cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Un’esperienza di ricerca-azione nel centro storico di Palermo: analisi cronotopica del processo 'protopartecipativo' nel quartiere Loggia-Vucciria
Creators: name: Urso, Federico
Publisher: name: Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare di Studi Urbani
Year: 2020
Subjects: identità territoriale, ricerca-azione partecipativa, placekeeping

description: La complessità e le criticità dei sistemi urbani del terzo millennio determinano spesso uno scollamento della politica e della disciplina urbanistica dal quotidiano delle comunità, da cui invece dovrebbero trarre fondamento. Vari sono stati i contributi italiani alla ‘evoluzione della democrazia’ attraverso lo sviluppo di teorie, pratiche e normative. Nonostante l’arricchimento da queste apportato, sono ancora molte le persone escluse dal dibattito sul perché e sul come migliorare i propri contesti di vita perché molte sono le barriere sociali, culturali, talvolta lessicali ed emotive che le ostacolano. Il presente contributo indaga alcune pratiche che potremmo definire di 'protopartecipazione' avviate nel quartiere Loggia di Palermo, rimarcando l’importanza della ricerca-azione come strumento di indagine e perturbazione dei fenomeni sociali urbani, funzionale all’avvio di percorsi partecipativi che incidano – non solo a Palermo – sulle decisioni politiche e allarghino il confine della rappresentanza. The complexity and criticalities of the urban systems of the third millennium often determine a detachment between the politics and urban planning on one side and the daily life of the communities on another, from which they should instead draw their foundation. There have been various Italian contributions to the 'evolution of democracy' through the development of theories, both practical and regarding regulations. Despite the enrichment brought about by these, there are still many people excluded from the debate on why and how to improve their life contexts because there are many social, cultural, sometimes lexical and emotional barriers that hinder them. This contribution investigates some practices that we could define as 'protoparticipation' started in the Loggia district of Palermo, underlining the importance of action research as a tool for investigation and perturbation of urban social phenomena, aimed at the launch of participatory paths that affect − not only in Palermo − political decisions and widen the boundaries of representation.
description: Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare di Studi Urbani, N. 8 (2020): FARE E CONOSCERE, INSIEME: SUPERARE GLI OSTACOLI E LE SFIDE DELLA RICERCA-AZIONE PER RENDERE IL MONDO UN POSTO MIGLIORE / TO DO AND KNOW SOMETHING TOGETHER: OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF ACTION-RESEARCH IN MAKING BETTER URBAN WORLDS
A Chandra X-ray Observation of Abell 1991: The Late Stages of Infall?
Creators: name: Sharma, Mangala
name: McNamara, B. R.
name: Nulsen, P. E. J.
name: Owers, M.
name: Wise, M. W.
name: Blanton, E. L.
name: Sarazin, C. L.
name: Owen, F. N.
name: David, L. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from a 38 ks Chandra X-ray observation of the z=0.059 galaxy cluster A1991. The cluster has a bright X-ray core and a central temperature gradient that declines inward from 2.7 keV at 130 kpc to approximately 1.6 keV at the cluster center. The radiative cooling time of the gas in the inner 10 kpc is about 0.5 Gyr, and rises to 1 Gyr at a radius of 20 kpc. The cooling rate of the gas within the latter radius is less than about 25 solar mass/yr. The Chandra ACIS-S3 image shows that the intracluster medium has an asymmetric surface brightness distribution with respect to the central galaxy. Bright knots of soft X-ray emission embedded in a cometary structure are located approximately 10 arcsec north of the optical center of the cD galaxy. Unlike the structures seen in other cooling flow clusters, the knots have no obvious association with the radio source. The structure's temperature of 0.83 keV makes it nearly 1 keV cooler than its surroundings, and its mass is 3.4E+09 solar masses. Based on its bow-shaped appearance and modest overpressure with respect to its surroundings, we interpret the structure as a cool mass concentration that is breaking apart as it travels northward through the center of the cluster.
description: Accepted for publication in Ap.J
MOESM2 of Understanding patients’ experience living with diabetes type 2 and effective disease management: a qualitative study following a mobile health intervention in Bangladesh
Creators: name: F. Yasmin
name: L. Ali
name: B. Banu
name: F. Rasul
name: R. Sauerborn
name: A. Souares
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Interview guideline for in-depth interview (control group).
Additional file 3 of Effectiveness of the Ready to Reduce Risk (3R) complex intervention for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Byrne, Jo L.
name: Dallosso, Helen M.
name: Rogers, Stephen
name: Gray, Laura J.
name: Waheed, Ghazala
name: Patel, Prashanth
name: Gupta, Pankaj
name: Doherty, Yvonne
name: Davies, Melanie J.
name: Khunti, Kamlesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 3:Table S2. Adherence to hypertensives at 12 months.
A novel probe of the vacuum of the lattice gluodynamics
Creators: name: Polikarpov, M. I.
name: Syritsyn, S. N.
name: Zakharov, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a notion of minimal number of negative links on the lattice for a given original configuration of SU(2) fields. Negative links correspond to a large potential, not necessarily large action. The idea is that the minimal number of negative links is a gauge invariant notion. To check this hypothesis we measure correlator of two negative links, averaged over all the directions, as function of the distance between the links. The inverse correlation length coincides within the error bars with the lightest glueball mass.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Mid-infrared polarized emission from black phosphorus light-emitting diodes
Creators: name: Wang, Junjia
name: Rousseau, Adrien
name: Yang, Mei
name: Low, Tony
name: Francoeur, Sébastien
name: Kéna-Cohen, Stéphane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mid-infrared (MIR) spectral range is of immense use for civilian and military applications. The large number of vibrational absorption bands in this range can be used for gas sensing, process control and spectroscopy. In addition, there exists transparency windows in the atmosphere such as that between 3.6-3.8 $μ$m, which are ideal for free-space optical communication, range finding and thermal imaging. A number of different semiconductor platforms have been used for MIR light-emission. This includes InAsSb/InAs quantum wells, InSb/AlInSb, GaInAsSbP pentanary alloys, and intersubband transitions in group III-V compounds. These approaches, however, are costly and lack the potential for integration on silicon and silicon-on-insulator platforms. In this respect, two-dimensional (2D) materials are particularly attractive due to the ease with which they can be heterointegrated. Weak interactions between neighbouring atomic layers in these materials allows for deposition on arbitrary substrates and van der Waals heterostructures enable the design of devices with targeted optoelectronic properties. In this Letter, we demonstrate a light-emitting diode (LED) based on the 2D semiconductor black phosphorus (BP). The device, which is composed of a BP/molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) heterojunction emits polarized light at $λ$ = 3.68 $μ$m with room-temperature internal and external quantum efficiencies (IQE and EQE) of ~1$\%$ and $\sim3\times10^{-2}\%$, respectively. The ability to tune the bandgap, and consequently emission wavelength of BP, with layer number, strain and electric field make it a particularly attractive platform for MIR emission.
An injectable subcutaneous colon-specific immune niche for the treatment of ulcerative colitis
Creators: name: Wang, Andrew Z.
name: Au, Kin Man
name: Wilson, Justin E.
name: Ting, Jenny P.-Y.
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2023

