cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Lo sviluppo dei modelli insediativi: rumeni, filippini e cinesi residenti a Roma
Creators: name: Amico, Andrea
name: D'Alessandro, Giampiero
name: Di Benedetto, Annalisa
name: Nerli Ballati, Enrico
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: The aim of this study is to identify settlement patterns of foreign residents in the municipality of Rome and outline the developments in the period between 2007 and 2011. The analysis is related to traditional problems in the field of social research and to actual studies. In spite of the homogeneity of the distribution of foreign residents, the aim is to demonstrate how individual nationalities can present settlement pattern quite peculiar. The study is based on legal registration of residents data for 155 urban areas of the City of Rome. The results presented derive from the three nationalities selected as case studies (Romanian, Filipino and Chinese). The research delineates not only the different settlement patterns, but also allows the evolution of these patterns, even though the short time interval is being considered.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 6 (2013)
Storia di una colonna infame
Creators: name: D'Ascenzio, Anna
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: This paper tells of a farmer family, they lived in historic center of Naples. They disappear after build a new highway, a orbital road called Tangenziale S.P.A. Urban highways were justified by with some form of cost-benefitanalysis. But analysis ignored important secondary effects, such as the adverse impact of the new road on surrounding property values, or the environmental costs that are generated by new induced traffic. The community’s life changes forever, they become workers in new flats. The Flats was builting where they had farmland and pastures.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 6 (2013)
Cutoff in the Lyman-$α$ forest power spectrum: warm IGM or warm dark matter?
Creators: name: Garzilli, Antonella
name: Boyarsky, Alexey
name: Ruchayskiy, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We re-analyse high redshift and high resolution Lyman-$α$ forest spectra considered in (Viel et al 2013), seeking to constrain the properties of warm dark matter particles. Compared to this previous work, we consider a wider range of thermal histories of the intergalactic medium. We find that both warm and cold dark matter models can explain the cut-off observed in the flux power spectra of high-resolution observations equally well. This implies, however, very different thermal histories and underlying re-ionisation models. We discuss how to remove this degeneracy.
description: Accepted in Physics Letters B
Copaifera langsdorffii var. glabra Benth.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Copaifera
Copaifera langsdorffii
Copaifera langsdorffii desf. var. glabra (vogel) benth.

description: Copaifera langsdorffii Desf. var. glabra (Vogel) Benth.
Distribution: Brazil, Paraguay.
 Source: Queiroz et al. 2015
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Theorizing and Practizing Organizational Culture and Diversity: A Case Study
Creators: name: Ernst, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: Modern organizations seem to have relative autonomy; what happens in organizations can be explained by looking at the changing balances of power, and the wider social figurations. Especially when it comes to processes of reorganization the increase in project- and target-oriented work often comes with diversity management. Using the process sociological perspective and the theory of subjectification through increasing self-organization, this paper refers to Norbert Elias’ work on social inequalities. This perspective will be applied to organizations, diversity and gender in order to investigate further aspects of new conditions of re-organization, subjectification and the shift towards flatter forms of organizational structure, conditions of gendering teamwork, the consequences for the cooperation of mixed teams, and the ways in which changes in the self-images and social make-up of employees go hand in hand with changes in the social structure of gender and employee relations more generally.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 6 (2013)
GenomeDK Release 1 SoapAsmVar-Indels calls
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2015
Subjects: Other
Monoisolate

description: This is an aggregate vcf of SoapAsmVar Indels calls (10nt-50nt) from 10 trios sequenced to high depth from the first phase Danish Pangenome project
Coupled channel approach to strangeness S = -2 baryon-bayron interactions in Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Sasaki, Kenji
name: Aoki, Sinya
name: Doi, Takumi
name: Hatsuda, Tetsuo
name: Ikeda, Yoichi
name: Inoue, Takashi
name: Ishii, Noriyoshi
name: Murano, Keiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The baryon-baryon interactions with strangeness S = -2 with the flavor SU(3) breaking are calculated for the first time by using the HAL QCD method extended to coupled channel system in lattice QCD. The potential matrices are extracted from the Nambu-Bethe-Salpeter wave functions obtained by the 2+1 flavor gauge configurations of CP-PACS/JLQCD Collaborations with a physical volume of 1.93 fm cubed and with m_pi/m_K = 0.96, 0.90, 0.86. The spatial structure and the quark mass dependence of the potential matrix in the baryon basis and in the SU(3) basis are investigated.
description: 17 pages, 15 figures
Café Cultures: An Analytical Framework
Creators: name: Clark, Terry N.
