cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pasolini e Dante La Divina Mimesis e la politica della rappresentazione dell’”altro”
Creators: name: Patti, Emanuela
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pasolini
Boccaccio
Cassola
Dante
Ragazzi di Vita

description: The key word in the relationship between Pasolini and Dante can only be that of mimesis, opening the doors to the great themes of representation and imitation. In Pasolini’s reflection on “represented reality” (mimesis), Dante actually had a leading role. In the 1950s, its influence took the form of a certain “Dante realism” in Pasolini’s fiction and poetry, starting with Dante’s example of objectivity, experimentalism and multilingualism spread by an essay by Gianfranco Contini from 1951, Preliminari sulla lingua di Petrarca. In particular, multilingualism would become for him a model for rethinking the representation of the other (of the lower classes and their reality) at the sociological level, in relation to the “question of language” and of the “national-popular”. In the early 1960s, however, Dante became a source of inspiration for a certain “figural realism” in Pasolini’s cinema starting from Erich Auerbach’s concepts of figure and “contamination of styles” - as clearly emerges in the “national-popular” phase of his films ranging from Accattone (1961) to Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (1964). In these films the contamination of styles, translated into the hybridization of painting, music, literature and moving images, has allowed rather radical semiotic associations between high culture and low culture and, specifically, between the figure of Christ and that of the underclass.
The Effect of New Jersey Lottery Promotions on Consumer Demand and State Profits
Creators: name: Spry, John A.
name: Combs, Kathryn L.
name: Crowley, Jocelyn Elise
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Lottery
Price Elasticity
Policy Evaluation
Gambling

description: We estimate elasticities of demand for New Jersey’s Pick 3 and Pick 4 midday/evening numbers games by exploiting random price variation generated by episodic promotions for each game. These Pick 3 Green Ball and Pick 4 Red Ball promotions lower the price of a lottery ticket for an evening numbers game by increasing prize payments during the 28-day promotion periods. The own-price elasticities of demand for the evening Pick 3 and Pick 4 games are both approximately -0.5. During the promotions, the loss in profit margins outweighs the gain in sales because of this inelastic demand. However, the combined effects of lower evening Pick 3 profits and increased sales of complementary products boost lottery profits by $30,000 per day, or $840,000 during the 28 days of the Green Ball promotion, while the combined effects of lower evening Pick 4 profits and reduced sales of substitute products decrease lottery profits by $129,000 per day, or $3.61 million during the 28 days of the Red Ball promotion. If higher sales after the promotion are included, the total increase in profits potentially reaches $14.48 million under the Green Ball game, while the Red Ball promotion loses money for the lottery even considering its positive lagged effect.
La “triste” carnalità de I racconti di Canterbury
Creators: name: Chiesi, Roberto
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pasolini
Canterbury Tales
Chaucer
Trilogia della vita

description: By adapting Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Pier Paolo Pasolini imprinted his poetics on fourteenth-century stories and made structural and thematic changes. A decisive reason for Pasolini's interest in Chaucer is certainly the “metaphysics of death”, which becomes a dominant tone in the film, so much so as to obscure the exaltation of popular vitality and carnality, as it would have been in the intentions of the poet-director. An exaltation that had a regressive character and that invested the past, while a pessimism weighed on his vision of the present that not even the evocations of the fourteenth-century world could dispel. In the film, eroticism never takes on that joyful and liberating character that was Pasolini's intentions.A recurring motif that also implies passivity and detachment from reality: the motif of gazing, of seeing, which becomes, in some stories, stealthily spying on the intimacy of others.
Improving Inter-thread Data Sharing with GPU Caches
Creators: name: Li, Lingda
name: Wang, Kun
name: Zhang, Eddy Z.
name: Szegedy, Mario
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2014

description: The massive amount of fine-grained parallelism exposed by a GPU program makes it difficult to exploit shared cache benefits even there is good program locality. The non deterministic feature of thread execution in the bulk synchronize parallel (BSP) model makes the situation even worse. Most prior work in exploiting GPU cache sharing focuses on regular applications that have linear memory access indices. In this paper, we formulate a generic workload partitioning model that systematically exploits the complexity and approximation bound for optimal cache sharing among GPU threads. Our exploration in this paper demonstrates that it is possible to utilize GPU cache efficiently without significant programming overhead or ad-hoc application-specific implementation.
Computer graphics for meteorological data
Creators: name: Lusen, Ronald
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1977

description: Algorithms for the automated plotting of meteorological observations of the atmosphere are presented. The computer graphics hardware and software, utilizing a Stromberg Datagraphics 4020 microfilm recorder, is first described. The manual methods for plotting these data, which have in use around the world for many years, are then described, followed by a description of the algorithms for automating the plotting. Results of both manual and automated methods are shown and comparisons are made between the two methods. The computer graphics approach clearly has significant advantages.
Wahrnehmung des Themas Welternährung in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit
Creators: name: Klümper, Wilhelm
name: Kathage, Jonas
name: Qaim, Prof. Dr. Matin
Publisher: name: Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz
Year: 2013

