cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: ADCO, Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 806
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 806, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 806, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Shaping Diamond OA: Criteria for Journals Presentation
Creators: name: Arasteh, Sona
name: Rooryck, Johan
name: Bargheer, Margo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: These slide decks were presented at the webinar "Shaping Diamond OA: Criteria for Journals" that was held on the 16th of May 2024. A recording of the event can be found on the DIAMAS YouTube channel.
Novel modelling approaches and data sources in socio-hydrology
Creators: name: Blair, Peter
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: Increasing interactions between anthropogenic and hydrological systems have prompted the development of a new way of thinking in water resource management: socio-hydrology. Socio-hydrology explicitly considers the two-way interactions and feedbacks between humans and water and includes these in models to explore trajectories of development. Expanding system boundaries to include human behaviour and interactions with natural systems brings significant challenges. This study was largely divided into two parts, modelling in socio-hydrology and data in socio-hydrology. The modelling section focuses on investigating the utility of diff erent modelling techniques in socio-hydrology, and then covers the development and use of models in socio-hydrology, while the data section investigates the use of freely available data sets to investigate an aspect of socio-hydrological systems and in a context of determining land-use. In the modelling section, a detailed review of modelling in socio-hydrology was initially carried out which found that work should focus on further conceptual modelling, as well as developing calibration/validation methodologies. A conceptual model was then developed, focusing on drought in a socio-hydrological context; this model was able to produce some archetypal system behaviours. In the section focusing on data in socio-hydrology, a learning approach was used to try to determine the impact of ooding on house prices. Unfortunately, the data available was not detailed enough to allow for a model with predictive power, and so this learning approach was not able to give more insight than other investigations that have been carried out in this area. In the chapter exploring the use of satellite data in determining land-cover, the model which was learnt had success in determining land-cover at the time and place it was trained on, but had limited success in determining land-cover in other times and places, and so does not represent an improvement on what techniques already exist.
Strongly polynomial efficient approximation scheme for segmentation
Creators: name: Tatti, Nikolaj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Partitioning a sequence of length $n$ into $k$ coherent segments (Seg) is one of the classic optimization problems. As long as the optimization criterion is additive, Seg can be solved exactly in $O(n^2k)$ time using a classic dynamic program. Due to the quadratic term, computing the exact segmentation may be too expensive for long sequences, which has led to development of approximate solutions. We consider an existing estimation scheme that computes $(1 + ε)$ approximation in polylogarithmic time. We augment this algorithm, making it strongly polynomial. We do this by first solving a slightly different segmentation problem (MaxSeg), where the quality of the segmentation is the maximum penalty of an individual segment. By using this solution to initialize the estimation scheme, we are able to obtain a strongly polynomial algorithm. In addition, we consider a cumulative version of Seg, where we are asked to discover the optimal segmentation for each prefix of the input sequence. We propose a strongly polynomial algorithm that yields $(1 + ε)$ approximation in $O(nk^2 / ε)$ time. Finally, we consider a cumulative version of MaxSeg, and show that we can solve the problem in $O(nk \log k)$ time.
Additional file 1 of Prevalence of trachomatous inflammation-follicular and associated factors among children aged 1-9 years in northeastern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Altaseb, Tadesse
name: Lingerew, Mistir
name: Adane, Metadel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. English version of the questioner.
Effective Energy Approach to Collectively Quantized Systems
Creators: name: Bashinsky, Sergei V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize effective energy variational techniques to study appropriately quantized solitonic field configurations. Our approach rests on collective quantization ideas and is specifically designed for the numerical evaluation of soliton parameters. We employ this method to obtain the one-loop quantum corrections to the soliton mass and form factor. Special attention is given to the regularization of the physical observables in the solitonic sector of the theory. The numerical implementation of the method is demonstrated for a simple one-dimensional scalar field example.
description: 26 pages, 3 figures
Testudo scabra Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Testudines
Testudinidae
Testudo
Testudo scabra

description: Testudo scabra [spec. nov.]
T. testa planiuscula, scutellis omnibus intermediis dorsatis.
Habitat in Indiis.
