cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sensor network optimization using Bayesian networks, decision graphs, and value of information
Creators: name: Malings, Carl
name: Pozzi, Matteo
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Bayesian Networks (BNs) and decision graphs provide a useful framework for modeling the uncertain behavior of civil engineering infrastructures subjected to various risks, as well as the potential outcomes of risk mitigation actions undertaken by managing agents. These graphs can also guide optimal sensing and inspection of infrastructure by maximizing the value of information of sensing efforts. This paper presents a general framework for modeling infrastructure systems using BNs and for evaluating sensor placement metrics within this model. An example application of the use of the value of information metric in guiding optimal sensing in a system of infrastructure assets in the San Francisco Bay area subjected to seismic risk is then presented. A parametric study also investigates the sensitivity of the value of information metric to various parameters of the BN system model.
EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND WORK-RELATED ISSUES AMONG HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS(NURSES AND DOCTORS): A CRITICAL EXAMINATION
Creators: name: Kalsaria, Dr Parth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420309
subject: Health management
classificationCode: 320899
subject: Medical physiology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 520302
subject: Clinical psychology
classificationCode: 520304
subject: Health psychology

description: This dissertation examines the challenges faced by healthcare professionals, particularly nurses and doctors, focusing on work-related stress, mental well-being, and coping mechanisms during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the impact of demanding work schedules, increased pressure, overtime, inadequate compensation, and the pandemic on the mental health of these professionals. Motivational theories like Self-Determination Theory and Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs are proposed as strategies to improve motivation and work quality. Additionally, the importance of effective communication in culturally diverse healthcare settings is discussed. The research employs a literature-based methodology with an interpretivist philosophy to explore these dynamics.
Copyrights Management Template
Creators: name: DeLaurenti, Kathleen
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Copyright--Music
subject: Music--Instruction and study--Research

description: This copyrights management plan allows researchers to track licenses, copyright exceptions, and copyright ownership for research-creation projects. Developed to assist musician-scholars who are managing numerous copyrights in their research-creation, this inventory can be adapted to any research project that requires documenting decision making about copyrights and publishing.
Copyrights Management Template
Creators: name: DeLaurenti, Kathleen
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Music--Instruction and study--Research
subject: Copyright--Music

description: This copyrights management plan allows researchers to track licenses, copyright exceptions, and copyright ownership for research-creation projects. Developed to assist musician-scholars who are managing numerous copyrights in their research-creation, this inventory can be adapted to any research project that requires documenting decision making about copyrights and publishing.
Using random simulation of hurricane tracks for risk analysis
Creators: name: Garrè, Luca
name: Dudek, Agnes
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This paper illustrates a simulation approach to hurricane tracks. The procedure implemented was taken from existing literature and applied to storms recorded in the IBTrACS dataset. The results obtained are encouraging: the variables currently simulated, primarily locations of hurricane genesis, track propagation and locations of decay, are in general agreement with results available in the literature and with the historical data. Further improvements of the present work are however needed with respect to a number of metrics particularly relevant for risk assessment.
Pedestrian bridges monitoring data for stochastic modelling of human-induced loads
Creators: name: Casciati, Sara
name: Casciati, Fabio
name: Faravelli, Lucia
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: A model of the human-induced actions, where the consequences of humans unpredictability, together with their response to social and psychological stimuli, are regarded as stochasticity, is developed. After defining a moving grid of nodes in the direction of the crossing, an average action per node is assigned. This value is modified by the following two contributions. A fluctuation, which involves two spatial variables and the time variable, is introduced by stochastic simulation, with a cross-spectral density function which accounts for the spatial dispersion of the single trajectories. A geometric shape function is formulated to account for a non-homogeneous spatial distribution of the pedestrians across the bridge deck.
Supplementary document for All step-index fiber spatiotemporal mode-locked laser - 6231924.pdf
Creators: name: Gao, Chenxin
name: Bao, Chengying
name: Yang, Changxi
name: Xiao, Xiaosheng
name: Cao, Bo
name: Ding, Yihang
name: Fei, Hongyang
name: yang, dali
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary material
Effect of Progressive Fitness Training Program on Selected Physical Fitness Variables Among Seventh-Graders
Creators: name: Naveenkumar S, Dr.M.Srinivasan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study investigates the impact of the Progressive training program on physical fitness variables inseventh-graders. A total of 100 participants from Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya Swami ShivanandaHigher Secondary School in Coimbatore, aged between 11 to 13 years, took part in the research.Independent Variable: Progressive Fitness Training Program, Dependent Variables: Speed, lower bodyexplosive strength, and agility. Criterion measures included a 30-meter fly start to assess speed, theStanding Broad Jump for lower body explosive strength, and a 10-meter by 4 Shuttle run to evaluateagility. The data were analysed using a paired ‘t’ test to determine differences between pre- and post-testresults. The year-long training protocol consisted of two training sessions per week, with each sessionlasting 60 minutes. Findings indicate significant improvements in speed, lower body explosive strength,and agility among the students, demonstrating the effectiveness of the Progressive training program.
title: Accessibilité et consommation de contenu pornographique : quel impact sur le développement psychique et sur la construction du genre chez les jeunes générations au Luxembourg ?
Creators: name: Lorente, Sandy
Publisher: name: Melusina Press
Year: 2022
Subjects: pornographie
nouveaux médias
développement psychologique et relationnel
jeunes
enfants
genre
violences sexuelles
éducation sexuelle et affective

