cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The political economy of co-ordination challenges in the National Health Service: a postpositivist evaluation of diabetes policy and governance
Creators: name: Mills, Thomas
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: The present PhD thesis develops and applies an evaluative methodology suited to the evaluation of policy and governance in complex policy areas. While extensive literatures exist on the topic of policy evaluation, governance evaluation has received less attention. At the level of governance, policymakers confront choices between different policy tools and governance arrangements in their attempts to solve policy problems, including variants of hierarchy, networks and markets. There is a need for theoretically-informed empirical research to inform decision-making at this level. To that end, the PhD develops an approach to evaluation by combining postpositivist policy analysis with heterodox political economy. Postpositivist policy analysis recognises that policy problems are often contested, that choices between policy options can involve significant trade-offs and that knowledge of policy options is itself dispersed and fragmented. Similarly, heterodox economics combines a concept of incommensurable values with an appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of different institutional arrangements to realise them. A central concept of the field is coordination, which orientates policy analysis to the interactions of stakeholders in policy processes. The challenge of governance is to select the appropriate policy tools and arrangements which facilitate coordination. Via a postpositivist exploration of stakeholder ‘frames’, it is possible to ascertain whether coordination is occurring and to identify problems if it is not. Evaluative claims of governance can be made where arrangements can be shown to frustrate the realisation of shared values and objectives. The research makes a contribution to knowledge in a number of ways a) a distinctive evaluative approach that could be applied to other areas of health and public policy b) greater appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of different forms of evidence in public policy and in particular health policy and c) concrete policy proposals for the governance and organisation of diabetes services, with implications for the NHS more broadly.
Minimal model for transient swimming in a liquid crystal
Creators: name: Krieger, Madison S.
name: Dias, Marcelo A.
name: Powers, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a microorganism begins swimming from rest in a Newtonian fluid such as water, it rapidly attains its steady-state swimming speed since changes in the velocity field spread quickly when the Reynolds number is small. However, swimming microorganisms are commonly found or studied in complex fluids. Because these fluids have long relaxation times, the time to attain the steady- state swimming speed can also be long. In this article we study the swimming startup problem in the simplest liquid crystalline fluid: a two-dimensional hexatic liquid crystal film. We study the dependence of startup time on anchoring strength and Ericksen number, which is the ratio of viscous to elastic stresses. For strong anchoring, the fluid flow starts up immediately but the liquid crystal field and swimming velocity attain their sinusoidal steady-state values after a time proportional to the relaxation time of the liquid crystal. When the Ericksen number is high, the behavior is the same as in the strong anchoring case for any anchoring strength. We also find that the startup time increases with the ratio of the rotational viscosity to the shear viscosity, and then ultimately saturates once the rotational viscosity is much greater than the shear viscosity.
Hyperplanes of Squier's cube complexes
Creators: name: Genevois, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65, 20F67, 20F69, 57M05, 57M07

description: To any semigroup presentation $\mathcal{P}= \langle Σ\mid \mathcal{R} \rangle$ and base word $w \in Σ^+$ may be associated a nonpositively curved cube complex $S(\mathcal{P},w)$, called a Squier complex, whose underlying graph consists of the words of $Σ^+$ equal to $w$ modulo $\mathcal{P}$ where two such words are linked by an edge when one can be transformed into the other by applying a relation of $\mathcal{R}$. A group is a diagram group if it is the fundamental group of a Squier complex. In this paper, we describe hyperplanes in these cube complexes. As a first application, we determine exactly when $S(\mathcal{P},w)$ is a special cube complex, as defined by Haglund and Wise, so that the associated diagram group embeds into a right-angled Artin group. A particular feature of Squier complexes is that the intersections of hyperplanes are "ordered" by a relation $\prec$. As a strong consequence on the geometry of $S(\mathcal{P},w)$, we deduce, in finite dimensions, that its univeral cover isometrically embedds into a product of finitely-many trees with respect to the combinatorial metrics; in particular, we notice that (often) this allows to embed quasi-isometrically the associated diagram group into a product of finitely-many trees. Finally, we exhibit a class of hyperplanes inducing a decomposition of $S(\mathcal{P},w)$ as a graph of spaces, and a fortiori a decomposition of the associated diagram group as a graph of groups, giving a new method to compute presentations of diagram groups. As an application, we associate a semigroup presentation $\mathcal{P}(Γ)$ to any finite interval graph $Γ$, and we prove that the diagram group associated to $\mathcal{P}(Γ)$ (for a given base word) is isomorphic to the right-angled Artin group $A(\overlineΓ)$.
description: 36 pages, 20 figures. Comments are welcome!
