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On S-duality of 5d super Yang-Mills on S^1
Creators: name: Tachikawa, Yuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a duality of 5d maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills on S^1, which exchanges the tower of Kaluza-Klein W-bosons and the tower of instantonic monopoles. This duality maps a non-simply-laced gauge theory to a simply-laced gauge theory twisted by an outer automorphism around S^1, and is closely related to the Langlands dual of affine Lie algebras. We also discuss how this S-duality is implemented in terms of 6d N=(2,0) theory. This is straightforward except for the 6d theory of type SU(2n+1) with Z_2 outer-automorphism twist, for which a few new properties are deduced. For example, this 6d theory, when reduced on an S^1 with Z_2 twist, gives 5d USp(2n) theory with nontrivial discrete 5d theta angle.
description: 30 pages, 7 figures; v2: more references. Published version
Dark-Matter Fermion from Left-Right Symmetry
Creators: name: Ma, Ernest
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In an unconventional realization of left-right symmetry, the particle corresponding to the left-handed neutrino nu_L (with SU(2)_L interactions) in the right-handed sector, call it n_R (with SU(2)_R interactions), is not its Dirac mass partner, but a different particle which may be a dark-matter candidate. In parallel to leptogenesis in the SU(2)_L sector, asymmetric production of n_R may occur in the SU(2)_R sector. This mechanism is especially suited for n_R mass of order 1 to 10 keV, i.e. warm dark matter, which is a possible new paradigm for explaining the structure of the Universe at all scales.
description: 9 pages, no figure, title changed in published version
Broken stelae, fallen stones. Neglect, deterioration, and disruption of the epigraphic landscape
Creators: name: Rosamilia, Emilio
Publisher: name: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana
Year: 2023

description: Over the centuries, the cities of ancient Greece produced numerous texts on stone and metal, and nowhere more so than in ancient Athens. However, when an inscription outlived its purpose, the problem of reuse arose. Dedications to the gods in stone and bronze, as sacred objects, presented difficulties in terms of removal. The result was a landscape of broken stelae and damaged inscriptions alongside new texts. The rules against damaging inscriptions in the Archaic and Classical periods partly explain this situation. However, two specific epigraphic documents shed light on this coexistence: an inventory from the Athenian Acropolis and an inscription from Larisa. By analysing these texts, the article explores their methodological implications for the reconstruction of the inscribed landscape. By comparing the situations that led to their publication, the article examines whether the interest in documenting sacred sites was the sole motivation and whether restoration initiatives followed. The considerations presented may improve our understanding of the development of the epigraphic landscape in general and the Athenian landscape in particular. Indeed, the neglect of older inscriptions is presented here as a significant factor in the formation of the epigraphic landscape, challenging the prevailing view that it was solely the result of deliberate decisions by the polis.
description: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana, V. 12 (2022)
title: Honoré Fabri S.J.
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Honoré Fabri S.J. as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Asymptotic safety goes on shell
Creators: name: Benedetti, Dario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known in quantum field theory that the off-shell effective action depends on the gauge choice and field parametrization used in calculating it. Nevertheless, the typical scheme in which the scenario of asymptotically safe gravity is investigated is an off-shell version of the functional renormalization group equation. Working with the Einstein-Hilbert truncation as a test bed, we develop a new scheme for the analysis of asymptotically safe gravity in which the on-shell part of the effective action is singled out and we show that the beta function for the essential coupling has no explicit gauge-dependence. In order to reach our goal, we introduce several technical novelties, including a different decomposition of the metric fluctuations, a new implementation of the ghost sector, and a new cut-off scheme. We find a non-trivial fixed point, with a value of the cosmological constant which is independent of the gauge-fixing parameters.
description: 20 pages; invited contribution to New Journal of Physics (Focus Issue: Quantum Einstein Gravity). V2: minor corrections, and a reference added; v3: typos corrected in equations 3.16 and 4.3
Dedications of the ephebes, their magistrates and liturgists up to the 4th century BCE: a topographical analysis
Creators: name: Russo, Daria
Publisher: name: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana
Year: 2023

