cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An examination of heterogenity in child outcomes for the intact family group
Creators: name: Wood, Jamie Rose
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Diversity within the intact family group was explored using National Longitudinal Study of Children and Youth survey data from a representative sample of Canadian parents raising children aged 4-11 (N= 14054). This study tests the null hypothesis that children from intact families display positive outcomes, regardless of within group differences in family life situations. Differences in parental reports of children's academic, psychosocial and behavioural outcomes based on within group divisions by blended family status, parental work demands, partner satisfaction and family functioning were examined and compared to differences found between parental reports for children from intact, single-parent and stepparent families. The intact family group exhibited the same range of experiences and outcomes as the total sample. Both between and within group divisions explained less than 1% of the variance in child outcomes once the effects of child's gender, family size, income, parental depression and parenting were controlled. These findings bring into question the use of the intact family group as a benchmark of child adjustment in research and in policy.
REDUCING GHG EMISSIONS BY ABANDONING AGRICULTURAL LAND USE ON ORGANIC SOILS
Creators: name: Roder, Norbert
name: Osterburg, Bernhard
name: Roder, Norbert
name: Osterburg, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: 6.5% of the German UAA is located on organic soils (fens and bogs). Nevertheless, the drainage of these areas in order to allow their agricultural utilization causes roughly a third of the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) of the German agricultural sector, being equivalent to 4% of the total German GHG emissions. Obviously, German policies trying to reduce the GHG emissions successfully must tackle this issue. The abandonment of the cultivation of organic soils would be an effective policy to reduce the GHG emissions however the question remains whether it is an efficient measure compared with the other options? In the paper we compare the land use on mineral and organic soils using the data of the farm structure survey. We assess the mitigation costs on the basis of the standard gross margin of the agriculturally used peatlands and with the sector model RAUMIS. Without engineering and transaction costs the mitigation costs are in the magnitude of 10 to 45 € per to of CO2eq.. This makes rewetting of peatlands at least in the medium and long run a fairly efficient options for reducing GHG emissions, especially as the implications on the sector are fairly small due to reallocation affects.
Two-photon spin injection in semiconductors
Creators: name: Bhat, R. D. R.
name: Nemec, P.
name: Kerachian, Y.
name: van Driel, H. M.
name: Sipe, J. E.
name: Smirl, Arthur L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A comparison is made between the degree of spin polarization of electrons excited by one- and two-photon absorption of circularly polarized light in bulk zincblende semiconductors. Time- and polarization-resolved experiments in (001)-oriented GaAs reveal an initial degree of spin polarization of 49% for both one- and two-photon spin injection at wavelengths of 775 and 1550 nm, in agreement with theory. The macroscopic symmetry and microscopic theory for two-photon spin injection are reviewed, and the latter is generalized to account for spin-splitting of the bands. The degree of spin polarization of one- and two-photon optical orientation need not be equal, as shown by calculations of spectra for GaAs, InP, GaSb, InSb, and ZnSe using a 14x14 k.p Hamiltonian including remote band effects. By including the higher conduction bands in the calculation, cubic anisotropy and the role of allowed-allowed transitions can be investigated. The allowed-allowed transitions do not conserve angular momentum and can cause a high degree of spin polarization close to the band edge; a value of 78% is calculated in GaSb, but by varying the material parameters it could be as high as 100%. The selection rules for spin injection from allowed-allowed transitions are presented, and interband spin-orbit coupling is found to play an important role.
description: 12 pages including 7 figures
CLIMATE CHANGE AND PRODUCTION RISK IN CHINESE AQUACULTURE
Creators: name: Holst, Rainer
name: Yu, Xiaohua
name: Holst, Rainer
name: Yu, Xiaohua
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Aquaculture
subject: climate change
subject: production risk
subject: China

description: Drawing on the method developed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979), this paper separately analyzes the marginal contributions of both regular input factors and climate factors to mean output and to production risk in Chinese inland aquaculture. Furthermore, the net change in output following a 1°C increase in annual average temperature will be determined. According to the results obtained, the impending changes in global climate will have both positive and negative impacts. While an increment in annual average temperatures will increase mean output and decrease production risk, an increase in temperature variability will reduce mean output and cause a higher level of production risk. The corresponding measures of precipitation however have no significant impact on mean output and production risk. Finally, a 1°C increase in annual average temperature is, ceteris paribus, likely to increase national mean output by 1.47 million tons.