Space and time dependent scaling of numbers in mathematical structures: Effects on physical and geometric quantities
Creators: name: Benioff, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relationship between the foundations of mathematics and physics is a topic of of much interest. This paper continues this exploration by examination of the effect of space and time dependent number scaling on theoretical descriptions of some physical and geometric quantities. Fiber bundles provide a good framework to introduce a space and time or space time dependent number scaling field. The effect of the scaling field on a few nonlocal physical and geometric quantities is described. The effect on gauge theories is to introduce a new complex scalar field into the derivatives appearing in Lagrangians. U(1) invariance of Lagrangian terms does not affect the real part of the scaling field. For this field, any mass is possible. The scaling field is also shown to affect quantum wave packets and path lengths, and geodesic equations even on flat space. Scalar fields described so far in physics, are possible candidates for the scaling field. The lack of direct evidence for the field in physics restricts the scaling field in that the gradient of the field must be close to zero in a local region of cosmological space and time. There are no restrictions outside the region. It is also seen that the scaling field does not affect comparisons of computation or measurements outputs with one another. However it does affect the assignment of numerical values to the outputs of computations or measurements. These are needed because theory predictions are in terms of numerical values.
description: 22 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in Quantum Information Processing, Howard Brandt memorial issue
Safe and Robust Robot Behavior Planning via Constraint Programming
Creators: name: Vermaelen, Jan
name: Holvoet, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The safe operation of an autonomous system is a complex endeavor, one pivotal element being its decision-making. Decision-making logic can formally be analyzed using model checking or other formal verification approaches. Yet, the non-deterministic nature of realistic environments makes these approaches rather troublesome and often impractical. Constraint-based planning approaches such as Tumato have been shown to be capable of generating policies for a system to reach a stated goal and abiding safety constraints, with guarantees of soundness and completeness by construction. However, uncertain outcomes of actions in the environment are not explicitly modeled or accounted for, severely limiting the expressiveness of Tumato. In this work, we extend Tumato with support for non-deterministic outcomes of actions. Actions have a specific intended result yet can be modeled to have alternative outcomes that may realistically occur. The adapted solver generates a policy that enables reaching the goals in a safe manner, even when alternative outcomes of actions occur. Furthermore, we introduce a purely declarative way of defining safety in Tumato, increasing its expressiveness. Finally, the addition of cost or duration values to actions enables the solver to restore safety when necessary, in the most preferred way.
description: In Proceedings AREA 2023, arXiv:2310.00333
Two-dimensional superconductor-insulator quantum phase transitions in an electron-doped cuprate
Creators: name: Zeng, S. W.
name: Huang, Z.
name: Lv, W. M.
name: Bao, N. N.
name: Gopinadhan, K.
name: Jian, L. K.
name: Herng, T. S.
name: Liu, Z. Q.
name: Zhao, Y. L.
name: Li, C. J.
name: Ma, H. J. Harsan
name: Yang, P.
name: Ding, J.
name: Venkatesan, T.
name: Ariando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use ionic liquid-assisted electric field effect to tune the carrier density in an electron-doped cuprate ultrathin film and cause a two-dimensional superconductor-insulator transition (SIT). The low upper critical field in this system allows us to perform magnetic field (B)-induced SIT in the liquid-gated superconducting film. Finite-size scaling analysis indicates that SITs induced both by electric and magnetic field are quantum phase transitions and the transitions are governed by percolation effects - quantum mechanical in the former and classical in the latter case. Compared to the hole-doped cuprates, the SITs in electron-doped system occur at critical sheet resistances (Rc) much lower than the pair quantum resistance RQ=h/(2e)2=6.45 kΩ, suggesting the possible existence of fermionic excitations at finite temperature at the insulating phase near SITs.