Corpus & testae latera subtus albo nigroque varia: Sternum antice truncatum.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 198, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Additional file 2 of Shared practices among primary health care workers: A time-motion study
Creators: name: Rewa, Talita
name: de Souza Gonçalves, Geisa Colebrusco
name: Varela, Andrea Liliana Vesga
name: Leonello, Valéria Marli
name: Peduzzi, Marina
name: de Almeida, Leticia Yamawaka
name: Belotti, Lorrayne
name: da Silva, Debora Bernardo
name: Bonfim, Daiana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Ultrasonic inspection of highly attenuating media
Creators: name: Egerton, Jack Samuel
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: The aim of the project was to improve the ultrasonic array inspection of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) heat-fused pipe joints of cooling water pipework that is installed in EDF Energy's nuclear power stations. Whereas ultrasound array inspection is now established for safety-critical metal components, HDPE poses a hugely challenging problem, that the ultrasound waves are heavily attenuated by the material. This impacts multiple aspects of the inspection and of the modelling that is needed to design and qualify inspection. The thesis reports a range of research that was needed to overcome this challenge. The work of the thesis has: - obtained accurate acoustic properties of HDPE that are necessary for improved simulated or real ultrasonic array imaging of HDPE pipe joints - developed a simulation technique for representing ultrasound in such inspections that has both high accuracy and efficiency - extended analytical analysis of ultrasound scattering from cylindrical voids from elastic media to general, attenuative media - used the Huygens-Fresnel principle to represent ultrasound scattering from volumetric and planar voids, to image sub-wavelength features of these defects in an ideal circular array setup, and to image angled ultrasonic array nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of potential defects occurring in HDPE pipe joints - devised an automated and antidispersive system for reducing coherent and incoherent noise in waveforms with an isolated wave reflection signal - produced an imaging and analysis method for ultrasonic array NDE that can represent defects in a refractive, reflective, and scattering environment in attenuating media, which is applied to data from the above developed simulation technique - applied much of the above imaging and analysis method to defects machined into HDPE pipe material, with an experimental ultrasonic array controller, yet with an array of limited suitability - specified parameters for ultrasonic arrays and a water-filled wedge, which are optimum for HDPE pipe joint inspection, and have been designed and built by Imasonic SAS, France, for research use at Imperial College London
Tracking Point of View in Narrative
Creators: name: Wiebe, Janyce M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Third-person fictional narrative text is composed not only of passages that objectively narrate events, but also of passages that present characters' thoughts, perceptions, and inner states. Such passages take a character's ``psychological point of view''. A language understander must determine the current psychological point of view in order to distinguish the beliefs of the characters from the facts of the story, to correctly attribute beliefs and other attitudes to their sources, and to understand the discourse relations among sentences. Tracking the psychological point of view is not a trivial problem, because many sentences are not explicitly marked for point of view, and whether the point of view of a sentence is objective or that of a character (and if the latter, which character it is) often depends on the context in which the sentence appears. Tracking the psychological point of view is the problem addressed in this work. The approach is to seek, by extensive examinations of naturally-occurring narrative, regularities in the ways that authors manipulate point of view, and to develop an algorithm that tracks point of view on the basis of the regularities found. This paper presents this algorithm, gives demonstrations of an implemented system, and describes the results of some preliminary empirical studies, which lend support to the algorithm.
description: 55 pages, uuencoded compressed ps, appears in Computational Linguistics 20:2, pp. 233-287 (electronic version does not reflect all copy-editing changes)
Cold Molecular Outflows in the Local Universe
Creators: name: Fluetsch, A.
name: Maiolino, R.
name: Carniani, S.
name: Marconi, A.
name: Cicone, C.
name: Bourne, M. A.
name: Costa, T.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Ishibashi, W.