Sillabare le immagini
Creators: name: Sbrilli, Antonella
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2012

description: The rebus game - especially in the modern Italian examples featuring sometimes highly aesthetical drawings - offers stimuli about the relationship of the writing process with seeing; about the connections among thing, word, sound, representation and about the link between the reading of images and education.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2012): Il verso dell’immagine
Ballistic propagation of a local impact in the one-dimensional $XY$ model
Creators: name: Yoshinaga, Atsuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light-cone-like propagation of information is a universal phenomenon of nonequilibrium dynamics of integrable spin systems. In this paper, we investigate propagation of a local impact in the one-dimensional $XY$ model with the anisotropy $γ$ in a magnetic field $h$ by calculating the magnetization profile. Applying a local and instantaneous unitary operation to the ground state, which we refer to as the local-impact protocol, we numerically observe various types of light-cone-like propagation in the parameter region $0\leqγ\leq1$ and $0\leq h \leq2$ of the model. By combining numerical integration with an asymptotic analysis, we find the following: (i) for $|h|\geq|1-γ^{2}|$ except for the case on the line $h=1$ with $0
description: 29 pages, 9 figures; version 4: typos collected. Published in J. Stat. Mech
title: Semi-supervised and weakly-supervised learning with spatio-temporal priors in medical image segmentation
Creators: name: Valvano, Gabriele
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2021

description: Over the last decades, medical imaging techniques have played a crucial role in healthcare, supporting radiologists and facilitating patient diagnosis. With the advent of faster and higher-quality imaging technologies, the amount of data that is possible to collect for each patient is paving the way toward personalised medicine. As a result, automating simple image analysis operations, such as lesion localisation and quantification, would greatly help clinicians focus energy and attention on tasks best done by human intelligence. Most recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) research is accelerating in healthcare, providing tools that often perform on par or even better than humans in conceptually simple image processing operations. In our work, we pay special attention to the problem of automating semantic segmentation, where an image is partitioned into multiple semantically meaningful regions, separating the anatomical components of interest. Unfortunately, developing effective AI segmentation tools usually needs large quantities of annotated data. Conversely, obtaining large-scale annotated datasets is difficult in medical imaging, as it requires experts and is time-consuming. For this reason, we develop automated methods to reduce the need for collecting high-quality annotated data, both in terms of the number and type of required annotations. We make this possible by constraining the data representation learned by our method to be semantic or by regularising the model predictions to satisfy data-driven spatio-temporal priors. In the thesis, we also open new avenues for future research using AI with limited annotations, which we believe is key to developing robust AI models for medical image analysis.
Annunciazioni, rotazioni e samurai mancini. Il verso di lettura delle immagini e la scrittura
Creators: name: Barbieri, Daniele
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2012

description: Not only the vertical direction of images – perceptually subject to the law of gravity and its consequences – plays an important role in their interpretation; the horizontal direction left-right too seems to foster different interpretations from its converse. For this reason there are subjects and genres of painting, such as the Annunciation or the portrait, revealing some constants from this point of view, in their representation conventions. And for this same reason there are languages​​, like comics, where the left-right direction is critical not only for the succession of panels – clearly bound to the direction of verbal writing – but also for the panel’s internal organization. These reflections suggest a cultural explanation of the differences in horizontal organization in pictures, linking it to the habits of writing, while ruling out the explanations making reference to the physiology of brain.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2012): Il verso dell’immagine
title: Комплексный ангармонизм в термодинамике устойчивости фазового состояния
Creators: name: Христов, Александр
name: Червинский, Дмитрий
name: Шелест, Валерий
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Основываясь на принципах термодинамики устойчивости состояния однородной равновесной системы, в работе продемонстрирована фундаментальная связь между ангармонизмом конденсированного состояния вещества и его физическими свойствами. В данной работе развиты представления, основанные на термодинамике устойчивости однородного состояния системы, с точки зрения ангармонизма. Получены различные формы детерминанта устойчивости в зависимости от коэффициентов устойчивости и параметров, характеризующих ангармонические свойства системы. Определена связь всех калориметрических коэффициентов с комплексным ангармонизмом конденсированного состояния. Получены зависимости детерминанта устойчивости фазового состояния системы от калориметрических коэффициентов.
ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF CAP-AND-TRADE CLIMATE POLICY ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS: A POLICY SIMULATION WITH FARMER PREFERENCES AND ADAPTATION
Creators: name: Jiang, Yong
name: Koo, Won W.
name: Jiang, Yong
name: Koo, Won W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: greenhouse gas
subject: cap-and-trade
subject: climate change
subject: agricultural impact
subject: economics
subject: carbon offsets

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the possible local impacts of cap-and-trade climate policy on agricultural producers in the Northern Plains. This study explicitly considers farmer behavior with respect to agricultural opportunity in carbon offset provision and ability of adaptation to mitigate the production cost impact under a cap-and-trade climate policy. Based on empirically estimated farmer behavior models, a policy simulation with agricultural census data identifies farmer acreage enrollment in carbon offset provision, carbon offset supplies and revenues, the production cost impacts of carbon prices, and impacts on net farm income and their distributions among heterogeneous farmers. Our analysis find that: 1) farmer ex ante preferences in general are biased against participating in carbon credit programs although farmer involvement increases with carbon prices; 2) with the fertilizer industry exempted from cap-and-trade regulation, the production cost impacts would be small, and more than half of the farms or farmland would probably gain for a carbon price higher than $10 per metric ton of carbon; and 3) the production cost impacts with a capped fertilizer industry would be 2 times higher, and more than half of the farms or farmland would lose unless the carbon price could reach beyond $55 per metric ton of carbon. This study sheds some light on agricultural potential to adapt to economy-wide climate change mitigation while providing a bottom-up economic assessment of the costs and benefits of a cap-and-trade climate policy to agricultural producers in the short run.
Applied Research Development in Commerce and Management
Creators: name: Dr. Somesh Kumar Shukla
name: Dr. Dilshad Ahmad Ansari
name: Dr. Alka Singh Bhatt
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The national as well international economy has been severely affected by the pandemic COVID19. To overcome these adverse conditions, the current scenario of commerce and management has shifted accordingly. The present volume is based on the contributions made by various authors on different important topic of “Applied Research Development in Commerce and Management” and introduces the subject along the following topics: The Effect of Gold and Diamond on the Indian Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility: A Theoretical Framework and Practical Implementation; A Study on Digital Payment System; A Research Study of Challenges and Impact of Post-COVID19 on Indian Economy; A Research Review on Government Revolutionary Scheme ―Swachh Bharat Mission‖ in India; Implication of Globalization on Developing Indian Economy; Accessing The Relationship Between Unemployment And Entrepreneurship The Light Evidence From Uttar Pradesh; Best Contemporary Practice in Green Supply Chain Management for Business; The Impact of Social Media on Business& Indian Economy in 2021; Impact of COVID 19 on E-Commerce; Green Accounting Legislation; Dilemma in Accounting of Cryptocurrencies; Digital Marketing Techniques used by Business are effective enough to increase their popularity of Smartphone Segment; Female entrepreneurs in times of Pandemic; Impact of New Education Policy 2020 on Higher Education; Inclusion of Clinical Medical Leadership Program in the Medical Curriculum-A literature review; Financial Challenges of Higher Education Institute; Challenges and Impact of Online Banking System by Improving Operational Effectiveness of Indian Banks; Gold vs Stock: A Comparative Study and Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Restaurant Business. We must place on record our sincere gratitude to the authors not only for their effort in preparing the papers for the present volume, but also their patience in waiting to see their work in print. Finally, we are also thankful to our publishers Mrs. Shweta Singh M/S MKSES Publishers, Lucknow for taking all the efforts in bringing out this volume in short span time
The Tunka Experiment: Towards a 1-km^2 Cherenkov EAS Array in the Tunka Valley
Creators: name: Chernov, D.
name: Kalmykov, N.
name: Korosteleva, E.
name: Kuzmichev, L.
name: Prosin, V.
name: Panasyuk, M.
name: Shirokov, A.
name: Yashin, I.
name: Budnev, N.
name: Gress, O.
name: Pankov, L.
name: Parfenov, Yu.
name: Semeney, Yu.
name: Lubsandorzhiev, B.
name: Pohil, P.
name: Ptuskin, V.
name: Spiering, Ch.
name: Wischnewski, R.
name: Navarra, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The project of an EAS Cherenkov array in the Tunka valley/Siberia with an area of about 1 km^2 is presented. The new array will have a ten times bigger area than the existing Tunka-25 array and will permit a detailed study of the cosmic ray energy spectrum and the mass composition in the energy range from 10^15 to 10^18 eV.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures, to be published in IJMPA
Model for Polymorphic Transitions in Bacterial Flagella
Creators: name: Srigiriraju, Srikanth V.