description: The aim of this paper is to identify the original locations of dedications of ephebes, their magistrates and gymnasiarchs in the Attic landscape based on their findspots. The analysis covers the early period of their dedication practice (from the end of the 5th century for the gymnasiarchs and from the time of Lykourgos for the ephebes and magistrates) until the end of the 4th century. The close relationship between the categories of dedicators studied (which, in the case of fragmentary texts, sometimes makes it impossible to identify the actual dedicators) allows a parallel analysis of the topographical distribution of their dedications in order to identify similarities and differences, reasons and implications of the presence of these documents (which testify to a cultic act, but also serve as a means of making oneself visible in the social fabric of the polis) in specific locations.
description: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana, V. 12 (2022)
Embarrassment in essential tremor : prevalence, clinical correlates and therapeutic implications
Creators: name: Louis, Elan D.
name: Rios, Eileen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Embarrassment is a commonly described feature of essential tremor (ET) but has not been the focus of clinical research. Objective: To estimate the prevalence, identify susceptible patient groups, and quantify the therapeutic correlates of reported embarrassment. Methods: A total of 106 ET cases from a population-based sample and 349 ET cases from a clinical sample were asked, "Does your tremor often embarrass you?" Results: In the clinical sample, the prevalence of embarrassment was high (58.2%). Even in those ET cases with no head tremor and mild arm tremor, nearly one-half (29/61 [47.5%]) reported embarrassment. While the prevalence of embarrassment was lower in the population-based sample, it was not negligible (18.9%). Embarrassment was associated with younger age of onset (p = 0.003) and women were nearly twice as likely as men to report embarrassment (OR = 1.85, p = 0.01). Independent of tremor severity, embarrassment nearly doubled the odds of using tremor medication (OR = 1.86, p = 0.01). Conclusions: Embarrassment may be a source of disability in ET. Even among clinic patients with mild tremor, nearly one-half reported embarrassment. We identified a number of patient characteristics linked to embarrassment. Embarrassment alone (i.e., independent of tremor severity) was responsible for a doubling of tremor medication usage. The majority of clinical trials do not assess the therapeutic effects of medication on embarrassment. These trials may benefit from scaled assessments of level of embarrassment.
Calibration of a mixing model for sublevel caving
Creators: name: Salinas, Daniel Villa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Sublevel caving (SLC) is an underground mass mining method where the orebody is divided into a regular network of tunnels. The ore is extracted by level working downwards through the orebody. The caved waste from the overlying rock mass fills the void created by ore extraction generating a dynamic mixing situation between the broken ore and the waste (dilution) from upper levels. The dynamic process of mixing creates a significant challenge in the SLC project to estimate grades reliably. PCSLC is an application developed by Gemcom Software specifically designed for the mine planning of Sub Level Caving projects and operations. It incorporates a rich set of tools to assist with the whole design and planning process including a sophisticated mixing models, it can simulates the material flow observed in caving mines using a technique known as Template Mixing, but due to the complexity that it represents, it is extremely necessary to calibrate its results against real data. The main purpose of this study was to calibrate the mixing model implemented in PCSLC using real data from Newcrest Ridgeway Gold Mine to provide guidelines for SLC project to forecast grade reliably. The methodology used was to collect historical information provided by Ridgeway to reproduce its design and result in PCSLC and then be capable to understand the complexity of gravity flow in SLC. Key information for this purpose was the utilization of the trial marker scale experiments applied at the mine, since it creates the concept of material recovery curve per level. This was fundamental to create a PCSLC model and be able to replicate the tonnage extracted and the grades reported at the mine. One of the main results in this thesis is the understanding of the gravity flow in SLC method and the demonstration of the benefit to use a recovery curve per level as a main driver for mixing modeling. The calibration of the mixing model in PCSLC was successful and the most important part is the guideline created to use in PCSLC to get reliable results in the prediction of grades and dilution for production scheduling purposes.
title: Placebo and pharmacological effects of caffeine in cycling performance
Creators: name: Foad, Abigail
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: The placebo effect is arguably accounted for in sport science research by the convention of the placebo-controlled trial. However, little research has sought to quantify or explain the effect itself. This thesis examines the placebo and pharmacological effects of caffeine in cycling performance using a multi-method approach. Methods: Extensive piloting was conducted to establish the suitability of caffeine as a vehicle for investigation, the efficacy of substance administration procedures, and the reliability of the cycle protocol. An experimental deceptive administration protocol (the balanced placebo design) was subsequently employed to quantify the relative contributions of psychology and pharmacology to the response to ingested caffeine and placebo in 14 well-trained cyclists, whilst semi-structured interviews were employed to corroborate and explicate the nature of observed effects. Finally, psychometric methods were used to identify any associations between placebo responsiveness and personality. Results: Caffeine ingestion enhanced cyclists' performance by 2.6% (95% CI 0.9-4.3, P = .002) whether they believed caffeine to have been ingested or not. No significant placebo effects were observed (1.2%, 95% CI -0.3- 2.8, P = .31), However, individual placebo responses were evident. Interview data revealed that observed placebo effects reflected both direct effects of belief on performance, and indirect effects, mediated by psychological changes and pacing decisions. Perceptions of enhanced performance were not always reflected in overt performance, raising the question as to what exactly constitutes a placebo effect. Synthesis of data suggest that certain personality traits such as Openness to experience and Neuroticism may relate to placebo responding. Conclusions: Caffeine ingestion may enhance the performance of a well-trained cyclist independently of their beliefs as to whether caffeine has been ingested or not. The belief that caffeine has been ingested might elicit a performance enhancing effect in certain placebo responsive individuals. Implications for placebo effect research and sports performance research and practice are discussed alongside directions for further research.
title: The changing nature and role of soft law in international economic law and regulation: from state-centric to globalist paradigm
Creators: name: Alkan-Olsson, Ilhami
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: This study examines the changing nature and role of "soft law" in international law. Focusing on international `economic' soft law and regulation, the study contends that the transformation of international economy and politics in the 1980s have culminated in a paradigm shift in the international economic soft law and regulation changing both its nature and role. The leading "state-centric" paradigm of 1960s and 1970s has been replaced by a dual "globalist" paradigm, which consists of two sub-paradigms: the "non-state actor" and the "hegemonic state". The "non-state actor" paradigm refers to a non-state normative order, centred on the regulatory role of non-state actors. This paradigm has gained ground to (i) meet business need for flexible and efficient legal instrument, (ii) respond on a voluntary basis to `societal expectations'. The "hegemonic state" paradigm, on the other hand, indicates a move from soft law and de-regulation to hard law and re-regulation. The major reasons for this move are to facilitate the expansion of market economy and to accomplish the creation of a disciplined global market through bilateral and multilateral legalisation as well as through international economic institutions. Yet, this tendency of re-regulation has it is argued often been obscured by the dominant market-centred vocabulary, which promotes a pluralistic, hybrid and informal rule-setting and implementation model. On the whole, this study recognises that soft law may represent an opportunity for the normative development of international law by assuming an authoritative, interpretative or complementary role. Soft law can also promote a more participatory and democratic rule-making. The study nevertheless holds that in the foreseeable future the trend towards soft, voluntary, informal, and decentred regulation may have adverse effects on the already weak normative structure of international law, blurring further its normativity threshold by incorporating political and economical elements in a contextual and deformalised way.
On the location of inscribed Athenian nomoi in the 4th century BCE
Creators: name: Di Tuccio, Antonia
Publisher: name: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana
Year: 2023