description: Die Ergebnisse einer Befragung der deutschen Öffentlichkeit zum Thema Welternährung werden in diesem Beitrag vorgestellt. Die Befragung wurde online mit 1.200 Personen durchgeführt. Welternährung ist für die Mehrheit kein Top-Thema. Die Meisten nehmen das Hungerproblem vor allem dann war, wenn die Medien in akuten Krisensituationen darüber berichten. Die Bewertung von Ursachen und Maßnahmen zeigt, dass Hunger in erster Linie als Verteilungsproblem gesehen wird. Ansätze zur Produktivitätssteigerung in der Landwirtschaft werden überwiegend als nicht zentral für die Verbesserung der Welternährung eingestuft. Umweltschutz wird von der Öffentlichkeit im Vergleich zur Welternährung eine höhere Priorität eingeräumt. Hieraus ergeben sich scheinbar einige Pauschalurteile. Was als positiv (negativ) für die Umwelt wahrgenommen wird, wird auch als positiv (negativ) für die Welternährung eingestuft. Dies betrifft zum Beispiel die Einschätzung der Rolle des Ökolandbaus, chemischer Inputs und der Gentechnik. Eine stärkere Bewusstseinsbildung für das Thema Welternährung mit seinen Herausforderungen und ein schrittweiser Abbau von Vorurteilen erfordern verbesserte öffentliche Kommunikation.
description: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft, Heft 1, Mai 2013
A set of goals and approaches for education in computer science
Creators: name: Amarel, Saul
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1971

description: A set of goals for educational planning in computer science is presented. Among the questions discussed is the need for strong coupling between theory and practice; the importance of computer application studies, and in particular, of no numerical applications; the significance of establishing closer links between work in artificial intelligence and studies in the mainstream of computer design and application; guidelines for mathematical preparation in computer science; and requirements for introductory and general-education courses in the computer field. In view of the requirement for balance between educational breadth and specialization, and considering the fact that the field is changing rapidly, several approaches to long-range academic planning are presented. It is argued that a key task of computer science programs is continuous self-improvement via systematization and structuring of the knowledge in the field, and through the design of appropriate new courses.
Salò-Dante Sur la forme remake chez Pasolini
Creators: name: Joubert-Laurencin, Hervé
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2022
Subjects: Salo
Dante
Sade
Commedia
Purgatorio
Inferno

description: Only Italians have one day renamed Salò o le cento giornate di Sodoma with the new name of Salò-Sade. This denomination exists only in Italy, especially in the 1980s. It is most likely a pastiche of the title of a play by Peter Weiss released in 1963, Marat-Sade (the full title is infinitely longer), from which Peter Brook made a film of the same name in 1967. So I propose to temporarily rename Pasolini's last film, Salò-Dante since, as he himself said, this film is also “a kind of sacred representation, which probably follows what was Sade's intention and has a kind of formal Dante organization”, and more precisely: “Sade, while writing, was certainly thinking about Dante. So I began to restructure the book in three”. That question of the Three in fact rams the traditional Pasolini amphibology, its need for the Two, through the structural obsession of the Four, of the 120-day square of the Marquis De Sade. The essay presents the matrix of this struggle of Two and Three in Pasolini, namely the way in which his work integrates the medieval event of the invention of Purgatorio, as evidenced by the Commedia. Then Pasolini, with his Salò-Dante, after the dreamer who would like to wake up from his nightmare, after Dante the character-narrator who speaks when he does not speak at the moment of Virgil's reproach: “his damnation dreams”, in other words his nightmare.
Phosphordüngewirkung neuer Phosphatrecyclingprodukte
Creators: name: Römer, Prof. Dr. Agr. Habil. Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz
Year: 2013

