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Soil-structure interaction during tunnelling in urban area: observations and 3D numerical modelling
Creators: name: Fargnoli, Valentina <1983>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: ING-IND/28 Ingegneria e sicurezza degli scavi

description: This work illustrates a soil-tunnel-structure interaction study performed by an integrated,geotechnical and structural,approach based on 3D finite element analyses and validated against experimental observations.The study aims at analysing the response of reinforced concrete framed buildings on discrete foundations in interaction with metro lines.It refers to the case of the twin tunnels of the Milan (Italy) metro line 5,recently built in coarse grained materials using EPB machines,for which subsidence measurements collected along ground and building sections during tunnelling were available.Settlements measured under freefield conditions are firstly back interpreted using Gaussian empirical predictions. Then,the in situ measurements’ analysis is extended to include the evolving response of a 9 storey reinforced concrete building while being undercrossed by the metro line.In the finite element study,the soil mechanical behaviour is described using an advanced constitutive model. This latter,when combined with a proper simulation of the excavation process, proves to realistically reproduce the subsidence profiles under free field conditions and to capture the interaction phenomena occurring between the twin tunnels during the excavation. Furthermore, when the numerical model is extended to include the building, schematised in a detailed manner, the results are in good agreement with the monitoring data for different stages of the twin tunnelling. Thus, they indirectly confirm the satisfactory performance of the adopted numerical approach which also allows a direct evaluation of the structural response as an outcome of the analysis. Further analyses are also carried out modelling the building with different levels of detail. The results highlight that, in this case, the simplified approach based on the equivalent plate schematisation is inadequate to capture the real tunnelling induced displacement field. The overall behaviour of the system proves to be mainly influenced by the buried portion of the building which plays an essential role in the interaction mechanism, due to its high stiffness.
Pratiche di sottotitolazione non professionale in Cina
Creators: name: Zuccheri, Serena
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2019

description:

The online growth of non-professional subtitling, a phenomenon today internationally known as fansubbing, has allowed Chinese audience to watch Gomorra-La serie. This Italian TV series is linguistically characterised by a great use of jargon, coarseness and swearing that Chinese fansubbers have tried to accurately reproduce using equivalents in their mother tongue, or tabooing them by subjecting some of the most vulgar and irreverent expressions to linguistic interdiction. After a detailed presentation of major translation strategies used by Chinese fansubbers, this works aims to present a preliminary linguistic analysis of the Chinese subtitles of the first season of Gomorra-La Serie.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Valorisation of organic waste: new developments from proton nuclear magnetic resonance characterization
Creators: name: Vannini, Marianna <1986>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: ING-IND/30 Idrocarburi e fluidi del sottosuolo

description: The last half-century has seen a continuing population and consumption growth, increasing the competition for land, water and energy. The solution can be found in the new sustainability theories, such as the industrial symbiosis and the zero waste objective. Reducing, reusing and recycling are challenges that the whole world have to consider. This is especially important for organic waste, whose reusing gives interesting results in terms of energy release. Before reusing, organic waste needs a deeper characterization. The non-destructive and non-invasive features of both Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) relaxometry and imaging (MRI) make them optimal candidates to reach such characterization. In this research, NMR techniques demonstrated to be innovative technologies, but an important work on the hardware and software of the NMR LAGIRN laboratory was initially done, creating new experimental procedures to analyse organic waste samples. The first results came from soil-organic matter interactions. Remediated soils properties were described in function of the organic carbon content, proving the importance of limiting the addition of further organic matter to not inhibit soil processes as nutrients transport. Moreover NMR relaxation times and the signal amplitude of a compost sample, over time, showed that the organic matter degradation of compost is a complex process that involves a number of degradation kinetics, as a function of the mix of waste. Local degradation processes were studied with enhanced quantitative relaxation technique that combines NMR and MRI. The development of this research has finally led to the study of waste before it becomes waste. Since a lot of food is lost when it is still edible, new NMR experiments studied the efficiency of conservation and valorisation processes: apple dehydration, meat preservation and bio-oils production. All these results proved the readiness of NMR for quality controls on a huge kind of organic residues and waste.
Advanced polymeric materials for applications in technical equipment for snow sports
Creators: name: Nicotra, Marco <1984>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: ING-IND/22 Scienza e tecnologia dei materiali