description: Manuscript including supplementary materials
Learning Interpretable Deep Disentangled Neural Networks for Hyperspectral Unmixing
Creators: name: Borsoi, Ricardo Augusto
name: Erdoğmuş, Deniz
name: Imbiriba, Tales
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Although considerable effort has been dedicated to improving the solution to the hyperspectral unmixing problem, non-idealities such as complex radiation scattering and endmember variability negatively impact the performance of most existing algorithms and can be very challenging to address. Recently, deep learning-based frameworks have been explored for hyperspectral umixing due to their flexibility and powerful representation capabilities. However, such techniques either do not address the non-idealities of the unmixing problem, or rely on black-box models which are not interpretable. In this paper, we propose a new interpretable deep learning method for hyperspectral unmixing that accounts for nonlinearity and endmember variability. The proposed method leverages a probabilistic variational deep-learning framework, where disentanglement learning is employed to properly separate the abundances and endmembers. The model is learned end-to-end using stochastic backpropagation, and trained using a self-supervised strategy which leverages benefits from semi-supervised learning techniques. Furthermore, the model is carefully designed to provide a high degree of interpretability. This includes modeling the abundances as a Dirichlet distribution, the endmembers using low-dimensional deep latent variable representations, and using two-stream neural networks composed of additive piecewise-linear/nonlinear components. Experimental results on synthetic and real datasets illustrate the performance of the proposed method compared to state-of-the-art algorithms.
Can complexity decrease in Congestive Heart failure?
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Sayan
name: Palit, Sanjay Kumar
name: Banerjee, Santo
name: Ariffin, M. R. K.
name: Rondoni, Lamberto
name: Bhattacharya, D. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The complexity of a signal can be measured by the Recurrence period density entropy (RPDE) from the reconstructed phase space. We have chosen a window based RPDE method for the classification of signals, as RPDE is an average entropic measure of the whole phase space. We have observed the changes in the complexity in cardiac signals of normal healthy person (NHP) and congestive heart failure patients (CHFP). The results show that the cardiac dynamics of a healthy subject is more complex and random compare to the same for a heart failure patient, whose dynamics is more deterministic. We have constructed a general threshold to distinguish the border line between a healthy and a congestive heart failure dynamics. The results may be useful for wide range for physiological and biomedical analysis.
Solar coronal plumes and the fast solar wind
Creators: name: Dwivedi, B. N.
name: Wilhelm, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectral profiles of the coronal Ne viii line at 77 nm have different shapes in quiet-Sun regions and coronal holes (CHs). A single Gaussian fit of the line profile provides an adequate approximation in quiet-Sun areas, whereas a strong shoulder on the long-wavelength side is a systematic feature in CHs. Although this has been noticed since 1999, no physical reason for the peculiar shape could be given. In an attempt to identify the cause of this peculiarity, we address three problems that could not be conclusively resolved in a review article by a study team of the International Space Science Institute (ISSI; Wilhelm et al. 2011) : (1) The physical processes operating at the base and inside of plumes as well as their interaction with the solar wind (SW). (2) The possible contribution of plume plasma to the fast SW streams. (3) The signature of the first-ionization potential (FIP) effect between plumes and inter-plume regions (IPRs). Before the spectroscopic peculiarities in IPRs and plumes in polar coronal holes (PCHs) can be further investigated with the instrument Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation (SUMER) aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), it is mandatory to summarize the results of the review to place the spectroscopic observations into context. Finally, a plume model is proposed that satisfactorily explains the plasma flows up and down the plume field lines and leads to the shape of the neon line in PCHs.
description: 8 Pages; 3 Figures; To appear in Journal of Astrophysics & Astronomy (Special Issue; Eds. V. Fedun, A.K. Srivastava, R. Erdelyi, J.C. Pandey)
Social Housing for a new morphology of the city
Creators: name: Delera, Anna
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: The Social Housing: Outlining new housing policy for Italy, is to propose more complex generational and social mix of residents in the quarter that was earlier designed for utilities and social uniform levels, and are to consider the city logically no longer centred on the development and expansion of the fragmented territory but rather a new concept of urbanity. In the consolidated city and the surrounding areas, the requalification and densification of the existing areas also becomes an opportunity for the conversion efficiency of a public property which is now obsolete.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
New Isues In Singapore Public Housing From Elderly Perspective: case study
Creators: name: Bozovic Stamenovic, Ruzica
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: This paper examines emerging issues regarding Singapore public housing. With over 80 % of rapidly ageing population living in public housing the elderly perspective is of paramount importance for future development. Following a brief introduction of Housing and Development Board HDB 2 model we are examining new ideas occurring in different scopes and scales, from apartment to urban environment level. Issues like ageing in place, dignity, salutogenesis, active and independent life, image and identification, and other themes pertinent to old age are revisited. Recent issues like high-rise/high-density, consumerism and branding suggest that the usual dogmatic approach to elderly in public housing could be converted to result in creative, affordable, profitable and integrative public housing design.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
The Effect of Polar Fluctuation and Lattice Mismatch on Carrier Mobility at Oxide Interfaces
Creators: name: Huang, Z.
