cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The role of "public" in public-private partnershups : reading the cultural heritage management practices of Turkey
Creators: name: Gursu, Isilay
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2013
Subjects: NX Arts in general

description: This thesis attempts to analyse the notion of “public” as it is used in the cultural heritage field focusing on the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects
that have emerged in Turkey in the last decade. The study has two main fields of inquiry: the first one is the “public as state”, and the second one is “public as people”.
The way in which these two parties interact on cultural heritage management issues is another important aspect of this work. The notion of “public as state” has been investigated
 through the laws, protocols and recent PPP projects that have come onto the scene in Turkey. The main source of inquiry comes from state discourse based on media analysis, the analysis and categorization of different laws implemented since 2000, and also the language that has been employed by the state. The second concept, “public as people” has been investig
 ated through a field survey conducted with 124 people at 21 different archaeological sites and museums. The intention here is not to measure the success of the existing projects
 or, by no means to offer generic suggestions to improve their practices; but rather to analyse the context that has led to the emergence of the first examples
 of PPP in the cultural heritage sector in Turkey and to place this process in a theoretical framework.
Holographic Higgs Phases
Creators: name: Rozali, Moshe
name: Smyth, Darren
name: Sorkin, Evgeny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss phases of gauge theories in the holographic context, and formulate a criterion for the existence of a Higgs phase, where the gauge redundancy is "spontaneously broken", in purely bulk language. This condition, the existence of a finite tension solitonic string representing a narrow magnetic flux tube, is necessary for a bulk theory to be interpreted as a Higgs phase of a boundary gauge theory. We demonstrate the existence of such solitons in both top-down and bottom-up examples of holographic theories. In particular, we numerically construct new solitonic solutions in AdS black hole background, for various values of the boundary gauge coupling, which are used to demonstrate that the bulk theory models a superconductor, rather than a superfluid. The criterion we find is expected to be useful in finding holographic duals of color superconducting phases of gauge theories at finite density.
description: Corrected typos
The social and structural production of violence, safety and sexual risk reduction among street-based sex workers
Creators: name: Krüsi Penney, Andrea
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Background: Globally, sex work is highly stigmatized, and the dominant policy approach has been criminalization and police enforcement. Despite a growing body of research on the social and structural determinants of violence, and sexual risk among sex workers, less is known about the specific features of these environments and the dynamic interplay that shape the negotiation of safety and sexual risk in sex transactions. Therefore, the objective of this dissertation is to examine how social and structural factors such as stigma, evolving sex work legislation and policing practices intersect to shape the working conditions of primarily street-based sex workers in Vancouver. Methods: This dissertation is based on in-depth qualitative interviews, focus groups and ethnographic fieldwork with street-based sex workers in Vancouver. Drawing on concepts of structural vulnerability and structural stigma, data analysis sought to characterize how evolving social and structural environments shape working conditions, health and safety among street-based sex workers. Results: The findings of this dissertation suggest that intersecting regimes of criminalization and stigmatization serve to perpetuate labour conditions that render sex workers at increased risk for violence and poor health, and further deny sex workers their citizenship rights to police protection and legal recourse. Despite police rhetoric of prioritizing the safety of sex workers, criminalization and policing strategies that target clients reproduce the harms created by the criminalization of sex workers, in particular, risks for violence and abuse. Despite the lack of formal legal and policy support for brothels in Canada, the environmental-structural supports afforded by unsanctioned, safer indoor sex work environments, in the context of supportive housing programs for women, promoted increased control over negotiating sex work transactions, including the capacity to refuse unwanted services, negotiate condom use, and avoid violent perpetrators. Conclusion: The collective work presented in this dissertation highlights the complex ways in which sex work related stigma, evolving sex work legislation, policing practices and sex work environments intersect to shape the working conditions of street-based sex workers, including citizenship and labour rights, violence, and ill health. The findings of this dissertation lend further support to calls for the full decriminalization of sex work.
The museum heritage of Italian universities : current situation and improvement opportunities
Creators: name: Tarantino, Chiara
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2013
Subjects: NX Arts in general

description: Italian universities have a rich museum heritage accumulated since their origins, which in some cases date back to the Sixteenth century.
From that period it has been enriched and transformed, to include at least 265 museums, collections and monuments, unfortunately mostly unknown.
Is this heritage a marginal one, or is it to be valued? This research will propose an answer, starting from the description of the heritage, considering its role,
interpreting the universities policies, and examining the dynamics of its management and prospects for improvement. There is no specific complete and updated bibliographical source
on Italian university museums in general, nor on the specific aspects covered by this research, while there are many articles and monographs on individual museums
and “museum systems” that have been particularly useful in reconstructing the history and characteristics of exhibition. For this reason the research was carried out
by using and comparing other sources of different types such as documents, websites, interviews and appropriately compiled questionnaires.
University policies turn out to be various and contradictory and just a few of them perceive their museum heritage as a point of strength, dedicating it adequate resources.
However, it still has a priceless value, closely linked to research and teaching, both for the university community and society, thanks to its quality and consistency
of collections, as well as its current function, that could easily be enhanced in better conditions. In many cases, the situation could be improved simpley using coordinated
management, in order to optimise resources and limit investment, and general planned policies.
Additional file 1 of Employing a mobile health decision aid to improve decision-making for patients with advanced prostate cancer and their decision partners/proxies: the CHAMPION randomized controlled trial study design
Creators: name: Carhuapoma, Lourdes R.
name: Thayer, Winter M.
name: Elmore, Catherine E.
name: Gildersleeve, Jane
name: Singh, Tanmay
name: Shaukat, Farah
name: Uveges, Melissa K.
name: Gray, Tamryn
name: Chu, Crystal
name: Song, Daniel
name: Hollen, Patricia J.
name: Wenzel, Jennifer
name: Jones, Randy A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. SPIRIT Checklist
Open Science Policy Checklist for Research Funding Organisations (RFOs)
Creators: name: Angelaki, Marina
name: Papadopoulou, Elli
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: open science
open access policies
research funding organisations

description: The OpenAIRE Advance project has designed a checklist to enable research funding organisations (RFOs) to assess their readiness in adopting an Open Science policy. It covers main elements that should be taken into account in designing a policy that is aligned with the Horizon2020 requirements on Open Access and the key developments at EU level related to Open Science/ Open Access.
A ballistic motion disrupted by quantum reflections
Creators: name: Clark, Jeremy Thane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81V80, 60F05

description: I study a Lindblad dynamics modeling a quantum test particle in a Dirac comb that collides with particles from a background gas. The main result is a homogenization theorem in an adiabatic limiting regime involving large initial momentum for the test particle. Over the time interval considered, the particle would exhibit essentially ballistic motion if either the singular periodic potential or the kicks from the gas were removed. However, the particle behaves diffusively when both sources of forcing are present. The conversion of the motion from ballistic to diffusive is generated by occasional quantum reflections that result when the test particle's momentum is driven through a collision near to an element of the half-spaced reciprocal lattice of the Dirac comb.
description: 54 pages. I rewrote the introduction and simplified some of the presentation
IMPACT BEHAVIOR OF AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE (AP) - HYDROXYL-TERMINATED POLYBUTADIENE (HTPB) COMPOSITE MATERIAL
Creators: name: Ravva, Saranya
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Aerospace structures
Aerospace materials
Additive manufacturing
Composite and hybrid materials

description: This work investigated the effects of varying the crystal sizes of ammonium perchlorate (AP) when embedded with a polymeric binder, hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) on impact-induced temperature behavior. AP and HTPB are the most used oxidizers and fuel binders in the aerospace solid rocket design industry. In this study, samples of 200 µm and 400µm coarse AP crystals in HTPB were constructed using a conventional hand-mixing method. Using a parametric optimization technique such as the Taguchi method, direct-ink-writing as the additive manufacturing process was used for achieving the required shape fidelity in printing HTPB and by introducing ultraviolet polymers to decrease the curing time. A drop hammer experiment in conjunction with an infrared camera was used to study the impact-induced behavior in the conventionally made AP-HTPB samples. The thermal images obtained from the camera at millisecond resolution are invaluable and provide information about distribution across the sample surface, and the evolution of temperature rise observed in the samples which are complex and not easily understood otherwise and therefore help in improving and attaining desired propellant performance. A two-sample t-Test has been utilized to infer the results and statistical nonsignificance has been observed in the highest temperature rises among 200 µm and 400 µm AP-HTPB sample conditions but a difference in temperature distribution has been observed. A much uniform distribution of temperature over the sample surface on impact is observed in thermal images of 200 µm AP-HTPB sample condition compared to 400 µm AP-HTPB sample condition.
Religion and quality of democracy in Israel
Creators: name: Giommoni, Valentina
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2013
Subjects: JA Political science (General)

description: This research aims to answer the following questions: How does religion (in particular Judaism) affect the quality of democracy in Israel?
Why, historically, religion assumed this role? How the correlation between religion and democracy affects the life of the so called "dominant" Jewish group?
Using the TODEM method for democratic deepening, the procedural dimensions are investigated. The dimensions are: rule of law, electoral and inter-institutional accountability,
participation and competition. After analyzing of all of them, a strong influence of religion is found in rule of law, participation and competition.
This influence is evident at the institutional as well as at the social level and deeply affects the quality of democracy. Although the research does not question
the belonging of Israel to the democratic group, a label is created to underline the shaping influence of religion: Orthodemocracy. This term refers both to the institutional role
of religion (all recognized religions in Israel are given this role) and, in a more specific acceptation, to the role of Orthodox Judaism. The legal validity
of religious norms in Orthodemocracy creates paths of discrimination and inequality that greatly impact on the daily life of the citizens. Jewish citizens, that a popular ethnic
approach portrays as dominant in the Israeli society are all but exempted from the discriminatory effects. The strong influence that religion plays has
historical reasons: this research argues that the source of power, since the diffusion of the nationalistic ideology, was the need for the state-enterprise
to be agreed upon among all Jews. Religious legitimization, especially at the international level, was an absolute necessity for the Zionist project.
Benefiting from this very political need, the religious minority managed to achieve astounding victories in terms of autonomy and influence in the society.
After the dominance of the Zionists political leadership extinguished, the power was maintained through a new political role that the religious partiesacquired
in the fragmented Israeli society: that of Kingmakers.
Is the Court of Justice of the European Union a mere instrument in the hands of member states?
Creators: name: Belchev, Pavel
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2013
Subjects: JA Political science (General)

description: The thesis is an attempt to present the Court of Justice of the European Union as a rational actor performing in a
strategic manner in accordance to its institutional preferences. The Court has been found to follow a self-perpetuating pattern of decision making that allows it
to define a political agenda that the institution is aiming to achieve. This model is in line with the New Institutionalism theoretical assumptions and
expectations and most especially to its rational choice and historical sub-branches. The findings in the dissertation are mostly in the quantitative analysis
of an extensive dataset collected by the author for the research purposes of the project. The qualitative methodology is also used through the case study
instrument of examining the doctrinal rulings from the Court‟s case-law and their relation to the „National versus communitarian‟ legal and political conflict
and its often opposing interests. The key argument in the thesis is the finding that the Judges in their rulings at the Court of Justice seem to discriminate
between the bigger countries and the rest of the less powerful EU member states. This enables the Court to balance between its institutional interests and
those of the EU national governments which are a potential threat to the Court's pursuit of extended powers and competences, which is in agreement with all neoinstitutional arguments.
Additional file 2 of Employing a mobile health decision aid to improve decision-making for patients with advanced prostate cancer and their decision partners/proxies: the CHAMPION randomized controlled trial study design
Creators: name: Carhuapoma, Lourdes R.
name: Thayer, Winter M.
name: Elmore, Catherine E.
name: Gildersleeve, Jane
name: Singh, Tanmay
name: Shaukat, Farah
name: Uveges, Melissa K.
name: Gray, Tamryn
name: Chu, Crystal
name: Song, Daniel
name: Hollen, Patricia J.
name: Wenzel, Jennifer
name: Jones, Randy A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. World Health Organization Trial Registration Data Set
Additional file 1 of A combined behavioural economics- and simulation-based medical education to promote effectiveness among medical residents in coping with workplace violence in Northern China: a quasi-experimental study
Creators: name: Liu, Chao
name: Liu, Weijing
name: Jiao, Mingli
name: Li, Ye
name: Zhang, Gangyu
name: Wei, Lifeng
name: Zhou, Shuang
name: Li, Yuanheng
name: Sha, Zhuowa
name: Hao, Yanhua
name: Wu, Qunhong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire Survey onHospital Workplace Violence1.Basicinformation.
The interplay between bureaucracy and globalization
Creators: name: Mirkina, Irina
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2013
Subjects: JA Political science (General)

description: This research focuses on a twofold issue: 1) the challenges that globalization creates to institutions, having to deal with
a new international order; 2) the challenges that state governance creates for global actors, having to adapt themselves to the national and sub-national
peculiarities. The globalization–bureaucracy interplay is a politically contested phenomenon, in which different models of interactions among states, firms,
and citizens appear and transform both nationally and internationally. At the national level, the impact of globalization on quality of governance is examined
empirically across countries. The analysis with fixed effects models is based on a panel dataset, covering over 100 countries in the period 1992–2010.
The study examines an effect from both economic and social globalization factors on different governance features, including governance effectiveness,
regulatory quality, control of corruption, accountability, political stability, and rule of law. The findings show that various governance features seem to
diverge in how easily they respond to the new state of affairs that follows with more globalization. Moreover, in line with the theoretical predictions,
globalization affects institutions differently depending on the country‘s level of development. The results thus suggest that the previous findings on positive
effects of international economic flows on institutional quality are likely driven by changes in rich countries. The impact of institutional policies on globalization
factors is analyzed at the sub-national level, using a panel dataset of 82 Russian regions in the period 1995–2010. The study takes an advantage of examining
different types of fiscal incentives, introduced in some regions of Russia in 2003, treating them as a natural experiment and estimating the causal effect of
tax concessions on foreign direct investment inflows with two causal inference techniques: difference in differences estimation and synthetic controls method.
The findings confirm that tax concessions for investment lead to more foreign direct investment inflows. However, selective tax concessions for the government
sanctioned important investment projects do not have the expected effect, or the effect is sporadic and weak at best. As governments seek to increase the
national and sub-national attractiveness for foreign investors, these findings have important implications for the design of institutional policies.
Daphnia similis
Creators: name: Popova, Ekaterina V.
name: Petrusek, Adam
name: Kořínek, Vladimír
name: Mergeay, Joachim
name: Bekker, Eugeniya I.
name: Karabanov, Dmitry P.
name: Galimov, Yan R.
name: Neretina, Tatyana V.
name: Taylor, Derek J.
name: Kotov, Alexey A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca
Macrothricidae
Daphnia
Daphnia similis

description: Key for determination of species from the D. similis group in Old World based on male characters
 1 Anal teeth as in female (not reduced)................................................................ D. similis
- Anal teeth in distal portion of postabdomen reduced in size and number.......................................... 2
 2 Compound eye very large, occupies almost whole anterior portion of head, which forms an inflated dome....... D. sinensis
- Compound eye relatively small, anteriormost portion of head without a dome...................................... 3
 3 Fornix rounded; usually distalmost anal tooth usually relatively strong; no additional seta on exopodite V..... D. similoides
 - Fornix sharp and pointed; distalmost anal teeth minute; additional seta on exopodite V............... D. inopinata sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Popova, Ekaterina V., Petrusek, Adam, Kořínek, Vladimír, Mergeay, Joachim, Bekker, Eugeniya I., Karabanov, Dmitry P., Galimov, Yan R., Neretina, Tatyana V., Taylor, Derek J. & Kotov, Alexey A., 2016, Revision of the Old World Daphnia (Ctenodaphnia) similis group (Cladocera: Daphniidae), pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 4161 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4161.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/272238
An Algorithmic Characterization of Polynomial Functions over $Z_{p^n}$
Creators: name: Guha, Ashwin
name: Dukkipati, Ambedkar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we consider polynomial representability of functions defined over $Z_{p^n}$, where $p$ is a prime and $n$ is a positive integer. Our aim is to provide an algorithmic characterization that (i) answers the decision problem: to determine whether a given function over $Z_{p^n}$ is polynomially representable or not, and (ii) finds the polynomial if it is polynomially representable. The previous characterizations given by Kempner (1921) and Carlitz (1964) are existential in nature and only lead to an exhaustive search method, i.e., algorithm with complexity exponential in size of the input. Our characterization leads to an algorithm whose running time is linear in size of input. We also extend our result to the multivariate case.
Additional file 1: of Tonic ATP-mediated growth suppression in peripheral nerve glia requires arrestin-PP2 and is evaded in NF1
Creators: name: Coover, Robert
name: Healy, Tabitha
name: Guo, Li
name: Chaney, Katherine
name: Hennigan, Robert
name: Thomson, Craig
name: Aschbacher-Smith, Lindsey
name: Jankowski, Michael
name: Ratner, Nancy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S1. A) Von Frey filament, and grip strength analysis for BupOH and TTX at days 1 and 5. B) Von Frey filament analysis for BupOH treated mice taken at day 1. C) Apyrase activity assay, inactivated apyrase (squares) did not reduce ATP levels as determined by luminescence. D) Von Frey filament analysis for mice used in the pulse chase experiments. E) Quantification of primary wt mSC western blot intensities after ATP treatment normalized to non phosphorylated forms plotted over time. F) Quantification of primary Nf1-/- mSC western blot intensities after ATP treatment normalized to non phosphorylated forms plotted over time. G) WT mSC proliferation assay, treated with two different AKT inhibitors. (PDF 2423 kb)
Conceptualizing and explaining post-soviet authoritarian breakdowns : cases of "Color revolutions".
Creators: name: Rahmetov, Anvarjon
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2013
Subjects: JA Political science (General)

description: Post-Soviet politics since 2003 has been characterized by mobilization of opposition supporters after allegedly fraudulent
elections, demanding the re-run of elections or resignation of the incumbent leaders. When such mobilizations succeeded in unseating the incumbent leaders or
disrupting pre-arranged power successions, they came to be known as the ‘color revolutions.’ This dissertation seeks to conceptualize and explain the color revolutions.
Comparing various conceptualizations, I conclude that it is best to conceptualize these events as authoritarian breakdowns. Conceptualizing the ‘color revolutions’
as authoritarian breakdown rids these events of teleological expectations of regime change and helps the researcher focus on a narrow and clearly defined set of political
phenomena. The causes and facilitating conditions of authoritarian breakdowns are explored using case studies of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia, as well as
qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of 19 cases of post-electoral protest between 2000 and 2012. The case studies confirm the importance of political actors, their unity
and organizational capacity, the regime type and media freedom, as well as predispositions of the electorate to change. However, a more systematic test of all
the conditions in terms of ‘necessity’ and ‘sufficiency’ for the outcome demonstrate the following. In terms of necessity for the outcome, division within the security
forces is the most consistent condition, followed by succession crisis. In terms of ‘sufficiency,’ however, only one condition, divisions within the security forces, passes consistency tests.
Additional file 3: of Comparative transcriptomic and metabolic analysis reveals the effect of melatonin on delaying anthracnose incidence upon postharvest banana fruit peel
Creators: name: Li, Taotao
name: Wu, Qixian
name: Zhu, Hong
name: Zhou, Yijie
name: Jiang, Yueming
name: Gao, Huijun
name: Yun, Ze
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S3. Cluster of the transcription factor related genes using BinGo in Cytoscape. (DOCX 1516 kb)
Lossy Compression via Sparse Linear Regression: Performance under Minimum-distance Encoding
Creators: name: Venkataramanan, Ramji
name: Joseph, Antony
name: Tatikonda, Sekhar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study a new class of codes for lossy compression with the squared-error distortion criterion, designed using the statistical framework of high-dimensional linear regression. Codewords are linear combinations of subsets of columns of a design matrix. Called a Sparse Superposition or Sparse Regression codebook, this structure is motivated by an analogous construction proposed recently by Barron and Joseph for communication over an AWGN channel. For i.i.d Gaussian sources and minimum-distance encoding, we show that such a code can attain the Shannon rate-distortion function with the optimal error exponent, for all distortions below a specified value. It is also shown that sparse regression codes are robust in the following sense: a codebook designed to compress an i.i.d Gaussian source of variance $σ^2$ with (squared-error) distortion $D$ can compress any ergodic source of variance less than $σ^2$ to within distortion $D$. Thus the sparse regression ensemble retains many of the good covering properties of the i.i.d random Gaussian ensemble, while having having a compact representation in terms of a matrix whose size is a low-order polynomial in the block-length.
description: This version corrects a typo in the statement of Theorem 2 of the published paper
On the analysis and evaluation of trust and reputation systems
Creators: name: Celestini, Alessandro
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2013
Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science

description: In recent years, we have witnessed an increasing use of trust and reputation systems in different areas of ICT.
The idea at the base of trust and reputation systems is of letting users to rate the provided services after each interaction. Other users may use aggregate
ratings to compute reputation scores for a given party. The computed reputation scores are a collective measure of parties trustworthiness and are used to
drive parties interactions. Due to the widespread use of reputation systems, research work on them is intensifying and several models have been proposed.
This calls for a methodology for the analysis and the evaluation of trust and reputation systems that can help researcher and developers in studying, designing
and implementing such systems. In this thesis we propose different kinds of theoretical results and software tools that could be useful means for researchers
and developers in area of trust and reputation systems. Our work addresses the three main stages of trust and reputation systems development, namely study,
design and implementation. We provide: 1) a general framework based on Bayesian decision theory for the assessment of trust and reputation models,
2) an analysis methodology for reputation systems based on a coordination language, 3) a software tool for network-aware evaluation of reputation systems and their rapid prototyping.
Additional file 9: of Early-life determinants of hypoxia-inducible factor 3A geneÂ (HIF3A) methylation: a birth cohort study
Creators: name: Mansell, Toby
name: Ponsonby, Anne-Louise
name: Januar, Vania
name: Novakovic, Boris
name: Collier, Fiona
name: Burgner, David
name: Vuillermin, Peter
name: Ryan, Joanne
name: Saffery, Richard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Table of primer and assay information for HIF3A.1 and HIF3A.2. (DOCX 13 kb)
Additional file 1 of Comparative analysis reveals within-population genome size variation in a rotifer is driven by large genomic elements with highly abundant satellite DNA repeat elements
Creators: name: Stelzer, C. P.
name: Blommaert, J.
name: Waldvogel, A. M.
name: Pichler, M.
name: Hecox-Lea, B.
name: Mark Welch, D. B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary figures and tables.
“All of the water that is in our reserves and that is in our territory is ours” : colonial and Indigenous water governance in unceded Indigenous territories in British Columbia
Creators: name: Simms, Beatrice Rose
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: With increasing legal recognition of Aboriginal rights and title, growing calls for collaborative water governance arrangements with First Nations, and approval of British Columbia’s new Water Sustainability Act (2014), shifts are unfolding in water governance in BC which have some significant implications for First Nations. First Nations across British Columbia have also clearly articulated that water and water governance are priority areas of concern. Within this context, this thesis examines the historic and present roles and experiences of First Nations in colonial water governance in British Columbia, based primarily on a case study conducted with the Lower Similkameen Indian Band. In Chapter 2, I examine the historical formation of reserves and the colonial water allocation system, exploring how the demarcation of reserve boundaries and water licenses established some fundamental barriers for First Nations in water access and governance that persist today. Chapter 3 provides an overview of concerns about colonial water governance that were identified by Lower Similkameen Indian Band interviewees and others, followed by a critical discussion of how a collaborative watershed planning model could address, or further entrench, existing governance challenges. This thesis provides a timely and relevant commentary on the contested realities of First Nations’ engagement in colonial water governance in the province. Insights suggest that while there is growing recognition that First Nations have a legitimate place at the center of water governance in British Columbia, the collaborative watershed planning approach adopted in the Water Sustainability Act falls well short of adopting the necessary steps towards full Indigenous water governance or water co-governance. Existing colonial water governance challenges and failures are not likely to be addressed by a collaborative watershed planning approach. Overall, this thesis suggests that the transition to more effective and just water governance in British Columbia includes observation of Aboriginal rights and title, commitment to relationship and trust building, and capacity development for colonial and First Nations governments.
Duality with expanding maps and shrinking maps, and its applications to Gauss maps
Creators: name: Furukawa, Katsuhisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14N05 (Primary) 14M15 (Secondary)

description: We study expanding maps and shrinking maps of subvarieties of Grassmann varieties in arbitrary characteristic. The shrinking map was studied independently by Landsberg and Piontkowski in order to characterize Gauss images. To develop their method, we introduce the expanding map, which is a dual notion of the shrinking map and is a generalization of the Gauss map. Then we give a characterization of separable Gauss maps and their images, which yields results for the following topics: (1) Linearity of general fibers of separable Gauss maps; (2) Generalization of the characterization of Gauss images; (3) Duality on one-dimensional parameter spaces of linear subvarieties lying in developable varieties.
description: 28 pages, v3: added some examples, v2: the title has been changed from v1 "Linearity of general fibers of separable Gauss maps"
Optimal starting times, stopping times and risk measures for algorithmic trading: Target Close and Implementation Shortfall
Creators: name: Labadie, Mauricio
name: Lehalle, Charles-Albert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We derive explicit recursive formulas for Target Close (TC) and Implementation Shortfall (IS) in the Almgren-Chriss framework. We explain how to compute the optimal starting and stopping times for IS and TC, respectively, given a minimum trading size. We also show how to add a minimum participation rate constraint (Percentage of Volume, PVol) for both TC and IS. We also study an alternative set of risk measures for the optimisation of algorithmic trading curves. We assume a self-similar process (e.g. Levy process, fractional Brownian motion or fractal process) and define a new risk measure, the p-variation, which reduces to the variance if the process is a brownian motion. We deduce the explicit formula for the TC and IS algorithms under a self-similar process. We show that there is an equivalence between selfsimilar models and a family of risk measures called p-variations: assuming a self-similar process and calibrating empirically the parameter p for the p-variation yields the same result as assuming a Brownian motion and using the p-variation as risk measure instead of the variance. We also show that p can be seen as a measure of the aggressiveness: p increases if and only if the TC algorithm starts later and executes faster. Finally, we show how the parameter p of the p-variation can be implied from the optimal starting time of TC, and that under this framework p can be viewed as a measure of the joint impact of market impact (i.e. liquidity) and volatility.
description: 27 pages
Additional file 2 of Comparative analysis reveals within-population genome size variation in a rotifer is driven by large genomic elements with highly abundant satellite DNA repeat elements
Creators: name: Stelzer, C. P.
name: Blommaert, J.
name: Waldvogel, A. M.
name: Pichler, M.
name: Hecox-Lea, B.
name: Mark Welch, D. B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 2. Report on genome assembly and contaminant filtering provided by VBCF (Vienna Biocenter Core Facility).
Modular quantizations of Lie algebras of Cartan type $H$ via Drinfeld Twists
Creators: name: Tong, Zhaojia
name: Hu, Naihong
name: Wang, Xiuling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 17B37, 17B62, Secondary 17B50

description: We construct explicit Drinfel'd twists for the generalized Cartan type $H$ Lie algebras in characteristic $0$ and obtain the corresponding quantizations and their integral forms. Via making modular reductions including modulo $p$ reduction and modulo $p$-restrictedness reduction, and base changes, we derive certain modular quantizations of the restricted universal enveloping algebra $\mathbf u(\mathbf{H}(2n;\underline{1}))$ in characteristic $p$. They are new non-pointed Hopf algebras of truncated $p$-polynomial noncommutative and noncocommutative deformation of prime-power dimension $p^{p^{2n}-1}$, which contain the well-known Radford algebras as Hopf subalgebras. As a by-product, we also get some Jordanian quantizations for $\mathfrak {sp}_{2n}$.
description: 33 pages
Open Science: cosa succede in Europa
Creators: name: Giglia, Elena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Science

description: Presentazione alle giornate ARCHEOFOSS, Università di Torino, 12 dicembre 2023

Open Science come "new normal"
Come cambia la valutazione della ricerca
Il dibattito in Europa (un po' più ricco)
International Stock Market Efficiency: A Non-Bayesian Time-Varying Model Approach
Creators: name: Ito, Mikio
name: Noda, Akihiko
name: Wada, Tatsuma
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper develops a non-Bayesian methodology to analyze the time-varying structure of international linkages and market efficiency in G7 countries. We consider a non-Bayesian time-varying vector autoregressive (TV-VAR) model, and apply it to estimate the joint degree of market efficiency in the sense of Fama (1970, 1991). Our empirical results provide a new perspective that the international linkages and market efficiency change over time and that their behaviors correspond well to historical events of the international financial system.
description: 21 pages, 2 tables, 6 figures
Determination of melting point trends of model salts by molecular dynamics simulations
Creators: name: Lindenberg, Erin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: We examine the melting point trends across sets of coarse grain model salts using NPT molecular dynamics simulations. The melting point trends are established relative to a charge-centered, size-symmetric salt that is closely akin to the restricted primitive model. Two of the common features of ionic liquids, namely size asymmetry and a distributed cation charge, are systematically varied in a set of model salts. We find that redistributing the cation charge in salts with size-symmetric, monovalent, spherical ions can reduce the melting temperature by up to 50% compared to the charge-centered case. Displacing the charge from the ion center reduces the enthalpy of the liquid more than that of the solid resulting in a lower melting point. We consider two sets of size-asymmetric salts with size ratios up to 3:1 using different length scales; the melting point trends are different in each set, but within each set we find salts that achieve a melting point reduction of over 60% from the charge-centered, size-symmetric case. The lowest melting point range we find is between 450 K and 500 K. We find diversity in the solid phase structures. For all size ratios with small cation charge displacements, the salts crystallize with orientationally disordered cations. For equal-sized ions, once the cation charge is moved far enough off-center, the salts become trapped in glassy states upon cooling and we find an underlying crystal structure (space group 111) that features orientationally ordered ion pairs. The salts with large size ratios and large cation charge displacements achieve the lowest melting points and also show premelting transitions at lower temperatures (two as low as 300 K). We find two types of premelting behaviour; some salts exhibit a fast ion conductor phase, where the smaller anions move through a face-centered cubic (fcc) cation lattice, whereas other salts have a plastic crystal phase composed of ion pairs rotating on an fcc lattice.
Optimal hypothesis testing for high dimensional covariance matrices
Creators: name: Cai, T. Tony
name: Ma, Zongming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper considers testing a covariance matrix $Σ$ in the high dimensional setting where the dimension $p$ can be comparable or much larger than the sample size $n$. The problem of testing the hypothesis $H_0:Σ=Σ_0$ for a given covariance matrix $Σ_0$ is studied from a minimax point of view. We first characterize the boundary that separates the testable region from the non-testable region by the Frobenius norm when the ratio between the dimension $p$ over the sample size $n$ is bounded. A test based on a $U$-statistic is introduced and is shown to be rate optimal over this asymptotic regime. Furthermore, it is shown that the power of this test uniformly dominates that of the corrected likelihood ratio test (CLRT) over the entire asymptotic regime under which the CLRT is applicable. The power of the $U$-statistic based test is also analyzed when $p/n$ is unbounded.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/12-BEJ455 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
Speluncarius
Creators: name: Hlaváč, Peter
name: Lakota, Ján
name: Čeplík, Dávid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Speluncarius

description: Speluncarius (s. str.) minutulus J. [G.] Müller, 1937
 Redescription. Sciaky, 1982: 20.
 Note. This species was described from Monte Shkëlzën in northern Albania and no material was available for the study.
 Distribution. Albania (Prokletije: Shkëlzen, Maja e Shkëlzenit).
description: Published as part of Hlaváč, Peter, Lakota, Ján & Čeplík, Dávid, 2016, Endogean and cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XVII. A new species of the genus Speluncarius Reitter, 1886 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Harpalinae, Pterostichini) from Croatia, pp. 137-140 in Zootaxa 4161 (1) on page 138, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4161.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/263670
Imaging Multiple Colloidal Particles by Fitting Electromagnetic Scattering Solutions to Digital Holograms
Creators: name: Fung, Jerome
name: Perry, Rebecca W.
name: Dimiduk, Thomas G.
name: Manoharan, Vinothan N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Digital holographic microscopy is a fast three-dimensional (3D) imaging tool with many applications in soft matter physics. Recent studies have shown that electromagnetic scattering solutions can be fit to digital holograms to obtain the 3D positions of isolated colloidal spheres with nanometer precision and millisecond temporal resolution. Here we describe the results of new techniques that extend the range of systems that can be studied with fitting. We show that an exact multisphere superposition scattering solution can be used to fit holograms of colloidal clusters containing up to six spheres. We also introduce an approximate and computationally simpler solution, Mie superposition, that is valid for multiple spheres spaced several wavelengths or more from one another. We show that this method can be used to fit holograms of several spheres on an emulsion droplet, and we give a quantitative criterion for assessing its validity.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
Additional file 2 of Commensal microbe-derived acetate suppresses NAFLD/NASH development via hepatic FFAR2 signalling in mice
Creators: name: Aoki, Ryo
name: Onuki, Masayoshi
name: Hattori, Koya
name: Ito, Masato
name: Yamada, Takahiro
name: Kamikado, Kohei
name: Kim, Yun-Gi
name: Nakamoto, Nobuhiro
name: Kimura, Ikuo
name: Clarke, Julie M.
name: Kanai, Takanori
name: Hase, Koji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Figure S1. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease activity score. Prebiotic inulin supplementation prevents NAFLD/NASH development. Mice were fed a low-fat/fructose/cholesterol diet (LFC), a high-fat/fructose/cholesterol diet (HFC) or a 10% (w/w) inulin-supplemented HFC diet (HFC+IN) for 20 weeks. Data are mean ± SEM. *P<0.05, **P<0.01, ***P<0.001 (Kruskal-Wallis followed by Steel-Dwass test). Supplemental Figure S2. Alpha diversity index. a, Pielou evenness. b, Simpson reciprocal index. c, Taxonomic distinctness Λ+. Each point represents an individual mouse (thick bars, means; error bars, SEM). *P<0.05, **P<0.01, ***P<0.001 (ANOVA followed by post hoc Tukey’s test). Supplemental Figure S3. Phylogenetic tree predicted by the neighbour-joining method using 16S rRNA gene sequences a, Isolated strains 160, 169 and 174 belong to the Bacteroides acidifaciens cluster. Strain 174 was used for the gnotobiotic experiment. b, Isolated strains 1, 2 and 5 belong to the Blautia producta cluster. Strain 1 was used for the gnotobiotic experiment. Bootstrap values are expressed as percentages of 1000 replications. The scale bars show evolutionary distances in units of the number of nucleotide substitutions per site. Supplemental Figure S4. A deficiency of Ffar3 does not affect the features of NAFLD/NASH C57BL/6 WT and Ffar3−/− mice were fed an HFC or an HFC+IN diet for 20 weeks. a, Body mass. b, Liver to body mass ratio. c, Plasma cholesterol. d, Plasma ALT. Each point represents an individual mouse (thick bars, means; error bars, SEM).*P<0.05, **P<0.01, ***P<0.001 (ANOVA followed by post hoc Tukey’s test). Supplemental Figure S5. a deficiency in Ffar2 does not affect the obese phenotype but NAFLD. a, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease activity score. b, Body mass. c, Epididymal fat to body mass ratio. c, Plasma triglyceride. Each point represents an individual mouse (thick bars, means; error bars, SEM). Data represent at least two independent experiments with similar results. Data are mean ± SEM. *P<0.05, **P<0.01, ***P<0.001 on Kruskal-Wallis followed by Steel-Dwass test (a) or ANOVA followed by post hoc Tukey’s test (b-d).