description: The thesis is divided in three chapters, each one covering one topic. Initially, the thermo-mechanical and impact properties of materials used for back protectors have been analysed. Dynamical mechanical analysis (DMTA) has shown that materials used for soft-shell protectors present frequency-sensitive properties. Furthermore, through impact tests, the shock absorbing characteristics of the materials have been investigated proving the differences between soft and hard-shell protectors; moreover it has been demonstrated that the materials used for soft-shell protectors maintain their protective properties after multi-impacts.
The second chapter covers the effect of the visco-elastic properties of the thermoplastic polymers on the flexural and rebound behaviours of ski boots. DMTA analysis on the materials and flexural and rebound testing on the boots have been performed. A comparison of the results highlighted a correlation between the visco-elastic properties and the flexural and rebound behaviour of ski boots. The same experimental methods have been used to investigate the influence of the design on the flexural and rebound behaviours. 
Finally in the third chapter the thermoplastic materials employed for the construction of ski boots soles have been characterized in terms of chemical composition, hardness, crystallinity, surface roughness and coefficient of friction (COF). The results showed a relation between material hardness and grip, in particular softer materials provide more grip with respect to harder materials. On the contrary, the surface roughness has a negative effect on friction because of the decrease in contact area. The measure of grip on inclined wet surfaces showed again a relation between hardness and grip. The performance ranking of the different materials has been the same for the COF and for the slip angle tests, indicating that COF can be used as a parameter for the choice of the optimal material to be used for the soles of ski boots.
Modelling the dynamic response of rockfall protection barriers
Analisi numerica del comportamento di barriere paramassi
Creators: name: Mentani, Alessio <1983>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: ICAR/07 Geotecnica

