and six lovestyles: Eros, Ludus, Storge, Mania, Pragma and Agape (Lee 1973) to predict sexual and relationship satisfaction. The sample of 111 (64 women, 46 men, 1 sex unstated) were either currently or recently in a relationship of three months or more. Regressions to test a mediational model of sexual satisfaction on relationship satisfaction showed that the Eros lovestyle had a direct positive effect on relationship satisfaction and an indirect positive effect on relational satisfaction via sexual satisfaction, while Ludus and avoidant attachment both exhibited direct negative effects on relationship satisfaction, and indirect negative effects on relationship satisfaction via sexual satisfaction.
Effectiveness of High Intensity Interval Training on insulin resistance, glycaemic parameters, and body composition in type 2 diabetes mellitus: A narrative review
Creators: name: Sampath Amaravadi
name: Mclaren Macknold
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Education

description: This narrative review will aim to explore how the intervention of high intensity interval training will affect individuals presenting with type 2 diabetes mellitus and the effect on their insulin sensitivity, glycaemic parameters and body composition. It will categorise what high intensity interval training consists of and look to compare how it differs from other forms of training and their overall effect. With type 2 diabetes accounting for a large portion of the UK population with reports suggesting nearly one million individuals are affected by the condition this review will help shape our understanding of how this intervention can play a role within society.
7. Opere integrative previste nella convenzione urbanistica e paventata necessità di una procedura ad evidenza pubblica per la loro realizzazione
Creators: name: Gastaldo, Valentina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Il saggio tenta di risolvere un problema di estrema attualità: se sia necessario ricorrere ad una procedura di gara nel caso in cui la pubblica Amministrazione, stipulando la convenzione, richieda al privato la realizzazione di opere aggiuntive rispetto a quelle di urbanizzazione primaria o secondaria. Dopo una breve ricostruzione sistematica della materia, l’Autore ricollega la previsione di una procedura ad evidenza pubblica all’onerosita' della prestazione aggiuntiva, non soltanto intesa come sinallagma in denaro, ma anche come ‘‘scambio di prestazioni’’ che il privato effettua a fronte di maggiori diritti edificatori o premialità edilizie. Tale fattispecie non ricorre, invece, quando il lottizzante si obbliga a realizzare l’opera integrativa senza ricevere un ulteriore vantaggio dall’Amministrazione.
Nucleon spin structure functions, considering target mass correction and higher twist effects at the NNLO accuracy and their transverse momentum dependence
Creators: name: Mirjalili, Abolfazl
name: Tehrani, Shahin Atashbar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using recent and updated world data on polarized structure functions $g_1$ and $g_2$ we perform QCD analysis at the next-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) accuracy. We include also target mass correction and higher twist effect to get more precise results in our fitting procedure. To confirm the validity of our fitting results several sum rules are examined and we do a comparison for them with results from other models. In our analysis we employ Jacobi polynomials approach to obtain analytical solutions of the DGLAP evolution equations for parton distribution functions (PDFs). Using the extracted PDFs from our data analysis as input we also compute the $x$- and $\mathbf{p}_{T}$-dependence of some transverse momentum dependence (TMD) PDFs in polarized case, based on covariant parton model. These functions are naively even time-reversal (T-even) at twist-2 approximation. The results for TMDs are indicating proper and acceptable behaviour with respect to what are presented in other literatures.
description: 18 pages 13 figures 8 tables
Autoregressive Linguistic Steganography Based on BERT and Consistency Coding
Creators: name: Zheng, Xiaoyan
name: Wu, Hanzhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Linguistic steganography (LS) conceals the presence of communication by embedding secret information into a text. How to generate a high-quality text carrying secret information is a key problem. With the widespread application of deep learning in natural language processing, recent algorithms use a language model (LM) to generate the steganographic text, which provides a higher payload compared with many previous arts. However, the security still needs to be enhanced. To tackle with this problem, we propose a novel autoregressive LS algorithm based on BERT and consistency coding, which achieves a better trade-off between embedding payload and system security. In the proposed work, based on the introduction of the masked LM, given a text, we use consistency coding to make up for the shortcomings of block coding used in the previous work so that we can encode arbitrary-size candidate token set and take advantages of the probability distribution for information hiding. The masked positions to be embedded are filled with tokens determined by an autoregressive manner to enhance the connection between contexts and therefore maintain the quality of the text. Experimental results have shown that, compared with related works, the proposed work improves the fluency of the steganographic text while guaranteeing security, and also increases the embedding payload to a certain extent.
Reliability and factor structure of the NEO-five-factor inventory for Australian adolescents
Creators: name: Sneed, Carl D.
name: Gullone, Eleonara
name: Moore, Susan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study evaluated the reliability and factor structure of the NEO Five-factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) among a sample of Australian adolescents (N = 459). With the exception of openness, the factors had good internal consistency. Item-level factor analyses using varimax and oblique rotation were used to examine the factor structure of the NEO-FFI. Visual inspection of the factor structures revealed a pattern that gave preliminary support for the five-factor model. However, statistical indices for factor structure did not support a five-factor model. Items for Conscientiousness and Neuroticism had the highest factor loadings and the fewest conflicting cross-loadings on the other factors. The discussion focuses on the importance of external validation of the traits from the five-factor model with other behavioural indicators.
title: Effective and Coherent Media-related Communication During War and Armed Conflicts
title: Policy brief for political actors and NGOs
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Fröhlich, Romy
name: Jungblut, Marc
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2016

