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On politics, emotional cultures and social change in times of crisis: an interview with Randall Collins
Creators: name: Collins, Randall
name: Pratesi, Alessandro
name: Perulli, Angela
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2020

description: This interview was conducted between the Spring and the Summer 2020 by means of an interactive email exchange. Our conversation with Randall Collins had been planned a few months before the global pandemic as part of ongoing conversations inspired by the creation of an interdisciplinary study group on emotions at the University of Florence, and was eventually boosted by some of the recent developments in global politics and in the pandemic itself. The starting point, is Collins’ original ability to reconcile—through his emotion-based theoretical model (2004)—two significant and allegedly clashing aspects of social life: conflict and solidarity. We then move on to discuss the ways in which current theories of emotions can be reconsidered in light of recent emerging phenomena (such as right-wing populism and nationalism) at an international level. In addition, we introduce the theme of the global health emergency and discuss the role of different emotional cultures in dealing with the pandemic, in Italy and the USA. Finally, we consider whether or not it is possible to talk about ethics of emotions, i.e. whether some emotions can be interpreted as ‘more ethically relevant’ than others within the context of current social and political scenarios.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 10 No. 19 (2020): Intercepting and Modeling Global Change?
Civilizzazione, globalizzazione e le differenze che fanno la differenza. In onore e memoria di Johan “Joop” Goudsblom
Creators: name: Pitasi, Andrea
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2020

description: Un saggio in onore di Johan Goudsblom
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 10 No. 19 (2020): Intercepting and Modeling Global Change?
Stellar Archaeology in the Galactic halo with the Ultra-Faint Dwarfs: VI. Ursa Major II
Creators: name: Dall'Ora, M.
name: Kinemuchi, K.
name: Ripepi, V.
name: Rodgers, C. T.
name: Clementini, G.
name: Di Fabrizio, L.
name: Smith, H. A.
name: Marconi, M.
name: Musella, I.
name: Greco, C.
name: Kuehn, C. A.
name: Catelan, M.
name: Pritzl, B. J.
name: Beers, T. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a B, V color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of the Milky Way dwarf satellite Ursa Major II (UMa II), spanning the magnitude range from V ~ 15 to V ~ 23.5 mag and extending over a 18 {\times} 18 arcmin2 area centered on the galaxy. Our photometry goes down to about 2 magnitudes below the galaxy's main sequence turn-off, that we detected at V ~ 21.5 mag. We have discovered a bona-fide RR Lyrae variable star in UMa II, which we use to estimate a conservative dereddened distance modulus for the galaxy of (m-M)0 = 17.70{\pm}0.04{\pm}0.12 mag, where the first error accounts for the uncertainties of the calibrated photometry, and the second reflects our lack of information on the metallicity of the star. The corresponding distance to UMa II is 34.7 {\pm} 0.6 ({\pm} 2.0) kpc. Our photometry shows evidence of a spread in the galaxy subgiant branch, compatible with a spread in metal abundance in the range between Z=0.0001 and Z=0.001. Based on our estimate of the distance, a comparison of the fiducial lines of the Galactic globular clusters (GCs) M68 and M5 ([Fe/H]=-2.27 {\pm} 0.04 dex and -1.33 {\pm} 0.02 dex, respectively), with the position on the CMD of spectroscopically confirmed galaxy members, may suggest the existence of stellar populations of different metal abundance/age in the central region of UMa II.
description: To appear in ApJ
Study of pbar-p -> eta-eta-pizero-pizero in flight
Creators: name: Anisovich, A. V.
name: Batty, C. A. Baker. C. J.
name: Bugg, D. V.
name: Nikonov, V. A.
name: Sarantsev, A. V.
name: Sarantsev, V. V.
name: Zou, B. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analysis of data on pbar-p -> eta-eta-pizero-pizero is presented at pbar beam momenta 600 to 1940 MeV/c. There is evidence for an I = 1, J^PC = 2^-+ resonance in eta-eta-pizero with mass M = 1880 +- 20 MeV and width 255 +- 45 MeV, decaying strongly a2(1320)-eta; it is too strong to be explained as the high mass tail of π_2(1670) -> a2(1320)-eta. There is tentative evidence also for weak decays to f_0(1500)π. It makes a natural partner to the eta 2(1860).
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
An Intelligent System for Skills Assessment in Surgical Training
Creators: name: NGUYEN, XUAN ANH
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 91007 Manufacturing Robotics and Mechatronics (excl. Automotive Mechatronics)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: 90302 Biomechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 90303 Biomedical Instrumentation

