cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Corporate governance and Corporate Social Responsibility in Islamic Banking: The case of the Moroccan banks in Italy
Creators: name: Ait Allali, Asma
Publisher: name: University of Turin - Italy
Year: 2016
Subjects: Islamic Bank, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance in Morocco, Moroccan banks in Italy, Participatory Depositor.

description: This paper aims to analyze the model of the Islamic bank with a business economics perspective. In particular, the author analyzes the topic of corporate governance in the Islamic bank. Starting with an overall analysis of the peculiarities and religious principles underlying the model of the Islamic Bank, as well as the similarities present in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility, we will address the theoretical aspect of corporate governance, the relationship between corporate governance and the Islamic bank stakeholders with specific regard to the possible connotations of the active or passive role of savers and investors in the decisions of management and governance related to the selected projects and funding recipients.

Finally, given the current absence of Islamic banks in Italy, we propose a case study concerning the possible introduction of Islamic Shari’ah-compliant financial products by Moroccan banks operating in Italy, after the introduction of the recent Moroccan law n° 103.12, approved on 25 November 2014, relating to the credit institutions, envisages the establishment of “Participative Banks” and the offering of Shari’ah-compliant financial products.
description: European Journal of Islamic Finance, No 4 (2016): EJIF - European Journal of Islamic Finance, 4, 2016
MOBYDICK-THEMISTO cruise,Marion Dufresne R/V
Creators: name: OBERNOSTERER Ingrid
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 2018

description: Le projet MOBYDICK vise à étudier les liens entre la pompe biologique de carbone océanique et la structure du réseau trophique des microbes aux top-prédateurs l'échelle d'un système de l'Océan Austral, sous contrôle bottom-up par la disponibilité du fer. La zone d'étude au large des îles Kerguelen est choisie pour (i) son contexte océanographique bien documenté, et (ii) la présence de deux écosystèmes contrastés : "Low Biomass Low Export" et "High Biomass Low Export". Pour cette étude, nous envisageons d'utiliser une combinaison de méthodes adaptées aux niveaux trophiques successifs pour (i) l'évaluation de la biodiversité (taxonomie morphologique et métagénomique), (ii) l'estimation des biomasses et productions (détermination de biovolumes par microscopie, Zooscan, spectres particulaires in situ et acoustique active; incubations à l'aide de sondes fluorescentes et transcriptomique; rapports isotopiques) et (iii) le partitionnement du carbone organique entre les réservoirs particulaires et dissous.
The potential of innovative financial tools: Social Impact Bond (SIB) and Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) sukuk, towards the sustainable growth of the Islamic finance industry
Creators: name: Syed Azman, Syed Marwan
name: Engku Ali, Engku Rabiah Adawiah
Publisher: name: University of Turin - Italy
Year: 2016
Subjects: Social Impact Bonds; SRI sukuk; Risk-sharing; Innovative financial tools; Social responsibility.

description: The purpose of this paper is to explicate the congruence of innovative financial tools: Social Impact Bond (SIB) and Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) sukuk with the principles of Islamic Finance, and explore their potential contribution towards the sustainable growth of the Islamic finance and societal wellbeing. Using various literature, the paper takes a comparative approach in explaining and relating the two innovative tools with the development of Islamic finance. The paper finds that there is a growing interest in innovative tools such as SIB and SRI sukuk globally. Furthermore, these tools exemplify the spirit of risk-sharing and social responsibility which are the major essences of Islamic finance that are currently missing in practice. The paper provides a reference towards understanding the mechanism and concepts of SIB and SRI sukuk. It also provides insight to the emerging interest in these innovative tools, and assesses the current innovative efforts in the Islamic finance industry. Additionally, it highlights the potential of these tools towards the sustainable growth of the Islamic finance industry through risk-sharing and societal impact. The paper is exploratory and conceptual in nature therefore further empirical studies can be done.
description: European Journal of Islamic Finance, No 4 (2016): EJIF - European Journal of Islamic Finance, 4, 2016
The modification effect of fasting blood glucose level on the associations between short-term ambient air pollution and blood lipids
Creators: name: Zhang, Yi
name: Zheng, Pai
name: Shi, Jiaqi
name: Ma, Ying
name: Chen, Zhangjian
name: Wang, Tiancheng
name: Jia, Guang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The association between short-term ambient air pollution (AAP) exposure and blood lipids is inconsistent across populations. This study aimed to investigate the modifying effects of fasting blood glucose (FBG) levels on the associations between short-term AAP exposure  and blood lipids in 110,637 male participants from Beijing, China. The results showed that FBG modified the association between short-term AAP exposure and blood lipids, especially low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). In the hyperglycemia group, a 10-μg/m3 increase in particles with diameters ≤ 2.5 μm (PM2.5), particles with diameters ≤ 10 μm (PM10), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), or a 1-mg/m3 increase in carbon monoxide (CO) was associated with a 0.454%, 0.305%, 1.507%, 0.872%, or 3.961% increase in LDL-C, respectively. In the nonhyperglycemic group, short-term increases in air pollutants were even associated with small decreases in LDL-C. The findings demonstrate that lipids in hyperglycemic individuals are more vulnerable to short-term AAP exposure than those in normal populations.
Risk Management Innovation of Islamic Financial Institutions
Creators: name: Reno, Putri
name: Abdullah, Rose
Publisher: name: University of Turin - Italy
Year: 2016
Subjects: Risk Management Innovations,Islamic Financial Institutions

