cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
3DQ: Compact Quantized Neural Networks for Volumetric Whole Brain Segmentation
Creators: name: Paschali, Magdalini
name: Gasperini, Stefano
name: Roy, Abhijit Guha
name: Fang, Michael Y. -S.
name: Navab, Nassir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Model architectures have been dramatically increasing in size, improving performance at the cost of resource requirements. In this paper we propose 3DQ, a ternary quantization method, applied for the first time to 3D Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (F-CNNs), enabling 16x model compression while maintaining performance on par with full precision models. We extensively evaluate 3DQ on two datasets for the challenging task of whole brain segmentation. Additionally, we showcase our method's ability to generalize on two common 3D architectures, namely 3D U-Net and V-Net. Outperforming a variety of baselines, the proposed method is capable of compressing large 3D models to a few MBytes, alleviating the storage needs in space critical applications.
description: Accepted to MICCAI 2019
Review: Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
Creators: name: McAdam, Taylor
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Atlanta’s Beltline is “a thing, a place, and a movement.” And Ryan Gravel, author of Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities, conducts the orchestra. The Beltline, which originated as Gravel’s master’s project at Georgia Tech in 1999, is an ongoing effort to transform a twenty-two-mile circle of abandoned railway into a greenway and transit corridor surrounding central Atlanta. Its unexpected success has encouraged cities all over the country to take a hard look at their infrastructural scars and reimagine them as vibrant cultural opportunities.
A heuristic approach to detect and localize text in Arabic news video
Creators: name: Sadek Mansouri, Mbarek Charhad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Arabic text detection, LSD, AcTiV-DB.

description: Automatic text detection in video sequences remains a challenging problem due to the variety of sizes, colors and the presence of complex background. In this paper, we attempt to solve this problem by proposing a robust detection-validation schema for text localization in Arabic news video. Candidate text regions are first detected by using a hybrid method which combines MSER detector and edge information. Then, these regions are grouped using morphological operators. Finally, a verification process is applied to remove noisy non-text regions including specific features for Arabic text. Performance and efficacy of the proposed text detection approach have been tested By using Arabic-Text-in-Video database (AcTiV-DB).
Goussarov-Polyak-Viro Conjecture for degree three case
Creators: name: Ito, Noboru
name: Kotorii, Yuka
name: Takamura, Masashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Although it is known that the dimension of the Vassiliev invariants of degree three of long virtual knots is seven, the complete list of seven distinct Gauss diagram formulas have been unknown explicitly, where only one known formula was revised without proof. In this paper, we give seven Gauss diagram formulas to present the seven invariants of the degree three (Proposition 4). We further give 23 Gauss diagram formulas of classical knots (Proposition 5). In particular, the Polyak-Viro Gauss diagram formula [19] is not a long virtual knot invariant; however, it is included in the list of 23 formulas. It has been unknown whether this formula would be available by arrow diagram calculus automatically. In consequence, as it relates to the conjecture of Goussarov-Polyak-Viro [8, Conjecture 3.C], for all the degree three finite type long virtual knot invariants, each Gauss diagram formula is represented as those of Vassiliev invariants of classical knots (Theorem 1).
description: 27 pages, 11 figures
Sacerdozio e celibato nella Chiesa cattolica
Creators: name: Parlato, Vittorio
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Alto valore ecclesiale dello status di chierico sposato - 2. L’obbligo del celibato e le eccezioni - 3. Le norme speciali relative al clero cattolico orientale sposato, in Occidente - 4. Le norme speciali relative all’ordinazione di pastori protestati convertitisi al cattolicesimo - 5. La normativa della Chiesa antica - 6. La disciplina delle Chiese ortodosse. Priesthood and celibacy in the Catholic Church. ABSTRACT: In this period there is discussion about the possibility of abolishing the obligation of celibacy for the Catholic clergy of Latin rite in order to increase their vocations. Some exceptions to this obligation have already been foreseen by the regulations of previous Roman popes for specific cases, aimed at promoting the conversion of Protestant pastors to Catholicism. Canon 373 of the Code of Law of the Eastern Churches states that "must be held in honor the status of clerics united in marriage sanctioned over the centuries by the practice of the early Church and the Eastern Churches", opening up to a re-evaluation of the uxorato clergy. This study aims to recall what is happening today in Eastern Catholic Churches, the exceptions made against Protestant pastors in the Latin Church, as well as the legislation in force in the ancient church, maintained, in substance, in the Orthodox Churches.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 23 marzo
Book Review: How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
Creators: name: Levin, Adam
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Financier. Nouveau riche. Millionaire. Femme fatale. Fashion. Sidewalk. If any of these terms resonate with you, Joan DeJean posits that you have one place and era to thank: seventeenth century Paris. In DeJean’s telling, the genesis of the modern, Western, planned city can be traced directly to the innovations and experiments in civic infrastructure, spatial development, and public finance dreamed up by France’s pre-Revolution monarchs and vanguards of urban thought. In How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City, DeJean paints an illuminating picture of how the City of Light became the birthplace of the inchoate field of urban planning while simultaneously— albeit unconsciously—illustrating how planning’s myriad of intractable problems have been with the profession since its very inception.
La funzione della pena nel magistero di Papa Francesco
Creators: name: Fiorita, Nicola
name: Guzzo, Luigi Mariano
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa: ambiti e obiettivi della ricerca - 2. Il diritto penale nel paradigma dell’ecologia integrale quale espressione del principio della misericordia - 3. La funzione della pena secondo Papa Francesco: i principi generali - 4. La pena di morte e la sua inconciliabilità con il Vangelo - 5. L’ergastolo come “pena di morte nascosta” e la tortura come “peccato mortale” - 6. Conclusioni. The Function of Punishment in the Teachings of Pope Francis ABSTRACT: This article analyses the doctrine about the function of punishment and the criminal justice system in the teachings of Pope Francis. The reflection about punishment is understood in the light of the principles of the Mercy of God and the Integral ecology. The central idea is represented by the concept of reparative justice. Particularly, it will be take in consideration the questions of death penalty, life sentence and torture, and - in the conclusions - a brief comparative analysis with the Italian legal justice system.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 23 marzo
Gli spazi pubblici e la religione
Creators: name: Di Cosimo, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Prospettive - 2. Duplice dovere - 3. Questioni I - 4. Questioni II - 5. L’accesso visto da Strasburgo - 6. Poteri pubblici e spazi pubblici - 7. Accesso pluralistico: regola ed eccezione. Public spaces and religion ABSTRACT: The essay analyzes the legal issues related to the presence of religion in public spaces. The thesis is that it is necessary to consider the various issues (religious building, religious symbols in public buildings etc.) on the basis of the public character of the space. In this way it becomes possible: a) to compare the various issues; b) identify the tasks of public authorities, which must make spaces available to religion and must not discriminate access to spaces. However, there are exceptions to the rule necessary to protect children in classrooms.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 23 marzo
Time-resolved parameterization of aperiodic and periodic brain activity
Creators: name: Wilson, Luc
name: Castanheira, Jason
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences
subject: Neuroscience and Neurobiology
subject: SPRiNT