description: As a chronic autoinflammatory condition, ulcerative colitis is often managed via systemic immunosuppressants. Here we show, in three mouse models of established ulcerative colitis, that a subcutaneously injected colon-specific immunosuppressive niche consisting of colon epithelial cells, decellularized colon extracellular matrix and nanofibres functionalized with programmed death-ligand 1, CD86, a peptide mimic of transforming growth factor-beta 1, and the immunosuppressive small-molecule leflunomide, induced intestinal immunotolerance and reduced inflammation in the animals’ lower gastrointestinal tract. The bioengineered colon-specific niche triggered autoreactive T cell anergy and polarized pro-inflammatory macrophages via multiple immunosuppressive pathways, and prevented the infiltration of immune cells into the colon’s lamina propria, promoting the recovery of epithelial damage. The bioengineered niche also prevented colitis-associated colorectal cancer and eliminated immune-related colitis triggered by kinase inhibitors and immune checkpoint blockade.
Bell's theorem for trajectories
Creators: name: Gočanin, Dragoljub
name: Dimić, Aleksandra
name: Del Santo, Flavio
name: Dakić, Borivoje
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In classical theory, the trajectory of a particle is entirely predetermined by the complete set of initial conditions via dynamical laws. Based on this, we formulate a no-go theorem for the dynamics of classical particles, i.e., a Bell's inequality for trajectories, and discuss its possible violation in a quantum scenario. A trajectory, however, is not an outcome of a quantum measurement, in the sense that there is no observable associated with it, and thus there is no "direct" experimental test of the Bell's inequality for trajectories. Nevertheless, we show how to overcome this problem by considering a special case of our generic inequality that can be experimentally tested point-by-point in time. Such inequality is indeed violated by quantum mechanics, and the violation persists during an entire interval of time and not just at a particular singular instant. We interpret the violation to imply that trajectories (or at least pieces thereof) cannot exist predetermined, within a local-realistic theory.
description: 5+5 pages, 3+2 figures (main text + supplemental material), typos corrected
title: Costruire una comunità organizzata nelle pratiche "in azione": il ruolo degli attori coinvolti
Creators: name: Caruso, Elisa
Publisher: name: Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare di Studi Urbani
Year: 2020
Subjects: comunità; apprendimento; ricerca-azione; contratti di fiume

