cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Metagenomic analyses of two female genital tract diseases : bacterial vaginosis and ovarian cancer
Creators: name: Montoya, Vincent Keith
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Metagenomics is a rapidly evolving field that has facilitated the expansion of microbiology into new areas of human and environmental health. Metagenomic studies have expanded the phylogenetic tree of life by increasing taxonomic resolution in individual phyla as well as adding entirely new branches of life. This revolution in microbiology has been made possible by the introduction of second-generation high-throughput sequencing, the associated methods for preparing DNA sequencing libraries, as well as new bioinformatic algorithms for analyzing these new types of data. Because of the novelty of these methods, very few have been systematically tested for their sensitivities and specificities outside of the initial development process. As the interpretation of metagenomic studies utilizing these tools depends greatly upon their efficiencies in both detection and classification, it is essential to best determine the performance of each tool. In this study, a variety of novel techniques were utilized and tested in their abilities to characterize the microbial populations in two regions of the female genital tract: ovarian cancer tissue and the vaginal microbiome. Although a diverse microbial population was initially observed in the transcriptome sequence data for ovarian cancer using next generation sequencing, we were unable to recover these microbial sequences through PCR and Sanger sequencing approaches. Optimized methods were applied to healthy vaginal microbiome samples and tested for their ability to differentiate them from a polymicrobial disease of the vagina, bacterial vaginosis. In addition to a high correlation between a microbial scoring system for bacterial vaginosis, this novel metagenomic pipeline also revealed microorganisms not yet associated with the vaginal microbiome such as specific Bifidobacteria spp., various bacteriophage, and Debaryomyces. Collectively, both of these studies provide unique insights into each disease as well as illustrate both the limitations and potential of the rapidly growing field of metagenomics.
Alla ricerca di una politica del diritto sui rapporti con l’Islam (Carta dei valori e Dichiarazione di intenti)
Creators: name: Colaianni, Nicola
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Diritto ecclesiastico

description: Riscrittura, aggiornata con qualche nota, degli appunti di un intervento svolto al convegno al Convegno su Identità religiosa e integrazione dei Musulmani in Italia e in Europa, omaggio alla memoria di Francesco Castro (Roma, 22 maggio 2008), destinato alla pubblicazione negli Atti.
SOMMARIO: 1. Inizio dei rapporti tra Stato e Islam italiano – 2. Costituzione e Carta dei valori – 3. Carta dei valori e dichiarazione di intenti – 4. Dichiarazione di intenti e intese (nonché legge sulla libertà di religione).
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2009: 12 gennaio
Synthesis and Characterization of ?-Tocopherol Derivatives with Intriguing Absorption and Fluorescence Properties
Creators: name: Mackie, Cyrus J
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: ?-Tocopherol
subject: antioxidant
subject: vitamin E
subject: BODIPY
subject: photoinduced electron transfer
subject: reactive oxygen species
subject: fluorogenic probe
subject: Chemistry--Organic
subject: Chemistry--Physical

description: Fluorogenic probes have received a lot of attention in the past two decades for their potential biosensor applications, including attempts to better understand cellular processes that are affected by reactive oxygen species (ROS), especially in age-related diseases where ROS levels have been shown to be elevated. More recent research has focused on Off/On probes that produce fluorescence only when they react with ROS. These chemical species are generally composed of an antioxidant to react with the radicals, and a fluorophore to emit light. Furthermore, these two components can be modified to provide spatial resolution of ROS in certain organelles, such as using ?-tocopherol for its tendency to insert into lipid membranes.This thesis focuses on our attempt at synthesizing one such probe, utilizing a derivative of ?-tocopherol known as Trolox, and a highly fluorescent dye, BODIPY as the emitter, for use in studies on the oxidative stress induced by platelet activating factor in yeast. Stemming from this research, we describe the serendipitous discovery of a new ?-Tocopherol fused derivative. We performed a full suite of characterization on this new molecule, including absorption, steady-state fluorescence and fluorescence lifetime measurements, singlet oxygen detection, NMR, x-ray crystallography, and computational studies. As of writing this thesis, the exact mechanism for the formation of the new compound is unknown, but a thorough literature review reveals some key pathways that have been identified in similar systems.
Lo Stato della Città del Vaticano rifiuta le leggi italiane
Creators: name: Tozzi, Valerio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Santa Sede e Città del Vaticano

description: ordinario di Diritto ecclesiastico nella Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell’Università degli Studi di Salerno
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2009: 12 gennaio
title: Evaluation of left ventricle size in cardiac magnetic resonance using various diameters
Creators: name: Gorjanc, Tamara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Kv imaging
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: MR
subject: Cardiac