description: Data repository containing simulated time series and source data files exceeding 200 MB used in the preprint of "Time-resolved parameterization of aperiodic and periodic brain activity".
Adaptive repulsion of long-term memory representations is triggered by event similarity
Creators: name: Lab, Kuhl
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: We tested whether similarity between events triggers adaptive biases in how those events are remembered. We generated pairs of competing objects that were identical except in color and varied the degree of color similarity for the competing objects. Subjects (N = 123 across four experiments) repeatedly studied and were tested on associations between each of these objects and corresponding faces. As expected, high color similarity between competing objects created memory interference for face-object associations. Strikingly, high color similarity also resulted in a systematic bias in how the objects, themselves, were remembered: competing objects with highly similar colors were remembered as being farther apart (in color space) than they actually were. This repulsion of color memories increased with learning and served a clear adaptive purpose: greater repulsion was associated with lower associative memory interference. These findings reveal that similarity between events triggers adaptive memory distortions that minimize interference.
Rigidity for F_4(p)
Creators: name: Lübeck, Frank
name: Guralnick, Robert
name: Yu, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 12F12, 20C33

description: We prove the existence of certain rationally rigid triples in F_4(p) for good primes p (i.e., p>3), thereby showing that these groups occur as regular Galois groups over Q(t) and so also over Q. We show that these triples give rise to rigid triples in the algebraic group and prove that they generate an interesting subgroup in characteristic 0.
description: 9 pages. Welcome comments
Applying the Rational Planning Model to Recreation Planning in Soul City
Creators: name: Peloquin-Dodd, Mary
name: Lockman, Jon
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1987

description: In February 1987, Floyd McKissick, St., the developer of Soul City, the federally assisted Title VIII new community, approached the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for assistance. Specifically, he requested that graduate students seek sources of funding for the Soul City Parks and Recreation Association (PRA). The PRA, which operated a pool and recreation complex for Soul City and the surrounding area, regularly sought money to cover deficit operating expenses. Without a long-term solution, the best alternative seemed to be the leasing of the facilities to Warren County. During the preliminary stages of our investigation, the PRA Board of Directors voted to lease their recreation facilities to the County. Therefore the original direction of our study, namely to secure funds for continued PRA operation of the facilities, had to be modified. This paper describes the resolution of the PRA crisis in the spring of 1987, and suggests new roles and future directions for the PRA now that a lease has been arranged with Warren County. Finally, this paper looks at long term issues for the "post-lease period," including the possibility of the incorporation of Soul City.
Reinventing Government in Durham: To Merge or Not to Merge
Creators: name: Goldstein, Harvey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1995

