cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Organic Computing in Off-highway Machines
Creators: name: Wünsche, Micaela
name: Mostaghim, Sanaz
name: Schmeck, Hartmut
name: Kautzmann, Timo
name: Geimer, Marcus
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2010

description: Machine management systems in off-highway machines such as tractors or wheel loaders are designed for efficient operation and reduced fuel consumption in some predefined scenarios for which the machine has been developed. In this paper, we outline how concepts from Organic Computing may be used to realize a self-organizing, reliable, adaptive, and robust machine management system that is capable of adjusting to new situations. We propose an architecture for a machine management system based on the generic Observer/Controller architecture and focus on the structure of the Observer. Furthermore, we study the feasibility of working cycle detection by the Observer and analyze real and synthetic data from an off-highway machine. To extract features by which different working cycles of an off-highway machine can be distinguished, we employ principal component analysis.
Advanced Elastocaloric Cooling Devices Based on Shape Memory Alloy Films
Creators: name: Brüderlin, Florian
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2022
Subjects: Elastokalorik
Festkörperkühlung
Kaskadierte Kühleinheit
Superelastische Formgedächtnislegierung
Aktive Miniatur Kühlung
Elastocaloric Cooling
Solid-State Cooling
Superelastic Shape Memory Alloy
Cascaded Cooling Device
Small Scale Cooling

description: Elastocaloric cooling is an emerging solid-state cooling technology with the potential to provide environmentally friendly, efficient cooling. The elastocaloric effect in superelastic shape memory alloy films is used to develop advanced cooling devices for small-scale applications. Cascaded and parallelized devices are developed to increase device temperature span and cooling capacity. The concepts are proven experimentally, a maximum temperature span of 27° C is achieved in a cascaded device.
Usi civici di pascolo e legnatico nell’altopiano di Rascino (Rieti), trasformazioni delle antiche forme di democrazia e autogoverno comunitario
Creators: name: Adriani, Settimio
name: Di Pasquale, Antonio
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: Since the Middle Ages the vast area of the Rascino plateau (Fiamignano, Rieti) has been burdened by the ‘civic uses’ of pasture and firewood. The primary purpose of civic uses, for the exclusive benefit of residents and clearly explained in the current municipal regulations, is to provide survival opportunities for the poorest. The civic use of pasture exists in the communal lands, and after the harvest also in the private ones. This way, even non-owners have the opportunity to practice sheep farming, an activity that characterizes this territory. The annual assignment of a lot of municipal beechwood to each family guarantees, instead, house heating. The social and productive changes occurred in the middle of the last century modified the management of civic uses. The grazing one has been concentrated in the hands of a few big breeders; that of firewood, suffocated by increasingly stringent laws and regulations, is now practically exclusively used by professional forestry companies. In both cases the social purpose of the civic uses has been completely distorted. This work has a double purpose: to examine the distorted dynamics in place, and to encourage institutions to take the necessary measures to bring everything back to original form, already positively tested elsewhere, with positive economic and social results for the populations and benefits for environmental conservation.
description: Scienze del Territorio, Vol. 8 (2020): Democrazia dei luoghi: azioni e forme di autogoverno comunitario / Democracy of places: actions and forms of community self-government
Mexican oil and American diplomacy
Creators: name: Young, Paul Patterson
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1934
Subjects: subject: Petroleum industry and trade
subject: Mexico
subject: Foreign relations
subject: United States
subject: Petroleum industry and trade--Mexico
subject: Mexico--Foreign relations--United States
subject: United States--Foreign relations--Mexico

description: This dissertation in the main treats of the influence of oil on the diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States. It therefore covers a period of approximately thirty years in which period one sees the beginning, the highest peak of production and the decline of the Mexican oil industry. The diplomatic controversy over oil passed through a similar evolutionary process almost in direct proportion to its economic development. No attempt has been made by the author to give a narrative history of Mexico which already has been surveyed in full. Nor has he even attempted to survey the entire field of diplomatic relations between the two countries since the Mexican Revolution of 1910. There have been a number of bases for disputes in this period, but oil has been the most important. That is why the author has singled out oil from the other points in dispute as a special study. Why did the United States recognize for some eighty years the principle of the Calvo Clause when applied to railroad contracts and refuse to recognize it when Mexico attempted to apply it to the oil industry? Why didn’t the agrarian legislation of the Mexican Revolution produce a repercussion like the petroleum legislation which affected fewer American investors than the former? Why was it that oil was in the background when the relations between the two countries were most strained and most bitter? These and other questions the author has attempted to answer in this monograph. In developing this topic, the author has made use of available primary and secondary material. Some ten months residence in Mexico City in 1932 and 1933 gave him an atmosphere and background of immense value as well as the opportunity to interview persons who had first-hand information on the subject. Certain difficulties have confronted the author in the use of material secured from interviews. In the first place certain people frequently had no documents to back up pertinent statements. A second difficulty was based on their dislike for being quoted since the Mexican Government frowns upon information given by its citizens or foreigners which either reflects upon it or might be used as a basis of claims against it. If the interviewed happened to be landowners or leaseholders or employees of the oil companies, they feared discrimination by the oil companies for revealing any incriminating evidence