name: Venturi, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study molecular outflows in a sample of 45 local galaxies, both star forming and AGN, primarily by using CO data from the ALMA archive and from the literature. For a subsample we also compare the molecular outflow with the ionized and neutral atomic phases. We infer an empirical analytical function relating the outflow rate simultaneously to the SFR, $L_{\rm AGN}$, and galaxy stellar mass; this relation is much tighter than the relations with the individual quantities. The outflow kinetic power shows a larger scatter than in previous, more biased studies, spanning from 0.1 to 5 per cent of $L_{\rm AGN}$, while the momentum rate ranges from 1 to 30 times $L_{\rm AGN}/c$, indicating that these outflows can be both energy-driven, but with a broad range of coupling efficiencies with the ISM, and radiation pressure-driven. For about 10 per cent of the objects the outflow energetics significantly exceed the maximum theoretical values; we interpret these as 'fossil outflows' resulting from activity of a past strong AGN, which has now faded. We estimate that, in the stellar mass range probed here ($>$ 10$^{10}~\rm M_{\odot}$), less than 5 per cent of the outflowing gas escapes the galaxy. The molecular gas depletion time associated with the outflow can be as short as a few million years in powerful AGN, however, the total gas (H$_2$+HI) depletion times are much longer. Altogether, our findings suggest that even AGN-driven outflows might be relatively ineffective in clearing galaxies of their entire gas content, although they are likely capable of clearing and quenching the central region.
description: 33 pages, 29 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Winding number transitions at finite temperature in the Abelian-Higgs model
Creators: name: Park, D. K.
name: Müller-Kirsten, H. J. W.
name: Liang, J. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following our earlier investigations we examine the quantum-classical winding number transition in the Abelian-Higgs system. It is demonstrated that the sphaleron transition in this system is of the smooth second order type in the full range of parameter space. Comparison of the action of classical vortices with that of the sphaleron supports our finding.
description: final version, to appear in J. Phys. G
The effect of fermentable carbohydrates on diabetes & obesity
Creators: name: Fountana, Sofia
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: Fermentable carbohydrates have been shown to exert beneficial effects on dysregulated metabolic conditions such as obesity and diabetes by improving insulin sensitivity and glucose homeostasis, independent of weight loss. Short-chain fatty acids produced by the fermentation of these carbohydrates are considered the primary mediators of these beneficial effects. This thesis aims to evaluate the effect of fermentable carbohydrates on metabolic profiles of pre-diabetic individuals at high risk of developing diabetes and the effect of colonic propionate on glucose and lipid homeostasis in obese individuals. The work presented in this thesis comprises of two axes. The first one is centered on the development and validation of an analytical approach of quantifying SCFAs in human plasma, serum and urine. The applicability of the assay in nutritional studies is also assessed in the second aim. The second part explores the metabolic profiles of pre-diabetic and obese individuals with the employment of 1H nuclear magnetic spectroscopy and mass spectrometry analysis. Concentrations of SCFAs and alteration of the lipid profile were also assessed. The responses to dietary interventions were compared using multivariate statistics. The fermentable carbohydrate inulin increased the production of postprandial SCFAs in pre-diabetic individuals but did not exhibit a significant effect on the overall metabolic profile. Colonic propionate improved the postprandial lipaemia in obese individuals and exerted higher microbial derived metabolites suggesting a role for propionate in the lipid homeostasis in obesity. Propionate levels in the circulation were not affected but systemic acetate significantly increased during the meal test. Finally, the controlled intervention with the non-fermentable carbohydrate cellulose improved lipid profiles in pre-diabetic and obese individuals.
QORAQALPOG'ISTON RESPUBLIKASI HUDUDIDA SHAMOL ENERGETIKASINING ISTIQBOLLARI
Creators: name: Yeshmuratov, N.Q.
name: Boranbaeva, Z. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Bugungi kunda respublikamiz elektr energetika tizimida elektr energiyasi asosan issiqlik elektr stansiyalarida (qariyb 85 %) va gidroelektr stansiyalarda ishlab chiqarilmoqda (qariyb 15 %). Yurtimizda elektr energiyasiga boʻlgan talab yildan yilga ortib bormoqda buning asosiy sabablari elektr energiya istemolchilarining hajmining ortishi, sanoat va ishlab chiqarish korxonalarning koʻpayishi, elektr mashinalari va zaryadlovchi shaxobchalar, elektr energiyasining sinusoidal boʻlmagan istemolchilari, shu kabi zamonaviy qurulmalarning ortishi va rivojlanishi hisoblanadi [1].