description: In the late 5th cent. BCE, after a legislative reform, the Stoa Basileios became a symbolic space to house all the Athenian laws. In the 4th cent., the portico lost its ideological significance and the criteria for displaying nomoi shifted. The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyze the 4th-cent. laws to gain an understanding of the new motivations behind their publication in the urban space. Such a study builds on the groundbreaking work of M. Richardson (2000), who identified two primary criteria that influenced the choice of display locations: the content of the laws and the intended audience. While this observation remains valid, a more detailed analysis of each nomos, focusing on its content, findspot, and historical context, reveals that the two criteria may have different implications for the choice of exhibition sites in public space, and may even be mutually exclusive.
description: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana, V. 12 (2022)
Statins and cognitive functioning in the elderly: a population-based study
Creators: name: Benito-Leon, Julian
name: Louis, Elan D.
name: Vega, Saturio
name: Bermejo-Pareja, Felix
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: In a 2009 Cochrane review, the authors concluded that there is good evidence that statins, given in late life to people at risk of vascular disease, have no effect in preventing Alzheimer's disease or dementia. A related issue, which remains unclear, is whether statins improve cognitive function. While some studies have shown a beneficial effect of statins on cognitive function, others have observed mild detrimental effects on cognition. Our aim was to assess cognitive function in community-dwelling elderly participants treated with statins compared with their untreated counterparts (i.e., controls) living in the same population. 137 population-dwelling participants who were receiving statins and 411 matched controls age ⩾ 65 years (median=72 years) in central Spain (the Neurological Disorders in Central Spain [NEDICES] study) underwent a neuropsychological assessment, including tests of global cognitive performance, frontal-executive function, verbal fluency, and memory. Median duration of statin treatment was 2 years. Of 137 participants receiving statins, 53 (38.7%) were taking pravastatin, 38 (27.7%) simvastatin, 37 (27.0%) lovastatin, 6 (4.4%) fluvastatin, and 3 (2.2%) atorvastatin. Although initial univariate analyses indicated some differences, after adjusting for age, gender, education, depressive symptoms, premorbid intelligence, medications that potentially affect cognitive function, and blood cholesterol levels, statin users and controls performed similarly on all neuropsychological tests. In this population-based sample, elderly participants treated with statins and untreated controls performed similarly in all tested cognitive areas. These results do not support a positive benefit of statins on cognition.
Some inscriptions from and of the sanctuary of Dionysus Eleuthereus in Athens
Creators: name: Tozzi, Giulia
Publisher: name: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana
Year: 2023