description: The early of the millennium witnesses fast development in Islamic Financial Institutions. Professional practise and Islamic Financial specialist academics have been breathlessly racing to invent new Islamic Financial Institutions innovation in a rushing attempt to fill in all gaps and satisfy every need that may be thought of.  The present paper aims at studying the risk management innovation arrangement in Islamic finance as may be derived from the axioms and rulings, especially in relation to the managing the risk. This is necessary to investigate the means and processes of risk management based on the Islamic financial paradigm. Even though, on average the Islamic Financial Institutions have good risk management practices, there is still enough room for Islamic Financial Institutions to improve their risk management system. The introduction of an effective risk management culture in Islamic Financial Institutions will ensure their competitiveness in the financial industry and financial crises.
description: European Journal of Islamic Finance, No 4 (2016): EJIF - European Journal of Islamic Finance, 4, 2016
MOBIDYC 6 cruise,Cote D'Aquitaine R/V
Creators: name: CHAUMILLON Eric
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 2007

description: Les objectifs scientifiques spécifiques de cette campagne sont d'améliorer la compréhension des processus qui ont conduit à la mise en place brutale d'un niveau de vase dans la zone des pertuis charentais (Billeaud et al, 2005, Chaumillon et al., 2004). Pour expliquer la mise en place de ce drapage vaseux, deux hypothèses ont été envisagées : (1) une diminution des prismes tidaux en réponse au comblement très rapide des marais côtiers, accentué par la poldérisation.(2) un enregistrement de l'expulsion vers le large du gradient de turbidité en réponse au comblement des marais côtiers, accentué par la poldérisation. C'est pour tenter de trancher entre ces deux hypothèses (diminution des courants de marée ou augmentation des apports en vase) que cette campagne de mesure de courants de marée est réalisée. Les mesures de courant par ADCP, en période de vive eau, devraient nous permettre de montrer s'il existe ou pas des différences significatives de courants de marée entre les sites ou le drapage vaseux est présent ou absent.Le projet de rattachement est PNEC littoral atlantique.
title: Podiumsdiskussion - Wissenschaftsstandort im Kürzungsnebel: eine Diskussion mit Kandidierenden zur Landtagswahl über die Zukunft des Wissenschaftsstandort Jena
Creators: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Hochschulpolitik
subject: Finanzierung
subject: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
subject: 000