description: The technical skill level of a surgeon has a significant effect on patients’ surgical outcomes. In the current proficiency-based training of technical surgical skills, an accredited medical educator views the procedure to provide feedback, which is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and subjective. This research developed an automated system to facilitate the work of senior surgeons. More specifically, we introduced data surgical gloves with gold nanowires motion sensors embedded to track the motion of the trainees. We also proposed several machine learning algorithms to analyze recorded signals from the data gloves to automatedly and objectively evaluate the surgical skills with high accuracy.
Aharonov-Bohm effect in an electron-hole graphene ring system
Creators: name: Smirnov, D.
name: Schmidt, H.
name: Haug, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aharonov-Bohm oscillations are observed in a graphene quantum ring with a top gate covering one arm of the ring. As graphene is a gapless semiconductor this geometry allows to study not only the quantum interference of electrons with electrons or holes with holes but also the unique situation of quantum interference between electrons and holes. The period and amplitude of the observed Aharonov-Bohm oscillations are independent of the sign of the applied gate voltage showing the equivalence between unipolar and dipolar interference.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
New 6 and 3-cm Radio-Continuum Maps of the Small Magellanic Cloud. Part I - The Maps
Creators: name: Crawford, E. J.
name: Filipović, M. D.
name: De Horta, A. Y.
name: Wong, G. F.
name: Tothill, N. F. H.
name: Drasković, D.
name: Collier, J. D.
name: Galvin, T. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new 6 and 3-cm radio-continuum maps of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), created with the "peeling" technique and a joint deconvolution. The maps have resolutions of 30" and 20" and r.m.s. noise of 0.7 and 0.8 mJy/beam at 6 and 3 cm, respectively. These maps will be used for future studies of the SMC's radio source population and overall extended structure.
description: 10 Pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in the Serbian Astronomical Journal
Detección del perfeccionismo patológico: validación del cuestionario "Sevilla”
Creators: name: Mesa Masa, Estrella
name: Álvarez Romero, Manuel
name: Rodríguez Díaz, Esther
name: Atienza Martín, Francisco
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 8 (2019): enero-febrero-marzo
Introduction. The Emerging Intangible Globe Age
Creators: name: Portolese, Giovana Camila
name: Brasil Dib, Natalia
name: Russo, Antonio
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2020

description: Introduction to the Monographic Section
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 10 No. 19 (2020): Intercepting and Modeling Global Change?
Growth of British Columbia coastal species in response to thinning and fertilization treatments
Creators: name: Rathbun, Leah C.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The successional processes of the mixed-species Pacific coastal temperate rain forests of British Columbia (BC), Canada, are defined by gap dynamics, where small-scale disturbances, mainly due to windthrow, create openings in the canopy necessary for regeneration. Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) is the dominant, pioneer species in this area and western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.) and western redcedar (Thuja plicata Donn) are the late-successional, shade-tolerant species. Silvicultural systems such as variable retention systems have been applied to many of the secondary growth mixed-conifer forests. Variable retention in this area is designed to differ dramatically from stand to stand. This approach differs from the traditional even-aged management applied to forests of the Pacific Northwest coast. In this study, a model-based approach was used to investigate how multiple treatment interventions as a part of active management across a landscape affect mortality and growth within actively managed stands. There is a need for this information as current growth and yield models used in this area are limited by either the number of species which can co-exist in a stand (e.g., the model TASS of BC) or are limited by the need for data not commonly obtained in inventory databases (e.g., the models FVS and ORGANON of USA). Additionally, no growth and yield models have been developed to include variable retention systems, where a variety of thinning intensities and spatial patterns, timing of thinning and fertilization treatments, and number of treatments are used. Mortality, diameter increment, and height increment models were developed and the effects of thinning, fertilization and the combination of thinning and fertilization were examined for Douglas-fir, western redcedar, and western hemlock. For each species, shade-tolerance was found to impact the possible predictor variables included in model development. The use of a generalized logistic survival model resulted in accurate estimates for larger trees, but poor results for smaller trees. To model the effects of fertilization, additional fertilization effect variables were included in the models; conversely, thinning effects were modeled using the immediate change in state variables such as basal area of larger trees which occurred immediately following thinning.
Three Essays in Industrial Organization and Energy Economics
Creators: name: Lian, Zeng
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Industrial Organization