description: Gender and Education in Luxembourg and Beyond: Local Challenges and New Perspectives -
Topology optimization for buildings in seismic zones within a PBEE framework
Creators: name: Bobby, Sarah
name: Spence, Seymour M. J.
name: Kareem, Ahsan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This paper presents a probabilistic performance-based topology optimization framework for the conceptual design of uncertain building systems in seismic zones. The stochastic nature of the ground motions is rigorously considered in a simulation-based probabilistic performance assessment framework that allows for the definition of a novel decoupling technique that efficiently separates the probabilistic analysis from the optimization loop. In particular, the methodology is based on the construction of a series of approximate sub-problems with simplified governing equations, which conveniently allows their evaluation using established techniques for static, deterministic topology optimization problems. The applicability and efficiency of the method is demonstrated on a case study.
Is Name Popularity a Good Test of Historicity?
Creators: name: Blais, Brian
name: Gregor, Kamil
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Bible. New Testament
subject: Bible. Gospels
subject: History, Ancient
subject: Christian literature, Early

description: In Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, Richard Bauckham argues that the popularity of personal names in Gospels-Acts corresponds remarkably well to name popularity among late ancient Palestinian Jews and that this can only be the case if Gospels-Acts characters are in most cases historical as opposed to invented in the process of ‘anonymous community transmission’. We re-examine Bauckham’s conclusions, asserted with a remarkably high level of confidence but almost entirely without an actual statistical evaluation of his onomastic data, and perform the appropriate statistical analysis on the most recent onomastic dataset. We show that Bauckham’s thesis offers no advantage in explaining the observed correspondence between name popularity in Gospels-Acts and in the contemporary Palestinian Jewish population over an alternative model of ‘anonymous community transmission’. Moreover, our statistical analysis identifies some, albeit weak, evidence against Bauckham’s thesis.
Online Methods and Data Supplement final.pdf
Creators: name: Stepanova, Victoria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320101
subject: Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases)
classificationCode: 320103
subject: Respiratory diseases

description: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive disease characterized by vasoconstriction and remodeling of small pulmonary arteries (PAs). Central to the remodeling process is a switch of pulmonary vascular cells to a proliferative, apoptosis-resistant phenotype. Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) is the primary physiological inhibitor of urokinase-type and tissue-type plasminogen activators (uPA and tPA), but its role in PAH is unsettled. Here, we report that: (1) PAI-1 is deficient in remodeled small PAs and in early-passage PA smooth muscle and endothelial cells (PASMCs and PAECs) from subjects with PAH compared to controls; (2) PAI-1-/- mice spontaneously develop pulmonary vascular remodeling associated with up-regulation of mTORC1 signaling, pulmonary hypertension (PH), and right ventricle (RV) hypertrophy; and (3) pharmacological inhibition of uPA in human PAH PASMCs suppresses pro-proliferative mTORC1 and SMAD3 signaling, restores PAI-1 levels, reduces proliferation and induces apoptosis in vitro, and prevents the development of SU5416/hypoxia-induced PH and RV hypertrophy in vivo in mice. These data strongly suggest that down-regulation of PAI-1 in small PAs promotes vascular remodeling and PH due to unopposed activation of uPA and consequent up-regulation of mTOR and TGF-b signaling in PASMCs, and call for further studies to determine the potential benefits of targeting the PAI-1/uPA imbalance to attenuate and/or reverse pulmonary vascular remodeling and PH.
title: Gender und außerschulische politische Bildung: Mit feministischer Pädagogik Geschlechterverhältnisse bewegen
Creators: name: Eckhart, Kathrin
name: Schmoetten, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Melusina Press
Year: 2022
Subjects: Außerschulische politische Erwachsenenbildung
Feministische Kinder- und Jugendarbeit
Dekonstruktion von Machtverhältnissen
Solidarität und soziale Gerechtigkeit
Empowerment und Partizipation
Intersektionalität

description: Gender and Education in Luxembourg and Beyond: Local Challenges and New Perspectives -
Measurement of inferior colliculus volume based on MRI image stacks and its relationship with age and hearing status
Creators: name: Sakurai, Ryota
name: Kwok, Pingling
name: Gleich, Otto
name: Koch, Peter
name: Schenkl, Gudrun
name: Koch, Nina
name: Bohr, Christopher
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Deafness; Magnetic resonance imaging; Ears; Inferior colliculus; Age groups; Auditory pathway; Hearing; Neurons
subject: 610 Medizin