description: This policy brief summarises the first findings from the initial stage of the INFOCORE’s Work Package (WP) No. 6 (‘Strategic Communication’) and presents first recommendations for effective and coherent media-related communication of political actors/authorities/institutions and NGOs active in the field of conflict prevention, management and resolution.
La spettanza degli eventuali risparmi di spesa conseguiti all'esito della gara per la realizzazione delle opere di urbanizzazione “a scomputo”
Creators: name: Gastaldo, Valentina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Sommario: 1. La disciplina delle opere di urbanizzazione - 2. A chi spettano i risparmi d'asta? - 3. La determinazione dell'Autorità per la Vigilanza sui Contratti Pubblici – 4. Le delibere della Corte dei Conti del Veneto - 5. Considerazioni conclusive
On improving the conditioning of extreme learning machine: A linear case
Creators: name: Zhao, Guopeng
name: Shen, Zhiqi
name: Miao, Chunyan
name: Man, Zhihong
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Recently Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) has been attracting attentions for its simple and fast training algorithm, which randomly selects input weights. Given sufficient hidden neurons, ELM has a comparable performance for a wide range of regression and classification problems. However, in this paper we argue that random input weight selection may lead to an ill-conditioned problem, for which solutions will be numerically unstable. In order to improve the conditioning of ELM, we propose an input weight selection algorithm for an ELM with linear hidden neurons. Experiment results show that by applying the proposed algorithm accuracy is maintained while condition is perfectly stable.
Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) "Book & Claim" – Decoupling the Environmental Benefits from the Physical Product
Creators: name: Eichelbaum, Max
Publisher: name: AeroLectures
Year: 2023
Subjects: SAF
sustainable
aviation
fuel
jet fuel
kerosene
book and claim
book
claim
chain-of-custody
model
product
supply chain
organisation
buyer
seller
transaction
registry
environment
emission
double counting
supplier
customer
goods
market
demand
development
greenhouse gas emissions
GHG reduction
airline
corporation
end-user
business travel
flight
blend
aerolectures
aerolectures2023

description: Book and claim is a chain-of-custody model in which the administrative record flow does not necessarily connect to the physical flow of a product throughout the supply chain (Source: ISO 22095:2020). In other words, book and claim means that organisations can obtain and claim the sustainability attributes of a product without having to take physical custody of that same product and without needing the buyer and the seller to be connected by a physical supply chain – as is the case with other chain-of-custody models such as ‘mass balance’. Book and claim transactions must be tracked and validated through the use of an independent registry.

The RSB Book & Claim System provides a robust and transparent approach to:

i. Decouple the environmental attributes of sustainable aviation or marine fuels (e.g., the emission reduction) from the physical product;

ii. Transfer them via the RSB Registry (or recognised registry), and

iii. Claim them in such a way that avoids double counting and delivers climate impact. Book and claim enables suppliers to reach many more customers than possible with physical, mass balance supply chains, and, while the customer may not technically fly or ship their goods on sustainable fuels, their purchase demonstrates market demand and supports the development of supply globally. In turn, they may claim the environmental benefits towards their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reduction targets.

Examples of opportunities that are unlocked by the RSB Book & Claim System in the aviation sector include:

=> An airline without physical access to SAF supply can purchase and claim the sustainability attributes of SAF.