description: L’articolo propone alcune riflessioni sui ruoli nelle pratiche che si muovono in una cornice di ricerca-azione: il ruolo dell’università come ingaggio territoriale, il ruolo dei singoli nell’alimentare un processo di costruzione di comunità, e il ruolo di una leadership all’interno di un soggetto collettivo. Presenta il processo in azione di un piccolo comitato, con la partnership dell’Università di Firenze, per la costruzione del Contratto di Fiume Ombrone. Quando la dimensione comunitaria incontra la dimensione politico- istituzionale, ed una va a sostituire l’altra, si crea una frattura all’interno del processo in azione. Nel momento in cui il presidente del comitato diviene Sindaco, la capacità generativa del processo subisce un brusco arresto. È importante comprendere fin quando una comunità può spingersi nel tentativo di incidere suoi processi decisionali istituzionali. L’obiettivo è quello di introdurre alcuni elementi di dibattito per la ricerca e per le istituzioni. The article shares reflections on the different roles played by individuals in action-research: the engagement role of the university, the role of some for community organizing, and the role of other as leaders within a collective actor. It presents the process led by a small committee, in partnership with the University of Florence, for the development of the Ombrone River Contract. When the community dimension encounters the political and institutional one, to the extent that one overcomes the other, a fracture occurs within the process. When the committee leader becomes the mayor, the generative capacity of the process stops abruptly. It is important to understand the limits within which a community can push and impact institutional decision-making.
description: Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare di Studi Urbani, N. 8 (2020): FARE E CONOSCERE, INSIEME: SUPERARE GLI OSTACOLI E LE SFIDE DELLA RICERCA-AZIONE PER RENDERE IL MONDO UN POSTO MIGLIORE / TO DO AND KNOW SOMETHING TOGETHER: OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF ACTION-RESEARCH IN MAKING BETTER URBAN WORLDS
ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF AN AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION – PRECISION CROP PRODUCTION
Creators: name: Takacs-Gyorgy, Katalin
name: Takacs-Gyorgy, Katalin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: farming
subject: technology push
subject: low speed of diffusion

description: Innovation in agriculture ensures the wide-spread use of the latest, up-to-date technology. Such new technology is precision farming in crop production, which serves as a validation of the criteria of environmental and economic sustainability. The economic applicability of precision crop production depends on several factors.Among them the following aspects must be emphasized: the size of the farm, the characteristics of the production structure, the current input-output prices and their tendencies, the investment needed for transitioning to precision technology and its capital source, the level of professional knowledge and the managerial attitudes of the farm. I have examined the economic relations between potential savings in chemicals on EU level. It has been found that after switching to precision farming, the active ingredient use for fertilizers can be reduced by 340 thousand tons at the same expected yield level in an optimistic scenario in the EU-27, while the savings in pesticide use can be 30 thousand tons (calculating with the current dose-level). If approximately 30% of the crop producing and mixed farms over 16 ESU adopt this new technology, this will diminish environmental loads by up to 10-35%. The majority of farms characterized by greater output and size can be based on their own equipment but it might as well be presumed that smaller farms can turn to precision farming not based on their own investment. They can buy the technical service from providers, they can establish producer cooperation, for example in the frame of machinery rings. At a certain farm size and farming intensity precision crop production is a real, environmentally friendly farming strategy, with the help of which the farm can reach earnings that cover at least the economic conditions of simple reproduction.
Additional file 4 of Effectiveness of the Ready to Reduce Risk (3R) complex intervention for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Byrne, Jo L.
name: Dallosso, Helen M.
name: Rogers, Stephen
name: Gray, Laura J.
name: Waheed, Ghazala
name: Patel, Prashanth
name: Gupta, Pankaj
name: Doherty, Yvonne
name: Davies, Melanie J.
name: Khunti, Kamlesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 4:Table S3. Questionnaires outcomes.
The Ethics of Immigration
Creators: name: Jennifer Dodgson,
Publisher: name: National University of Singapore
Year: 2017
Subjects: Migrants
immigration
Worldwide
nationalist
cosmopolitan
consequentialist
rights-based continua
Social policy
Economic
Europe
USA
Japan

description: The number of migrants worldwide has grown rapidly in recent years, and it is thus unsurprising that immigration has also grown in prominence as a political issue: whether via the expansion of visa-free regimes such as the Schengen Area, the rise of nationalist and anti-globalisation movements in Europe and the US, or the growth of policies favouring emigration as a source of remittances in the developing world. However, while immigration becoming an ever more preoccupying part of the political landscape, there is very little agreement â€“ within or between states â€“ on how to deal with it. This case study looks at various frameworks for interpreting and categorising existing immigration policies as well as developing new ones.
Noise amplification at spin-glass bottlenecks of quantum annealing: a solvable model
Creators: name: Roberts, David
name: Cincio, Lukasz
name: Saxena, Avadh
name: Petukhov, Andre
name: Knysh, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To gain better insight into the complexity theory of quantum annealing, we propose and solve a class of spin systems which contain bottlenecks of the kind expected to dominate the runtime of quantum annealing as it tries to solve difficult optimization problems. We uncover a noise amplification effect at these bottlenecks, whereby tunneling rates caused by flux-qubit noise scale in proportion to the number of qubits $N$ in the limit that $N\to \infty$. By solving the incoherent annealing dynamics exactly, we find a wide range of regimes where the probability that a quantum annealer remains in the ground-state upon exiting the bottleneck is close to one-half. We corroborate our analysis with detailed simulations of the performance of the D-Wave 2X quantum annealer on our class of computational problems.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures
Developing the Business and Ficial District in Marina Bay
Creators: name: Jean Chia,
Publisher: name: National University of Singapore
Year: 2016
Subjects: Singapore
Marina Bay
Business and ficial district
Long-term planning
Public-private collaboration
Cities
Urbanisation
Global city