description: Mountainous areas are prone to natural hazards like rockfalls. Among the many countermeasures, rockfall protection barriers represent an effective solution to mitigate the risk. They are metallic structures designed to intercept rocks falling from unstable slopes, thus dissipating the energy deriving from the impact. This study aims at providing a better understanding of the response of several rockfall barrier types, through the development of rather sophisticated three-dimensional numerical finite elements models which take into account for the highly dynamic and non-linear conditions of such events. 
The models are built considering the actual geometrical and mechanical properties of real systems. Particular attention is given to the connecting details between the structural components and to their interactions. The importance of the work lies in being able to support a wide experimental activity with appropriate numerical modelling. The data of several full-scale tests carried out on barrier prototypes, as well as on their structural components, are combined with results of numerical simulations. Though the models are designed with relatively simple solutions in order to obtain a low computational cost of the simulations, they are able to reproduce with great accuracy the test results, thus validating the reliability of the numerical strategy proposed for the design of these structures. The developed models have shown to be readily applied to predict the barrier performance under different possible scenarios, by varying the initial configuration of the structures and/or of the impact conditions.
Furthermore, the numerical models enable to optimize the design of these structures and to evaluate the benefit of possible solutions. Finally it is shown they can be also used as a valuable supporting tool for the operators within a rockfall risk assessment procedure, to gain crucial understanding of the performance of existing barriers in working conditions.
Thermal emission from isolated neutron stars: theoretical and observational aspects
Creators: name: Zavlin, Vyacheslav E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility for direct investigation of thermal emission from isolated neutron stars was opened about 25 years ago with the launch of the first X-ray observatory, Einstein. A significant contribution to this study was provided by ROSAT in 1990's. The outstanding capabilities of the currently operating observatories, Chandra and XMM-Newton, have greatly increased the potential to observe and analyze thermal radiation from the neutron star surfaces. Confronting observational data with theoretical models of thermal emission, presumably formed in neutron star atmospheres, allows one to infer the surface temperatures, magnetic fields, chemical composition, and neutron star masses and radii. This information, supplemented with model equations of state and neutron star cooling models, provides an opportunity to understand the fundamental properties of the superdense matter in the neutron star interiors. I review the current status and most important results obtained from modeling neutron star thermal emission and present selected Chandra and XMM-Newton results on thermal radiation from various types of these objects: ordinary radio pulsars with ages ranging from about 2 kyr to 20 Myr (J1119-6127, Vela, B1706-44, J0538+2817, B2334+61, B0656+14, B1055-52, Geminga, B0950+08, J2043+2740), millisecond pulsars (J0030+0451, J2124-3358, J1024-0719, J0437-4715), putative pulsars (CXOU J061705.3+222127, RX J0007.0+7302), central compact objects in supernova remnats (in particular, 1E 1207.4-5209), and isolated radio-quiet neutron stars.
description: Review lecture given at the 363-rd Heraeus Seminar on Neutron Stars and Pulsars held on May 14-19, 2006 in Bad Honnef (Germany); to be published as a Springer Lecture Notes; 37 pages, 14 figures; comments are very welcome
Highly ionised plasma in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Evidence for outflows and a possible galactic wind
Creators: name: Lehner, N.
name: Howk, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on an analysis of the interstellar highly ionised species C IV, Si IV, N V, and O VI observed in the FUSE and HST/STIS E140M spectra of four hot stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), we find evidence for a hot LMC halo fed by energetic outflows from the LMC disk and even possibly an LMC galactic wind. Signatures for such outflows are the intermediate and high-velocity components (v_LSR>100 km/s) relative to the LMC disk observed in the high- and low-ion absorption profiles. The stellar environments produce strong, narrow (T<20,000 K) components of C IV and Si IV associated with the LMC disk; in particular they are likely signatures of H II regions and expanding shells. Broad components are observed in the profiles of C IV, Si IV, and O VI with their widths implying hot, collisionally ionised gas at temperatures of a few times 100,000 K. There is a striking similarity in the O VI/C IV ratios for the broad LMC and high-velocity components, suggesting much of the material at v_LSR>100 km/s is associated with the LMC. The velocity of the high-velocity component is large enough to escape altogether the LMC, polluting the intergalactic space between the LMC and the Milky Way. The observed high-ion ratios of the broad LMC and high-velocity components are consistent with those produced in conductive interfaces; such models are also favored by the apparent kinematically coupling between the high and the weakly ionised species.
description: Accepted for publication in the MNRAS
Eikonal Approximation in AdS/CFT: From Shock Waves to Four-Point Functions
Creators: name: Cornalba, Lorenzo
name: Costa, Miguel S.
name: Penedones, Joao
name: Schiappa, Ricardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We initiate a program to generalize the standard eikonal approximation to compute amplitudes in Anti-de Sitter spacetimes. Inspired by the shock wave derivation of the eikonal amplitude in flat space, we study the two-point function E ~ < O_1 O_1 >_{shock} in the presence of a shock wave in Anti-de Sitter, where O_1 is a scalar primary operator in the dual conformal field theory. At tree level in the gravitational coupling, we relate the shock two-point function E to the discontinuity across a kinematical branch cut of the conformal field theory four-point function A ~ < O_1 O_2 O_1 O_2 >, where O_2 creates the shock geometry in Anti-de Sitter. Finally, we extend the above results by computing E in the presence of shock waves along the horizon of Schwarzschild BTZ black holes. This work gives new tools for the study of Planckian physics in Anti-de Sitter spacetimes.
description: JHEP3.cls, 34 pages, 10 figures; v2: added paragraph, footnote + reference, minor changes
Discussion: The Dantzig selector: statistical estimation when $p$ is much larger than $n$
Creators: name: Ritov, Ya'acov
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Discussion of ``The Dantzig selector: Statistical estimation when $p$ is much larger than $n$'' [math/0506081]
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053607000000451 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Spin Precession and Avalanches
Creators: name: Deutsch, J. M.
