cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
D6.7 Collaboration with EU projects and initiatives (3)
Creators: name: Spitadakis, Vassilis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: ENVISION has established connections with a group of 16 (so far) relevant projects by carrying out introductory online meetings with projects' presentations and initial discussions and exchange of views. The fields of potential collaboration include joint meetings, events and activities, formal provision of advice, exchange of information, joint use of European Commission services and cooperation regarding the projects' available communication channels. Depending on the nature of the projects, their progress, discussion results to different outcomes, from becoming a lighthouse customer to sharing open outputs, exchanging knowledge and expertise, as well as joining dissemination forces into several activities.
Several meetings and other activities took place in the last period, as well as brought new projects in the collaboration network, such as AgriBit, CALLISTO, Space4Green and The Great project. Finally, a 3-hour clustering event has been organized titled: "Solutions to Support the Current and Future Needs of CAP Monitoring and Agriculture Sustainability in General", together with the projects AgriBIT, CALLISTO, SPACE4GREEN and VITIGEOSS. The event highlighted the tangible outcomes in respect to services and best practices delivered and assessed through several European projects, keeping insight to future actions, vision, and prospects.
This document, namely D6.7 "Collaboration with EU projects and initiatives (3) is the update of the second version on the initially reported activities in D6.5 "Collaboration with EU projects and initiatives (2)" to further elaborate on the solutions derived from the projects and the ways to foster collaboration and communication among ENVISION and other projects.
Fertilizing Earthworks
Creators: name: Taylor, Chris
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Earthworks map the intersection of human construction and geomorphology. They begin with land  and  extend  through  the  complex  social  and  ecological  processes  that  create  landscape.  Propelled by the legacy of John Brinkerhoff Jackson, our understanding of earthworks as sites where the human and the geologic intersect has expanded to encompass human settlements, monumental artworks and industrial installations, as well as traces of their construction and decay, ranging from geologic material and weather to cigarette butts and hydroelectric dams.Since  humans  took  an  active  role  in  cultivating  food  and  medicine,  nearly  10,000  years  ago, we have been involved in shaping the surface of the earth and learned quickly the impor-tance of maintaining soil fertility by adding available organic nutrients to the ground. Human development occurred over millennia precisely because of our ability to sustain ourselves in the places where we lived. Understanding the chemical make up of soil fertility began with the identification of the key ingredients: phosphorus in 1669, nitrogen in 1772, and potassium in 1807. Nitrogen, while comprising 78% of the earth’s atmosphere, was the most difficult to isolate.  Feeding  the  biological  hunger  for  usable  nitrogen  to  create  chemical  fertilizers  required a source for naturally occurring nirates—nitrogen-oxygen chemical units accessible to reaction. The arrival of industrialization, ushering in the Anthropocene, is marked by the human ability to move vast quantities of geologic material.
Prompt emission of GRB 121217A from gamma-rays to the NIR
Creators: name: Elliott, J.
name: Yu, H. -F.
name: Schmidl, S.
name: Greiner, J.
name: Gruber, D.
name: Oates, S.
name: Kobayashi, S.
name: Zhang, B.
name: Cummings, J. R.
name: Filgas, R.
name: Gehrels, N.
name: Grupe, D.
name: Kann, D. A.
name: Klose, S.
name: Krühler, T.
name: Guelbenzu, A. Nicuesa
name: Rau, A.
name: Rossi, A.
name: Siegel, M.
name: Schady, P.
name: Sudilovsky, V.
name: Tanga, M.