name: Powers, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many bacteria use rotating helical flagellar filaments to swim. The filaments undergo polymorphic transformations in which the helical pitch and radius change abruptly. These transformations arise in response to mechanical loading, changes in solution temperature and ionic strength, and point substitutions in the amino acid sequence of the protein subunits that make up the filament. To explain polymorphism, we propose a new coarse-grained continuum rod theory based on the quaternary structure of the filament. The model has two molecular switches. The first is a double-well potential for the extension of a protofilament, which is one of the eleven almost longitudinal columns of subunits. Curved filament shapes occur in the model when there is a mismatch strain, i.e. when inter-subunit bonds in the inner core of the filament prefer a subunit spacing which is intermediate between the two spacings favored by the double-well potential. The second switch is a double-well potential for twist, due to lateral interactions between neighboring protofilaments. Cooperative interactions between neighboring subunits within a protofilament are necessary to ensure the uniqueness of helical ground states. We calculate a phase diagram for filament shapes and the response of a filament to external moment and force.
description: 17 pages, 21 figures
Advancing the evaluation of graduate programs in Brazil: A proposal for improvement of the courses’ assessment form and a study of suitable metrics and indicators for its application (PhD Project)
Creators: name: Brasil, André
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: 130303 Education Assessment and Evaluation
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 160801 Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: PhD project submitted to Leiden University as part of the requirements to start my research at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS).
IMPACTS OF LARGE SCALE EXPANSION OF BIOFUELS ON GLOBAL POVERTY AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION
Creators: name: Cororaton, Caesar B.
name: Timilsina, Govinda R.
name: Mevel, Simon
name: Cororaton, Caesar B.
name: Timilsina, Govinda R.
name: Mevel, Simon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
Food Security and Poverty
International Relations/Trade
Land Economics/Use
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This paper analyzes the impact of expansion in biofuels on the global economy, income distribution and poverty. It utilizes simulation results of two World Bank models: a global computable general equilibrium (CGE) model integrated with biofuels, land-use, and climate change modules, and a global income distribution model that utilizes household survey data of 116 countries. The first model simulates the effects over time of large scale expansion of biofuels on resource allocation, output prices, commodity prices, factor prices, and household income of the different countries and regions in the world. The second model uses these results recursively to calculate the impact on global income distribution and poverty. The results from the CGE model indicate that large scale expansion of biofuels lead to higher world prices of sugar, corn, oilseeds, wheat, and other grains, which lead to higher food prices. The increase in food inflation is higher in developing countries than in developed countries. The expansion of biofuels results in higher wages of unskilled rural labor relative to wages of the other labor types which are skilled urban, skilled rural, and unskilled urban, especially in developing countries. These positive wage effects on unskilled rural labor trigger movement of unskilled urban labor towards rural and agriculture. This is because production of feedstock in developing countries is relatively intensive in the use of unskilled rural labor. The effects of large scale expansion of biofuels on poverty vary across regions. But overall there is a slight increase in global poverty. The increase largely comes from South Asia (particularly India) and Sub-Saharan Africa. Significant number of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa show higher poverty with large scale expansion of biofuels. However, poverty declines in East Asia and Latin America regions. Overall, there is a slight increase in the GINI coefficient. There is a slight increase in the GINI coefficient in Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia. There is a small reduction in the GINI coefficient in the rest of the regions.
Longitudinal trajectories of resilient psychosocial functioning link to ongoing cortical myelination and functional reorganization during adolescence
Creators: name: Hettwer, Meike D
name: Dorfschmidt, Lena
name: Puhlmann, Lara
name: Jacob, Linda M.
name: Paquola, Casey
name: Bethlehem, Richard A. I.
name: Bullmore, Edward T.
name: Eickhoff, Simon
name: Valk, Sofie
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2024

description: doi:10.31234/osf.io/2dv68
description: Adolescence is a period of dynamic brain remodeling and susceptibility to psychiatric risk factors, mediated by the protracted consolidation of association cortices. Here, we investigated whether intra-individual trajectories of psychosocial functioning relative to environmental stressor exposure - including adverse life events, dysfunctional family settings, and socio-economic status - are tied to myeloarchitectural maturation and down-stream effects on intrinsic function. To this end, we employed longitudinal myelin-sensitive Magnetic Transfer (MT) and resting-state imaging in the NSPN cohort (aged 14-26y). Developing towards more resilient psychosocial functioning was linked to increasing myelination in the anterolateral prefrontal cortex, which exhibited stabilized functional connectivity. Studying depth-specific intracortical MT profiles and the cortex-wide synchronization of myeloarchitectural maturation, we further observed wide-spread myeloarchitectural re-configuration of association cortices paralleled by attenuated functional reorganization with increasingly resilient outcomes. Together, trajectories of resilient/susceptible psychosocial functioning showed considerable intra-individual change reflected in multi-modal cortical refinement processes at the local and system-level.