name: Berger, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In many magnetic materials, spin dynamics at short times are dominated by precessional motion as damping is relatively small. In the limit of no damping and no thermal noise, we show that for a large enough initial instability, an avalanche can transition to an ergodic phase where the state is equivalent to one at finite temperature, often above that for ferromagnetic ordering. This dynamical nucleation phenomenon is analyzed theoretically. For small finite damping the high temperature growth front becomes spread out over a large region. The implications for real materials are discussed.
description: 4 pages 2 figures
Supernovae Constraints on DGP Model and Cosmic Topology
Creators: name: Reboucas, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the constraints that the detection of a non-trivial spatial topology may place on the parameters of braneworld models by considering the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (DGP) and the globally homogeneous Poincaré dodecahedral spatial (PDS) topology as a circles-in-the-sky observable topology. To this end we reanalyze the type Ia supernovae constraints on the parameters of the DGP model and show that PDS topology gives rise to strong and complementary constraints on the parameters of the DGP model.
description: 4 pages, 1 fig. To appear in the Proc. of 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity. Latex2e, World Scientific proc. style files. v2.: references added
Total resource design: documentation of a method and a discussion of its potential for application in British Columbia
Creators: name: Duff, Julie Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Total Resource Design (TRD) was developed for application in British Columbia (B.C.) by Simon Bell of the British Forestry Commission. It is based on a process called Landscape Analysis and Design developed by the U.S. Forest Service and uses a design process to translate broad objectives for a forest landscape into a design of ‘management units’ and guidelines for their future management. This design is based on an analysis of the ecological functioning of the landscape, its visual character and the various resource uses and values present in the landscape. Although the process of design is widely used in other professions, its application in a forestry context in B.C. is new. Therefore, in January 1994 a test application of the process was carried out by the Ministry of Forests in the West Arm Demonstration Forest, Nelson, B.C. This thesis documents the detailed method for the application of TRD which evolved during this test case. It is hoped that this method can be used as guidance for future applications of TRD in the Province. The final results of the West Arm Demonstration Forest test case are not yet known. However, based on the concepts used in TRD and its predicted outputs, it is suggested that Total Resource Design has the potential to address many current deficiencies in forest planning in British Columbia. Despite its potential to address these issues, it is emphasized that TRD is still in the test stages in B.C. It is also merely a framework to guide the design and management of a landscape. Its success will rely on the quality of the information available and the commitment of the team responsible for its implementation. It has the potential to greatly improve the effectiveness of integrated resource management of forest lands in British Columbia.
The Form Factor Program: a Review and New Results - the Nested SU(N) Off-Shell Bethe Ansatz
Creators: name: Babujian, Hratchya M.
name: Foerster, Angela
name: Karowski, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The purpose of the ''bootstrap program'' for integrable quantum field theories in 1+1 dimensions is to construct explicitly a model in terms of its Wightman functions. In this article, this program is mainly illustrated in terms of the sinh-Gordon model and the SU(N) Gross-Neveu model. The nested off-shell Bethe ansatz for an SU(N) factorizing S-matrix is constructed. We review some previous results on sinh-Gordon form factors and the quantum operator field equation. The problem of how to sum over intermediate states is considered in the short distance limit of the two point Wightman function for the sinh-Gordon model.
description: This is a contribution to the Proc. of the O'Raifeartaigh Symposium on Non-Perturbative and Symmetry Methods in Field Theory (June 2006, Budapest, Hungary), published in SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications) at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/
Hot Jupiters: Origins, Structure, Atmospheres
Creators: name: Fortney, Jonathan J.
name: Dawson, Rebekah I.
name: Komacek, Thaddeus D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a brief review of many aspects of the planetary physics of hot Jupiters. Our aim is to cover most of the major areas of current study while providing the reader with additional references for more detailed follow-up. We first discuss giant planet formation and subsequent orbital evolution via disk-driven torques or dynamical interactions. More than one formation pathway is needed to understand the population. Next, we examine our current understanding of the evolutionary history and current interior structure of the planets, where we focus on bulk composition as well as viable models to explain the inflated radii of the population. Finally we discuss aspects of their atmospheres in the context of observations and 1D and 3D models, including atmospheric structure and escape, spectroscopic signatures, and complex atmospheric circulation. The major opacity sources in these atmospheres, including alkali metals, water vapor, and others, are discussed. We discuss physics that control the 3D atmospheric circulation and day-to-night temperature structures. We conclude by suggesting important future work for still-open questions.
description: References fixed, Figures revised, text edited slightly to better match final version, open access at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006629
A Physics-Informed Deep Learning Paradigm for Traffic State and Fundamental Diagram Estimation
Creators: name: Shi, Rongye
name: Mo, Zhaobin
name: Huang, Kuang
name: Di, Xuan
name: Du, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Traffic state estimation (TSE) bifurcates into two categories, model-driven and data-driven (e.g., machine learning, ML), while each suffers from either deficient physics or small data. To mitigate these limitations, recent studies introduced a hybrid paradigm, physics-informed deep learning (PIDL), which contains both model-driven and data-driven components. This paper contributes an improved version, called physics-informed deep learning with a fundamental diagram learner (PIDL+FDL), which integrates ML terms into the model-driven component to learn a functional form of a fundamental diagram (FD), i.e., a mapping from traffic density to flow or velocity. The proposed PIDL+FDL has the advantages of performing the TSE learning, model parameter identification, and FD estimation simultaneously. We demonstrate the use of PIDL+FDL to solve popular first-order and second-order traffic flow models and reconstruct the FD relation as well as model parameters that are outside the FD terms. We then evaluate the PIDL+FDL-based TSE using the Next Generation SIMulation (NGSIM) dataset. The experimental results show the superiority of the PIDL+FDL in terms of improved estimation accuracy and data efficiency over advanced baseline TSE methods, and additionally, the capacity to properly learn the unknown underlying FD relation.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2101.06580
Texto: A história de pamju'u
Creators: name: Mỹky, Xinuxi
name: Bardagil Mas, Bernat
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: irn