description: Am 05.08.2024 um 18:30 Uhr veranstaltet das Bündnis FSU Unterfinanziert eine Podiumsdiskussion mit Kandidierenden zur Landtagswahl über die Zukunft des Wissenschaftsstandorts Jena. Weitere Informationen: https://www.mittelbau.uni-jena.de/wp/fsu-unterfinanziert/
Mitigating Group Bias in Federated Learning for Heterogeneous Devices
Creators: name: Selialia, Khotso
name: Chandio, Yasra
name: Anwar, Fatima M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Federated Learning is emerging as a privacy-preserving model training approach in distributed edge applications. As such, most edge deployments are heterogeneous in nature i.e., their sensing capabilities and environments vary across deployments. This edge heterogeneity violates the independence and identical distribution (IID) property of local data across clients and produces biased global models i.e. models that contribute to unfair decision-making and discrimination against a particular community or a group. Existing bias mitigation techniques only focus on bias generated from label heterogeneity in non-IID data without accounting for domain variations due to feature heterogeneity and do not address global group-fairness property.
 Our work proposes a group-fair FL framework that minimizes group-bias while preserving privacy and without resource utilization overhead. Our main idea is to leverage average conditional probabilities to compute a cross-domain group \textit{importance weights} derived from heterogeneous training data to optimize the performance of the worst-performing group using a modified multiplicative weights update method. Additionally, we propose regularization techniques to minimize the difference between the worst and best-performing groups while making sure through our thresholding mechanism to strike a balance between bias reduction and group performance degradation. Our evaluation of human emotion recognition and image classification benchmarks assesses the fair decision-making of our framework in real-world heterogeneous settings.
Association between birth weight/joint exposure to ambient air pollutants and type 2 diabetes: a cohort study in the UK Biobank
Creators: name: Liu, Xiaojing
name: Liu, Xiaowen
name: Jin, Ming
name: Huang, Ninghao
name: Song, Zimin
name: Li, Nan
name: Huang, Tao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Early life events and environmental factors are associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D) development. We assessed the combined effect of birth weight andambient air pollutants, and effect of their interaction on T2D risk. Totally, 6,474 T2D incidents were recorded over an 8.7-year follow-up period. The adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were 1.31 (1.26, 1.36) for each kilogram decrease in birth weight, and 1.08 (1.05, 1.11) for each standard deviation increase in air pollution score (APS). Birth weight<3000 g amplified the T2D risk associated with high APS. A combination of the lowest birth weight (<2500 g) and the highest quintile of APS led to over two-fold increase in T2D risk (aHR: 2.17; 95% CI: 1.79–2.64). There was a significant additive interaction between them. In conclusion, ambient air pollutants increase the risk for T2D, particularly in populations with low birth weight.
Dietary carbohydrate restriction in type 2 diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome: time for a critical appraisal
Creators: name: Accurso, Anthony
name: Bernstein, Richard K
name: Dahlqvist, Annika
name: Draznin, Boris
name: Feinman, Richard D
name: Fine, Eugene J
name: Gleed, Amy
name: Jacobs, David B
name: Larson, Gabriel
name: Lustig, Robert H
name: Manninen, Anssi H
name: McFarlane, Samy I
name: Morrison, Katharine
name: Nielsen, Jørgen V
name: Ravnskov, Uffe
name: Roth, Karl S
name: Silvestre, Ricardo
name: Sowers, James R
name: Sundberg, Ralf
name: Volek, Jeff S
name: Westman, Eric C
name: Wood, Richard J
name: Wortman, Jay
name: Vernon, Mary C
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Current nutritional approaches to metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes generally rely on reductions in dietary fat. The success of such approaches has been limited and therapy more generally relies on pharmacology. The argument is made that a re-evaluation of the role of carbohydrate restriction, the historical and intuitive approach to the problem, may provide an alternative and possibly superior dietary strategy. The rationale is that carbohydrate restriction improves glycemic control and reduces insulin fluctuations which are primary targets. Experiments are summarized showing that carbohydrate-restricted diets are at least as effective for weight loss as low-fat diets and that substitution of fat for carbohydrate is generally beneficial for risk of cardiovascular disease. These beneficial effects of carbohydrate restriction do not require weight loss. Finally, the point is reiterated that carbohydrate restriction improves all of the features of metabolic syndrome.
Concerned Photography: Testing Journalism ethics through a social documentary lens
Creators: name: Wilson, Jade
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: Interactive multimedia

description: The issues of the 21st century are not new issues, but the way we disseminate information is often shared through a narrow point of view. Oftentimes, journalists isolate individual problems and miss the mark of giving depth to understanding how they intersect with one another. This thesis project uses social documentary as a tool to experiment with art and journalism to inform the public on mental healthcare in the carceral system and push the boundaries of traditional journalism.
title: Simulation and Measurement of the Radiant Field Produced by Quartz Heating Systems
Creators: name: Turner, Travis Lee
Publisher: name: Old Dartmouth Historical Society
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05y9wk989
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1991

description: A method is developed for predicting the radiant heat flux distribution produced by tungsten-filament tubular quartz heating systems with reflectors. The method is an application of Monte Carlo simulation, which takes the form of a ray tracing or random walk scheme. The method is applied to four systems of increasing complexity including; a single unreflected lamp, a single lamp with a flat reflector, a single lamp with a parabolic reflector, and up to six lamps in a six-lamp contoured reflector heating unit. The general methodology of the Monte Carlo method is discussed and applied to the simulation of thermal radiation.

Experiments were conducted to study these quartz heating systems and to acquire measurements of the corresponding empirical heat flux distributions for correlation with analysis. The experiments were conducted such that several complicating factors could be isolated and studied sequentially. Good agreement between the experimental and simulated results was obtained in all cases.