Measurement of effective thermal conductivity of LaNi$_5$ powder packed bed
Creators: name: Kim, Dong-min
name: Kim, Joong Bae
name: Lee, Jungchul
name: Lee, Bong Jae
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effective thermal conductivity of LaNi$_5$ powder packed bed was analyzed with customized guarded hot-plate (GHP) apparatus. Here, GHP was designed for precise measurement of effective thermal conductivity of metal-hydride powders even with small sample amounts (2.12$\times$10$^4$ mm$^3$). Dimensions of sample container and apparatus were determined through two-dimensional (2-D) steady-state heat conduction analysis. Calibration experiment and uncertainty analysis were conducted to validate the accuracy of the GHP. Based on the measurements of the residual thermal conductivity of the LaNi$_5$ packed bed, effect of particle size on contact factor of LaNi$_5$ packed bed was estimated. By applying the Yagi and Kunii (YK) model to the effective thermal conductivity of LaNi$_5$ packed bed, effect of contact factor and gas thermal conductivity on characteristic length of gas film were newly analyzed. Factors of YK model were modified in present work and validated through comparison with experimental data from previous literature.
description: 8 figures
Statistics of tumbling of a single polymer molecule in shear flow
Creators: name: Gerashchenko, Sergiy
name: Steinberg, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present experimental results on statistics of polymer orientation angles relatively to shear plane and tumbling times in shear flow with thermal noise. Strong deviation of probability distribution functions (PDF) of these parameters from Gaussian was observed and a good accord with theory was found. The scaling relations of PDF widths for both angles as a function of the control parameter $Wi$ are verified and compared with numerics. An universal exponential PDF tail for the tumbling times and its predicted scaling with $Wi$ are also tested experimentally against numerics.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PRL, see the following paper
Playfulness in children with an acquired brain injury : a preliminary study
Creators: name: Mortenson, Patricia Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The sequelae of paediatric traumatic brain injury have been well documented in the literature, and include permanent and pervasive impairments of varying severity that impact cognitive, physical, language, social and behavioural functioning, and the ability to participate in home and school activities. While children with similar disabilities have been identified as having play deficits, the impact of traumatic brain injury on play, and in particular, a child's playfulness and ability to approach play, have not yet been investigated. Play is thought to be important as it contributes to meaning and quality of life, provides opportunities for skill development and serves as the primary occupation of childhood. This prospective analysis of differences study compared the 'playfulness' of eight children aged 3 to 13 years diagnosed with a moderate to severe traumatic brain injury to an age-matched control group of eight typically developing children. The Test of Playfulness (Bundy, 2000) was used to measure playfulness. Rasch analysis was used to transform the raw scores to interval data, with scores from both groups demonstrating "goodness of fit" and conformity to the Rasch model. A significant difference between the matched scores was demonstrated using a Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks T test (T(8)=0,p=.012). The conclusions of this study are that within this small sample, the playfulness of children with TBI was significantly less than that of their age-matched peers. Although the small sample size presents generalizability limitations, this finding provides valuable insight about a vital aspect of childhood occupational performance that until now has not been considered for children with moderate to severe TBI. Implications for broadening the present scope of research and rehabilitation to include play performance for children with TBI are discussed.