description: Identifying the original place of publication of an ancient inscription represents often a hard task for epigraphists, which is made more challenging by its possible fragmentary state of preservation, the potential later reuse of the stone and the sometimes obscure or confuse circumstances of its discovery. It should be even noted that in the past the attention paid to texts has too often prevailed over that devoted to contexts, which in many cases have been (almost) completely ignored: for this reason, it is worth reaffirming the importance of the relationship between text and context in epigraphic studies and to praise the interest demonstrated to this topic in the more recent times. These considerations have been at the basis of the research project The Epigraphic Landscape Athens and on these same foundations my research on the sanctuary of Dionysus Eleuthereus in Athens has been grounded, whose purpose has been to identify all the surviving texts once exposed in the proximity of the theatre of Dionysus annexed to the sanctuary, in order to understand why and when the Athenians considered this place, that had a strong political significance over the time, as an appropriate site for the publication of official texts. The analysis of the archaeological data, the reading of the inscriptions discovered in and near the sanctuary and the comparative exam of all the Athenian epigraphic production have enabled me to gather a significant group of inscriptions once set in the sanctuary (1) but also to identify (with certainty or at least with good reliability) other inscribed stones found in the same area but pertaining to other places of the city (2) and, conversely, other inscriptions discovered elsewhere but attributable to the sanctuary on the basis of historical, chronological or textual reasons (3). A selection of a few examples of decrees pertaining to groups (2) and (3) is here presented and discussed.
description: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana, V. 12 (2022)
History of vascular disease and mild parkinsonian signs in community-dwelling elderly individuals
Creators: name: Louis, Elan D.
name: Luchsinger, Jose A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Mild parkinsonian signs (MPS) are commonly found during the clinical examination of older people. These signs could reflect the accumulation of vascular pathological changes in the brain. If the etiology were vascular, one could hypothesize that individuals with MPS would be more likely to have systemic vascular disease than would their counterparts without these signs. Objectives: To examine whether MPS are associated with a history of vascular disease and whether certain MPS (rigidity, changes in axial function) are more strongly associated with a history of vascular disease than are other MPS (tremor). Methods: Evaluation of older people without dementia in Washington Heights-Inwood, northern Manhattan, NY. The presence of vascular diseases was assessed with a structured health interview. Results: Mild parkinsonian signs were present in 375 (16.4%) of 2286 participants without dementia. Diabetes mellitus, heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, and stroke were more prevalent in participants with MPS than without MPS, whereas nonvascular diseases (cancer, thyroid disease) were not. In a logistic regression analysis that adjusted for age, sex, education, and depressive symptoms, the number of vascular diseases was associated with MPS (odds ratio, 1.31 [95% confidence interval, 1.18-1.46]; P
title: Ludvig Fabritius
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Ludvig Fabritius as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
STUDIO CLINICO_CINNAMON  4150 CET5
Creators: name: MultiMedica Data Management
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: STUDIO CLINICO_CINNAMON  4150 CET5

TITOLO : Previsione dei siti anatomici di collasso in pazienti con sindrome delle apnee ostruttive del sonno attraverso l'analisi acustica del russamento: l'intelligenza artificiale potrebbe sostituire l'endoscopia del sonno?

Promotore: MultiMedica

Studio osservazionale retro- prospettico monocentrico

Lettera Richiesta al CET5 – del 29.10.2024

Lettera Risposta al CET5  del 25.11.2024

Verbale 545.24  CET Lombardia 5 – 19.11.2024 con richieste e definitivo del 23.12.2024

Sinossi  v. 1 del 30.9.2024
STUDIO CLINICO_ STUDIO CLINICO_PNRR SHUTDOWN 3960 CET5_24_2
Creators: name: MultiMedica Data Management
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: STUDIO CLINICO_ STUDIO CLINICO_PNRR SHUTDOWN 3960 CET5_24_2

TITOLO :  SHUTDOWN: CARATTERIZZAZIONE DEL MICROAMBIENTE IMMUNITARIO DELLE NEOPLASIE NEUROENDOCRINE POLMONARI CON APPROCCI MULTI-INTEGRATI

Il progetto è finanziato dal Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR)

Codice progetto: PNRR-TR1-2023-12377350

Studio osservazionale, prospettico, non interventistico, monocentrico, di coorte

Lettera Richiesta CET Lombardia 5 del 28.5.2024

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Inscribing space: Topography & Communication in Attic Epigraphy - Introduction
Creators: name: Lasagni, Chiara
name: Marchiandi, Daniela
name: Berti, Irene
Publisher: name: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana
Year: 2023