This study shows that this method can be used to analyze very complicated quartz heating systems and account for factors such as spectral properties, specular reflection from curved surfaces, source enhancement due to reflectors and/ or adjacent sources, and interaction with a participating medium in a straight forward manner.
Multifocal nodular hepatic steatosis
Creators: name: PRAT-MATIFOLL, JOAN ALBERT
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Biopsy
subject: Education
subject: Embolisation
subject: Localisation
subject: eLearning
subject: Acute
subject: Endocrine disorders
subject: Inflammation
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 52 years
description: Clinical History: 52 year-old patient who suffered a splenic rupture caused by a motorbike accident. Previous medical history included acute myocardial infarction (AMI), smoking habit and chronic hepatopathy (HCV). 2 years after his accident a programmed CT was performed. Final Diagnosis: Multifocal nodular steatosis
Supplementary document for Controlled Growth of Single-crystalline Erbium Silicate with Long-lived Fluorescence - 5812421.pdf
Creators: name: zheng, min
name: Zhao, Hepeng
name: ou-yang, yu
name: Li, Lihui
name: Zhang, Chi
name: li, yang
name: WANG, XIAOXIA
name: Zhuang, Xiujuan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: figure and table
Toward a physically motivated notion of Gaussian complexity geometry
Creators: name: Torres, Bruno de S. L.
name: Martín-Martínez, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a general construction of a geometric notion of circuit complexity for Gaussian states (both bosonic and fermionic) in terms of Riemannian geometry. We lay out general conditions that a Riemannian metric function on the space of Gaussian states should satisfy in order for it to yield a physically reasonable measure of complexity. This general formalism can naturally accommodate modifications to complexity geometries that arise from cost functions that depend nontrivially on the instantaneous state and on the direction on circuit space at each point. We explore these modifications and, as a particular case, we show how to account for time-reversal symmetry breaking in measures of complexity, which is often natural from an experimental (and thermodynamical) perspective, but is absent in commonly studied complexity measures. This establishes a first step towards building a quantitative, geometric notion of complexity that faithfully mimics what is experienced as "easy" or "hard" to implement in a lab from a physically motivated point of view.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure. V2 updated to match published version
Deliverable D2.4 2nd Report on the maintenance and operational support of the tools
Creators: name: THL
name: EuroFIR AISBL
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: NoE and NEXUS Projects
The EuroFIR Food Platform
EuroFIR

description: Executive summary

This report describes how a diverse set of food information tools and repositories available on the EuroFIR Food Composition Data Interchange Platform were maintained and supported to facilitate the exchange of harmonized food information including food composition and description data across Europe and beyond. The food information tools and repositories include FoodEXplorer, FoodBasket, Thesaurus Manager, Food Product Indexer, FoodCASE, EuroFIR eLearning, FoodTransporter, Open Platform, Bug tracking system, and Web-based discussion forums. These advanced tools enable harmonized compilation, indexing, maintenance, exploration and exploitation of food composition and description data as well as knowledge by humans (experts and laypeople) and machines. Many of the tools utilize EuroFIR Web Services and support data exchange by the EuroFIR Food Data Transport Package. The tools can be easily accessed from the EuroFIR website, depending on user rights that are centrally managed. The report also includes future plans for the maintenance and support of the EuroFIR food information tools.
Functional zoning of biodiversity profiles
Creators: name: Golini, Natalia
name: Ignaccolo, Rosaria
name: Ippoliti, Luigi
name: Pronello, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Spatial mapping of biodiversity is crucial to investigate spatial variations in natural communities. Several indices have been proposed in the literature to represent biodiversity as a single statistic. However, these indices only provide information on individual dimensions of biodiversity, thus failing to grasp its complexity comprehensively. Consequently, relying solely on these single indices can lead to misleading conclusions about the actual state of biodiversity. In this work, we focus on biodiversity profiles, which provide a more flexible framework to express biodiversity through non-negative and convex curves, which can be analyzed by means of functional data analysis. By treating the whole curves as single entities, we propose to achieve a functional zoning of the region of interest by means of a penalized model-based clustering procedure. This provides a spatial clustering of the biodiversity profiles, which is useful for policy-makers both for conserving and managing natural resources and revealing patterns of interest. Our approach is discussed through the analysis of Harvard Forest Data, which provides information on the spatial distribution of woody stems within a plot of the Harvard Forest.
On the bounded smooth solutions to exponentially stable linear nonautonomous hyperbolic systems
Creators: name: Kmit, Irina
name: Tkachenko, Viktor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B10, 35B15, 35B35, 35B45, 35B65

description: We investigate global bounded solutions of higher regularity to boundary value problems for a general linear nonautonomous first order 1D hyperbolic system in a strip. We establish the existence of such solutions under the assumption of exponential stability and certain dissipativity (or non-resonant) conditions. Our results demonstrate the existence and uniqueness of $C^1$- and $C^2$-bounded solutions, in particular, periodic and almost periodic solutions. The number of imposed dissipativity conditions is related to the regularity of solutions. This connection arises due to the nonautonomous nature of the hyperbolic system under consideration, in contrast to autonomous settings.
 In the general case of global bounded smooth solutions we assume exponential stability in $H^1$. In the case of periodic solutions, the weaker assumption of $L^2$-exponential stability proves to be sufficient.
description: 31 pages
An unusual cause of âomental cakeâ in CT: peritoneal tuberculosis
Creators: name: Pozzi Mucelli, Fabio
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Inflammation