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Left ventricle (LV) chamber size plays crucial role in decision-making in guidelines for several clinical conditions [1-3]. It is important for diagnosis and monitoring of disease progression, for timing of intervention and for discrimination of...
title: The effect of dose reduction on overall image quality in clinical chest tomosynthesis evaluated using visual grading
Creators: name: Mirzai, Maral
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Chest tomosynthesis (CTS) is a diagnostic examination where several projection images of the chest are collected from different angles over a limited angular range to reconstruct section images of the patient [1]. Compared to conventional chest...
title: Security and Quality on MRI
Creators: name: Martin Leñero, Alicia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quality assurance
subject: Prostheses
subject: Patterns of Care
subject: Safety
subject: Health policy and practice
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: Radiographers
subject: Professional issues
subject: MR physics

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Over the last years we have developed a security program at the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) area in the radiology department to improve the quality of care and safety of the patients. The special conditions of security on MRI make necessary to...
A Path to Pathos: Developing a Clinical Care Pathway for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Apathy in Parkinson’s Disease
Creators: name: Mele, Bria
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Parkinson's disease
subject: apathy
subject: Health Sciences--Mental Health

description: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the most rapidly increasing neurological disorder worldwide. While the defining features of PD are rigidity, resting tremor, slow movement, and postural instability, there are numerous non-motor features including neuropsychiatric symptoms. Apathy is one of the most common neuropsychiatric symptoms that presents in persons with PD. There is however a lack of standardization across apathy screening tools, diagnostic criteria, andtreatment of apathy in PD populations. This thesis aimed to create an evidence-informed clinical care pathway for the diagnosis and treatment of apathy in PD.We conducted three studies: a critical interpretive synthesis to understand how apathy is defined by apathy screening tools used in PD populations; a realist review to understand which non-pharmacologic treatments improve apathy in PD populations; and a modified Delphi procedure to refine and reach consensus on evidence from our critical interpretive synthesis and realist review, to be included in our final clinical care pathway. A supplementary systematic review of pharmacologic treatments was also conducted and informed pathway development. We found apathy screening tools that assess only apathy most closely align with proposed apathy diagnostic criteria and offer the most comprehensive means of screening for apathy. Exercise and mindfulness are the two types of non-pharmacologic treatment available for persons with apathy and PD; however evidence of the benefit of exercise and mindfulness only exists in PD populations with limited physical and cognitive impairment. Eighteen statementsreached consensus through a modified Delphi procedure, and were included in a clinical care pathway, an interdisciplinary care plans that provides detailed steps to guide the diagnosis and treatment of apathy in PD.Our evidence-informed clinical care pathway begins by providing healthcare workers with steps to follow to select the appropriate apathy screening tool, when to employ apathy diagnostic criteria, and how to involve caregivers. Our pathway then recommends offering nonpharmacologic interventions, before employing one of the two recommended pharmacologic treatments for apathy, given low risk associated with exercise and mindfulness and possible sideeffects of pharmacologic interventions. To our knowledge, this is the first evidence-informed clinical care pathway to guide the diagnosis and treatment of apathy in PD populations. Our work also helps to facilitate awareness and discussion around apathy in PD, which may improve patient and caregiver understandings of apathy and what to expect from their care.
Haine religieuse: l’action “pank – Te Deum” du groupe “Pussy Riot” 21 Février 2012 dans les locaux de la Cathédrale du Christ-Sauveur de l’Église Chrétienne Orthodoxe Russe
Creators: name: Ponkine, Igor V.
name: Abramènkova, Vera V.
name: Troytsky, Vsevolod J.
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Diritto ecclesiastico comparato e straniero

description: Contributo accettato dal Direttore
SOMMAIRE: 1. Introduction – 2. Analyse des actions des participants au groupe “Pussy Riot” accomplies par ceux-ci pendant le temps de la réalisation de l’action – 3. Analyse du texte de la chansonnette interprétée par les participants au groupe “Pussy Riot” au cours de l’action – 4. Les actions des participants au groupe “Pussy Riot” réalisées par ceux-ci le 21 Février 2012 dans la Cathédrale du Christ-Sauveur peuvent être appréciées, à juste titre, comme réalisées en commun selon l’intention unifiée de l’action – 5. Tribunal Khamovniky de la ville de Moscou et Cour de cassation de la ville de Moscou.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 4 febbraio
title: Nowe wyzwania ekspozycji targów wirtualnych. Multimedia w strukturze architektury wystawienniczej
Creators: name: Gyurkovich, Magdalena
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2021

description: Zeszyty Naukowe Politechniki Poznańskiej. Architektura, Urbanistyka, Architektura wnętrz, 4, 229-240
title: Ectopic neurohypophysis - an MRI image of hypopituitarism
Creators: name: MALLA HOUECH, Intesar-Victoria
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: Head and neck
subject: Anatomy
subject: MR
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Endocrine disorders
subject: Genetic defects
subject: Trauma