description: Hier wird berichtet über die agronomische Effizienz der im Rahmen der BMBF/BMU-Förderinitiative "Kreislaufwirtschaft für Pflanzennährstoffe, insbesondere Phosphor" von 2004 bis 2011 und des EU-Projektes SUSAN synthetisierten und an den Universitäten Gießen und Göttingen sowie am Julius-Kühn-Institut in Braunschweig getesteten Phosphor-Recyclingprodukte:17 P-Recyclingprodukte aus Klärschlammaschen (KSA), eine Tiermehlasche, ein Sinterphosphat aus Tiermehl, eine Kupolofenschlacke, neun Ca-Phosphat-Produkte aus der Ca-Kristallisation an CSH-Substraten und aus Fällungen (Ca (OH)2, CaCl2, etc) wie P-ROC, Fix-P, SESAL, Pasch, Seaborne-Ca-Phosphat, chemisch reine Ca-Phosphate und Mg-Phosphate sowie Seaborne-Mg-Phosphat und Struvit-Produkte aus drei Institutionen (Pilotanlagen, Laboranlagen) wurden in diversen Gefäßversuchen als Phosphor-Dünger eingesetzt und zwar im Vergleich zu den wasserlöslichen Superphosphaten (SSP, TSP) und Rohphosphat. Es wurden Sand- und Lehmböden (pH-Werte 4,7 bis 6,8; CAL-P-Gehalte: 3,3 bis 4,9 Milligramm pro 100 Gramm Boden) und vorrangig Mais als Kulturpflanze benutzt. Die Phosphor-Aufnahme aus Superphosphat (Phosphor-Menge in den gedüngten Pflanzen minus Phosphor-Menge in den ungedüngten Pflanzen) wurde als Bezugsbasis gleich 100 Prozent gesetzt und die Phosphor-Aufnahmen aus allen Phosphor-Recyclingprodukten dazu ins Verhältnis gesetzt.Folgende Resultate ergaben sich: Aus 65 Prozent aller KSA-Produkte (= 15 Produkte) wurden weniger als 25 Prozent des Phopshors der Superphosphatvarianten aufgenommen, in 26 Prozent der Tests (= sechs Produkte) zwischen 25 bis 50 Prozent. Mit nur einem Magenesium-haltigen Ascheprodukt wurden 67 Prozent erreicht. Die Kupolofenschlacke erreichte auf dem sauren Sandboden nur 24 Prozent aber auf dem neutralen Lehmboden gleiche Werte wie TSP. Die Ergebnisse für die Calcium-Phosphate lagen zwischen 0 und maximal 50 Prozent. Mg-Phosphat-Fällungsprodukte hatten stets eine bessere Phosphor-Lieferbereitschaft als adäquat erzeugte Calcium-Phosphate. Die höchsten und sichersten Werte der Phosphor-Aufnahmen wurden mit Mg NH4 PO4 · 6 H20 (Struvit, MAP) erreicht. Es war dem TSP gleichwertig.Mögliche Ursachen für die unterschiedlichen Wirkungen der Phosphor-Produkte sowie deren weitere Verwendung zum Beispiel als Rohstoffe zur Phosphor-Düngerherstellung werden diskutiert.
description: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft, Heft 1, Mai 2013
Ökonomische und pflanzenbauliche Optimierung des Anbaus von Nahrungs-, Futter- und Energiepflanzen mit Unterstützung eines Linearen Programmierungsmodells
Creators: name: Karpenstein-Machan, PD Dr. Marianne
name: Zimmermann, Torsten
name: Mußhoff, Prof. Dr. Oliver
Publisher: name: Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz
Year: 2013

description: Mittels der um ein Bewertungsverfahren zur Vorfrucht-Nachfrucht-Kombinationseignung erweiterten Linearen Programmierung (eLP) können  Auswirkungen pflanzenbaulicher und naturschutzfachlicher Vorgaben auf das Anbauprogramm eines Betriebes ökonomisch bewertet werden. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird das gegenwärtige Anbauprogramm eines Betriebes (Status quo) der Nahrungs-, Futter- und Energiepflanzen anbaut, den Varianten: ökonomische Optimierung, pflanzenbauliche Optimierung, pflanzenbauliche Optimierung mit Blühstreifen gegenübergestellt. Da Fruchtfolgeeffekte und Cross-Compliance-Anforderungen generell in allen Optimierungsvarianten Berücksichtigung finden, werden nur Fruchtfolgen vorgeschlagen, die der guten fachlichen Praxis entsprechen. In den pflanzenbaulich optimierten Varianten werden weitergehende sinnvolle Restriktionen formuliert, die einzelne Pflanzenarten aus phytosanitären Gründen in ihrem Anbauumfang limitieren oder Blühstreifen im Mais generell zur Bereicherung der Artenvielfalt vorsehen. Diese Optimierungsvarianten tragen einer effizienten Nutzung von Betriebsmitteln (Düngung und Pflanzenschutz) und einer Ökologisierung der Landnutzung stärker Rechnung.In dem dieser Untersuchung zugrunde liegenden Beispielbetrieb weist die betriebliche Ausgangssituation einen um etwa 50 Prozent niedrigeren Gesamtdeckungsbeitrag als in den optimierten Varianten auf. Unter den drei optimierten Varianten ist die ökonomische Optimierung die Variante mit dem höchsten Gesamtdeckungsbeitrag. Die pflanzenbaulich optimierte Variante sowie die pflanzenbaulich optimierte Variante mit Blühstreifen liegen zwei und drei Prozent unter der ökonomischen Variante. Finanzielle Anreize sollten für naturschutzfachliche Maßnahmen gegeben werden, die über die pflanzenbaulichen Optimierungsmaßnahmen hinausgehen.
description: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft, Heft 1, Mai 2013
Investition in Biogas: ja oder nein? Eine qualitative Analyse von Entscheidungsgründen landwirtschaftlicher Betriebsleiter
Creators: name: Borris, Johanna
name: Maart-Nölck, Syster
Publisher: name: Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz
Year: 2013

