cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Interstellar Gas-phase Element Depletions in the Small Magellanic Cloud: A Guide to Correcting for Dust in QSO Absorption Line Systems
Creators: name: Jenkins, Edward B.
name: Wallerstein, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present data on the gas phase abundances for 9 different elements in the interstellar medium of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), based on the strengths of ultraviolet absorption features over relevant velocities in the spectra of 18 stars within the SMC. From this information and the total abundances defined by the element fractions in young stars in the SMC, we construct a general interpretation on how these elements condense into solid form onto dust grains. As a group, the elements Si, S, Cr, Fe, Ni, and Zn exhibit depletion sequences similar to those in the local part of our Galaxy defined by Jenkins (2009). The elements Mg and Ti deplete less rapidly in the SMC than in the Milky Way, and Mn depletes more rapidly. We speculate that these differences might be explained by the different chemical affinities to different existing grain substrates. For instance, there is evidence that the mass fractions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the SMC are significantly lower than those in the Milky Way. We propose that the depletion sequences that we observed for the SMC may provide a better model for interpreting the element abundances in low metallicity Damped Lyman Alpha (DLA) and sub-DLA absorption systems that are recorded in the spectra of distant quasars and gamma ray burst afterglows.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures
Alimentando memória e tradições: práticas gastronômicas nas festas açorianas São Paulo/Brasil
Creators: name: Barbosa Santos, Elis Regina
name: Santos De Matos, Maria Izilda
Publisher: name: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Year: 2019
Subjects: Memory; tradition; cuisine; Azoreans; oral history

description: This research deals with the culinary system produced by the community of Azorean immigrants of São Paulo. It is methodologically based on Oral History, which allowed us to observe how (re)constructed dishes represent flavors of memory, ancestrally elaborated on the islands and ritualistically re-elaborated during holidays and savored by the immigrant community, their descendants and others. We observed how the gastronomic practices were developed on holidays, main dishes, ingredients, preparation, forms of presentation and what are the different values assigned to them by the group.
description: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani, Vol 11, No 1 (2019): Comida y migraciones
Additional file 2: of Using Theories of Change to inform implementation of health systems research and innovation: experiences of Future Health Systems consortium partners in Bangladesh, India and Uganda
Creators: name: Paina, Ligia
name: Wilkinson, Annie
name: Tetui, Moses
name: Ekirapa-Kiracho, Elizabeth
name: Debjani Barman
name: Ahmed, Tanvir
name: Shehrin Mahmood
name: Bloom, Gerry
name: Knezovich, Jeff
name: George, Asha
name: Bennett, Sara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Open peer review reports. (DOCX 41 kb)
title: CSR-Handbuch : ein Ratgeber
Creators: name: Krickhahn, Thomas
name: Matthaei, Simone
Publisher: name: Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04m2anh63
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2014
Subjects: classificationCode: 650
subject: Management und unterstützende Tätigkeiten
classificationCode: 5
subject: FOS: Social sciences

description: Aus dem Projekt "Förderung angehender weiblicher Führungskräfte in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen als CSR-Maßnahme"; ein Projekt der Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg im Rahmen des Programms "CSR-Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung im Mittelstand" gefördert durch das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales und durch den Europäischen Sozialfonds.
Magnetic vortices as localized mesoscopic domain wall pinning sites
Creators: name: Novak, R. L.
name: Sampaio, L. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the controllable pinning of domain walls in stripes with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy by magnetostatic coupling to magnetic vortices in disks located above the stripe. Pinning mechanisms and depinning fields are reported. This novel pinning strategy, which can be realized by current nanofabrication techniques, opens up new possibilities for the non-destructive control of domain wall mobility in domain wall based spintronic devices.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures
Weighted spectral cluster bounds and a sharp multiplier theorem for ultraspherical Grushin operators
Creators: name: Casarino, Valentina
name: Ciatti, Paolo
name: Martini, Alessio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33C55, 42B15, 43A85 (Primary) 53C17, 58J50 (Secondary)