description: Xinuxi conta a história de pamju'u em mỹky e português.
Xinuxi tells the story of pamju'u in Mỹky and Portuguese.
Nuclear spin ferromagnetic phase transition in an interacting 2D electron gas
Creators: name: Simon, Pascal
name: Loss, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electrons in a two-dimensional semiconducting heterostructure interact with nuclear spins via the hyperfine interaction. Using a a Kondo lattice formulation of the electron-nuclear spin interaction, we show that the nuclear spin system within an interacting two-dimensional electron gas undergoes a ferromagnetic phase transition at finite temperatures. We find that electron-electron interactions and non-Fermi liquid behavior substantially enhance the nuclear spin Curie temperature into the $mK$ range with decreasing electron density.
description: 4.1 pages
A non-LTE study of neutral and singly-ionized calcium in late-type stars
Creators: name: Mashonkina, L.
name: Korn, A. J.
name: Przybilla, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-local thermodynamical equilibrium (NLTE) line formation for neutral and singly-ionized calcium is considered through a range of spectral types when the Ca abundance varies from the solar value down to [Ca/H] = -5. Departures from LTE significantly affect the profiles of Ca I lines over the whole range of stellar parameters considered. However, at [Ca/H] >= -2, NLTE abundance correction of individual lines may be small in absolute value due to the different influence of NLTE effects on line wings and the line core. At lower Ca abundances, NLTE leads to systematically depleted total absorption in the line and positive abundance corrections, exceeding +0.5 dex for Ca I 4226 at [Ca/H] = -4.9. In contrast, NLTE effects strengthen the Ca II lines and lead to negative abundance corrections. NLTE corrections are small, <= 0.02 dex, for the Ca II resonance lines. For the IR lines of multiplet 3d - 4p, they grow in absolute value with decreasing Ca abundance exceeding 0.4 dex in metal-poor stars with [Fe/H] <= -3. Ca abundances are determined for the Sun, Procyon, and seven metal-poor stars, using high S/N and high-resolution spectra at visual and near-IR wavelengths. Lines of Ca I and Ca II give consistent abundances for all objects (except Procyon) when collisions with hydrogen atoms are taken into account. The derived absolute solar Ca abundance (from Ca I and Ca II lines) is $\eps{Ca,\odot}$ = 6.38+-0.01. For Procyon, the mean Ca abundance from Ca I lines is markedly subsolar, [Ca/H] = -0.14+-0.03. The W(Ca I 4226)/W(Ca II 8498) equivalent width ratio is predicted to be sensitive to surface gravity for extremely metal-poor stars, while this is not the case for the ratio involving the Ca II resonance line(s).
description: 17 pages, accepted for publication in A&A
Matter matters in Einstein-Cartan gravity
Creators: name: Karananas, Georgios K.
name: Shaposhnikov, Mikhail
name: Shkerin, Andrey
name: Zell, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study scalar, fermionic and gauge fields coupled nonminimally to gravity in the Einstein-Cartan formulation. We construct a wide class of models with nondynamical torsion whose gravitational spectra comprise only the massless graviton. Eliminating non-propagating degrees of freedom, we derive an equivalent theory in the metric formulation of gravity. It features contact interactions of a certain form between and among the matter and gauge currents. We also discuss briefly the inclusion of curvature-squared terms.
description: Journal version---discussion extended, typos corrected, references added
Production of neutral and doubly charged partners of D_{s0}^+(2317)
Creators: name: Terasaki, Kunihiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Production of neutral and doubly charged partners, $\hat F_I^0$ and $\hat F_I^{++}$, of $ D_{s0}^+(2317)$ as a charm-strange four-quark meson is studied in relation to observations of $D_{s0}^+(2317)$. It is discussed that observation of $\hat F_I^{++}$ in inclusive $e^+e^-\to c\bar c$ is difficult but it might be observed in $B_u^+\to D_s^+π^+D^-$. Observations of $\hat F_I^0$ and $\hat F_0^+$ might be possible in hadronic B decays.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, RevTex, clarifications of text
Myxobolidae Thelohan 1892
Creators: name: Barman, Gyan Deb
name: Chanda, Sukanya
name: Panigrahi, Ashis Kumar
name: Eiras, J. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Myxozoa
Bivalvulida
Myxobolidae