description: Durch das Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz wird die Strom- und Wärmeerzeugung aus Windenergie, Biogas, Photovoltaik, Wasserkraft und Erdwärme gefördert. Im Bereich Bioenergie nimmt die Landwirtschaft durch die Bereitstellung von Biomasse zur energetischen Nutzung eine Schlüsselposition ein. Der zunehmende Ausbau von Biogasanlagen hat in den vergangenen Jahren zu gesellschaftlichen Akzeptanzproblemen geführt. Um die Wirkung der von der Politik geschaffenen Anreize besser zu verstehen und daraus Empfehlungen für zukünftige Novellierungen ableiten zu können, wird in diesem Beitrag das Entscheidungsverhalten landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmer anhand von leitfadengestützten Experteninterviews untersucht. Dabei werden die Entscheidungsgründe für oder gegen die Investition in eine Biogasanlage, die Entscheidungszufriedenheit und die Sicht der landwirtschaftlichen Unternehmer gegenüber der gegenwärtigen Energiepolitik analysiert. Die Interviews zeigen, dass die Investitionsentscheidung stärker durch ökonomische Faktoren als persönliche Einstellungen beeinflusst wird. Neben den Nichtinvestoren kritisieren auch einige Biogasanlagenbetreiber die energiepolitischen Vorgaben und identifizieren Fehlentwicklungen. Nichtdestotrotz sind die interviewten Landwirte mit ihrer Investitionsentscheidung rückwirkend betrachtet zufrieden.
description: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft, Heft 1, Mai 2013
The minimum oracle circuit size problem
Creators: name: Allender, Eric
name: Holden, Dhiraj
name: Kabanets, Valentine
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Kolmogorov complexity
Minimum circuit size problem
PSPACE
NP-intermediate sets
Computational complexity

description: We consider variants of the Minimum Circuit Size Problem MCSP, where the goal is to minimize the size of oracle circuits computing a given function. When the oracle is QBF, the resulting problem MCSPQBF is known to be complete for PSPACE under ZPP reductions. We show that it is not complete under logspace reductions, and indeed it is not even hard for TC0 under uniform AC0 reductions. We obtain a variety of consequences that follow if oracle versions of MCSP are hard for various complexity classes under different types of reductions. We also prove analogous results for the problem of determining the resource-bounded Kolmogorov complexity of strings, for certain types of Kolmogorov complexity measures.
La “strana cosa” Bestemmia e l’antimedioevo pasoliniano
Creators: name: Carotenuto, Pierre-Paul
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pasolini
Bestemmia
Uccellacci e uccellini
San Francesco

description: Bestemmia is a little-known unpublished work by Pier Paolo Pasolini, whose troubled composition extends between 1962 and 1967. In its hybrid genre and form, halfway between poem and screenplay, the author declines the apocryphal and unresolved side of his Franciscanism. Parallel to the elaboration of a notion of underclass holiness, in a genetic proximity and in a strong intertextuality with the most famous movies Accattone and La ricotta, Bestemmia is characterized by a strong metalinguistic connotation. In some digressions, wich interrupt the narration set in an ideal middle Ages and where Pasolini’s Christomimetism merges with the Franciscan poetic and sacred word, the author alludes, in a poetic form, to those reflections that will culminate with the essays of Empirismo eretico.
Effects of Atorvastatin on the Hypertension-Induced Oxidative Stress in the Rat Brain
Creators: name: Mohammadi, Mohammad Taghi
name: Amini, Reza
name: Jahanbakhsh, Zahra
name: Shekarforoush, Shahnaz
Publisher: name: the Pasteur Institute of Iran
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Basic Sciences

description: Iranian Biomedical Journal (IBJ); ISSN 1028-852X
An extension of the ordinary permutation solution of the two-sample location problem
Creators: name: Marozzi, Marco
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: In this paper, a permutation method for comparing locations of two populations has been proposed. Due to the way it has been devised, this test allows a deeper inference on testing the studied system of hypotheses than that allowed by the order methods using exactly the same sample data. Furthermore, simulation results show that, in the considered contexts, it performs practically as well as the optimal parametric solution in terms of power and it maintains its size close to the nominal significance level.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 4 (2002); 771-778
Challenges of green consumption in China: a household energy use perspective
Creators: name: Bi, Jun
name: Lahr, Michael L.
name: Zhang, Haiyan
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Household energy use
Urbanization
Lifestyle change
Lifestyles
Structural decomposition analysis
China
Greenhouse Gases

description: To encourage economic progress, China’s government has been pushing domestic consumption as a substitute for its waning growth in investment and exports. It has also been promoting greener policies for growth, of which green consumerism is a prime component. By examining the economy through the lens of household energy consumption, this paper lays out the challenges the nation must overcome through green consumption. We explore the trends in household energy use and decompose energy used indirectly by households into six factors: changes in total population, urbanization rate, energy efficiency, interindustry input mix, household consumption preferences, and per capita household consumption level. Doing so yields insights into how progress in industrial technology, household income, urbanization, and lifestyles has affected energy use in the production of goods and services used by households. It also offers policy suggestions on how China might guide lifestyle changes to effect green consumption.
description: Resource replaces submitted manuscript under review (SMUR)
title: Résolution des transferts de chaleur par Monte Carlo dans une géométrie urbaine lors d'une vague de chaleur
Creators: name: Caliot, Cyril
name: D'alençon, Louis
name: Blanco, Stéphane
name: Forest, Vincent
name: Fournier, Richard
name: Hourdin, Frédéric
name: Retailleau, Florent
name: Schoetter, Robert
name: Villefranque, Najda
Publisher: name: Société Française de Thermique
Year: 2024
Subjects: méthode de Monte Carlo
géométrie urbaine

description: La modélisation des transferts de chaleur dans une géométrie urbaine constitue une étape clé pour prévoir le confort extérieur des piétons et la consommation énergétique des batiments ainsi que pour quantifier l'effet des mesures d'atténuation et d'adaptation au changement climatique. Une difficulté réside dans le passage à l'échelle de ces simulations qui doivent intégrer la morphologie urbaine complexe constituée de divers matériaux. 