=> Corporate end-users can purchase SAF and claim the environmental benefits (e.g., GHG reductions) to reduce their aviation business travel emissions.

=> Airlines with and without physical access to SAF can already operate 100% SAF flights (up to 50% physically via "mass balance" + remaining share virtually via "book and claim"). Note: Whilst 100% SAF flights are being tested and will soon be a reality, today SAF is approved to use in all aircraft in blends of up to 50% with conventional jet fuel.

Source: RSB Book & Claim Manual (https://perma.cc/PH5W-SZPF)
description: Hamburg Aerospace Lecture Series --- Collection of Presentations --- http://www.AeroLectures.de
Il diritto di accesso nel settore degli appalti pubblici e gli obblighi di trasparenza delle stazioni appaltanti
Creators: name: Gastaldo, Valentina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Il saggio si pone l'obiettivo di esaminare con completezza un aspetto molto importante nell’ambito degli appalti pubblici, costituito dall’accesso agli atti di gara. Tale diritto è disciplinato dall’art. 13 del Codice dei contratti pubblici che amplia, di fatto, i limiti di accesso stabiliti dagli articoli 24 e 25 della legge n. 241 del 1990. Particolare attenzione è rivolta all'analisi delle numerose pronunce giurisprudenziali, che, per lungo tempo, avevano sancito la prevalenza del diritto di accesso sull’esigenza di riservatezza, ma che, di recente, hanno, invece, riconosciuto la necessità di prestare attenzione alla tutela delle informazioni, fornite dagli offerenti, che integrino segreti tecnici o commerciali, manifestando, in tal modo, la tendenza a conformarsi alla normativa di settore vigente nell’ordinamento italiano e all’orientamento espresso dalla Corte di Giustizia Europea.
Young People and the Environment: Predicting Ecological Behaviour
Creators: name: Thielking, Monica
name: Moore, Susan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The aim of this study was to assess the environmental attitudes, knowledge and behaviours for young people aged 11-16 years, and evaluate which factors best predict ecological behaviour, through testing the model of Responsible Environmental Behaviour. Results indicted that while young people are not negatively disposed toward the environment, they have limited knowledge about the issues. Perceived personal responsibility toward the environment was shown to be the strongest predictor of ecological behaviour, followed by 'action skills' for boys and knowledge levels for girls. [Author abstract, ed]
L’astreinte amministrativa. Problemi applicativi della penalità di mora per ritardo nell’esecuzione del giudicato
Creators: name: Gastaldo, Valentina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: SOMMARIO: 1. La disciplina del giudizio di ottemperanza nel nuovo codice del processo amministrativo e l’innovazione della penalità di mora. — 2. Profili generali: la forma. — 3. La natura giuridica. — 4. Sulla possibilità di inquadrare l’art. 114 c.p.a. nell’ambito delle sanzioni civili punitive o indirette ovvero dei danni punitivi. — 5. I poteri decisori del giudice. — 6. I presupposti di applicazione dell’astreinte. — 6.1. L’inadempimento dell’amministrazione.—6.2. L’istanza di parte.—6.3. La manifesta iniquità.— 6.4. Le ragioni ostative.—7. Criteri di quantificazione della penalità in mora—8. Individuazione del termine iniziale e finale per l’irrogazione della sanzione.—9. I rapporti con il rimedio surrogatorio.— 10. La penalità in mora e il risarcimento del danno. — 11. Portata applicativa dell’istituto. — 11.1. L’orientamento favorevole all’applicabilità della penalità in mora anche in sede di ottemperanza delle sentenze del giudice civile di condanna al pagamento di una somma di denaro.- 11.2. La pretesa incompatibilità tra concessione della penalità’ in mora e l’esecuzione delle decisioni in materia di obbligazioni pecuniarie dell’amministrazione. — 11.2.1. Il parallelismo con l’art. 614-bis c.p.c. — 11.2.2. Gli interessi di mora. — 11.3. L’intervento dell’Adunanza Plenaria. — 11.4. La posizione assunta da alcuni Tribunali regionali dopo la pronuncia dell’Adunanza Plenaria. — 12. Ulteriori problemi applicativi dell’istituto: l’applicabilità dell’astreinte amministrativa in sede di cognizione. — 12.1. L’individuazione dell’ambito delle decisioni suscettibili di coercizione indiretta tramite l’applicazione delle astreintes. — 12.2. I riti cui può essere applicata la sanzione. — 12.4. Penalità di mora e controversie in tema di lavoro. — 13. Ness
RE: "Trends in 'Deaths of Despair' Among Working-Aged White and Black Americans, 1990-2017"
Creators: name: Poole, C
name: Eiffert, S
name: Anthony, K
name: Li, C.X
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022