Topological defect formation in quantum phase transitions
Creators: name: Gillman, Edward
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: The Kibble Zurek mechanism describes the universal formation of topological defects during continuous symmetry breaking phase transitions. It has been confirmed in a wide variety of systems and is of interest within theoretical high energy physics and cosmology. While during high temperature phase transitions classical methods can be used to study topological defect formation, in zero temperature quantum phase transitions, quantum effects can dominate dynamics such that classical approximations fail. This is problematic in quantum field theory because topological defect formation constitutes a non-perturbative non-equilibrium phenomenon, yet there are at present no well-developed non-perturbative non-equilibrium methods available for calculations. Nonetheless, due to its generality and confirmation in other cases, the Kibble-Zurek mechanism is expected to hold. This means that in addition to being of physical interest in its own right, the Kibble-Zurek mechanism is also an excellent test for any potential non-perturbative non-equilibrium techniques. In this thesis, tensor network techniques are applied to the problem of confirming the Kibble Zurek mechanism in the phi^4 quantum field theory in D = (1 + 1) spacetime dimensions. Such techniques have already been highly successful in condensed matter and to some extent in quantum field theory. The kink defects of the theory are studied both in equilibrium and in the non-equilibrium scenario of their formation. Results consistent with the Kibble-Zurek mechanism are found, which provides evidence that the mechanism holds in this case and confirms tensor networks as a promising non-perturbative non-equilibrium method for quantum field theory. As tensor network methods are developed further to higher dimensions and more sophisticated theories, they could one day provide a powerful method for the non-perturbative study of non-equilibrium high energy physics and cosmology, an area of physics which remains essentially unexplored yet important for our understanding of nature.
Additional File 2:
Creators: name: Flynn, Rachel
name: Newton, Amanda
name: Rotter, Thomas
name: Hartfield, Dawn
name: Walton, Sarah
name: Fiander, Michelle
name: Scott, Shannon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: CINAHL search strategy. Search applied for the review. (DOCX 32 kb)
On code generation techniques for finite elements
Creators: name: Homolya, Miklós
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Efficient numerical solvers for partial differential equations are critical to vast fields of engineering and scientific research, including weather and climate prediction. State-of-the-art finite element discretisations, although offering many desirable properties, are often difficult to implement. Consequently, many developers of complicated finite element discretisations use code generation based software platforms. The form compiler is a key component of such software: it takes a high-level description of the weak form of partial differential equations and produces low-level code that carries out the finite element assembly. This thesis presents a novel, multi-stage code generation framework for the finite element method, implemented in the Two-Stage Form Compiler (TSFC). A core idea of TSFC is the introduction of a tensor algebra language as its intermediate representation. This creates a clean separation between the implementation of finite element objects and geometric terms as well as the problem of efficient code generation for tensor algebra expressions, which enables the maintenance of the structure of the input expression longer in the compiler pipeline than previous form compilers, and thus helps to facilitate the application of optimisations at the highest possible level of abstraction. The intermediate language is also proven to be a suitable medium and level of abstraction for numerous optimisations, including the expression and exploitation of structure intrinsic to some finite elements. This includes sum factorisation on cuboid cells for continuous, discontinuous, H(div) and H(curl) conforming elements. My experiments confirm optimal algorithmic complexity for high-order finite element assembly. This is achieved through several novel contributions: the introduction of a more powerful interface between the form compiler and the library providing the finite elements; a more abstract, smarter library of finite elements that explicitly communicates the structure of elements; and form compiler algorithms to automatically exploit this exposed structure.
A geometric view on rough differential equations
Creators: name: Weidner, Martin Philipp
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Our contribution to the theory of rough paths is twofold. On the one hand we introduce tree algebras over topological vector spaces which yields a framework for branched rough path in infinite dimensional spaces. In particular, we derive a change-of-variables formula in this settings from a purely combinatorial argument and we revisit the relationship between geometric, branched and general rough paths and we discuss to what extent each of them can be used to drive differential equations on manifolds. On the other hand we discuss global solutions of rough differential equations on manifolds. We show that instead of considering bounds for the full higher order derivatives of the vector fields it is enough to look at Lie brackets. In our proofs we extend methods from Riemannian geometry that have been used to obtain characterisations of complete vector fields on manifolds. This leads to a unified result for rough differential equations that captures examples such as bounded vector fields, vector fields of linear growth or complete commuting vector fields all at once. In particular, our result holds for vector spaces and it improves existing non-explosion criteria in this case. We present an example of an equation which has global solutions for all initial values but where existing methods were not sufficient to give a proof. Finally, we give an outlook as to where the new results may lead to further developments.