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: What are some major café cultures, and why do they vary? We outline three levels of ideas as an interpretative framework for café cultures. At level one are ideal types like the convivial or the solitary worker in cafes. At level two are propositions about scenes including cafes: 15 scenes dimensions variously favor or shift the types of café values and activities. Third are propositions about the broader social context. We point to factors discouraging cafés in general, like Puritanism, a strong work ethic, and crime; other propositions identify Bohemianism and strong families as shifting café activities and cultures.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 6 (2013)
Impact of non-menthol flavours in tobacco products on perceptions and use among youth, young adults and adults: a systematic review
Creators: name: Baker, Hannah M.
name: Goldstein, Adam O.
name: Ranney, Leah M.
name: Richardson, Amanda
name: Meernik, Clare
name: Huang, Li-Ling
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: This systematic review examines the impact of non-menthol flavours in tobacco products on tobacco use perceptions and behaviours among youth, young adults and adults.
Digitale Philologie und die Rezeption von griechischen und lateinischen Texten im digitalen Zeitalter
Creators: name: Berti, Monica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: digital classics
digital philology
reception studies

description: Slides of the Workshop Theorie und Text. Moderne Forschungskonzepte und antike Literatur, held at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on October 9-10, 2023
description: DFG Project number 434173983
Geometrical Applications of Split Octonions
Creators: name: Gogberashvili, Merab
name: Sakhelashvili, Otari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that physical signals and space-time intervals modeled on split-octonion geometry naturally exhibit properties from conventional (3+1)-theory (e.g. number of dimensions, existence of maximal velocities, Heisenberg uncertainty, particle generations, etc.). This paper demonstrates these properties using an explicit representation of the automorphisms on split-octonions, the noncompact form of the exceptional Lie group G2. This group generates specific rotations of (3+4)-vector parts of split octonions with three extra time-like coordinates and in infinitesimal limit imitate standard Poincare transformations. In this picture translations are represented by non-compact Lorentz-type rotations towards the extra time-like coordinates. It is shown how the G2 algebra's chirality yields an intrinsic left-right asymmetry of a certain 3-vector (spin), as well as a parity violating effect on light emitted by a moving quantum system. Elementary particles are connected with the special elements of the algebra which nullify octonionic intervals. Then the zero-norm conditions lead to free particle Lagrangians, which allow virtual trajectories also and exhibit the appearance of spatial horizons governing by mass parameters.
Distruzione, ricostruzione, memoria. La catastrofe come mito fondativo ed evento costitutivo di un nuovo ordine temporale
Creators: name: Musolino, Monica
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: Using research into post-disaster new towns in Italy as a starting point, this paper is a reflection on the relationship between destructive events and the social groups affected by them. In particular, this relationship is investigated with relation to collective memory, in other words, the complex relationship we have with the past, and that occurs within a community following and as a result of the destruction and trauma caused by a catastrophic event. Disasters reshape the history of the group and establish a new temporal order, so that this becomes the new pivotal point which corresponds to the disruption of the spatial coordinates caused by the disaster itself, as well as by the actual relocation of the inhabited space.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 6 (2013)
Mimosa bifurca var. reducta Barneby
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Mimosa
Mimosa bifurca
Mimosa bifurca benth. var. reducta (hassl.) barneby

description: Mimosa bifurca Benth. var. reducta (Hassl.) Barneby
Distribution: Brazil, Paraguay.
Source: Dutra & Morim 2015.
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Spin dynamics and relaxation in the classical-spin Kondo-impurity model beyond the Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert equation
Creators: name: Sayad, Mohammad
name: Potthoff, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The real-time dynamics of a classical spin in an external magnetic field and locally exchange coupled to an extended one-dimensional system of non-interacting conduction electrons is studied numerically. Retardation effects in the coupled electron-spin dynamics are shown to be the source for the relaxation of the spin in the magnetic field. Total energy and spin is conserved in the non-adiabatic process. Approaching the new local ground state is therefore accompanied by the emission of dispersive wave packets of excitations carrying energy and spin and propagating through the lattice with Fermi velocity. While the spin dynamics in the regime of strong exchange coupling J is rather complex and governed by an emergent new time scale, the motion of the spin for weak J is regular and qualitatively well described by the Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation. Quantitatively, however, the full quantum-classical hybrid dynamics differs from the LLG approach. This is understood as a breakdown of weak-coupling perturbation theory in J in the course of time. Furthermore, it is shown that the concept of the Gilbert damping parameter is ill-defined for the case of a one-dimensional system.