description: In a recent article by Tilstra et al., the authors characterize mortality rates from suicide, drug use, and alcohol use stratified by sex and race, with the goal of comparing non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White death rates related to these “deaths of despair.” We commend the authors for this important work. The authors used data from the National Vital Statistics System and US Census to assess cause-specific mortality trends stratified by race and sex and found parallels in mortality trends for Black and White adults with respect to the opioid epidemic and the Great Recession. The authors did not observe period or cohort increases in suicide for Black men and women, stating that this finding warrants further study. Measurement error could underlie some of the unexpected trends the authors identified. One potential source of error is differential misclassification of suicide by race in the US National Center for Vital Statistics data. The authors cite a study that found the odds of suicide misclassification as “undetermined intent” was twice as high in Black populations compared with White populations. Additionally, the National Center of Health Statistics found evidence that deaths are overreported differentially in White and Black populations (overestimates of 1% and 5%, respectively), which may be related to historical undercounting of certain populations, including Black and Hispanic populations, in the Census denominator of the mortality rate.
Electricity Price Forecasting: The Dawn of Machine Learning
Creators: name: Jędrzejewski, Arkadiusz
name: Lago, Jesus
name: Marcjasz, Grzegorz
name: Weron, Rafał
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Electricity price forecasting (EPF) is a branch of forecasting on the interface of electrical engineering, statistics, computer science, and finance, which focuses on predicting prices in wholesale electricity markets for a whole spectrum of horizons. These range from a few minutes (real-time/intraday auctions and continuous trading), through days (day-ahead auctions), to weeks, months or even years (exchange and over-the-counter traded futures and forward contracts). Over the last 25 years, various methods and computational tools have been applied to intraday and day-ahead EPF. Until the early 2010s, the field was dominated by relatively small linear regression models and (artificial) neural networks, typically with no more than two dozen inputs. As time passed, more data and more computational power became available. The models grew larger to the extent where expert knowledge was no longer enough to manage the complex structures. This, in turn, led to the introduction of machine learning (ML) techniques in this rapidly developing and fascinating area. Here, we provide an overview of the main trends and EPF models as of 2022.
description: Forthcoming in: IEEE Power & Energy Magazine, May/June 2022
La carta dei servizi ferroviari — The rail passenger’s charter in Italy
Creators: name: Gastaldo, Valentina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The essay examines the impact of the Charter of rail services on the general Consumer protection. This document is an immediately available tool that the
primary train operator in Italy uses to inform its customers of the fundamental principles adopted in its operations, of the services offered and of the key
objectives for 2014. The article in particular analyzes the founding principles of the Charter, the limits to the automatic and flat-rate compensation in case
of failure of the service. Finally the paper explores the customer complaints management and the conciliation procedure.
Public health critical race praxis at the intersection of traffic stops and injury epidemiology
Creators: name: Fliss, M.D
name: Marshall, S.W
name: Poole, C
name: Baumgartner, F.R
name: Robinson, W
name: Delamater, P
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2022