description: From a tract of largely empty reclaimed land, Singaporeâ€™s Marina Bay has been transformed into the new business and ficial district for prosperous city-state. Adjacent to the existing Central Business District (CBD), the 360-hectare Marina Bay area was designed to extend the CBD and support Singaporeâ€™s growth as a global business and ficial hub. Marina Bay stands out as an instructive example of long term urban planning â€“ spanning four decades â€“ and public-private collaborations in anticipation of the growth of the downtown. How did the transformation of Marina Bay come about, and what were the challenges encountered in its development? This case study discusses the impetus, policy approaches, and implementation mechanisms that went into the development of Marina Bay. In particular, the case study focuses on the 85-ha area in Marina Bay designated as the new business and ficial district. The case study also examines the participation of the private sector, as well as explores how Marina Bay has affected the existing CBD and its wider implications for Singaporeâ€™s development.
Gate-Induced Mott Transition
Creators: name: Kim, Hyun-Tak
name: Chae, B. G.
name: Youn, D. H.
name: Maeng, S. L.
name: Kang, K. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a strongly correlated material, VO2, near a critical on-site Coulomb energy U/Uc=1, the abrupt Mott metal-insulator transition (MIT) rather than the continuous Hubbard MIT is observed by inducing internal optical phonon-coupled holes (hole inducing of 0.018%) into conduction band, with a gate field of fabricated transistors. Observed gate effects, change of the MIT drain-source voltage caused by a gate field, are the effect of measurement due to inhomogeneity of channel material and is an average over the measurement region of the true gate effect based on the large conductivity (or effective mass) near the MIT predicted by the Brinkman-Rice picture. A discontinuous gate effect such as digital is observed, which is a characteristic of the transistor and a possible condition of a very high-speed switching transistor.
description: 4 pages, 3 eps figures
THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: IMPLICATIONS FOR CAPITAL TO AGRIBUSINESS
Creators: name: Ahrendsen, Bruce L.
name: Ahrendsen, Bruce L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: financial crisis
subject: capital
subject: credit
subject: agribusiness
subject: liquidity

description: The global economy has continued to experience lingering effects of the global financial crisis that began in 2007. Although attention was initially given to the liquidity crisis and survival of some the world’s largest corporations and institutions, the financial crisis is likely to have long-lasting implications for agribusiness. As the world slowly recovers from the crisis, another round of problems are emerging as governments and international institutions attempt to unwind the positions they took in an effort to prevent the global economic bubble from bursting. Perhaps the most problematic factor for businesses is access to capital in sufficient amounts and at affordable rates. Governments and institutions, particularly in the United States (U.S.) and the European Union, have increased their financial obligations as the result of activities taken to curtail the economic crisis. These financial obligations and the associated financial risks place pressure on financial markets and tend to restrain the availability of capital and increase the cost of capital for businesses. However, the U.S. agricultural credit market has not experienced problems to the same extent as general business (commercial and industrial) and real estate credit markets have. In general, U.S. farm businesses have a strong balance sheet, adequate repayment capacity, sufficient amount of assets to offer collateral for loans, and reasonable profits. Thus, U.S. farm businesses have had an ample supply of credit at relatively low interest rates.
Teacher Identity and Bullying—Perspectives from Teachers During Bullying Prevention Professional Development
Creators: name: Clements, Graceson
name: Hanebutt, Rachel
name: Valido, Alberto
name: Drescher, Anne
name: Robinson, Luz E.
name: Milarsky, Tracey Kenyon
name: Sheikh, America J. El
name: Graves, Katherine A.
name: Espelage, Dorothy L.
name: Rose, Chad
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2023

description: This article presents an analysis of qualitative data collected from general and special education teachers (n = 36) participating in a four-module professional development training focused on preventing bullying among students with disabilities. Analysis was driven by Braun and Clarke (Qualitative Research in Psychology 3:77–101, 2006) six step process for thematic analysis. We report on four major themes: (1) the effect of teachers’ identities, including race, gender, age, and cultural and social backgrounds; (2) teacher perspectives of the role of parents in bullying prevention; (3) teacher views concerning bullying between students and best practices for responding to reports of bullying in schools; (4) the influence of sociocultural factors on bullying in classrooms. Taken together, these themes suggest that teachers reflect on their role as the “kind of teacher” that prevents bullying, which has implications for the students within their classroom. Results inform best practices for the design and delivery of instructional programs and workshops that consider teacher identity and create environments that better support teachers in preventing and responding to bullying in their classrooms.
MOESM1 of Understanding patients’ experience living with diabetes type 2 and effective disease management: a qualitative study following a mobile health intervention in Bangladesh
Creators: name: F. Yasmin
name: L. Ali
name: B. Banu
name: F. Rasul
name: R. Sauerborn
name: A. Souares
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Interview guideline for in-depth interview (intervention group).
Urban water security under climate uncertainty
Creators: name: Sreeja Nair,
Publisher: name: National University of Singapore
Year: 2016
Subjects: Environment
Singapore
Water
Security
Sustainability
Urbanisation
Smart cities
India
Climate Change
Polution
Fllood
Sea Levels
Sustainable development