description: 15 pages, 13 figures, v2 with minor changes
Estimation of the Diffusion Constant from Intermittent Trajectories with Variable Position Uncertainties
Creators: name: Relich, Peter K.
name: Olah, Mark J.
name: Cutler, Patrick J.
name: Lidke, Keith A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The movement of a particle described by Brownian motion is quantified by a single parameter, $D$, the diffusion constant. The estimation of $D$ from a discrete sequence of noisy observations is a fundamental problem in biological single particle tracking experiments since it can report on the environment and/or the state of the particle itself via hydrodynamic radius. Here we present a method to estimate $D$ that takes into account several effects that occur in practice, that are important for correct estimation of $D$, and that have hitherto not been combined together for estimation of $D$. These effects are motion blur from finite integration time of the camera, intermittent trajectories, and time-dependent localization uncertainty. Our estimation procedure, a maximum likelihood estimation, follows directly from the likelihood expression for a discretely observed Brownian trajectory that explicitly includes these effects. The manuscript begins with the formulation of the likelihood expression and then presents three methods to find the exact solution. Each method has its own advantages in either computational robustness, theoretical insight, or the estimation of hidden variables. We then compare our estimator to previously published estimators using a squared log loss function to demonstrate the benefit of including these effects.
description: 2 figures: 6 plots
Public understanding of cigarette smoke constituents: three US surveys
Creators: name: Byron, M. Justin
name: Mendel, Jennifer R.
name: Pepper, Jessica K.
name: Boynton, Marcella H.
name: Noar, Seth M.
name: Baig, Sabeeh A.
name: Agans, Robert P.
name: Morgan, Jennifer C.
name: Ribisl, Kurt M.
name: Brewer, Noel T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The Tobacco Control Act requires public disclosure of information about toxic constituents in cigarette smoke. To inform these efforts, we studied public understanding of cigarette smoke constituents.
Modular Acquisition and Stimulation System for Timestamp-Driven Neuroscience Experiments
Creators: name: Matias, Paulo
name: Guariento, Rafael Tuma
name: de Almeida, Lirio Onofre Baptista
name: Slaets, Jan Frans Willem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Dedicated systems are fundamental for neuroscience experimental protocols that require timing determinism and synchronous stimuli generation. We developed a data acquisition and stimuli generator system for neuroscience research, optimized for recording timestamps from up to 6 spiking neurons and entirely specified in a high-level Hardware Description Language (HDL). Despite the logic complexity penalty of synthesizing from such a language, it was possible to implement our design in a low-cost small reconfigurable device. Under a modular framework, we explored two different memory arbitration schemes for our system, evaluating both their logic element usage and resilience to input activity bursts. One of them was designed with a decoupled and latency insensitive approach, allowing for easier code reuse, while the other adopted a centralized scheme, constructed specifically for our application. The usage of a high-level HDL allowed straightforward and stepwise code modifications to transform one architecture into the other. The achieved modularity is very useful for rapidly prototyping novel electronic instrumentation systems tailored to scientific research.
description: Preprint submitted to ARC 2015. Extended: 16 pages, 10 figures. The final publication is available at link.springer.com
The Pig’s other genome: a reference gene catalogue of the gut microbiome
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2016
Subjects: Other
Monoisolate

description: Pig is a main species for livestock and biomedicine. The pig genome sequence was recently reported. To boost research, we established a catalogue of the genes of the gut microbiome based on faecal samples of 287 pigs from France, Denmark and China. More than 7.6 million non-redundant genes representing 719 metagenomic species were identified by deep metagenome sequencing, highlighting more similarities with the human than with the mouse catalogue. The pig and human catalogues share only 12.6 and 9.3 % of their genes, respectively, but 70 and 95% of their functional pathways. The pig gut microbiota is influenced by gender, age and breed. Analysis of the prevalence of antibiotics resistance genes (ARGs) reflected antibiotics supplementation in each farm system, and revealed that non-antibiotics-fed animals still harbour ARGs. The pig catalogue creates a resource for whole metagenomics-based studies, highly valuable for research in biomedicine and for sustainable knowledge-based pig farming.