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To objectify the need of MRI of the pituitary in patients with hypopituitarism To illustrate different causes and positions of ectopic...
Generalised scaling at subleading order
Creators: name: Freyhult, Lisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study operators in the sl(2) sector of N=4 SYM in the generalised scaling limit, where the spin is large and the length of the operator scales with the logarithm of the spin. At leading order in the large spin expansion the scaling dimension at strong coupling is given in terms of the free energy of the O(6) model. We investigate the first subleading corrections to the scaling dimension and find that these too can be derived from the O(6) model in the strong coupling limit.
description: 19 pages, v2: Equation corrected and references added, v3: references added, published version
Measuring climate resilience and adaptive capacity across European regions
Creators: name: Marzi, Sepehr
name: Mysiak, Jaroslav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: resilience, adaptive capacity

description: This registered report has been prepared for the Resilienship proposal HORIZON-MISS-2021-CLIMA-01 - Better prepared regional and local authorities to adapt to climate change. It reviews most recent literature (since 2015) on indicator-based resilience and adaptive capacity assessments, extracts and describes the indicators used and outline methodology to evaluate vulnerability and resilience across European (EU) regions. The analysis underpins and feeds into the planned activities of the Resilienship proposal.
title: Radiographic features of intrabiliary rupture of hepatic hydatid cyst
Creators: name: Bourourou, Rimehh
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Liver
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Parasites
subject: Cysts
subject: Infection

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To describe the radiological semiology in sonography, computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging of intra biliary rupture of hydatid...
READY2Exit Study: Readiness and Experiences of Adolescents and Young Adults with Co-occurring Chronic Health and Mental Health Conditions Exiting Pediatric Services
Creators: name: Allemang, Brooke
Publisher: name: Social Work
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health
subject: Mental Health
subject: Mixed Methods
subject: Patient-Oriented Research
subject: Transition to Adult Care
subject: Youth Engagement
subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Health Sciences--Mental Health

description: A high proportion of adolescents and young adults (AYA) with chronic health conditions also experience mental health conditions, the presence of which contributes to increased morbidity and decreased quality of life. AYA with co-occurring chronic health and mental health conditions, therefore, may encounter additional barriers as they transition out of pediatric health and mental health care. While transition readiness – the development of health-related knowledge, self-management, and advocacy skills – contributes to successful transitions to adult care, this topic has not been investigated amongst AYA with co-occurring chronic health and mental health conditions. Research is needed to examine relationships between mental health comorbidities and transition readiness in AYA with chronic health conditions exiting pediatric services. The purpose of this patient-oriented, mixed methods study was to understand the transition readiness of AYA aged 16-20 with co-occurring chronic health and mental health conditions in Alberta. A sequential explanatory mixed methods design was employed to 1) examine associations between mental health comorbidities and transition readiness in AYA with chronic health conditions and 2) to explore the experiences related to transition of AYA with co-occurring chronic health and mental health conditions. First, a quantile regression was performed to examine the association between overall Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire (TRAQ) score and mental health comorbidity in a sample of 201 AYA with chronic health conditions. Qualitative interviews were then conducted with nine AYA with co-occurring diagnoses and analyzed using qualitative description. This study was conducted in collaboration with five Young Adult Research Partners (YARP) aged 18-30 with lived experience in the health/mental health system. The YARP partnered throughout the research process, from data collection, to analysis, interpretation, and knowledge translation. The results of this study illuminate the ways in which mental health comorbidities serve to both enhance and impede transition readiness in AYA with chronic health conditions. The findings suggest the tailoring of transition readiness practices by health care providers to enhance service delivery for this group. The engagement of the YARP brought the crucial perspectives of young adults to this study, ensuring the methods, analytic approaches, and products aligned with their needs.
On the effect of cosmological inflow on turbulence and instability in galactic discs
Creators: name: Genel, Shy
name: Dekel, Avishai
name: Cacciato, Marcello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the evolution of turbulence and gravitational instability of a galactic disc in a quasi-steady state governed by cosmological inflow. We focus on the possibility that the coupling between the in-streaming gas and the disc is maximal, e.g., via dense clumps, and ask whether the streams could be the driver of turbulence in an unstable disc with a Toomre parameter Q~1. Our fiducial model assumes an efficiency of ~0.5 per dynamical time for the decay of turbulence energy, and ~0.02 for each of the processes that deplete the disc gas, i.e., star formation, outflow, and inflow within the disc into a central bulge. In this case, the in-streaming drives a ratio of turbulent to rotation velocity sigma/V~0.2-0.3, which at z~2 induces an instability with Q~1, both as observed. However, in conflict with observations, this model predicts that sigma/V remains constant with time, independent of the cosmological accretion rate, because mass and turbulence have the same external source. Such strongly coupled cosmological inflow tends to stabilize the disc at low z, with Q ~ a few, which may be consistent with observations. The instability could instead be maintained for longer, with a properly declining sigma/V, if it is self-regulated to oscillations about Q~1 by a duty cycle for disc depletion. However, the 'off' phases of this duty cycle become long at low z, which may be hard to reconcile with observations. Alternatively, the coupling between the in-streaming gas and the disc may weaken in time, reflecting an evolving nature of the accretion. If, instead, that coupling is weak at all times, the likely energy source for self-regulated stirring up of the turbulence is the inflow within the disc down the potential gradient (studied in a companion paper).
description: 14 pages, 1 table. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Minor changes to match accepted version
La politica ecclesiastica dell’Italia post-unitaria: un modello post-Westphaliano
Creators: name: Ferrari, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Varie