description: The first chapter is about market efficiency. Broadly, the primary objective of antitrust policy is to promote efficiency. However, economists do not measure efficiency directly. Rather, they use a less precise concept, market power, because it is thought that market power is more easily measured and correlated with efficiency. The Herfindahl and Lerner indexes are standard measures of market power. This paper explores the circumstances in which these two indexes are and are not reliable indicators of efficiency. In most models, both indexes are often not good proxies of efficiency. In addition, I show how to compute efficiency directly by using firm level output and market price. I conclude that it is not easier to measure market power than efficiency. The second chapter focuses on the dynamic properties of an oligopolistic market structure with stochastic successful probability of creating or maintaining investments for a firm. In each period of a game, a representative firm decides whether to have positioning (creating or maintaining) investments. All established firms compete either in the Bertrand or Cournot framework. By adopting symmetric Market perfect Nash equilibrium, firms choose strategies to maximize the discounted present value of cash flow. We obtain the steady state of the system and the expected duration for each state of the system in different market competitions. We also discover the efficiency level is higher in the Cournot rather than the Bertrand competition with different numbers of active firms in the market. The third chapter develops a theoretical model for the electricity sector in the presence of imperfect competition in a Cournot framework. By allowing market size, industry concentration, and technology to differ, the model incorporates transmission costs and transmission capacity. We identify the condition under which trade benefits a single country or increases global welfare by changing these asymmetric factors for each country. We discover that the expansion of transmission capacity between two countries is not always beneficial for a single country or for global welfare.
Where will supersymmetric dark matter first be seen?
Creators: name: Gao, L.
name: Frenk, C. S.
name: Jenkins, A.
name: Springel, V.
name: White, S. D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If the dark matter consists of supersymmetric particles, Gamma-ray observatories such as the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi satellite may detect annihilation radiation from the haloes of galaxies and galaxy clusters. Much recent effort has been devoted to searching for this signal around the Milky Way's dwarf satellites. Using a new suite of high-resolution simulations of galaxy cluster haloes (the Phoenix Project), together with the Aquarius simulations of Milky-Way-like galaxy haloes, we show that higher signal-to-noise and equally clean signals are, in fact, predicted to come from nearby rich galaxy clusters. Most of the cluster emission is produced by small subhaloes with masses less than that of the Sun. The large range of mass scales covered by our two sets of simulations allows us to deduce a physically motivated extrapolation to these small (and unresolved) masses. Since tidal effects destroy subhaloes in the dense inner regions of haloes, most cluster emission is then predicted to come from large radii, implying that the nearest and brightest systems should be much more extended than Fermi's angular resolution limit. The most promising targets for detection are clusters such as Coma and Fornax, but detection algorithms must be tuned to the predicted profile of the emission if they are to maximize the chance of finding this weak signal.
description: 6 pages, 3 figure. MNRAS in press. Minor changes to match the accepted version
L’identità degradata. Note sul dispositivo teorico di Stigma.
Creators: name: Bontempi, Marco
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2020

description: Re-Reading the Classics sul noto testo di Goffman.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 10 No. 19 (2020): Intercepting and Modeling Global Change?
Nonreciprocal Directional Dichroism and Toroidalmagnons in Helical Magnets
Creators: name: Miyahara, Shin
name: Furukawa, Nobuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a dynamical magnetoelectric effect due to a magnetic resonance in helical spin structures through the coupling between magnetization and electric polarization via a spin current mechanism. We show that the magnon has both the dynamical magnetic moment $ΔM^ω$ and the electric moment $ΔP^ω$ ($\perp ΔM^ω$), i.e., a dynamical toroidal moment, under external magnetic fields, and thus it is named the {\em toroidalmagnon}. The toroidalmagnon exists in most conical spin structures owing to the generality of the spin current mechanism. In the absorption of electromagnetic waves, the toroidalmagnon excitation process generally induces a nonreciprocal directional dichroism as a consequence of an interference of the magnetic and electric responses.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Understanding halal food production and consumption in 'the West'. Beyond dominant narratives
Creators: name: Lever, John
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2020