Wave mediated angular momentum transport in astrophysical boundary layers
Creators: name: Hertfelder, Marius
name: Kley, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Disk accretion onto weakly magnetized stars leads to the formation of a boundary layer (BL) where the gas loses its excess kinetic energy and settles onto the star. There are still many open questions concerning the BL, for instance the transport of angular momentum (AM) or the vertical structure. Aims. It is the aim of this work to investigate the AM transport in the BL where the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is not operating owing to the increasing angular velocity $Ω(r)$ with radius. We will therefore search for an appropriate mechanism and examine its efficiency and implications. Methods. We perform 2D numerical hydrodynamical simulations in a cylindrical coordinate system $(r, φ)$ for a thin, vertically inte- grated accretion disk around a young star. We employ a realistic equation of state and include both cooling from the disk surfaces and radiation transport in radial and azimuthal direction. The viscosity in the disk is treated by the α-model; in the BL there is no viscosity term included. Results. We find that our setup is unstable to the sonic instability which sets in shortly after the simulations have been started. Acoustic waves are generated and traverse the domain, developing weak shocks in the vicinity of the BL. Furthermore, the system undergoes recurrent outbursts where the activity in the disk increases strongly. The instability and the waves do not die out for over 2000 orbits. Conclusions. There is indeed a purely hydrodynamical mechanism that enables AM transport in the BL. It is efficient and wave mediated; however, this renders it a non-local transport method, which means that models of a effective local viscosity like the α-viscosity are probably not applicable in the BL. A variety of further implications of the non-local AM transport are discussed.
description: 18 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
The 3,000 rice genomes project
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2016
Subjects: Other
Monoisolate

description: The 3000 Rice Genome Project is an international effort to sequence the genomes of 3,024 rice varieties from 89 countries. The project contains the variant calls of 2997 samples against the Nipponbare reference genome sequence. This data is available for anyone to use under the terms of the Toronto Statement.
Mimosa bimucronata var. adenocarpa Hassl.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Mimosa
Mimosa bimucronata
Mimosa bimucronata (dc.) kuntze var. adenocarpa hassl.

description: Mimosa bimucronata (DC.) Kuntze var. adenocarpa Hassl.
Distribution: Bolivia, Paraguay.
 Source: Jørgensen et al. 2014.
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Ayurveda Education in India Tradition, Challenges, and Opportunities
Creators: name: Upadhyay, Devanand
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420899
subject: Traditional, complementary and integrative medicine not elsewhere classified

description: Ayurveda, a holistic healing system, has been an integral part of India's cultural heritage for thousands of years. With its emphasis on natural remedies, preventive healthcare, and mind-body balance, Ayurveda has gained significant recognition globally. This paper explores the state of Ayurveda education in India, including its historical background, current challenges, and potential opportunities. It sheds light on the efforts made to promote and strengthen Ayurveda education, the curriculum, regulatory bodies, and the role of technology in enhancing learning outcomes. Additionally, it discusses the importance of research and innovation to further the growth and global acceptance of Ayurveda.
What is the impact of e-cigarette adverts on children's perceptions of tobacco smoking? An experimental study
Creators: name: Pepper,
name: Vasiljevic,
name: Ribisl,
name: Petrescu,
name: Marteau,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Exposure to e-cigarette adverts increases children's positive attitudes towards using them. Given the similarity in appearance between e-cigarettes and tobacco cigarettes, we examined whether exposure to e-cigarette adverts has a cross-product impact on perceptions and attitudes towards smoking tobacco cigarettes.
Mimosa chacoensis Barneby & Fortunato
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Mimosa
Mimosa chacoensis

description: Mimosa chacoënsis Barneby & Fortunato
Distribution: Bolivia, Paraguay.
 Source: Jørgensen et al. 2014.