Non-orthogonal qubit states expansion for the asymmetric quantum Rabi model
Creators: name: Li, Zi-Min
name: Ferri, Devid
name: Batchelor, Murray T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a physically motivated variational wave function for the ground state of the asymmetric quantum Rabi model (AQRM). The wave function is a weighted superposition of squeezed coherent states entangled with non-orthogonal qubit states, and relies only on three variational parameters in the regimes of interest where the squeezing effect becomes negligible. The variational expansion describes the ground state remarkably well in almost all parameter regimes, especially with arbitrary bias. We use the variational result to calculate various relevant physical observables of the ground state, and make a comparison with existing approximations and the exact solution. The results show that the variational expansion is a significant improvement over the existing approximations for the AQRM.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, minor revisions
Iconica. L’intuizione delle immagini
Creators: name: Imdahl, Max
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2012

description: Posthumously published by Gottfried Boehm, Iconic may well be considered as a concise summa of Max Imdahl’s theories and methods. Referring to Panofsky and to his idea of an art-historical understanding on three levels («pre-iconographic», «iconographic» and «iconological»), Imdahl highlights the limits of such interpretation, suggesting the necessity of overcoming it and outlining a fourth level which he calls «iconic». Basing on this approach, it becomes possible to look at images as self-referential systems, as autonomous domains endowed with a constitutive and productive power irreducible to verbal explanation.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2012): Il verso dell’immagine
Robustness of the adiabatic quantum search
Creators: name: Åberg, Johan
name: Kult, David
name: Sjöqvist, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The robustness of the local adiabatic quantum search to decoherence in the instantaneous eigenbasis of the search Hamiltonian is examined. We demonstrate that the asymptotic time-complexity of the ideal closed case is preserved, as long as the Hamiltonian dynamics is present. In the special case of pure decoherence where the environment monitors the search Hamiltonian, it is shown that the local adiabatic quantum search performs as the classical search.
description: Slightly revised version, journal reference added
title: Выяснение основных параметров коагуляции и путей взаимодействия гумата калия с экзобелком микромицета
Creators: name: Шевкопляс, Владимир
name: Дорошкевич, Неля
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Показано, что экзобелок (далее биологический коагулянт, БК), который микромицет продуцирует в среду культивирования, способен взаимодействовать с гуматом калия (ГК) и в дальнейшем коагулировать и осаждаться в виде комплексов. Скорость и время взаимодействия ГК с БК зависит от их соотношения в растворе. Установлено, что при соотношении 2,37:1 (ГК÷БК) или 0,00141 г/мл ГК÷12,73 мкг/мл БК происходит полное осаждение ГК. Проанализирована взаимосвязь между соотношением ГК÷БК в растворе и эффективностью осаждения ГК. Определена скорость осаждения, время и изменение рН-среды от количества БК в растворе. Проанализированы пути взаимодействия ГК c БК с использованием метода ИК-спектроскопии.
ЎЗБЕК ФУТБОЛ ЖУРНАЛИСТИКАСИДАГИ МУАММОЛАРНИНГ "ЯРИМҲИМОЯЧИ" АТАМАСИДА ИФОДАЛАНИШИ
Creators: name: Рустамов, Илёс
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ўзбек тилида футбол мусобақаларини ёритишда журналистлар атамаларни оғзаки ва ёзма нутқда қўллашда қатор муаммоларга дуч келишади. Ана шу муаммоларнинг бир қисми яримҳимоячи атамаси мисолида кўриб чиқилган.
Embodied geographies of the nation-state : an ethnography of Canada’s response to human smuggling
Creators: name: Mountz, Alison
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis provides a geographical analysis of the response of the Canadian nation-state to human smuggling. I contend that nation-states must be examined in relation to transnational migration and theorized as diverse sets of embodied relationships. As a case study, I conducted an ethnography of the institutional response to the arrival of four boats carrying migrants smuggled from Fujian, China to British Columbia in 1999. I studied the daily work of border enforcement done by civil servants in the federal bureaucracy of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), as well as the roles played by other institutions in the response to the boats. This "ethnography of the state" led me to theorize the nation-state geographically as a network of employees that interact with a variety of institutions in order to enact immigration policy. I also interviewed employees of other institutions involved in the response to human smuggling, including provincial employees, immigration lawyers, service providers, supra-state organizations, refugee advocates, and media workers. The thesis explores cross-institutional collaboration among them and the resulting decision-making environment in which civil servants design and implement policy. Civil servants practice enforcement according to how and where they "see" human smuggling. My conceptual understanding of state practices relates to these efforts to order transnational migration. Diverse institutional actors negotiate smuggling at a variety of scales. Power relations are visible through discussions of smuggling at some scales, but obscured at others. I "jump scale" through embodiment in order to understand the micro-geographies of the response. This shift in the scale of analysis of the nation-state uncovers different relationships, interests, and negotiations in which state practices are embedded. This approach to geographies of the nation-state considers the time-space relations across which state practices take place, the everyday enactment of policy, the categorization of migrants, and the constitution of borders through governance. I argue that such an approach is key to understanding the relationship between nation-states and smuggled migrants. The findings suggest a re-spatialization of enforcement through which nation-states increasingly practice interception abroad and design stateless: spaces, and in so doing, reconstitute international borders.