description: Introduction
description: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana, V. 12 (2022)
Purkinje cell axonal torpedoes are unrelated to advanced aging and likely reflect cerebellar injury
Creators: name: Louis, Elan D.
name: Faust, Phyllis L.
name: Vonsattel, Jean Paul
name: Erickson-Davis, Cordelia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Torpedoes, swellings of the proximal Purkinje cell axon, are thought to represent a cellular response to injury [3]. They may occur in a variety of cerebellar disorders [7]. Most recently, their numbers were noted to be six-times higher in essential tremor (ET) than control brains [4]. Torpedoes are also often viewed as a cumulative phenomenon associated with advanced aging [3,4], yet there are surprisingly few supporting data. We quantified torpedoes in normal human cerebella spanning a considerable age range to assess whether torpedoes are a cumulative phenomenon of aging. These data help place the relative abundance of torpedoes in ET in context.
title: Museums and funding: practices in Malaysia and the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Khalil, Samihah
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: In my 1999 research project to investigate the state of public museums in Malaysia it became evident that Malaysian museums had limited autonomy and relied heavily on government subvention. In contrast, UK and USA museums, being historically different, enjoyed diverse sources of funding and a more sovereign approach to achieving their missions. Clearly, there were lessons the Malaysian museums could learn from their counterparts, particularly from the UK national museums. This research investigates the funding profiles and practices of three national museums in the UK, and three national museums in Malaysia. The UK national museums earned at least 25 per cent of their total income independently, were highly regarded internationally and were leaders in their categories. The Malaysian museums belong to the same category as their UK counterparts - art, history and science - and were the most prominent national museums in the country. The study covers a twelve-year period between 1990 and 2002, which in the UK witnessed the inception of lottery funding, aggressive fundraising and the setting up of museum trading companies. During the same period, tax exemptions were introduced in Malaysia to raise private sector involvement in the arts and culture. The purpose of the study is to understand the strengths and limitations of relying on contributed revenue and self-generated income by analyzing empirical data from annual reports, interviews with key personnel, funding agreements, corporate plans, bi-annual reports, and government reports among other sources. Museums' scholar, public and social and customer orientations were investigated via museum mission statements with the intent to understand what roles museums embrace in their pursuit of social relevance.
New constraints on cosmological parameters and neutrino properties using the expansion rate of the Universe to z~1.75
Creators: name: Moresco, Michele
name: Verde, Licia
name: Pozzetti, Lucia
name: Jimenez, Raul
name: Cimatti, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have assembled a compilation of observational Hubble parameter measurements estimated with the differential evolution of cosmic chronometers, in the redshift range 04 at 95% CL (74% CL) using the same datasets combinations. We also put competitive limits on the sum of neutrino masses, Σm_ν<0.24 eV at 68% confidence level. These results have been proven to be extremely robust to many possible systematic effects, such as the initial choice of stellar population synthesis model adopted to estimate H(z) and the progenitor-bias.
description: 18 pages, 17 figures, 7 tables, published in JCAP. It is a companion to Moresco et al. (2012a, http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.3609) and Jimenez et al. (2012, http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.3608). The H(z) data can be downloaded at http://www.physics-astronomy.unibo.it/en/research/areas/astrophysics/cosmology-with-cosmic-chronometers
title: A privacy enhancing infrastructure for context-awareness
Creators: name: Osbakk, Patrik
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: Context-awareness enables applications and services to better fulfil the needs of users by adapting to their situation and their preferences. However, the use of contextual information is complicated by privacy concerns. A subjects context is personal and needs to be regarded as sensitive. Hence, contextual information must only be used with the consensus of the subject and according to their privacy preferences. This thesis examines the development of privacy-friendly context-aware systems. In particular the focus is on (A) improving the overall level of privacy, (B) evaluating access control mechanisms, (C) providing development support, and (D) offering protection to third-party infrastructures. The hypothesis investigated is whether these objectives can be achieved through the use of a privacy enhancing infrastructure. As part of the investigation two conceptual models are presented describing the assumptions made about context and privacy. Also presented is a decentralised privacy enhancing infrastructure developed and implemented to determine the validity of the hypothesis. Along with the infrastructure mechanisms for privacy protection including authentication, access control, and anonymity are discussed. A general data format for context communication in the infrastructure is also presented. Finally the thesis presents the findings uncovered during the investigation and evaluation of the hypothesis. This includes a qualitative analysis of whether the privacy enhancing infrastructure meets the key objectives, a user survey examining the performance of two candidate access control mechanism, a performance measure of the infrastructure when run with resource constrained devices, and a comparison with the approaches taken in related work.
Testosterone therapy in men with Parkinson disease : results of the TEST-PD study
Creators: name: Okun, Michael S.
name: Fernandez, Hubert H.
name: Rodriguez, Ramon L.
name: Romrell, Janet
name: Suelter, Michele
name: Munson, Sarah
name: Louis, Elan D.
name: Mulligan, Thomas
name: Foster, Paul S.
name: Shenal, Brian V.
name: Armaghani, Sheyan J.
name: Jacobson, Charles
name: Wu, Samuel
name: Crucian, Gregory
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Testosterone deficiency has been reported in patients with Parkinson disease (PD), Alzheimer disease, and Huntington disease. It is not known whether testosterone therapy (TT) in men with borderline hypogonadism and neurodegenerative diseases will be of substantial benefit. Previously, we reported that testosterone deficiency is more common in patients with PD compared with age-matched control subjects, and we also reported in 2 small open-label studies that some nonmotor symptoms responded favorably to TT. Objective  To define the effects of TT on nonmotor and motor symptoms in men with PD and probable testosterone deficiency. Design: Double-masked, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, single-center trial. Patients: Two experimental groups: patients with PD who were receiving either TT or placebo. Interventions: Participants received either the study drug by intramuscular injection (200 mg/mL of testosterone enanthate every 2 weeks for 8 weeks) or placebo (isotonic sodium chloride solution injections). In patients in each group, the testosterone serum concentration was obtained at each study visit. During 2 study visits, testosterone levels were blindly evaluated and the intramuscular testosterone dose was increased by 200 mg/mL if the free testosterone value failed to double from the baseline value. Main Outcome Measures: The primary outcome variable was the St Louis Testosterone Deficiency Questionnaire, and secondary outcome measures included measures of mood, cognition, fatigue, motor function, and frequency of adverse events. At the end of the double-blind phase, all patients were offered open-label TT and were followed up after 3 and 6 months. Results: Fifteen patients in the placebo group (mean age, 69.9 years), receiving a mean total levodopa equivalent dose of 924 mg/d, had a baseline free testosterone level of 47.91 pg/mL, compared with 15 patients in the TT group (mean age, 66.7 years), receiving an average total levodopa equivalent dose of 734 mg/d, who had a baseline free testosterone level of 63.49 pg/mL. Testosterone was generally well tolerated. More subjects in the TT group experienced lower extremity edema (40% vs 20%). In 2 patients, 1 in each group, prostate-specific antigen levels were elevated from baseline. The improvement in the TT group compared with the placebo group (1.7 vs 1.1) on the St Louis Testosterone Deficiency Scale was not statistically significant. In addition, there were no significant differences in motor and nonmotor features of PD between the 2 groups, although a few subscales showed improvements (Hopkins Verbal Learning Test, P
Prigionieri e schiavi greci (e non solo): sull’origine e sulla natura del lavoro dipendente nell’impero achemenide
Creators: name: Biondi, Ennio
Publisher: name: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana
Year: 2023