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
A solid state source of photon triplets based on quantum dot molecules
Creators: name: Khoshnegar, Milad
name: Huber, Tobias
name: Predojević, Ana
name: Dalacu, Dan
name: Prilmüller, Maximilian
name: Lapointe, Jean
name: Wu, Xiaohua
name: Tamarat, Philippe
name: Lounis, Brahim
name: Poole, Philip
name: Weihs, Gregor
name: Majedi, Hamed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Producing advanced quantum states of light is a priority in quantum information technologies. While remarkable progress has been made on single photons and photon pairs, multipartite correlated photon states are usually produced in purely optical systems by post-selection or cascading, with extremely low efficiency and exponentially poor scaling. Multipartite states enable improved tests of the foundations of quantum mechanics as well as implementations of complex quantum optical networks and protocols. It would be favorable to directly generate these states using solid state systems, for better scaling, simpler handling, and the promise of reversible transfer of quantum information between stationary and flying qubits. Here we use the ground states of two optically active coupled quantum dots to directly produce photon triplets. The wavefunctions of photogenerated excitons localized in these ground states are correlated via molecular hybridization and Coulomb interactions. The formation of a triexciton leads to a triple cascade recombination and sequential emission of three photons with strong correlations. The quantum dot molecule is embedded in an epitaxially grown nanowire engineered for single-mode waveguiding and improved extraction efficiency at the emission wavelength. We record 65.62 photon triplets per minute, surpassing rates of all earlier reported sources, in spite of the moderate efficiency of our detectors. Our structure and data represent a breakthrough towards implementing multipartite photon entanglement and multi-qubit readout schemes in solid state devices, suitable for integrated quantum information processing.
description: 27 pages, 3 figures
Il bello che cura. Benessere e spazi di accoglienza notturna per persone senza dimora
Creators: name: Campagnaro, Cristian
name: Porcellana, Valentina
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: Looking into the housing services for homelessness leads to think about development of territory, citizens’ welfare, social recovery, reintegration into society and citizenship. Since 2009 the action-research, named “Living in the dorm”, has been investigating how architecture hosts services delivered to homeless people and how users interact with places and products in there. Spaces, pieces of furniture, tools, have been investigated and re-thought as part of the educational work carried out. Attention has been paid to the way spaces and objects interact with the biographies of the users and the operators and how these can qualify the service and act as enablers in the process of social inclusion.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 5 (2013)
Evaluating climate change mitigation efforts in California and how to secure significant and equitable co-benefits
Creators: name: Detelich, Madeline Elaine
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Climate change
Environmental justice

description: Limiting global warming to 1.5°C, or even 2°C, will require a sharp reduction in fossil fuel use over the next decade. A rich body of research quantifies the human health benefits from the improved air quality that will result in reducing fossil fuel combustion and makes the case for rapid, aggressive pathways to net-zero emissions. California has been a global leader in environmental protection and climate change mitigation, implementing a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gas emissions in 2013. Given the disproportionate burden of air pollution exposure that many minority and low-income communities already experience, environmental justice advocates fear that a market-driven system like cap-and-trade could increase pollution disparities. Multiple studies have established that higher rates of Black and Hispanic or Disadvantaged Communities live near cap-and-trade-regulated facilities (Boyce et al. 2013, Anderson et al. 2018, Cushing et al. 2018). Using an environmental justice exposure tool developed by Chambliss et al, intake fractions are linked to cap-and-trade facility information from the database created by Cushing et al. These intake fractions for total population and Disadvantaged Communities show how communities are exposed to air pollution from these facilities, which sectors are disproportionately responsible, and the impact on Disadvantaged Communities. These studies do not show whether or not pollution has been concentrated in environmental justice communities, but they do show how it could happen. Considering the difficulty California regulators have had in implementing suggestions from its Environmental Justice Advisory Committee and the role of the industry responsible for the majority of PM₂.₅ exposure and large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions from cap-and-trade facilities, oil and gas, in legislating climate change mitigation in California, researchers and activists should keep carefully studying this program.