description: In recent decades, the increasing visibility of halal food has become highly emotive and controversial, with halal meat in particular being seen as an indicator of the growing presence of Islam and what are seen to be 'barbaric' Muslim food practices. In this paper, I move beyond these dominant narratives to demonstrate how, as the UK halal market has expanded, and the range of halal food options has increased, Muslim consumers have been compelled to justify their halal food choices in ever more complex ways. Within the sociolog y of food literature, the proliferation of food choice often draws on the notion of informalisation to illustrate the dissolution of structures governing food production and consumption. Here, drawing on insights from Eliasian sociology, I present a more compelling account of informalisation, not only to move beyond the notion of halal as a 'barbaric' practice, but to illustrate that Muslim and non-Muslim consumers have very similar concerns and anxieties about food production and consumption.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 10 No. 19 (2020): Intercepting and Modeling Global Change?
A Free Energy Landscape for Cage Breaking of Three Hard Disks
Creators: name: Hunter, Gary L.
name: Weeks, Eric R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate cage breaking in dense hard disk systems using a model of three Brownian disks confined within a circular corral. This system has a six-dimensional configuration space, but can be equivalently thought to explore a symmetric one-dimensional free energy landscape containing two energy minima separated by an energy barrier. The exact free energy landscape can be calculated as a function of system size. Results of simulations show the average time between cage breaking events follows an Arrhenius scaling when the energy barrier is large. We also discuss some of the consequences of using a one-dimensional representation to understand dynamics in a multi-dimensional space, such as diffusion acquiring spatial dependence and discontinuities in spatial derivatives of free energy.
description: 11 pages, 15 figures
China soft power and cultural diplomacy. The educational engagement in Africa
Creators: name: Caruso, Daniela
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2020

description: The concept of soft power has recently become more integrated in China’s diplomatic strategy and foreign policy: this work discusses the “Soft Power with Chinese characteristics” and is polarized on the application in African countries. The realm of higher education represents the focus of China’s most systematically planned soft power policy and cultural diplomacy; it is most evident in Africa where Beijing has committed to contributing to the development of human resources. The paper aims to examine the China’s use of the soft power and cultural diplomacy and, specifically, the investment in education and human resource development in Africa. It discusses the main aspects of China’s education aid ranging from: (1) Confucius Institutes (C.I.), which are providing language and culture-related training in host countries; (2) longer term scholarships and short-term training (3) school construction and stand-alone education projects and, more in general, the development of capacity building for the structural transformation C.I. appears similar to other cultural institutes then, in order to better understand the importance of this soft power instrument, the inter-related dimensions of a network communication approach have been examined. China claims partnership is at the heart of its higher education cooperation with Africa and, if this seems most obvious in the Confucius Institute, several of other modalities rely upon a Chinese partner to deliver staffing, local or overseas training, and/or administration. From this point of view, based on bilateral consultations and dialogs on equal footing, the China-Africa educational exchange and cooperation seems to satisfy the demands of Africa in educational development.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 10 No. 19 (2020): Intercepting and Modeling Global Change?
The Study of Coherent Structures in Adverse Pressure Gradient Turbulent Couette-Poiseuille Flows with Zero Mean Skin Friction
Creators: name: WU, ZEHUAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 91501 Computational Fluid Dynamics
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: This thesis investigates coherent structures in wall-bounded turbulent flows subjected to adverse pressure gradient with zero-mean skin friction by studying turbulent Couette-Poiseuille flow with zero mean skin friction on the stationary plate. With the help of direct numerical simulations, this research has investigated the appropriate scaling, the mechanism by which the turbulence is sustained, the characteristics of coherent structures and the mean skin friction generation, which has provided new insights into the effect of adverse pressure gradient on turbulent wall-bounded flow structures.
Loop current order and d-wave superconductivity: some observable consequences
Creators: name: Allais, Andrea
name: Senthil, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Loop current order has been reported in the pseudogap regime of a few cuprate systems in polarized neutron scattering experiments. Here we study several observable consequences of such order in the d-wave superconducting state at low T. The symmetries of the loop order removes degeneracy between momenta k and -k. Consequently there is a remnant Bogoliubov Fermi surface in the superconducting state. Bounds on the possible existence of such a Fermi surface may be placed from existing data. Detecting such a Fermi surface will be a very useful confirmation of the existence of loop order in various cuprates. We show through explicit calculations that the Bogoliubov Fermi surface does not display quantum oscillations in a magnetic field consistent with natural expectations. Inclusion of a field induced spin stripe order reconstructs the Bogoliubov Fermi surface to develop pockets which then show quantum oscillations in the superconducting state. Difficulties with interpreting quantum oscillation data in the cuprates along these lines are pointed out.
Advanced multi-orbital impurity solver for dynamical mean field theory based on the equation of motion approach
Creators: name: Feng, Qingguo
name: Oppeneer, P. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an improved fast multi-orbital impurity solver for the dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) based on equations of motion (EOM) of Green's functions and decoupling scheme. In this scheme the inter-orbital Coulomb interactions are treated fully self-consistently, involving the inter-orbital fluctuations. As an example of the derived multi-orbital impurity solver, the two-orbital Hubbard model is studied for various cases. Comparisons are made between numerical results obtained with our EOM scheme and those obtained with quantum Monte Carlo and numerical renormalization group methods. The comparison substantiates a good agreement, but also reveals a dissimilar behavior in the densities of states (DOS) which is caused by inter-site inter-orbital hopping effects and on-site inter-orbital fluctuation effects, thus corroborating the value of the EOM method for the study of multi-orbital strongly correlated systems.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
Retos en el abordaje de la salud mental de las personas con VIH (I): actualización sobre el estado actual de la enfermedad.
Creators: name: Parro Torres, Carlos
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 8 (2019): enero-febrero-marzo
Social Discontinuity and Systems Thinking. Cultural differentiation and social integration in times of globalization
Creators: name: Condorelli, Rosalia
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2020