name: Varela, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mechanism that causes the prompt-emission episode of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still widely debated despite there being thousands of prompt detections. The favoured internal shock model relates this emission to synchrotron radiation. However, it does not always explain the spectral indices of the shape of the spectrum, often fit with empirical functions. Multi-wavelength observations are therefore required to help investigate the possible underlying mechanisms that causes the prompt emission. We present GRB 121217A, for which we were able to observe its near-infrared (NIR) emission during a secondary prompt-emission episode with the Gamma-Ray Burst Optical Near-infrared Detector (GROND) in combination with the Swift and Fermi satellites, covering an energy range of 0.001 keV to 100 keV. We determine a photometric redshift of z=3.1+/-0.1 with a line-of-sight extinction of A_V~0 mag, utilising the optical/NIR SED. From the afterglow, we determine a bulk Lorentz factor of Gamma~250 and an emission radius of R<10^18 cm. The prompt-emission broadband spectral energy distribution is well fit with a broken power law with b1=-0.3+/-0.1, b2=0.6+/-0.1 that has a break at E=6.6+/-0.9 keV, which can be interpreted as the maximum injection frequency. Self-absorption by the electron population below energies of E_a<6 keV suggest a magnetic field strength of B~10^5 G. However, all the best fit models underpredict the flux observed in the NIR wavelengths, which also only rebrightens by a factor of ~2 during the second prompt emission episode, in stark contrast to the X-ray emission, which rebrightens by a factor of ~100, suggesting an afterglow component is dominating the emission. We present GRB 121217A one of the few GRBs for which there are multi-wavelength observations of the prompt-emission period and show that it can be understood with a synchrotron radiation model.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
The Uneven Time of Space Debris: An Interview with Trevor Paglen
Creators: name: Ellsworth, Elizabeth
name: Kruse, Jamie
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: PAGLEN: This  is  something  that  I  think  about  a  lot.  One  thing  that  interests  me  about  this idea of thinking geologically, or using the geologic as a kind of analytic framework or ap-proach is this: What would happen if you took geographic thinking and instead of putting it on a horizontal axis, you added a vertical axis to it, a temporal axis? You would be thinking not only about unevenness of the surface of the Earth, but also about the multiple ways in which time itself is uneven. If we go back to all the nineteenth century talk of the “annihilation of space  and  time,”  we  find  the  beginnings  of  a  world  in  which  humans  have  reshaped  time  in  the interest of capital and warfare. Mostly, we think about this in terms of speeding up time (increasing capitalist turnover times, labor productivity, financial transactions in the case of capital, and things like GPS targeting and hypersonic cruise missiles in the case of militarism).
Autobiographical Trace Fossils
Creators: name: Halperin, Ilana
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Ephemeral islands, petrified raindrops, volcanic dust from Pompeii, a shared birthday with a volcano. Certain geological processes have a way of evoking a more personal response to the idea of geological time. What does a time span of 300,000,000 years actually mean? Physical Geology is an ongoing project which explores our desire to make corporeal contact with geo-logical phenomena.While conducting research as an Alchemy Fellow at the Manchester Museum, in the “oddi-ties drawer” of the geology department I came across a fine collection of lava medallions from Mount  Vesuvius,  magma  pressed  between  forged  steel  plates  to  form  an  imprint  (imagine  a waffle iron that uses lava as batter). In the same drawer, a small stone relief sculpture ap-peared to be carved out of pure white alabaster. In fact, it was a limestone cast created via the same process that forms stalactites in a cave.
Phonon-assisted tunnelling of electrons in a quantum well-quantum dot injection structure
Creators: name: Mielnik-Pyszczorski, Adam
name: Gawarecki, Krzysztof
name: Machnikowski, Paweł
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically phonon-assisted relaxation and tunnelling in a system composed of a quantum dot which is coupled to a quantum well. Within the kp method combined with the Löwdin elimination, we calculate the electron states. We calculate acoustic phonon-assisted relaxation rates between the states in the quantum well and in the quantum dot and study the resulting electron kinetics. We show that transition efficiency crucially depends on the system geometry. We show also that under some conditions, transition efficiency can decrease with the temperature.
title: Study of cations effect on microtubule nucleation
Creators: name: Khatooni, Zahed
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2023

description: Microtubules (MT) are nanoscale-sized filaments actively involved in the segregation of chromosomes, the movement of vesicles, and the maintenance of eukaryotic cell morphology. The α, β-tubulin heterodimer is the building block of MTs, and γ-tubulin is the critical protein of the ring complex for MTs nucleation through direct interactions with the α, β-tubulin heterodimers. Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation of GDP and GTP bound γ-tubulin monomer and dimer have been carried out in the presence of NaCl, MgCl₂, and ZnCl₂ as electrolytes. In this study, the Mg⁺², Zn⁺², and Na⁺ effects on γ-tubulin conformation in GTP and GDP liganded and its unliganded monomer and dimer have been investigated. It has been found that both liganded and unliganded γ-tubulin monomer and dimer adapt curved and intermediate conformations relative to β-tubulin straight conformation. The lattice model, which describes the role of lateral interactions in inducing the α, β-tubulin straightness, is an appropriate model for γ-tubulin dimers and monomers compared to the allosteric model. Functional motions were observed for secondary structural segments of H2-H3 helices, M, and T5 loops, as well as H6-H7 segment of the N-terminal and the intermediate domains of the γ-tubulin. Also, H11 and H12 helices belonging to the C-terminal domain of γ-tubulin have been shown to contribute to the biological function. At the GTP binding site, the existing Mg⁺² compared to the Zn⁺² and Na⁺ contribute to stronger electrostatic and L-J interactions between residues of the binding site and nucleotides, either GTP or GDP. Residues of the GTP binding site that are interacting with oxygen atoms of α-γ phosphate, including Gln12, Cys13, Gly144, Thr145, and Gly146, exhibit stronger affinities for GTP and GDP compared to other residues in simulations. This MD result is consistent with wet-lab experiments in other organisms, such as yeast γ-tubulin. The exact molecular position of the high-affinity metal-binding site, which plays a role in the function and stability of tubulins, was shown to be the oxygen atoms of β-γ phosphate of the GTP and GDP β phosphate in the binding site. In conclusion: despite the same sequence and structural similarity, γ-tubulin adapts different conformations as compared to α or β tubulin. The lattice model appeared to better explain the straightness process compared to the allosteric model. The Mg⁺² cations, due to their interactions, play a major role in γ-tubulin atomistic behavior compared to Na⁺ and Zn⁺².