Nuove disuguaglianze di salute: il caso degli immigrati
Creators: name: Tognetti Bordogna, Mara
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: The theme of inequalities in health conditions is taking on an increasingly important role in our society, because these inequalities are growing, and only if individuals are in good health can they be full citizens. In this paper we analyze and discuss new forms of inequality in health conditions, in relation to the presence of immigrants. In particular, we show how a society with racist tendencies contributes to increasing inequalities in health conditions, particularly as regards access to health services. We use quantitative and qualitative data.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 5 (2013)
The monomial basis and the $Q$-basis of the Hopf algebra of parking functions
Creators: name: Li, Teresa Xueshan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Consider the vector space $\mathbb{K}\mathcal{P}$ spanned by parking functions. By representing parking functions as labeled digraphs, Hivert, Novelli and Thibon constructed a cocommutative Hopf algebra PQSym$^{*}$ on $\mathbb{K}\mathcal{P}$. The product and coproduct of PQSym$^{*}$ are analogous to the product and coproduct of the Hopf algebra NCSym of symmetric functions in noncommuting variables defined in terms of the power sum basis. In this paper, we view a parking function as a word. We shall construct a Hopf algebra PFSym on $\mathbb{K}\mathcal{P}$ with a formal basis $\{M_a\}$ analogous to the monomial basis of NCSym. By introducing a partial order on parking functions, we transform the basis $\{M_a\}$ to another basis $\{Q_a\}$ via the Möbius inversion. We prove the freeness of PFSym by finding two free generating sets in terms of the $M$-basis and the $Q$-basis, and we show that PFSym is isomorphic to the Hopf algebra PQSym$^{*}$. It turns out that our construction, when restricted to permutations and non-increasing parking functions, leads to a new way to approach the Grossman-Larson Hopf algebras of ordered trees and heap-ordered trees.
description: 23 pages in Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, published online,10 March 2015
Interpretazione e mediazione in un sistema di cura interculturale. Pratiche di esclusione e pratiche di inclusione dei pazienti migranti
Creators: name: Farini, Federico
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: This paper examines the joint activity of translation and intercultural mediation carried out by interpreters in health care contexts. The analysis presented concerns not only the linguistic aspects, but also the processes of inclusion and exclusion of migrant patients, produced in consequence of the cultural effects of mediation. The corpus of data we analyze consists of physician-patient interactions mediated by an interpreter, collected in 2010 in public health facilities in the provinces of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The following question guided our analysis: “Does interlingual and intercultural mediation promote or discourage active participation by the migrant patient?” Our analysis confirms that the interpreters not only act as facilitators of language, but above all as coordinators of communication, and for this reason are considered as interlingual and intercultural mediators. The different ways in which the mediators coordinate these interactions affect the participation of migrant patients, which can be rendered more or less “invisible” in accordance with the choices of translation.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 5 (2013)
Malati di SLA in Italia e meccanismi di diseguaglianza
Creators: name: Bosco, Nicoletta
name: Cappellato, Valeria
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: Despite the fact that guidelines on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Andersen et alii 2012, Ministero della Salute 2010) have established criteria to regulate health cures and organizational aspects, many mechanisms tending to produce or accentuate inequalities among patients can still be observed. The very choice of the category in which to fit them (people affected by rare disease, handicap, disability, non-self-sufficiency, chronic or terminal illness) is not to be overlooked, as it affects people’s rights and the institutional forms of support available to them. The following reflections are part of a wider research which, starting from the national legal framework, focused on the Piedmont region to investigate health care practices and problem areas. This research was carried out by analyzing secondary sources as well as 51 semi-structured interviews with privileged witnesses on a national level and participants involved in ALS interventions on a regional level.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 5 (2013)
Preparation of High-quality Hematoxylin and Eosin–stained Sections from Rodent Mammary Gland Whole Mounts for Histopathologic Review
Creators: name: Hayes-Bouknight, Schantel A.
name: Fenton, Suzanne E.
name: Tucker, Deirdre K.
name: Foley, Julie F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Identifying environmental exposures that cause adverse mammary gland outcomes in rodents is a first step in disease prevention in humans and domestic pets. ‘Whole mounts’ are an easy and inexpensive tissue preparation method that can elucidate typical or abnormal mammary gland morphology in rodent studies. Here we propose procedures to facilitate the use of whole mounts for histological identification of grossly noted tissue alterations. We noted lesions in mammary whole mounts from 14 month old CD-1 mice that were not found in the contralateral gland hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained section. Whole mounts were removed from the slide and carefully processed to produce high quality histological sections that mirrored the quality of the original H&E-stained section in order to properly diagnose the unidentified gross abnormalities. Incorporation of this method into testing protocols which focus on low-dose human relevant chemicals and endocrine disruptors will increase the chances of identifying lesions in the gland and reduce the risk of false negative findings. This method can be especially invaluable when lesions are not always palpable during the course of the study or visible at necropsy, or when a single cross-section of the mammary gland is otherwise used for detecting lesions.