description: Questo articolo propone alcune riflessioni sulla natura e l’origine del lavoro dipendente nell’impero persiano. Nelle fonti greche e romane si delineano dei meccanismi di formazione di manodopera servile che scaturiscono da dinamiche belliche che vedono coinvolti l’impero persiano e diverse città greche. Anche le fonti persiani, in particolar modo le tavolette provenienti dagli archivi persepolitani, evidenziano realtà variegate di lavoratori dipendenti provenienti da varie regioni del Mediterraneo e del Vicino Oriente.
description: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana, V. 12 (2022)
title: Photography and the representation of modernist architectural space: from the melancholy fragment to the colour of utopia
Creators: name: Green, Nigel
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: The questions that this project poses are centred on an examination of photography's relationship to modernist architectural space. Polarising the melancholic and the utopian, the definition of photography is extended to include its manifestation across a number of diverse sites and processes. What is the connection between the processes and technology of photography and its representation of modernist space? How can these relationships inform and articulate a photographic practice? This thesis comprises five key areas of investigation, with each theoretical chapter being followed by a complementary sequence of photographic images. The first section considers the process of `fragmentation' in relation to a body of photographs which I have termed `fragments'. These images reveal the aspirational or utopian content of modernist architecture as a condition of loss or melancholy. The second section develops the notion of the `fragment' in relation to `allegory', which I argue, opens photography to metaphoric interpretation thus taking on the duality of meaning. The third section uses W. G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz and Kracauer's work on history, to locate this duality within Husserl's Lebenswelt. The fourth section shifts the emphasis of inquiry towards an examination of how the utopian emerges within specific aspects of the photo-reprographic process, such as the error of misregistration in colour printing. This forms the basis for a development of the practice into the field of the photographic representation of colour. The fifth section looks at how colour has been added to the monochromatic image in a series of postcards of modernist architecture from the 1930's thus suggesting a site of utopian investment With reference to Kristeva and Benjamin I develop the notion of colour as an excess of meaning indicative of utopian aspiration. The conclusion of the project is firmly located in the practice outcome and a body of work, which I have termed `constructed images'. Representing a convergence of the five themes, these reveal the ability of photography to uniquely articulate the utopian-melancholy polarity, a transformative process, intervening into architectural space to indicate new ways of thinking about it.
title: Johann Justus Fahsius
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Johann Justus Fahsius as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
CRMsurv Ontology Specification
Creators: name: Nenova, Denitsa
name: Bruseker, George
name: De Haas, Tymon
name: Van Leusen, Martijn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: cidoc-crm, archaeology, survey, data, integration