description: Il contriburo, sottoposto a valutazione, riproduce l'intervento destinato agli Atti del Convegno "La Religione Istruita nella scuola e nella cultura dell'Italia contemporanea" organizzato dall'Archivio per la Storia dell'Educazione in Italia e dal'Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano nell'ambito del progetto PRIN 2008 "Cultura religiosa e insegnamento della religione e della teologia nella scuola e nell'università dell'Italia contemporanea" (Venezia, 12 - 13 gennaio 2012)
SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. La separazione … immaginata – 3. La separazione … possibile – 4. Un limite della politica liberale: lo scoglio del pluralismo giuridico – 5. Il lascito della politica ecclesiastica liberale: una mediocritas di ampio respiro
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 25 febbraio
Coherent Backscattering of Ultracold Matter Waves: Momentum Space Signatures
Creators: name: Cherroret, Nicolas
name: Karpiuk, Tomasz
name: Müller, Cord A.
name: Grémaud, Benoît
name: Miniatura, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using analytical and numerical methods, it is shown that the momentum distribution of a matter wave packet launched in a random potential exhibits a pronounced coherent backscattering (CBS) peak. By analyzing the momentum distribution, key transport times can be directly measured. The CBS peak can be used to prove that transport occurs in the phase-coherent regime, and measuring its time dependence permits monitoring the transition from classical diffusion to Anderson localization.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Keep Calm and Carry On: Exploring how Adolescents Understand Their Experience of Living With a Service Member Parent With an Operational Stress Injury
Creators: name: Laut, Danae A
Publisher: name: Werklund School of Education
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: resilience
subject: operational stress injury
subject: adolescence
subject: Canadian Armed Forces
subject: Veterans
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The purpose of the current study was to explore how youth make sense of the experience of living with a service member (SM) parent with an opertational stress injury (OSI). Research suggests that youths living with an SM with an OSI are at a higher risk of developing mental health disorders and behavioural problems, as well as achieving lower academic outcomes (Stelnicki & Schwartz, 2016). Studies have also shown that OSIs such as posttraumatic stress disorder, negatively impact an SM’s ability to parent and engage with their child (Creech & Misca, 2010). However, while these challenges have been identified in the literature, limited research has examined the firsthand experiences of adolescents living with an SM parent with an OSI. Furthermore, little attention has been paid to resilience in military-connected youth (MCY) and how MCY might cope with the challenges that come with parental OSI. Given these two gaps in knowledge, I explored youths’ experiences of living with an SM parent with an OSI by asking the question: How might we understand how adolescents make sense of their experience of living with an SM parent with an OSI? I used the qualitative research methodology, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), to guide this multi-perspectival study. Using purposive and snowball sampling, I recruited 11 adolescents (14-18 years old), who met the inclusion criteria. Five participants were female while six were male, with a mean age of 16.3 years old. I conducted audio-taped, in-depth, semi-structured interviews with each participant. Interviews were analyzed to produce a set of themes that reflected the ways in which MCY understood their experience. The study findings included four overarching themes: (a) Making Sense of Parental OSI, (b) Repercussions of Living With Parental OSI, (c) Coping, and (d) Resiliency. These findings are discussed in the context of relevant literature. The strengths and limitations of the study are considered and implications for theory, research, practice, and policy are presented.
Verso una riforma costituente del Papato? Buonasera Francesco, vescovo di Roma!
Creators: name: Zanchini Di Castiglionchio, Francesco
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Diritti delle religioni