Mimosa sensibilis var. aquidabani Barneby
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Mimosa
Mimosa sensibilis
Mimosa sensibilis griseb. var. aquidabani barneby

description: Mimosa sensibilis Griseb. var. aquidabani Barneby
Distribution: Brasil, Paraguay.
Source: Morales & Fortunato 2010.
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Elias and Freud on Childhood Socialisation
Creators: name: Nagbøl, Søren
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: This paper offers an explanation as to why it is important for process sociology to re-read Freud’s psychoanalysis and theory of culture in the light of Norbert Elias’s theory of civilisation. We need Freud’s insights into the raising of children for a process sociology that is a part of the confrontation with Freud’s individualistic theory of culture and social understanding. For process sociology, it is important to be attentive to psychoanalytical experiences that can demonstrate that human beings are (in) a process in which they grow from childhood into the Society of Individuals.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 5 (2013)
La coesione interrotta
Creators: name: Gozzo, Simona
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: The goal of this paper is to analyze the propensity for social cohesion of young Italians. Our hypothesis is that – since the 1990s – young people in Italy have exhibited a lack of social cohesion. Young people who have grown up in post-modern society have had to adapt to individualistic effects of flexible jobs, globalization and ethical relativism. These generations have been defined as flexible generations. This analysis aims at verifying this hypothesis by means of an empirical study. Social cohesion is defined as a multi-dimensional concept with a subjective, an objective and a relational dimension. The subjective dimension concerns feelings about society and institutions. The objective dimension concerns individual propensity towards participation. The relational dimension concerns the typology of important ties/nets selected. An analysis of national and local data shows that young people present a lack of relational cohesion that which over a long period of time can damage the other dimensions of social cohesion. This condition seems accentuated by the current economic crisis.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 5 (2013)
Europa e nuove direzioni di welfare tra autonomia e convergenza: il modello mixed method nell'analisi delle politiche sociali
Creators: name: Punziano, Gabriella
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: The contemporary scene of European social policies identifies two precise lines of development. The first is the convergence with the tendency of national contexts towards a unitary system, the European welfare, that comes from the Europeanization process and from the rules of subsidiarity and activation rules concerning the elaborations of the social sciences. As for the second, if we could penetrate deeply into the micro-dimension we could recognize the need to observe the welfare conformations in their local connotation. A European welfare scission, as a unitary system, is what occurs, under the pressure of autonomy and the push to a locally governed welfare system, the local net welfare. The purpose of the work is to outline a new welfare system typology, macro-oriented, but without underestimating the micro dimension, which continues to be very important as concerns the tendency toward communitary integration and the different forms that it wears assumes in different countries and in the local contests of the 27 countries of Europe. We talk about a new model that does not diminish the classifying ability of traditional ones, but attempts to reveal their hard to detect details.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 5 (2013)
Reddito e percezione della sua adeguatezza: la relazione è cambiata con la crisi?
Creators: name: Filandri, Marianna
name: Negri, Nicola
name: Parisi, Tania
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: The current crisis, accompanied by the weakening of the welfare state, could introduce in the relationship between income and the perception of its adequacy a new source of variability, interpretable as a reflection of the increased uncertainty of households. Although so far, at the aggregate level, no changes have been detected in the relationship between objective and subjective indicators, exposure to the risk of poverty covers various segments of the population differently. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the relationship between objective and subjective indicators, almost unchanged, if one considers the population as a whole, has changed only for some groups and not for others. Some types of households, in particular, may be affected more than others by the joint effect of the economic downturn and welfare cuts. In fact, our data show that the strength of the relationship between income and the perception of its adequacy has not changed in the early years of the crisis, even for those traditionally disadvantaged segments of the population.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 5 (2013)
Merging matter and geometry in the same Lagrangian
Creators: name: Ludwig, Hendrik
name: Minazzoli, Olivier
name: Capozziello, Salvatore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a Lagrangian density proportional to $\sqrt{-g} Ł_m^2/R$ reduces to a pressuron theory of gravity that is indistinguishable from General Relativity in the dust limit. The combination of matter and geometry in the same Lagrangian density intrinsically satisfies Mach's Principle --- since matter cannot exist without curvature and vice versa --- while it may have the correct phenomenology in order to describe actual gravity.