description: Background: Law enforcement traffic stops are one of the most common entryways to the US justice system. Conventional frameworks suggest traffic stops promote public safety by reducing dangerous driving practices and non-vehicular crime with little to no collateral damage to individuals and communities. Critical frameworks interrogate these assumptions, identifying significant individual and community harms that disparately impact Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities. Methods: The Public Health Critical Race Praxis (PHCRP) and multi-level frameworks from community anti-racist training were combined into a structured diagram to guide intervention and research teams in contrasting conventional and critical perspectives on traffic stops. The diagram divides law enforcement and drivers/residents as two separate agent types that interact during traffic stops. These two agent types have different conventional and critical histories, priorities, and perspectives at multiple levels, including individual, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural levels. Conventional solutions (identifying explicitly racist officers, “meet-a-cop” programs, police interaction training for drivers) are born from conventional frameworks (rewarding crime prevention regardless of cost, the war on drugs saves lives, driver behavior perfectionism). While conventional perspectives focus on individual and interpersonal levels, critical perspectives more deeply acknowledge dynamics at institutional and cultural levels. Critical solutions may be hard to discover without critical frameworks, including that law enforcement creates measurable collateral damage and disparate social control effects; neighborhood patrol priorities can be set without community self-determination or accountability and may trump individual and interpersonal dynamics; and the war on drugs is highly racialized and disproportionally enforced through traffic stop programs. Conclusions: Traffic stop enforcement and crash prevention programs that do not deeply and critically consider these dynamics at multiple levels, not just law enforcement-driver interactions at the individual and interpersonal levels, may be at increased risk of propagating histories of BIPOC discrimination. In contrast, public health and transportation researchers and practitioners engaged in crash and injury prevention strategies that employ law enforcement should critically consider disparate history and impacts of law enforcement in BIPOC communities. PHCRP, anti-racism frameworks, and the included diagram may assist them in organizing critical thinking about research studies, interventions, and impacts.
Edilizia residenziale convenzionata e fallimento della cooperativa concessionaria
Creators: name: Gastaldo, Valentina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: L’edilizia convenzionata rappresenta una forma particolare, ma molto comune di edilizia pubblica. L’acuirsi della crisi economica e finanziaria, che negli ultimi anni ha colpito il nostro Paese, ha inevitabilmente dato origine ad innumerevoli problemi durante la fase di realizzazione degli impegni assunti in sede di convenzione. Il saggio si pone l’obiettivo di esaminare l’ipotesi di fallimento della cooperativa concessionaria ed, in particolare, se la sentenza di fallimento comporti l’automatica decadenza della convezione stipulata con l’Amministrazione Comunale. Un ulteriore quesito riguarda, poi, le sorti della convenzione in caso di risoluzione del contratto di locazione stipulato tra la cooperativa fallita ed il proprietario dei terreni su cui devono essere realizzati gli alloggi.
From Little Things Big Things Grow: A Collection with Seed Studies for Medical Systematic Review Literature Search
Creators: name: Wang, Shuai
name: Scells, Harrisen
name: Clark, Justin
name: Koopman, Bevan
name: Zuccon, Guido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Medical systematic review query formulation is a highly complex task done by trained information specialists. Complexity comes from the reliance on lengthy Boolean queries, which express a detailed research question. To aid query formulation, information specialists use a set of exemplar documents, called `seed studies', prior to query formulation. Seed studies help verify the effectiveness of a query prior to the full assessment of retrieved studies. Beyond this use of seeds, specific IR methods can exploit seed studies for guiding both automatic query formulation and new retrieval models. One major limitation of work to date is that these methods exploit `pseudo seed studies' through retrospective use of included studies (i.e., relevance assessments). However, we show pseudo seed studies are not representative of real seed studies used by information specialists. Hence, we provide a test collection with real world seed studies used to assist with the formulation of queries. To support our collection, we provide an analysis, previously not possible, on how seed studies impact retrieval and perform several experiments using seed-study based methods to compare the effectiveness of using seed studies versus pseudo seed studies. We make our test collection and the results of all of our experiments and analysis available at http://github.com/ielab/sysrev-seed-collection
description: Accepted and To be appeared in SIGIR 2022 proceeding
A twenty-first century perspective on concepts of modern epidemiology in Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis’ work on puerperal sepsis
Creators: name: Poole, C
name: Stang, A
name: Standl, F
Publisher: name: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Year: 2022

description: We aimed to review Semmelweis’s complete work on puerperal sepsis mortality in maternity wards in relation to exposure to cadavers and chlorine handwashing and other factors from the perspective of modern epidemiological methods. We reviewed Semmelweis' complete work and data as published by von Györy 1905 according to current standards. We paid particular attention to Semmelweis's definition of mortality in and of itself, to concepts of modern epidemiology that were already recognizable in Semmelweis's work, and to bias sources. We did several quantitative bias analyses to address selection bias and information bias from outcome measurement error. Semmelweis addressed biases that have become known to modern epidemiology, such as confounding, selection bias and bias from outcome misclassification. Our bias analysis shows that differential loss to follow-up is an unlikely explanation for his results. Bias due to outcome misclassification would only be relevant if misclassification differed between time periods. Confounding by health status was likely but could not be quantitatively addressed. Semmelweis was aware that cause-specific mortality is a function of incidence and prognosis. He reasoned in potential outcome terms to estimate the reduced number of deaths from an intervention. He advanced a hypothesis of clinic overcrowding as a risk factor for puerperal sepsis mortality that turns out to be wrong. Semmelweis’ data provide a great pool for illustrating the logic of scientific discovery by use of the numerical method. The explanatory power of his work was strong and Semmelweis was able to refute several previous causal explanations.
Meta-Analysis and Sparse-Data Bias
Creators: name: Keil, A.P
name: Cole, S.R
name: Richardson, D.B
name: Chu, H
name: Poole, C
name: Ross, R.K
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2021