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 24 years
description: Clinical History: 24 yo patient of Pakistan nationality, arrived at the Emergency-department  for abdominal pain and lack of appetite. At physical examination abdomen appeared tense and sore, and peristalsis was absent. US investigation was required, which demonstrated pre... Final Diagnosis: Peritoneal tuberculosis
بطاقة الأداء المتوازن الـ BSC كمدخل من مداخل تفعيل مفهوم حوكمة المؤسسات
Creators: name: ilyas, laidani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory

description: تعمل بطاقة الأداء المتوازن على تقييم أداء المنظمات على نحو متكامل عن طريق ربط الأهداف المتعددة التي تسعى لتحقيقها بهدف تدعيم وتحسين نشاطها وبالتالي موقفها التنافسي، ويتم في البطاقة ترجمة رؤية المنظمة واستراتيجياتها إلى أهداف في أربعة أبعاد تتمثل في منظور المساهمين والعملاء والعمليات التشغيلية الداخلية والتعلم والنمو. وتعمل بذلك على تحسين قدراتها وآلياتها التي تساعم في تطبيق مفهوم الحوكمة وتعزيز الشفافية والإفصاح وحفظ الحقوق؛ لذا تهدف هذه المداخلة إظهار العلاقة بين تطبيق مفاهيم ومبادئ بطاقة الأداء المتوازن كآلية لمراقبة التسيير ومفهوم الحوكمة ومتطلباته في المؤسسات أو المنظمات بشكل عام.
Determination of geochemical baselines and evaluation of potentially toxic elements in agricultural soils of Ramhormoz Plain, Iran
Creators: name: Porfadakari, Sudabeh
name: Jorfi, Sahand
name: Ravanbakhash, Maryam
name: Talepour, Nastaran
name: Karimian, Razieh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: The present study was conducted to investigate the heavy metal pollution status of the agricultural soils in Ramhormoz Plain, Khuzestan province, Iran. A total of 54 samples from the depths (0–20 cm) of the soil were collected from the selected areas in (March) 2021. According to the obtained results, the concentrations of As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn, Al in soil samples were 1.3, 0.68, 60, 10.6, 0.01, 218, 23, 3.65, 14 and 0.58 mg/kg, respectively, in which As showed significant soil contamination and Cu, Hg, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn and Al moderate contamination according to the calculation of contamination factor (CF). PCA analysis revealed that both anthropogenic and natural sources of pollution like agricultural and transport activities contributed to the enrichment of study area. Investigation of ecological risk indicated that Ramhormoz Plain was categorized as a high risk area.
Deliverable D2.2 2nd Report on updated Web services and future requirements
Creators: name: EuroFIR AISBL
name: THL
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: NoE and NEXUS Projects
The EuroFIR Food Platform
EuroFIR

description: 1. Introduction

This report describes how EuroFIR Web Services (1) are used as the part of the EuroFIR Food Composition Data interchange platform. This report especially focuses on the challenges found when these Web Services were implemented or planned to be implemented by EuroFIR national compilers (so called EuroFIR Partner Web Services). In addition, this report describes alternative ways for providing Food Composition Data (FCD) to the EuroFIR platform. Finally, this reports briefly lists issues which are connected with the EuroFIR Web Services and need to be organized after the EuroFIR Nexus project.

This work was completed in collaboration with EuroFIR-Nexus — The EuroFIR Food Platform: Further integration, refinement and Exploitation for its long-term self-sustain-ability. Funded under the EU 7th Framework Programme. Grant agreement no: 265967.
Folding QQ-relations and transfer matrix eigenvalues: towards a unified approach to Bethe ansatz for super spin chains
Creators: name: Tsuboi, Zengo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Extending the method proposed in [arXiv:1109.5524], we derive QQ-relations (functional relations among Baxter Q-functions) and T-functions (eigenvalues of transfer matrices) for fusion vertex models associated with the twisted quantum affine superalgebras $U_{q}(gl(2r+1|2s)^{(2)})$, $U_{q}(gl(2r|2s+1)^{(2)})$, $U_{q}(gl(2r|2s)^{(2)})$, $U_{q}(osp(2r|2s)^{(2)})$ and the untwisted quantum affine orthosymplectic superalgebras $U_{q}(osp(2r+1|2s)^{(1)})$ and $U_{q}(osp(2r|2s)^{(1)})$ (and their Yangian counterparts, $Y(osp(2r+1|2s))$ and $Y(osp(2r|2s))$) as reductions (a kind of folding) of those associated with $U_{q}(gl(M|N)^{(1)})$. In particular, we reproduce previously proposed generating functions (difference operators) of the T-functions for the symmetric or anti-symmetric representations, and tableau sum expressions for more general representations for orthosymplectic superalgebras [arXiv:0911.5393,arXiv:0911.5390], and obtain Wronskian-type expressions (analogues of Weyl-type character formulas) for them. T-functions for spinorial representations are related to reductions of those for asymptotic limits of typical representations of $U_{q}(gl(M|N)^{(1)})$.
description: 101 pages, v2: an appendix added; v3: small improvements; v4 misprints corrected
Entre revelar e esconder: pais e filhos em face da descoberta da homossexualidade
Creators: name: Da Silva Junior, JOAO
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440506
subject: Sexualities