name: Han, K.
name: Zeng, S. W.
name: Motapothula, M.
name: Lü, W. M.
name: Li, C. J.
name: Zhou, W. X.
name: Coey, J. M. D.
name: Venkatesan, T.
name: Ariando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the discovery of two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at the oxide interface of LaAlO3/SrTiO3, improving carrier mobility has become an important issue for device applications. In this paper, by using an alternate polar perovskite insulator (La0.3Sr0.7)(Al0.65Ta0.35)O3 (LSAT) for reducing lattice mismatch from 3.0% to 1.0%, the low-temperature carrier mobility has been increased 30 fold to 35,000 cm2V-1s-1. Moreover, two critical thicknesses for the LSAT/SrTiO3 (001) interface are found: one at 5 unit cell for appearance of the 2DEG, the other at 12 unit cell for a peak in the carrier mobility. By contrast, the conducting (110) and (111) LSAT/STO interfaces only show a single critical thickness of 8 unit cells. This can be explained in terms of polar fluctuation arising from LSAT chemical composition. In addition to lattice mismatch and crystal symmetry at the interface, polar fluctuation arising from composition has been identified as an important variable to be tailored at the oxide interfaces to optimise the 2DEG transport.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures
The Increasing Diversity and Complexity of Family Structures for Adolescents
Creators: name: Pearce, Lisa D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: The structure of adolescents’ families, and thus parental forms, in the United States, have become more heterogeneous and fluid over the past several decades. These changes are due to increases in never‐married, single parents, divorce, cohabitation, same‐sex parenting, multipartnered fertility, and co‐residence with grandparents. We document current diversity and complexity in adolescents’ families as important context for rethinking future parenting theory and research. We also discuss how understandings of adolescents’ families are somewhat limited by current methods used to measure characteristics of families. We recommend social network and profile‐based methods as alternatives to capturing key dimensions of family structure and processes. Understanding the diversity of households and families in which adolescents are raised can improve theory and research on parenting.
A rapid prototyping environment for cooperative Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Creators: name: Massow, Kay
name: Radusch, Ilja
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
subject: ADAS
subject: rapid prototyping

description: Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) were strong innovation drivers in recent years, towards the enhancement of traffic safety and efficiency. Today’s ADAS adopt an autonomous approach with all instrumentation and intelligence on board of one vehicle. However, to further enhance their benefit, ADAS need to cooperate in the future, using communication technologies. The resulting combination of vehicle automation and cooperation, for instance, enables solving hazardous situations by a coordinated safety intervention on multiple vehicles at the same point in time. Since the complexity of such cooperative ADAS grows with each vehicle involved, very large parameter spaces need to be regarded during their development, which necessitate novel development approaches. In this paper, we present an environment for rapidly prototyping cooperative ADAS based on vehicle simulation. Its underlying approach is either to bring ideas for cooperative ADAS through the prototyping stage towards plausible candidates for further development or to discard them as quickly as possible. This is enabled by an iterative process of refining and assessment. We reconcile the aspects of automation and cooperation in simulation by a tradeoff between precision and scalability. Reducing precise mapping of vehicle dynamics below the limits of driving dynamics enables simulating multiple vehicles at the same time. In order to validate this precision, we also present a method to validate the vehicle dynamics in simulation against real world vehicles.