description: We study degenerate elliptic operators of Grushin type on the $d$-dimensional sphere, which are singular on a $k$-dimensional sphere for some $k < d$. For these operators we prove a spectral multiplier theorem of Mihlin-Hörmander type, which is optimal whenever $2k \leq d$, and a corresponding Bochner-Riesz summability result. The proof hinges on suitable weighted spectral cluster bounds, which in turn depend on precise estimates for ultraspherical polynomials.
description: 39 pages. This work extends the multiplier theorem proved in arXiv:1705.07068 and is based on estimates for ultraspherical polynomials in arXiv:2009.02323
$^3$He Abundances in Planetary Nebulae
Creators: name: Guzman-Ramirez, Lizette
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $^3$He isotope is important to many fields of astrophysics, including stellar evolution, chemical evolution, and cosmology. The isotope is produced in stars which evolve through the planetary nebula phase. Planetary nebulae are the final evolutionary phase of low- and intermediate-mass stars, where the extensive mass lost by the star on the asymptotic giant branch is ionised by the emerging white dwarf. This ejecta quickly disperses and merges with the surrounding ISM. The abundance of $^3$He can only be derived from the hyperfine transition of the ionised $^3$He, which is represented as $^3$He$^+$, these transition can be observed in the radio at the rest frequency of 8.665 GHz. $^3$He abundances in PNe can help test models of the chemical evolution of the Galaxy. Many hours have been put into trying to detect this line, using telescopes like Effelsberg a 100m dish from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) 140-foot telescope, the NRAO Very Large Array, the Arecibo antenna, the Green Bank Telescope, and only just recently, the Deep Space Station 63 antenna from the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 323, 2017
Exploring linkages between women empowerment and resilience to natural disasters in Pakistan
Creators: name: Gul, Aliya
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This study attempts to measure and analyse linkages between women empowerment and resilience to floods in rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. I first derive a measure of resilience and women empowerment using indices. Next, econometric regression models are run and potential interlinkages between the two are tested. Results appear to indicate that the proportion of literate women in a household and education of the household head plays a significant role in empowering women, whereas access to basic amenities, occupation and health status of the household head significantly contribute in increasing the resilience of the household. Lastly, the extent of women empowerment seems to enhance resilience of a household, but not conversely.
IoFClime: The fuzzy logic and the Internet of Things to control indoor temperature regarding the outdoor ambient conditions
Creators: name: Meana-Llorián, Daniel
name: García, Cristian González
name: G-Bustelo, B. Cristina Pelayo
name: Lovelle, Juan Manuel Cueva
name: Garcia-Fernandez, Nestor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Internet of Things is arriving to our homes or cities through fields already known like Smart Homes, Smart Cities, or Smart Towns. The monitoring of environmental conditions of cities can help to adapt the indoor locations of the cities in order to be more comfortable for people who stay there. A way to improve the indoor conditions is an efficient temperature control, however, it depends on many factors like the different combinations of outdoor temperature and humidity. Therefore, adjusting the indoor temperature is not setting a value according to other value. There are many more factors to take into consideration, hence the traditional logic based in binary states cannot be used. Many problems cannot be solved with a set of binary solutions and we need a new way of development. Fuzzy logic is able to interpret many states, more than two states, giving to computers the capacity to react in a similar way to people. In this paper we will propose a new approach to control the temperature using the Internet of Things together its platforms and fuzzy logic regarding not only the indoor temperature but also the outdoor temperature and humidity in order to save energy and to set a more comfortable environment for their users. Finally, we will conclude that the fuzzy approach allows us to achieve an energy saving around 40% and thus, save money.
RAMPA: Robotic Augmented Reality for Machine Programming by DemonstrAtion
Creators: name: Dogangun, Fatih
name: Bahar, Serdar
name: Yildirim, Yigit
name: Temir, Bora Toprak
name: Ugur, Emre
name: Dogan, Mustafa Doga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper introduces Robotic Augmented Reality for Machine Programming by Demonstration (RAMPA), the first ML-integrated, XR-driven end-to-end robotic system, allowing training and deployment of ML models such as ProMPs on the fly, and utilizing the capabilities of state-of-the-art and commercially available AR headsets, e.g., Meta Quest 3, to facilitate the application of Programming by Demonstration (PbD) approaches on industrial robotic arms, e.g., Universal Robots UR10. Our approach enables in-situ data recording, visualization, and fine-tuning of skill demonstrations directly within the user's physical environment. RAMPA addresses critical challenges of PbD, such as safety concerns, programming barriers, and the inefficiency of collecting demonstrations on the actual hardware. The performance of our system is evaluated against the traditional method of kinesthetic control in teaching three different robotic manipulation tasks and analyzed with quantitative metrics, measuring task performance and completion time, trajectory smoothness, system usability, user experience, and task load using standardized surveys. Our findings indicate a substantial advancement in how robotic tasks are taught and refined, promising improvements in operational safety, efficiency, and user engagement in robotic programming.
description: This work is the final version submitted to the IEEE RA-L
Il menù di bordo. Nutrirsi durante il viaggio migratorio
Creators: name: Perassi, Emilia
Publisher: name: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Year: 2019
Subjects: Food; literature; migration; Latin America; travel