description: Contributo accettato dal Direttore
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 15 aprile
Mechanical denaturation : forced unfolding of proteins
Creators: name: Li, Yongnan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Mechanical denaturation has emerged as a novel method to study chemical and physical properties of protein molecules. In this thesis, single-molecule force spectroscopy has been carried out using the atomic force microscope to investigate the mechanical design of proteins through denaturation via an applied mechanical force. In the first study, a small globular protein has been shown to exhibit pronounced anisotropic response to directional mechanical stress. One protein can be both mechanically strong and weak. It will be strong when direction of the force vector is aligned with particular structural elements of the protein, and it will be weak otherwise. Mechanical denaturation in the strong direction is accompanied by cooperative disruption of intramolecular interactions in the protein. Conversely, mechanical denaturation in the weak direction is accompanied by sequential disruption of those same interactions. In the second study, the mechanical properties of a cofactor dependent protein is characterized. It is shown that both the protein and cofactor are mechanically strong in the presence of the cofactor. Removal of the cofactor tremendously diminishes the mechanical strength of the protein. The mutually supportive roles of structure and function are demonstrated through mechanical denaturation experiments.
Multiculturalità, “diritti” e differenziazioni giuridiche: il caso dei trattamenti sanitari
Creators: name: Anello, Giancarlo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Varie

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazione
SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Multiculturalità, “diritti” e trattamenti sanitari - 3. Alcune problematiche del cd. testamento biologico in una prospettiva interculturale - 4. Conclusioni.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 6 maggio
Optimal correlations in many-body quantum systems
Creators: name: Amico, Luigi
name: Rossini, Davide
name: Hamma, Alioscia
name: Korepin, Vladimir E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Information and correlations in a quantum system are closely related through the process of measurement. We explore such relation in a many-body quantum setting, effectively bridging between quantum metrology and condensed matter physics. To this aim we adopt the information-theory view of correlations, and study the amount of correlations after certain classes of Positive-Operator-Valued Measurements are locally performed. As many-body system we consider a one-dimensional array of interacting two-level systems (a spin chain) at zero temperature, where quantum effects are most pronounced. We demonstrate how the optimal strategy to extract the correlations depends on the quantum phase through a subtle interplay between local interactions and coherence.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures + supplementary material. To be published in PRL
La responsabilità della gerarchia ecclesiastica nel caso degli abusi sessuali commessi dai chierici, fra diritto canonico e diritti statuali
Creators: name: Consorti, Pierluigi
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Diritti delle religioni

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazione.
SOMMARIO: 1. Connessioni e distinzioni tra responsabilità morale e responsabilità giuridica negli ordinamenti religiosi - 2. Responsabilità morale e responsabilità giuridica della gerarchia ecclesiastica - 3. La responsabilità giuridica della gerarchia nell’ordinamento canonico e sue conseguenze negli ordinamenti statuali - 4. La riparazione del danno ingiusto nel diritto canonico. Responsabilità della gerarchia - 5. La responsabilità penale della gerarchia nel caso di abusi sessuali commessi dai chierici - 6. Responsabilità morale, pastorale e comunionale della gerarchia nel caso di abusi sessuali commessi dai chierici.
ABSTRACT
Catholic Hierarchy Responsibility in Clerical Sexual Abuse: Between Canon Law and Civil Law This essay aims to demonstrate moral and legal catholic hierarchy responsibility in clerical sexual abuses. Stories about child maltreatment in catholic Church dominated media worldwide. There is no longer any doubt about the need to punish the guilty, both in canon and civil law. It means that they must be punished under criminal law and they must refund victims. However there are divisions about hierarchy responsibility. Some civil courts (eg. in the USA, Canada or Spain) attributed to the diocese the obligation to pay damages. These statements are very criticized by the canonists, who contest the equivalence relationship priest-diocese as a business one. So they claim the legal irresponsibility of hierarchy. At the moment this is the position of the Italian courts. The present essay defends the opposite view. The hierarchy has a primary moral responsibility, which obliges both to defend the victims of the abuses committed by the clergy, both the ecclesial community from abusive priests. This moral responsibility translates into a legal one, which requires the hierarchy to refund the victims on the basis of canon law. Therefore, the civil courts may impose diocesan bishops the obligation to refund victims.
Keywords: Catholic Church, Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, sexual abuse, pedophilia, Canon Law, ethics, law & religion, clerical sexual misconduct
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 13 maggio
title: Edukacja przestrzenna 3D przez 2D – model kreowania wyobraźni przestrzennej
Creators: name: Barek, Radosław
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2021