Value of energy storage coordination: managing renewables uncertainty and the maximization of profitability
Creators: name: Da Mota Jesus Rodrigues, Tiago
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Aggressive carbon emissions reduction targets in electricity industry lead to the large-scale penetration of intermittent renewables. Renewables’ uncertain and volatile nature, however, negatively impacts power systems operation by increasing the need for larger volumes of operating reserve and flexible, ideally carbon-free, generation technologies for ensuring a cost-effective operation. Energy storage systems are widely agreed to be the key for integrating renewables due to their flexibly and quick response. However, poor regulation and lack of long-term economic incentives have lead to a slow deployment of this technology. This research analyses and models how renewable generation and energy storage coordination create value by managing uncertainty and maximizing profitability. A novel large-scale two-stage stochastic mixed-integer linear programming investment and operational model is proposed. The model allows considering different levels of risk aversion for a renewable producer that looks to determine the optimal size of an energy storage system and bidding strategy to maximize profit. Profit maximization is achieved by managing renewable generation imbalances and by offering ancillary services. In order to minimize the renewable operator’s exposure to low profit outcomes, the Conditional Value-at-Risk of the expected profit is included in the problem’s formulation. Computational tractability and efficiency is achieved by using the Progressive Hedging Algorithm decomposition technique to decompose the large-scale investment problem into smaller, easier to solve and scenario-specific sub-problems. A series of case studies not only provide evidence of the significant benefits that energy storage system brings to a risk-averse renewables’ operator, but also shows how energy storage allows storing cheap energy that otherwise would need to be curtailed to improve ancillary services provision. Finally, the developed models can be of help for market participants to make more informed decisions, and also provides regulators and system operators with flexible solutions to mitigate the operational challenges of future low-carbon power systems.
Testing one hypothesis multiple times
Creators: name: Algeri, Sara
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: The identification of new rare signals in data, the detection of a sudden change in a trend, and the selection between competing models, are among the most challenging problems in statistical practice. In these settings, standard regularity conditions (e.g., those required by Wilks theorem) fail to hold and thus classical inferential tools, such as the generalized likelihood ratio test, are not applicable. In this thesis, we show how these challenges can be tackled using a test of hypothesis where a nuisance parameter is present only under the alternative. Several solutions have been proposed in the statistical literature and their practical implementation often reduces the problem into one of Testing One Hypothesis Multiple times (TOHM). Specifically, a fine discretization of the space of the non-identifiable parameter is specified, and an ensemble of sub-test statistics is obtained to test the null hypothesis against a set of sub-alternative hypothesis where the value of the non-identifiable parameter is fixed at each point of the discretization. The goal is to provide a global p-value as the standard of evidence for comparing the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis. In this thesis, we combine elements of extreme value theory, differential geometry, graph theory and simulations methods to provide an easy to compute, computationally efficient and highly generalizable inferential tool to perform TOHM under stringent significance requirements, such as those typically required in the physical sciences. The methods proposed in this thesis formalize and extend recent results presented in physics literature. Several applications are discussed in the context of indirect searches for dark matter.
On the renormalization of periodic potentials
Creators: name: Nandori, I.
name: Polonyi, J.
name: Sailer, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The renormalization of the periodic potential is investigated in the framework of the Euclidean one-component scalar field theory by means of the differential RG approach. Some known results about the sine-Gordon model are recovered in an extremely simple manner. There are two phases, an ordered one with asymptotical freedom and a disordered one where the model is non-renormalizable and trivial. The order parameter of the periodicity, the winding number, indicates spontaneous symmetry breaking in the ordered phase where the fundamental group symmetry is broken and the solitons acquire dynamical stability. It is argued that the periodicity and the convexity are so strong constraints on the effective potential that it always becomes flat. This flattening is reproduced by integrating out the RG equation.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, Final version, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Language learning and educational inclusion in Calabria: Key findings and recommendations
Creators: name: Loprieno, Donatella
name: Elia, Anna
name: Di Maio, Claudio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: migration, governance, refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, integration

description: In Italy, the acquisition of the Italian language is considered a fundamental means to guarantee access to local services and the beginning of an integration process. The teaching of the Italian language is entrusted with two providers: on the national government side, it is provided by the Centres for Adult Education (CPIA); from the third and private sector, these courses are supported by additional hours within the SPRAR\SIPROIMI (Protection system for beneficiaries of international protection and unaccompanied foreign minors) and in some CAS (Extraordinary Reception Centres), for refugees who are part of an integrated reception project. The CPIA are a type of autonomous teaching institution, with a specific teaching approach and organisational structure, divided into territorial service networks, usually on a provincial basis. They provide training for adults and young adults who have not completed compulsory education or have not obtained a final qualification of any level. not obtained a final qualification of any level. The Italian language courses within the SPRAR/SPIROIMI system are autonomously managed and respond to the needs of service users, to increase the number of hours tuition provided and also ensure continuity of learning during the summer period. There is sufficient integration of the governance within the system between the state, local government and third sector levels. However, the Italian GLIMER team argues that more funds (economic, but above all human resources) are needed to improve language learning, as well as to strengthen educational staff training and dialogue between the public and private sectors. This Policy Brief by the Italian GLIMER team puts forward recommendations for how these issues can be addressed.