description: Reinventing government — initiatives to help make government at all levels more efficient and more responsive to citizens' needs — has been a central theme of the Clinton Administration. In some cases this has meant reducing administrative layers or decentralizing authority and responsibility from federal, to state, to local government. In other cases, it has meant weeding out unneeded services and eliminating regulatory barriers that increase the cost of doing business more than they produce social or economic benefit. In Durham, North Carolina, it has meant a renewed effort to consolidate the city and county governments.
Andreev reflection and subgap conductance in monolayer $MoS_2$ ferromagnet/$s$ and $d$-wave superconductor junction
Creators: name: Goudarzi, H.
name: Khezerlou, M.
name: Ebadzadeh, S. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The accurate and proper form of electron-hole excitations and corresponding Dirac-like spinors of monolayer molybdenum disulfide superconductor are exactly obtained. Andreev reflection and resulting subgap conductance in a $MoS_2$-based ferromagnetic superconducting (F/S) junction is accurately investigated in terms of dynamical characteristics of system. Due to spin-splitting energy gap in the valence band and nondegenerate $K$ and $K'$ valleys, the ferromagnetic exchange energy $σh$ can cause a distinct behavior of Andreev process between spin-up and spin-down charge carriers belonging to different valleys. The chemical potential is necessarily fixed by a determined range in order to occur the retro Andreev reflection. Given one-particle superconducting bispinors enable us to explicitly involve the anisotropic superconducting gap $Δ_S$ under electron-hole conversion, i.e., taking place in $d$-wave pair coupling. The effect of such gap is exactly explained in terms of the dependence of the Andreev process on the electron incidence angle at the interface.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
The Italian Experience with Halal Certification: the Case of Halal Italia
Creators: name: Bottoni, Rossella
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: SUMMARY: 1. Introduction - 2. Brief Remarks on the Notion of Halal - 3. The Interests at Stake in Halal Certification - 4. Actors and Instruments Involved in Halal Certification - 5. The Constitutional Regulation of the Religious Factor and Its Impact on Halal Certification - 6. Halal Italia and the 2010 Inter-Ministerial Convention - 7. Conclusion. ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to examine the Italian experience with halal certification and, in particular, the case of Halal Italia. After some brief preliminary remarks on the notion of halal, I will examine the general context of halal certification, by focusing on the interests at stake and on the actors and instruments involved. Next, I will take into account the impact of the constitutional regulation of the religious factor on halal certification. Finally, my analysis will turn to the trademark Halal Italia and the 2010 Inter-Ministerial Convention.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 23 marzo
L’aiuto al suicidio tra Corte costituzionale 242/2019 e BundesVerfassungsGericht 26 febbraio 2020
Creators: name: Colaianni, Nicola
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: Il carattere eccezionale della “circoscritta area”, in cui la Corte costituzionale ha affermato la non punibilità di chi aiuta al suicidio o, meglio, assiste una persona nel morire, risalta nitidamente al cospetto dell’assenza di limiti dell’area individuata allo stesso fine dal BundesVerfassungsGericht (BVG) con una sentenza pubblicata molto di recente. Benché perciò non sia possibile in questa sede il commento approfondito che la decisione meriterebbe, si possono prendere, tuttavia, almeno alcuni appunti comparativi. (segue)
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 23 marzo
La Corte costituzionale sugli edifici di culto tra limiti alla libertà religiosa e interventi positivi
Creators: name: Marchei, Natascia
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa: la pronuncia della Corte costituzionale e i nodi da sciogliere - 2. I limiti legittimi alla libertà religiosa - 3. Gli interventi positivi a favore del diritto al culto - 4. Brevi considerazioni conclusive: che cosa farà (o, meglio, cosa dovrebbe fare) il legislatore regionale? The Constitutional Court’s position about worship facilities between limits against the freedom of religion and positive interventions ABSTRACT: The Constitutional Court has another time pronounced about the right to have a place of worship. Its statements are crucial for this subject and are likely to produce an echo even outside the field of worship facilities. In particular, the Court affirms, on the one hand, that the freedom of worship might be limited only in order to guarantee concrete opposing interests, and not for mere exigencies of control. On the other hand, the Court declares that the freedom of religion, given its central and essential position in the Constitution, legitimizes and requires positive interventions by the legislator, in order to be promoted.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 9 marzo
M4; Mallick, Magnotti und Beauchamp (2015)
Creators: name: Fry, Jenny
name: Troesch, Dominic
name: imholz, sylvie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Audiovisual integration
subject: Individual differences
subject: McGurk-Effekt
subject: Speech perception