description: Zeszyty Naukowe Politechniki Poznańskiej. Architektura, Urbanistyka, Architektura wnętrz, 4, 241-256
Virtual Reality Implementation of Reservoir Models and Integration with Artificial Intelligence
Creators: name: Hu, Die
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Virtual reality
subject: Visualization
subject: Petroleum engineering
subject: Artifical intelligence
subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Computer Science

description: Promoting forward-looking and proactive thinking is vital in the age of virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI). Currently, in the oil and gas industry, traditional ways of thinking and working occupy the minds of most engineers and researchers. With the development of rapid technologies, the impact of virtual reality and artificial intelligence technologies on existing work styles will happen sooner or later. Questions might be raised: How can these technologies integrate or enhance the current workflow? What impact will they have on the work style of petroleum engineers? How would they change their way of thinking and working? This study aims to bring reservoir simulation models from traditional desktop displays to virtual environments and explore further integrations with AI. In order to achieve the transformation, the Unity 3D game engine is selected to develop the VR application. Based on this game platform, the visualization toolkit and mixed reality toolkit are used to implement the visualization of reservoir models and natural interactions in virtual worlds. In order to enhance our understanding of cell-based reservoir data, cross-block properties are studied using the graph theory and visualized upon virtual models. Moreover, different dimensional data can be displayed in the large working space in VR; thus, multi-dimensional and multi-representation visualization features are developed. Further integrations with AI will be explored based on the VR visualization system's digitalized reservoir models. The VR visualization system tests different types of reservoir models and interactions. Interactions and user interfaces are designed and developed with the habits of reservoir engineers in mind. With the assistance of the graph theory, a quick response model is developed. The model can be customized for different purposes, such as conducting and verifying reservoir continuity analysis. In addition, spatial reservoir data and two-dimensional information can be presented in a hybrid visualization mode. Furthermore, two applications, time-series forecasting and refracturing candidate selection, are developed as prototypes for integrating reservoir engineering workflows and AI. It turns out that the combination with AI helps provide a platform to conduct visual data analysis and provides possibilities to conduct data analysis considering both physics and data.
Aspetti della Giustizia Vaticana
Creators: name: Dalla Torre, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Santa Sede e Città del Vaticano

description: Il testo riproduce la Lectio magistralis tenuta a Roma, presso la Lumsa, il 16 aprile 2013, in occasione del conferimento all’autore del XXXII Premio “Giuseppe Chiarelli”. La Laudatio era stata tenuta del Prof. Cesare Mirabelli, presidente emerito della Corte Costituzionale. Contributo accettato dal Direttore.
SOMMARIO: 1. Un nuovo interesse per la Giustizia Vaticana – 2. Ordinamento vaticano e ordinamento canonico – 3. Peculiarità dell’ordinamento giudiziario – 4. La questione dell’interpretazione – 5. Un caso particolare nel diritto penale – 6. La nuova normativa in materia di antiriciclaggio e lotta al terrorismo – 7. Cenni di conclusione.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 20 maggio
Quando il legislatore predilige un punto di vista etico/religioso: il caso del divieto di donazione dei gameti
Creators: name: Di Cosimo, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Bioetica