description: Changes in key climatic variables such as rainfall and temperature and the occurrence of extreme events such as floods challenge the sustainability of urban systems, massive economic investments and well-being of urban populations and settlements. Cities such as Singapore are increasingly being considered as a benchmark to design smart cities in Asia and address their urbanization goals and challenges. In this context, a policy brief needs to be prepared for the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, highlighting aspects of urban water security under climate change and its implications for megacities such as Mumbai and capturing lessons from Singaporeâ€™s urban development experience and water resource management practices.
Trace estimation of a family of periodic Sturm-Liouville operators with application to Robe's restricted three-body problem
Creators: name: Zhou, Qinglong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 34L15, 34B09, 70H14

description: In this paper, we consider a family of Sturm-Liouville operators on the $ω$-periodic domain. The bifurcation with respect to the parameter region is studied, and the elliptic regions are estimated by trace formula. At last, these results are used to study the linear stability of the elliptic equilibrium point along $z$-axis in Robe's restricted three-body problem.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1607.00636
title: Zones Portuaires: un dispositivo di ricerca-azione sul Porto di Genova
Creators: name: Buslacchi, Maria Elena
name: Usai, Maria Pina
Publisher: name: Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare di Studi Urbani
Year: 2020
Subjects: porto; ricerca-azione; festival; riconoscimento

description: Fino a pochi decenni fa, a Genova, porto e città erano culturalmente un tutt’uno: non c’era famiglia che non contasse un parente camallo, marinaio o armatore. Con la progressiva meccanizzazione portuale e una visione urbanistica che, in Italia, considera città e porto realtà separate, questo legame si è deteriorato. Il laboratorio di studi urbani UniGE “Incontri in città” e l’associazione U-BOOT Lab nel 2015 hanno promosso un dispositivo di indagine territoriale che coinvolge attivamente le comunità: Zones Portuaires lavora per favorire la connessione tra porto e città con un progetto di ricerca di lunga durata articolato in più azioni, la cui portata e efficacia sono cambiate nel tempo. Se il clima di fiducia sviluppato negli anni ha permesso di accedere ad ambienti, dati, contatti inizialmente non raggiungibili, anche le aspettative rispetto ai risultati si sono fatte più ambiziose nelle comunità coinvolte. Il testo esplora queste esperienze in maniera riflessiva e osserva il funzionamento del dispositivo e i suoi esiti, cercando di coglierne l’aspetto scientifico, culturale e sociale in una prospettiva integrata. Until a few decades ago, the port and the city were culturally “one” in Genoa: there was no family that did not count a dock worker, sailor or ship owner as a relative. With the progressive mechanization of the activity and an urbanistic vision that considers city and port as separate realities in Italy, this link has deteriorated. In 2015 UniGE urban studies laboratory “Incontri in città”, initiated with the association U-BOOT Lab a device for territorial analysis and active community involvement: Zones Portuaires works to understand and promote the connection between port and city with a long-term research project articulated in several actions. The scope and effectiveness of these actions have changed over time: while the climate of trust developed over the years and has allowed to access environments, data, contacts that were initially unreachable, expectations regarding results have also become more ambitious in the involved communities. The text explores these experiences in a reflective way and with concrete examples it observes the functioning of the device and its outcomes, trying to grasp its scientific, cultural and social aspect in an integrated perspective.
description: Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare di Studi Urbani, N. 8 (2020): FARE E CONOSCERE, INSIEME: SUPERARE GLI OSTACOLI E LE SFIDE DELLA RICERCA-AZIONE PER RENDERE IL MONDO UN POSTO MIGLIORE / TO DO AND KNOW SOMETHING TOGETHER: OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF ACTION-RESEARCH IN MAKING BETTER URBAN WORLDS
title: Informal partnerships with non-academics: reflections on the agency of a PhD student in a more than “non-human” world
Creators: name: Prisco, Marilena
Publisher: name: Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare di Studi Urbani
Year: 2020
Subjects: partnership; studi urbani; ECR