Facility Management in Social Housing: integration of Services for Management of College Student Housing as an opportunity for Supply Development in Italy
Creators: name: Fecchio, Alberto
name: Casara, Ernesto
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: College Student Residences are construction works for which the State emphasizes the social relevance and disposes facilities for private investors and public operators. Structured transactions by Property Funds are growing since 2007 in order to develop Student Housing. These activities have been changing the Italian Offer Scenery. The proposed model focuses on highquality residential offer and it integrates residence with supports and services in the Student Housing itself. The Provider is the main subject for the development of this model; the Provider consists in a skilled Company that is able to take care of Business Promotion, current Contract Management, Facility Services, Student Management, and that can afford a detailed and qualified support in Architectural Planning and Design.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
The Architectural and Environmental Refurbishment of Industrialised Residential Construction. The example of the Selva Cafaro Quarter in Naples
Creators: name: Perriccioli, Massimo
name: Ruggiero, Roberto
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: This essay presents the experimental research conducted over the past years by the CHED (Concept House and Environmental Design) Research Unit at the “Eduardo Vittoria” School of Architecture and Design in Ascoli Piceno, focused on the theme of Social Housing. The CHED is a temporary research team that proposes a union between diverse know-how, cultures, skills and specialisations, working towards a method of theoretical and conceptual investigation and design and building experiments in the field of innovative construction for sustainable dwelling. In particular, the experience outlined in this text relates to a design experiment completed between 2010 and 2011 and outside the borders of the Marche region, in agreement with the City of Naples' Assessorato all’Edilizia e al Centro Storico (Department of Building and the Historical Centre) and focused on the architectural and environmental refurbishment of the residential quarter of Selva Cafaro in San Pietro a Patierno (Naples).
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
Housing and residences for university students. The experience of the programme 338/2000
Creators: name: Baratta, Adolfo F. L.
name: Carlini, Sandra
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: The topic of «Social Housing» encapsulates aspects of building production aimed at meeting a housing need referred to different categories of users such as young people, and specifically university students. Since 2002 the topic of the university residence has been explored, on behalf of MIUR (Ministry of Education, Universities and Research) and as part of the application of Law 338/2000, in a variety of possible forms (regulatory, procedural, design, construction and managerial): the result is a contribution to the management of the implementation process that has made it possible, with the help of specific tools, to assess the actual effectiveness of the programme introduced by the law and the relationship between the expected quality and that actually achieved, also based on the resources used.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
Additional file 15 of Pilot clinical trial and phenotypic analysis in chemotherapy-pretreated, metastatic triple-negative breast cancer patients treated with oral TAK-228 and TAK-117 (PIKTOR) to increase DNA damage repair deficiency followed by cisplatin and nab paclitaxel
Creators: name: Lang, Jessica D.
name: Nguyen, Tuong Vi V.
name: Levin, Maren K.
name: Blas, Page E.
name: Williams, Heather L.
name: Rodriguez, Esther San Roman
name: Briones, Natalia
name: Mueller, Claudius
name: Selleck, William
name: Moore, Sarah
name: Zismann, Victoria L.
name: Hendricks, William P.D.
name: Espina, Virginia
name: O’Shaughnessy, Joyce
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 15
Lorentz and CPT tests with hydrogen, antihydrogen, and related systems
Creators: name: Kostelecky, Alan
name: Vargas, Arnaldo J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The potential of precision spectroscopy as a tool in systematic searches for effects of Lorentz and CPT violation is investigated. Systems considered include hydrogen, antihydrogen, deuterium, positronium, and hydrogen molecules and molecular ions. Perturbative shifts in energy levels and key transition frequencies are derived, allowing for Lorentz-violating operators of arbitrary mass dimensions. Observable effects are deduced from various direct measurements, sidereal and annual variations, comparisons among species, and gravitational responses. We use existing data to place new and improved constraints on nonrelativistic coefficients for Lorentz and CPT violation, and we provide estimates for the future attainable reach in direct spectroscopy of the various systems or tests with hydrogen and deuterium masers. The results reveal prospective sensitivities to many coefficients unmeasured to date, along with potential improvements of a billionfold or more over certain existing results.