description: Il contributo - in corso di pubblicazione in La fecondazione vietata, a cura di A. Cossiri e G. Di Cosimo, Aracne, Roma, maggio 2013 - è stato sottoposto a valutazione
SOMMARIO: 1. Laicità – 2. Eguaglianza e pluralismo – 3. La questione – 4. Strategie: riformulazione – 5. Parallelo – 6. Strategie: minimizzazione – 7. Controvertibilità – 8. Norme – 9. Paternalismo.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 10 giugno
Forecast constraints on cosmic string parameters from gravitational wave direct detection experiments
Creators: name: Kuroyanagi, Sachiko
name: Miyamoto, Koichi
name: Sekiguchi, Toyokazu
name: Takahashi, Keitaro
name: Silk, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational waves (GWs) are one of the key signatures of cosmic strings. If GWs from cosmic strings are detected in future experiments, not only their existence can be confirmed but also their properties might be probed. In this paper, we study the determination of cosmic string parameters through direct detection of GW signatures in future ground-based GW experiments. We consider two types of GWs, bursts and the stochastic GW background, which provide us with different information about cosmic string properties. Performing the Fisher matrix calculation on the cosmic string parameters, such as parameters governing the string tension $Gμ$ and initial loop size $α$ and the reconnection probability $p$, we find that the two different types of GW can break degeneracies in some of these parameters and provide better constraints than those from each measurement.
description: 28 pages, 6 figures; matches version to appear in PRD
Non-Surgical Management of the Medial Collateral Ligament of the Knee: Understanding Adherence to Bracing Treatment
Creators: name: Hunter, Dana Jaclyn
Publisher: name: Kinesiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: patient-centered care
subject: adherence
subject: compliance
subject: knee
subject: medial collateral ligament
subject: knee injury
subject: knee brace
subject: nonoperative management
subject: non-surgical treatment
subject: qualitative research
subject: patient-oriented research
subject: grounded theory.
subject: Health Sciences--General
subject: Health Sciences--Health Care Management
subject: Health Sciences--Medicine and Surgery
subject: Health Sciences--Epidemiology

description: This thesis used a multimethod study design informed by principals of patient-oriented research to understand the predictors, facilitators, and barriers to adherence to a six-week knee bracing protocol for acute medial collateral ligament (MCL) injuries. The quantitative component aimed to measure adherence to the treatment and explored potential demographic and clinical predictors of adherence (i.e., age, diagnosis, pain, brace satisfaction, overall knee score). The qualitative component used semi-structured interviews with patients to provide an in-depth exploration of barriers and facilitators to brace-wearing. The interview guide and analysis were considered within a postpositivist worldview and were informed by two patient partners with relevant recent experience with non-surgical management of the MCL. Grounded theory was used to inductively create categories, codes, and themes to provide an understanding of brace-wearing adherence. The findings from the quantitative study yielded no significant predictors of adherence at any phase. The qualitative study produced a patient-centered model of brace-wearing adherence and demonstrated how the complex balance between the factors affected patients’ decision to wear the brace. Five core categories were identified to classify the diverse facilitators and barriers to brace-wearing: patient factors, clinical context, treatment factors, injury factors, and external factors. Patient-specific facilitators were crucial to increasing brace-wearing, especially having a strong desire to heal, experience with similar treatments, a good understanding of the purpose of the treatment, being of older age, and using positive coping mechanisms. Other facilitators of brace adherence were identified as positive social support, frequent clinical follow-ups, building effective relationships with clinicians, and higher brace satisfaction (i.e., ease of use and efficiency). Key contributors to reduced brace-wearing adherence were recognized as low treatment satisfaction (i.e., treatment duration and brace discomfort), certain sleeping habits, symptom improvement, and interpersonal hindrances (e.g., negative affect, low resilience, depression, anxiety).
Irregularity in gamma ray source spectra as a signature of axionlike particles
Creators: name: Wouters, Denis
name: Brun, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Oscillations from high energy photons into light pseudoscalar particles in an external magnetic field are expected to occur in some extensions of the standard model. It is usually assumed that those axionlike particles (ALPs) could produce a drop in the energy spectra of gamma ray sources and possibly decrease the opacity of the Universe for TeV gamma rays. We show here that these assumptions are in fact based on an average behavior that cannot happen in real observations of single sources. We propose a new method to search for photon-ALP oscillations, taking advantage of the fact that a single observation would deviate from the average expectation. Our method is based on the search for irregularities in the energy spectra of gamma ray sources. We predict features that are unlikely to be produced by known astrophysical processes and a new signature of ALPs that is easily falsifiable.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, matches accepted version, improved discussion on magnetic field models in v2
Seismic vulnerability assessment of power transmission networks : a system thinking approach
Creators: name: Buriticá, Jessica Ana Maria
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Electrical power transmission systems are essential to the economy and well-being of modern societies. The systems consist of power generating facilities, substations, and supervisory control and data acquisition, which are inter-connected through transmission lines arranged within a high dimensional network (i.e., large amount of edges and nodes). Efficiency and service quality are influenced by reliability of this network. Therefore, identification of critical components and vulnerability analysis become paramount, in particular, in regions where seismic activity is significant. In this research a novel methodology for seismic vulnerability assessment of power transmission systems is developed. The analysis is carried out from the perspective of both the system’s form (i.e., topological-electrical importance of elements) and system’s strength (i.e., probability of failure). The form combines the electrical properties of the network (e.g., electrical distance, power flow) with the systems approach via hierarchical network decomposition. On the other hand, the strength focuses on evaluating the probability of failure by means of the physical consequences of multiple earthquakes scenarios. Therefore, the vulnerability measure presents a trade–off between strength and form. Sensitivity analysis is carried out, where the influence of each perspective (i.e., form and strength) in the vulnerability measure is exhibited. Finally, different techniques for identification of critical components are compared with the proposed methodology. The results showed that the proposed approach exhibit features that provide a better understanding of seismic vulnerability of power systems than traditional approaches.
Unified theory of the semi-collisional tearing mode and internal kink mode in a hot tokamak: implications for sawtooth modelling
Creators: name: Connor, J. W.
name: Hastie, R. J.
name: Zocco, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In large hot tokamaks like JET, the width of the reconnecting layer for resistive modes is determined by semi-collisional electron dynamics and is much less than the ion Larmor radius. Firstly a dispersion relation valid in this regime is derived which provides a unified description of drift-tearing modes, kinetic Alfven waves and the internal kink mode at low beta. Tearing mode stability is investigated analytically recovering the stabilising ion orbit effect, obtained previously by Cowley et al. [Phys. Fluids (29) 3230 1986], which implies large values of the tearing mode stability parameter "Delta prime" are required for instability. Secondly, at high beta it is shown that the tearing mode interacts with the kinetic Alfven wave and that there is an absolute stabilisation for all "Delta prime" due to the shielding effects of the electron temperature gradients, extending the result of Drake et. al [Phys. Fluids (26) 2509 1983] to large ion orbits. The nature of the transition between these two limits at finite values of beta is then elucidated. The low beta formalism is also relevant to the m=n=1 tearing mode and the dissipative internal kink mode, thus extending the work of Pegoraro et al. [Phys. Fluids B (1) 364 1989] to a more realistic electron model incorporating temperature perturbations, but then the smallness of the dissipative internal kink mode frequency is exploited to obtain a new dispersion relation valid at arbitrary beta. A diagram describing the stability of both the tearing mode and dissipative internal kink mode, in the space of "Delta prime" and beta, is obtained. The trajectory of the evolution of the current profile during a sawtooth period can be plotted in this diagram, providing a model for the triggering of a sawtooth crash.
description: 37 pages, updated version, accepted, to appear on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Parametric inference for stochastic differential equations: a smooth and match approach
Creators: name: Gugushvili, Shota
name: Spreij, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62F12 (Primary) 62M05, 62G07, 62G20 (Secondary)