This study evaluated the performance of BGISEQ-500 on WES by comparison with HiSeq 4000
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2018
Subjects: Other
Monoisolate

description: Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) has been widely used in human genetics research. BGISEQ-500 is a recently established next-generation sequencing platform. The performance of BGISEQ-500 on WES is not well studied. In this study, we evaluated the performance of BGISEQ-500 on WES by comparison with Hiseq 4000, on well-characterized human sample NA12878
Environmental Coulomb blockade of topological superconductor-normal metal junctions
Creators: name: Wölms, Konrad
name: Flensberg, Karsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study charge transport of a topological superconductor connected to different electromagnetic environments using a low-energy description where only the Majorana bound states in the superconductor are included. Extending earlier findings who found a crossover between perfect Andreev reflection with conductance $2e^2/h$ to a regime with blocked transport when the resistance of the environment is larger than $2e^2/h$, we consider Majorana bound states coupled to metallic dots. in particular, we study two topological superconducting leads connected by a metallic quantum dot in both the weak tunneling and strong tunneling regimes. For weak tunneling, we project onto the most relevant charge states. For strong tunneling, we start from the Andreev fixed point and integrate out charge fluctuations which gives an effective low-energy model for the non-perturbative gate-voltage modulated cotunneling current. In both regimes and in contrast to cotunneling with normal leads, the conductance is temperature independent because of the resonant Andreev reflections, which are included to all orders.
description: Final version
Gut resistome modulates resilience and recovery of gut microbiota after broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2018
Subjects: Other
Monoisolate

description: Antibiotics have profound impacts on the microbial communities living in the human gut, where bacterial species harbor and exchange antibiotic resistance genes collectively called resistome. Human population surveys have demonstrated that gut microbial resistomes reflect local antibiotics usage patterns, while previous small cohort studies based on single antibiotic exposures have shown varying degrees of antibiotic impact on the gut microbiota and their associated resistome. However, the role of resistomes of particular gut species in their ability to persist in the face of antibiotic treatment has not been systematically studied.Applying shotgun sequencing and quantitative metagenomics, we analyzed the partial eradication and subsequent regrowth of gut microbiota in 12 healthy young men over a 6 month period following a 4-day intervention with three broad-spectrum antibiotics. The gut microbial communities of the study subjects underwent profound compositional changes due to the treatment but slowly recovered to near-baseline compositions. Immediately after the treatment, the gut microbiota featured an increased relative abundance of opportunistic and proinflammatory bacterial species, and a decreased relative abundance of short chain fatty acid producers, while exhibiting an increased functional potential for multidrug efflux pumps and virulence factors. These enrichment trends were weaker after 8 days and mostly cleared out after 42 days. However, 9 common intestinal commensal species found at baseline and associated with short chain fatty production or efficient digestion of polysaccharides remained undetectable in most of the subjects even after 180 days.Carrying genes that confer resistance to the antibiotics used in this multidrug study had specific consequences for the survival and de novo colonization potential of microbial species. While species harboring beta-lactam resistance genes were positively selected during and after the intervention, those harboring glycopeptide or aminoglycoside resistance exhibited increased odds of de novo colonization but decreased odds of survival. Despite a mild long-lasting imprint following exposure to three antibiotics, the gut microbiota of healthy young adults are resilient to a broad-spectrum antibiotic intervention, and their recovery process is modulated by antibiotic resistance gene carriage.
T cell equation as a conceptual model of T cell responses for maximizing the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy
Creators: name: Dong, Haidong
name: Yan, Yiyi
name: Dronca, Roxana S.
name: Markovic, Svetomir N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Following antigen stimulation, the net outcomes of a T cell response are shaped by integrated signals from both positive co-stimulatory and negative regulatory molecules. Recently, the blockade of negative regulatory molecules (i.e. immune checkpoint signals) demonstrates therapeutic effects in treatment of human cancer, but only in a fraction of cancer patients. Since this therapy is aimed to enhance T cell responses to cancers, here we devised a conceptual model by integrating both positive and negative signals in addition to antigen stimulation. A digital range of adjustment of each signal is formulated in our model for prediction of a final T cell response. This model allows us to evaluate strategies in order to enhance antitumor T cell responses. Our model provides a rational combination strategy for maximizing the therapeutic effects of cancer immunotherapy.
description: 5 pages