Pour répondre à cet enjeu, une approche probabiliste de la résolution des transferts de chaleur est présentée qui utilise la méthode de Monte-Carlo connue pour son insensibilité aux géométries et conditions aux limites complexes. 

La formulation intégrale est présentée avec les marches aléatoires pour la conduction et les rayonnements thermique et solaire. 

Le modèle probabiliste de transfert de chaleur est appliqué à un scénario de vague de chaleur où sont calculées : la température radiante moyenne extérieure montrant l'influence des arbres ; et la température moyenne intérieure des murs montrant l'influence des apports solaires à travers les ouvertures.
Automated scraping and analyses of drinking water quality data
Creators: name: Ruhl, Aki Sebastian
name: Saal, Leon
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Datengewinnung
Berichtswesen

description: Drinking water quality data, though regularly monitored, is not available in Germany as national overview, but only decentralized from the water suppliers. On the national level, only the number of limit exceedances are reported. An overview on drinking water qualities as complete as possible however is necessary to assess and develop regulations and helpful for authorities, political decision makers, the public and the scientific community. Due to the fragmented nature of the data sources, web-scraping was used in the present study to mitigate aforementioned challenges and knowledge gaps. Data from 502 water supply areas were compiled and further evaluated. The extent and form of reported values varied strongly, as did the availability of data for the different water supply areas. The results show, that the scraped values were not close to but well below associated legal limits or guidance values. For organic parameters, the reported values were mostly below the respective limits of quantification. However, further developments are needed to cover more water supply areas in Germany and internationally. © 2023 The Authors
Rifrazioni dantesche nel teatro di parola
Creators: name: Rimini, Stefania
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pasolini
Dante
Catabasi
intertextuality
theatre

description: Pasolini's cinema reinvented Medieval styles and formats through an intense exchange with models typical of Dante and Boccaccio, thus creating memorable sequences and works. His theatre, which apparently is more distant from Medieval schemes, in reality contains interesting revisitations in which katabasis becomes paradigmatic. This essay is an attempt to identify where the tragedy echoes in exemplary ways the Divine Comedy.
title: Ghanaian Female Migrants and the Temporal Orchestration of Care
title: Orchestrating Care in Time: Ghanaian Migrant Women, Family, and Reciprocity
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Coe, Cati
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Life course
Care
Migration
Gender

description: People in southern Ghana provide care by attending to and synchronizing their and others’ life courses. Women, in particular, synchronize their life course with the developmental and aging pathways of others. Since the 1970s, younger women in southern Ghana have migrated to urban or rural areas to earn money, leaving their children in the care of their mothers, whom they support with their remittances. As migrant women grow older, they return to their hometowns to provide elder and child care. Although female transmigrants also use these temporal strategies of care, the synchronization of life courses proves more difficult to coordinate in transnational contexts. For these reasons, time and timing is as important as space and location to transnational migrants, and migration is transtemporal as well as translocal.
Pointwise estimate of the power and sample size determination for permutation tets
Creators: name: De Martini, Daniele
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: A method is presented for the estimation of the power of permutation tests when F is unknown. It is based on the natural plug-in of the empirical distribution in the structure of the statistical test, giving the bootstrap power. The consistency of the permutational bootstrap test is shown. Moreover, to determine the sample size m of permutation tests starting from a pilot sample of size n, the "Mapped Bootstrap" is introduced. The Mapped Bootstrap works for a fixed m and is consistent as the pilot sample size n tends to infinity.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 4 (2002); 779-790
“Amor che move” Una conversazione con Manuele Gragnolati su Pasolini e il Medioevo
Creators: name: De Laude, Silvia
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pasolini
Dante
Morante