description: Given the obsolescence of a linear, homeostatic and reductionist worldview unable to face current social discontinuity, the laceration of a stable universe of expectations marking world scenarios, this paper argues the heuristic power of System Theory in understanding and managing, by emergence, circular causation between system and environmental and micro-macro co-essentiality conceptual frameworks, social integration crisis in our culturally differentiated and globalized western modern societies. The discussion on normative multiculturalism validity (in particular neo-communitarian multiculturalism) and, therefore, on sufficiency of procedural foundations as device of cultural difference integration and social cohesion is controversial and far from reaching a turning point. To get out of this impasse and support policymaking processes able to face social integration crisis, the paper argues to bring the debate on complexity epistemological plan. Systems Thiking could give new lymph to current debate, hooking it to a safer ground, made so by new acquisitions on systems' working and evolution mechanism. So, Complexity language intervenes fruitfully to justify the caution with which normative multiculturalism is believed that should be considered, by anchoring this caution to configuration of a society projected to dangerously visit that range of maximum differentiation among its components which should be avoided being identified as the range of disorder and ungovernability. Not only, in the emergence logic, integration is just one of the many possibilities to which self-organization process being initiated by processes of signifying of recognition policies is open, but sociologically there are even theoretical reasons to believe that in itself the same functionalist device is such as to make this possibility little probable and does not lead where it promises. How to reduce complexity' how to fill up this relationality deficit that normative multiculturalism institutes and avoid the risk of a society unable to regain order with coherence? The Complexity framework is where the whole debate must be kept. Here, the integration proposal of pluralism and interculturalism can gain greater meaning, avoiding the risks of mono-culturalism, on the one hand, and social balkanization, on the other hand.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 10 No. 19 (2020): Intercepting and Modeling Global Change?
Understanding the Meaning of the Nonprofit Organizational Mission through Informal Learning in the Workplace: An Interpretive Case Study
Creators: name: Henning, Barbara
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education--Adult and Continuing
subject: Nonprofit
subject: Leadership
subject: Management

description: The purpose of this research is to examine how employees working at two nonprofit organizations negotiate their understanding and conceptualize the meaning of the organizational mission through informal learning in their day-to-day interactions and practices. A qualitative interpretive case study was employed as methodology. Symbolic interactionism, a theory that studies the process of interaction in the formation of meaning for individuals (Blumer, 1969), provided a theoretical lens through which to interpret and analyse the data. Semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and document analysis were the chosen methods for data collection. Three major themes with sub-themes emerged from this study. The findings of the study show that: (1) informal learning played a key role in how participant learned, negotiated and conceptualized the meaning of the mission; (2) there is evidence of a strong presence for a client-centered mission in a nonprofit organization that is reproduced through employees’ interactions and actions; (3) specific management practices can support a client-centered mission; (4) leaders should rethink the elements the mission statement to include and define employee behaviour. This study is the attempt to provide leaders and managers with ideas to improve and enhance nonprofit organizations ability to be mission-focused.
Recomendaciones sobre el tratamiento psicofarmacológico. Retos en el abordaje de la salud mental de las personas con VIH (II).
Creators: name: Hernández Huerta, Daniel
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 8 (2019): enero-febrero-marzo
Noise Prevents Singularities in Linear Transport Equations
Creators: name: Fedrizzi, Ennio
name: Flandoli, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35R60 (Primary) 60H15, 35R05, 60H30 (Secondary)

description: A stochastic linear transport equation with multiplicative noise is considered and the question of no-blow-up is investigated. The drift is assumed only integrable to a certain power. Opposite to the deterministic case where smooth initial conditions may develop discontinuities, we prove that a certain Sobolev degree of regularity is maintained, which implies Hölder continuity of solutions. The proof is based on a careful analysis of the associated stochastic flow of characteristics.
Corporate social responsibility and challenges for corporate sustainability in first part of the 21st century
Creators: name: Roblek, Vasja
name: Pejić Bach, Mirjana
name: Meško, Maja
name: Kresal, Friderika
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2020

description: The term corporate sustainability represents a crucial part of the concept of sustainable development. The main goal of the companies, which adopted corporate sustainability practice is to fulfil a sustainable development agenda and brings a balanced approach to economic and social progress and environmental management. The purpose of the article is to highlight the importance and issues of corporate sustainability in the context of awareness and approaches to social responsibility in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The paper aims to make order in the plurality of definitions of concept «corporate sustainability» and its practical understanding in terms of «corporate social responsibility». It does so through a literature review and the analysis of different attempts of definition. It identifies the main challenges these concepts bring with them.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 10 No. 19 (2020): Intercepting and Modeling Global Change?
N=1 SQCD-like theories with N_f massive flavors from AdS/CFT and beta functions
Creators: name: Barranco, Alejandro
name: Pallante, Elisabetta
name: Russo, Jorge G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study new supergravity solutions related to large-$N_c$ ${\cal N}=1$ supersymmetric gauge field theories with a large number $N_f$ of massive flavors. We use a recently proposed framework based on configurations with $N_c$ color D5 branes and a distribution of $N_f$ flavor D5 branes, governed by a function $N_f S(r)$. Although the system admits many solutions, under plausible physical assumptions the relevant solution is uniquely determined for each value of $x\equiv N_f/N_c$. In the IR region, the solution smoothly approaches the deformed Maldacena-Núñez solution. In the UV region it approaches a linear dilaton solution. For $x<2$ the gauge coupling $β_g $ function computed holographically is negative definite, in the UV approaching the NSVZ $β$ function with anomalous dimension $γ_0= -1/2$ (approaching $-3/(32π^2)(2N_c-N_f)g^3$)), and with $β_g \to-\infty $ in the IR. For $x=2$, $β_g$ has a UV fixed point at strong coupling, suggesting the existence of an IR fixed point at a lower value of the coupling. We argue that the solutions with $x>2$ describe a "Seiberg dual" picture where $N_f-2N_c$ flips sign.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures
Optimized Dynamical Decoupling Sequences in Protecting Two-Qubit States
Creators: name: Pan, Yu
name: Xi, Zai-Rong
name: Gong, Jiangbin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aperiodic dynamical decoupling (DD) sequences of $π$ pulses are of great interest to decoherence control and have been recently extended from single-qubit to two-qubit systems. If the environmental noise power spectrum is made available, then one may further optimize aperiodic DD sequences to reach higher efficiency of decoherence suppression than known universal schemes. This possibility is investigated in this work for the protection of two-qubit states, using an exactly solvable pure dephasing model including both local and nonlocal noise. The performance of optimized DD sequences in protecting two-qubit states is compared with that achieved by nested Uhrig's DD (nested-UDD) sequences, for several different types of noise spectrum. Except for cases with noise spectrum decaying slowly in the high-frequency regime, optimized DD sequences with tens of control pulses can perform orders of magnitude better than that of nested-UDD. A two-qubit system with highly unbalanced local noise is also examined to shed more light on a recent experiment. Possible experiments that may be motivated by this work are discussed.
description: 9 pages, two figures
Microcredit and Development: a comparative analysis between Brazilian and Italian experiences
Creators: name:  , Andressa Jarletti Gonalves De Oliveira
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2020

description: Under favorable conditions, credit can improve the quality of life by financing essential assets and services, such as housing and education, also by fostering entrepreneurship. Although finance inclusion can widen social and economic opportunities, the successful usage of microcredit depends on the costs (rates of interests) and on the methodology applied to grant credit. Hence, through a bibliographic review, the paper presents a comparative analysis of three remarkable experiences on microfinance. Firstly, the Brazilian Community Development Banks (CDB), inspired by the Grameen Bank and devoted to reaching the poor of the poor. Secondly, the programs applied by some Public Development Banks (PDB) in Brazil to foster entrepreneurship through microcredit. Third, the Italian Credit Cooperatives (BCC - Banche di Credito Cooperativo), essential in the provision of credit for small enterprises and households. Despite their peculiarities, there are some similarities in their governance and methodologies applied to grant credit. The local dimension, the relationship lending to capture soft information for risk analysis, and the purpose of serving the community providing financial services instead of generating and distributing profits are standard features. These experiences could inspire a proposal for microfinance expansion, based on the ground principles of mutuality, solidarity, cooperation, and localism.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 10 No. 19 (2020): Intercepting and Modeling Global Change?
Magic nuclei in superheavy valley
Creators: name: Bhuyan, M.
name: Patra, S. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An extensive theoretical search for the proton magic number in the superheavy valley beyond $Z=$82 and corresponding neutron magic number after $N=$126 is carried out. For this we scanned a wide range of elements $Z=112-130$ and their isotopes. The well established non-relativistic Skryme-Hartree-Fock and Relativistic Mean Field formalisms with various force parameters are used. Based on the calculated systematics of pairing gap, two neutron separation energy and the shell correction energy for these nuclei, we find $Z=$120 as the next proton magic and N=172, 182/184, 208 and 258 the subsequent neutron magic numbers.
description: 5 Pages 3 Figures 2 Tables; Phys. Lett. B (2011) (Communicated)
Psicocardiología: relaciones recíprocas, factores de riesgo, programas de enlace y modalidades terapéuticas.
Creators: name: Ruiz-Doblado, Sergio
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 8 (2019): enero-febrero-marzo
Corporate Strategies for Climate Change Impact Mitigation
Creators: name: Backman, Charles
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Business Administration--Management
subject: Climate Change
subject: RBV
subject: GISTe Model
subject: Dynamic Capabilities
subject: Imposed innovation
subject: CCS

description: This thesis explores firm adaptation to changes in its external environment, using climate change as the emerging issue. The thesis incorporates the Resource-Based View (RBV) and Dynamic Capabilities in Essays 1 and 2 and Stakeholder Theory in Essay 3 through which to better understand how firms adapt. Essay 1 develops an original conceptual approach which augments the RBV of the firm and identifies investments in four firm-level resource domains (Governance, Information management, Systems, and Technology) to develop capabilities in climate change mitigation. The resulting framework is denoted as the GISTe model, which frames the analysis and recommendations. The research uses the 2008 Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) database, with high-quality information on firm-level climate change strategies for 552 FT500 and non FT500 firms from North America or Europe. Essay 2 extends the static version of the GISTe model to include dynamic components. This model is then applied to a cohort of firms from either North America or Europe regarding adaptation between 2004 and 2012. The research uses the 2004, 2008, and 2012 CDP databases with high-quality firm-level information on 117 FT500 firms from North America or Europe. Essay 3 interprets the phenomenon of imposed innovation projects through a stakeholder management lens, building upon empirical evidence from a qualitative case study of a salient imposed innovation, namely carbon capture and storage (CCS) storage. Whereas Essay 1 and Essay 2 treated technology investments as either reversible or non-reversible in the context of unconstrained choice, Essay 3 takes one tool (CCS) that was not fully embraced by any firm active in the oil and gas sector due to an unfavourable cost-benefit analysis. The analysis treats this technology as an imposed innovation in response to powerful non-market stakeholders. In this constrained environment, influencing strategies for both government and company stakeholders are developed. Overall, this thesis concludes that the GISTe model provides a valuable conceptual lens through which to explicate firm adaptation to changes in its external environment. Further, this thesis concludes that government should foster technologies from which firms select the most appropriate technology, but government should refrain from imposing any specific technology.
Macroscopic corrosion front computations of sulfate attack in sewer pipes based on a micro-macro reaction-diffusion model
Creators: name: Chalupecký, Vladimír
name: Fatima, Tasnim
name: Kruschwitz, Jens
name: Muntean, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a two-scale reaction diffusion system able to capture the corrosion of concrete with sulfates. Our aim here is to define and compute two macroscopic corrosion indicators: typical pH drop and gypsum profiles. Mathematically, the system is coupled, endowed with micro-macro transmission conditions, and posed on two different spatially-separated scales: one microscopic (pore scale) and one macroscopic (sewer pipe scale). We use a logarithmic expression to compute values of pH from the volume averaged concentration of sulfuric acid which is obtained by resolving numerically the two-scale system (microscopic equations with direct feedback with the macroscopic diffusion of one of the reactants). Furthermore, we also evaluate the content of the main sulfatation reaction (corrosion) product---the gypsum---and point out numerically a persistent kink in gypsum's concentration profile. Finally, we illustrate numerically the position of the free boundary separating corroded from not-yet-corroded regions.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, to be published in proceedings of "Multiscale Mathematics: Hierarchy of Collective Phenomena and Interrelations between Hierarchical Structures", December 9-11, 2011, Kyushu University, Japan; Institute of Mathematics for Industry, Kyushu University, ISSN 1881-4042
Ansiedad por la enfermedad: la paradoja hipocondríaca. Modelos de intervención.
Creators: name: Farré Martí, J.M.
name: Henríquez, Ligia
name: Mallorquí, N
name: Palazón, Alba
name: Lasheras Pérez, Gracia
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 8 (2019): enero-febrero-marzo
Philosophical re-thinking of international tax law: an analysis of harmful tax competition
Creators: name: Arik, Ezgi
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2020