Domini collettivi, forme di autogoverno per la gestione degli ecosistemi e lo sviluppo locale
Creators: name: Francucci, Marco Emanuel
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: One of the most ancient forms of self-government of environmental systems is that relating to the management of civic uses and collective lands, in which a specific local community controls and manages sustainable resources (fields, pastures, woods, etc.) sustainably and efficiently. The paper aims to briefly retrace the salient stages of the history of collective domains, and to explore their value as “goods that are produced by long co-evolutionary processes between human settlement and environment” (Magnaghi 2015, 139) highlighting the appearance of complex socio-ecological systems (SES). Finally, using the theory developed by Elinor Ostrom to analyze the sustainability of SES (Ostrom 2009), focuses on the role of collective domains as an ecosystem management tool and as a device for local development. Through the empirical analysis of a case study located in Central Apennine in Umbria, we want to highlight elements of continuity and discontinuity of the system as the socio-economic conditions change.
description: Scienze del Territorio, Vol. 8 (2020): Democrazia dei luoghi: azioni e forme di autogoverno comunitario / Democracy of places: actions and forms of community self-government
New estimate for the time-dependent thermal nucleosynthesis of $^{180}$Ta$^m$
Creators: name: Hayakawa, T.
name: Kajino, T.
name: Chiba, S.
name: Mathews, G. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have made a new time-dependent calculation of the supernova production ratio of the long-lived isomeric state of $^{180}$Ta. Such a time-dependent solution is crucial for understanding the production and survival of this isotope. We include the explicit linking between the isomer and all known excited states.We have also calculated the properties of possible links to a conjectured excited state that might decrease the final isomer residual ratio. We find that the explicit time evolution of the synthesis of $^{180}$Ta using the available nuclear data avoids the overproduction relative to $^{138}$La for a $ν$-process neutrino temperature of 4 MeV.
description: Published in Phys. Rev. C, 13 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Regulatory role of the lncRNAs MIAT and PVT1 in Behçet’s disease through targeting miR-93-5p and miR-124-3p
Creators: name: ElMonier, Asmaa A.
name: Shaker, Olfat G.
name: Ali, Shimaa O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Aerobic metabolism and temperature : intraspecific variation and thermal acclimation in Atlantic killifish
Creators: name: Healy, Timothy Mark
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Environmental temperatures impact the performance of ectothermic organisms, such that changes in performance with temperature often influence range limits. Aerobic scope (the difference between maximum and standard aerobic metabolic rates) has been proposed as a physiological mechanism that may underlie the effects of temperature on performance. However, the effects of phenotypic plasticity and genetic divergence on aerobic scope curves, and the physiological mechanisms that constrain changes in the shapes of these curves remain poorly understood. Here, I assess the responses of aerobic scope to temperature in two subspecies of the eurythermal Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) through measurements of routine and maximum oxygen consumption. I demonstrate that killifish maintain aerobic scope over wide ranges of temperatures even during acute thermal exposures (5-33°C), but that thermal acclimation increases aerobic scope within optimal temperature ranges and at extreme temperatures (Chapter 2). Differences in aerobic scope as a result of thermal acclimation and intraspecific divergence in killifish are primarily associated with differences in routine oxygen consumption. Northern killifish have higher routine oxygen consumption than southern killifish, whereas cold-acclimated killifish have lower routine oxygen consumption than acutely cold-exposed warm-acclimated killifish. I also demonstrate that intraspecific variation in routine oxygen consumption is not associated with differences in acute thermal tolerance and hypoxia tolerance in admixed killifish (Chapter 3), and that decreases in routine oxygen consumption as a result of cold acclimation are paralleled by lower expression levels of genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation in muscle tissue (Chapter 4). Interestingly, despite these changes in oxidative phosphorylation gene expression, positive regulators of mitochondrial biogenesis are induced in cold-acclimated killifish (Chapters 4 & 5), suggesting that changes in mitochondrial volume density may improve oxygen delivery to mitochondria rather than compensating the effects of low temperature on cellular respiration. Taken together, my data indicate that cold acclimation may result in inverse compensation of metabolism in killifish, whereas intraspecific divergence results in countergradient variation in metabolism (i.e., thermal compensation). These opposite patterns may reflect latitudinal differences in selection associated with overwinter survival, and may contribute to the differences between the killifish subspecies that maintain intraspecific range boundaries.
Si scrive cibo (agroecologico e territorializzato), si legge democrazia (di luogo)
Creators: name: Parascandolo, Fabio
name: De Meo, Paola
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: This essay offers an analysis of the global situation of food systems, providing a few pointers concerning two interconnected issues: the democratisation of the access to food, and the need to heal the ecological damage caused by centralized and mass systems for production and consumption of merchandise. We approach such phenomena through a multi-scalar prism, interpreting the geographical articulation of social behaviour through a continuous shift from local to global. We focus on the processes of modernization and development of commodity-food that, since last century, took hold in many regions, along with their social and ecological failures. Subsequently, various alternative paths of production, distribution and consumption of food are studied, trying to match the nutritional daily needs of local citizens but also the ecological features of their territories and of the life-supporting systems of our planet. You write food and you read democracy as our most urgent challenge is to recover the capacity to reconcile human and ecological communities. This can only be achieved by renouncing centralized and hierarchical (and anti-democratic by nature) models of commodity management. Ultimately, the most effective ‘therapies’ to heal the current crisis of social and political systems are nestled in those agro-ecological, small-scale farming practices that, by cooling climate, can restore the independence of local communities and their dwellers.
description: Scienze del Territorio, Vol. 8 (2020): Democrazia dei luoghi: azioni e forme di autogoverno comunitario / Democracy of places: actions and forms of community self-government
Linear programming problems for frontier estimation
Creators: name: Bouchard, Guillaume
name: Girard, Stéphane
name: Iouditski, Anatoli
name: Nazin, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose new estimates for the frontier of a set of points. They are defined as kernel estimates covering all the points and whose associated support is of smallest surface. The estimates are written as linear combinatio- ns of kernel functions applied to the points of the sample. The coefficients of the linear combination are then computed by solving a linear programming problem. In the general case, the solution of the optimizat- ion problem is sparse, that is, only a few coefficients are non zero. The corresponding points play the role of support vectors in the statistical learning theory. The L_1 error between the estimated and the true frontiers is shown to be almost surely converging to zero, and the rate of convergence is provided. The behaviour of the estimates on finite sample situations is illustrated on some simulations.
Da parco urbano ad ‘agorà’ pubblica
Creators: name: Messina, Sergio
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: The “right to the city” theorized at the end of the 1960s by Henri Lefebvre and ‘positivized’ in some international and European Charters is now intertwined with the theme of regeneration and reuse of certain fundamental goods for the needs of community. A need today increasingly perceived as necessary and urgent by citizens, associations and movements that share with local institutions their management through innovative administrative tools that find a direct foundation in the Italian Constitution. Due to the sectoral nature of urban policies, however, there is a risk of losing sight of the sense of territory in its dynamic unity. Through the narration of a story- that involved a municipal public park located in the centre of Caserta and called ‘Villa Giaquinto’, we will try to show how, despite this area has also been invested by an experience of ‘shared administration’ like many others in Italy, through a gradual growth and maturation by engagement of various subjects that are part of the social and economic fabric of the city, we can now say that part of the citizens of Caserta have succeeded in rebuilding (albeit in an embryonic form) a small agora, and have promoted a wide network that is now a potential ‘point of irradiation’ for the entire city area.
description: Scienze del Territorio, Vol. 8 (2020): Democrazia dei luoghi: azioni e forme di autogoverno comunitario / Democracy of places: actions and forms of community self-government
Industrial-scale wind energy in Italian southern Apennine
Creators: name: Lipari, Samadhi
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: This paper analyses the penetration of industrial-scale wind energy in the south Italy provinces of Benevento, Avellino, Foggia and Potenza, which host 43 per cent of national installed capacity. Such a process has induced transformations affecting (i) historical contextualised socio-ecological patterns as a consequence of their inclusion into value extraction chains and (ii) substantive democratic dynamics at the local level. The underlying theoretical framework interprets the green economy or green capitalism as a transformation of capitalism mode of regulation in accordance with ecological modernisation theories. More precisely, it fits into the political ecology debate around extractivism, primitive accumulation, land grabbing and environmentality. The paper develops by first giving an account of the investment penetration, then describing extractive mechanisms in terms of practices and actors. The last two sections explore effects of such processes on territorial democracy and propose the concept of ‘territorio’ grabbing as an analytical innovation.
description: Scienze del Territorio, Vol. 8 (2020): Democrazia dei luoghi: azioni e forme di autogoverno comunitario / Democracy of places: actions and forms of community self-government
Performance and comparative assessment of DRDO bio-digesters
Creators: name: Kukde, Kaustubh Dinkar
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90409 Wastewater Treatment Processes
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: The research aimed to understand and evaluate whether the standardisation of DRDO biodigesters as a product across DRDO biodigester technology licensees has achieved consistency in effluent quality irrespective of the differences in licensee products in terms of factors such as materials, immobilisation matrices and designs. The research also aimed to analyse the performance of these products against the locally available onsite sludge treatment options. The DRDO biodigesters and the local alternate onsite sanitation technologies in India and Nepal were part of the study. The effluent and influent quality analysis was done for the parameters informed by the literature review. The comparison between the effluent quality was supplemented with the qualitative data collected from users and the DRDO biodigester licensees. The study has established a theory on the standardization achieved amongst DRDO biodigester products for attaining consistency in effluent quality. It was found that environment in which the biodigester work influences its effluent quality even though the standardization has been achieved. The DRDO biodigesters have shown better performance over the local alternate sanitation technologies in use especially in terms of BOD reduction and user satisfaction. The study has contributed to bridging the knowledge gap on the standardisation of the DRDO biodigester products and identified potential factors affecting biodigester effluent quality consistency.
Automation of Multi-leg One-loop virtual Amplitudes
Creators: name: Maitre, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the last few years, much progress has been made in the computation of one-loop virtual matrix elements for processes involving many external particles. In this contribution the methods that have enabled this recent progress are briefly reviewed with a focus on their computing and automation aspects.
description: Plenary talk given at 13th International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, ACAT2010, February 22-27, 2010, Jaipur, India, 10 pages
L' autorganizzazione tra partecipazione attiva e logiche neoliberiste
Creators: name: Gallitano, Giancarlo
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: Cities represent the main sites of capital accumulation and reproduction, so urban space highlights the most violent contradictions of capitalism (Harvey 2012) through privatization and managerial strategies. At the same time, cities are the primary sites of “biopolitical production”, consisting of “living dynamic of cultural practices, intellectual circuits, affective networks and social institutions” (Hardt, Negri 2009). These elements too are subject to capitalist accumulation. For this reason, self-organized movements of resistance to neoliberal policies emerge in terms of re-appropriation of the collective dimension by citizens. The alleged extraneousness of these experiences with respect to the neoliberal logics represents, however, only a theoretical assumption that is constantly tested by everyday practices. In examining self-organization processes as re-appropriation practices of territorial heritage – through the theoretical framework of commoning (De Angelis 2010) – the analysis of “SOS Ballarò” civic committee experience in Palermo will allow to highlight the areas of interference between the dimension of ‘common’ and market logics which characterize the daily routine of practices.
description: Scienze del Territorio, Vol. 8 (2020): Democrazia dei luoghi: azioni e forme di autogoverno comunitario / Democracy of places: actions and forms of community self-government
SUPER HUMAN BY IN VITRO FERTILIZATION (IVF)
Creators: name: Brandl, Edenilson
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: in vitro fertilization
embryo optimization
environmental factors
IVF procedures
embryonic development
temperature control
pH modulation
nutrient concentrations
comparative analysis
statistical modeling

description: In the realm of in vitro fertilization (IVF), optimizing embryos involves a meticulous evaluation of diverse environmental strategies proposed in the scientific literature. Researchers scrutinize methodologies targeting improvements in conditions during IVF procedures, including temperature, pH, and nutrient concentrations. The comparative analysis of these strategies entails a systematic examination of their impact on key embryonic metrics, such as morphology, genetic expressions, and overall developmental potential. Through rigorous experimentation, researchers generate datasets facilitating a quantitative and qualitative comparison, aiming to identify optimal environmental conditions for embryonic development in IVF. The complex nature of this comparison requires statistical analyses and computational modeling to discern trends, correlations, and trade-offs, providing valuable insights into the effects of environmental optimization on embryonic outcomes in the context of IVF.
 
Im Bereich der In-vitro-Fertilisation (IVF) erfordert die Optimierung von Embryonen eine sorgfältige Bewertung verschiedener Umweltstrategien, die in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur vorgeschlagen werden. Forscher untersuchen Methoden, die auf Verbesserungen der Bedingungen während IVF-Eingriffen abzielen, einschließlich Temperatur, pH-Wert und Nährstoffkonzentrationen. Die vergleichende Analyse dieser Strategien erfordert eine systematische Untersuchung ihrer Auswirkungen auf wichtige embryonale Kennzahlen wie Morphologie, genetische Expression und das allgemeine Entwicklungspotenzial. Durch rigorose Experimente generieren Forscher Datensätze, die einen quantitativen und qualitativen Vergleich ermöglichen, mit dem Ziel, optimale Umweltbedingungen für die Embryonalentwicklung bei IVF zu ermitteln. Die Komplexität dieses Vergleichs erfordert statistische Analysen und Computermodelle, um Trends, Korrelationen und Kompromisse zu erkennen und wertvolle Einblicke in die Auswirkungen der Umweltoptimierung auf die embryonalen Ergebnisse im Kontext der IVF zu gewinnen.
Apparent temperature anisotropies due to wave activity in the solar wind
Creators: name: Verscharen, Daniel
name: Marsch, Eckart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fast solar wind is a collisionless plasma permeated by plasma waves on many different scales. A plasma wave represents the natural interplay between the periodic changes of the electromagnetic field and the associated coherent motions of the plasma particles. In this paper, a model velocity distribution function is derived for a plasma in a single, coherent, large-amplitude wave. This model allows one to study the kinetic effects of wave motions on particle distributions. They are by in-situ spacecraft measured by counting, over a certain sampling time, the particles coming from various directions and having different energies. We compare our results with the measurements by the Helios spacecraft, and thus find that by assuming high wave activity we are able to explain key observed features of the measured distributions within the framework of our model. We also address the recent discussions on nonresonant wave--particle interactions and apparent heating. The applied time-averaging procedure leads to an apparent ion temperature anisotropy which is connected but not identical to the intrinsic temperature of the underlying distribution function.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, publisher version under http://www.ann-geophys.net/29/909/2011/angeo-29-909-2011.html
title: Zeit in Natur und Kultur: Vorträge anlässlich der Jahresversammlung am 20. und 21. September 2019 in Halle (Saale)
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Zeit
subject: Mathematik
subject: Physik
subject: Chemie
subject: Philosophie
subject: Psychologie
subject: Biologie
subject: Medizin
subject: Ägyptologie
subject: 000

description: Die Zeit ist eine Urerfahrung des Menschen und gleichzeitig nach wie vor ein Mysterium. Sie ist ein Fundament unseres Kosmos, wir messen sie immer genauer, wir untersuchen sie und in ihr ablaufende Prozesse über enorme Skalenbreiten – von Bruchteilen von Sekunden bis zu Millionen von Jahren. Wir empﬁnden ihren Lauf sehr subjektiv und sind den durch die Natur vorgegebenen periodischen Rhythmen unterworfen. Und wir versuchen Zeit für uns optimal zu gestalten. Zur Jahresversammlung 2019 hat sich die Leopoldina dem Thema „Zeit in Natur und Kultur“ gewidmet. Vom 20. bis 21. September diskutierten Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler in Halle (Saale) zu technologischen Entwicklungen und gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen. Dabei ging es unter anderem um das Verständnis und den Umgang mit Zeit in Physik, Technik und Chemie, Philosophie und Psychologie, Chronobiologie und -medizin sowie um zeitliche Entwicklungsprozesse.
description: Nova Acta Leopoldina: NAL ; Abhandlungen der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, vol. 425
La ciudad contra el Estado
Creators: name: España, Kike
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: The idea that the city is the form that the state takes at its smallest scale is widespread. Its institutions and its way of functioning respond to the logic of the state-form, but has it always been like that? Can it work differently? Does the city have its own form beyond, and even against, the state? The city against the state would be the possibility of a social formation with a different logic with respect to the capture of state apparatus. The city-form coexists with the state-form, in conflict, from Athens to the Paris Commune of 1871, and even in the recent municipalist experiences.
description: Scienze del Territorio, Vol. 8 (2020): Democrazia dei luoghi: azioni e forme di autogoverno comunitario / Democracy of places: actions and forms of community self-government
Reanalysis of the (J = 5) state at 592 keV in 180Ta and its role in the neutrino-process nucleosynthesis of 180Ta in supernovae
Creators: name: Hayakawa, T.
name: Mohr, P.
name: Kajino, T.
name: Chiba, S.
name: Mathews, G. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the production and freeze-out of the isomer 180Tam in the neutrino-process. We consider the influence of a possible low-lying intermediate (J = 5) state at 592 keV using a transition width estimated from the measured half-life. This more realistic width is much smaller than the previous estimate.We find that the 592-keV state leads only to a small reduction of the residual isomer population ratio from the previous result; that is, considering this better estimate for the transition width, the isomer population ratio changes from R = 0.39 to R = 0.38, whereas previously it was estimated that this transition could reduce the ratio to R = 0.18. This finding strengthens the evidence that 138La and 180Ta are coproduced by neutrino nucleosynthesis with an electron neutrino temperature of kT~4 MeV.
description: Published in Physical Review C, 9 Pages, 2 Figures
Additional file 1 of Extending long-range phasing and haplotype library imputation algorithms to large and heterogeneous datasets
Creators: name: Money, Daniel
name: Wilson, David
name: Jenko, Janez
name: Whalen, Andrew
name: Thorn, Steve
name: Gorjanc, Gregor
name: Hickey, John M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Illumina 50 Kv2 per population phasing results from AlphaPhase for a range of core lengths. Table S2. Illumina 50 Kv2 per generation results from AlphaPhase for a range of core lengths. Table S3. Illumina HD per population results from AlphaPhase for a range of core lengths. Table S4. Illumina HD per generation results from AlphaPhase for a range of core lengths. Table S5. Illumina 50 Kv2 per population results from AlphaPhase for a range of subset sizes. Table S6. Illumina 50 Kv2 per generation results from AlphaPhase for a range of subset sizes. Table S7. Illumina HD per population results from AlphaPhase for a range of subset sizes. Table S8. Illumina HD per generation results from AlphaPhase for a range of subset sizes. Table S9. Illumina 50 Kv2 results from AlphaPhase for scenarios of different sizes. Table S10. Illumina HD results from AlphaPhase for scenarios of different sizes. Table S11. Illumina 50 Kv2 results from Eage2 for scenarios of different sizes.
Coscienza di luogo e comunità patrimoniali
Creators: name: Baratti, Francesco
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: By “patrimonial community”, the Article 2 of the Faro Convention means “a group of people who attach a value to specific aspects of the cultural heritage, and who wish to support and transmit them to future generations, within the framework of public action”. This paper aims at exploring the role such communities can play in developing methods and tools for the establishment of new institutions of democracy able to enhance the eco-territorial and common dimension of places. The European Landscape Convention and the Faro Cultural Heritage Convention represent the common denominator of a broader reflection that intends to look at the value that landscape and cultural heritage can have for contemporary society through concrete experimentation with participatory practices and policies. The reception of these Conventions has been pursued in Puglia within the experimental project called “Community Maps” of the Regional Territorial Landscape Plan (PPTR). In particular, the contribution focuses on the experience, developed in the city of Lecce, with the participatory laboratory set up within the sustainable urban regeneration process for the degraded areas of Lecce’s marinas.
description: Scienze del Territorio, Vol. 8 (2020): Democrazia dei luoghi: azioni e forme di autogoverno comunitario / Democracy of places: actions and forms of community self-government
The efficient spin injector scheme based on Heusler materials
Creators: name: Chadov, Stanislav
name: Graf, Tanja
name: Chadova, Kristina
name: Dai, Xuefang
name: Casper, Frederick
name: Fecher, Gerhard H.
name: Felser, Claudia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the rational design scheme intended to provide the stable high spin-polarization at the interfaces of the magneto-resistive junctions by fulfilling the criteria of structural and chemical compatibilities at the interface. This can be realized by joining the semiconducting and half-metallic Heusler materials with similar structures. The present first-principal calculations verify that interface remains half-metallic if the nearest interface layers effectively form a stable Heusler material with the properties intermediate between the surrounding bulk parts. This leads to a simple rule for selecting the proper combinations.
Democracies in common places
Creators: name: Serra, Rita
name: Allegretti, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: We respond to Greta Thunberg’s call for democracy to protect, restore and fund forests by taking it to the commoner s’ assemblies of baldios – mountain community forests returned to the local people, in Portugal, in the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution. We highlight that when trees are considered as a technology to repair climate, they must be understood as a tool whose purpose is set by the people. By telling the tale of the afforestation of baldios, we show that trees can be harmful for local populations when their plantation disrupts local ways of being without providing alternatives, changing fire regimes. We argue the ontological transformation that results from the break-up of mutually constitutive relationships between the people and mountain places opened the way for ‘Faustian contracts’ – a loss of ‘the soul’ – by selling the long-term provision of goods to address short-term needs. When decentralization processes are captured by Faustian contracts, they can result in a battle of democracies, opposing participatory democracies to representative democracies of parishes and municipalities. Community forestry is then reframed as a struggle not so much about local control, but to gain back the soul and collectively set directions to face adversities.
description: Scienze del Territorio, Vol. 8 (2020): Democrazia dei luoghi: azioni e forme di autogoverno comunitario / Democracy of places: actions and forms of community self-government
La riconquista popolare della città storica a Saint-Macaire (Aquitania)
Creators: name: Agostini, Ilaria
name: Vannnetiello, Daniele
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: The French town of Saint-Macaire, near Bordeaux along the Garonne, since 1967 has been representing an experiment site for the popular re-conquest of historic cities: from the restoration yard of the Benedictine cloister, wanted and managed by the village youth, the movement quickly switched its target towards municipal management. Over more than three decades of city government, it became possible to integrate into the historic city, read as a common good, public housing and collective facilities, re-appropriation of artisan skills and a dense cultural and associative activity, new and old dwellers. All this through forms of social self-organisation that have given rise to a fundamental grassroots planning experience.
description: Scienze del Territorio, Vol. 8 (2020): Democrazia dei luoghi: azioni e forme di autogoverno comunitario / Democracy of places: actions and forms of community self-government
Quantification of the heat transfer during the plasma arc remelting of titanium alloys
Creators: name: Ji, Shiwei
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Plasma-arc cold hearth melting (PAM) is an important technology used in the melting process for titanium alloys. Compared to the more common, electron beam cold hearth re-melting process, PAM allows an inert gas environment which significantly reduces the evaporation rate of alloying elements. To develop a better understanding of the effects of the plasma torch in the PAM process, a numerical model is being developed. However, this model requires an accurate description of the torch heat flux distribution. This research presented in this thesis focused on developing and verifying an inverse heat transfer analysis methodology to characterize the heat flux distribution from a plasma torch. A test block trial was conducted with in an industrial scale plasma arc furnace to measure the temperature history in a test block during heating and cooling. Following the trial, the test block was sectioned to get the liquid pool profile. The distribution of heat flux calculated from the inverse analysis assumed a Gaussian-like distribution, decreasing radially from the centerline to the edge of the block. Predictions for temperature history and liquid pool profile are in good agreement with the measured results from the experiment. Sensitivity analysis was performed to find some key factors that influence the prediction.
Magnetic properties of exchange biased and of unbiased oxide/permalloy thin layers: a ferromagnetic resonance and Brillouin scattering study
Creators: name: Zighem, Fatih
name: Roussigné, Yves
name: Chérif, Salim Mourad
name: Moch, Philippe
name: Youssef, Jamal Ben
name: Paumier, Fabien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microstrip ferromagnetic resonance and Brillouin scattering are used to provide a comparative determination of the magnetic parameters of thin permalloy layers interfaced with a non-magnetic (Al2O3) or with an antiferromagnetic oxide (NiO). It is shown that the perpendicular anisotropy is monitored by an interfacial surface energy term which is practically independent of the nature of the interface. In the investigated interval of thicknesses (5-25 nm) the saturation magnetisation does not significantly differ from the reported one in bulk permalloy. In-plane uniaxial anisotropy and exchange-bias anisotropy are also derived from this study of the dynamic magnetic excitations and compared to our independent evaluations using conventional magnetometry
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, submited to Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Quale comunità per quale territorio
Creators: name: De La Pierre, Sergio
Publisher: name: Scienze del Territorio
Year: 2020

description: A wide-ranging reflection on the theme of ‘community’ is all the more urgent today, because this word is inflated and at the same time necessary for a perspective of ‘regeneration’ of society. The industrial era tended to marginalise the historical forms of ‘community’ organisation, but then slipped into a vision of both man and world centred on individual competitiveness and purely economic values. This is why today we are witnessing the rebirth of a strong ‘need for community’: this, even if often manifests itself as a defensive closure to the world (the ‘communities of resentment’), actually can allude to new paths of civilization, provided that the principles of individual freedom and a participatory community democracy, based on the idea of multidimensional integration, are safeguarded.
description: Scienze del Territorio, Vol. 8 (2020): Democrazia dei luoghi: azioni e forme di autogoverno comunitario / Democracy of places: actions and forms of community self-government
Additional file 3 of Identification and validation of necroptosis-related prognostic gene signature and tumor immune microenvironment infiltration characterization in esophageal carcinoma
Creators: name: Sun, Kai
name: Hong, Juan-juan
name: Chen, Dong-mei
name: Luo, Zhan-xiong
name: Li, Jing-zhang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1. Univariate survival analysis of differentially expressed NRGs with prognostic value in ESCA.
Global bifurcation for asymptotically linear Schrödinger equations
Creators: name: Genoud, François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove global asymptotic bifurcation for a very general class of asymptotically linear Schrödinger equations \begin{equation}\label{1} \{{array}{lr} \D u + f(x,u)u = \lam u \quad \text{in} \ {\mathbb R}^N, u \in H^1({\mathbb R}^N)\setmimus\{0\}, \quad N \ge 1. {array}. \end{equation} The method is topological, based on recent developments of degree theory. We use the inversion $u\to v:= u/\Vert u\Vert_X^2$ in an appropriate Sobolev space $X=W^{2,p}({\mathbb R}^N)$, and we first obtain bifurcation from the line of trivial solutions for an auxiliary problem in the variables $(λ,v) \in {\mathbb R} \x X$. This problem has a lack of compactness and of regularity, requiring a truncation procedure. Going back to the original problem, we obtain global branches of positive/negative solutions 'bifurcating from infinity'. We believe that, for the values of $λ$ covered by our bifurcation approach, the existence result we obtain for positive solutions of \eqref{1} is the most general so far
Essential variational Poisson cohomology
Creators: name: De Sole, Alberto
name: Kac, Victor G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37K10 (Primary) 37K30, 17B80 (Secondary)

description: In our recent paper [DSK11] we computed the dimension of the variational Poisson cohomology for any quasiconstant coefficient matrix differential operator K of arbitrary order with invertible leading coefficient, provided that the algebra of differential functions is normal and is an algebra over a linearly closed differential field. In the present paper we show that, for K skewadjoint, this cohomology, viewed as a Z-graded Lie superalgebra, is isomorphic to the finite dimensional Lie superalgebra of Hamiltonian vector fields over a Grassman algebra. We also prove that the subalgebra of `essential' variational Poisson cohomology, consisting of classes vanishing on the Casimirs of K, is zero. This vanishing result has applications to the theory of bi-Hamiltonian structures and their deformations. At the end of the paper we consider also the translation invariant case.
description: 30 pages
CMB and SZ effect separation with Constrained Internal Linear Combinations
Creators: name: Remazeilles, Mathieu
name: Delabrouille, Jacques
name: Cardoso, Jean-Francois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The `Internal Linear Combination' (ILC) component separation method has been extensively used on the data of the WMAP space mission, to extract a single component, the CMB, from the WMAP multifrequency data. We extend the ILC approach for reconstructing millimeter astrophysical emissions beyond the CMB alone. In particular, we construct a Constrained ILC to extract clean maps of both the CMB or the thermal Sunyaev Zeldovich (SZ) effect, with vanishing contamination from the other. The performance of the Constrained ILC is tested on simulations of Planck mission observations, for which we successfully reconstruct independent estimates of the CMB and of the thermal SZ.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Can Biogas help implement successful sanitation in Kenya’s Schools?
Creators: name: Kirkland, Glyn
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90409 Wastewater Treatment Processes
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: The purpose of this research was to evaluate the success of sanitation facilities which generate biogas in Kenyan schools. The Development Assistance Committee (DAC) criteria was used to assess the success, considering the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of the sanitation project. The results of this analysis offered lessons learnt and recommendations to enable successful implementation of sanitation in schools.
The research involved six schools, three in Kibera, Nairobi and three in rural Kenya. Each school was visited in March and October 2019. It was found that sanitation had improved at each school compared to the original sanitation and waste management behaviour had improved. Furthermore, evidence of cleaning procedures was in place. However, the reliance on donor funding and on the NGO to continually support the operation of the sanitation were identified. This highlighted risks to the sustainability of the biogas sanitation in Kenya’s schools.
Cauchy problem for the Boltzmann-BGK model near a global Maxwellian
Creators: name: Yun, Seok-Bae
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we are interested in the Cauchy problem for the Boltzmann-BGK model for a general class of collision frequencies. We prove that the Boltzmann-BGK model linearized around a global Maxwellian admits a unique global smooth solution if the initial perturbation is sufficiently small in a high order energy norm. We also establish an asymptotic decay estimate and uniform $L^2$-stability for nonlinear perturbations.
description: 26 pages