description: The article reports a conversation of Silvia De Laude with the scholar Manuele Gragnolati about Pasolini and Medieval Literature, starting from the book Amor che move. Linguaggio del corpo e forma del desiderio in Dante, Pasolini e Morante (2013).
A note on unit root testing in the presence of level shifts
Creators: name: Cavaliere, G.
name: Georgiev, I.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this note we discuss the properties of Augmented-Dickey-Fuller [ADF] unit root tests for autoregressive processes with a unit or near-unit root in the presence of multiple level shifts of large size. Due to the presence of level shifts, the ADF tests experience severe power losses. We consider new modified ADF unit root tests which require no knowledge of either the location or the number of level shifts. The tests are based on a two-step procedure where possible level shifts are initially detected using the level shift indicator estimators suggested by Chen and Tiao (1990, Journal of business and Economics Statistics) and Chen and Liu (1993, Journal of the American Statistical Association), and later removed by a novel procedure which is denoted as “de-jumping”. Using a Monte Carlo experiment we show that the new tests, although partially oversized in samples of moderate size, have much higher power than standard ADF tests.
description: Statistica; Vol 66, No 1 (2006); 4-18
Some conditional independencies in bivariate categorical time series
Creators: name: Colombi, R.
name: Giordano, S.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this work we consider two time series of categorical data as a bivariate Markov chain. The markovianity assumption allows us to simplify some conditional independencies introduced in order to describe if the knowledge of past or present realizations of one of the two categorical variables can provide some additional information to forecast the current realization of the other. The three simple conditions introduced here, though referring only to the recent realizations of the two variables, imply the more general conditions defined by all of the past realizations. Moreover, we show that the proposed conditions are equivalent to the hypothesis of null coefficients in some parametric models for joint transition probabilities. Finally, we represent these conditions in terms of missing edges in chain graphs.
description: Statistica; Vol 66, No 1 (2006); 19-38
Nonparametric confidence intervals for the area under the ROC curve
Creators: name: Adimari, G.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Following an idea by Jing et al. (2005), this paper combines the empirical likelihood for the mean functional with jackknife pseudo-values obtained from the Mann-Witney two-sample statistic. This leads to a pseudo-likelihood L(p) for the area p0 under the ROC curve. A Wilks-type theorem is proved, so that L(p) can be used in a standard way to obtain approximate confidence intervals for p0. Some simulation results are given, in order to show the usefulness of the proposed method.
description: Statistica; Vol 66, No 1 (2006); 39-49
Row-Column designs with varying replications
Creators: name: Kumari, S.
name: Mehta, B.
name: Saxena, K.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: A class of Row-Column designs in two sets of treatments having different replications has been constructed by replacing the diagonal treatments of a 2v x 2v standard cyclic Latin Square by a new treatment ‘2v+1’. The designs so obtained have been identified as Simple partially efficiency balanced Row-Column designs (SPEB RC-designs) (Singh and Dey, 1978; Pal, 1980).
description: Statistica; Vol 66, No 1 (2006); 51-57
Inference in the indeterminate parameters problem
Creators: name: Barnabani, M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: We face an indeterminate parameters problem when there are two sets of parameters, x and g, say, such that the null hypothesis H0:x=x0 makes the likelihood independent of g. A consequence of indeterminacy is the singularity of the information matrix. For this problem the standard results, such as the asymptotic chi-squared distribution of the Wald test statistic, are generally false. In the paper we propose an estimator of the parameters of interest, x, so that a Wald-type test statistic can be used for testing H0. Such an estimator is obtained through the maximization of a modified (penalized) log-likelihood function. We show that a solution to the (penalized) likelihood equation is consistent and asymptotically normally distributed with variance-covariance matrix approximated by the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse of the information matrix. These properties allow one to construct a Wald-type test statistic useful for inferential purposes.
description: Statistica; Vol 66, No 1 (2006); 59-75
Actuarial values calculated using the incomplete Gamma function
Creators: name: Mingari Scarpello, G.
name: Ritelli, D.
name: Spelta, D.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The complete expectation-of-life for a person and the actuarial present value of continuous life annuities are defined by integrals. In all of them at least one of the factors is a survival function value ratio. If de Moivre’s law of mortality is chosen, such integrals can easily be evaluated; but if the Makeham survival function is adopted, they are used to be calculated numerically. For the above actuarial figures, closed form integrations are hereafter provided by means of the incomplete Gamma function.
description: Statistica; Vol 66, No 1 (2006); 77-84
To get the 'good debt' tick, infrastructure needs to be fit for the future
Creators: name: Mitchell, Cynthia
name: Singleton, David
name: Bentley, Jim
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In distinguishing between "good" and "bad" debt, federal Treasurer Scott Morrison equates good debt with infrastructure investment. However, not all infrastructure investment announced in the budget is necessarily "good". We are now in the Anthropocene - a new geological age defined by the global scale of humanity's impact on the Earth - which places new requirements on our infrastructures. We need to move beyond the AAA ratings mindset, and instead aim for net-positive outcomes in social, economic and ecological terms from the outset. Infrastructure (such as transport, water, energy, communications) underpins our ability to live in cities and our quality of life. And most infrastructure is very, very long-lived. Therefore, our infrastructure investment decisions matter enormously, especially for tomorrow.
«ВЛИЯНИЕ КОМПЛЕКСА ЛЕКАРСТВЕННЫХ СРЕДСТВ НА ОСНОВЕ L-КАРНИТИНА НА АКТОПРОТЕКТОРНОЕ ДЕЙСТВИЕ»
Creators: name: Тагангылыджова, М.Д.
name: Касымов, А.Ш.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: На современном фармацевтическом рынке представлено небольшое число препаратов способных повышать физическую работоспособность. В связи с этим поиск новых средств с актопротекторной активностью в комбинации с L-карнитина представляет интерес.
Increasing pain levels associated with proportion of shiftwork
Creators: name: Kogan, Sophia
name: Shafer, Brooke M.
name: Shea, Steven A.
name: Olson, Ryan
name: McHill, Andrew W.
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Pain
subject: Shift Work Schedule
subject: Wakefulness
subject: Workforce
subject: shift work