description: We study the problem of parameter estimation for a univariate discretely observed ergodic diffusion process given as a solution to a stochastic differential equation. The estimation procedure we propose consists of two steps. In the first step, which is referred to as a smoothing step, we smooth the data and construct a nonparametric estimator of the invariant density of the process. In the second step, which is referred to as a matching step, we exploit a characterisation of the invariant density as a solution of a certain ordinary differential equation, replace the invariant density in this equation by its nonparametric estimator from the smoothing step in order to arrive at an intuitively appealing criterion function, and next define our estimator of the parameter of interest as a minimiser of this criterion function. Our main results show that under suitable conditions our estimator is $\sqrt{n}$-consistent, and even asymptotically normal. We also discuss a way of improving its asymptotic performance through a one-step Newton-Raphson type procedure and present results of a small scale simulation study.
description: 26 pages
Delaunay Hodge Star
Creators: name: Hirani, Anil N.
name: Kalyanaraman, Kaushik
name: VanderZee, Evan B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: I.3.5; G.1.8
subject: 65N30, 53-04

description: We define signed dual volumes at all dimensions for circumcentric dual meshes. We show that for pairwise Delaunay triangulations with mild boundary assumptions these signed dual volumes are positive. This allows the use of such Delaunay meshes for Discrete Exterior Calculus (DEC) because the discrete Hodge star operator can now be correctly defined for such meshes. This operator is crucial for DEC and is a diagonal matrix with the ratio of primal and dual volumes along the diagonal. A correct definition requires that all entries be positive. DEC is a framework for numerically solving differential equations on meshes and for geometry processing tasks and has had considerable impact in computer graphics and scientific computing. Our result allows the use of DEC with a much larger class of meshes than was previously considered possible.
description: Corrected error in Figure 1 (columns 3 and 4) and Figure 6 and a formula error in Section 2. All mathematical statements (theorems and lemmas) are unchanged. The previous arXiv version v3 (minus the Appendix) appeared in the journal Computer-Aided Design