Low-Resource Natural Language Understanding in Task-Oriented Dialogue
Creators: name: Louvan, Samuel
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2022

description: Task-oriented dialogue (ToD) systems need to interpret the user's input to understand the user's needs (intent) and corresponding relevant information (slots). This process is performed by a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) component, which maps the text utterance into a semantic frame representation, involving two subtasks: intent classification (text classification) and slot filling (sequence tagging). Typically, new domains and languages are regularly added to the system to support more functionalities. Collecting domain-specific data and performing fine-grained annotation of large amounts of data every time a new domain and language is introduced can be expensive. Thus, developing an NLU model that generalizes well across domains and languages with less labeled data (low-resource) is crucial and remains challenging. This thesis focuses on investigating transfer learning and data augmentation methods for low-resource NLU in ToD. Our first contribution is a study of the potential of non-conversational text as a source for transfer. Most transfer learning approaches assume labeled conversational data as the source task and adapt the NLU model to the target task. We show that leveraging similar tasks from non-conversational text improves performance on target slot filling tasks through multi-task learning in low-resource settings. Second, we propose a set of lightweight augmentation methods that apply data transformation on token and sentence levels through slot value substitution and syntactic manipulation. Despite its simplicity, the performance is comparable to deep learning-based augmentation models, and it is effective on six languages on NLU tasks. Third, we investigate the effectiveness of domain adaptive pre-training for zero-shot cross-lingual NLU. In terms of overall performance, continued pre-training in English is effective across languages. This result indicates that the domain knowledge learned in English is transferable to other languages. In addition to that, domain similarity is essential. We show that intermediate pre-training data that is more similar ? in terms of data distribution ? to the target dataset yields better performance.
title: A qualitative exploration of how children born preterm transition to primary school: an instrumental multiple case study
Creators: name: Lewis-Power, Nicole
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2024

description: Background: Given the prevalence of preterm birth, the survival rates, the complex health challenges that result from being born too soon and the costs related to this issue, it is vital the resources needed by these families are made available. These children deserve a fair and equitable education, the same as children born at term; therefore, it is essential resources and services are put in place for these families to avail of while at school and when at home. These resources and services should be available in all communities across our province. Goals/Objectives: Research Question: How does a child born preterm (who currently has one or more disabling health challenges) and their parents experience entering the public school system? Research Objectives: 1. To explore how families adjust to having a preterm baby with health challenges (including their time in the NICU and going home). 2. To investigate the factors within the school, their community, and the province that influence their child’s ability to achieve the best possible educational outcomes. 3. To determine whether the school’s size (large versus small) made a difference in how the child transitioned into school. 4. To explore whether more supports are available for the child/family depending on where they live (urban versus rural). Methodology/Methods: This research study used a multiple-case study constructivist design. Eight instrumental, bounded cases were examined using multiple data collection methods, including direct observation, interviews, and document analysis. Results: All families coped well with their children entering public school. While some encountered more challenges than others, their children have adapted well overall with the help of their circle of care members. This dissertation's findings include both benefits and drawbacks to attending large versus small schools, the empowerment of insider knowledge, and the need for more information regarding the services/resources available to these parents in this province. Lastly, it found that financial help is needed for these families. This project has numerous recommendations aimed at supporting the transition from home to school and ones that would be helpful to families that have children born preterm and have a health challenge.