Editoriale - Per il verso giusto: destra/sinistra, alto/basso, davanti/dietro nell'immagine
Creators: name: Barale, Alice
name: Pinotti, Andrea
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2012

description: Things are not the same when, even remaining the same, they are placed on the right or on the left, above or below, in front or behind. In the concrete space of our daily experience, in the space of myths and religions, we are not confronted with a neutral, homogeneous, infinite and isotropic spatiality, indifferent to directions. On the contrary, the possibility of a meaningful movement in space, rooted in my own body and in its praxis (as Kant shows in his pre-critical and critical essays devoted to the space regions and to orientation), is assigned to the three main axes (above/below, right/left, front/behind) and their correspondent differences. The same applies for the space of images and pictures. The present issue of “Aisthesis” aims at exploring how the articulations above/below, right/left, front/behind produce a difference – syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and symbolic – in the iconic domain, and at investigating what theoretical models can be employed in order to understand such difference.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2012): Il verso dell’immagine
Κλωνοποίηση (αναπαραγωγική / θεραπευτική): ηθικά και νομικά ζητήματα. [Cloning (reproductive/therapeutic): ethical and legal issues]
Creators: name: Geropoulos, Nikolaos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 220101 Bioethics (human and animal)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Οι πρόσφατες εξελίξεις στον τομέα της κλωνοποίησης, με την επιτυχή δημιουργία κλώνων πρωτευόντων θηλαστικών (πιθήκων), έχουν αναζωπυρώσει το ενδιαφέρον της επιστημονικής κοινότητας, προκαλώντας έντονες συζητήσεις σχετικά με την κλωνοποίηση ενός άλλου είδους πρωτεύοντος, του ανθρώπου. Και εάν η «θεραπευτική κλωνοποίηση», με την έννοια της δημιουργίας πρόωρων εμβρύων-κλώνων για την παραγωγή βλαστικών κυττάρων για θεραπευτικούς σκοπούς, γίνεται μάλλον αποδεκτή, δεν θα μπορούσε να θεωρηθεί ότι συμβαίνει το ίδιο με την «αναπαραγωγική», που στόχο έχει την αναπαραγωγή γενετικά όμοιων αυτοτελών όντων. Οι προβληματισμοί και τα ερωτήματα που προκύπτουν αφορούν στα όρια του επιτρεπτού της έρευνας της κλωνοποίησης και ειδικότερα, στο τι ακριβώς προστατεύεται κατά την τυποποίηση της αναπαραγωγικής κλωνοποίησης ως αξιόποινης πράξης. Το παρόν δοκίμιο επιχειρεί να αναλύσει τα νομικά και ηθικά ζητήματα της αναπαραγωγικής και θεραπευτικής κλωνοποίησης και να αναζητήσει τα νομικά όρια που θέτουν οι κανόνες του διεθνούς και εσωτερικού δικαίου.
Very High Resolution Land Cover Mapping of Urban Areas at Global Scale with Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Tilak, Thomas
name: Braun, Arnaud
name: Chandler, David
name: David, Nicolas
name: Galopin, Sylvain
name: Lombard, Amélie
name: Michaud, Michaël
name: Parisel, Camille
name: Porte, Matthieu
name: Robert, Marjorie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper describes a methodology to produce a 7-classes land cover map of urban areas from very high resolution images and limited noisy labeled data. The objective is to make a segmentation map of a large area (a french department) with the following classes: asphalt, bare soil, building, grassland, mineral material (permeable artificialized areas), forest and water from 20cm aerial images and Digital Height Model. We created a training dataset on a few areas of interest aggregating databases, semi-automatic classification, and manual annotation to get a complete ground truth in each class. A comparative study of different encoder-decoder architectures (U-Net, U-Net with Resnet encoders, Deeplab v3+) is presented with different loss functions. The final product is a highly valuable land cover map computed from model predictions stitched together, binarized, and refined before vectorization.