description: This paper addresses parent-child relations when faced with the social situation of the disclusure of homosexuality. Twenty 18-to-24 year old young middle-class male college students who self-identify as gay were heard, privileging their coming out experiences at home. The recognition of their homosexuality by their families, and particularly by themselves activates a variety of fears and concrete forms of violence, psychological distress and uncertainty. We seek to understand how these youths cope with aggression and suffering, reacting to a coercive effort by their relatives to adequate them to the hegemonic sexual norm.
Is there a demand for eco-labeled restaurants: Consumer preference and willingness to pay for eco-labeled seafood restaurants
Creators: name: Fang, Yingkai
name: Gao, Zhifeng
name: Zhang, Xumin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Virology

description: With increasing concerns over the environmental impacts of the production process for seafood, many consumers are willing to pay premiums for eco-labeled seafood to support sustainable fisheries. Most studies of consumer preferences for ecolabels are conducted in the retail setting, focusing on food attributes. Limited attention is given to sustainable seafood consumption away from home and none about preferences for ecolabel certifications of restaurants. However, seafood consumption away from home at restaurants makes up a significant share of the total seafood consumption, and ecolabels are used only to a limited extent. Hence, consumer behavior at restaurants is important to the efficiency of ecolabels. Consumers’ preferences for eco-labeled seafood restaurants may reinforce the impact of the ecolabels. Using a national online survey, this article investigates consumer preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for eco-labeled seafood restaurants. The results show a positive WTP (26%) for eco-labeled seafood restaurants, but varying by consumer groups.
MURABAHAH SUKUK STRUCTURE: THE SHARIAH CHALLENGES AND THE WAY FORWARD
Creators: name: Saad, Auwal Adam
name: Ibrahim, Uzaimah Bt
name: Napiah, Muhammad Deen Mohd
Publisher: name: University of Turin - Italy
Year: 2016
Subjects: Murabahah sukuk; structural development; shari’ah challenges

description: Murabahah Sukuk is an Islamic trust contract which includes a disclosure of the original cost and the mark up. Murabahah in Islamic jurisprudence means a contract of sale for the equivalent price of the subject matter which includes its cost along with a known additional profit. The paper discusses issues related to Murabahah Sukuk financing. It also provides the structural overview of Murabahah in terms of Sukuk issuances. The paper highlighted three different ways of structuring Murabahah Sukuk, it looks into the structure of Murabahah for asset acquisition, Murabahah with Inah transaction and lastly Murabahah with tawarruq transaction. The paper concluded that according to the general rules of Shari’ah, Murabahah Sukuk should not be traded at secondary market due to the fact that it involved the sale of debt which is forbidden. However, Murabahah Sukuk might be negotiated at the secondary market if it forms a small part of a larger portfolio comprising other negotiable instruments such as Ijarah Sukuk, Musharakah, and Mudarabah Sukuk certificates.
description: European Journal of Islamic Finance, No 4 (2016): EJIF - European Journal of Islamic Finance, 4, 2016
Focus sul Deserto della Contea di Ruoqiang, Cina Occidentale
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Immagini satellitari
Google Maps
Google Earth Pro
Prospezioni minerarie

description: Si commenta a proposito della puntata 18 di “Cose di questo mondo 3”, intitolata “Il mistero della mummia nel deserto”, 2017. La puntata non specifica il sito del supposto mistero. Tale sito è la Ruoqiang County, in Cina. Il pattern mostrato nel filmato, e ricavato da immagini satellitari, è relativo a prospezioni geologiche per lo sfruttamento minerario, come da me discusso nel 2012.
MOCO 97 cruise,Cote D'Aquitaine R/V
Creators: name: PARLANTI Edith
name: BUDZINSKI Hélène
name: LAMOTTE Michel
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 1997