IGM Emission Observations with the Cosmic Web Imager: I. The Circum-QSO Medium of QSO 1549+19, and Evidence for a Filamentary Gas Inflow
Creators: name: Martin, D. Christopher
name: Chang, Daphne
name: Matuszewski, Matt
name: Morrissey, Patrick
name: Rahman, Shahin
name: Moore, Anna
name: Steidel, Charles C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Palomar Cosmic Web Imager (PCWI), an integral field spectrograph designed to detect and map low surface brightness emission, has obtained imaging spectroscopic maps of Ly-alpha from the circum-QSO medium (CQM) of QSO HS1549+19 at redshift of 2.843. Extensive extended emission is detected from the CQM, consistent with fluorescent and pumped Ly-alpha produced by the ionizing and Ly-alpha continuum of the QSO. Many features present in PCWI spectral images match those detected in narrow-band images. Filamentary structures with narrow line profiles are detected in several cases as long as 250-400 kpc. One of these is centered at a velocity redshifted with respect to the systemic velocity, and displays a spatially collimated and kinematically cold line profile increasing in velocity width approaching the QSO. This suggests that the filament gas is infalling onto the QSO, perhaps in a cold accretion flow. Because of the strong ionizing flux, the neutral column density is low, typically N(HI) is roughly 10E12-10E15/square-cm, and the line center optical depth is also low (typically tau0 is less than 10), insufficient to display well-separated double peak emission characteristic of higher line optical depths. With a simple ionization and cloud model we can very roughly estimate the total gas mass (log M(gas) equal to 12.5 +/- 0.5) and the total mass (log M(tot) equal to 13.3+/- 0.5). We can also calculate a kinematic mass from the total line profile (2x10E13 M(sun)), which agrees with the mass estimated from the gas emission. The intensity-binned spectrum of the CQM shows a progression in kinematic properties consistent with heirarchical structure formation.
description: Running title: Cosmic Web Imager Observations of Gas Near QSO 1549+19, Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal, 62 pages, 33 figures
Live Through This: Surviving the Pleistocene in Southern California
Creators: name: Sussman, Rachel
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: The  Oldest  Living  Things  in  the  World  are  continuously  living  organisms  2,000  years  old  and older. Starting at “year zero” and looking back from there, they help reframe our personal timescale  in  a  shift  towards  the  long  term  well  beyond  a  single  human  lifetime.  There  are  a  number of characteristics that many of these ancient organisms have in common, such as slow growth  rates  and  the  ability  to  thrive  in  adverse  conditions.  Likewise,  there  are  geographic  concentrations of these multi-millennials in the Mediterranean and Australia (and it should be  noted  that  there  are  many  parts  of  the  world  that  have  not  enjoyed  the  same  dedicated  scientific attentions), but one of the largest known geographical concentrations of ancient life anywhere on the planet happens to be in Southern California. If you ask someone what the oldest trees in United States are, the answer is often the Red-woods. It’s an understandable mistake: they are majestic, breathtakingly large, and admirable in both girth and height.  But while the Redwoods hold records for certain superlatives, their cousins to the south, the Giant Sequoias, are older. And even then, the Giant Sequoias are in fact  the  youngest  of  the  five  species  in  California  alone  that  have  surpassed  the  2000-year  mark.
Unconformities, Schisms and Sutures: Geology and the Art of Mythology in Scotland
Creators: name: Baker, Matt
name: Gordon, John
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: In the late 18th century, James Hutton’s insights opened new worlds, both geological and cul-tural. For the first time, human identity could be placed against a geological timescale, allowing the emergence of new mythologies. Hutton’s theory, underpinned by the concept of geological “unconformity,” the interruption in the “rock record” of the natural sequence of rocks, led to a new scientific and rational understanding of geology. That new understanding led to the ques-tioning of creation mythologies through empirical science, creating senses of displacement or “unconformity” among people during the Enlightenment. Humans found their senses of self and their traditional mythologies displaced in relation to, or not conforming to, the notion of deep time.As  the  science  of  Geology  set  about  developing  an  empirical  understanding  of  the  “abyss  of time” (as described by John Playfair) and reconstructing Earth history (the “worlds before Adam” in the words of Martin Rudwick), artists wrestled with a different problem: how to build new  mythologies  that  situated  humankind’s  sense  of  self  in  relationship  to  this  longest  of  all  time-signatures. The different historical responses we present here conclude with the produc-tion of “nonconformities” in the landscape by contemporary artists who are re-appropriating geologic science as the material for new mythologies that connect human time to deep time.
Mapping the optimal route between two quantum states
Creators: name: Weber, S. J.
name: Chantasri, A.
name: Dressel, J.
name: Jordan, A. N.
name: Murch, K. W.
