cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Modernizing Research Regulations Is Not Enough: It's Time to Think Outside the Regulatory Box
Creators: name: Brothers K.B.
name: Goldenberg A.J.
name: Rivera S.M.
name: Harrell H.L.
name: Sharp R.R.
name: Cadigan R.J.
name: Rothstein M.A.
Publisher: name: Routledge
Year: 2017

description:
We are a multidisciplinary collaborative made up of bioethicists, social scientists, clinicians, and lawyers whose work focuses on the ethical challenges posed by a networked approach to biorepositories. Like many, we have been concerned that our human research regulations had become woefully out of date. While the interventional, hypothesis-driven research envisioned by the 1991 Common Rule remains important, contemporary research increasingly depends on the collection of samples and data for unspecified future research. Over the past decade, large collections of biological materials for research have grown in complexity and scope, creating interinstitutional, national, and international networks. These networks of biorepositories also are embedded in research pathways that leverage learning health systems, big data analytics, and sophisticated health informatics approaches.
Ergonomic Interventions to Prevent Low Back Pain and Boost Productivity in Refrigerator Manufacturing
Creators: name: Ovalle Ocampo, Valeria
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025

description: This thesis examines ergonomic interventions aimed at reducing low back pain and increasing productivity in a refrigerator manufacturing plant in Manizales, Colombia. The focus is on a critical workstation, the "Compressor Island," where improper body mechanics, repetitive bending, and extended working hours contribute to operator discomfort and absenteeism. The study utilized ergonomic assessment tools such as the Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) and Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) to evaluate risks before and after implementing redesigned carts and shelves. These improvements decreased discomfort by 47% and improved REBA and RULA scores, indicating a substantial reduction in ergonomic risks. Additionally, production efficiency increased, reducing daily task time and enabling more frequent rest breaks. The results show that ergonomic interventions can effectively reduce workplace injuries while enhancing operational productivity, offering significant cost savings for the company.
Low Dimension Materials for Extend/Beyond CMOS Applications
Creators: name: Pang, Chin-Sheng
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: 2-dimensional layered materials, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are considered promising candidates for the post-Si era. They have attracted wide attention from both fundamental and applied research communities, owing to their unique material properties and potential applications including logic and memory devices. The key reason that TMD materials are excellent channel material choices for logic devices is that their inherent layered-structures allowing uniform thickness control with atomic-level precision and can reach the ultimate monolayer thickness limit of ~ 0.7nm, which is desirable for the implementation of ultra-scaled devices to maintain excellent electrostatic control.

In this thesis, I will first focus on a unique contact gating on TMD-based Schottky-barrier transistors and discuss in great detail the impacts of current injection from source/drain contacts to channel regions in a typical back-gated structure. I will reveal a commonly observed overestimation of TMD mobility when substantially large contact resistance has a strong gate dependence, and suggest that an appropriate method is necessary for precise mobility extraction. For extending CMOS beyond Si, various extrinsic doping schemes are investigated to achieve a much-reduced contact resistance (RC) on tungsten diselenide (WSe2) which is associated with the Schottky-barrier height. Devices implemented on ultra-thin gate dielectric are then explored on tungsten disulfide (WS2) with various TMD body thicknesses (TCH), with an excellent off-state behavior and on-state performance being achieved on properly selected TCH based on our statistics. The observed ultra-low RC and record-high on-state current at a much-scaled overdrive (VOV) highlights the advantages and necessities of exploiting ultra-thin gate dielectric on TMD-based electronics.

The second part of the thesis focuses on beyond CMOS applications including reconfigurable logics and tunneling field-effect transistors (TFET). Owing to ultra-thin TCH in low dimensional materials, the triple-gate design allows efficient electrostatic control on WSe2 and carbon nanotube (CNT) by creating various doping types and concentrations within different channel segments. Therefore, a single triple-gate device can operate as a metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), a TFET, or a diode depending on the choice of the gate biases. In the TFET mode, a steep subthreshold slope less than 60 mV/dec has been achieved in the CNT devices at room temperature. To extend the applications from device to circuits, the capability of modulating the device on-state performance is utilized in a WSe2 CMOS-based inverter and static random access memory (SRAM) design to improve the read and write stability and achieve a low voltage operation.
title: Torque Ripple Reduction of a Switched Reluctance Machine by Implementing an Optimization Based Control Strategy
Creators: name: Carvajal Carrasco, Andrés Ignacio
Publisher: name: Federico Santa María Technical University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05510vn56
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 2
subject: FOS: Engineering and technology
classificationCode: 1
subject: FOS: Natural sciences
subject: Switched reluctance machines
subject: reference generation
subject: flux-linkage control

description: In recent times switched reluctance machines have started to draw attention as a feasible alterna tive to be implemented in electrical vehicles, due to its low-cost manufacturing and reliability at high speeds. However, the usual operation of these machines involves a high torque ripple, which can bring unwanted mechanical consequences. This is why the control strategy of these machines is vital to overcome these drawbacks. This work proposes a novel control strategy for torque–ripple minimization of a switched reluctance machine drive. The strategy is composed of two stages: (i) an outer flux–linkage reference generation layer delivers optimized patterns obtained offline via mixed-integer quadratic programming; (ii) an inner flux-linkage control loop that tracks references of the outer layer by applying an optimal switching sequence model predictive control algorithm. Each stage is tested in simulation and the results show that both the proposed reference genera tion technique and flux control algorithm can produce lower torque ripple and better flux–tracking performance than their state-of-the-art counterparts, them being the torque sharing function ap proach for reference generation, and the finite control set model predictive control and the deadbeat predictive control algorithms for flux–tracking. The proposed strategy and its components are im plemented in an experimental setup, which consisted of a 2.32 kW switched reluctance machine being fed by three Asymmetric Bridge Converters. The switched reluctance machine is coupled to a 2.23 kW induction machine working as a regenerative brake and is controlled by an external AC drive. The experimental outcome validated the proposed approach and the results obtained by simulation
sj-pdf-3-sgo-10.1177_21582440211040076 – Supplemental material for Bystander Affiliation Influences Intervention Behavior: A Virtual Reality Study
Creators: name: Rovira, Aitor
name: Southern, Richard
name: Swapp, David
name: Campbell, Claire
name: Zhang, Jian J.
name: Levine, Mark
name: Slater, Mel
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Education
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-3-sgo-10.1177_21582440211040076 for Bystander Affiliation Influences Intervention Behavior: A Virtual Reality Study by Aitor Rovira, Richard Southern, David Swapp, Claire Campbell, Jian J. Zhang, Mark Levine and Mel Slater in SAGE Open
Deterministic Culturing of Single Cells in 3D
Creators: name: Jain, Rohil
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medical biotechnology not elsewhere classified
Oncology and carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
Cell and nuclear division
Biomedical engineering not elsewhere classified
Medical biotechnology diagnostics (incl. biosensors)

description: Models using 3D cell culture techniques are increasingly accepted as the most biofidelic in vitro representations of tissues for research. These models are generated using biomatrices and bulk populations of cells derived from tissues or cell lines. This thesis study focuses on an alternate method to culture individually selected cells in relative isolation from the rest of the population under physiologically relevant matrix conditions. Matrix gel islands are spotted on a cell culture dish to act as support for receiving and culturing individual single cells; a glass capillary-based microfluidic setup is used to extract each desired single cell from a population and seed it on top of an island. Using examples of breast and colorectal cancers, we show that individual cells evolve into tumors or aspects of tumors displaying different characteristics of the initial cancer type and aggressiveness. By implementing a morphometry assay with luminal A breast cancer, we demonstrate the potential of the proposed approach to studying phenotypic heterogeneity. Results reveal that intertumor heterogeneity increases with time in culture and that varying degrees of intratumor heterogeneity may originate from individually seeded cells. Moreover, we observe a positive correlation between fast-growing tumors and the size and heterogeneity of their nuclei.
sj-pdf-4-sgo-10.1177_21582440211040076 – Supplemental material for Bystander Affiliation Influences Intervention Behavior: A Virtual Reality Study
Creators: name: Rovira, Aitor
name: Southern, Richard
name: Swapp, David
name: Campbell, Claire
name: Zhang, Jian J.
name: Levine, Mark
name: Slater, Mel
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Education
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-4-sgo-10.1177_21582440211040076 for Bystander Affiliation Influences Intervention Behavior: A Virtual Reality Study by Aitor Rovira, Richard Southern, David Swapp, Claire Campbell, Jian J. Zhang, Mark Levine and Mel Slater in SAGE Open
Additional file 4 of Integrated metabolic and transcriptional analysis reveals the role of carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase 4 (IbCCD4) in carotenoid accumulation in sweetpotato tuberous roots
Creators: name: Zhang, Jie
name: He, Liheng
name: Dong, Jingjing
name: Zhao, Cailiang
name: Wang, Yujie
name: Tang, Ruimin
name: Wang, Wenbin
name: Ji, Zhixian
name: Cao, Qinghe
name: Xie, Hong’e
name: Wu, Zongxin
name: Li, Runzhi
name: Yuan, Ling
name: Jia, Xiaoyun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4. File S1: Detailed method of metabolomic analysis of carotenoids by UHPLC-APCI-MS/MS. File S2: The potential binding motifs of IbCBF2 and IbWRKY20 in the 260-bp promoter sequence of IbCCD4.
sj-pdf-6-sgo-10.1177_21582440211040076 – Supplemental material for Bystander Affiliation Influences Intervention Behavior: A Virtual Reality Study
Creators: name: Rovira, Aitor
name: Southern, Richard
name: Swapp, David
name: Campbell, Claire
name: Zhang, Jian J.
name: Levine, Mark
name: Slater, Mel
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Education
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-6-sgo-10.1177_21582440211040076 for Bystander Affiliation Influences Intervention Behavior: A Virtual Reality Study by Aitor Rovira, Richard Southern, David Swapp, Claire Campbell, Jian J. Zhang, Mark Levine and Mel Slater in SAGE Open
The Company We Keep: The Implications of Coworker Friendships for Employee Resources, Well-Being, and Work Outcomes
Creators: name: Kleshinski, Catherine E
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Human resources management

description: Coworker friendships refer to interpersonal relationships between peers and overlap across work and personal domains of life. Prior research suggests that these relationships are beneficial in some ways and detrimental in others, and that they are characterized by divergent forms of social bonds (i.e., friendly or affective bond and work-related or instrumental bond), relational expectations, and norms. Yet, the processes through which coworker friendships influence employees’ work outcomes and well-being remains poorly understood. To illuminate the features of coworker friendships and the mechanisms through which they affect employees, I develop the Coworker Friendship-Resource (CFR) Model. Specifically, building from interaction ritual theory, I explore how features of friendship—nonwork socializing and self-disclosure with coworker along with the personal growth function (i.e., benefit or purpose) of the coworker relationship—simultaneously drain and replenish employees resources or energy by shaping work-nonwork (enrichment and conflict), affective (vitality), cognitive (psychological detachment from work), and relational (intrusion) mechanisms, and subsequent employee work behaviors, well-being, and relationship conflict. I also consider the contingencies affecting these pathways, including contextual work features and individual differences. Overall, the CFR model highlights the simultaneous benefits and burdens of coworker friendships for employees and organizations. To test the CFR model, I conducted a pilot study to validate new measures, a vignette experiment, and a two-wave field study. As a set, the results of the vignette and field studies revealed countervailing effects of the friendship features on resource gain and drain.
Assessment as Learning: Role of Students in an Assessment Aided Science Learning Process
Creators: name: Gaur, Diksha
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025

description: The purpose of the current study was to understand how collaborative implementation of specific Next Generation Science Assessment (NGSA) tasks, when used as tools to engage students in multidimensional scientific reasoning, can provide evidence of upper elementary students’ capacity to engage with the essential components of the scientific practice of ‘Engaging in Argumentation from Evidence’ (EAE), as emphasized in the Framework and the NGSS.
The study provides multiple forms of empirical evidence regarding upper elementary students’ developing capacity to engage with the essential components of the practice of EAE. For instance, across the four groups of students in the study, the collaborative implementation Task Performance Scores (TPS) demonstrate that students found describing how the evidence supports the claim or how the claim is based on incomplete evidence, more challenging compared to refining a claim based on evidence provided in the task. Similarly, across the four groups of students in the study, the Task Engagement Discourse (TED) units demonstrate that students use a variety of additional elements such as self-identity, common knowledge, lived experiences, and disciplinary proficiency as evidence to correctly or incorrectly support the claim in the task and reason why the evidence supports the claim in the task.
While the study does reveal how upper elementary grade students engage with the practice of EAE embedded in the selected NGSA tasks, sustained implementation of this novel classroom-based assessment approach, combined with timely instructional intervention, will be crucial to verify if the change in students’ disciplinary proficiency, as demonstrated across the task implementation, has indeed happened, and if it can sustain in future assessment situations.
Breve itinerario tra le edizioni critiche di grandi testi del Settecento
Creators: name: Riccardi, Carla
Publisher: name: Prassi Ecdotiche della Modernità Letteraria
Year: 2017
Subjects: Parini; Alfieri; Gozzi; Goldoni; edizioni critiche

description: In un panorama assai incerto quanto agli studi di italianistica sommersi da tempo da un’alluvione novecentesca e contemporaneistica, non può non provocare giusta soddisfazione la ripresa e l’arricchimento delle indagini filologico-critiche su autori settecenteschi.
La vitalità delle problematiche relative alle carte del Giorno di Parini e la nuova edizione nazionale del teatro di Goldoni sembra che abbiano contribuito a rinvigorire gli studi filologici sulla letteratura moderna, studi che hanno attraversato e forse attraversano ancora un periodo di crisi. Le ragioni sono molto varie e non tutte dello stesso calibro: la crisi dell’editoria scientifica ha influito non poco: si sono chiuse da tempo collane storiche, le edizioni nazionali mancano sempre più di risorse. Inoltre ha influito la prevalenza di altri metodi meno attenti alle questioni filologiche e, dunque, al movimento del testo, alla sua genesi e evoluzione, e una forse eccessiva predilezione per l’ambito contemporaneo, certo non da trascurare, né da demonizzare, perché anche le carte della contemporaneità parlano e se ben ascoltate dicono molto per l’interpretazione del testo.

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description: Prassi Ecdotiche della Modernità Letteraria, No 2 (2017)
A PROCESS FOR HYBRID SUPERCONDUCTING AND GRAPHENE DEVICES
Creators: name: Cochran, Zachary A
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Circuits and systems
Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified
Manufacturing processes and technologies (excl. textiles)

description: As the search for ever-higher-speed, greater-density, and lower-power technologies accelerates, so does the quest for devices and methodologies to fulfill the increasingly-difficult requirements for these technologies. A possible means by which this may be accomplished is to utilize superconducting devices and graphene nanoribbon nanotechnologies. This is because superconductors are ultra-low-power devices capable of generating extremely high frequency (EHF) signals, and graphene nanoribbons are nanoscale devices capable of extremely highspeed and low-power signal amplification due to their high-mobility/low-resistance channels and geometry-dependent bandgap structure. While such a hybrid co-integrated system seems
possible, no process by which this may be accomplished has yet been proposed.

In this thesis, the system limitations are explored in-depth, and several possible means by which superconducting and graphene nanotechnological systems may be united are proposed, with the focus being placed on the simplest method by which the technologies may be hybridized and integrated together, while maintaining control over the intended system behavior. This is accomplished in three parts. First, via circuit-level simulation, a semioptimized, low-power (~0.21 mW/stage) graphene-based amplifier is developed using ideal and simplified transmission line properties. This system is theoretically capable of 159-269 GHz bandwidth with a Stern stability K >> 1 and low noise figure 2.97 < F < 4.33 dB for all appropriate frequencies at temperatures between 77 and 90 K. Second, an investigation of the behavior of several types of possible interconnect methodologies is performed, utilizing hybrid substrates and material interfaces/junctions, demonstrating that an Ohmic-contact superconducting-normal transmission line is optimal for a hybrid system with self-reflections at less than -25 dB over an operating range of 300 GHz. Finally, a unified layout and lithography construction process is proposed by which such a hybrid system could be developed in a monolithic physical system on a hybrid substrate while maintaining material and layout integrity under varying process temperatures.
Additional file 2 of Medical interns in district health services: an evaluation of the new family medicine rotation in the Western Cape of South Africa
Creators: name: Hutton, Lauren
name: Jenkins, Louis Stander
name: Mash, Robert
name: von Pressentin, Klaus
name: Reid, Steve
name: Morgan, Jennie
name: Kapp, Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
Debenedetti e «L’Unità»: la ‘Verticale’ 1946-47
Creators: name: Pane, Antonio
Publisher: name: Prassi Ecdotiche della Modernità Letteraria
Year: 2017
Subjects: Aleramo; Alvaro; Bacchelli; Bellonci; Berto; Bigiaretti; Bilenchi; Brancati; Cecchi; Cronache letterarie; Debenedetti; Famulus; Flaiano; Gramsci; Landolfi; Longo; L’Unità; Mago; Micheli; Morante; Moravia; Piovene; Resistenza; Saba; Togliatti; Vittorini

description: Debenedetti e «L’Unità»: la ‘Verticale’ 1946-47 si sofferma sulle note letterarie allestite da Giacomo Debenedetti per «L’Unità» nel biennio 1946-1947, esaminandole sia dal versante filologico (per stabilire il grado di attendibilità dei testi pubblicati e per precisare il loro rapporto, da un lato con gli esemplari forniti da Debenedetti e dall’altro con i «manoscritti» da cui, come rivela l’autore, furono ritagliati), sia dal versante storico-esegetico (per valutare il peso specifico che le «note» assumono nel percorso critico e nella biografia intellettuale dell’autore).

Debenedetti e «L’Unità»: la ‘Verticale’ 1946-47 focuses on the literary notes prepared by Giacomo Debenedetti for «L’Unità» in the years 1946-1947, examining them both from the philological side (to assess the degree of reliability of the published texts and to clarify their relationship, on the one hand with the specimens provided by Debenedetti, and on the other with the «manuscripts» from which, as revealed by the author, they were cut out), and from the historical and exegetical side (to assess the specific weight that the «notes» have in the critical path and in the author's intellectual biography).
description: Prassi Ecdotiche della Modernità Letteraria, No 2 (2017)
sj-pdf-1-erp-10.1177_08902070211040978 - Supplemental material for Longitudinal Links Between Self-Esteem and the Importance of Self-Direction Values During Adolescence
Creators: name: Daniel, Ella
name: Weisman, Maya Benish
name: Knafo-Noam, Ariel
name: Bardi, Anat
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-erp-10.1177_08902070211040978 for Longitudinal Links Between Self-Esteem and the Importance of Self-Direction Values During Adolescence by Ella Daniel, Maya Benish Weisman, Ariel Knafo-Noam and Anat Bardi in European Journal of Personality
Stock market forecasting using DRAGAN and feature matching
Creators: name: Nejad, Fateme Shahabi
name: Ebadzadeh, Mohammad Mehdi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Applying machine learning methods to forecast stock prices has been one of the research topics of interest in recent years. Almost few studies have been reported based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) in this area, but their results are promising. GANs are powerful generative models successfully applied in different areas but suffer from inherent challenges such as training instability and mode collapse. Also, a primary concern is capturing correlations in stock prices. Therefore, our challenges fall into two main categories: capturing correlations and inherent problems of GANs. In this paper, we have introduced a novel framework based on DRAGAN and feature matching for stock price forecasting, which improves training stability and alleviates mode collapse. We have employed windowing to acquire temporal correlations by the generator. Also, we have exploited conditioning on discriminator inputs to capture temporal correlations and correlations between prices and features. Experimental results on data from several stocks indicate that our proposed method outperformed long short-term memory (LSTM) as a baseline method, also basic GANs and WGAN-GP as two different variants of GANs.
description: Preprint submitted to Elsevier
Optogenetic Differentiation of Cardiovascular Cells from Pluripotent Stem Cells
Creators: name: Hellwarth, Peter Benjamin
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Chemical engineering not elsewhere classified
Regenerative medicine (incl. stem cells)
Synthetic biology

description: Stem cell technologies hold great promise in solving problems within fields such as drug development, regenerative medicine, and disease modeling. Stem cell engineering provides a mechanism that will help stem cells achieve this promise. Currently, many applications within tissue engineering are limited by a lack of ability to create accurate micro-physiological structures that recapitulate multicellular tissue patterns in vivo. Precise control of spatial and temporal signaling is desired to perform concurrent differentiation to multiple cell types intentionally. The OptoWnt construct, a novel optogenetic system activating the Wnt signaling pathway, achieves precise spatiotemporal regulation, in pursuit of greater control in stem cell differentiation. We utilize OptoWnt, to differentiate stem cells into cardiovascular cells: endothelial progenitor cells and cardiomyocytes, valuable cell types for designing microtissues. Endothelial cells comprise the luminal lining of blood and lymphatic vessels, providing the integral structure for distribution within the body, separating mobile and stationary tissues. Cardiomyocytes provide the force required to pump blood throughout the human body and are a highly desired cell type in regenerative medicine. In this project, we have applied an optogenetic induced signaling pathway, OptoWnt, to differentiate human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into cardiovascular cells via light-induced activation of Wnt signaling pathway. In the analysis of these cells and comparison to previous small molecule approaches to cardiovascular cell differentiation, we demonstrate the robustness of the optogenetic approach and similar efficiency that it has with the small molecule approach. In short, we have further demonstrated the utility and potential of optogenetic induction of developmental pathways, via the OptoWnt construct.
Il testo della "Francesca da Rimini" di Silvio Pellico
Creators: name: Avanzi, Alice
Publisher: name: Prassi Ecdotiche della Modernità Letteraria
Year: 2017
Subjects: Silvio Pellico; Francesca da Rimini; Ugo Foscolo; Ludovico di Breme; manoscritti autografi; autographs; postille; marginalia; emissione

description: Questo lavoro tenta di fare ordine nella ricca tradizione della tragedia di Silvio Pellico Francesca da Rimini, rappresentata a teatro dal 1815. L’analisi si concentra sui tre manoscritti autografi e sulle prime due edizioni. Di due manoscritti sono messe in risalto la presenza di postille di altre mani (Ugo Foscolo è fra gli annotatori) e la loro rilevanza sulle successive stesure dell’opera; del terzo manoscritto si propone una nuova datazione, che ne colloca la trascrizione in un periodo lontano dall’epoca della prima messa in scena. Nel 1818 furono stampate un’edizione non autorizzata da Pellico e la prima edizione ufficiale, entrambe in due emissioni; dal confronto fra le due pubblicazioni e dalla collazione di più esemplari della princeps si può stabilire una cronologia delle emissioni di quest’ultima, e così anche l’ultima volontà dell’autore.

The aim of this piece is to bring order to the rich tradition of Silvio Pellico’s tragedy Francesca da Rimini, brought to stage since 1815. The analysis focuses on the three autograph manuscripts and on the first two editions. The occurrence of marginalia, which are not in the author’s hand (among them, Ugo Foscolo’s), in 2 of the manuscripts, has been investigated and weighed in relation to the tragedy’s following drafts; a new dating is proposed for the third manuscript, as transcribed far in time from the first theatrical performance. In 1818 two editions were printed, both in two issues: a non-authorized one, and the one approved by Pellico. The comparison between the two editions and the collation of several copies of the princeps allowed to determine its issues’ chronological sequence, and the final authorial intention.
description: Prassi Ecdotiche della Modernità Letteraria, No 2 (2017)
title: WILDFIRE SMOKE EXPOSURE IN THE AGRICULTURAL WORKPLACE
title: EXPLORING WORKER AND EMPLOYER PERSPECTIVES ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Parker, Molly Melinda
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2025
Subjects: Agricultural Workers
Mixed-Methods
Wildfire Smoke
Occupational safety
Air Quality
Climate Change
Occupational Health

description: Background: In the Western United States, climate change has led to more extreme heat and increased wildfire risk. Agricultural workers in Washington face heat and smoke concurrently, placing this largely Latino agricultural workforce at risk for health impacts from occupational exposures. The Washington Department of Labor and Industries (WA L & I) enacted a temporary wildfire smoke rule in 2021 and 2022 and adopted a permanent rule in 2024. The rule addresses air quality monitoring, hazard communication, symptom management, and protective controls. Implementation of the WA L & I smoke rule has yet to be evaluated. The purpose of this dissertation is to support protective workplace interventions by exploring worker and employer perspectives on occupational health during periods of wildfire smoke.
description: Aims: 1. Document agricultural worker experiences and perspectives on climate hazards and workplace protections. 2. Explore and compare perspectives by industry role on smoke exposure, air quality monitoring, hazard communication, symptom management, and protective controls. 3. Identify and disseminate agricultural worker strategies to monitor hazardous conditions and minimize exposure risk through intergenerational photovoice.
description: Methods: The multi-method research, guided by Critical Theory and the Center for Disease Control framework for policy evaluation, includes three studies: a reflexive thematic analysis describing worker experiences and perspectives during heat and smoke periods; an Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods survey of agricultural employers and supervisors; and a photovoice study grant proposal to engage agricultural workers in sharing experiences and protective strategies related to smoke exposure and air quality monitoring.
description: Results: Key themes identified in the qualitative study include hazardous working conditions, lack of employer training on rules, intimidation by employers, distrust in regulatory agencies, and the need for solutions prioritizing worker health. Survey findings show exposure to wildfire smoke and related symptoms, with many workers and employers unaware of, or untrained in, smoke rules.
description: Significance: This research addresses systemic and structural inequities by highlighting the need for targeted training and policy compliance to protect workers from climate-related occupational hazards. Gathering diverse perspectives from multiple stakeholders emphasizes the importance of including those most impacted in the development of strategies for protective policy and action.
title: Floating Stages: Racial Performance in Herman Melville’s 1850s Texts
Creators: name: Noel, James
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Herman Melville, race, 1850s

description: Before the 1960s, there was very little literary criticism on the presence of race and culture in Herman Melville’s texts. However, racial events, such as the Civil Rights Movement, have been influential in causing intellectuals, such as Samuel Otter, Eric J. Sundquist, and Carolyn Karcher, to revisit Melville’s texts through the lens of race. This thesis is aligned with such critics, and it takes their ideas a step further - by contending that the racial performance found in Melville’s work develops increasingly during the 1850s, becoming more complex by Melville’s last published work prior to the Civil War. Moreover, I argue that these textual representations of racial performance are often ambiguous echoing the national and ethical dilemmas of the decade prior to the Civil War. 

Chapter One establishes the beginning of my argument by contending that whiteness is implicitly performed in the staged theatrical production that Melville includes in White-Jacket. Chapter Two moves my argument forward as I examine the ways that race is performed in Moby-Dick. I suggest that the book is a development from Melville’s White-Jacket because the racial performance that takes place is more explicitly about race and is also extempore. Whereas Chapter One and Two focus on staged and extempore performances of race, Chapter Three moves my analysis of racial performance to social enactments of race. Specifically, I analyse the ways that the Senegalese slaves and Spanish crew perform race on board the San Dominick. I contend that Benito Cereno develops the racial performance found in Melville’s 1850s texts by offering a critique of slavery while the earlier writing did not. The last Chapter of the thesis concentrates on the racial performance in Melville’s last publication of the 1850s, The Confidence-Man. I propose that this text marks the height of racial performance found in Melville’s work as a result of the Black guinea’s ambiguity. Collectively, the chapters in this dissertation will provide a new reading of Melville through the lens of racial performance, by demonstrating how that racial performance develops in Melville’s work throughout the 1850s.
Deep learning model for the prognostic prediction of acute inflammation of the central nervous system using T2-weighted brain magnetic resonance imaging
Creators: name: Choi, Bo Kyu
name: Jang, Jaehyeok
name: Choi, Yoonhyeok
name: Kim, Kyung Min
name: Park, Yu Rang
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2024

description: Background

Acute inflammation of the central nervous system (CNS) caused by various pathogens could lead to poor prognosis, making rapid diagnosis and treatment crucial. We used a modified DenseNet-169-based deep learning model for the prognostic prediction of CNS acute inflammation using brain MRI data.

Materials and Methods

T2-weighted brain MRI images were collected retrospectively from patients with acute CNS inflammation who were admitted to a tertiary referral hospital between January 2010 and December 2023. Data obtained after January 2020 were utilized as external test sets. After preprocessing using the FastSurfer library, the T2WI was converted into a 3D NumPy array. Prognosis prediction was performed by categorizing patients based on their modified Rankin Scale scores at discharge, with scores of 3 or higher classified as poor outcomes and scores below 3 as good outcomes. The MRI data of the entire patient cohort were used for training, and to account for differences in prognosis based on the cause of inflammation, the data were divided into four groups, with training conducted separately for each group. The performance of each model was assessed using accuracy and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC).

Results

Out of a total of 570 patients, 483 were used for training, and 70 were used for validation. After training on the entire patient cohort using the deep learning model, testing on the external dataset yielded an AUROC of 0.7804 and an accuracy of 0.8231. When patients were classified by pathogen and separate models were built and trained for each group, the results showed AUROC values of 0.8737 for autoimmune, 0.6667 for bacterial, 1.0000 for tuberculosis, and 0.6513 for viral cases.

Conclusion

The deep learning model, which uses T2-weighted 3D brain MRI data, could predict the prognosis of acute inflammation in CNS.

Acknowledgement

This study was supported by the Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation.
A Review of Techniques for Ageing Detection and Monitoring on Embedded Systems
Creators: name: Lanzieri, Leandro
name: Martino, Gianluca
name: Fey, Goerschwin
name: Schlarb, Holger
name: Schmidt, Thomas C.
name: Wählisch, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Embedded digital devices are progressively deployed in dependable or safety-critical systems. These devices undergo significant hardware ageing, particularly in harsh environments. This increases their likelihood of failure. It is crucial to understand ageing processes and to detect hardware degradation early for guaranteeing system dependability. In this survey, we review the core ageing mechanisms, identify and categorize general working principles of ageing detection and monitoring techniques for Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components that are prevalent in embedded systems: Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), microcontrollers, System-on-Chips (SoCs), and their power supplies. From our review, we find that online techniques are more widely applied on FPGAs than on other components, and see a rising trend towards machine learning application for analysing hardware ageing. Based on the reviewed literature, we identify research opportunities and potential directions of interest in the field. With this work, we intend to facilitate future research by systematically presenting all main approaches in a concise way.
title: Hold Your Breath: fifty poems
and
Louis MacNeice - warm from the ear of a ghost:
His final poems: impure poetry and the BBC
Creators: name: Farmer, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Poetry, Louis MacNeice, BBC Radio, Impure poetry

description: This thesis presents, in Part One, fifty poems in an unpublished collection entitled Hold Your Breath and, in Part Two, close readings of four poems published in Louis MacNeice’s final collection The Burning Perch.

The introduction to Part Two provides a detailed analysis of particular aspects of MacNeice’s life and work that have informed the close readings of his poems, with special attention to his work in radio. This study of poems from his final collection will establish that, far from being detrimental as some commentators have argued, his radio work at the BBC had a positive influence on his poetry. Rather than acting in opposition, his work at the BBC and his writing of poetry benefited creatively from each other.  By resisting any temptation to ‘pigeon-hole’ his work, and reading the poems with reference to the wider contexts in which he wrote, it is possible to gain a greater understanding and appreciation of MacNeice’s work and his ability to extend boundaries. The readings are a personal response which recognises what MacNeice himself would have regarded as the ‘impure’ nature of the poems.

The title of the collection could serve as the title for both parts of the thesis, as it can be taken to express both an awareness of the fragility of life and the sense of excitement and anticipation that such an awareness brings to living. In essence it is this awareness that is explored in both the collection and the commentary.
sj-pdf-1-han-10.1177_15589447211030691 – Supplemental material for Nerve Transfer Is Superior to Nerve Grafting for Suprascapular Nerve Reconstruction in Obstetrical Brachial Plexus Birth Injury: A Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Nickel, Kevin J.
name: Morzycki, Alexander
name: Hsiao, Ralph
name: Morhart, Michael J.
name: Olson, Jaret L.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-han-10.1177_15589447211030691 for Nerve Transfer Is Superior to Nerve Grafting for Suprascapular Nerve Reconstruction in Obstetrical Brachial Plexus Birth Injury: A Meta-Analysis by Kevin J. Nickel, Alexander Morzycki, Ralph Hsiao, Michael J. Morhart and Jaret L. Olson in HAND
Additional file 1 of Efficacy of supervised immersive virtual reality-based training for the treatment of chronic fatigue in post-COVID syndrome: study protocol for a double-blind randomized controlled trial (IFATICO Trial)
Creators: name: Tesarz, Jonas
name: Lange, Hannah
name: Kirchner, Marietta
name: Görlach, Axel
name: Eich, Wolfgang
name: Friederich, Hans-Christoph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Ethical approval document.
sj-docx-1-sjp-10.1177_14034948211036619 – Supplemental material for Pre-adolescents with multiple health complaints redeem more prescriptions: A follow-up study in the Danish National Birth Cohort
Creators: name: Bernstorff, Martin
name: Rask, Charlotte Ulrikka
name: Rytter, Dorte
name: Hansen, Stefan Nygaard
name: Bech, Bodil Hammer
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-sjp-10.1177_14034948211036619 for Pre-adolescents with multiple health complaints redeem more prescriptions: A follow-up study in the Danish National Birth Cohort by Martin Bernstorff, Charlotte Ulrikka Rask, Dorte Rytter, Stefan Nygaard Hansen and Bodil Hammer Bech in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF RESIDUAL NETWORKS USING NEURAL TANGENT HIERARCHY
Creators: name: Li, Yuqing
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Applied mathematics not elsewhere classified

description: Deep learning has become an important toolkit for data science and artificial intelligence. In contrast to its practical success across a wide range of fields, theoretical understanding of the principles behind the success of deep learning has been an issue of controversy. Optimization, as an important component of theoretical machine learning, has attracted much attention. The optimization problems induced from deep learning is often non-convex andnon-smooth, which is challenging to locate the global optima. However, in practice, global convergence of first-order methods like gradient descent can be guaranteed for deep neural networks. In particular, gradient descent yields zero training loss in polynomial time for deep neural networks despite its non-convex nature. Besides that, another mysterious phenomenon is the compelling performance of Deep Residual Network (ResNet). Not onlydoes training ResNet require weaker conditions, the employment of residual connections by ResNet even enables first-order methods to train the neural networks with an order of magnitude more layers. Advantages arising from the usage of residual connections remain to be discovered.
In this thesis, we demystify these two phenomena accordingly. Firstly, we contribute to further understanding of gradient descent. The core of our analysis is the neural tangent hierarchy (NTH) that captures the gradient descent dynamics of deep neural networks. A recent work introduced the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) and proved that the limitingNTK describes the asymptotic behavior of neural networks trained by gradient descent in the infinite width limit. The NTH outperforms the NTK in two ways: (i) It can directly study the time variation of NTK for neural networks. (ii) It improves the result to non-asymptotic settings. Moreover, by applying NTH to ResNet with smooth and Lipschitz activation function, we reduce the requirement on the layer width m with respect to the number of training samples n from quartic to cubic, obtaining a state-of-the-art result. Secondly, we extend our scope of analysis to structural properties of deep neural networks. By making fair and consistent comparisons between fully-connected network and ResNet, we suggest strongly that the particular skip-connection architecture possessed by ResNet is the mainreason for its triumph over fully-connected network.
Ngo Representatives' View Of The Social Consequences Of Forced Displacement In Ukraine
Creators: name: Kuznetsova, Irina
name: Mikheieva, Oksana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: IDPs in Ukraine, community development in Ukraine, NGOs, social policy in Ukraine

description: Results of a survey of 138 NGOs in Ukraine who work with internally displaced persons. The survey was conducted in March 2018.
description: funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK with the Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security
Research (grant AH/P008305/1)