description: Übung zur Replikation einer Studie im Modul M4 der FernUni Schweiz
Book Review: The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity
Creators: name: Vangel, Kyle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Richard Florida’s The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity is a sweeping yet brisk work that attempts to make sense of how America will remake itself in the wake of the Great Recession. Florida draws heavily on the experience of the Long Depression of the 1870s and the Great Depression to make a convincing case that recovery from a severe economic downturn involves fundamental societal, economic, and geographic transformation. He contends that we are now at the outset of a “Great Reset” that will produce new social and economic forms. A key component of this process is a new “spatial fix” whereby the built environment is reconstituted to better match nascent modes of living and working. In the late nineteenth century, the rise of factories and the industrial city represented this nexus, while in the mid-twentieth century it was embodied by the marriage of mass production and auto-dependent suburbs. In the coming decades, Florida perceives that the emergence of the creative economy will be facilitated by fostering better linkages between, and densifying, the cities that comprise megaregions.
1929. La libertà negata
Creators: name: Luzzati, Claudio
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Revisionismo storico involontario - 3. Altri tempi - 4. L’art. 5 del Concordato - 5. La vicenda di Ernesto Buonaiuti - 6. La sua intransigenza morale - 7. Passato e presente - 8. Favor religionis - 9. Il sistema delle intese - 10. Il risveglio delle vecchie intolleranze. 1929: Freedom denied ABSTRACT: This paper turns around the case and the figure of Ernesto Buonaiuti. We would like to show how the Lateran Pacts of 1929 had been signed in an atmosphere in which both sides, fascism and the Catholic Church, denied freedom of conscience.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 9 marzo
A Survey of the Trends in Facial and Expression Recognition Databases and Methods
Creators: name: Roychowdhury, Sohini
name: Emmons, Michelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automated facial identification and facial expression recognition have been topics of active research over the past few decades. Facial and expression recognition find applications in human-computer interfaces, subject tracking, real-time security surveillance systems and social networking. Several holistic and geometric methods have been developed to identify faces and expressions using public and local facial image databases. In this work we present the evolution in facial image data sets and the methodologies for facial identification and recognition of expressions such as anger, sadness, happiness, disgust, fear and surprise. We observe that most of the earlier methods for facial and expression recognition aimed at improving the recognition rates for facial feature-based methods using static images. However, the recent methodologies have shifted focus towards robust implementation of facial/expression recognition from large image databases that vary with space (gathered from the internet) and time (video recordings). The evolution trends in databases and methodologies for facial and expression recognition can be useful for assessing the next-generation topics that may have applications in security systems or personal identification systems that involve "Quantitative face" assessments.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Survey, October, 2015
Oral diseases associated with COVID-19 in adults. Scoping Review.
Creators: name: Astudillo, Jackeline
name: López, Miriam
name: Monrroy, Catherine
name: Ramos, Ronald
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: adults
subject: COVID-19
subject: oral clinical manifestations
subject: Scoping Review

description: The objective of this scoping review is to identify and map the evidence available in the literature to provide an overview of COVID-19 related oral diseases in adults. The literature review will be carried out in the databases: PubMed, Scopus, Epistemonikos, Web of Science, Springer, Lilacs, Latindex, Redalyc, Imbiomed, Bireme, Scielo; and the reports of the World Health Organization and the Pan-American Health Organization (WHO/PAHO). There will be no limits on languages. The time range for the information search will be from 2020 to June 2021.
Superfluid response in heavy fermion superconductors
Creators: name: Zhong, Yin
name: Zhang, Lan
name: Shao, Can
name: Luo, Hong-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent London penetration depth measurement [H. Kim et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{114}, 027003 (2015)] and novel composite pairing scenario [O. Erten, R. Flint and P. Coleman, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{114}, 027002 (2015)] on Yb-doped heavy fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_{5}$, we revisit the issue of superfluid response in microscopic heavy fermion lattice model. However, it is found that in literature explicit expression of superfluid response function in heavy fermion superconductor is rare. In this paper, we make a contribution to this issue by investigating superfluid density response function in celebrated Kondo-Heisenberg model. To be specific, we derive corresponding formalism from an effective fermionic large-N mean-field pairing Hamiltonian, whose pairing interaction is assumed to originate from effective local antiferromagnetic exchange interaction. Interestingly, it is found that physically correct superfluid density formula can only be obtained if external electromagnetic field is directly coupled to heavy fermion quasi-particle. Such unique feature emphasizes the key role of Kondo-screening-renormalized quasi-particle for low-temperature/energy thermodynamics and transport behaviors. As an important application, the theoretical result is compared to experimental measurement in heavy fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_{5}$ and Yb-doped Ce$_{1-x}$Yb$_{x}$CoIn$_{5}$, where the agreement is fairly good and the transition of pairing symmetry in the latter one is explained as a simple doping effect. In addition, the requisite formalism for the commonly encountered nonmagnetic impurity and non-local electrodynamic effect are developed.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, references updated and discussion expanded
Crowding and binding: Not all feature-dimensions behave in the same way
Creators: name: Yashar, Amit
name: Wu, Xiuyun
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Data and materials from the paper: Crowding and binding: Not all feature-dimensions behave in the same way. Authors: Amit Yashar, Xiuyun Wu, Jiageng Chen and Marisa Carrasco
Furbizie e ambiguità nella giurisprudenza costituzionale in materia religiosa
Creators: name: Lariccia, Sergio
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa. La morte di Piero Calamandrei (27 settembre 1956) e il suo funerale - 2. L’oggetto del giudizio della Corte costituzionale. La sentenza della Corte costituzionale del n. 1 del 23 aprile 1956 - 3. 7 aprile 1957 : la relazione di Paolo Barile nel convegno degli Amici del Mondo su Stato e Chiesa in Italia al teatro Eliseo di Roma - 4. Le sentenze della Corte costituzionale nn. 30, 31 e 32 del 1971: il parametro della tutela dei principi supremi dell’ordinamento costituzionale italiano. Il principio costituzionale di eguaglianza non è un principio supremo dell’ordinamento costituzionale? - 5. Il convegno di Siena dal 30 novembre al 2 dicembre 1972. Due mondi diversi? - 6. La sentenza n. 195 del 1972 sul caso Cordero. Professori delle università cattoliche senza garanzie di rispetto della loro libertà di insegnamento? - 7. La sentenza n. 18 del 1982: un giudice e un giudizio pur sempre ci sono (?) - 8. La sentenza n. 203 del 1989. Insegnamenti diversi per bambini e ragazzi “credenti” cattolici e “non credenti”? - 9. Fu vera gloria? No, essa fu accolta in una parte del mondo della scuola con la dolorosa sensazione che si prova quando si è vittima di un inganno. Cunning and ambiguity in constitutional jurisprudence on religious matters ABSTRACT: A journey to Florence for the funeral of Piero Calamandrei (September 27, 1956). A project for a secular and democratic Italy: dreams, hopes, illusions and disappointments. Religion jurisprudence in the decisions of the Constitutional Court no. 1 of 1956, 30, 31 and 32 of 1971, 195 of 1972, 18 of 182, 203 of 1989. The judicial remedy in school matters and the academic disappointment for a constitutional decision that introduced the supreme principle of secularism but at the same time confirmed as compliant to the Constitution the coexistence, in public schools, of separate classes for believers (in the catholic religion) and nonbelievers.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 9 marzo
Asymptotics for logistic-type equations with Dirichlet fractional Laplace operator
Creators: name: Klimsiak, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the asymptotics of solutions of logistic type equations with fractional Laplacian as time goes to infinity and as the exponent in nonlinear part goes to infinity. We prove strong convergence of solutions in the energy space and uniform convergence to the solution of an obstacle problem. As a by-product, we also prove the cut-off property for eigenvalues of the Dirichlet fractional Laplace operator perturbed by exploding potentials.
Hog Heaven, Planner's Hell (Viewpoint)
Creators: name: Childers, Brenda
name: Bernhard, Angie
name: Bradley, Jeanette
name: Lucero, John
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1997

description: On September 23, 1996, the Duplin County, North Carolina Board of Health met in a special session called to review a proposal to regulate livestock farms under authority granted by North Carolina public health statutes regulating nuisance. Normally, Health Board meetings in Duplin County draw one or two observers at most, but this issue brought over 500 people to the hearing. Unprepared for the public interest, and perhaps overwhelmed by the hours of testimony, the Board adjourned without a decision. The above scenario is not unique to Duplin county. In fact, the issue of livestock farm regulation, especially corporate hog farms, is the source of similar conflict throughout North Carolina. It is not difficult to see why. In 1986, North Carolina was seventh in the nation in pork production. Ten years later the state is second, with $1.1 billion in annual sales (Stitch and Warrick 1995b). Clearly an important part of the state economy, hog farming has become a significant political issue as well. In 1992, members of the hog lobby contributed about $40,000 to candidates. In only two years, the figure more than doubled to over $92,000 (Satchell 1996:59).
Aporie e opacità dell’otto per mille: tra interesse pubblico a un pluralismo aperto e interessi specifici alla rigidità del mercato religioso
Creators: name: Domianello, Sara
name: Pasquali Cerioli, Jlia
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Il problema del conflitto di interessi nel diritto ecclesiastico dell’Italia repubblicana. - 2. Conflitto di interessi e finanziamento pubblico delle religioni. - 3. L’ombra del conflitto di interessi che accompagna nel suo cammino l’«invenzione» dell’otto per mille. - 4. Note di discussione. Contradictions and unclarities of “otto per mille”: between public interest in an open pluralism and individual interests in the rigidity of the religious market ABSTRACT: Religion, like politics and economics, risks fueling various forms of conflict of interest in the State. The constitutional choice to affirm a pluralist (or open) laicità aims precisely at avoiding and contrasting potential conflicts of interest caused by religious influences. The contradictions and the unclarities detected by several voices about the "otto per mille" economic support system could be read as indicators that Italy failed to implement a management of the public interest which should guarantee the exclusion of favoritism towards individual interests. The original fault of "otto per mille" system lies in the negotiated nature of the legislation that provides for it; the choice of a bilateral source makes clear the will of the State to operate, for purposes of its political consolidation, a substantial connection with the specific interests of some religious denominations in the acquisition and preservation of advantageous positions. It is therefore hoped an unilateral work of reform by the State, in particular the repeal of the fascist legislation about admitted cults and the promulgation of a general law on religious freedom.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 9 marzo
UNC Planning’s Diversity Committee
Creators: name: Price, Emily
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: In 1999, recognizing the growing importance of diversity within the field of planning, a few dedicated students at the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning established a Diversity Committee, with the mission of raising awareness about issues of diversity within the department and the field of planning. In recent years, the committee has grown from those first few students and single faculty advisor into a core group of ten or more active student participants, and two dedicated faculty advisors. In addition, the committee successfully engages the entire DCRP community through diversity training workshops. The committee now supports a broad range of activities related to education, outreach, and scholarship in DCRP.
Content validity of the distress thermometer problem list in advanced cancer; an international multi-centre secondary data analysis
Creators: name: Graham-Wisener, Lisa
name: Dempster, Martin
name: McCorry, Noleen
name: Pastrana, Tania
name: Huertas, Leticia
name: Gallagher, Pamela
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Advanced cancer
subject: Anxiety
subject: Depression
subject: Distress
subject: distress thermometer
subject: DT
subject: EoLC
subject: Palliative Care
subject: PEOLC
subject: Problem List
subject: Psycho-oncology
subject: Sources of distress
subject: Validation

description: The aim of this study is to examine the content validity of the Distress Thermometer Problem List with advanced cancer patients in an international multi-centre secondary data analysis study. We will examine the relationship between PL items and distress. A secondary aim is to make recommendations on which items could be omitted when screening for distress in a palliative and end of life care setting.
Entrusting Urban Health To Corporate Medics: New Brunswick Moves Beyond Intensive Care
Creators: name: Randall, Nancy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1984

description: At one time, the City of New Brunswick, New Jersey was a trade and transportation center. Although those two functions have been all but obliterated in the last 50 years. New Brunswick has retained the moniker of the Hub City. The heyday of New Brunswick has long passed and many have said that it is gone forever. However, the future of New Brunswick is not as bleak as would have been thought as recently as five years ago. A partnership of private investment and public cooperation called New Brunswick Tomorrow was formed in the city in 1976. This agency and its development arm, DevCo, have single-handedly and dramatically changed the character of New Brunswick. This article will discuss the ways in which this transformation from the 'old' New Brunswick to the 'new' New Brunswick has taken place. It is not the object of this paper to discredit the importance of public/private partnership in economic redevelopment. Partnerships of this kind are essential to renew the health and vitality of aging cities especially in the Northeast. It is important, however, for developers, planners, city officials, and the public to ask questions concerning who will benefit, who will lose, who is involved in the decision-making process, what goals are and how well those goals match the needs of the community as a whole.
Wave Operators and Similarity for Long Range $N$-body Schrödinger Operators
Creators: name: Kitada, Hitoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81U10 35J10 35P25 47A40

description: We consider asymptotic behavior of $e^{-itH}f$ for $N$-body Schrödinger operator $H=H_0+\sum_{1\le i0$. Introducing the concept of scattering spaces which classify the initial states $f$ according to the asymptotic behavior of the evolution $e^{-itH}f$, we give a generalized decomposition theorem of the continuous spectral subspace ${\mathcal{H}}_c(H)$ of $H$. The asymptotic completeness of wave operators is proved for some long-range pair potentials with $δ>1/2$ by using this decomposition theorem under some assumption on subsystem eigenfunctions.
description: 69 pages
Determining Community Attitudes and Preferences for Programs and Services
Creators: name: Harding, Joe R.
name: Nardi, Bonnie A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1978