description: The inferior colliculus is a key nucleus in the central auditory pathway, integrating acoustic stimuli from both cochleae and playing a crucial role in sound localization. It undergoes functional and structural development in childhood and experiences age-related degeneration later in life, contributing to the progression of age-related hearing loss. This study aims at finding out, whether the volume of the human inferior colliculus can be determined by analysis of routinely performed MRIs and whether there is any age-related variation. A further goal is to detect correlations between volume and existing hearing loss of the patients. A retrospective search in the data of the Regensburg ENT department was done. 123 MRI datasets were used to mark the voxels of the inferior colliculus on the MRI layers. The volumes could then be calculated by using the respective DICOM data and were correlated with age, gender and hearing status of the patients. Results suggested that a voxel-based method on routine clinical MRI stacks to determine the volume of the inferior colliculus is possible. The volume shows an age-dependency. There is a growth from infancy until adulthood and a significant decrease in patients over the age of 60 years. Left and right inferior colliculi do not show any systematic asymmetry in volume. There is no difference between females and males. In the group with asymmetric hearing (n = 13) a significant reduction of the volume on the deprived side (p = 0.036) was found. The proportion of subjects with severe hearing loss at least on one side was significantly higher in the old (>60 years) as compared to younger adults (10 to 60 years), suggesting that severe hearing loss may be associated with a reduced volume of the inferior colliculus in aged humans.
Effect of correlation structure model on geotechnical reliability-based serviceability limit state simulations
Creators: name: Huffman, Jonathan C.
name: Stuedlein, Armin W.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Reliability-based serviceability limit state (SLS) models for foundation elements commonly employ a two-parameter load-displacement model to relate imposed displacements to a particular load or vice versa. Numerous studies have shown that the load-displacement model parameters tend to be correlated; subsequently, considerable effort is required to appropriately model the correlation structure for Monte Carlo-based reliability simulations. This paper uses copula theory, a database of high quality full-scale loading tests of spread footings on aggregate pier (i.e., stone column) reinforced clay, and a recently developed ultimate limit state (ULS) model to investigate the effect of various correlation structures on the probability of exceeding the SLS. “Lumped” load and resistance factors, which conveniently relate the portion of mobilized resistance to a given footing displacement, accounting for uncertainty in the applied load, ULS resistance of the clay subgrade, allowable displacement, and footing size, generated using various assumed correlation structure models are compared. Additionally, the penalty in reliability associated with ignoring the bivariate correlation is explored for comparison. This study demonstrates that selection of the appropriate copula represents a critical task in the development of calibrated reliability-based geotechnical SLS design approaches.
Producing of Brand and Packaging For Red Sugar and Palm Nira For An Effort to Increasing Value Sale
Creators: name: Elysa Rohayani Hsb, Dini Hariyati Adam, Mila Nirmala Sari Hasibuan, Rohani, Lily Rohanita Hasibuan, Ali Akbar Ritonga
Publisher: name: PT. Jasa Niaga Digital Indonesia
Year: 2024

description: Economic development of each village is very necessary to improve community welfare. Business actors have an important role in improving the economy of a village. That is  Pulo Padang Village is a village located in Rantau Utara sub-district. It has significant potential in increasing the economic value of the community in Pulo Padang village. This service, carried out by the Community Service Team in the village of Pulo Padang sub-district, aims to provide education about making logos (brands) and packaging to business owners of brown sugar made from palm sap with the aim of increasing maximum sales value. Based on the results of Community Service carried out when carrying out community service, it was found that business actors of brown sugar made from palm sap as raw material do not have a logo (brand) and the packaging is not optimal as it should be. The methods used are observation, interviews, problem identification and final results. The final result of this service is the creation of a logo (brand) and brown sugar packaging.
Producing of Brand and Packaging For Red Sugar and Palm Nira For An Effort to Increasing Value Sale
Creators: name: Elysa Rohayani Hsb, Dini Hariyati Adam, Mila Nirmala Sari Hasibuan, Lily Rohanita Hasibuan, Ali Akbar Ritonga, Angga Putra Julaedi
Publisher: name: PT. Jasa Niaga Digital Indonesia
Year: 2024

description: Economic development of each village is very necessary to improve community welfare. Business actors have an important role in improving the economy of a village. That is  Pulo Padang Village is a village located in Rantau Utara sub-district. It has significant potential in increasing the economic value of the community in Pulo Padang village. This service, carried out by the Community Service Team in the village of Pulo Padang sub-district, aims to provide education about making logos (brands) and packaging to business owners of brown sugar made from palm sap with the aim of increasing maximum sales value. Based on the results of Community Service carried out when carrying out community service, it was found that business actors of brown sugar made from palm sap as raw material do not have a logo (brand) and the packaging is not optimal as it should be. The methods used are observation, interviews, problem identification and final results. The final result of this service is the creation of a logo (brand) and brown sugar packaging.
Economic Growth-Financial Deepening- Poverty Nexus in Rwanda
Creators: name: Nyamweya, Dr. James
name: Nyamweya, Dr. James
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Economic development