description: Meta-analyses are undertaken to combine information from a set of studies, often in settings where some of the individual study-specific estimates are based on relatively small study samples. Finite sample bias may occur when maximum likelihood estimates of associations are obtained by fitting logistic regression models to sparse data sets. Here we show that combining information from small studies by undertaking a meta-analytical summary of logistic regression estimates can propagate such sparse-data bias. In simulations, we illustrate 2 challenges encountered in meta-analyses of logistic regression results in settings of sparse data: 1) bias in the summary meta-analytical result and 2) confidence interval coverage that can worsen rather than improve, in terms of being less than nominal, as the number of studies in the meta-analysis increases.
Potential impact of processed Harmonia axyridis on the taste of ‘Chasselas’ and ‘Pinot noir’ wines
Creators: name: Linder, C.
name: Lorenzini, F.
name: Kehrli, P.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Research Note
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 48 No. 2 (2009): Vitis
On Maximum Weighted Nash Welfare for Binary Valuations
Creators: name: Suksompong, Warut
name: Teh, Nicholas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Theoretical Economics (econ.TH)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to agents with weights representing their entitlements. A natural rule in this setting is the maximum weighted Nash welfare (MWNW) rule, which selects an allocation maximizing the weighted product of the agents' utilities. We show that when agents have binary valuations, a specific version of MWNW is resource- and population-monotone, satisfies group-strategyproofness, and can be implemented in polynomial time.
Nonlinear image restoration using recurrent radial basis function network
Creators: name: Zhao, Shengkui
name: Cai, Jianfei
name: Man, Zhihong
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: For nonlinear distorted images, the performance of the existing image restoration methods is limited in either visual quality or computational complexity. In this paper, we apply the recently developed technique called recurrent radial basis function network (RBFN) for nonlinear image restoration. We give the details of the construction of the recurrent RBFN network and the determination of the network parameters. Simulation results show that the proposed recurrent RBFN scheme outperforms the existing RBFN based methods in both visual quality and complexity when the degraded process is recursive.
12. La carta dei servizi ferroviari — The rail passenger’s charter in Italy
Creators: name: Gastaldo, Valentina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The essay examines the impact of the Charter of rail services on the general Consumer protection. This document is an immediately available tool that the
primary train operator in Italy uses to inform its customers of the fundamental principles adopted in its operations, of the services offered and of the key
objectives for 2014. The article in particular analyzes the founding principles of the Charter, the limits to the automatic and flat-rate compensation in case
of failure of the service. Finally the paper explores the customer complaints management and the conciliation procedure.
Statistical analysis of 'White Riesling' (Vitis vinifera ssp. sativa L.) clonal performance at 16 locations in the Rheinland-Pfalz region of Germany between 1971 and 2007
Creators: name: Laidig, F.
name: Piepho, H. D.
name: Hofäcker, W.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Performance trials have been evaluated of 30 'White Riesling' clones grown at 16 locations in the Rheinland-Pfalz region between 1971 and 2007. A mixed linear model approach was used to handle the highly-unbalanced data structure. Environmental factors accounted for about 95 % of the variation for individual observations. Genotypic clone variation contributed only 0.65 % to the total variation for grape yield, 0.29 % for total soluble solids (TSS) and 0.22 % for acidity. F-tests for clonal differences showed significant F-values for each characteristic. Estimated clone means ranged from 107.4 to 130.8 kg·ar-1 (1 ar = 100 m2) for grape yield, from 72.0 to 75.2 °Oechsle for TSS and from 12.5 to 13.4 g·l-1 for acidity. Significant mean differences were found only for clones located near the lower and upper extremes of the performance range. Long-term time trends of clonal performance are also present. On average over the 36 year period, grape yields increased by 2.00 kg·ar-1 each year and TSS by 0.87 °Oechsle each year, whereas acidity decreased by 0.21 g·l-1 each year. No significant deviations of individual clones from the general long-term trends were verifiable for grape yield but some clones showed significant deviations for TSS and acidity. A closer look at the linear trend for grape yield displayed a discontinuity around 1989. Before 1989 a linear gain of about 3.99 kg·ar-1 was apparent whereas, after this time a very slight decrease of 0.28 kg·ar-1 was observed. For mean daily temperature, the long-term trend was remarkably parallel to that of grape yield and TSS. For the Rheinland-Pfalz region, daily temperature increased significantly by 0.046 °C per year, whereas average daily sunshine showed a no significant change over time.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 48 No. 2 (2009): Vitis