description: Questo paper è un racconto autoriflessivo della mia esperienza come dottoranda in studi urbani, a cui sono arrivata con una formazione di tipo tecnico come architetto. Presento il caso studio qualitativo, che ho condotto sul tema degli allagamenti in un comune del sud Italia, attraverso la lente degli incontri con gli ‘umani’ durante il lavoro di campo. Mi focalizzo su ‘embodiment, traduzione e posizionamento’ e ‘rinuncia/riconciliazione nella partnership’ (con una ONG) come le due delle sfide principali che hanno caratterizzato il mio ruolo di agente in qualità di studente di dottorato sul campo e di attivista in spazi non accademici. La creazione di alleanze con soggetti non-accademici durante la formazione da ricercatore è analizzata per comprendere quali possibili difficoltà e opportunità di apprendimento potrebbero incontrare i giovani ricercatori (i cosiddetti Early Career Researchers) in un progetto di ricerca basato su partenariati non formalizzati. This paper is a self-reflexive account of my experience as a PhD student in urban studies, entering the doctoral programme with a technical background from my studies in Architecture. I present my qualitative case study on flooding in a village of Southern Italy through the lens of the learning encounters with ‘humans’ in fieldwork. The focus is on ‘embodiment, translation and placement’, and ‘renouncing/reconciling partnership’ (with an NGO), considered as the two main challenges characterizing my agentic role as a PhD student in the field and as an activist in non-academic contexts. How I dealt with my non-academic allies during my research training is analysed to investigate what potential difficulties and learning opportunities young scholars (the so-called Early Career Researchers) might encounter in setting up a research project based on informal partnerships.
description: Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare di Studi Urbani, N. 8 (2020): FARE E CONOSCERE, INSIEME: SUPERARE GLI OSTACOLI E LE SFIDE DELLA RICERCA-AZIONE PER RENDERE IL MONDO UN POSTO MIGLIORE / TO DO AND KNOW SOMETHING TOGETHER: OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF ACTION-RESEARCH IN MAKING BETTER URBAN WORLDS
Ramping Up Recycling in Singapore
Creators: name: Tara Thean,
Publisher: name: National University of Singapore
Year: 2016
Subjects: Singapore
Recycle
Environment
Sustainable development
Garden city
Green
Waste
Landfill
Zero-waste

description: In 2014, the Singapore government introduced an ambitious vision: for the country to work towards becoming a "Zero Waste Nation". With Singapore's only landfill predicted to reach full capacity around 2035, the National Environment Agency (NEA) faced the task of reducing the country's waste disposal needs through the practice of the 3Rs â€” reduce, reuse, recycle â€” and incinerating all remaining incinerable waste to reduce waste volume and landfill needs. Though incineration was straightforward, getting the public to practise the 3Rs was not. Domestic recycling was far from a widespread practice in the country. Though the agency had introduced the National Recycling Programme in 2001, providing recycling services to HDBs, landed properties, and some private condominiums, it had been a challenge to make recycling a social norm in Singaporean society. Recycling was an active endeavour that required individuals to invest extra effort into getting ri d of the ir trash, and the act brought few immediate or visible benefits to any one person. Furthermore, the public gains of recycling competed for attention with more immediate concerns, like convenience and economic growth. "It's very difficult to get people to recycle as a way of life," NEA Waste and Resource Management Department Deputy Director Vincent Teo said. It was unclear whether public education campaigns were sufficient for inculcating values that would truly incentivize the public to recycle, or whether a tougher stance was necessary. The NEA had to decide what to focus on to shift public behavioural norms and inculcate the personal values that would lead to more recycling in Singapore.
LifeCourse Socioeconomic Position and Ideal Cardiovascular Health in Hispanic/Latino Adults of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.
Creators: name: Moon, Jee-Young
name: Garcia-Bedoya, Olga L
name: Fernández-Rhodes, Lindsay
name: Isasi, Carmen R
name: Gallo, Linda C
name: Perreira, Krista M
name: Cai, Jianwen
name: Daviglus, Martha L
name: Kaplan, Robert C
name: Thyagarajan, Bharat
name: Xue, Xiaonan
name: Suglia, Shakira
name: Filigrana, Paola
Publisher: name: Wolters Kluwer
Year: 2024

description:
BACKGROUND: The Hispanic/Latino population experiences socioeconomic disadvantages across the lifespan. Yet, little is known about the role of these disadvantages in cardiovascular health (CVH). We assessed the association of lifecourse socioeconomic position (SEP) with ideal CVH and change in Hispanic/Latino adults. METHODS AND RESULTS: We used longitudinal data from the HCHS/SOL (Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos). Childhood SEP was determined using parental educational attainment. Adult SEP was determined through an index combining participants' education, occupation, income, and assets at baseline. We classified participants into 4 socioeconomic mobility categories (eg, stable low or high SEP, upward or downward mobility). Using the 4 health factors of the American Heart Association "Life's Essential 8," we built a score of ideal CVH at baseline and the 6-year follow-up. Linear mixed-effects models using inverse probability weighting were fitted to assess the main associations. Higher childhood SEP was associated with higher ideal CVH at baseline (β for high school versus high school versus <high school, 3.76 [95% CI, 1.99-5.52]). Middle (β for middle versus low SEP, 3.57 [95% CI, 1.65-5.49]) and high adult SEP (β for high versus low SEP, 5.05 [95% CI, 2.55-7.55]) were also associated with higher ideal CVH. Socioeconomic mobility was also associated with higher ideal CVH. No life-course SEP exposure was associated with the change in ideal CVH over a 6-year period. CONCLUSIONS: Although high childhood and adult SEP and socioeconomic mobility were associated with higher levels of ideal CVH, they were not associated with change in ideal-CVH.
title: A pragmatic view of community-engaged research: Case studies of multi-sectoral public health partnerships
Creators: name: Romero, Diana
Publisher: name: Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare di Studi Urbani
Year: 2020
Subjects: Community-engaged research; urban health; mixed-methods research