description: Key to tailed genera of Myxobolidae
1a. Spores ovoid or pyriform, with two polar capsules and a single tail-like caudal process ................................. 2
1b. Spores with two or more tail-like caudal processes or bifurcated tail; composed of same materials as shell valve ......3
2a. Single tail-like caudal process; caudal process symmetrically located at the posterior end .................................. ...................................................... Unicauda Davis, 1944
2b. Single tail-like caudal process, which may be forked at the very end, originating posterolaterally and asymmetrically .................. Laterocaudata Chen et Hsieh, 1984
3a. Spores tear-shaped shaped, with a single polar capsule, caudal process bifurcated ..... Phlogospora Qadri, 1962
3b. Spores with two polar capsules and 2 caudal processes... 4
3c. Spores with two polar capsules and 4 caudal processes ... 5
4a. Spores with two caudal processes ................................ .......................................... Henneguya Thélohan, 1892
4b. Spores with two caudal processes, asymmetric ........... ........... Hennegoides Lom, Tonguthai et Dyková, 1991
4c. Spores with two caudal processes, extending in opposite directions ............... Dicauda Hoffman et Walker, 1978
5a. Spores ellipsoidal with two caudal processes at each end of the spore; polar capsules situated asymmetrically ..... ........................................ Neohenneguya Tripathi, 1953
5b. Spores with four posterolateral caudal processes, two from each shell valve .................................................... ....................... Tetrauronema Wu, Wang et Jiang, 1988
5c. Spores rhomboidal with four caudal processes pointing in the opposite direction, connected by transverse filaments ............................ Trigonosporus Hoshina, 1952
description: Published as part of Barman, Gyan Deb, Chanda, Sukanya, Panigrahi, Ashis Kumar & Eiras, J. C., 2022, Synopsis of tailed Myxobolidae (Cnidaria, Myxozoa, Myxosporea) infecting Indian fishes, pp. 1-5 in Folia Parasitologica (030) (030) 69 on pages 1-3, DOI: 10.14411/fp.2022.030, http://zenodo.org/record/8143700
The influence of the high molecular weight fraction of bleached kraft mill effluent on the biological activity of activated sludge
Creators: name: Bullock, Christopher Mark
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Bleached kraft mills have reduced the environmental impact of their effluent discharges by investing in biological treatment processes such as activated sludge treatment. Since the high molecular weight (HMW) fraction of bleached kraft mill effluent (BKME) represents a significant fraction of the adsorbable organic halide (AOX) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) load on biological treatment systems, the influence of this material on activated sludge activity was studied. Initially, we used ultrafiltration to fractionate the BKME from a mill producing elemental chlorine free softwood pulp. The HMW material (> 1000 Da) fraction contained 20% of the chemical oxygen demand and 75-85% of the AOX. Most of the nitrogen present in the effluent from the pulping and bleaching process was detected in the HMW fraction. Transition metals were associated with the BMW material to a greater extent than the less charged alkaline earth metals. Batch growth trials with microorganisms from a laboratory-scale activated sludge reactor were performed using the low molecular weight (LMW) fraction as the substrate and supplementing it with varying amounts of the HMW material. While both the LMW and HMW fractions alone supported little microbial growth, the HMW material stimulated microbial activity in the LMW fraction, by apparently providing the limiting nutrient, nitrogen. The addition of the BMW material to the LMW effluent increased the removal of various chlorinated phenols (6-chiorovanillin (6-CVa), 4,5-dichloroguaiacol (4,5-DCG), and 2,4-dichiorophenol (2,4-DCP)), which had been added (1.0 mgIL) to the effluent fractions. Supplementing the LMW effluent with nutrients also stimulated chlorinated phenol removal. The relative removal rates of the chlorophenols decreased in the order 6-CVa > 4,5-DCG > 2,4-DCP. Spiking the unfractionated effluent with up to 10 mgfL of 6-CVa, 4,5-DCG, and 2,4-DCP had no effect on the biomass production or substrate removal. These results seemed to demonstrate that the BMW material in the BKME had a stimulatory effect on the microorganisms present in the activated sludge by providing the limiting nutrient, nitrogen.
Voltage staircase in a current-biased quantum-dot Josephson junction
Creators: name: Oriekhov, D. O.
name: Cheipesh, Y.
name: Beenakker, C. W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the current-voltage (I-V) characteristic of a Josephson junction containing a resonant level in the weakly coupled regime (resonance width small compared to the superconducting gap). The phase $ϕ$ across the junction becomes time dependent in response to a DC current bias. Rabi oscillations in the Andreev levels produce a staircase I-V characteristic. The number of voltage steps counts the number of Rabi oscillations per $2π$ increment of $ϕ$, providing a way to probe the coherence of the qubit in the absence of any external AC driving. The phenomenology is the same as the "Majorana-induced DC Shapiro steps in topological Josephson junctions" of Phys. Rev. B 102, 140501(R) (2020) -- but now for a non-topological Andreev qubit.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, Appendix added
Alice meets Boojums in neutron stars: vortices penetrating two-flavor quark-hadron continuity
Creators: name: Fujimoto, Yuki
name: Nitta, Muneto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Alice and Boojums are both representative characters created by Lewis Carroll. We show that they possibly meet in cores of rotating neutron stars. Recent studies of quark-hadron continuity suggest that neutron superfluid matter can connect smoothly to two-flavor symmetric quark matter at high densities. We study how this can be maintained in the presence of the vortices. In the neutron matter, quantized superfluid vortices arise. In the two-flavor dense quark matter, vortices carrying color magnetic fluxes together with fractionally quantized superfluid circulations appear as the most stable configuration, and we call these as the non-Abelian Alice strings. We show that three integer neutron superfluid vortices and three non-Abelian Alice strings of different color magnetic fluxes with total color flux canceled out are joined at a junction called a Boojum.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, references added
Solving the problem of overfitting in neuroimaging? Cross-validated Bayesian model selection for methodological control in fMRI data analysis
Creators: name: Soch, Joram
name: Allefeld, Carsten
name: John-Dylan Haynes
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2015