description: The study examined the relationship between economic growth, financial deepening, income distribution, financial efficiency and poverty level in Rwanda an East African Community country. The specific objectives of the study included establishing the direct effect of economic growth on poverty level in Rwanda; determining the indirect effect of financial deepening, income distribution, financial efficiency on poverty level in Rwanda. The study adopted descriptive research designs. Annual data for 30 years beginning 1989 to 2018 was gathered for the study purpose. Secondary data, which consisted of annual data, was utilized in the study. The study employed normality, heteroscedasticity, multicollinearity, serial correlation, optimal lag test, unit root diagnostic tests, cointegration test. The data was analyzed using inferential statistics with the help of excel and STATA version 14. Inferential statistics analysis was performed based on Autoregressive Distributed lags (ARDL) model to ascertain the causal effect link between various variables relating to economic growth, financial deepening, income distribution, financial efficiency and poverty levels in Rwanda. The study results revealed that economic growth had a significant direct effect on poverty level in Rwanda.  The study also revealed that financial deepening and income distribution had a significant indirect effect on poverty in Rwanda. The study recommends that the government should put down concrete plans aimed at improving economic growth rates. In addition, the governments of Rwanda countries to work towards encourage financial deepening within their respective countries.
PECULIARITIES OF THE PHYTOCENOTIC STRUCTURE OF PARK EDGE COMMUNITIES IN LVIV REGION
Creators: name: Fitak, Mykhailo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: park plantations, park edge, ecotone, phytocenotic structure, species diversity.

description:  In an urbanized environment, park edge communities, as ecotonal formations, perform important phytomeliorative functions, which depend on their species and spatial structure. The study of phytocenoses at the edges of park plantations in populated areas is a highly relevant topic today.

The research was conducted in the park edge communities of Lviv Region. The phytocenotic structure of edges with different functional purposes was described and analyzed: external transit edges adjacent to transport flows; internal edges near water bodies and glades; internal edges opening towards palace and park complexes; external edges transitioning into agrocenoses, among others.

An inventory of tree species was carried out for the studied objects. Based on the analysis of the collected data, the species structure of plantations within the ecotone zone was determined. The relationships among species were identified. The Whittaker and Shannon diversity indices were calculated. To assess species similarity between the studied objects, Sørensen-Czekanowski similarity indices were established.
title: Déjouer les stéréotypes du genre : une expérience sociale auprès du grand public au Luxembourg
Creators: name: Blond-Hanten, Carole
Publisher: name: Melusina Press
Year: 2022
Subjects: stéréotypes de genre
jeu de plateau
interactions
gamification
expérience sociale
promotion de la science au public

description: Gender and Education in Luxembourg and Beyond: Local Challenges and New Perspectives -
D5.1 Analysis of Models and Practices for Industrial Access
Creators: name: Erbacci, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Deliverable
HPC
Research infrastructure
Industrial access
SME

description: In PRACE-3IP, WP5 “Services for industrial users and SMEs” has the objective to design and pilot an effective and integrated set of high-level, coherent and complementary services to industrial users and in particular to Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) which may be interested in advanced HPC resources to enhance their innovation and competitiveness through high performance simulation. These services will be gathered in an Integrated Access Programme (IAP) for Industries and SMEs and will be proposed to the PRACE AISBL for the inclusion in its services offer.
 The objective of this deliverable is to identify and analyse the models and the practices to define an effective IAP.
 The industry support models currently operating in eight HPC infrastructures in Europe and three in USA and Canada have been investigated. The analysis has been done leveraging on the work of earlier studies and activating specific contacts with these main infrastructures. A sub-set of the initiatives provided from these infrastructures specifically targeted the SME. In these examples the support programmes were mainly enabler actions with the goal to use the HPC infrastructures to demonstrate to the SMEs the benefit of adopting advanced simulation methods.
 To complete the analysis, the investigation has been extended to support models offered by eleven non HPC research infrastructures in order to evaluate the offer in different areas respect to the HPC services (Synchrotrons, Molecular Biology and Genomics, Technological Innovation, Micro and Nano Technologies, Semiconductors research, Clinical trials, etc.). The results of all these investigations of HPC and non HPC Infrastructure, integrated with the requirements of industrial users analysed in PRACE-1IP WP5 have permitted to identify a set of the main current needs of industrial users towards HPC. These needs span from raising awareness to coaching, from training and information to trying out HPC solutions to open research and development access to HPC infrastructure.
 All these elements should contribute to an effective Integrated Access Programme provision for Industry and SMEs offered by PRACE.
Facilitating creation, (re)use and interoperability of Knowledge Graphs in NFDI: perspectives from NFDI4Culture to Base4NFDI and beyond
Creators: name: Rossenova, Lozana
name: Shigapov, Renat
name: Schubotz, Moritz
name: Förstner, Konrad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: knowledge graphs
NFDI
Base4NFDI
KGI4NFDI
Wikibase
Wikidata
NFDI4Culture

description: Slide presentation for the paper 'Facilitating creation, (re)use and interoperability of Knowledge Graphs in NFDI: perspectives from NFDI4Culture to Base4NFDI and beyond' presented at the Second NFDI Berlin-Brandenburg network meeting: 'Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs', on Thursday, July 11th, 2024, at Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics Berlin: https://www.wias-berlin.de/workshops/NFDI_BB_2/
Supplementary document for Monitoring sidewall tilting of pixelated nanogratings in 3D display - 6232217.pdf
Creators: name: Chen, Chao
name: Chen, Xiuguo
name: Sheng, Sheng
name: Xia, Zhongwen
name: Shi, Jiacheng
name: Qiao, Wen
name: Liu, Shiyuan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Details of the sample and data
Risk perception in civil engineering application
Creators: name: Micic, Tatyana
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This paper uses both technical and intuitive risk formulations that are currently in use. Hybrid procedure for identification of risk perception for built infrastructure is used to establish format that can improve risk communication. In general for infrastructure the effect of uncertainty is defined through specific collapse models, physical variability, geometric variability, system behaviour, etc. Processing the outcomes of Portrait Value Questionnaires will provide the information about stakeholder values but also their perception of risk associated with the particular infrastructure. Therefore, there is an opportunity to complement the probabilistic analysis approach in civil engineering with distinct information about the perception of risk. For a sample structure and selected hazard differences in risk formulation are illustrated and options for risk communication highlighted. The cross-disciplinary approach offers a useful insight and could enhance options for risk communication.
A two-step density estimation method and its applications
Creators: name: Tao, Wei-Feng
name: Li, Jie
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Probability density evolution method (PDEM) provides a feasible approach for dynamic responses analysis of nonlinear stochastic structures. The key issue of PDEM is to solve a generalized density evolution equation (GDEE). Previously, finite difference method (FDM) is resorted to solve GDEE, thus getting the probability density function (PDF) result directly. In this paper, a two-step method that improves the result of FDM by means of nonlinear wavelet density estimation is proposed. By taking advantage of the property of multi-resolution of wavelet, the proposed method tends to give a more accurate result. An 8-story reinforced concrete shear frame with Bouc-Wen hysteretic restoring forces subjected to seismic excitation is investigated. The result shows that the proposed method performs better than FDM.
Vedere, Toccare, Ascoltare: il flauto di Pan del Museo di Scienze Archeologiche e d’Arte dell’Università di Padova
Creators: name: Menegazzi, Alessandra
name: Binotto, Silvia
Publisher: name: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche
Year: 2020

description: Il ritrovamento di uno strumento antico straordinariamente conservatosi nel tempo, un flauto di Pan del VI secolo d.C. circa, avvenuto con il riordino del Museo di Scienze Archeologiche e d’Arte dell’Università degli Studi di Padova, ha dato il via a progetti di ricerca sostenuti dall'Università e dalla Fondazione Cariparo che ha consentito il restauro del manufatto, ora esposto, e una serie di studi e analisi che hanno consentito di realizzare una postazione interattiva dove è possibile “toccare” e “suonare” virtualmente il flauto di Pan. Il progetto di ricerca è stato condotto dal Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dal Centro di Sonologia Computazionale dell’Università degli Studi di Padova. Per una maggiore conoscenza dello strumento, tra le proposte formative e didattiche del Museo, è possibile usufruire di un laboratorio di archeologia sperimentale che consente di apprendere le tecniche antiche di costruzione del flauto con l’implicazione dei sensi, come la vista, il tatto e l’olfatto.
description: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche, N. 1 (2020)
Realizzazione di una punta ad alette e base concava foliata bifacciale dell’età del Bronzo antico su supporto laminare
Creators: name: Spinelli, Piercarlo
Publisher: name: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche
Year: 2020

description: Il progetto ha l’obiettivo di ricostruire e documentare le singole fasi della catena produttiva di una punta bifacciale dell’età del Bronzo antico, utilizzando i metodi dell’Archeologia Sperimentale.
description: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche, N. 1 (2020)
Buddhism in the Oeuvre of Severo Sarduy
Creators: name: Sawhney, Minni
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: The exiled Cuban French novelist, essayist, poet Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) converted to Mahayana Buddhism in 1971 after his journeys to Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim. Untramelled by the rituals of his new faith, he remained unabashed in his critique of socio – political Buddhism (as in the novel Maitreya). Instead, Buddhism for him meant a creativity that surpassed the negativity of emptiness. As a post structuralist he leaned to Buddhism’s kindred theory of sunyata or “vacuidad germinadora”, with its premises of the dissolution of binaries and annulment of opposites. Sarduy had a Derridean approach to Buddhism – the wavering and sidestepping of boundaries them was his ken. He integrated the real and the unreal and his desire to shift skins led to a constant erasure in his writing and he used thus the ideas of sunyata or nothingness. In my essay, I trace the ideas of Buddhism in his oeuvre, its efflorescence and optimism in Cobra, its decline and transformation in Maitreya and the flecks of Buddhist thought lodged in essays such as “La simulacion” or “El estampido de la vacuidad”. I also show how by joining two distant spots in the world, Sarduy threw new light on the hybridity and mestizaje of his own land and became an important reference for the South South dialogue.
Medioevo in corso. Archeologia Sperimentale alla Rocca di San Silvestro (Campiglia Marittima – LI)
Creators: name: Fichera, Alessandro Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche
Year: 2020