name: Siddiqi, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A central feature of quantum mechanics is that a measurement is intrinsically probabilistic. As a result, continuously monitoring a quantum system will randomly perturb its natural unitary evolution. The ability to control a quantum system in the presence of these fluctuations is of increasing importance in quantum information processing and finds application in fields ranging from nuclear magnetic resonance to chemical synthesis. A detailed understanding of this stochastic evolution is essential for the development of optimized control methods. Here we reconstruct the individual quantum trajectories of a superconducting circuit that evolves in competition between continuous weak measurement and driven unitary evolution. By tracking individual trajectories that evolve between an arbitrary choice of initial and final states we can deduce the most probable path through quantum state space. These pre- and post-selected quantum trajectories also reveal the optimal detector signal in the form of a smooth time-continuous function that connects the desired boundary conditions. Our investigation reveals the rich interplay between measurement dynamics, typically associated with wave function collapse, and unitary evolution of the quantum state as described by the Schrodinger equation. These results and the underlying theory, based on a principle of least action, reveal the optimal route from initial to final states, and may enable new quantum control methods for state steering and information processing.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
Time and the Breathing City
Creators: name: , Rose
name: , Chris
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: During the early research phase of a large Arts-Sciences-Design collaboration in the UK, I joined a site visit to the Portland stone quarry on the south coast of the UK, part of the area designated  as  the  “Jurassic  Coastline”  World  Heritage  Site.  I  was  part  of  a  small  team  com-prised of meteorologist Dr. Janet Barlow, composer and sound expert Holger Zschenderlein, and myself as artist and designer. We were in the midst of exploring concepts of time, mate-rial  evidence,  data,  and  embodied  cognition/experience  especially  connected  with  complex  systems in the atmosphere and our understanding of them.We  started  our  process  by  visiting  the  Portland  Stone  quarry  (Portland  Bill,  Dorset  UK).  This site presents a kind of “time interface” in two entirely different ways: 1) the collision of a rock formation of equatorial marine origin; Portland Bill itself as part of an “object” traveling from the equator eventually to what is now the south coast of England and embedding in the sedimentary rocks of that place. Here the differences in material properties along the collision zone altered the local erosion behavior and continues to modify the coastline. Places are acces-sible where a cross section of the collision zone can be seen; and 2) places where a vertical slice is visible through the integral, layered record within the Portland stone itself of alternating periods of forestation, shoreline formation, and subsequent reforestation forming a kind of “grammar” of observable repetition.
The Border Project
Creators: name: Sambunaris, Victoria
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: The US/Mexico border spans approximately 2000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pa-cific Ocean. This southern border weaves its way through diverse terrains and waterways: riv-ers, mountains, valleys, grasslands, refuges, reservoirs, reservations, parks, forest, canyons, deserts,  dunes,  ranches,  towns,  and  farms.  The  extreme  physical  diversity  of  the  landscape  along the border fluctuates between dense urban sprawl compressed along the dividing fence where one can practically see into a person’s home across the border to remote uncultivated desert areas with ancient geological formations where one may not see a soul for days. An imposing physical barrier creates the division between the two countries. The adjacent landscape on the US side is stripped away to accommodate access for Border Patrol and other federal law enforcement agents. From afar, it appears to resemble an extended landing strip or perhaps an environmental art piece. But at ground level, the conspicuous steel fence is a physical reality.
Measure-valued affine and polynomial diffusions and applications to energy modeling
Creators: name: Guida, Francesco
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2022

description: The central theme of this thesis is the study of stochastic processes in the infinite dimensional setup of (non-negative) measures. We introduce a class of measure-valued processes, which ? in analogy to their finite dimensional counterparts ? will be called measure-valued polynomial diffusions. We show the so-called moment formula, i.e. a representation of the conditional marginal moments via a system of finite dimensional linear PDEs. Furthermore, we characterize the corresponding infinitesimal generators obtaining a representation analogous to polynomial diffusions on R^m_+, in cases where their domain is large enough. In general, the infinite dimensional setting allows for richer specifications strictly beyond this representation. As a special case, we recover measure-valued affine diffusions, sometimes also called Dawson-Watanabe superprocesses. The polynomial framework is especially attractive from a mathematical finance point of view. Indeed, it allows to transfer some of the most famous finite dimensional models, such as the Black-Scholes one, to an infinite dimensional measure-valued setting. We outline the applicability of our approach to energy markets term structure modeling by introducing a framework allowing to employ (non-negative) measure-valued processes to consider electricity and gas futures. Interpreting the process' spatial structure as time to maturity, we show how the Heath-Jarrow-Morton (HJM) approach can be translated to such framework, thus guaranteeing arbitrage free modeling in infinite dimensions. We derive an analogue to the HJM-drift condition, then considering existence of (non-negative) measure-valued diffusions satisfying this condition in a Markovian setting. To analyze mathematically convenient classes of models, we also consider measure-valued polynomial and affine diffusions allowing for tractable pricing procedures via the moment formula and Fourier approaches.
Power of Configuration: When Infrastructure Goes off the Rails
Creators: name: Kruse, Jamie
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: On November 11, 2011, the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) delivered a timeline to an audience of U.S. industry executives, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and members of Congress. It detailed the unfolding of events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station during, and in the critical hours following, the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. The story contained within the document entitled, “Special Report on the Nuclear Accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station,” reads like a screenplay. The gravity of the immediate hours  after  the  accident,  detailed  and  delivered  through  stark  legalistic  language,  confronts  the reader with a poignant reminder: when things don’t go as planned, human bodies are what must show up to try to steer things back on course.The INPO report serves well as a reference manual for contemporary designers, architects, urban planners, and engineers. It’s a powerful invitation to consider configuration in relation to  infrastructure  design  and  planning.  Configuration:  how  and  where  we  stage  what  we  de-sign, how humans and infrastructures are situated in relation to one another, and how they inevitably interact. Yet humans and infrastructures exist not only in relation to one another and the landscape, but also in relation to the multitude of earth forces capable of rising up and challenging our best design and engineering capacities.
No-signaling non-unitary modification of quantum dynamics within a deterministic model of quantization
Creators: name: Budiyono, Agung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed in the previous works a statistical model of quantum fluctuation based on a chaotic deviation from infinitesimal stationary action which is constrained by the principle of Locality to have a unique exponential distribution up to a parameter that determines its average. The unitary Schrödinger time evolution with Born's statistical interpretation of wave function is recovered as a specific case when the average deviation from infinitesimal stationary action is given by $\hbar/2$ for all the time. This naturally suggests a possible generalization of the quantum dynamics and statistics by allowing the average deviation fluctuates effectively randomly around $\hbar/2$ with a finite yet very small width and a finite time scale. We shall show that averaging over such fluctuation will lead to a non-unitary average-energy-conserving time evolution providing an intrinsic mechanism of decoherence in energy basis in macroscopic regime. A possible cosmological origin of the fluctuation is suggested. Coherence and decoherence are thus explained as two features of the same statistical model corresponding to microscopic and macroscopic regimes, respectively. Moreover, noting that measurement-interaction can be treated in equal footing as the other types of interaction, the objective locality of the model is argued to imply no-signaling between a pair of arbitrarily separated experiments.
description: accepted for publication in Annals of Physics. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1310.6028, arXiv:1301.5345, arXiv:1404.1528
The economics of casino Gambling: evidence for Portugal
Creators: name: Matias, Álvaro
name: Costa, Carlos M. G.
name: Gil-Alana, Luis
Publisher: name: Journal of Tourism & Development
Year: 2010

description: No abstract available.
description: Journal of Tourism & Development, vol. 3 n.º 13/14 (2010): INVTUR 2010 Intl' Conference - Abstracts
Rilievo sistematico e fragilit� prescrittiva di una innovazione costituzionale: la differenziazione regionale ex art. 116, 3� comma Cost.: prefazione
Creators: name: Toniatti, Roberto
Publisher: name: Universit� di Trento
Year: 2020

description: Il volume offre una ricostruzione dell'innovazione costituzionale, risalente alla revisione del 2001 e prevista dal nuovo testo dell'art. 116, 3� comma - che introduce nell'ordinamento decentrato la figura nota come "regionalismo differenziato" - anche alla luce della recente iniziativa di tre Regioni ordinarie (Emilia Romagna, Lombardia e Veneto) che, anche come effetto politico del referedum consultivo organizzato dalle ultime due, si � rivelata in grado di porre in moto l'azione dello Stato. Il volume tratta in via analitica del significato del regionalismo differenziato, anche con riguardo alle sue origini e ai primi vani tentativi di applicazione, e si sofferma sui numerosi problemi teorici e applicativi che l'innovazione non manca di suscitare. In particolare, si approfondisce l'interpretazione delle norme che disciplinano il procedimento attuativo, con riguardo sia ai profili sistematici desumibili dall'ordinamento, sia alla recente prassi seguita dagli organi regionali e statali: il volume tratta, pi� in dettaglio, della prospettiva di una legge generale di attuazione dell'art. 116, 3� comma, dell'iniziativa regionale, dell'intesa bilaterale, del ruolo del Parlamento e della legge rinforzata di differenziazione, delle materie suscettibili di differenziazione. In conclusione, si approfondisce il rapporto fra autonomia differenziata e principio di uguaglianza connesso alla cittadinanza.
Asymptotic late-time tails of massive spin-2 fields
Creators: name: Hod, Shahar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The late-time dynamics of massive spin-2 fields in flat and curved spacetimes are studied analytically. We find that the time evolutions of the massive fields are characterized by oscillatory power-law decaying tails at asymptotically late times. In a flat spacetime the decaying exponent depends on the multipole number and the parity of the mode. In the curved Schwarzschild black-hole spacetime the decaying exponent is found to be universal.
description: 7 pages
Nullum Crimen Sine Lege and the Role of Foreseeability in the European Human Rights Protection System. A European approach to the problem of judge-made law in Criminal Law
Creators: name: Paiusco, Sara
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2020

description: The aim of this research is investigating nullum crimen sine lege as European principle. Therefore, the analysis focuses on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) interpretation of this principle. The approach of this work is top-down. Since the research question is the role of foreseeability assessment in ?Europeanised? Criminal Law and its possible relevance at the European and national level, when and if necessary, the chosen approach is to look first at the European perspective, in order to analyse it in depth in its own specificities and then try to link it to the national perspective. With regards to ECHR law, the autonomous definition of law and the application of foreseeability (one of the ?qualities? of the law) as main parameter to assess legality, both in light of retroactivity and legal certainty, are investigated. In particular, special attention is given to the role of judge-made law in the interpretation of Art. 7 ECHR. Hence, the research focuses on the role of foreseeability, milestone of European legality, as a means to find a solution to the legality issues raising from judge-made law in criminal law. The origin, rationale and application of the concept of foreseeability in ECtHR case-law are scrutinised, trying to extract its main development paths. Subsequently, the current solutions that civil law States adopt to try solving the problem of case-law in criminal law are analysed, with reference to Italy and Germany, also with regards to the traditional rationales of nullum crimen and its theoretical foundations. Moreover, the role of foreseeability and legality in the European Union legal order is considered, as an example of an effectiveness-oriented and de-formalised legal order. In the end, future perspectives for the implementation of the principle of foreseeability are analysed, with particular regard to the Italian legal order.
coresoi: measuring corruption risk in emergency
Creators: name: Salvini, Niccolò
name: Sarto, Simone Del
name: Gnaldi, Michela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: corruption
risk
emergency

description: coresoi is a product of the project CO.R.E.- Corruption risk indicators in emergency, financed by the EU Commission, as part of the Internal Police Security Fund (ISF-P) program. The goal of coresoi is to provide a sandbox environment for researchers and anti-corruption analysts to interact with the indicators of corruption risk in public procurement over emergencies we’ve designed. We also offer mock data extracted from dati.anticorruzione to aid in their analysis. Our hope is that this platform will promote greater transparency in government, by helping researchers and anti-corruption analysts to make their efforts in fighting corruption more effective.
One Million Years of Isolation: An Interview with Abraham Van Luik
Creators: name: Manaugh, Geoff
name: Twilley, Nicola
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Geoff  Manaugh:  How  did  you  start  designing  a  project  like  Yucca  Mountain,  when  you’re  dealing with such enormous timescales and geological complexity? Abraham  Van  Luik:  You  start  with  a  question:  How  do  you  perceive  the  need  to  isolate  a  material from the environment?
Tweets on the road
Creators: name: Lenormand, Maxime
name: Tugores, Antònia
name: Colet, Pere
name: Ramasco, José J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The pervasiveness of mobile devices, which is increasing daily, is generating a vast amount of geo-located data allowing us to gain further insights into human behaviors. In particular, this new technology enables users to communicate through mobile social media applications, such as Twitter, anytime and anywhere. Thus, geo-located tweets offer the possibility to carry out in-depth studies on human mobility. In this paper, we study the use of Twitter in transportation by identifying tweets posted from roads and rails in Europe between September 2012 and November 2013. We compute the percentage of highway and railway segments covered by tweets in 39 countries. The coverages are very different from country to country and their variability can be partially explained by differences in Twitter penetration rates. Still, some of these differences might be related to cultural factors regarding mobility habits and interacting socially online. Analyzing particular road sectors, our results show a positive correlation between the number of tweets on the road and the Average Annual Daily Traffic on highways in France and in the UK. Transport modality can be studied with these data as well, for which we discover very heterogeneous usage patterns across the continent.
description: 15 pages, 17 figures
FROM BIM REPRESENTATION TO FUNCTIONAL SIMULATION AND REAL TIME ADVANCED CONTROL
Creators: name: Several Authors
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Residential Building Digital Twin functional representation requires a new professional role (BDT Simulation Manager). This functional aspect of the building digital twin covers all phases of the building, from design and concept to commissioning and real time management. It must be well coordinated with BIM and other services of the BDT. Mathematical simulation can reproduce unctionalities of the different systems: passive building, ventilation networks, heating and cooling devices, meteorology and occupancy. Advanced Software in the Loop embedded in supervision and control devices can improve drastically the visibility of health, comfort and energy parameters. Performance contracts (as one economic implication) can make use of dynamic energy evaluations. Maintenance can be carried out effectively thanks to extra parameters derived from simulation, affecting not only equipment but networks and sensors.
Meillassoux's Virtual Future
Creators: name: Harman, Graham
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: This  article  consists  of  three  parts.  First,  I  will  review  the  major  themes  of  Quentin  Meillassoux’s  After  Finitude.  Since  some  of  my  readers  will  have  read  this  book  and  others  not,  I  will  try  to  strike  a  balance  between  clear  summary and fresh critique. Second, I discuss an unpublished book by Meil-lassoux  only  partly  familiar  to  the  reading  public,  except  those  scant  few  that may have gone digging in the microfilm archives of the École normale supérieure. The book in question is Meillassoux’s revised doctoral disserta-tion L’Inexistence divine (The Divine Inexistence), with its seemingly bizarre vision of a God who does not yet exist but might exist in the future. Without literally accepting this view, I will claim that it is philosophically interesting in ways that even a hardened sceptic might be able to appreciate. Third and finally, I will speculate on the possible future of Meillassoux’s speculative ma-terialism itself. And here I mean its future development not by Meillassoux, but by those readers who might be inspired by his book. Plato could never have predicted the emergence of Aristotle’s philosophy, despite the obvious debt of the latter to the former. Nor could Descartes have predicted Spinoza and  Leibniz,  nor  Kant  the  German  Idealists,  and  neither  could  Husserl  in  1901 have foreseen the later emergence of Heidegger. How are the works of interesting philosophers transformed by later thinkers of comparable im-portance? While it may seem that there are countless ways to do this, I think there are only two basic ways in which this happens: you can radicalize your predecessors,  or  you  can  reverse  them.  I  will  close  this  article  with  a  few  words about these two methods, and try to imagine how Meillassoux might be radicalized or reversed by some future admirer. My view is that the more important thinkers are, the easier they are to radicalize or reverse. This helps explain why the great philosophers of the West have so often appeared in clusters, succeeding one another at relatively brief intervals during periods of especial ferment
LAURO DE OLIVEIRA LIMA E O ANALFABETISMO
Creators: name: Rodrigues Dias, Marco Aurélio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Primary education
Early childhood education

description: O objetivo deste trabalho é reforçar que o analfabetismo e a evasão escolar ocorrem por causa da exclusão social, das atitudes antidemocráticas do Estado e da Sociedade e do desamparo em que vivem os mais desfavorecidos. Estudos sobre o desenvolvimento da inteligência demonstram que toda criança pode aprender o ensino formal oferecido nas escolas, exceto nos casos de doença neurológica degenerativa que compromete a memória, o pensamento, o comportamento e a compreensão.
The Crisis of Negation: An Interview with Alain Badiou
Creators: name: Van Houdt, John
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Alain Badiou (ab): My answer is a simple one, in fact. The very nature of the crisis today is not, in my opinion, the crisis of capitalism, but the failure of socialism. And maybe I am the philosopher of the time where something like the “Great Hypothesis” coming from the nineteenth-century – and maybe much more, for the French Revolution – is in crisis. So it is the crisis of the idea of revolution. But behind the idea of revolution is the crisis of the idea of another world, of the possibility of, really, another organization of society, and so on. Not the crisis of the pure possibility, but the crisis of the historical possibility of something like that is caught in the facts themselves. And it is a crisis of negation because it is a crisis of a conception of negation which was a creative one. The idea of negation is by itself a negation of newness, and that if we have the means to really negate the established order – in the moment of that sort of negation – there is the birth of the new order. And so the affirmative part or the constructive part of the process is included in negation.
title: Understanding the molecular mechanisms of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy caused by TMEM43 p.S358L mutation
Creators: name: Porter, Zachary G.
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2024

description: Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is a genetic cardiac disease characterized by fibrofatty infiltration of the myocardium, life-threatening arrhythmias, and sudden cardiac death. Newfoundland and Labrador is home to a substantial founder population with an autosomal dominant mutation in the transmembrane protein 43 (TMEM43) gene (c.1073C>T; p.S358L), responsible for ARVC type 5. Although we know that this mutation causes ARVC, there is limited information on the TMEM43 protein life cycle, protein-protein interactions, and function. Additionally, it is unknown how the p.S358L mutation affects TMEM43 function, contributes to ARVC, or why it affects only the heart despite being widely expressed. Here I investigate the intracellular trafficking of wild-type TMEM43 in human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and iPSC-cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs). I find that TMEM43 resides primarily in early endosomes in iPSCs. Interestingly, although TMEM43 remains localized to early endosomes in early contracting iPSC-CMs, it shifts toward the nuclear envelope as iPSC-CMs are cultured in vitro for an extended period of time. CRISPR-Cas9 genetic ablation of the TMEM43 gene has no apparent effects on several intracellular organelles previously shown to be affected by the TMEM43-S358L mutation. However, TMEM43-/- iPSC-CMs exhibit subtle calcium handling aberrations pointing toward a pro-arrhythmic phenotype. Finally, primary ARVC patient dermal fibroblasts show significant changes in the expression of extracellular matrix proteins, which may play a role in the fibrosis seen in ARVC. Together, these studies begin to unravel the basic life cycle and function of the TMEM43 protein in a human-derived cellular model of ARVC.