description: 8 pages, 14 figures, ISPRS Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
title: A service driven method for evaluating business and IT alignment
Creators: name: Alghamdi, Hassan Abdullah
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2018

description: The adoption of Information Technology (IT) in organisations has brought significant benefits to business operations. However, achieving business and IT alignment has been and continues to be a major challenge for researchers and practitioners. The rapid changes in business and IT environments and the influence of social aspects on the business value generated by IT have contributed to its increased complexity. In order to be aware of the state of this alignment, organisations are advised to conduct a business and IT alignment assessment. The outcomes of such assessments provide a platform to achieve a better state of business-aligned IT. However, existing methodological approaches to evaluate business and IT alignment at the operational level have lacked the involvement of social values, to be balanced with other tangible values, as factors in the alignment assessment. Addressing this issue is the motivation for this research. Guided by the Design Science Research (DSR) paradigm, the Business and IT Alignment Assessment Method (B-ITAAM) is developed as the main research contribution. B-ITAAM comprises, in a novel approach, a set of business analysis techniques that assist for a comprehensive business-aligned IT assessment. Principles and concepts from multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives have been adopted to form the theoretical foundations upon which the assessment method is based. As such, concepts from Strategic Management are adopted to establish a link between the strategic and operational levels of an organisation to guide the alignment assessment. Principles from Socio Technical Systems and Organisational Semiotics form the basis for eliciting social values from relevant stakeholders influencing the value of business and IT. Additionally, principles from Service-Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Architecture enable the evaluation method to be service driven. Finally, principles from Task Technology Fit and Social Exchange theories support, respectively, the establishment and assessment of the business and IT alignment. B-ITAAM was applied in a higher education institution to evaluate its viability as an effective business and IT alignment assessment method. The application resulted in a set of recommendations that aim to enhance the alignment of a set of business and IT services offered by the institution, which received appraisal from nine experts involved in the institution. The application also reveals the complexity of the business and IT alignment assessment in the higher education sector, which, until now, has received little attention in business and IT alignment research.
Note e recensioni
Creators: name: Vari, Autori
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2012

description: Volumi Kendall L. Walton, Mimesi come far finta [Chiara Bisignano] • Nick Zangwill, La metafisica della bellezza [Filippo Focosi] • Dominic McIver Lopes, A Philosophy of Computer Art [Elisa Caldarola] • Jacques Rancière, Béla Tarr, le temps d’après [Domenico Spinosa] • Stefano Marino, Un intreccio dialettico. Teoresi, estetica, etica e metafisica in Theo­dor W. Adorno [Marco Jacobsson] • Antonio Somaini, Ejzenštejn. Il cinema, le arti, il montaggio [Marie Rebecchi] • Aa.Vv., Alla fine delle cose. Contributi a una storia critica delle immagini [Marie Rebecchi] Convegni Merleau-Ponty et l’esthétique aujourd-hui, Università degli Studi di Milano, 5-6 maggio 2011 [Pietro Conte]
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2012): Paul Valéry: strategie del sensibile
Extra force and extra mass from noncompact Kaluza-Klein theory in a cosmological model
Creators: name: Aguilar, Jose Edgar Madriz
name: Bellini, Mauricio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism, we study extra force and extra mass in a recently introduced noncompact Kaluza-Klein cosmological model. We examine the inertial 4D mass $m_0$ of the inflaton field on a 4D FRW bulk in two examples. We find that $m_0$ has a geometrical origin and antigravitational effects on a non inertial 4D bulk should be a consequence of the motion of the fifth coordinate with respect to the 4D bulk.
description: final version to be published in EPJC
Online tools to bridge the gap between research policy and academic practice: Lessons learnt from testing the Societal Readiness Thinking Tool
Creators: name: Jong, Stefan De
name: Klippe, Wouter Van Der
name: Brasil, André
name: Chan, Tung Tung
name: Meijer, Ingeborg
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160511 Research, Science and Technology Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Paper submited to Eu-SPRI 2020: New Horizons for Science Technology and Innovation Policies.
As the conference was cancelled due to the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19-virus outbreak, the work was presented at an online Eu-SPRI track: Opening up science through public engagement. The session was organized by Wout Scholten, Anne-Floor Scholvinck, Paul Diederen (Rathenau Institute – Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) and Ingeborg Meijer (CWTS – Leiden University).
Interview with Martha C. Nussbaum
Creators: name: Abbate, Fabrizia
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2012

description: Here's the interview granted by Martha Nussbaum to Fabrizia Abbate about the role of preference in social dynamics. How important are aesthetic preferences in the development of moral attitudes and choices ?
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2012): Paul Valéry: strategie del sensibile
Object recognition through pose and shape estimation a review - 20182959 .pdf
Creators: name: D, Anitta
name: Annis Fathima A
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80602 Computer-Human Interaction
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Computer vision helps machines or computer to see like humans. Computer Takes information from the images and then understands of useful information from images. Gesture recognition and movement recognition are the current area of research in computer vision. For both gesture and movement recognition finding pose of an object is of great importance. The purpose of this paper is to review many state of art which is already available for finding the pose of object based on shape, based on appearance, based on feature and comparison for its accuracy, complexity and performance