description: Al Parco Archeominerario di San Silvestro (Campiglia Marittima – LI) ha preso vita un progetto di Archeologia Sperimentale finalizzato alla ricomposizione di un cantiere edilizio medievale. Nel corso degli ultimi dieci anni è stato ricostruito un miscelatore per la calce, come quelli riportati alla luce nel castello di Donoratico (Castagneto Carducci – LI), al fine di comprenderne il funzionamento e le potenzialità. La sperimentazione è proseguita con la ricostruzione di una casa come quelle abitate dai minatori della Rocca e con la ricostruzione di un forno. Le finalità del progetto sono molteplici, in ambito di comunicazione e divulgazione, di ricerca scientifica e di restauro. I saperi teorici, uniti alla pratica di un artigiano edile che da quasi cinquanta anni costruisce con tecniche tradizionali, hanno dato luogo a risultati di estremo interesse anche per la possibilità di avanzare realistiche ipotesi sui tempi, sui costi e sulla articolata organizzazione logistica di un cantiere medievale.
description: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche, N. 1 (2020)
L’Archeologia Sperimentale e la metallurgia del bronzo in Italia: storia degli studi e problematiche.
Creators: name: Fazzini, Fabio
Publisher: name: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche
Year: 2020

description: Il seguente articolo proverà a sintetizzare la storia degli studi legata all’archeologia sperimentale delle tecniche di fusione e di lavorazione del bronzo in Italia dagli anni ‘50 ad oggi. Verranno quindi riportate alcune tappe salienti della storia stessa degli studi, citandone i principali protagonisti e si analizzeranno poi brevemente alcune delle problematiche relative ai tipi di approcci degli sperimentatori stessi.
description: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche, N. 1 (2020)
Sperimentazioni dei processi produttivi del ferro: primi dati dal progetto di ricostruzione di Populonia.
Creators: name: Baratti, Giorgio
name: Vandelli, Alessandro
name: Cammelli, Maria Sole
name: Cominelli, Mattia
name: Briccola, Marco
Publisher: name: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche
Year: 2020

description: Il contributo presenta i dati preliminari della prima parte dell’esperimento di ricostruzione di un forno per la riduzione dell’ematite. L’esperienza si inserisce nell’ambito di un più ampio progetto di ricerca finalizzato a indagare l’impatto che il ciclo del ferro, sia antico che moderno, ha avuto sul territorio di Populonia e le conseguenti strategie che la ricerca archeologica deve adottare per operare una corretta lettura del paesaggio.
description: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche, N. 1 (2020)
Asce da lavoro, asce di prestigio, asce da combattimento. Ricerca e attività sperimentale sulla lavorazione della pietra verde nella Preistoria.
Creators: name: Delcaro, Dino
Publisher: name: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche
Year: 2020

description: In seguito alle analisi effettuate su un grande numero di lame d’ascia e accessori vari in ‘pietra verde’, provenienti da siti neolitici dell’Italia nord-occidentale, il Centro di Archeologia Sperimentale di Torino ha sviluppato un vasto programma di esperimenti, iniziato con la costruzione di numerose lame d’ascia e ultimato con le prove di utilizzo dell’insieme manico-lama. Le asce sono state realizzate utilizzando materiali litici raccolti nei bacini idrogeologici delle Alpi occidentali, coerenti con i reperti analizzati. Con queste sperimentazioni abbiamo potuto chiarire meglio: il processo produttivo, le tecniche, i tempi di lavorazione, l’efficacia e durata delle lame, le tracce di usura, l’importanza degli strumenti accessori utilizzati, fornendo anche alcune valutazioni di carattere ergonomico. Le sperimentazioni sono improntate a una logica di work in progress, cioè in corso d’opera per poter aggiornare il bagaglio di conoscenze e osservazioni.
description: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche, N. 1 (2020)
Socio-historical-theoretical bases of constructivism: An epistemological reflection for teaching science at school.
Creators: name: Alejandro Colán, Bryam
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Social epistemology
subject: Education