description: This ontology extends the CIDOC CRM 6.2 ontology data standard for cultural heritage data in order to provide classes and properties necessary to describe unique aspects of the archaeological survey process. It also makes use of classes and properties of the CIDOC CRM extensions CRMArchaeo 1.4.1 and CRMsci 1.2.3. The ontology is intended to support researchers interested in integrating archaeology survey data using the CIDOC CRM.
On linear combinations of units with bounded coefficients and double-base digit expansions
Creators: name: Krenn, Daniel
name: Thuswaldner, Jörg
name: Ziegler, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R16, 11R11, 11A63, 11R67

description: Let $\ord$ be the maximal order of a number field. Belcher showed in the 1970s that every algebraic integer in $\ord$ is the sum of pairwise distinct units, if the unit equation $u+v=2$ has a non-trivial solution $u,v\in\ord^*$. We generalize this result and give applications to signed double-base digit expansions.
title: Gottfried Rühlmann
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Gottfried Rühlmann as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Rex et hostis sed Christianus. Intorno ad alcuni aspetti della “politica religiosa” di Alarico
Creators: name: Reano, Daniele
Publisher: name: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana
Year: 2023

description: Il presente contributo intende porre sotto riesame la “politica religiosa” di Alarico, limitatamente al periodo compreso tra il 408 e il 410, ripercorrendo i rapporti diplomatici instauratisi tra i goti e la corte dell’imperatore Onorio, la breve usurpazione di Attalo e il saccheggio di Roma dell’agosto del 410. Gli elementi che emergono dall’analisi qui condotta inducono a ritenere che si debba ridimensionare, almeno in parte, l’impatto dall’appartenenza religiosa anti-omousiana di Alarico e della dirigenza della compagine alariciana nel complesso delle vicende politiche “interne” ed “esterne” ai goti nel biennio preso in considerazione. In particolare, si sottolinea come l’adesione al cristianesimo “non niceno”, pur avente un certo ruolo nell’insieme delle decisioni prese dal generale goto prima e durante il saccheggio dell’Urbe, non debba essere interpretato come strumento volto a contrapporsi alla posizione “nicena” espressa dal consesso palatino di Ravenna.
description: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana, V. 12 (2022)
STUDIO CLINICO_PNRR DELPHIC 567.2023 MM 3882 CET5
Creators: name: MultiMedica Data Management
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: STUDIO CLINICO_PNRR DELPHIC 567.2023 MM 3882 CET5

TITOLO : Efficacia di un programma riabilitativo e di prevenzione secondaria domiciliare con telemedicina ( E-Health) e ruolo dei biomarkers nella stratificazione prognostica in pazienti anziani con scompenso cardiaco acuto e/o sindrome coronarica acuta.   Studio DELPHIC

Il progetto è finanziato dal Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR)

Codice progetto: PNRR-MAD-2022-12376806

Studio interventistico non farmacologico randomizzato (teleriabilitazione) multicentrico nazionale

Lettera Richiesta CE IRCCS MultiMedica 10.3.2023  + Lettera risposta 27.3.2023 con verbali 19.2023 del 15.3.2023 e 24.2023 del 28.3.2023  --ID studio 567.2023

Lettera Richiesta CET Lombardia 5 del 26.2.2024  e  verbale 198.24  Emendamento 1 del 23.4.2024  --ID studio 3882

Lettera Richiesta CET Lombardia 5 del 27.9.2024  e  verbale 509.24  Emendamento 2