description: 37 pages two-column REVTeX
Private university accommodation: developmentscenarios and critical success factors
Creators: name: Ciaramella, Andrea
name: Del Gatto, Maria
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: The number of students looking for accommodation away from home is increasing significantly. Many countries have demonstrated their ability in responding to this demand with university accommodation initiatives. Italy has taken action a little late and with some discrepancies, on the one hand trying to attract foreign students while on the other neglecting the provision of services and hospitality. This study investigates the elements that contribute to determining the feasibility and economic/financial balance of private investment in the university accommodation sector, illustrating the possible development scenarios in our country and considering previous experience, through the identification of some critical success factors.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
Runtime Verification for Trustworthy Computing
Creators: name: Abela, Robert
name: Colombo, Christian
name: Curmi, Axel
name: Fenech, Mattea
name: Vella, Mark
name: Ferrando, Angelo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Autonomous and robotic systems are increasingly being trusted with sensitive activities with potentially serious consequences if that trust is broken. Runtime verification techniques present a natural source of inspiration for monitoring and enforcing the desirable properties of the communication protocols in place, providing a formal basis and ways to limit intrusiveness. A recently proposed approach, RV-TEE, shows how runtime verification can enhance the level of trust to the Rich Execution Environment (REE), consequently adding a further layer of protection around the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). By reflecting on the implication of deploying RV in the context of trustworthy computing, we propose practical solutions to two threat models for the RV-TEE monitoring process: one where the adversary has gained access to the system without elevated privileges, and another where the adversary gains all privileges to the host system but fails to steal secrets from the TEE.
description: In Proceedings AREA 2023, arXiv:2310.00333
The excitation mechanism of H2 in bipolar planetary nebulae
Creators: name: Marquez-Lugo, R. A.
name: Guerrero, Martin A.
name: Ramos-Larios, Gerardo
name: Miranda, Luis F
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present near-IR K-band intermediate-dispersion spatially-resolved spectroscopic observations of a limited sample of bipolar planetary nebulae (PNe). The spectra have been used to determine the excitation mechanism of the H2 molecule using standard line ratios diagnostics. The H2 molecule is predominantly shock-excited in bipolar PNe with broad equatorial rings, whereas bipolar PNe with narrow equatorial waists present either UV excitation at their cores (e.g., Hb 12) or shock-excitation at their bipolar lobes (e.g., M1-92). The shock-excitation among bipolar PNe with ring is found to be correlated with emission in the H2 1-0 S(1) line brighter than Brγ. We have extended this investigation to other PNe with available near-IR spectroscopic observations. This confirms that bipolar PNe with equatorial rings are in average brighter in H2 than in Brγ and show dominant shock excitation.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2015
Social sustainability of visual accessibility’s project in domestic environments
Creators: name: Conti, Christina
name: Barcarolo, Paola
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: The accessibility of spaces, facilities and services is one of the essential requirements of contemporary models that, in the ethics of a proper inclusive design, undertake important strategies for the realization of socially sustainable architectures with a consequent achievement of greater environmental quality and enhancement of public goods. In this context some Institutes of Friuli Venezia Giulia are working (ref. Regional Council of Associations of Persons with Disabilities and their Families of FVG). They, in collaboration with some Courses of Architecture of the University of Udine and Trieste, have start lines of applied research aimed to promoting the culture of inclusion. Here, is particular the participatory process developed in the design of multisensory accessibility; this essay describes the research context for proposing an interpretation of the potentialities and strengths that a careful design on sense-perceptual deficits can makes to the design of Social Housing spaces.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
What is the ideal time to provide corrective feedback? An approximate replication of Li, Zhu, & Ellis (2016)
Creators: name: Li, Shaofeng
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This study is an approximate replication of Li, Zhu, and Ellis (2016) that examined the comparative effects of immediate and delayed corrective feedback on second language development. The purpose of this replication is to (1) examine the influence of feedback timing on vocational language learners and (2) verify the hypothesis that the advantage of immediate feedback over delayed feedback found by the original study is due to the practice opportunities available in immediate feedback. 175 first-year ESL learners at a vocational college will be divided into five groups including four experimental groups and one control group. The experimental groups will receive a two-hour treatment consisting of two dictogloss tasks and will receive immediate (during tasks), delayed (after both tasks), interim (between tasks), or no feedback on their wrong use of the English passive voice. It is hypothesized that immediate feedback will outperform interim feedback which in turn will show larger effects than delayed feedback.
title: Toxic gases and vapours produced at fires
Creators: name: Sumi, K.
name: Tsuchiya, Y.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Combustion
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0410
subject: Combustion
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0410
subject: air quality
subject: qualité de l'air
subject: combustion fumes
subject: fumées de combustion
subject: toxicity
subject: toxicité
subject: smoke
subject: fumée
subject: toxic gases
subject: vapeurs toxiques
subject: fire
subject: incendies

description: Toxic gases and vapours produced by combustion are responsible for the majority of deaths at building fires. For this reason fire authorities would like to consider regulations to restrict use of materials that produce large amounts of smoke and toxic gases. The present state of knowledge of toxic combustion products is probably not sufficient to guide the designer in his choice of combustible materials to be used in buildings. This Digest was prepared to keep him abreast of the problem and the efforts that are being made in this field.