description: This study aims to re-think the harmful tax competition philosophically and through which to open a new route for further studies. With this aim, harmful tax competition is examined from epistemological, theoretical and methodological perspectives. As a result of this study, it is contended that the OECD failed to justify the assumption that tax competition under specified circumstances is regarded as “harmful” around the world in the same way and it harms global welfare. By doing this, the OECD does not take into account that the meaning of harmful tax competition can be constructed differently by different societies. In fact, based on the different meanings of construction, the same kind of tax competition may be regarded as “beneficial” by some states and “harmful” by others. Therefore, to understand the challenges on the definition of harmful tax competition and solve them, more philosophical analysis is needed.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 10 No. 19 (2020): Intercepting and Modeling Global Change?
Quantum computation with two-dimensional graphene quantum dots
Creators: name: Lee, Jason
name: Li, Zhi-Bing
name: Yao, Dao-Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study an array of graphene nano sheets that form a two-dimensional S = 1/2 Kagome spin lattice used for quantum computation. The edge states of the graphene nano sheets are used to form quantum dots to confine electrons and perform the computation. We propose two schemes of bang-bang control to combat decoherence and realize gate operations on this array of quantum dots. It is shown that both schemes contain a great amount of information for quantum computation. The corresponding gate operations are also proposed.
description: 11 pages
A Novel Approach to Assessing the Potential of Electronic Decision Support Systems to Improve the Quality of Antenatal Care in Nepal
Creators: name: McCarthy, Ona
name: Man Karmacharya, Biraj
name: Das, Seema
name: Shrestha, Abha
name: Karki, Sulata
name: Shakya, Rajani
name: Radovich, Emma
name: Penn-Kekana, Loveday
name: Calvert, Clara
name: Campbell, Oona M. R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 420302
subject: Digital health
classificationCode: 420399
subject: Health services and systems not elsewhere classified

description: We assessed the potential of the mHealth integrated model of hypertension, diabetes, and ANC EDSS and the World Health Organization EDSS to improve the quality of ANC in primary-level health care facilities in Nepal
Anisotropic flow in striped superhydrophobic channels
Creators: name: Zhou, Jiajia
name: Belyaev, Aleksey V.
name: Schmid, Friederike
name: Vinogradova, Olga I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report results of dissipative particle dynamics simulations and develop a semi-analytical theory of an anisotropic flow in a parallel-plate channel with two superhydrophobic striped walls. Our approach is valid for any local slip at the gas sectors and an arbitrary distance between the plates, ranging from a thick to a thin channel. It allows us to optimize area fractions, slip lengths, channel thickness and texture orientation to maximize a transverse flow. Our results may be useful for extracting effective slip tensors from global measurements, such as the permeability of a channel, in experiments or simulations, and may also find applications in passive microfluidic mixing.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phys
Solidarietà performativa. Critica sociale del capitalismo e nuovi soggetti della partecipazione.
Creators: name: Bruni, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2020

description: The essay develops some lines of interpretation of qualitative research sources related to social criticism experiences active in the Umbrian territory. The analysis of the sources will be intertwined to the formulation of a hypothesis on the thematic node of subjectivity. This hypothesis will be developed in a twofold direction: in terms of processes of subjectification and redefinition of individual identity within the social relations analyzed; in terms of social identity and collective belonging, going so far as to argue that the critical tension to capitalism carried out by the subjects under consideration can be read primarily as social criticism. The overall intention of this paper is to try to provide some basic references in support of the hypothesis that the critique of capitalism today can be understood also and above all in terms of processes of subjectification attributable to innovative forms of social participation. In other words, the critical aim of the exemplary sociality examined can be declined through a form of criticism that we could define as implicit, relating to a redefinition of the social bond rather than to a militant and generalized political dimension. This is an implicit criticism of capitalism, characterized in purely social terms: it can be read as a creative and practical response to the fragmentation of social solidarity.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 10 No. 19 (2020): Intercepting and Modeling Global Change?