description: Esistono vari approcci alla ricerca collaborativa, come la ricerca partecipativa basata sulla comunità, la ricerca-azione partecipativa, la Community- Engaged Research. Questi e altri paradigmi vengono utilizzati in base alla loro adeguatezza rispetto agli obiettivi di progetti specifici. In questo articolo si discutono tre progetti di salute pubblica che hanno utilizzato differenti modalità di collaborazione con i diversi partner di progetto in due contesti urbani negli Stati Uniti. Queste riguardano l’accesso e la fruizione dell’assistenza sanitaria presso ospedali pubblici e privati, problemi di salute e di sicurezza sul lavoro tra i lavoratori del settore alberghiero. Questi progetti hanno implicato la collaborazione con stakeholders di diversi settori e vari metodi di raccolta dati. Si analizza dunque il prezioso materiale raccolto, le intuizioni e le sfide per un rigoroso studio di progettazione e la validità dei risultati raggiunti grazie al coinvolgimento di diversi partner, e si avanzano suggerimenti per portare avanti simili ricerche collaborative. There are various approaches to collaborative research, such as Community- Based Participatory Research, Participatory Action Research, Community- Engaged Research. These and other paradigms are used based on their suitability to the objectives of specific projects. We discuss three public health projects that employed different ways to partner with diverse stakeholders in two urban settings in the USA. They involved health care access and utilization at private and public hospitals, occupational health and safety issues among resort hospitality workers. These projects involved collaboration with stakeholders from different sectors and data collection methods. We discuss the valuable access and insights as well as challenges to rigorous study design and validity of findings presented by engaging with diverse partners, and provide recommendations for carrying such collaborative research forward.
description: Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare di Studi Urbani, N. 8 (2020): FARE E CONOSCERE, INSIEME: SUPERARE GLI OSTACOLI E LE SFIDE DELLA RICERCA-AZIONE PER RENDERE IL MONDO UN POSTO MIGLIORE / TO DO AND KNOW SOMETHING TOGETHER: OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF ACTION-RESEARCH IN MAKING BETTER URBAN WORLDS
Gapless two-flavor color superconductor
Creators: name: Shovkovy, Igor
name: Huang, Mei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new, gapless two-flavor color superconducting phase that appears under conditions of local charge neutrality and $β$-equilibrium is revealed. In this phase, the symmetry of the ground state is the same as in the conventional two-flavor color superconductor. In the low-energy spectrum of this phase, however, there are only two gapped fermionic quasiparticles, and the other four quasiparticles are gapless. The origin and the basic properties of the gapless two-flavor color superconductor are discussed. This phase is a natural candidate for quark matter in cores of compact stars.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures. 1 reference and 1 figure are added; the discussion of the effective potential properties is extended
title: Apprendimento e inclusività: il coinvolgimento istituzionale nella PAR
Creators: name: Li Destri Nicosia, Giulia
Publisher: name: Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare di Studi Urbani
Year: 2020
Subjects: istituzioni; apprendimento; inclusività

description: Il paper si interroga sul ruolo del coinvolgimento istituzionale nell’ambito di processi di ricerca-azione partecipata, presentando una riflessione che ha l’obiettivo di sottolineare l’importanza che, in specifici contesti, può assumere tale coinvolgimento. Presentando un’esperienza in cui gli attori istituzionali hanno manifestato una forte reticenza, riconducibile ad una visione di inclusività profondamente divergente da quella del gruppo promotore del processo, il paper intende dimostrare come sottostimare il ruolo dell’apprendimento e il ruolo dei soggetti istituzionali in processi territoriali altamente trasformativi, possa ridurre la massimizzazione e la ridistribuzione dei benefici, specialmente a fronte dell’impoverimento delle istituzioni pubbliche. The paper analyses the role of institutional engagement in participatory action-research processes. In detail, it reflects on how such an engagement can play a crucial role under given circumstances, most of all in marginalized contexts. This is done by presenting a case in which institutional actors did not engage, and this raised critical issues. This reticence stemmed from a divergence with the steering group on the concept & practice of inclusivity. By examining this divergence, the paper argues that underestimating the role of both co-generative learning and institutional actors in highly transformative territorial processes can reduce the maximization and redistribution of benefits, especially vis-a-vis the impoverishment of public institutions.
description: Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare di Studi Urbani, N. 8 (2020): FARE E CONOSCERE, INSIEME: SUPERARE GLI OSTACOLI E LE SFIDE DELLA RICERCA-AZIONE PER RENDERE IL MONDO UN POSTO MIGLIORE / TO DO AND KNOW SOMETHING TOGETHER: OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF ACTION-RESEARCH IN MAKING BETTER URBAN WORLDS
Preference-aligned fertility management among married adolescent girls in Northern Nigeria: assessing a new measure of contraceptive autonomy
Creators: name: Chika-Igbokwe, Salome
name: Tumlinson, Katherine
name: Rothschild, Claire W
name: Njogu, Julius
name: Musau, Abednego
name: Bulama, Alhaji
name: Odeh, Roselyn
Publisher: name: BMJ
Year: 2024