description: This dissertation aims to establish a relationship between the basis of scientific learning and the constructivist educational model. It highlights the importance of the construction of scientific knowledge and learning the method within the elementary training process at school.
title: Technology in Nonformal Education: A Critical Appraisal
Creators: name: Evans, David R.
Publisher: name: Center for International Education, UMass Amherst
Year: 1976
Subjects: subject: Technology; nonformal education; media in education; games; folk media

description: The following article first appeared in the Comparative Education Review, Vol. 20, No. 3, October 1976. The author gratefully acknowledges permission to reprint the article in this form.
description: The article begins with a discussion of the meaning of technology, ranging from large-scale broadcast media to the most basic definition of how resources are combined to produce learning, e.g. the standard classroom model. It then discusses the issue of professionalism and its impact on the role, if any, of the learners. Four models are outlined for large-scale communications media from broadcast media to small, local discussion groups. The discussion of small-scale media ranges from video tapes and simple cassette tapes to learner-generated material. The article concludes with a discussion of games, role playing, and folk media. Throughout the discussion focuses on the tension between professionally produced material and the role of the learners in controlling their own learning process.
Probabilistic hazard model of inelastic oscillator based on semi-theoretical solutions of first passage problem
Creators: name: Mori, Yasuhiro
name: Takashima, Masato
name: Kojima, Sayo
name: Ozaki, Fuminobu
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In this study, an approximate method of estimating the exceedance probability of the maximum ductility factor of an inelastic oscillator is proposed based on the equivalent linearization technique using the capacity spectrum (CS) method. The CS method seeks to determine the first point at which the demand spectrum crosses the CS. Because the auto-correlation function of the response spectrum is only a function of the difference between the logarithms of two natural periods, the CS method can be interpreted as the first passage problem of a stationary standard normal stochastic process. Because the auto-correlation function is not continuous when the difference is equal to zero, and because the crossing event cannot be modeled as a Poisson process when the CS is close to the horizontal axis, the mean crossing rate is semi-theoretically estimated based on Monte Carlo simulation. The results are further modified to create a general model. The accuracy of the proposed method is demonstrated by using numerical examples.
Archeologia Sperimentale e alimentazione: il panorama italiano.
Creators: name: Indelicato, Mario
Publisher: name: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche
Year: 2020

description: A quasi vent’anni dal convegno Archeologie sperimentali: metodologie ed esperienze fra verifica, riproduzione, comunicazione e simulazione in cui, forse per la prima volta, l’archeologia sperimentale applicata allo studio dell’alimentazione umana ha fatto il suo timido ingresso nel dibattito accademico italiano, è opportuno provare a valutare quanto questa metodologia di ricerca abbia trovato impiego, all’interno del panorama scientifico italiano, nelle ricerche sul sostentamento umano dalla preistoria all’età medievale. Il quadro che emerge, a partire dai casi studio individuati, è quello di una metodologia che, in Italia, sembra ancora faticare ad affermarsi nel campo dell’archeologia dell’alimentazione nonostante sia ormai una metodologia consolidata a livello internazionale e nonostante in altri paesi sia applicata con successo sia all’indagine archeologica tout court sia alla ricostruzione del cibo del passato anche con obiettivi divulgativi.
description: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche, N. 1 (2020)
L’Archeologia Sperimentale di Alberto Carlo Blanc: appunti inediti di un pioniere della Preistoria italiana.
Creators: name: Altamura, Flavio
Publisher: name: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche
Year: 2020

description: Due documenti inediti dell’archivio Blanc-Aguet a Roma contengono appunti di archeologia sperimentale dello studioso Alberto Carlo Blanc, risalenti ai primi anni ‘50 del secolo scorso. Le annotazioni riguardano la scheggiatura di ciottoli silicei e la percussione di ossa di bue. Queste osservazioni, finalizzate a fornire elementi di confronto per i contesti preistorici indagati da Blanc, anticipano di molti decenni l’ingresso di tali tematiche negli studi archeologici italiani, confermando l’intuito e la lungimiranza scientifica dello studioso.
description: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche, N. 1 (2020)
Supplementary document for A Phase Error Model and Compensation Method for Reflectivity and Distance Discontinuities in Fringe Projection Profilometry - 6232353.pdf
Creators: name: Xu, Jing
name: Hu, Changping
name: liu, shuntao
name: Wu, Dan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Appendix
“Fornire la pratica che sostiene la teoria”: una riflessione sull’Archeologia Sperimentale.
Creators: name: Godino, Yuri
name: Lebole, Chiara
name: Di Gangi, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche
Year: 2020

description: Che cos'è l'Archeologia Sperimentale?
description: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche, N. 1 (2020)
Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche, N. 1 (2020)
Creators: name: Archeologie Sperimentali. Temi, Metodi
Publisher: name: Archeologie sperimentali. Temi, metodi, ricerche
Year: 2020

