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On hybrid models of quantum finite automata
Creators: name: Li, Lvzhou
name: Feng, Yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the literature, there exist several quantum finite automata (QFA) models with both quantum and classical states. These models are of particular interest,as they show praiseworthy advantages over the fully quantum models in some nontrivial aspects. This paper characterizes these models in a uniform framework by proposing a general hybrid model consisting of a quantum component and a classical one which can interact with each other. The existing hybrid QFA can be naturally regarded as the general model with specific communication patterns (classical-quantum, quantum-classical, and two-way, respectively). We further clarify the relationship between these hybrid QFA and some other quantum models. In particular, it is shown that hybrid QFA can be simulated exactly by QFA with quantum operations, which in turn has a close relationship with two early proposed models: {\it ancialla QFA} and {\it quantum sequential machines}.
description: The paper has been revised such that it is more concise and has a better structure. All comments are welcome
Emergence of thin shell structure during collapse in isotropic coordinates
Creators: name: Beauchesne, Hugues
name: Edery, Ariel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical studies of gravitational collapse in isotropic coordinates have recently shown an interesting connection between the gravitational Lagrangian and black hole thermodynamics. A study of the actual spacetime was not the main focus of this work and in particular, the rich and interesting structure of the interior has not been investigated in much detail and remains largely unknown. We elucidate its features by performing a numerical study of the spacetime in isotropic coordinates during gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field. The most salient feature to emerge is the formation of a thin shell of matter just inside the apparent horizon. The energy density and Ricci scalar peak at the shell and there is a jump discontinuity in the extrinsic curvature across the apparent horizon, the hallmark that a thin shell is present in its vicinity. At late stages of the collapse, the spacetime consists of two vacuum regions separated by the thin shell. The interior is described by an interesting collapsing isotropic universe. It tends towards a vacuum (never reaches a perfect vacuum) and there is a slight inhomogeneity in the interior that plays a crucial role in the collapse process as the areal radius tends to zero. The spacetime evolves towards a curvature (physical) singularity in the interior, both a Weyl and Ricci singularity. In the exterior, our numerical results match closely the analytical form of the Schwarzschild metric in isotropic coordinates, providing a strong test of our numerical code.
description: 24 pages, 10 figures. version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
title: Myxoid soft-tissue neoplasms
Creators: name: Gredilla, María
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Extremities
subject: Pelvis
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Neoplasia

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: · To review the most common, benign and malignant, myxoid soft-tissue lesions. · To mention other tumours that may contain myxomatous stroma among their components. · To describe their behaviour in different imaging studies and imaging modalities...
Treatment of water-in-bitumen SAGD emulsion using solvents and ultrasound energy
Creators: name: Telmadarreie, Toranj
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Engineering

description: Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD), the in-situ technology most widely used for bitumen extraction in Canada, produces bitumen accompanied by water in the form of a water-in-bitumen emulsion. This emulsion is particularly challenging to treat (break) due to its high viscosity and the presence of solids and natural surfactants that act as stabilizers that form an interfacial film that prevents the coalescence of the water droplets. The use of additives or temperature (or a combination of both) is a common practice to break the SAGD emulsion. However, the use of these approaches presents disadvantages such as high cost, safety, significant energy consumption, and, in the case of some additives, environmental challenges. In addition, due to the complexity of the SAGD emulsion, the demulsification performance is often low. This work proposes the treatment of stable emulsions produced in the field after in situ bitumen extraction (SAGD), by combining organic solvents and ultrasound irradiation. The experimental results of this study show that when solvents are combined with the short-time irradiation of ultrasound, the demulsification efficiency increases significantly, indicating a synergy between these two treatment strategies. The optimized treatment resulted in a high-performance, fast treatment compared to either method alone, with the added benefit of utilizing some environmentally friendly solvents. The experimental work was designed to investigate the impact of the treatments (solvent addition, ultrasound, and a combination of both) on the demulsification efficiency. The solvents were selected based on their solubility properties in water and/or bitumen. A synergic effect on the demulsification efficiency (DE) was observed for all 14 solvents tested when combined with ultrasound energy. Out of all the solvents, mutually soluble solvents, including ethyl acetate, tetrahydrofuran, diethyl ether, and pyrrolidine, showed the highest DE when combined with ultrasound. For example, a remarkable synergy (88% DE) occurred with a combination of 0.6 m (5 wt%) ethyl acetate and 15 min ultrasound, while negligible demulsification was observed when ethyl acetate or ultrasound was tested individually. This study demonstrates the synergy between solvents and ultrasonication to treat the SAGD emulsion. The use of mutual soluble solvents in emulsion treatment was also demonstrated in this work for the first time. This combination of techniques contributes to developing a highly efficient demulsification process with potentially low environmental impact.
Spunti sulla fotografia, lingua della modernità
Creators: name: Pitrolo, Daniele
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Spunti sulla fotografia, lingua della modernità
di Daniele Pitrolo

Conversazione con Ferdinando Scianna (prima parte)
description: Altre Modernità, No 1 (2009): Miscellanea
Grating coupler design based on silicon-on-insulator
Creators: name: Wang, Yun
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Silicon-on-insulator has become a promising platform for high-density integrated photonics circuits. The large refractive index contrast between the functional silicon layer and its cladding raises a coupling issue between an optical fibre and on-chip devices. Grating coupler provides a compact and efficient way to tackle the coupling issue between the optical fibre and silicon waveguide. In this thesis, a universal design methodology, which accommodates various etch depths, silicon thicknesses, and cladding materials has been demonstrated and verified by both FDTD simulation and measurement results. A fully etched grating coupler with a sub-wavelength grating structure has been proposed to reduce the large back reflection of existing fully etched grating couplers. Back reflection of the proposed fully etched grating coupler has been reduced from more than 20% to about 5%. The insertion loss and bandwidth of the proposed structure have also been improved. In addition, a bidirectional grating coupler for vertical coupling has been proposed to improve the insertion loss and bandwidth of the traditional grating coupler. A simulated insertion loss of -1.5dB with a 3dB bandwidth of more 100nm has been achieved with the proposed structure.
Franco Buffoni, Con il testo a fronte. Indagine sul tradurre e l’essere tradotti (Novara, Interlinea, 2007, pp. 232. ISBN 978-88-8212-433-5)
Creators: name: Colombini Mantovani, Adriana
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Franco Buffoni, Con il testo a fronte. Indagine sul tradurre e l’essere tradotti
(Novara, Interlinea, 2007, pp. 232. ISBN 978-88-8212-433-5)
di Adriana Colombini Mantovani
description: Altre Modernità, No 1 (2009): Miscellanea
Epitaxial growth mechanisms of graphene and effects of substrates
Creators: name: Özçelik, V. Ongun
name: Cahangirov, S.
name: Ciraci, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The growth process of single layer graphene with and without substrate is investigated using ab initio, finite temperature molecular dynamic calculations within density functional theory. An understanding of the epitaxial graphene growth mechanisms in the atomic level is provided by exploring the transient stages which occur at the growing edges of graphene. These stages are formation and collapse of large carbon rings together with the formation and healing of Stone-Wales like pentagon-heptagon defects. The activation barriers for the healing of these growth induced defects on various substrates are calculated using the climbing image nudge elastic band method and compared with that of the Stone-Wales defect. It is found that the healing of pentagon-heptagon defects occurring near the edge in the course of growth is much easier than that of Stone-Wales defect. The role of the substrate in the epitaxial growth and in the healing of defects are also investigated in detail, along with the effects of using carbon dimers as the building blocks of graphene growth.
description: Published version
Githa Hariharan, When Dreams Travel (Picador, London, 1999, pp. 276. ISBN 0330372998)
Creators: name: Dal Vera, Lorenza
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Githa Hariharan, When Dreams Travel
(Picador, London, 1999, pp. 276. ISBN 0330372998)
di Lorenza Dal Vera
description: Altre Modernità, No 1 (2009): Miscellanea
title: CT imaging of facial trauma
Creators: name: EL MORTAJI, Hajar
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Bones
subject: Emergency
subject: Head and neck
subject: CT
subject: Structured reporting
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Trauma

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Show the contribution of the helicoidal tomography in the diagnosis and classification of facial...
Claudia Guillén (ed.), Un hombre a la medida (México, Cal y Arena, 2005, pp. 172. ISBN 968-7711-52-3)
Creators: name: González Luna, Anamaría
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Claudia Guillén (ed.), Un hombre a la medida
(México, Cal y Arena, 2005, pp. 172. ISBN 968-7711-52-3)
por Anamaría González Luna
description: Altre Modernità, No 1 (2009): Miscellanea
‘It is not easy at all’: A Phenomenological Study of Learning Experiences of Resettled Afghan Refugees in Canada
Creators: name: Nizamuddin, Sameer
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Adult learning
subject: Refugee crises
subject: Education
subject: Migration
subject: Hermeneutic Phenomenology
subject: Social Capital
subject: Bourdieu
subject: Cultural Capital
subject: Afghan refugees
subject: Education--Adult and Continuing
subject: Education

description: With the decade long security crises in Afghanistan, many Afghan refugees have arrived in Canada with a significant history of trauma due to war, with hopes to rebuild their lives by learning and adapting the norms and structures of their host societies. Amidst the extended nature of their displacement, learning and education can be a source of healing and gaining social and economic mobilities. However, they experience multifaceted difficulties in their learning journeys, and their learning experiences and needs often go unnoticed. Capturing the rich experiences of refugees, particularly Afghans, have received limited attention in the past. Previous studies on refugee learning experiences have majorly focused on secondary and post-secondary education and their associated challenges, and little attention is paid on the importance of other forms of learnings which help learners accumulate social and cultural capital necessary for their resettlement. Therefore, the purpose of this phenomenological study is to explore learning experiences of adult Afghan refugees in Canada. Specifically, this study examines the factors, sources, and strategies that facilitate their learning experiences, and barriers and challenges they face during their learning processes. By utilizing the theoretical framework of forms of capital, this qualitative study describes transformative learning experiences of Afghan refugees in Canada, particularly in terms of the disruption of their previous social and cultural capitals and the establishment of the new forms of capital during their resettlement processes. Additionally, these Afghan refugees illustrated the role of social connections and support systems in their learning experiences, their unique and informal pathways of learnings, as well as their learning motivations and aspirations. Moreover, this study confirms and demonstrates devaluation of their past educational credentials, language barriers, challenges from governmental and educational institutions, and mental health concerns as significant barriers to their learning experiences.
Higgs and Supersymmetry
Creators: name: Buchmueller, O.
name: Cavanaugh, R.
name: De Roeck, A.
name: Dolan, M. J.
name: Ellis, J. R.
name: Flacher, H.
name: Heinemeyer, S.
name: Isidori, G.
name: Marrouche, J.
name: Santos, D. Martinez
name: Olive, K. A.
name: Rogerson, S.
name: Ronga, F. J.
name: de Vries, K. J.
name: Weiglein, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Global frequentist fits to the CMSSM and NUHM1 using the MasterCode framework predicted m_h \simeq 119 GeV in fits incorporating the g_mu-2 constraint and \simeq 126 GeV without it. Recent results by ATLAS and CMS could be compatible with a Standard Model-like Higgs boson around m_h \simeq 125 GeV. We use the previous MasterCode analysis to calculate the likelihood for a measurement of any nominal Higgs mass within the range of 115 to 130 GeV. Assuming a Higgs mass measurement at m_h \simeq 125 GeV, we display updated global likelihood contours in the (m_0, m_{1/2}) and other parameter planes of the CMSSM and NUHM1, and present updated likelihood functions for m_gluino, m_squark, B to mu mu, and the spin-independent dark matter cross section σ^si. The implications of dropping g_mu-2 from the fits are also discussed. We furthermore comment on a hypothetical measurement of m_h \simeq 119 GeV.
description: 18 pages, 30 figures final version to be published in EPJC
Exploring How Best to Teach Trauma-Informed Care in Undergraduate Medical Education
Creators: name: Young, Jessica Lynn
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Trauma-Informed Care
subject: Medical Education
subject: Undergraduate Medical Education
subject: TIC
subject: Medicine
subject: Education--Higher
subject: Education
subject: Public and Social Welfare
subject: Sociology--Theory and Methods

description: Trauma-informed care (TIC) is an approach that recognizes the potential for patients to have experienced trauma and requires care to be sensitive and adaptive to this; ongoing calls to action continue to highlight the need for TIC to be incorporated into the training of medical doctors. This exploratory qualitative study employed constructivist grounded theory methods to empirically investigate how leading physicians in Canada conceptualize and operationalize TIC and further examine how it could be effectively taught to medical learners during undergraduate medical education (UME). The study found that physicians view TIC as a practice philosophy, rather than a specific framework or set of skills, oriented around seven principles. Rather than viewing trauma as a biomedical or psychiatric condition, physicians saw structures and systems of oppression as mediators for – and causes of – trauma. Findings illuminate foundational knowledge and skills necessary to augment the translation of TIC in clinical practice that can be used to inform what and how medical schools teach TIC. This study identified the importance of longitudinal integration, spirality, and meaningful applications of TIC in a UME-level TIC curriculum, which ensures that all learners are introduced to the construct of TIC and are able to apply it in early clinical interactions. However, challenges such as the contradictory and powerful influence of the hidden curriculum as well as the critical need for faculty development must be addressed. Overall, this emphasizes the need for physician training to cultivate context- dependent and adaptable approaches to TIC in an effort to break the cycle of systemic violence and trauma in medicine.
title: Imaging features of vascular abdominal compression syndromes
Creators: name: Amante, Sofia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Education
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Anatomy
subject: Abdomen
subject: Dilatation
subject: Congenital

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review the main imaging features of vascular abdominal compression syndromes in order to familiarize radiologists with these disorders; To discuss the anatomy, clinical and pathogenesis of these...
title: Preoperative and Postoperative Radiological Assessment of Orbital Fractures
Creators: name: CELLI PRATO, JENNIFER KAY
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: Emergency
subject: Head and neck
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CAD
subject: Complications
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Outcomes
subject: Trauma
subject: Patterns of Care

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review the normal anatomy of the orbit, the zygoma complex and the key anatomical landmarks in the diagnosis of orbital fractures. To describe basic radiological findings of orbital fractures both preoperative and postoperatively in CT...
title: The potential of dynamic contrast enhanced imaging and pharmacokinetic analysis in diagnosis, staging and monitoring of pleural malignancy
Creators: name: Cowell, Gordon
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Cancer
subject: Staging
subject: MR
subject: Thorax
subject: Oncology
subject: Lung

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Understand the role of CT and MRI in multiphase pleural imaging. Describe the range of pharmacokinetic analyses applicable in pleural malignancy. Understand previous research in this area and its impact on current clinical practice. Outline future...
Den Dingen auf der Spur. Wege von Kunstobjekten zwischen Kunsthandel und Museen in Dresden und Deutschland, 1924–1975
Creators: name: Kugler, Fine
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Kunstmarktforschung
subject: Kunsthandel
subject: 20. Jahrhundert
subject: Museumsgeschichte
subject: 060 Allgemeine Organisationen und Museumswissenschaft

description: Als eine der wichtigsten Dresdener Galerien stand die „Kunstausstellung Kühl“ unter der Leitung ihres Gründers Heinrich Kühl (1886–1965) den Staatlichen Sammlungen für Kunst und Wissenschaft zu Dresden, den heutigen Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, stets nahe. Der Beitrag stellt Provenienzen von Kunstwerken vor, die aus der Interaktion dieser beiden Akteurinnen erwachsen sind, und illustriert dabei Objekt- und Akteursgeschichten, die von der wechselseitigen Beziehung von Kunsthandel und Museen geprägt sind. Die Fallbeispiele wurden im Zusammenhang mit der entstehenden Dissertation „Die ,Kunstausstellung Kühl‘ und der Dresdener Kunstmarkt, 1924–1965“ recherchiert, die sich der Rekonstruktion der kriegsbedingt kaum überlieferten Galeriegeschichte widmet und das Netzwerk der kunstmarktrelevanten Akteur:innen in der „Kunststadt“ Dresden sowie im nationalen Kontext betrachtet.
Applying MOG to lensing: Einstein rings, Abell 520 and the Bullet Cluster
Creators: name: Moffat, J. W.
name: Rahvar, S.
name: Toth, V. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate gravitational lensing in the context of the MOG modified theory of gravity. Using a formulation of the theory with no adjustable or fitted parameters, we present the MOG equations of motion for slow, nonrelativistic test particles and for ultrarelativistic test particles, such as rays of light. We demonstrate how the MOG prediction for the bending of light can be applied to astronomical observations. Our investigation first focuses on a small set of strong lensing observations where the properties of the lensing objects are found to be consistent with the predictions of the theory. We also present an analysis of the colliding clusters 1E0657-558 (known also as the Bullet Cluster) and Abell 520; in both cases, the predictions of the MOG theory are in good agreement with observation.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures; final proof before publication
Juan Villoro, El testigo (Anagrama, Barcelona, 2004, pp. 470. ISBN 968-867-241-6)
Creators: name: González Luna, Anamaría
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Juan Villoro, El testigo
(Anagrama, Barcelona, 2004, pp. 470. ISBN 968-867-241-6)
por Anamaría González Luna
description: Altre Modernità, No 1 (2009): Miscellanea
title: Role of gd-EOB-DTPA magnetic resonance imaging in characterizing nodules with atypical enhancement on computed tomography: results of a prospective monocentric study
Creators: name: Gerboni, Mattia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Liver
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Cirrhosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To assess the use ofGd-EOB-DTPA MRI in patients with “atypical” HCC diagnosed at multiphase...
Camminando attorno alla città-mondo. London orbital e le ossessioni della modernità (Iain Sinclair, London Orbital. A piedi attorno alla metropoli, Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2008, pp. 576. ISBN 978-88-428-1339-2)
Creators: name: Maioli, Francesca
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Camminando attorno alla città-mondo.
London orbital e le ossessioni della modernità
(Iain Sinclair, London Orbital. A piedi attorno alla metropoli, Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2008, pp. 576. ISBN 978-88-428-1339-2)
di Francesca Maioli
description: Altre Modernità, No 1 (2009): Miscellanea
Mach, the Universe, and Foundations of Mechanics
Creators: name: Mashhoon, B.
name: Wesson, P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Barbour's response to our recent paper on "Mach's principle and higher-dimensional dynamics" describes an approach to Mach's principle in which the universe as a whole is involved in the definition of inertial frames of reference. Moreover, Barbour's theoretical procedure is in agreement with general relativity for a finite universe that is spatially closed. However, we prefer an operational approach that relies ultimately on observational data.
description: 3 pages, response to Barbour's paper (arXiv:1108.3057)
Ouverture et dialogue culturel: l’expérience en salle informatique
Creators: name: Morgante, Jole
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Ouverture et dialogue culturel :
l’expérience en salle informatique
(J. Morgante, A. Grossi (éd.), La Nation. Identités entre mémoire et représentations.
Séminaire d’Etudes Culturelles sous la direction de Jole Morgante, avec la
collaboration de Alessandra Grossi, Milano, Cuem, 2007. ISBN 978-88-6001-119-0)
(J. Morgante, A. Grossi (éd.), Passion française, passions des Français. Séminaire d’Etudes
Culturelles sous la direction de Jole Morgante, avec la collaboration de Alessandra
Grossi, Cuem, Milano, 2008. ISBN 978-88-6001-171-8)
par Jole Mogante
description: Altre Modernità, No 1 (2009): Miscellanea
Francesca Gargallo, Marcha seca (Era, México D.F, 1999, pp. 76, ISBN 968-411-454-0)
Creators: name: Ponisio, Cristina
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Francesca Gargallo, Marcha seca (Era, México D.F, 1999, pp. 76, ISBN 968-411-454-0)
por Cristina Ponisio
description: Altre Modernità, No 1 (2009): Miscellanea
Brain-Computer Interface Fatigue in Children: Mechanisms and Impact
Creators: name: Keough, Joanna Renée Grandinetti
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Brain-Computer Interface
subject: Fatigue
subject: Pediatrics
subject: Neuroscience

description: Communicating with others, exploring the environment, and playing games are essential components of child development. However, kids with severe physical disabilities such as quadriplegic cerebral palsy (QCP), are often unable to exercise such autonomy. Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology offer children with QCP unique opportunities for communication, environmental exploration, learning, and play. BCI research is rapidly developing but has neglected pediatric populations. Like many cognitively demanding tasks, fatigue is a critical factor to consider for BCI performance and enjoyment. BCI fatigue has been studied in adult populations, but there are no pediatric studies to date. Our prospective, cross over study assessed the effects of two BCI paradigms and a control condition on self-reported fatigue and electroencephalogram (EEG) biomarkers of fatigue. Thirty-two typically developing children aged 7-16 years participated in three sessions: motor imagery-BCI, P300-BCI, and film viewing (control). Self- reported fatigue and resting-state EEG alpha band power significantly increased across all sessions (p < 0.001; p = 0.047 respectively). These two measures of fatigue were uncorrelated to one another. No differences in fatigue development between sessions was observed. This project provides a baseline understanding of pediatric BCI fatigue. Short periods (30-mintues) of BCI use can increase self-reported fatigue and an EEG biomarker of fatigue. Performance was stable across BCI sessions and not associated with our measures of fatigue. The clinical implications and impact of fatigue on useability and enjoyment are unclear. Our results support the variability of fatigue and the overall BCI experience in children that warrant future investigation.
Coupling of bouncing-ball modes to the chaotic sea and their counting function
Creators: name: Löck, Steffen
name: Bäcker, Arnd
name: Ketzmerick, Roland
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the coupling of bouncing-ball modes to chaotic modes in two-dimensional billiards with two parallel boundary segments. Analytically, we predict the corresponding decay rates using the fictitious integrable system approach. Agreement with numerically determined rates is found for the stadium and the cosine billiard. We use this result to predict the asymptotic behavior of the counting function N_bb(E) ~ E^δ. For the stadium billiard we find agreement with the previous result δ= 3/4. For the cosine billiard we derive δ= 5/8, which is confirmed numerically and is well below the previously predicted upper bound δ=9/10.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
title: Cervical lymph nodes: a pictorial review of ultrasound findings.
Creators: name: Altamirano S. , Aleen Vanessa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Staging
subject: Education
subject: Ultrasound-Power Doppler
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: Head and neck
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review the most important neck echographic landmarks using a visual and practical approach in order to classify nodes according to the levels of the AJCC. To know the echographic characteristics of normal and pathological lymph nodes. To...
The $Λ$CDM growth rate of structure revisited
Creators: name: Basilakos, Spyros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We re-examine the growth index of the concordance $Λ$ cosmology in the light of the latest 6dF and {\em WiggleZ} data. In particular, we investigate five different models for the growth index $γ$, by comparing their cosmological evolution using observational data of the growth rate of structure formation at different redshifts. Performing a joint likelihood analysis of the recent supernovae type Ia data, the Cosmic Microwave Background shift parameter, Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations and the growth rate data, we determine the free parameters of the $γ(z)$ parametrizations and we statistically quantify their ability to represent the observations. We find that the addition of the 6dF and {\em WiggleZ} growth data in the likelihood analysis improves significantly the statistical results. As an example, considering a constant growth index we find $Ω_{m0}=0.273\pm 0.011$ and $γ=0.586^{+0.079}_{-0.074}$.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication by International J. of Modern Physics D (IJMPD). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1203.6724
title: The role of diffusion-weighted imaging and contrast-enhanced MRI in evaluating response in breast cancer patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
Creators: name: Van Goethem, Mireille
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR
subject: Biopsy
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Diffusion weighted imaging and contrast enhanced MRI are used complementary in the diagnosing and follow-up of breast cancer patients who receive neo-adjuvant chemotherapy, because they have different sensitivity and specificity [1]. There are no...
La teoria critica di Umberto Eco: La critica dell’ideologia e la guerriglia semiologica
Creators: name: Desogus, Paolo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Segno, enciclopedia, ideologia, prassi

description: Attraverso nozioni chiave ed esempi concreti, il testo mostra lo stretto rapporto tra analisi e critica nella semiotica echiana degli anni Settanta. In questo quadro, la riflessione prende in esame due elementi decisivi degli studi di Eco, l'analisi dell'ideologia e la pratica di opposizione, chiamata guerriglia semiologica, tesa a ribaltare nei processi comunicativi il rapporto gerarchico e di consenso passivo tra il mittente e il destinatario. Lo scopo dell'articolo è dunque quello di dimostrare che la semiotica non è soltanto una teoria descrittiva, ma è anche una pratica, volta a smontare e a cortocircuitare i meccanismi ideologici e persuasivi del segno.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 7 (2012)
title: MRI biometry of the pons and cerebelum in children with global developmental delay
Creators: name: LEVEZIEL, Vincent
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Developmental disease
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Observer performance
subject: MR
subject: Paediatric
subject: CNS

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Global Developmental Delay (GDD) is defined as a significant delay in two or more developmental domains. It covers various aetiologies, including posterior fossa abnormalities. Usefulness of Magnetic Resonance imaging (MRI) has already been...
Session Minutes, July 09, 1995-July 02, 2000
Creators: name: (:Unas)
Publisher: name: Sag Harbor First Presbyterian Church
Year: 1995
Subjects: Sag Harbor
Recording & registration
Organizations
Presbyterian churches
Churches

description: This volume contains the typed session minutes between July 09, 1995 and July 02, 2000 for the Sag Harbor First Presbyterian Church. Session minutes include decisions about operating the church.
title: Radiomics on contrast enhanced spectral mammography for improved Breast cancer diagnosis
Creators: name: van Wijk, Yvonka
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Absorptiometry / Bone densitometry
subject: Mammography
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Breast
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Screening mammograms reduce mortality rate of breast cancer by 25-30% Cumulative risk of false positive from screening is 50% Contrast enhanced spectral mammography (CESM) can help identify masses in breast cancer patients (Figure 1) [1,2] False...
Нова пам’ятка середньовічного художнього ремесла кочівників
Creators: name: Орлов, Руслан
name: В. М., Клюшинцев
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430101
subject: Archaeological science

description: Орлов Р.С., Клюшинцев В.М. Нова пам’ятка середньовічного художнього ремесла кочівників. - Археологія, 1978, №27, с.75-79.A new monument of the medieval artistic craft of nomads
Return to the Grindhouse: Tarantino and the modernization of 1970s Exploitation Films
Creators: name: Platz, Jenny
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Exploitation films, blaxploitation, Tarantino, sexualization, Pam Grier, female warriors, fetishism, the gaze

description: Exploitation films from the 1970s and early 80s such as Foxy Brown (Jack Hill, 1974) and Switchblade Sisters (Jack Hill, 1975) were the first films to allow women to actively control the narrative and course of events in a film. Men become secondary characters who had no or little control over the course of events in these films. Because the films were made during the rapidly changing social climate of the 1970s, the films also became a barometer in their treatment of female characters of social mores. Director Quentin Tarantino’s films Death Proof (2007), Kill Bill I and II (2003 and 2004), Jackie Brown (1997), and Inglourious Basterds (2009) attempt to modernize the active women from exploitation films of the 1970s, reworking the female characters’ mobilization against typical gender roles, and attributing her with the abilities to compete, and even challenge men in a patriarchic society.However, Tarantino’s films mostly fail to progress beyond the trappings of the classic exploitation films of the 1970s, still relying heavily on the excessive display of female bodies, and subjugating women to the male camera and spectator gaze. In Tarantino’s attempt to remove female characters from the gender restraints of most Hollywood films, he creates the female action star, and inadvertently reverses the work of classic exploitation films by limiting the traits strong women are able to possess. By contrast, the female leads of 1970s exploitation films, although still heavily sexualized, are able to be physically powerful while retaining their feminine identifications as a wives, mothers, lovers, and beauty queens. Tarantino’s portrayal of strong women is more limited, however when strong sexuality and typical feminine traits are not connected to the powerful female characters. Instead female sexuality and feminine appearances are shown as weaknesses that contribute to the female characters’ deaths or lack of individuality. Tarantino allows one other female character, a strong warrior who takes on an action star role and becomes powerful through her rejection of feminine traits.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 7 (2012)
Robust digital image hashing algorithms for image identification
Creators: name: Lv, Xudong
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Image hashing has been a popular alternative of digital watermarking for copyright protection and content authentication of digital images, due to its two critical properties -- robustness and security. Also, its uniqueness and compactness make image hashing attractive for efficient image indexing and retrieval applications. In this thesis, novel image hashing algorithms are proposed to improve the robustness of digital image hashing against various perceptually insignificant manipulations and distortions on image content. Furthermore, image hashing concept is extended to the content-based fingerprinting concept, which combines various hashing schemes efficiently to achieve superior robustness and higher identification accuracy. The first contribution of the thesis is the novel FJLT image hashing, which applies a recently proposed low-distortion dimension reduction technique, referred as Fast Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transform (FJLT), into image hashing generation. FJLT shares the low distortion characteristics of random projections, but requires less computational cost, which are desirable properties to generate robust and secure image hashes. The Fourier-Mellin transform can also be incorporated into FJLT hashing to improve its performances under rotation attacks. Further, the content-based fingerprinting concept is proposed, which combines different FJLT-based hashes to achieve better overall robustness and identification capability. The second contribution of the thesis is the novel shape contexts based image hashing (SCH) using robust local feature points. The robust SIFT-Harris detector is proposed to select the most stable feature points under various content-preserving distortions, and compact and robust image hashes are generated by embedding the detected feature points into the shape contexts based descriptors. The proposed SCH approach yields better identification performances under geometric attacks and brightness changes, and provides comparable performances under classical distortions. The third contribution of this thesis addresses an important issue of compressing the real-valued image hashes into robust short binary image hashes. By exploring prior information from the virtual prior attacked hash space (VPAHS), the proposed semi-supervised spectral embedding approach could compress real-valued hashes into compact binary signatures, while the robustness against different attacks and distortions are preserved. Moreover, the proposed SSE framework could be easily generalized to combine different types of image hashes to generate a robust, fixed-length binary signature.
Zum „Material“ werden. Die Sammlung Weygandt (1908–1934)
Creators: name: Höger, Ralph
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychiatrie
subject: Human Remains
subject: Sammlungsgeschichte
subject: Infrastruktur
subject: 060 Allgemeine Organisationen und Museumswissenschaft

description: Der Beitrag skizziert die Anliegen eines geplanten, kooperativen Forschungsprojekts zur Geschichte der Sammlung Weygandt. Die im Zeitraum von 1908 bis 1934 unter dem Psychiatrieprofessor und Anstaltsdirektor Wilhelm Weygandt (1870–1939) entstandene anatomische Sammlung der Staatskrankenanstalt Friedrichsberg in Hamburg umfasste sowohl menschliche als auch tierische Schädel, Gehirne und anatomische Präparate sowie Fotografien und weitere Abbildungen zu Lehrzwecken. Am Beispiel der Human Remains der in Friedrichsberg verstorbenen Patientin Helene B. wird der Prozess der ‚Materialwerdung‘ dargestellt. Dabei wird der zeitgenössisch häufig verwendete Begriff des „Krankenmaterials“ kritisch hinterfragt und historisch kontextualisiert. Zu den zentralen Entstehungsbedingungen der Sammlung gehörten die Lage der Friedrichsberger Anstalt in der Hafenmetropole Hamburg und ein materialistischer, expansiver psychiatrischer Empirismus um die Jahrhundertwende. Mit Ansätzen aus der historischen Infrastruktur- und Wissenschaftsforschung werden in dem Forschungsprojekt die Verschränkungen von Wissenschaft und Ökonomie sowie Praktiken der Zirkulation in den Blick genommen. Der vorliegende Aufsatz skizziert dazu erste Eingangsüberlegungen. Zudem gilt es in dem geplanten Forschungsprojekt auch, die Biografien der zum „Material“ gewordenen Individuen zu rekonstruieren und die verschiedenen Formen der systemischen Gewalt in der Sammlungsgenese sichtbar zu machen.
title: Mammography and ultrasound BI-RADS: reading the fine print.
Creators: name: Altamirano S. , Aleen Vanessa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Education
subject: Cancer
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1- Provide radiologist a general overview to familiarize with the FAQS of the fifth edition ofBI-RADS®. 2- Discuss appropriate use of the Mammography and UltrasoundBI-RADS®lexicon in certain scenarios. 3- To discuss the appropriate assessment and...
Transformational Encounters: An Online Dialogical Partnership
Creators: name: Hart, Stephen
name: Williams, Abigail
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2023

description: This presentation explores the shared transformational encounters of two doctoral peers as they engaged in an intentional online partnership to support their learning journeys. Originally conceived as a strategy for holding each other accountable to writing goals, weekly online meetings quickly evolved into a rich dialogic space for cultivating meaning between perspectives. The exchange of ideas in this space was more than informational; it was transformational. Consistent with understandings put forward by Sinha (2010), the presenters came to recognize the transformative possibility of speaking with and listening to each other. The interaction between their stories, questions and reflections served as a “catalyst for some change in understanding” (Breault, 2016, p. 14). Through dialogue, they found that they had generated a shared space that stimulated connections, fueled inquiry, nurtured belonging and fostered well-being. Given these realizations, and drawing on previous methodological coursework, they came to understand their encounters as sites for a duoethnography in “which the reconceptualization of the meaning that one gives is reexamined in dialogue with another” (Norris & Sawyer, 2020, p. 397). With an approach that “brings together two complex beings situated within their own complex social networks” (Breault, 2016, p. 4), the presenters were able to interrogate and reconceptualize meaning. They convey their story so that session participants might also consider the transformative possibilities of online peer-to-peer dialogues. References: Breault, R. A. (2016). Emerging issues in duoethnography. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 29(6), 777–794. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2016.1162866 Norris, J. J., & Sawyer, R. D. (2020). Duoethnography: A polytheoretical approach to (re)storing, (re)storying the meanings that one gives. In P. Leavy (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research, 2nd ed., pp. 397-423). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190847388.013.1 Sinha, S. (2010). Dialogue as a site of transformative possibility. Studies in Philosophy and Education 29, 459–475. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-010-9189-4
title: Updated review of CT enterography in small bowel Crohn’s disease
Creators: name: Merino Bonilla, Jose Alberto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Inflammation
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Small bowel
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: - To describe the epidemiology,histopathology,clinical features, diagnosis, andclassificationof Crohn’s disease. - To review the current role of CT enterography in patients affected bysmall bowel Crohn’s...
CP Violation and Flavor SU(3) Breaking in D-meson Decays
Creators: name: Pirtskhalava, David
name: Uttayarat, Patipan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out a systematic flavor SU(3) analysis of D-meson decays including the leading order symmetry breaking effects. We find that SU(3) breaking can easily account for the recent LHCb measurement of the difference in CP asymmetries in the decays of $D^0$ into $K^+K^-$ and $π^+π^-$ mesons, once an enhancement mechanism, similar to the $Δ=1/2$ rule in neutral kaon decays is assumed. As a byproduct of the analysis, one can make predictions regarding the individual asymmetries in $K^+K^-$, $π^+π^-$, as well as the $D^0 \to π^0π^0$ decay channels. Moreover, we find that the asymmetry in the decay $D^+\to π^+π^0$ vanishes in the leading approximation.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures. Version published in PLB
Patterns of cognitive dissonance in readers’ engagement with characters
Creators: name: Caracciolo, Marco
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Cognitive dissonance; reader-response; characters; empathy

description: Leon Festinger’s account of cognitive dissonance, published in 1957, has become one of the most successful theories in the history of social psychology. I argue that Festinger’s framework—and the research it generated over the last sixty years—can shed light on key aspects of readers’ engagement with literary characters. Literature can invite the audience to vicariously experience characters’ dissonance through an empathetic mechanism, but it can also induce dissonant states in readers by encouraging them to take on attitudes and beliefs that are significantly different from their own. I suggest that there are two strategies—or patterns of reader-response—through which the audience can cope with the dissonance between their own worldview and the characters’: attitude change and imaginative resistance. In the first, readers adjust their own beliefs and values according to what they have experienced and learned in adopting characters’ perspectives. By contrast, in imaginative resistance readers’ worldview prevents them from establishing an empathetic bond with characters. I integrate these hypotheses into a model that builds on theoretical as well as empirical insights into reader-response.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 8 (2013)