description: Approximately 30% of the US workforce participates in a shiftwork schedule that requires individuals to be awake and work at times when they would typically be asleep. Shiftwork is associated with increased risk for adverse health outcomes, including higher incidence of pain compared to non-shiftworkers. However, it is unclear how transitioning into a shiftwork schedule affects pain and any potential causes of pain.
title: More than what meets the eye: cryptic speciation and hidden diversity in land snails
Creators: name: Kneubühler, Jeannette
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 570 Life sciences; biology
subject: 590 Animals (Zoology)

description: In this dissertation, integrative taxonomy was used to unravel cryptic species in different terrestrial snail groups. With the inclusion of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, shell morphological features, histological sections, and the investigation of the morphology of the radula, it was possible to describe the new genus Iberozospeum Jochum, Kneubühler, Prieto & Neubert, 2022 and a new species from Spain (Chapter 1). The focus of the work was on the resolution of the species complex within the hairy snail genus Trochulus Chemnitz, 1786. A rich sampling from almost the entire distribution area of the genus made it possible to clarify the complicated taxonomy of Trochulus (Chapters 2 and 3). In addition, phylogenetic problems within the ellobiid micro snail genera Zospeum Bourguignat, 1856 and Carychium O.F. Müller, 1773 (Chapter 4) were resolved.
Frequency of Gram Negative bacteria inneonatal septicemia and theirsusceptibility pattern in OmdurmanMaternity Hospital
Creators: name: Abdalwahid, Mohammed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320701
subject: Medical bacteriology
classificationCode: 320702
subject: Medical infection agents (incl. prions)

description: This dataset is associated with the manuscript titled "Frequency of Gram Negative Bacteria in Neonatal Septicemia and Their Susceptibility Pattern in Omdurman Maternity Hospital," submitted to PLOS ONE. It contains data on the frequency and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of Gram-negative bacteria isolated from neonatal septicemia cases at Omdurman Maternity Hospital, Sudan.
Vehicle-to-vehicle broadcast for highway safety applications
Creators: name: Luong, Hien
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication is a potential method to improve road safety and reduce car accidents. In V2V communication, vehicles broadcast safety messages to inform drivers about the danger ahead. Safety applications based on the dedicated short-range communication in vehicular networks have very strict requirements of reliability and delay for safety messages. Meeting the reliability requirement is challenging due to the effect of packet collisions caused by hidden terminals and direct collisions. In this thesis, we analyse, design, and develop different techniques to improve the reliability of vehicular safety applications.
Evaluierung der internationalen Klimaschutzinitiative (IKI) des Bundesministeriums für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit (BMU)
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Internationale Klimaschutzpolitik
subject: BMU
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Die Evaluierung hatte das Ziel, Rechenschaft zu legen und Empfehlungen für die zukünftige Ausrichtung der IKI zu geben. Gegenstand der Analyse waren insgesamt 115 Einzelprojekte, die 2008 und 2009 in der IKI bewilligt oder beauftragt wurden sowie eine Evaluierung des gesamten Programms. Die Evaluierung der 115 Einzelprojekte sowie des Programms erfolgte auf der Grundlage der als allgemeiner Standard anerkannten Evaluierungskriterien (Relevanz, Effektivität, Effizienz,Nachhaltigkeit, Wirkung) des Entwicklungsausschusses derOECD(OECD-DAC), ergänzt um zwei in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit übliche Kriterien "Kohärenz & Koordination" sowie "Planung & Steuerung" und darüber hinaus fachspezifischer Standards für die Bewertung von Klimawirkungen.Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Die Evaluierung hatte das Ziel, Rechenschaft zu legen und Empfehlungen für die zukünftige Ausrichtung der IKI zu geben. Gegenstand der Analyse waren insgesamt 115 Einzelprojekte, die 2008 und 2009 in der IKI bewilligt oder beauftragt wurden sowie eine Evaluierung des gesamten Programms. Die Evaluierung der 115 Einzelprojekte sowie des Programms erfolgte auf der Grundlage der als allgemeiner Standard anerkannten Evaluierungskriterien (Relevanz, Effektivität, Effizienz, ⁠Nachhaltigkeit⁠, Wirkung) des Entwicklungsausschusses der ⁠OECD⁠ (OECD-DAC), ergänzt um zwei in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit übliche Kriterien „Kohärenz & Koordination“ sowie „Planung & Steuerung“ und darüber hinaus fachspezifischer Standards für die Bewertung von Klimawirkungen.
Rushia californica
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Warner, William B.
name: Pollock, Darren A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melandryidae
Rushia
Rushia californica