Synthesizing Analytical SQL Queries from Computation Demonstration
Creators: name: Zhou, Xiangyu
name: Bodik, Rastislav
name: Cheung, Alvin
name: Wang, Chenglong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Analytical SQL is widely used in modern database applications and data analysis. However, its partitioning and grouping operators are challenging for novice users. Unfortunately, programming by example, shown effective on standard SQL, are less attractive because examples for analytical queries are more laborious to solve by hand. To make demonstrations easier to create, we designed a new end-user specification, programming by computation demonstration, that allows the user to demonstrate the task using a (possibly incomplete) cell-level computation trace. This specification is exploited in a new abstraction-based synthesis algorithm to prove that a partially formed query cannot be completed to satisfy the specification, allowing us to prune the search space. We implemented our approach in a tool named Sickle and tested it on 80 real-world analytical SQL tasks. Results show that even from small demonstrations, Sickle can solve 76 tasks, in 12.8 seconds on average, while the prior approaches can solve only 60 tasks and are on average 22.5x slower. Our user study with 13 participants reveals that our specification increases user efficiency and confidence on challenging tasks.
Creating an artificial wine taster: Inferring the influence of must and yeast from the aroma profile of wines using artificial intelligence
Creators: name: Tiefenbrunner, M.
name: Gangl, H.
name: Tscheik, G.
name: Tiefenbrunner, W.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: The human brain is able to compute information from very complex olfactorical impressions. The special pattern of the concentrations of hundreds of aroma constituents allows an experienced wine taster to determine special features of the wine, for instance grape variety or vintage. Artificial Neural Networks are often used to recognize shapes and patterns like faces or finger prints. Here we use Artificial Neural Networks to mimic the abilities of a wine taster to deal with very complex olfactorical patterns. We produced 120 unique wines combining twelve different grape musts and ten yeast strains and determined the aroma profile (83 aroma constituents) of all wines. We analyzed the ability of a well trained neural network to recognize the used must variety and the fermenting yeast strain from unknown aroma profiles. Furthermore we investigated the capability to predict the aroma profile of a wine with a must variety/yeast strain combination that is new to the neural network. In 96 % of all trials the neural network identified the must that was used for wine production correctly (expected random propability: 8 %). An accurate identification of the yeast strain, used for fermentation, occurred in 67 % of all trials (propability by chance: 10 %). The aroma profiles of the must/yeast combinations new to the neural network were forecasted with a divergence of only 2.1 % compared to the actual wine of this production characterization. Thus we conclude that a comprehensive description of wines using neural networks is possible.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 48 No. 2 (2009): Vitis
Designing Creative AI Partners with COFI: A Framework for Modeling Interaction in Human-AI Co-Creative Systems
Creators: name: Rezwana, Jeba
name: Maher, Mary Lou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Human-AI co-creativity involves both humans and AI collaborating on a shared creative product as partners. In a creative collaboration, interaction dynamics, such as turn-taking, contribution type, and communication, are the driving forces of the co-creative process. Therefore the interaction model is a critical and essential component for effective co-creative systems. There is relatively little research about interaction design in the co-creativity field, which is reflected in a lack of focus on interaction design in many existing co-creative systems. The primary focus of co-creativity research has been on the abilities of the AI. This paper focuses on the importance of interaction design in co-creative systems with the development of the Co-Creative Framework for Interaction design (COFI) that describes the broad scope of possibilities for interaction design in co-creative systems. Researchers can use COFI for modeling interaction in co-creative systems by exploring alternatives in this design space of interaction. COFI can also be beneficial while investigating and interpreting the interaction design of existing co-creative systems. We coded a dataset of existing 92 co-creative systems using COFI and analyzed the data to show how COFI provides a basis to categorize the interaction models of existing co-creative systems. We identify opportunities to shift the focus of interaction models in co-creativity to enable more communication between the user and AI leading to human-AI partnerships.
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