Degeneracy and Colorings of Squares of Planar Graphs without 4-Cycles
Creators: name: Choi, Ilkyoo
name: Cranston, Daniel W.
name: Pierron, Théo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C15

description: We prove several results on coloring squares of planar graphs without 4-cycles. First, we show that if $G$ is such a graph, then $G^2$ is $(Δ(G)+72)$-degenerate. This implies an upper bound of $Δ(G)+73$ on the chromatic number of $G^2$ as well as on several variants of the chromatic number such as the list-chromatic number, paint number, Alon--Tarsi number, and correspondence chromatic number. We also show that if $Δ(G)$ is sufficiently large, then the upper bounds on each of these parameters of $G^2$ can all be lowered to $Δ(G)+2$ (which is best possible). To complement these results, we show that 4-cycles are unique in having this property. Specifically, let $S$ be a finite list of positive integers, with $4\notin S$. For each constant $C$, we construct a planar graph $G_{S,C}$ with no cycle with length in $S$, but for which $χ(G_{S,C}^2) > Δ(G_{S,C})+C$.
description: 24 pages, 6 figures; revised version incorporates suggestions of referees; to appear in Combinatorica
Additional file 1 of Dopamine enhances recovery after traumatic brain injury through ubiquitylation and autophagic degradation of RIPK1
Creators: name: Luo, Hui
name: Liu, Ning
name: Lin, Chao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Clinical information of human brain specimens. Supplemental fig 1. Assessment of siRNA on Drd1, Drd2, Drd3, Drd4 and Drd5. Supplemental fig 2. Assessment of E3 ligase proteins.
Non-Markovian pure dephasing in a dielectric excited by a few-cycle laser pulse
Creators: name: Kruchinin, S. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the theory of pure dephasing in a solid exposed to an ultrashort laser pulse beyond the commonly used Markov approximation. This approach takes into account the finite cutoff energy of the bath and can be applied to both many-particle and phonon environments. With numerical simulations performed with the time-dependent Hartree-Fock equations, we investigate how the excitation probability and high-harmonic generation are described by different models of decoherence. It is shown that the time-dependent rates allow for temporally high dephasing to successfully reproduce the main features of high-harmonics spectrum and avoid an overestimation of the charge carrier population after the pulse, which is a common problem of the Markov approximation.