description: -Suivre les processus de mélange en zone estuarienne et mieux caractériser les différentes composantes responsables du signal de fluorescence de la Matière Organique Dissoute (MOD) des eaux de mer.-Extraire la MOD sur colonnes de résines afin d'en disposer en quantités suffisantes pour une caractérisation plus approfondie par d'autres techniques analytiques.-Étudier les processus d'échange à l'interface eau - sédiment.Les dates des missions MOCO97 sont : du 29.01.97 au 03.02.97 (de Bordeaux à Bordeaux), du 03.06.97 au 07.06.97 (de Le Verdon à Bordeaux) et du 02.10.97 au 05.10.97 (de Le Verdon à Bordeaux).
Planar thermal Hall effect from phonons in a Kitaev candidate material
Creators: name: Chen, Lu
name: Lefrançois, Étienne
name: Vallipuram, Ashvini
name: Barthélemy, Quentin
name: Ataei, Amirreza
name: Yao, Wailing
name: Li, Yuan
name: Taillefer, Louis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kitaev materials are a promising platform for the realization of quantum spin liquid states. The thermal Hall effect has emerged as a potential probe of exotic excitations within such states. In the Kitaev candidate material $α$-RuCl$_{3}$, however, the thermal Hall conductivity $κ_{xy}$ has been attributed not only to exotic Majorana fermions or chiral magnons, but also to phonons. It has been shown theoretically that the former two types of heat carriers can generate a "planar" thermal Hall effect, whereby the magnetic field is parallel to the heat current, as observed experimentally, but it is unknown whether phonons also could. Here we show that a planar thermal Hall effect is present in another Kitaev candidate material, Na$_{2}$Co$_{2}$TeO$_{6}$. On the basis of a striking similarity between the temperature and field dependence of $κ_{xy}$ and that of the phonon-dominated thermal conductivity $κ_{xx}$, we argue that the planar thermal Hall effect in Na$_{2}$Co$_{2}$TeO$_{6}$ is generated by phonons. The phonon contributed planar $κ_{xy}$ also shows a strong sample dependence, which indicates an extrinsic origin of the mechanism. By conducting a complete study with different in-plane configurations of heat current $J$ and magnetic field $H$, $i.e.$ $H$ $\|$ $J$ and $H$ $\bot$ $J$, we observe a large difference in $κ_{xy}$ between these two configurations, which reveals that the direction of the heat current $J$ may play an important role in determining the planar thermal Hall effect. Our observation calls for a re-evaluation of the planar thermal Hall effect observed in $α$-RuCl$_{3}$.
Healed hepatic cystic echinococcosis with chronic hydatid cysto-hepato-bronchial fistula
Creators: name: Savastano, Sergio
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: Lung
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Parasites

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 73 years
description: Clinical History: The patient with a severe aortic valve stenosis underwent radiologic workup for a procedure of transcatheter aortic valve implantation. History was non-contributory. Final Diagnosis: Chronic hydatid cysto-hepato-bronchial fistula
Out-of-Equilibrium Fluctuation-Dissipation Bounds
Creators: name: Tesser, Ludovico
name: Splettstoesser, Janine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove a general inequality between the charge current and its fluctuations valid for any non-interacting coherent electronic conductor and for any stationary out-of-equilibrium condition, thereby going beyond established fluctuation-dissipation relations. The developed fluctuation-dissipation bound saturates at large temperature bias and reveals additional insight for heat engines, since it limits the output power by power fluctuations. It is valid when the thermodynamic uncertainty relations break down due to quantum effects and provides stronger constraints close to thermovoltage.
description: Comments are welcome
Deliverable D2.3 1st Report on the maintenance and operational support of the tools and repositories
Creators: name: THL
name: EuroFIR AISBL
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: NoE and NEXUS Projects
The EuroFIR Food Platform
EuroFIR

description: This report describes how a diverse set of food information tools and repositories available on the EuroFIR Portal have been maintained and supported to facilitate the exchange of standardised food information including food composition data across Europe and beyond, which will empower the entire community of food information users to improve the quality and thus also the meaningfulness of their specific products and services.
An efficient computational model of the in-flow capturing of magnetic nanoparticles by a cylindrical magnet for cancer nanomedicine
Creators: name: Wirthl, Barbara
name: Wirthl, Vitaly
name: Wall, Wolfgang A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Magnetic nanoparticles have emerged as a promising approach to improving cancer treatment. However, many novel nanoparticle designs fail in clinical trials due to a lack of understanding of how to overcome the in vivo transport barriers. To address this shortcoming, we develop a novel computational model aimed at the study of magnetic nanoparticles in vitro and in vivo. In this paper, we present an important building block for this overall goal, namely an efficient computational model of the in-flow capture of magnetic nanoparticles by a cylindrical permanent magnet in an idealised test setup. We use a continuum approach based on the Smoluchowski advection-diffusion equation, combined with a simple approach to consider the capture at an impenetrable boundary, and derive an analytical expression for the magnetic force of a cylindrical magnet of finite length on the nanoparticles. This provides a simple and numerically efficient way to study different magnet configurations and their influence on the nanoparticle distribution in three dimensions. Such an in silico model can increase insight into the underlying physics, help to design novel prototypes and serve as a precursor to more complex systems in vivo and in silico.
The Molecular Function of PURA and Its Implications in Neurological Diseases
Creators: name: Molitor, Lena
name: Bacher, Sabrina
name: Burczyk, Sandra
name: Niessing, Dierk
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: PURA syndrome
subject: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/fronto-temporal dementia
subject: Fragile X-associated tremor ataxia syndrome
subject: PURB
subject: PURG
subject: PURA-Syndrom
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
subject: Fragile X Syndrome
subject: PurAlpha