description: Overfitting is a frequent problem in functional neuroimaging. We propose cross-validated Bayesian model selection (cvBMS) as a solution. We validate our procedure by analyzing two empirical fMRI data sets using different general linear models (GLMs) on the first level.

In summary, our method is able to confirm anatomically plausible hypotheses and recover known model preferences in sanity-check-like analyses. Therefore, we believe that it can be a useful tool to identify and avoid potential mis-modelling in the design of GLMs for fMRI.
Perturbed recombination from inhomogeneous photon injection and application to accreting primordial black holes
Creators: name: Jensen, Trey W.
name: Ali-Haïmoud, Yacine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exotic electromagnetic energy injection in the early Universe may alter cosmological recombination, and ultimately cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. Moreover, if energy injection is inhomogeneous, it may induce a spatially-varying ionization fraction, and non-Gaussianity in the CMB. The observability of these signals, however, is contingent upon how far the injected particles propagate and deposit their energy into the primordial plasma, relative to the characteristic scale of energy injection fluctuations. In this study we inspect the spatial properties of energy deposition and perturbed recombination resulting from an inhomogeneous energy injection of sub-10 MeV photons, relevant to accreting primordial black holes (PBHs). We develop a novel Monte-Carlo radiation transport code accounting for all relevant photon interactions in this energy range, and including secondary electron energy deposition efficiency through a new analytic approximation. For a specified injected photon spectrum, the code outputs an injection-to-deposition Green's function depending on time and distance from the injection point. Combining this output with a linearized solution of the perturbed recombination problem, we derive time- and scale-dependent deposition-to-ionization Green's functions. We apply this general framework to accreting PBHs, whose luminosity is strongly spatially modulated by supersonic relative velocities between cold dark matter and baryons. We find that the resulting spatial fluctuations of the free-electron fraction are of the same magnitude as its mean deviation from standard recombination, from which current CMB power spectra constraints are derived. This work suggests that the sensitivity to accreting PBHs might be substantially improved by propagating these inhomogeneities to CMB anisotropy power spectra and non-Gaussian statistics, which we study in subsequent papers.
description: Version accepted in PRD
Made in Italy in Chinese Market
Creators: name: De Pin, Antonio
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2019

description:

Considering the rapid changes in Chinese food habits, in both quantity and quality, the study aims to outline the market potentiality of the made-in-Italy food and focus on some emerging issues concerning Italian specialities that are characterised by higher competitiveness. Starting from the definition of made-in-Italy food, the paper addresses the topic of food safety, analysing policies and legislation. Following an approach from macro to micro aspects, market trends are highlighted, and a ranking analysis is carried out, emphasising the positioning of made in Italy. Concerns related to transaction costs, information asymmetry, and adverse selection are discussed and the Italian sounding phenomenon is addressed. Growing practices of unfair competition, such as food piracy, result in several forms of market failure, damaging the segmentation strategies of Italian companies. Findings propose an estimate of unfair business and offer special indexes of evaluation. Finally, policy and business implications are addressed, and attractive and multiple fields for future researches are suggested.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Vittorio Pica japoniste: critica militante e collezionismo fra letteratura e arte
Creators: name: Lacagnina, Davide
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2019

description:

This contribution reconsiders Vittorio Pica’s criticism on Japanese art and its consequences in fin-de-siècle artistic taste and cultural debate in Italy. Pica was among the first critics to show a relevant interest in Japanese culture, under the influence of French criticism and especially of the Goncourt brothers. Thanks to primary unpublished sources and a new approach to his writings of literary tradition, this paper intends to recast the trans-medial and inter-medial fortune of Japonisme in Italy, too, and its legacy between the on-going artistic production and contemporary collecting taste, with a special concern for modern painting, decoration and industrial arts.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
From Secluded Paradise to Hell on Earth
Creators: name: Romagnoli, Stefano
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2019

description:

This paper focuses on the writings of Hino Ashihei (1907-1960) about Okinawa, a corpus of twelve works composed over a period of sixteen years that were inspired by three visits to the Ryūkyū Islands. Hino is best known as a writer of war novels, but these twelve works have received almost no attention, partly because they are not considered Okinawan literature since Hino was a native of Kyūshū. The aim of this article is to show that Okinawa is not merely a setting for these neglected writings but rather a complex representation that incorporates the author’s gaze, his stance toward the region, and a topography of power. Moreover, this representation evolved over time to produce an array of at times contrasting images of Okinawa, whether as a tropical paradise, the shield of the nation, or a symbol of its occupation. On the other hand, the narrator’s stance, which is characterised at first by the strength and assertiveness of a first-person narrator, underwent a progressive disengagement that was intended, by this article’s interpretation, to introduce greater objectivity into Hino’s prose.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Τοπίο και Άνθρωποι της Μυκόνου» Η ανάπτυξη και οι επιπτώσεις του τουρισμού στη κοινωνία και την οικονομία της Μυκόνου και οι αλλαγές στην αισθητική του τοπίου από το 1930 μέχρι σήμερα
Creators: name: Μακρή, Ιφιγένεια Παράσχου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2017
Subjects: Μύκονος
επιπτώσεις τουρισμού
αισθητική τοπίου
Mykonos
impact of tourism
aesthetics of landscape

description: Η διπλωματική εργασία με τίτλο «Τοπίο και άνθρωποι της Μυκόνου», η ανάπτυξη και οι επιπτώσεις του τουρισμού στην κοινωνία και την οικονομία της Μυκόνου και οι αλλαγές στην αισθητική του τοπίου από το 1930 μέχρι σήμερα», εκπονήθηκε στα πλαίσια του Διαπανεπιστημιακού Διατμηματικού Προγράμματος Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών Μουσειολογία – Διαχείριση Πολιτισμού και αφορά στον νοηματικό σχεδιασμό μίας έκθεσης φωτογραφίας μέσα σ’ έναν παλιό ανεμόμυλο της Μυκόνου. Η παρούσα εργασία αποτελείται από δύο μέρη. Στο πρώτο μέρος γίνεται μία παρουσίαση της πολιτιστικής και τουριστικής πολιτικής στην Ελλάδα και στην Ευρώπη και προσδιορίζονται οι τάσεις ή οι διεθνείς αναζητήσεις ως προς τη τουριστική εμπειρία, συνεπώς και αυτές που επηρέασαν και την εξέλιξη της Μυκόνου. Επιπλέον, αναλύονται οι αλλαγές ως προς την μορφολογία του τόπου, οι αλλαγές στην κοινωνία και στην οικονομία και οι επιπτώσεις του τουρισμού στο νησί στο πέρασμα του χρόνου, από την εμφάνιση των πρώτων τουριστών μέχρι σήμερα. Στο δεύτερο μέρος γίνεται η αναλυτική παρουσίαση του νοηματικού μουσειολογικού σχεδιασμού , η επιλογή των φωτογραφιών με βάση τα συμπεράσματα που εξάχθηκαν στο πρώτο μέρος και η συνολική αποτίμηση της έκθεσης
description: The title of the master thesis is “ Landscape and the People of Mykonos: the development and the consequences of tourism in the society and economy of Mykonos and the changes in the landscape’s aesthetics from 1930 until today”. The master thesis developed for the sake of the Interuniversity Prostgraduate Program in Museology-Cultural Management and concerns to conceptual organizing and design of a photography exhibition inside an old windmill of Mykonos. The thesis consists of two parts. The first part aims at presenting the cultural and touristic policy of Greece and of Europe and at analysing the touristic experience and what has affected the touristic trends of Mykonos. Moreover the changes of landscape are emphasized , as well as the changes of the society and of the economy and the tourism repercussions on the island during the years, from the arrival of the first tourists until today. In the second part takes place the overall presentation of the conceptual organizing and design exhibition and some photos have been chosen which support the conclusions of the first part
description: Σε συνεργασία με το Παιδαγωγικό Δημοτικής Εκπαίδευσης (Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Μακεδονίας)
Beyond the Screen
Creators: name: De Angelis, Eugenio
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2019

description:

Intermedial practices are a common trademark of the Japanese art world in the sixties and seventies. This article focuses on a case study of such practices, namely the relationship between artwork and audience in Terayama Shūji’s cinema. Moving from the author’s theatrical theories on spectatorship (kankyakuron), the paper applies those theories to Terayama’s experimental movies, analysing how they are adapted to the cinematic medium. This study conceives a three-phased system, where the spectator is progressively brought towards the screen and his role changes from passive viewer to active agent. The study adopts an approach based on performance studies and avant-garde film theory to reveal how Terayama moulds the movie-going practice into a performative and collective event, using the movie theatre as a theatrical stage.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale