cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Life at high Deborah number
Creators: name: Lauga, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In many biological systems, microorganisms swim through complex polymeric fluids, and usually deform the medium at a rate faster than the inverse fluid relaxation time. We address the basic properties of such life at high Deborah number analytically by considering the small-amplitude swimming of a body in an arbitrary complex fluid. Using asymptotic analysis and differential geometry, we show that for a given swimming gait, the time-averaged leading-order swimming kinematics of the body can be expressed as an integral equation on the solution to a series of simpler Newtonian problems. We then use our results to demonstrate that Purcell's scallop theorem, which states that time-reversible body motion cannot be used for locomotion in a Newtonian fluid, breaks down in polymeric fluid environments.
title: L'immigrazione in Sardegna
Creators: name: Zurru, Marco
Publisher: name: UNICApress
Year: 2023

description: Il volume raccoglie i principali risultati di un lavoro interno al Progetto FAMI-PRIMA, Piano Regionale di rafforzamento dell’integrazione lavorativa dei migranti 2018-2020.
Attraverso un partenariato con Anci Sardegna, Regione Autonoma della Sardegna (RAS) e l’Agenzia Sarda per le Politiche Attive del Lavoro (ASPAL), il progetto intende favorire un migliore inserimento socio-lavorativo dei richiedenti e titolari di protezione umanitaria, sussidiaria e asilo politico attraverso la rilevazione degli skills, competenze e delle capacità dichiarate dagli stessi soggetti. Attraverso la generosa collaborazione dei mediatori linguistico-culturali, nelle diverse province dell’Isola è stato somministrato un questionario capace di evidenziare alcune caratteristiche socio-anagrafiche dei soggetti migranti, l’universo dei servizi usufruiti in loco, e i loro desiderata in ordine al collocamento professionale nei
diversi segmenti del mercato del lavoro italiano. L’autore ha elaborato, analizzato e commentato i risultati della ricerca traducendo le competenze dichiarate dai migranti secondo il dizionario della Classificazione delle professioni Istat CP2011. Si sono dunque messi in evidenza gli elementi di continuità, ma anche quelli di rottura e novità che caratterizzano il fenomeno migratorio nel mercato del lavoro isolano, restituendo ai policy makers la possibilità fattiva di progettare corsi di formazione professionale in linea con le competenze rilevate
Micosi fungoide: indagini strumentali e laboratoristiche
Creators: name: Medri, Matelda <1977>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: MED/35 Malattie cutanee e veneree

description: Mycosis fungoides: instrumental and laboratory examinations.

Cutaneous lymphomas are a group of disorders characterized by localization of malignant lymphocytes to the skin. Approximately two-thirds of these lymphomas are of T-cell origin. The most common form of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma is mycosis fungoides. Several reviews and guidelines on the management of mycosis fungoides have been published. This study reviews the management and the follow-up of early-stage MF according to our experience.
Early-type galaxies as probes of galaxy formation and cosmology
Creators: name: Moresco, Michele Ennio Maria <1982>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: FIS/05 Astronomia e astrofisica

description: The goal of this thesis is to analyze the possibility of using early-type galaxies to place evolutionary and cosmological constraints, by both disentangling what is the main driver of ETGs evolution between mass and environment, and developing a technique to constrain H(z) and the cosmological parameters studying the ETGs age-redshift relation.
The (U-V) rest-frame color distribution is studied as a function of mass and environment for two sample of ETGs up to z=1, extracted from the zCOSMOS survey with a new selection criterion. The color distributions and the slopes of the color-mass and color-environment relations are studied, finding a strong dependence on mass and a minor dependence on environment. The spectral analysis performed on the D4000 and Hδ features gives results validating the previous analysis. The main driver of galaxy evolution is found to be the galaxy mass, the environment playing a subdominant but non negligible role. The age distribution of ETGs is also analyzed as a function of mass, providing strong evidences supporting a downsizing scenario.
The possibility of setting cosmological constraints studying the age-redshift relation is studied, discussing the relative degeneracies and model dependencies. A new approach is developed, aiming to minimize the impact of systematics on the “cosmic chronometer” method. Analyzing theoretical models, it is demonstrated that the D4000 is a feature correlated almost linearly with age at fixed metallicity, depending only minorly on the models assumed or on the SFH chosen. The analysis of a SDSS sample of ETGs shows that it is possible to use the differential D4000 evolution of the galaxies to set constraints to cosmological parameters in an almost model-independent way.
Values of the Hubble constant and of the dark energy EoS parameter are found, which are not only fully compatible, but also with a comparable error budget with the latest results.
Applicazioni industriali e di ricerca della spettroscopia NIR per la valutazione di indici qualitativi di prodotti alimentari
Creators: name: Silaghi, Florina Aurelia <1983>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: AGR/09 Meccanica agraria

description: In the present work qualitative aspects of products that fall outside the classic Italian of food production view will be investigated, except for the apricot, a fruit, however, less studied by the methods considered here.
The development of computer systems and the advanced software systems dedicated for statistical processing of data, has permitted the application of advanced technologies including the analysis of niche products. The near-infrared spectroscopic analysis was applied to the chemical industry for over twenty years and, subsequently, was applied in  food industry with great success for non-destructive in line and off-line analysis.
The work that will be presented below range from the use of spectroscopy for the determination of some rheological indices of ice cream applications to the characterization of the main quality indices of apricots, fresh dates, determination of the production areas of pistachio.
Next to the spectroscopy will be illustrated different methods of multivariate analysis for spectra interpretation or for the construction of qualitative models of estimation.
The thesis is divided into four separate studies that consider the same number of  products. Each one of it  is introduced by its own premise and ended with its own bibliography. This studies are  preceded by a general discussion on the state of art and the basics of NIR spectroscopy.
An investigation of the usefulness of parking price increases as public policy for congestion relief in Vancouver
Creators: name: King, David James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the usefulness of parking price increases for the relief of congestion in Vancouver. This investigation is set within the framework of public policy analysis in order to permit the examination of both the likely technical effectiveness of this idea, and the behavioural response of the political and administrative system. Three basic information sources were utilized in the analyses. From the literature, two areas were reviewed: concepts and theories from the field of public policy analysis; our understanding of congestion and methods of its alleviation, especially congestion pricing. Interviews were conducted with local officials to provide data concerning the Vancouver context, current policies and likely response to a parking price increase program. A questionnaire survey was utilized to investigate potential behaviour of individuals in the target population. Examination of previous experience with parking price increases offers the following reasons for the negligible impact upon congestion: strong opposition from business interests who feel shoppers are discouraged; exemption of non-commercial employee-oriented parking; insufficiently large price increases. Accordingly, increasing parking prices to those who work in congested areas has been proposed as a workable alternative to be explored in the Vancouver context. The results of the questionnaire survey provide several observations about downtown workers who commute by car: many use employer-controlled facilities; many park free; a majority would prefer to discontinue parking if prices were doubled; most parkers reacted to large incremental increases, not small ones; bus transit was the most popular alternative commuting mode. It was found that the largest impacts of the parking price increase program would be: loss of profit experienced by the parking industry, at least in the short run; reduction of traffic volumes in and around the downtown during the rush hour. Reducing traffic volumes significantly while avoiding undesirable side effects depends upon the use of sufficently large price increases and the assurance that these increases reach the bulk of auto commuters. A comprehensive administration of collection and enforcement procedures is therefore necessary. It is concluded that a parking price increase program directed at downtown workers would make a useful contribution to the relief of congestion in Vancouver. Furthermore, the success of this program will depend not upon the basic mechanical capacity of this technique to reduce congestion, but rather upon the willingness of the implementing agency to demonstrate strong commitment to the program and the active co-operation of other public agencies.
Commentary to the Hua-Yan Dharma-Realm Meditation
Creators: name: King, Sallie Behn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis is a translation, with notes and introduction, of the Commentary to the Hua-yan Dharma-realm Meditation, This text is a commentary to the Dharma-realm Meditation, which is incorporated into the former. The core text is by the first patriarch of the Hua-yan school of Buddhism in China, Du-shun (557-64-0); the commentary is by the fifth patriarch of the Hua-yan school, Zong-mi (780-841), The text is both philosophical and meditational in nature, and is a concise statement of the key doctrines of the school. The introduction to this text prepares the reader for the translation by providing the information and concepts necessary for an understanding of the text. This includes material on the translation of technical terms, a brief sketch of some Buddhist texts referred to by the authors, biographical information on the authors, historical and philosophical background to the Hua-yan school, a comment on the literary and meditational aspects of the text, and a general summary of the text by chapters.
Uncertainty Calibration for Ensemble-Based Debiasing Methods
Creators: name: Xiong, Ruibin
name: Chen, Yimeng
name: Pang, Liang
name: Chen, Xueqi
name: Lan, Yanyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ensemble-based debiasing methods have been shown effective in mitigating the reliance of classifiers on specific dataset bias, by exploiting the output of a bias-only model to adjust the learning target. In this paper, we focus on the bias-only model in these ensemble-based methods, which plays an important role but has not gained much attention in the existing literature. Theoretically, we prove that the debiasing performance can be damaged by inaccurate uncertainty estimations of the bias-only model. Empirically, we show that existing bias-only models fall short in producing accurate uncertainty estimations. Motivated by these findings, we propose to conduct calibration on the bias-only model, thus achieving a three-stage ensemble-based debiasing framework, including bias modeling, model calibrating, and debiasing. Experimental results on NLI and fact verification tasks show that our proposed three-stage debiasing framework consistently outperforms the traditional two-stage one in out-of-distribution accuracy.
title: Diagnóstico diferencial de las lesiones renales sólidas en adultos mediante TCMD con correlación anatomopatológica
Creators: name: Miguez Gonzalez, Javier
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: CT
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
Revisar las características radiológicas y patrones de captación típicos en la TCMD de las lesiones renales sólidas en adultos,
correlacionándolas con sus características...
DQRE-SCnet: A novel hybrid approach for selecting users in Federated Learning with Deep-Q-Reinforcement Learning based on Spectral Clustering
Creators: name: Ahmadi, Mohsen
name: Taghavirashidizadeh, Ali
name: Javaheri, Danial
name: Masoumian, Armin
name: Ghoushchi, Saeid Jafarzadeh
name: Pourasad, Yaghoub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Machine learning models based on sensitive data in the real-world promise advances in areas ranging from medical screening to disease outbreaks, agriculture, industry, defense science, and more. In many applications, learning participant communication rounds benefit from collecting their own private data sets, teaching detailed machine learning models on the real data, and sharing the benefits of using these models. Due to existing privacy and security concerns, most people avoid sensitive data sharing for training. Without each user demonstrating their local data to a central server, Federated Learning allows various parties to train a machine learning algorithm on their shared data jointly. This method of collective privacy learning results in the expense of important communication during training. Most large-scale machine-learning applications require decentralized learning based on data sets generated on various devices and places. Such datasets represent an essential obstacle to decentralized learning, as their diverse contexts contribute to significant differences in the delivery of data across devices and locations. Researchers have proposed several ways to achieve data privacy in Federated Learning systems. However, there are still challenges with homogeneous local data. This research approach is to select nodes (users) to share their data in Federated Learning for independent data-based equilibrium to improve accuracy, reduce training time, and increase convergence. Therefore, this research presents a combined Deep-QReinforcement Learning Ensemble based on Spectral Clustering called DQRE-SCnet to choose a subset of devices in each communication round. Based on the results, it has been displayed that it is possible to decrease the number of communication rounds needed in Federated Learning.
description: 14 pages, Accepted, Elsevier (Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences)
title: Evaluación con TC-256 de la cirugía de revascularización coronaria: efecto de la frecuencia cardiaca, la variabilidad de frecuencia cardiaca y la localización en el eje-z en la calidad de imagen.
Creators: name: Diez Martinez, Patricia
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Grafts

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
Nuestro objetivo es estudiar el efecto de la frecuencia cardiaca (FC) y su variabilidad y la localización del eje-z en la evaluación de los by-pass aorto-coronario con injerto (BACI) utilizando una TC-256 detectores. INTRODUCCIÓN Aproximadamente...
title: Utilidad de la ecografía en la valoración del manguito de los rotadores
Creators: name: Peris, Sara
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
Evaluar la utilidad de la ecografía en la valoración de la patología del manguito de los rotadores usando como "gold estándar" la resonancia magnética,
en nuestro...
title: Complicaciones infrecuentes en el tratamiento endovascular del aneurisma de aorta abdominal
Creators: name: Cano Marquina, Antonio J
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
Presentar 2 complicaciones infrecuentes en el tratamiento endovascular de aneurismas de aorta abdominal (EVAR).
Obstrucción de la prótesis aórtica y de las ilíacas a los 3 meses y hematoma retroperitoneal asociando pancreatitis en postoperatorio...
title: Cómo detectar las disecciones carotídeas en la TC del código ictus. Guía de supervivencia para la guardia.
Creators: name: Diez Blanco, Maria
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: MR-Angiography

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
Describir los hallazgos radiológicos por imagen,
incluyendo angio-TC ,
de los pacientes con disección carotídea aguda. Establecer un diagnóstico diferencial con otras patologías que pueden simular disección...
Supramolecular hybrid organic-inorganic multicomponent architectures in solution and on surface
Creators: name: Pandoli, Omar <1977>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: CHIM/06 Chimica organica

description: Supramolecular architectures can be built-up from a single molecular component (building
block) to obtain a complex of organic or inorganic interactions creating a new emergent
condensed phase of matter, such as gels, liquid crystals and solid crystal. Further the
generation of multicomponent supramolecular hybrid architecture, a mix of organic and
inorganic components, increases the complexity of the condensed aggregate with functional
properties useful for important areas of research, like material science, medicine and
nanotechnology.
One may design a molecule storing a recognition pattern and programming a informed
self-organization process enables to grow-up into a hierarchical architecture. From a
molecular level to a supramolecular level, in a bottom-up fashion, it is possible to create a
new emergent structure-function, where the system, as a whole, is open to its own
environment to exchange energy, matter and information. “The emergent property of the
whole assembly is superior to the sum of a singles parts”.
In this thesis I present new architectures and functional materials built through the selfassembly
of guanosine, in the absence or in the presence of a cation, in solution and on the
surface.
By appropriate manipulation of intermolecular non-covalent interactions the spatial
(structural) and temporal (dynamic) features of these supramolecular architectures are
controlled.
Guanosine G7 (5',3'-di-decanoil-deoxi-guanosine) is able to interconvert reversibly
between a supramolecular polymer and a discrete octameric species by dynamic cation
binding and release.
Guanosine G16 (2',3'-O-Isopropylidene-5'-O-decylguanosine) shows selectivity binding
from a mix of different cation's nature.
Remarkably, reversibility, selectivity, adaptability and serendipity are mutual features to
appreciate the creativity of a molecular self-organization complex system into a multilevelscale
hierarchical growth.
The creativity - in general sense, the creation of a new thing, a new thinking, a new
functionality or a new structure - emerges from a contamination process of different
disciplines such as biology, chemistry, physics, architecture, design, philosophy and science
of complexity.
A selection function toolbox for subsets of astronomical catalogues
Creators: name: Boubert, Douglas
name: Everall, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large catalogues are ubiquitous throughout astronomy, but most scientific analyses are carried out on smaller samples selected from these catalogues by chosen cuts on catalogued quantities. The selection function of that scientific sample - the probability that a star in the catalogue will satisfy these cuts and so make it into the sample - is thus unique to each scientific analysis. We have created a general framework that can flexibly estimate the selection function of a sample drawn from a catalogue in terms of position, magnitude and colour. Our method is unique in using the binomial likelihood and accounting for correlations in the selection function across position, magnitude and colour using Gaussian processes and spherical harmonics. We have created a new open-source Python package selectionfunctiontoolbox that implements this framework and used it to make three different estimates of the APOGEE DR16 red giant sample selection function, as a subset of 2MASS, with each estimate using an increasing amount of technical knowledge of the APOGEE targeting. In a companion paper we applied our methodology to derive estimates of the astrometric and spectroscopic selection functions of Gaia EDR3. Our framework will make it trivial for astrophysicists to estimate the selection function that they should be using with the custom sample of stars that they have chosen to answer their scientific question.
description: Accepted in MNRAS. selectionfunctiontoolbox available at: https://github.com/gaiaverse/selectionfunctiontoolbox
Completeness of the Gaia-verse V: Astrometry and Radial Velocity sample selection functions in Gaia EDR3
Creators: name: Everall, Andrew
name: Boubert, Douglas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We risk reaching false scientific conclusions if we test our physical theories against subsets of the Gaia catalogue without correcting for the biased process by which stars make it into our sample. In this paper we produce selection functions for three Gaia science samples to enable the community to correct for this bias. We estimate the probability that a source in Gaia EDR3 will have i) a reported parallax and proper motion, ii) an astrometric renormalised unit weight error below 1.4, or iii) a reported radial velocity. These selection functions are estimated as a function of $G$-band apparent magnitude and position on the sky, with the latter two also being dependent on $G-G_\mathrm{RP}$ colour. The inferred selection functions have a non-trivial dependence on these observable parameters, demonstrating the importance of empirically estimating selection functions. We also produce a simple estimate for the selection function of the full Gaia EDR3 source catalogue to be used with the subset selection functions. We make all of our selection functions easily accessible through the GitHub repository \textsc{selectionfunctions}.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
A causality analysis of the linearized relativistic Navier-Stokes equations
Creators: name: Sandoval-Villalbazo, A.
name: Garcia-Perciante, A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown by means of a simple analysis that the linearized system of transport equations for a relativistic, single component ideal gas at rest obeys the \textit{antecedence principle}, which is often referred to as causality principle. This task is accomplished by examining the roots of the dispersion relation for such a system. This result is important for recent experiments performed in relativistic heavy ion colliders, since it suggests that the Israel-Stewart like formalisms may be unnecessary in order to describe relativistic fluids.
description: Invited review for Festschrift in honor of Prof. Leopoldo Garcia-Colin Scherer
CIFRA National Survey: Uruguay March 1994
Creators: name: CIFRA, In Bogliaccini, Juan, And Queirolo Rosario Laboratorio De Opinión Pública And Redes Sociales En Uruguay Collection (Social Networks And Public Opinion Lab Collection)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Weekend hobbies and habits; satisfaction with personal life; best day of the week for intimacy; economic situation of family; likability of presidential candidates; approval of President Luis Alberto Lacalle; approval of Parliament; approval of the district mayor; political advertising and propoganda; political party/spectrum affiliation/position; stealing as a child; returning lost money; characteristics of mayoral candidates; graphic news on television; driving tendencies; economic situation of the country; criticizing personal life of politicians; alternatives to President Luis Alberto Lacalle; religious views; past voting history; future voting tendencies. Montevideo: Ethnic roots of family; acceptance of criticism against government; national healthcare quality; personal medical services; position on tax referendum; preferred mayoral candidate. Rio Negro: Regional celebrities as politicians. National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Collection.
Two concepts of ideology
Creators: name: Taft, George Roger
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: There are two major conceptions of ideology, a liberal and a Marxist notion. The liberal concept of ideology variously claims that ideology is a highly integrated value system, a confusion of value for fact, a result of intellectuals in politics, and/or a result of strain. However, when examined closely these arguments are either fallacious, ad hominem, or of such a general notion as to equate ideology with social philosophy. Thus the utility of liberal notions of ideology for social analysis is severely limited: it is primarily a means to discount the arguments of one's opponents. The Marxist notion of ideology views ideology as the ruling ideas or "false consciousness" a ruling class fosters to help perpetuate its dominance. As such this concept of ideology focuses on the materialistic origins, propagation and acceptance of ideas. Thus Marx's notion of ideology is more useful than the liberal notion because it calls for investigation of legitimation, mass media, education, religion as significant factors in building and perpetuating a political regime.
Unraveling complex magnetism in two-dimensional FeS$_2$
Creators: name: Wang, Duo
name: Chen, Xin
name: Sanyal, Biplab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atomically thin two dimensional magnets have given rise to emergent phenomena due to magnetic exchange and spin-orbit coupling showing a great promise for realizing ultrathin device structures. In this paper, we critically examine the magnetic properties of 2D FeS$_2$, which has been recently claimed to exhibit room temperature ferromagnetism in the (111) orientation. Our ab initio study based on collinear density functional theory has revealed the ground state as an antiferromagnetic one with an ordering temperature of around 100K along with a signature of spin-phonon coupling, which may trigger a ferromagnetic coupling via strain. Moreover, our calculations based on spin-spirals indicate the possibility of non-collinear magnetic structures, which is also supported by Monte Carlo simulations based on ab initio magnetic exchange parameters. This opens up an excellent possibility to manipulate magnetic structures by the application of directional strain.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Look at the Variance! Efficient Black-box Explanations with Sobol-based Sensitivity Analysis
Creators: name: Fel, Thomas
name: Cadene, Remi
name: Chalvidal, Mathieu
name: Cord, Matthieu
name: Vigouroux, David
name: Serre, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe a novel attribution method which is grounded in Sensitivity Analysis and uses Sobol indices. Beyond modeling the individual contributions of image regions, Sobol indices provide an efficient way to capture higher-order interactions between image regions and their contributions to a neural network's prediction through the lens of variance. We describe an approach that makes the computation of these indices efficient for high-dimensional problems by using perturbation masks coupled with efficient estimators to handle the high dimensionality of images. Importantly, we show that the proposed method leads to favorable scores on standard benchmarks for vision (and language models) while drastically reducing the computing time compared to other black-box methods -- even surpassing the accuracy of state-of-the-art white-box methods which require access to internal representations. Our code is freely available: https://github.com/fel-thomas/Sobol-Attribution-Method
description: NeurIPS2021
Implications of the VHE Gamma-Ray Detection of the Quasar 3C279
Creators: name: Boettcher, Markus
name: Reimer, Anita
name: Marscher, Alan P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The MAGIC collaboration recently reported the detection of the quasar 3C279 at > 100 GeV gamma-ray energies. Here we present simultaneous optical (BVRI) and X-ray (RXTE PCA) data from the day of the VHE detection and discuss the implications of the snap-shot spectral energy distribution for jet models of blazars. A one-zone synchrotron-self-Compton origin of the entire SED, including the VHE gamma-ray emission can be ruled out. The VHE emission could, in principle, be interpreted as Compton upscattering of external radiation (e.g., from the broad-line regions). However, such an interpretation would require either an unusually low magnetic field of B ~ 0.03 G or an unrealistically high Doppler factor of Gamma ~ 140. In addition, such a model fails to reproduce the observed X-ray flux. This as well as the lack of correlated variability in the optical with the VHE gamma-ray emission and the substantial gamma-gamma opacity of the BLR radiation field to VHE gamma-rays suggests a multi-zone model. In particular, an SSC model with an emission region far outside the BLR reproduces the simultaneous X-ray -- VHE gamma-ray spectrum of 3C279. Alternatively, a hadronic model is capable of reproducing the observed SED of 3C279 reasonably well. However, the hadronic model requires a rather extreme jet power of L_j ~ 10^{49} erg s^{-1}, compared to a requirement of L_j ~ 2 X 10^{47} erg s^{-1} for a multi-zone leptonic model.
description: Accepted for pulication. Several clarifications and additions to the manuscript to match the accepted version
Candidate genes affecting fat deposition, carcass composition and meat quality traits in pigs
Creators: name: Gandolfi, Greta <1983>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: AGR/17 Zootecnica generale e miglioramento genetico

description: Pig meat quality is determined by several parameters, such as lipid content, tenderness, water-holding capacity, pH, color and flavor, that affect consumers’ acceptance and technological properties of meat. Carcass quality parameters are important for the production of fresh and dry-cure high-quality products, in particular the fat deposition and the lean cut yield. The identification of genes and markers associated with meat and carcass quality traits is of prime interest, for the possibility of improving the traits by marker-assisted selection (MAS) schemes. 
Therefore, the aim of this thesis was to investigate seven candidate genes for meat and carcass quality traits in pigs. In particular, we focused on genes belonging to the family of the lipid droplet coat proteins perilipins (PLIN1 and PLIN2) and to the calpain/calpastatin system (CAST, CAPN1, CAPN3, CAPNS1) and on the gene encoding for PPARg-coactivator 1A (PPARGC1A). 
In general, the candidate genes investigation included the protein localization, the detection of polymorphisms, the association analysis with meat and carcass traits and the analysis of the expression level, in order to assess the involvement of the gene in pork quality.
Some of the analyzed genes showed effects on various pork traits that are subject to selection in genetic improvement programs, suggesting a possible involvement of the genes in controlling the traits variability. In particular, significant association results have been obtained for PLIN2, CAST and PPARGC1A genes, that are worthwhile of further validation. The obtained results contribute to a better understanding of biological mechanisms important for pig production as well as for a possible use of pig as animal model for studies regarding obesity in humans.
Model-theoretic independence in the Banach lattices $L_p(μ)$
Creators: name: Yaacov, Itaï Ben
name: Berenstein, Alexander
name: Henson, C. Ward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03C45, 03C90, 46B04, 46B42

description: We study model-theoretic stability and independence in Banach lattices of the form $L_p(X,U,μ)$, where $1 \leq p < \infty$. We characterize non-dividing using concepts from analysis and show that canonical bases exist as tuples of real elements.
Multiscale fabrication of functional materials for life sciences
Creators: name: Bianchi, Michele <1982>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: CHIM/02 Chimica fisica

description: Regenerative medicine claims for a better understanding of the cause-effect relation between cell behaviour and environment signals. The latter encompasses topographical, chemical and mechanical stimuli, electromagnetic fields, gradients of chemo-attractants and haptotaxis. In this perspective, a spatial control of the structures composing the environment is required. 
In this thesis I describe a novel approach for the multiscale patterning of biocompatible functional materials in order to provide systems able to accurately control cell adhesion and proliferation. The behaviour of different neural cell lines in response to several stimuli, specifically chemical, topographical and electrical gradients is presented. For each of the three kind of signals, I chose properly tailored materials and fabrication and characterization techniques. 
After a brief introduction on the state of art of nanotechnology, nanofabrication techniques and regenerative medicine in Chapter 1 and a detailed description of the main fabrication and characterization techniques employed in this work in Chapter 2, in Chapter 3 an easy route to obtain accurate control over cell proliferation close to 100% is described (chemical control). In Chapter 4 (topographical control) it is shown how the multiscale patterning of a well-established biocompatible material as titanium dioxide provides a versatile and robust method to study the effect of local topography on cell adhesion and growth. The third signal, viz. electric field, is investigated in Chapter 5 (electrical control), where the very early stages of neural cell adhesion are studied in the presence of modest steady electric fields. In Chapter 6 (appendix) a new patterning technique, called Lithographically Controlled Etching (LCE), is proposed. It is shown how LCE can provide at the same time the micro/nanostructuring and functionalization of a surface with nanosized objects, thus being suitable for applications both in regenerative medicine in biosensing.
The Main Sequence of quasars: the taming of the extremes
Creators: name: Marziani, P.
name: Bon, E.
name: Bon, N.
name: D'Onofrio, M.
name: Punsly, B.
name: Sniegowska, M.
name: Czerny, B.
name: Panda, S.
name: Aldama, M. L. Martinez
name: del Olmo, A.
name: Deconto-Machado, A.
name: Negrete, C. A.
name: Dultzin, D.
name: Buendia, T.
name: Garnica, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The last few years have seen the confirmation of several trends associated with the quasar main sequence. The idea of a main sequence for quasars is relatively recent, and its full potential for the observational classification and contextualization of quasar properties has yet to be fully exploited. The main sequence drivers are discussed in terms of the properties of extreme objects. We briefly summarize developments that constrain the viewing angle of the accretion disk in a particular class of quasars (extreme Population B, radiating at low Eddington ratio), as well as inferences on the chemical composition of the broad line emitting gas, and on the nature of radio emission along the quasar main sequence.
description: Paper presented at the XIII SCSLSA, to appear in Astronomische Nachrichten
Open source intelligence applicata all'analisi criminologica del terrorismo
Creators: name: Antinori, Arije <1973>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: SPS/12 Sociologia giuridica, della devianza e mutamento sociale

description: A partire dagli anni '70, si è assistito ad un progressivo riassetto geopolitico a livello mondiale
Grazie anche all’evoluzione tecnologica ed alla sua diffusione di massa, il tempo e lo spazio si contraggono nel processo di globalizzazione che ha caratterizzato le società contemporanee ove l'informazione e la comunicazione assumono ormai un ruolo centrale nelle dinamiche di conoscenza.
Il presente studio, intende far luce in primis sulla disciplina dell'intelligence, così come enunciata in ambito militare e "civile", in particolare nel contesto USA, NATO ed ONU, al fine quindi di evidenziare le peculiarità di una nuova disciplina di intelligence, cosiddetta Open Source Intelligence, che ha come elemento di innovazione l'utilizio delle informazioni non classificate. Dopo aver affrontato il problema della concettualizzazione ed evoluzione del fenomeno terroristico, sarà posto il focus sull’espressione criminale ad oggi maggiormente preoccupante, il terrorismo internazionale di matrice islamica, in prospettiva multidimensionale, grazie all’adozione di concetti criminologici interdisciplinari.  Sotto il profilo della sperimentazione, si è, quindi, deciso di proporre, progettare e sviluppare l’architettura della piattaforma Open Source Intellicence Analysis Platform,un tool operativo di supporto per l’analista Open Source Intelligence, che si pone quale risorsa del’analisi criminologica, in grado di fornire un valido contributo, grazie al merge tra practice e research,  nell’applicazione di tale approccio informativo al fenomeno terroristico.
Problematiche delle infezioni da CMV in gravidanza: ruolo dell'ecografia
Creators: name: Marconi, Rebecca <1975>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: MED/40 Ginecologia e ostetricia

description: Problematiche delle infezioni da Citomegalovirus in gravidanza

Obiettivi: migliorare la sensibilità dell'ecografia nella diagnosi di infezione da CMV individuando un reperto ecografico cerebrale suggestivo di infezione fetale da Citomegalovirus a 20 settimane di gestazione.

Metodi: tra febbraio 1989 e settembre 2009, 721 pazienti afferenti alla nostra Unità di Medicina Materno fetale per infezione primaria da CMV hanno eseguito amniocentesi e sono state sottoposte ad un esame neurosonografico transvaginale a 20-22 settimane di gestazione.

Risultati: in 29 feti con infezione congenita sono state evidenziate anomalie ecografiche (17%), di cui in 22 casi a livello cerebrale. In 13 casi l'ecografia transvaginale ha permesso di identificare un alone ecogeno periventricolare a margini ben definiti ad un'epoca gestazionale media di 20.5 settimane (20-22 settimane). Di questi casi 12 pazienti hanno deciso di interrompere la gravidanza. L'unico neonato ha presentato alla nascita un'ipoacusia bilaterale. I riscontri autoptici ottenuti (7/12) hanno mostrato un'infezione citomegalica disseminata ed in 3 casi segni a livello cerebrale.

Conclusioni: il limite ecografico della diagnosi di infezione fetale nei casi di infezione primaria da CMV è noto. In pazienti gravide alla 20 settimana di gestazione con infezione recente da Citomegalovirus, il riscontro di un alone ecogeno periventricolare risulta essere un precoce ed attendibile segno di infezione fetale e di possibile danno della sostanza bianca cerebrale. Occorrono però studi aggiuntivi per valutare la possibile manifestazione clinica di questa anomalia cerebrale nei neonati con infezione da CMV.
Additional file 1 of Nuclear factor kappa B activation appears weaker in schizophrenia patients with high brain cytokines than in non-schizophrenic controls with high brain cytokines
Creators: name: Murphy, Caitlin E.
name: Lawther, Adam J.
name: Webster, Maree J.
name: Asai, Makoto
name: Kondo, Yuji
name: Matsumoto, Mitsuyuki
name: Walker, Adam K.
name: Weickert, Cynthia Shannon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Detailed cohort demographics. Table S2. Relationship of NF-κB transcripts in dorsolateral PFC with demographic variables
PID Controller Optimization for Low-cost Line Follower Robots
Creators: name: Oguten, Samet
name: Kabas, Bilal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, modification of the classical PID controller and development of open-loop control mechanisms to improve stability and robustness of a differential wheeled robot are discussed. To deploy the algorithm, a test platform has been constructed using low-cost and off-the-shelf components including a microcontroller, reflectance sensor, and motor driver. This paper describes the heuristic approach used in the identification of the system specifications as well as the optimization of the controller. The PID controller is analyzed in detail and the effect of each term is explained in the context of stability. Lastly, the challenges encountered during the development of controller and robot are discussed. Code is available at: https://github.com/sametoguten/STM32-Line-Follower-with-PID.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
Recognizing cultural concepts: Joyce, Woolf, Mann and Musil
Creators: name: Caracheo Montes De Oca, Armando Daniel <1980>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: L-LIN/12 Lingua e traduzione - Lingua inglese

description: The purpose of this thesis is to establish a direct relationship between literature and fields of knowledge such as science and technology, by focusing on some concepts that were fundamental for both science and the humanities at the beginning of the 20th century. The concepts are those of simultaneity, multiple points of view, map, relativity and acausality. 

In the spirit of several recent ideas, for example Katherine Hayles’ isomorphism notion, the dissertation shows how writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann and Robert Musil developed the mentioned concepts within their narratives. The working hypothesis is that those concepts were at a crossroad of human activities, and that those authors used them extensively within their narratives. It is further argued that those same concepts – as developed by Joyce in Ulysses, Woolf’s shorts stories and novels from the end of the 1910’s until the end of the1920’s, Mann’s Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain), and Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man Without Qualities) — are still fundamental for our conception of time and space today. 

The thesis is divided into two parts. The first two chapters will analyse the concepts of simultaneity and multiple points of view and their relationship to cartography as developed within English literature and culture. The next two chapters will address the concepts of relativity and acausality, as developed within German literature and culture.
CIFRA National Survey: Uruguay August 1995
Creators: name: CIFRA, In Bogliaccini, Juan, And Queirolo Rosario Laboratorio De Opinión Pública And Redes Sociales En Uruguay Collection (Social Networks And Public Opinion Lab Collection)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Frequency of buying newspapers; radio listening habits; economic situation of the country; functionality of large companies; functionality of public administration; abilities of national government to reform; treatment quality at public administration offices; complaints about public administration; experience with naturopathic medicines; approval of president Julio Maria Sanguinetti; approval of Parliament; approval of judges; approval of district mayor; likability of politicians and presidential candidates; level of democracy in the government; corruption in the government; national vs. imported goods; existence of UFOs and aliens; government involvement with UFOs; most important problems of the country; economic situation of your family; political spectrum position; religious views; past voting history. Montevideo: Coverage of emergency medical services; health insurance; personal medical service choices; membership status of social service program. National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Collection.
Supplementary Table S1
Creators: name: Holman, Devin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60504 Microbial Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Table S1. Percent relative abundance of genera identified in the mock communities (ATCC MSA-1002) via 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Note: Schaalia spp. are classified as Actinomyces spp. within the SILVA SSU database.