description: In recent years, genome-wide analyses of patients have resulted in the identification of a number of neurodevelopmental disorders. Several of them are caused by mutations in genes that encode for RNA-binding proteins. One of these genes is PURA, for which in 2014 mutations have been shown to cause the neurodevelopmental disorder PURA syndrome. Besides intellectual disability (ID), patients develop a variety of symptoms, including hypotonia, metabolic abnormalities as well as epileptic seizures. This review aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of research of the last 30 years on PURA and its recently discovered involvement in neuropathological abnormalities. Being a DNA- and RNA-binding protein, PURA has been implicated in transcriptional control as well as in cytoplasmic RNA localization. Molecular interactions are described and rated according to their validation state as physiological targets. This information will be put into perspective with available structural and biophysical insights on PURA’s molecular functions. Two different knock-out mouse models have been reported with partially contradicting observations. They are compared and put into context with cell biological observations and patient-derived information. In addition to PURA syndrome, the PURA protein has been found in pathological, RNA-containing foci of patients with the RNA-repeat expansion diseases such as fragile X-associated tremor ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)/fronto-temporal dementia (FTD) spectrum disorder. We discuss the potential role of PURA in these neurodegenerative disorders and existing evidence that PURA might act as a neuroprotective factor. In summary, this review aims at informing researchers as well as clinicians on our current knowledge of PURA’s molecular and cellular functions as well as its implications in very different neuronal disorders.
Modeling the effects of varying Ti concentration on the mechanical properties of Cu-Ti alloys
Creators: name: Fotopoulos, Vasileios
name: O'Hern, Corey S.
name: Shattuck, Mark D.
name: Shluger, Alexander L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mechanical properties of Cu-Ti alloys have been characterized extensively through experimental studies. However, a detailed understanding of why the strength of Cu increases after a small fraction of Ti atoms is added to the alloy is still missing. In this work, we address this question using density functional theory (DFT) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with modified embedded atom method (MEAM) interatomic potentials. First, we performed calculations of uniaxial tension deformations of small bicrystalline Cu cells using DFT static simulations. We then carried out uniaxial tension deformations on much larger bicrystalline and polycrystalline Cu cells using MEAM MD simulations. In bicrystalline Cu, the inclusion of Ti increases the grain boundary separation energy and maximum tensile stress. The DFT calculations demonstrate that the increase in tensile stress can be attributed to an increase in the local charge density arising from Ti. MEAM simulations in larger bicrystalline systems have shown that increasing the Ti concentration decreases the density of stacking faults. This observation is enhanced in polycrystalline Cu, where the addition of Ti atoms, even at concentrations as low as 1.5 at.%, increases the yield strength and elastic modulus of the material compared to pure Cu. Under uniaxial tensile loading, the addition of small amounts of Ti hinders the formation of partial Shockley dislocations in the grain boundaries of Cu, leading to reduced local deformation. These results shed light on the role of Ti in determining the mechanical properties of polycrystalline Cu and will enable the engineering of grain boundaries and the inclusion of Ti to improve degradation resistance.
EuroFIR Nexus Technical Report D2.1
Creators: name: Danish Food Information
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: NoE and NEXUS Projects
The EuroFIR Food Platform
EuroFIR

description: ObjectiveThe objective of the EuroFIR Food Data Transport Package for food data interchange is to ensure that the receiver—such as food data compilers—has simple and comprehensive access to relevant and up-to-date food (product) information in national food composition databases. The EuroFIR Food Data Transport Package is developed from recommendations defined in the COST Action 99 – Eurofoods project, as well as the international INFOODS network.²³ Its intended use includes data transport between the food data compilers within EuroFIR and the transport of food data from compilers to the EuroFIR eSearch facility. It represents the first XML transport package defined for information interchange via Web Services in the EuroFIR context. The EuroFIR Food Data Transport Package is not a comprehensive solution; the XML template defined for this purpose includes only the most essential information necessary for the end-user or receiver to assess the quality of the data for their own work. It reflects the information currently available in European food composition databases and is expected to be expanded as more data becomes available in those databases.
Band projections in spaces of regular operators
Creators: name: Muñoz-Lahoz, David
name: Tradacete, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B42, 46A32, 46A45, 47B65, 47B48, 47L10

description: We introduce inner band projections in the space of regular operators on a Dedekind complete Banach lattice and study some structural properties of this class. In particular, we provide a new characterization of atomic order continuous Banach lattices as those for which all band projections in the corresponding space of regular operators are inner. We also characterize the multiplication operators $L_AR_B$ which are band projections precisely as those with $A,B$ being band projections up to a scalar multiple.