description: “Fornire la pratica che sostiene la teoria”: una riflessione sull’Archeologia Sperimentale....1 - 27 L’Archeologia Sperimentale di Alberto Carlo Blanc: appunti inediti di un pioniere della Preistoria italiana....28 - 35 Archeologia Sperimentale e alimentazione: il panorama italiano....36 - 55 Asce da lavoro, asce di prestigio, asce da combattimento. Ricerca e attività sperimentale sulla lavorazione della pietra verde nella Preistoria....56 - 75 Sperimentazioni dei processi produttivi del ferro: primi dati dal progetto di ricostruzione di Populonia....76 - 99 L’Archeologia Sperimentale e la metallurgia del bronzo in Italia: storia degli studi e problematiche....100 - 107 Medioevo in corso. Archeologia Sperimentale alla Rocca di San Silvestro (Campiglia Marittima – LI)...108 - 124 Realizzazione di una punta ad alette e base concava foliata bifacciale dell’età del Bronzo antico su supporto laminare...125 - 133 Vedere, Toccare, Ascoltare: il flauto di Pan del Museo di Scienze Archeologiche e d’Arte dell’Università di Padova...134 - 140
Realidad Virtual inmersiva. Un mundo de posibilidades (Case study at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza)
Creators: name: Revilla, Ana
name: Lacosta, Ignacio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Realidad Virtual inmersiva. Un mundo de posibilidades
 (Case study: Entrar en el Cuadro. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza./ XrLab by Entropy Studio)
Analytical seismic vulnerability assessment for a class of modern low-rise steel frames
Creators: name: Kazantzi, Athanasia K.
name: Vamvatsikos, Dimitrios
name: Porter, Keith
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: A set of guidelines was developed for the Global Earthquake Model (GEM), aiming to offer a practical, yet sufficiently accurate, analytical method for assessing the relationship between the ground shaking and the repair cost for a building class. The present work illustrates the methodology for a class of modern low-rise steel moment-resisting frames (SMRFs). The structural analysis is performed using Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA). The selection of a single Intensity Measure (IM) to parameterize IDA results and, eventually, vulnerability curves is being tackled through an extended IM comparison study across the entire structural response range considering both interstory drifts and peak floor accelerations. It is demonstrated that scalar IMs, defined as the geometric mean of spectral accelerations values Sagm(Ti) estimated at several periods Ti can have an overall satisfactory performance. Once the uncertain structural response is determined, the methodology proceeds to the vulnerability estimation and consequently to loss assessment that is built upon a simplified component-based FEMA P-58 style methodology. The end product of this study is a high-quality set of vulnerability curves whose weighted moments are taken as the uncertain vulnerability function of the investigated building class.
Mitigating Delamination in Photovoltaic Modules: Impact Assessment, Risk Analysis, and Future Strategies
Creators: name: Charitidis J. Panagiotis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Delamination critically affects photovoltaic (PV) modules, reducing performance and reliability due to high humidity, temperature swings, and UV exposure. This study evaluates advanced encapsulant materials and detection techniques to mitigate these issues. Accelerated testing reveals that ionomers and polyolefins reduce power loss by up to 25% compared to traditional EVA under harsh conditions. Field data confirms a 15% improvement in power retention over five years. Mitigation strategies, including optimized manufacturing and maintenance, are proposed to enhance durability and support sustainable PV module deployment.
'What's the point of grandpa?' Grandparents in Children's Literature
Creators: name: Joosen, Vanessa
Publisher: name: Routledge
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ageism
subject: Grandparents
subject: Children's literature
subject: Grandchildren
subject: Aging
subject: Digital humanities

description: This chapter discusses grandparent figures in contemporary Western children's literature by reflecting on their functions in the plot and on their construction in relationship to discourses on old age in society at large. The case studies draw from Flemish, Dutch and British children's literature, and the analyses are framed with theories from age studies. Grandparents perform important roles in fictional children's lives: they function as substitute parents, but also as antagonists and as narrative devices to teach children about illnesss and death. In age studies, grandparent figures have been criticized for reinforcing ageist stereotypes, and especially the decline narrative and the image of the wise old mentor still surface regularly. However, many children's books not only correct these stereotypes, but also expose them and thus create room to criticize them. In the final part of the chapter, a digital research method reveals how grandparents are distinguished from other age groups in a set of 39 British children's books, and how age intersects with gender in their construction. This analysis affirms the occurrence of the aforementioned stereotypes. In addition, the grandfathers in the corpus talk more about the past than the grandmothers.
Anglophonic Influence in the Use of Ideophones in Italian Disney Comics
Creators: name: Pischedda, Pier
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Comics (Graphic works)
subject: Italian literature
subject: Italian language
subject: Americanization
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The presentation focuses on the presenter's research work that was carried out at the Library of Congress during a five-month fellowship at the Kluge Center in 2014-2015. The now-completed PhD dissertation delved into the historical and linguistic analysis of the use and translation of ideophones in Italian Disney Comics and the presentation highlights how the library's resources were central in the successful progression of the project.