description: Rushia californica (Fall, 1907)
(Figs. 2E, F)
 Carebara californica Fall 1907: 254.
Literature Records: A dubious state record was listed by Leng (1920: 239).
Digital Records: Six records from Pima and Cochise counties and a genus-only record for Coconino County (GBIF 2023).
Specimens Examined: “ USA, AZ, Coconino Co., // 1.5mi S. Hwy 40 & 3.8 mi // W. Flagstaff (off FSR 151) // 35.1795, -111.7553; 17- // 19.vii.2007; D&G POllOck” (2 MAJC); “ Rustlers Park // Chiricahua Mts. // Cochise Co. Ariz. // 8500 ft. VI­25­65 || COllectOrs: // J. H. DavidsOn // J. M. DavidsOn // M. A. Cazier ” (1 ASUHIC); “ USA: AZ: Cochise Co. // Huachuca Mts.; 0.8 rd. // mi. SW Reef; 31.4238 // ­110.2991; July 15­24 // 2018; VFlight intercept //trap; W.B. Warner ” (2 ASUHIC).
 Notes. Specimens were identified using Fall (1907) and Pollock (2015). Most digitized collection records were identified by DAP. The species Rushia brevicollis (Fall, 1907), described from New Mexico, may be a synonym, but the type has not been examined by us.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Warner, William B. & Pollock, Darren A., 2024, New Records and a Checklist of Melandryidae and Tetratomidae Known from Arizona, USA (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 53-60 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-78.1.53, http://zenodo.org/record/13243675
Service quality measurement. A new approach based on Conjoint Analysis
Creators: name: Gatta, V.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This article is concerned with the measurement of service quality. The main objective is to suggest an alternative criterion for service quality definition and measurement. After a brief description of the most traditional techniques and with the intent to overcome some critical factors pertaining them, I focus my attention on the choice-based conjoint analysis, a particular stated preferences method that estimates the structure of consumers’ preferences given their choices between alternative service options. Discrete choice models and the traditional compensatory utility maximization framework are extended by the inclusion of the attribute cutoffs into the decision problem formulation. The major theoretical aspects of the described approach are examined and discussed, showing that it is able to identify the relative importance of the relevant attributes, calculating elasticity and monetary evaluation, and to determine a service quality index. Then simulations enable the identification of potential service quality levels, so that marketing managers have valuable information to plan their best business strategies. We present findings from an empirical study in the public transport sector designed to gain insights into the use of the choice-based conjoint analysis.
description: Statistica; Vol 66, No 1 (2006); 85-113
Eustrophopsis arizonensis
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Warner, William B.
name: Pollock, Darren A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tetratomidae
Eustrophopsis
Eustrophopsis arizonensis

description: Eustrophopsis arizonensis (Horn, 1888)
 Eustrophus arizonensis Horn 1888: 34.
Literature Records:Apache, Cochise, Coconino, Gila, Graham, Navajo, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Yavapai counties (Pollock 2012).
Specimens Examined: ASUHIC (Cochise, Gila, Maricopa, Pima, Santa Cruz counties).
Notes. We add Maricopa County to the county-level distribution given by Pollock (2012).
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Warner, William B. & Pollock, Darren A., 2024, New Records and a Checklist of Melandryidae and Tetratomidae Known from Arizona, USA (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 53-60 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (1) on page 57, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-78.1.53, http://zenodo.org/record/13243675
A pitfall in the use of the Lagrange multiplier test in multivariate ARCH models
Creators: name: Attanasio, O. P.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Uno dei vantaggi nell'uso della statistica dei moltiplicatori di Lagrange consiste nel fatto che il modello teorico sotto studio può essere stimato solo sotto l'ipotesi nulla. Ciò sembra suggerire l'uso di tale test nei modelli ARCH multivariati in cui la procedura di stima sotto  ipotesi alternativa può essere estremamente costosa. L'articolo mette però in evidenza alcuni problemi nell'applicazione del test LM a tali modelli. Innanzitutto si fa notare come l'ipotesi nulla (assenza di eteroschedasticità) sia sulla frontiera dello spazio dei parametri. Inoltre Sí dimostra che, nonostante ci siano N (N + 1)/2 parametri nella matrice che determina 1'eteroschedasticità, il test ha soltanto N gradi di libertà se si tiene conto che tale matrice deve essere semidefmita positiva.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 4 (1987)
An engineered model to elucidate molecular clutch mechanisms of mechanotransduction during bone nanoscale mineralization
Creators: name: Vignolo, Sofia
name: Athirasala, Avathamsa
name: Bertassoni, Luiz E.
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Tissue Engineering
subject: Bone Regeneration
subject: Osteogenesis
subject: Hydrogels
subject: mineralization
subject: collagen hydrogel

description: Ossification is a developmental process where bone is created in appositional layers through the gradual calcification of the native extracellular matrix (ECM). This evolution is orchestrated by biological processes that allow for mesenchymal condensation of stem cells and their subsequent differentiation into bone-forming cells. While bone mechanobiology has been studied in skeletal development and fracture healing, the interplay between mechanics and biology during the transition of calcifying osteoid to mature bone remains poorly understood. Our objective is to replicate the critical changes in the ECM during bone formation to study the step-by-step process of bone regeneration in vitro, as current models are limited. Ultimately, we hope to advance the fundamental understanding of the mechanobiology behind bone formation, contributing to future research on regenerative therapies.