Predicting new molecular targets for known drugs
Creators: name: Hufeisen, Sandra J.
name: Jensen, Niels H.
name: Roth, Bryan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Although drugs are intended to be selective, at least some bind to several physiological targets, explaining side effects and efficacy. Because many drug–target combinations exist, it would be useful to explore possible interactions computationally. Here we compared 3,665 US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved and investigational drugs against hundreds of targets, defining each target by its ligands. Chemical similarities between drugs and ligand sets predicted thousands of unanticipated associations. Thirty were tested experimentally, including the antagonism of the β1 receptor by the transporter inhibitor Prozac, the inhibition of the 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) transporter by the ion channel drug Vadilex, and antagonism of the histamine H4 receptor by the enzyme inhibitor Rescriptor. Overall, 23 new drug–target associations were confirmed, five of which were potent (less than 100 nM). The physiological relevance of one, the drug N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) on serotonergic receptors, was confirmed in a knockout mouse. The chemical similarity approach is systematic and comprehensive, and may suggest side-effects and new indications for many drugs.
Adjusting for Publication Bias in JASP & R - Selection Models, PET-PEESE, and Robust Bayesian Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Bartoš, František
name: Maier, Maximilian
name: Quintana, Daniel
name: Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Meta-analyses are essential for cumulative science, but their validity can be compromised by publication bias. In order to mitigate the impact of publication bias, one may apply publication bias adjustment techniques such as PET-PEESE and selection models. Implemented in JASP & R, these methods allow researchers without programming experience to conduct state-of-the-art publication bias adjusted meta-analysis. In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to conduct a publication bias adjusted meta-analysis in JASP & R and interpret the results. First, we explain two frequentist bias correction methods: PET-PEESE and selection models. Second, we introduce robust Bayesian meta-analysis (RoBMA), a Bayesian approach that simultaneously considers both PET-PEESE and selection models. We illustrate the methodology on an example data set, provide an instructional video (https://bit.ly/pubbias), an R-markdown script (https://osf.io/uhaew/), and discuss the interpretation of the results. Finally, we include concrete guidance on reporting the meta-analytic results in an academic article.
The organizational model of the APEA for eco-friendly and competitive territorial governance
Creators: name: Gallo, Paola
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: The APEA project (industrial areas with high ecological standards of quality and innovative services for businesses) introduced in Italy by the Bassanini decree, represents a great opportunity to combine environmental protection, land use planning and company competitiveness. This new approach to territory planning, at a low environmental impact, promotes the APEA (Ecologically Equipped Productive Areas) as a tool to improve the quality of performance of production areas at various levels: in the planning, in the design and management, but also as a tool to implement within these areas the environmental guidelines of the European Union in terms of improved competitiveness through development innovation.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 5 (2013): Environment emergency
Systematic review and meta-analysis of brain activation changes associated with reading intervention
Creators: name: Perdue, Meaghan
name: Erbeli, Florina
name: Richlan, Fabio
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Neuroscience
subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Education
subject: Neuroscience and Neurobiology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Update to pre-registration document attached.. Original registration omitted exclusionary criteria regarding case studies. The current version of the registration has been amended to indicate that case studies will be excluded from the review and meta-analysis because their effect sizes are not meaningful if combined with effect sizes from group studies. In addition, brain imaging data in case studies is unlikely to be conducted and reported in standardized space, making it difficult to compare to group studies. No other information has been changed from the original pre-registration document.
Exact Instanton Expansion of ABJM Partition Function
Creators: name: Hatsuda, Yasuyuki
name: Moriyama, Sanefumi
name: Okuyama, Kazumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent progress in determining the partition function of the ABJM theory in the large N expansion, including all of the perturbative and non-perturbative corrections. Especially, we will focus on how these exact expansions are obtained from various beautiful relations to Fermi gas system, topological string theory, integrable model and supergroup.