title: ADCO, Ordre cistercien et abbaye de Cîteaux : comptes pour l'ordre (1337-1347), comptes du boursier (1377-1402) (11 H 1160), f. 00144
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2017
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: comptes

description: Ordre cistercien et abbaye de Cîteaux : comptes pour l'ordre (1337-1347), comptes du boursier (1377-1402), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1160). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Ordre cistercien et abbaye de Cîteaux : comptes pour l'ordre (1337-1347), comptes du boursier (1377-1402), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1160), f. 00144, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Parallel Markov chain quasi-Monte Carlo methods
Creators: name: Schwedes, Tobias
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for estimating integrals are attractive since the resulting estimators typically converge at a faster rate than pseudo-random Monte Carlo. However, they can be difficult to set up on arbitrary posterior densities within the Bayesian framework, in particular for inverse problems. We propose a principled and efficient way of applying QMC to drive algorithms based on a general parallel Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) framework, in which multiple proposals are generated per iteration. We provide numerous methodological extensions of the original algorithm, including the use of non-reversible transition kernels, adaptive proposal kernels and Rao-Blackwellisation. Further, we prove a law of large numbers and a central limit theorem, ergodicity of the proposed adaptive methods and asymptotic unbiasedness for estimates based on the Rao-Blackwellisation scheme. We consider the use of completely uniformly distributed (CUD) numbers within the previously stated algorithms, which leads to a general parallel Markov chain quasi-Monte Carlo (MCQMC) methodology. A scheme that efficiently produces CUD seeds for arbitrary problem dimensions and proposal numbers based on an already existing CUD sequence is developed. We prove ergodicity of the resulting adaptive methods and asymptotic unbiasedness for the Rao-Blackwellised estimates. For the latter, we demonstrate numerically in a number of statistical models that this approach scales close to n^{−2} as we increase parallelisation, instead of the usual n^{−1} that is typical of pseudo-random MCMC algorithms. The improved rate is proven theoretically in a special case. Simulations are performed for Bayesian linear and logistic regression, simple non-linear ODE models and a complex model for cardiac excitation. The CUD driven Rao-Blackwellisation algorithms yield multiple orders of magnitude reduction in the variance and MSE of the resulting estimates compared to their pseudo-driven counterparts and to reference algorithms such as Metropolis-Hastings.
On the Consistency of a Fermion-Torsion Effective Theory
Creators: name: de Berredo-Peixoto, G.
name: Helayel-Neto, J. A.
name: Shapiro, I. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the possibility to construct an effective quantum field theory for an axial vector coupled to a Dirac spinor field. A massive axial vector describes antisymmetric torsion. The consistency conditions include unitarity and renormalizability in the low-energy region. The investigation of the Ward identities and the one- and two-loop divergences indicate serious problems arising in the theory. The final conclusion is that torsion may exist as a string excitation, but there are very severe restrictions for the existence of a propagating torsion field, subject to the quantization procedure, at low energies.
description: LaTeX, 26 pages, 4 figures
Dynamic memory management for reconfigurable hardware
Creators: name: Xue, Zeping
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: The main motivation for dynamic memory management is to increase the memory efficiency of a system by allowing memory chunks to be re-used at run-time. At a software level, programming languages such as C employ malloc() and free() functions that can be called as an application runs in order to acquire memory chunks of a requested size and return memory blocks holding objects that are no longer useful respectively. Despite the fact that software-based memory management has been studied for decades, hardware-based dynamic memory management has largely remained unexplored. With an increasing trend towards the use of hardware accelerators in both embedded and cloud applications, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are becoming widely adopted by both academia and industry. As chip densities increase, FPGAs are becoming more resource-rich. This gives the chance of mapping larger scale applications on FPGAs. For memory-demanding and memory-footprint-complex applications, the memory resource can rapidly become a constraint to designs; additionally, FPGA development flows conventionally use design-time static memory allocations. As a result, for memory footprint complex applications, the development process can be labour intensive and relies on human-engineered memory allocation. This thesis aims to find hardware solutions for dynamic memory management so that FPGA applications can use memory dynamically at run-time. The novel contributions of this thesis are: 1) A design of a hardware dynamic memory manager, SysAlloc, which is flexible in managing any range of memory size and scalable in serving an arbitrary number of clients while keeping the resource utilisation low. 2) A framework, SynADT, for implementing dynamic data structures in HLS using run-time dynamic memory management. 3) A benchmarking methodology, BenchADT, for comparing and evaluating dynamic memory managers and platforms. 4) An enhanced hardware dynamic memory manager, ZepAlloc, which, similarly to SysAlloc, can manage any range of memory size and provide memory management to any number of clients connected to the same bus, but also hides the memory-management latency to clients by using size-segregated pre-allocation queues.