description: INTRODUCTION: Universal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare-including family planning (FP)-is a global priority, yet there is no standard outcome measure to evaluate rights-based FP programme performance at the regional, national or global levels.
METHODS: We collected a modified version of preference-aligned fertility management (PFM), a newly proposed rights-based FP outcome measure which we operationalised as concordance between an individual's desired and actual current contraceptive use. We also constructed a modified version (satisfaction-adjusted PFM) that reclassified current contraceptive users who wanted to use contraception but who were dissatisfied with their method as not having PFM. Our analysis used data collected 3.5 months after contraceptive method initiation within an ongoing prospective cohort of married adolescent girls aged 15-19 years in Northern Nigeria. We described and compared prevalence of contraceptive use and PFM in this population.
RESULTS: Ninety-seven per cent (n=1020/1056) of respondents were practising PFM 3.5 months after initiating modern contraception, while 93% (n=986/1056) were practising satisfaction-adjusted PFM. Among participants not practising satisfaction-adjusted PFM (n=70), most were using contraception but did not want to be (n=30/70, 43%) or wanted to use contraception but were dissatisfied with their method (n=34/70, 49%), while the remaining 9% (n=6/70) wanted but were not currently using contraception.
CONCLUSION: PFM captured meaningful discordance between contraceptive use desires and behaviours in this cohort of married Nigerian adolescent girls. Observed discordance in both directions provides actionable insights for intervention. PFM is a promising rights-focused FP outcome measure that warrants future field-testing in programmatic and population-based research.
EXTERNALITY EFFECTS OF HONEY PRODUCTION
Creators: name: Arvane Vanyi, Georgina
name: Csapo, Zsolt
name: Karpati, Laszlo
name: Arvane Vanyi, Georgina
name: Csapo, Zsolt
name: Karpati, Laszlo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Production Economics
subject: Honey production
subject: bee-keeping
subject: positive external impacts
subject: HEEM model

description: Bee-keeping and honey production has a long history in Hungary. Honey is an important and healthy food of people and it can be consumed without any human processing. The honey production has important role, too. Some researchers say that if honey bee will extinct the humanity in the world would also extinct. It is true since plant pollination by honey bees is very important. It is confirmed by researchers’ studies that plant pollination by honey bees has significant positive external impacts on potential yields in orchards. Although the contribution of honey production to the GDP in Hungary is only a few per cent, other benefits play more important role. One of them is the positive external effect – mentioned above – and the other is the contribution to the biodiversity of the nature. This paper focuses on secondary research methods, gathering and evaluating data regarding the positive external impacts of plant pollination by honey bees as well as finding possible solution for the problem that bee-keepers have a lot of costs in connection with carrying honey bees to orchards, while farmers “only” benefit from the positive externality of plant pollination of their fields. To evaluate its economic effects a numerical HEEM-model was developed and applied for the Hungarian situation.
Les Houches guide to reusable ML models in LHC analyses
Creators: name: Araz, Jack Y.
name: Buckley, Andy
name: Kasieczka, Gregor
name: Kieseler, Jan
name: Kraml, Sabine
name: Kvellestad, Anders
name: Lessa, Andre
name: Procter, Tomasz
name: Raklev, Are
name: Reyes-Gonzalez, Humberto
name: Rolbiecki, Krzysztof
name: Sekmen, Sezen
name: Unel, Gokhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the increasing usage of machine-learning in high-energy physics analyses, the publication of the trained models in a reusable form has become a crucial question for analysis preservation and reuse. The complexity of these models creates practical issues for both reporting them accurately and for ensuring the stability of their behaviours in different environments and over extended timescales. In this note we discuss the current state of affairs, highlighting specific practical issues and focusing on the most promising technical and strategic approaches to ensure trustworthy analysis-preservation. This material originated from discussions in the LHC Reinterpretation Forum and the 2023 PhysTeV workshop at Les Houches.
description: 12 pages; v2: added funding acknowledgement; v3 update in response to referee comments