Sinossi Versione  3 del 26.9.2024
Disposable Mothers: Paid In-Home Caretaking and the Regulation of Parenthood
Creators: name: Schaefer, Tali
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Recent custody decisions in the United States have treated paid in-home caretakers as substitutes for parents who are either unavailable or unable to care for their children. They have created a legal category of "nanny" that detaches primary caretaking from the caretaker and attributes care provided by in-home caretakers to paying parents. This category fits well with the legal regime of parental exclusivity, which promotes a nuclear family model, and with cultural norms that encourage parents to utilize intensive, development-focused childrearing methods. This Article argues that this new approach rests on flawed and potentially harmful assumptions about parenting and caretaking. Detaching the care from the caretaker is artificial and contradicts the well-established judicial and legislative view that performing hands-on caretaking tasks over time creates a parent-child bond. Attributing paid caretakers' labor to hiring parents is unjust: it devalues care work, renders paid caretakers disposable, and places the majority   of   parents, who cannot afford in-home caretaking, in a disadvantageous position. Furthermore, it endangers the feminist effort to promote policies that allow women to better combine motherhood with workforce participation. This Article urges readers to rethink conventional understandings of parenting and caretaking and to recognize the price that the current legal approach exacts -- and who pays it.
title: Ethnicity, masculinity, and the representation of Italian-American men in 70s Hollywood
Creators: name: Christodoulou, Stylianos
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: Hollywood in the 70s turned its gaze with fascination at the representation of Italian American men, who feature in some of the decade's most popular and profitable films. This thesis attempts to explain the appeal of these representations by situating them within the overlapping discourses on ethnicity and masculinity circulating in mainstream American culture. From an incontestable privilege for most of American history, white masculinity became an increasingly problematic and guilt-ridden identity in the 70s, largely due to the growing cultural centrality of feminism and the civil rights movement. In this context, Italian-American men appeared to possess a certain advantage. The 70s ethnic revival movement reclaimed hyphenated ident it ies out of the assimilationist melting pot and advocated a guilt-free shade of whit eness for the descendants of earlier Italian immigrants. Hollywood films invested in the perceived advantages of Italian-American masculinity and used them as vehicles for satisfying the desires and appeasing the anxieties of middle class, heterosexual, WASP men. The hyphen created a fruitfully ambiguous space for simultaneously exorcizing and embra cing ethnic masculinity; for affirming the new liberal mores of WASP America, while fostering the fantasy of white masculine privilege. The thesis develops this argument through a historically informed study of the representation of Italian-American men in The Godfather, Saturday Night Fever, and Rocky. These films appropriate the familiar stereotypes of the Italian-American man as Mafioso, Palooka, and Guido to revive older masculine models, situate them within hybrid versions of the 70s, and render them plausible, believable, and appealing.
Dietary epidemiology of essential tremor: meat consumption and meat cooking pactices
Creators: name: Louis, Elan D.
name: Keating, Garrett A.
name: Bogen, Kenneth T.
name: Rios, Eileen
name: Pellegrino, Kathryn M.
name: Factor-Litvak, Pam
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background/Aim: Harmane [1-methyl-9H-pyrido(3,4-b)indole] is a tremor-producing neurotoxin. Blood harmane concentrations are elevated in essential tremor (ET) patients for unclear reasons. Potential mechanisms include increased dietary harmane intake (especially through well-cooked meat) or genetic-metabolic factors. We tested the hypothesis that meat consumption and level of meat doneness are higher in ET cases than in controls. Methods: Detailed data were collected using the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Meat Questionnaire. Results: Total current meat consumption was greater in men with than without ET (135.3 ± 71.1 vs. 110.6 ± 80.4 g/day, p = 0.03) but not in women with versus without ET (80.6 ± 50.0 vs. 79.3 ± 51.0 g/day, p = 0.76). In an adjusted logistic regression analysis in males, higher total current meat consumption was associated with ET (OR = 1.006, p = 0.04, i.e., with 10 additional g/day of meat, odds of ET increased by 6%). Male cases had higher odds of being in the highest than lowest quartile of total current meat consumption (adjusted OR = 21.36, p = 0.001). Meat doneness level was similar in cases and controls. Conclusion: This study provides evidence of a dietary difference between male ET cases and male controls. The etiological ramifications of these results warrant additional investigation.
Modeling of weak lensing statistics. I. Power spectrum and bispectrum
Creators: name: Valageas, Patrick
name: Sato, Masanori
name: Nishimichi, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the performance of an analytic model of the 3D matter distribution, which combines perturbation theory with halo models, for weak-lensing statistics. We compare our predictions for the weak-lensing convergence power spectrum and bispectrum with numerical simulations and fitting formulas proposed in previous works. We find that this model provides better agreement with simulations than published fitting formulas. This shows that building on systematic and physically motivated models is a promising approach. Moreover, this makes explicit the link between the weak-lensing statistics and the underlying properties of the 3D matter distribution, as a function of scale $\ell$. Thus, we obtain the contributions to the lensing power spectrum and bispectrum that arise from perturbative terms (complete up to one-loop) and nonperturbative terms (e.g., "1-halo" term). Finally, we show that this approach recovers the dependence on cosmology (for realistic scenarios).
description: 14 pages
STUDIO CLINICO_MOLIERE REGISTRO AMD 3665 CET5_23_2
Creators: name: MultiMedica Data Management
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: STUDIO CLINICO_MOLIERE REGISTRO AMD 3665 CET5_23_2

TITOLO : STUDIO DEI BIOMARKERS RETINICI E COROIDEALI IN PAZIENTI AFFETTI DA DEGENERAZIONE MACULARE SENILE (AMD)

Promotore: MultiMedica

Studio osservazionale prospettico di registro monocentrico

Lettera Richiesta CE 20.10.2023

Protocollo  v. 1 del 15.6.2023

Verbale 7/264  CET Lombardia 5 – 14.11.2023