description: 47 pages, no figures, a review article submitted to PTEP
השפעת סוג התוכן וזמן החשיפה על תחושת החוללות העצמית
Creators: name: kimhi, hadar
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: זוהי ההרשמה מראש למחקר שלנו, במסגרת קורס פסיכולוגיה ניסויית
The Impact of Strategies and Information in Model Checking for Multi-Agent Systems
Creators: name: Malvone, Vadim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.4; F.3.1;D.3.1

description: System correctness is one of the most crucial and challenging objectives in software and hardware systems. With the increasing evolution of connected and distributed systems, ensuring their correctness requires the use of formal verification for multi-agent systems. In this paper, we present a summary of certain results on model checking for multi-agent systems that derive from the selection of strategies and information for agents. Additionally, we discuss some open directions for future research.
description: In Proceedings AREA 2023, arXiv:2310.00333
Measurement of Individual Factors Associated with Tinnitus Burden
Creators: name: Frumkin, Madelyn
name: Rodebaugh, Thomas
name: Piccirillo, Jay
name: Peelle, Jonathan
name: Kallogjeri, Dorina
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: CBT
subject: EMA
subject: fMRI
subject: Idiographic
subject: Tinnitus

description: Bothersome tinnitus is a disabling condition that affects more than 50 million Americans. Currently, there is a lack of strongly effective treatments for bothersome tinnitus. This is likely due at least in part to heterogeneity in the etiology and maintenance of the disorder. The current study will explore this heterogeneity by generating individualized symptom profiles of individuals with bothersome tinnitus. Individuals with bothersome tinnitus will complete Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA), and this intensive longitudinal data will be used to derive individualized models using multilevel dynamic structural equation modeling (DSEM). We will then assess the relationships between these individualized models, resting-state functional connectivity, and treatment response to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
title: Le système métrique
Creators: name: Legget, R. F.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: measurement systems
subject: systèmes de mesures
subject: metric conversion
subject: conversion au système métrique

description: Le système métrique est maintenant utilisé par presque 90 pour cent de la population du globe. La Grande-Bretagne est en voie de transition vers le système international, version moderne du système métrique. Le système international est fondé sur six unités cohérentes de base.
Algebraic theory of crystal vibrations: Singularities and zeros in vibrations of 1D and 2D lattices
Creators: name: Iachello, F.
name: Dietz, B.
name: Miski-Oglu, M.
name: Richter, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel method for the calculation of the energy dispersion relation (EDR) and density of states (DOS) in one (1D) and two (2D) dimensions is introduced and applied to linear lattices (1D) and square and hexagonal lattices (2D). The (van Hove) singularities and (Dirac) zeros of the DOS are discussed. Results for the 2D hexagonal lattice (graphene-like materials) are compared with experimental data in microwave photonic crystals.
Adaptive Application Behaviour for Robot Swarms using Mixed-Criticality
Creators: name: Signer, Sven
name: Gray, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Communication is a vital component for all swarm robotics applications, and even simple swarm robotics behaviours often break down when this communication is unreliable. Since wireless communications are inherently subject to interference and signal degradation, real-world swarm robotics applications will need to be able handle such scenarios. This paper argues for tighter integration of application level and network layer behaviour, so that the application can alter its behaviour in response to a degraded network. This is systematised through the implementation of a mixed-criticality system model. We compare a static application behaviour with that of an application that is able to alter its behaviour in response to the current criticality level of a mixed-criticality wireless protocol. Using simulation results we show that while a static approach is sufficient if the network conditions are known a priori, a mixed-criticality system model is able to adapt application behaviour to better support unseen or unpredictable conditions.
description: In Proceedings AREA 2023, arXiv:2310.00333
title: Application des notions fondamentales pour la conception des toitures
Creators: name: Handegord, G. O.
name: Baker, M. C.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Air and vapour barriers
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0310
subject: Pare-vapeur et pare-air
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0310
subject: Roofs
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0370
subject: Toitures
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0370
subject: Moisture performance
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0374
subject: Performance hygrométrique
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0374
subject: roofing
subject: couverture
subject: roofs
subject: toits
subject: thermal insulation
subject: isolation thermique
subject: water barriers
subject: barrière d'étanchéité
subject: vapor barriers
subject: pare vapeur

description: L'auteur donne une analyse d'une toiture isolante normale établie au-dessus d'une dalle de béton, et offre quelques conseils pour l'amélioration du rendement du toit-terrasse au point de vue thermique et hygrométrique. Il décrit une toiture en pente ventilée à double égouttement, où la couche d'étanchéité principale se trouve sous l'isolement.