description: Planning programs may fail to accomplish their goals and objectives because they do not meet the needs of the population for which they are designed. Planners may be of different socioeconomic, regional, or ethnic backgrounds from those for whom they plan. They may perceive and evaluate important aspects of the environment differently from their clients. For these reasons, individuals who will be living and working in the environment to be designed or modified by planners should be encouraged to provide input into the development of plans which will affect their activities and enterprises. A means of assessing needs and values of the community ought to be incorporated into planning projects.
A goodness-of-fit test for the functional linear model with functional response
Creators: name: García-Portugués, Eduardo
name: Álvarez-Liébana, Javier
name: Álvarez-Pérez, Gonzalo
name: González-Manteiga, Wenceslao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62G10, 62J05, 62G09

description: The Functional Linear Model with Functional Response (FLMFR) is one of the most fundamental models to assess the relation between two functional random variables. In this paper, we propose a novel goodness-of-fit test for the FLMFR against a general, unspecified, alternative. The test statistic is formulated in terms of a Cramér-von Mises norm over a doubly-projected empirical process which, using geometrical arguments, yields an easy-to-compute weighted quadratic norm. A resampling procedure calibrates the test through a wild bootstrap on the residuals and the use of convenient computational procedures. As a sideways contribution, and since the statistic requires a reliable estimator of the FLMFR, we discuss and compare several regularized estimators, providing a new one specifically convenient for our test. The finite sample behavior of the test is illustrated via a simulation study. Also, the new proposal is compared with previous significance tests. Two novel real datasets illustrate the application of the new test.
description: 24 pages, 2 figures, 10 tables. Suplementary material: 2 pages, 1 figure
Simultaneous occurrence of distinct symmetries in nuclei
Creators: name: Leviatan, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that distinct emergent symmetries, such as partial dynamical symmetry and quasi dynamical symmetry, can occur simultaneously in the same or different eigenstates of the Hamiltonian. Implications for nuclear spectroscopy in the rare-earth region and for first-order quantum phase transitions between spherical and deformed shapes, are considered.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, Final version, Proc. XXI Int. School on Nuclear Physics and Applications & Int. Symposium on Exotic Nuclei (ISEN-2015), September 6-12, 2015, Varna, Bulgaria
Axisymmetric multiwormholes revisited
Creators: name: Clément, Gérard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The construction of stationary axisymmetric multiwormhole solutions to gravitating field theories admitting toroidal reductions to three-dimensional gravitating sigma models is reviewed. We show that, as in the multi-black hole case, strut singularities always appear in this construction, except for very special configurations with an odd number of centers. We also review the analytical continuation of the multicenter solution across the $n$ cuts associated with the wormhole mouths. The resulting Riemann manifold has $2^n$ sheets interconnected by $2^{n-1}n$ wormholes. We find that the maximally extended multicenter solution can never be asymptotically locally flat in all the Riemann sheets.
description: 12 pages
A remark on virtual pushforward properties in Gromov-Witten theory
Creators: name: Qu, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We approach Gathmann's virtual pushforward property from the perspective of bivariant intersection theory, extend a virtual pushforward result of Manolache, and use our extension to deduce a result of Gathmann relating relative and rubber GW invariants of a $P^1$ bundle with invariants of its base.
description: 8 pages; v2 small changes
Schrödinger equations with smooth measure potential and general measure data
Creators: name: Klimsiak, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study equations driven by Schrödinger operators consisting of a self-adjoint Dirichlet operator and a singular potential, which belongs to a class of positive Borel measures absolutely continuous with respect to a capacity generated by the operator. In particular, we cover positive potentials exploding on a set of capacity zero. The right-hand side of equations is allowed to be a general bounded Borel measure. The class of self-adjoint Dirichlet operators is quite large. Examples include integro-differential operators with the local part of divergence form. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a solution, and prove some regularity and stability results.
Microparticle cloud imaging and tracking for data-driven plasma science
Creators: name: Wang, Zhehui
name: Xu, Jiayi
name: Kovach, Yao E.
name: Wolfe, Bradley T.
name: Thomas, Edward
name: Guo, Hanqi
name: Foster, John E.
name: Shen, Han-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large data sets give rise to the `fourth paradigm' of scientific discovery and technology development, extending other approaches based on human intuition, fundamental laws of physics, statistics and intense computation. Both experimental and simulation data are growing explosively in plasma science and technology, motivating data-driven discoveries and inventions, which are currently in infancy. Here we describe recent progress in microparticle cloud imaging and tracking (mCIT, $μ$CIT) for laboratory plasma experiments. Three types of microparticle clouds are described: from exploding wires, in dusty plasmas and in atmospheric plasmas. The experimental data sets are obtained with one or more imaging cameras at a rate up to 100k frames per second (fps). A physics-constrained motion tracker, a Kohonen neural network (KNN) or self-organizing map (SOM), the feature tracking kit (FTK), and U-Net are described and compared with each other for particle tracking using the datasets. Particle density and signal-to-noise ratio have been identified as two important factors that affect the tracking accuracy. Fast Fourier transform (FFT) is used to reveal how U-Net, a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) developed for non-plasma applications, achieves the improvements for noisy scenes. The fitting parameters for a simple polynomial track model are found to group into clusters that reveal the geometry information about the camera setup. The mCIT or $μ$CIT techniques, when enhanced with data models, can be used to study the microparticle- or Debye-length scale plasma physics. The datasets are also available for ML code development and comparisons of algorithms.
description: 14 pages, 15 figures, invited talk to the 2nd international conference on data-driven plasma science, Marseille, France, May 13-17, 2019
Many analysts, one dataset: Making transparent how variations in analytical choices affect results
Creators: name: Silberzahn, Raphael
name: Uhlmann, Eric
name: Martin, Daniel
name: Anselmi, Pasquale
name: Aust, Frederik
name: Awtrey, Eli
name: Bahník, Štěpán
name: Bai, Feng
name: Bannard, Colin
name: Bonnier, Evelina
name: Carlsson, Rickard
name: Cheung, Felix
name: Christensen, Garret
name: Clay, Russ
name: Craig, Maureen
name: Dalla Rosa, Anna
name: Dam, Lammertjan
name: Evans, Mathew
name: Flores Cervantes, Ismael
name: Fong, Nathan
name: Gamez-Djokic, Monica
name: Glenz, Andreas
name: Gordon-McKeon, Shauna
name: Heaton, Tim
name: Eriksson, Karin
name: Heene, Moritz
name: Hofelich Mohr, Alicia
name: Högden, Fabia
name: Hui, Kent
name: Johannesson, Magnus
name: Kalodimos, Jonathan
name: Kaszubowski, Erikson
name: Kennedy, Deanna
name: Lei, Ryan
name: Lindsay, Thomas
name: Liverani, Silvia
name: Madan, Christopher
name: Molden, Daniel
name: Molleman, Eric
name: Morey, Richard
name: Mulder, Laetitia
name: Nijstad, Bernard
name: Pope, Bryson
name: Pope, Nolan
name: Prenoveau, Jason
name: Rink, Floor
name: Robusto, Egidio
name: Roderique, Hadiya
name: Sandberg, Anna
name: Schlueter, Elmar
name: S, Felix
name: Sherman, Martin
name: Sommer, S. Amy
name: Sotak, Kristin
name: Spain, Seth
name: Spörlein, Christoph
name: Stafford, Tom
name: Stefanutti, Luca
name: Täuber, Susanne
name: Ullrich, Johannes
name: Vianello, Michelangelo
name: Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan
name: Witkowiak, Maciej
name: Yoon, Sangsuk
name: Nosek, Brian
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: crowdsourcing science
subject: data analysis
subject: transparency

description: Twenty-nine teams involving 61 analysts used the same dataset to address the same research question: whether soccer referees are more likely to give red cards to dark skin toned players than light skin toned players. Analytic approaches varied widely across teams, and estimated effect sizes ranged from 0.89 to 2.93 in odds ratio units, with a median of 1.31. Twenty teams (69%) found a statistically significant positive effect and nine teams (31%) observed a non-significant relationship. Overall 29 different analyses used 21 unique combinations of covariates. We found that neither analysts' prior beliefs about the effect, nor their level of expertise, nor peer-reviewed quality of analysis readily explained variation in analysis outcomes. This suggests that significant variation in analysis of complex data may be difficult to avoid, even by experts with honest intentions. Crowdsourcing data analysis, a strategy by which numerous research teams are recruited to simultaneously investigate the same research question, makes transparent how defensible, yet subjective analytic choices influence research results.
Determinantal probability measures on Grassmannians
Creators: name: Kassel, Adrien
name: Lévy, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60G55, 60D05, 14M15, 81P15, 82B20

description: We introduce and study a class of determinantal probability measures generalising the class of discrete determinantal point processes. These measures live on the Grassmannian of a real, complex, or quaternionic inner product space that is split into pairwise orthogonal finite-dimensional subspaces. They are determined by a positive self-adjoint contraction of the inner product space, in a way that is equivariant under the action of the group of isometries that preserve the splitting.
description: 55 pages, 2 figures