Experimental investigation of peat fire emissions and haze phenomena
Creators: name: Hu, Yuqi
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Emissions from peat fires, the largest fires on Earth in terms of fuel consumption, are the dominant source of haze episodes, especially in Southeast Asia. Haze is notorious for regional air quality deterioration, transport disruptions and respiratory and cardiovascular health emergencies. Despite their importance, current scientific understanding of peat fire emissions is limited, and the link to combustion dynamics has not been extensively considered in the literature. This knowledge gap impedes the development of mitigation strategies for peat fires. In this thesis, I investigated peat fire emissions through a series of laboratory and field-scale experiments. In the laboratory, a new experimental rig using advanced diagnostics was developed to quantify haze composition, fluxes and emission factors. The series of experiments revealed the roles of different peat soil properties (moisture content, inorganic content and bulk density) in fire dynamics and emissions. For the first time, transient gas and particulate matter (PM) emissions are shown to be significantly dependent on the combustion dynamics, and moisture content was found to have the primary influence on fire dynamics and the fire chemistry. Peat at high moisture content (160%, in dry basis) significantly reduces fire spread rate, decreases (> 50%) carbon and NH3 emissions, and limits PM emissions (< 25 g kg-1). An increase in inorganic content decreases fire spread rate, while an increase in bulk density delays emissions. The results also show that modified combustion efficiency (MCE), a fire behaviour proxy widely used in remote sensing and atmospheric sciences, fails to recognise smouldering combustion with sufficient accuracy, especially for wet peat with moisture content >120%. In addition to the lab experiments, a novel field experiment was carried out to quantify emissions from a tropical Indonesian peatland fire. I provide v the first field evidence indicating that changes in weather conditions (e.g., wind, rainfall) and the large inhomogeneity of soil properties in the field (e.g., bulk density and moisture content) affect the heat transfer and oxygen supply of peat fires, altering the fire dynamics, and thus introducing substantial variability into the emissions. This thesis provides a unique and comprehensive understanding of peat fire emissions, advancing our understanding of how haze is formed and how to mitigate against peat fire and haze.
Testudo lutaria Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Testudines
Testudinidae
Testudo
Testudo lutaria

description: Testudo lutaria [spec. nov.]
T. pedibus subpalmatis, cauda corpore dimidio breviore, testa subconvexa postice tribus scutellis carinata.
Amoen. acad. 1. p 139. n. 23 Testudo unguibus acuminatis, palmarum plantarumque quaternis. *
Habitat in Italia, Oriente.
Palmae magis palmatae, plantae minus. Sternum postice truncatum.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 198, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Testing Alfvén wave propagation in a "realistic" set-up of the solar atmosphere
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Piyali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a radiative magneto-hydrodynamic simulation set-up using the PENCIL CODE to study the generation, propagation and dissipation of Alfvén waves in the solar atmosphere which includes a convective layer, photosphere below and chromosphere, transition region and the corona above. We prepare a setup of steady-state solar convection where the imposed external magnetic field also has reached the final value gradually starting from a very small value. From that state, we start several simulations by varying the magnetic Prandtl number and the forcing strengths. We find the propagation characteristics of waves excited in this simulation run depend strongly on the magnetic Prandtl number and the wave number of the forcing. For magnetic Prandtl number of unity, we obtain localized heating in the corona due to shock dissipation.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures, 1 table
The graceful exit in pre-big bang string cosmology
Creators: name: Cartier, C.
name: Copeland, E. J.
name: Madden, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We re-examine the graceful exit problem in the pre-big bang scenario of string cosmology, by considering the most general time-dependent classical correction to the Lagrangian with up to four derivatives. By including possible forms for quantum loop corrections we examine the allowed region of parameter space for the coupling constants which enable our solutions to link smoothly the two asymptotic low-energy branches of the pre-big bang scenario, and observe that these solutions can satisfy recently proposed entropic bounds on viable singularity free cosmologies.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, JHEP class. Added new section on the classical correction and references
Additional file 1 of Tislelizumab plus concurrent chemoradiotherapy versus concurrent chemoradiotherapy for elderly patients with inoperable locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a multicenter, randomized, parallel-controlled, phase II clinical trial
Creators: name: Zhang, Ke
name: Wang, Qifeng
name: Cao, Jianzhong
name: Fan, Chengcheng
name: Shen, Wenbin
name: Xiao, Qin
name: Ge, Xiaolin
name: Zhang, Tian
name: Liu, Xiao
name: Chen, Xi
name: Dong, Jie
name: Li, Zewei
name: Zheng, Zhunhao
name: Yan, Cihui
name: Wang, Ping
name: Pang, Qingsong
name: Zhang, Wencheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1