description: In migration studies about literature, food usually signals the preservation of a migrant’s identity in his/her new country. Considered as a transitional condition, the very travel of migration itself is instead overlooked and perceived as a non-place. Consequently, also all aspects of migration related to feeding are mostly ignored. In my paper, I will argue that spaces of transit are heterotopic spaces rather than non-places. In these spaces, the lack of food, or its being often a ‘leftover’, is a key fact to understand the representation of the commerce of migrant bodies.
description: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani, Vol 11, No 1 (2019): Comida y migraciones
Art, identity, and the home in the Roman world
Creators: name: Edwards, Holly
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis looks at the role of the Roman house, including the structure as well as the art and artefacts found in it, in the construction of a public Roman identity. The thesis aims to test the widely held view that the art of the Roman home can reveal the identity of the homeowner. Literary evidence is investigated for Roman attitudes towards their own identity with specific reference to the roles of art and the home in the construction and projection of that identity. In conjunction with this is an examination of the material evidence presented by a number of houses from the Insula of the Menander at Pompeii. By exploring these two bodies of evidence this thesis will attempt to gain a deeper understanding of the role domestic art played in the creation of a public identity in the Roman world.
La divulgación del “buen comer” y las imágenes de la mesa de los sectores populares (1900-1930)
Creators: name: Rey, Ana Lía
Publisher: name: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Year: 2019
Subjects: Argentinian journals; photography; cooking; popular sectors; representations

description: Between 1900 and 1930 in Argentine different types of publications promised their readers to take care and improve their health through recipes, scientific information about food and useful cooking tips. This educational vocation of the press coincided with the process of modernization of Argentinian society and the differentiation of its readers. In direct confrontation with the world of healthy food, one can find representations through photographs that give testimony of the daily diet and social meetings having food as a center. In this article we aim to analyse the relationship – both conflicting and complementary – between the ways of representing common food and cooking.
description: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani, Vol 11, No 1 (2019): Comida y migraciones
Magnetoresistance oscillation study of the half-quantum vortex in doubly connected mesoscopic superconducting cylinders of Sr2RuO4
Creators: name: Cai, Xinxin
name: Zakrzewski, Brian M.
name: Ying, Yiqun A.
name: Kee, Hae-Young
name: Sigrist, Manfred
name: Ortmann, J. Elliott
name: Sun, Weifeng
name: Mao, Zhiqiang
name: Liu, Ying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observation of the highly unusual half-quantum vortex (HQV) in a single crystalline superconductor excludes unequivocally the spin-singlet symmetry of the superconducting order parameter. HQVs were observed previously in mesoscopic samples of Sr2RuO4 in cantilever torque magnetometry measurements, thus providing direct evidence for spin-triplet pairing in the material. In addition, it raised important questions on HQV, including its stability and dynamics. These issues have remained largely unexplored, in particular, experimentally. We report in this paper the detection of HQVs in mesoscopic, doubly connected cylinders of single-crystalline Sr2RuO4 of a mesoscopic size and the examination of the effect of the in-plane magnetic field needed for the observation of the HQV by magnetoresistance (MR) oscillations measurements. Several distinct features found in our data, especially a dip and secondary peaks in the MR oscillations seen only in the presence of a sufficiently large in-plane magnetic field as well as a large measurement current, are linked to the formation of the HQV fluxoid state in and crossing of an Abrikosov HQV through the sample. The conclusion is drawn from the analysis of our data using a model of thermally activated vortex crossing overcoming a free-energy barrier which is modulated by the applied magnetic flux enclosed in the cylinder as well as the measurement current. Evidence for the trapping of an HQV fluxoid state in the sample was also found. Our observation of the HQV in mesoscopic Sr2RuO4 provided not only additional evidence for spin-triplet superconductivity in Sr2RuO4 but also insights into the physics of HQV, including its spontaneous spin polarization, stability, and dynamics. Our study also revealed a possible effect of the measurement current on the magnitude of the spontaneous spin polarization associated with the HQV.
description: 17 pages and 7 figures
Raman phonons in the ferroelectric-like metal LiOsO$_3$
Creators: name: Jin, Feng
name: Zhang, Anmin
name: Ji, Jianting
name: Liu, Kai
name: Wang, Le
name: Shi, Youguo
name: Tian, Yong
name: Ma, Xiaoli
name: Zhang, Qingming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The novel ferroelectric-like structural transition observed in metallic LiOsO$_3$ [Y. Shi et al., Nat. Mater. 12, 1024 (2013)], has invoked many theoretical and experimental interests. In this work, we have performed polarized and temperature-dependent Raman scattering measurements on high-quality single crystal LiOsO$_3$ and identified Raman-active modes in both centrosymmetric phase (300 K, R$\bar{3}$c) and non-centrosymmetric phase (10 K, R3c). Only four phonon peaks are observed in the former phase, while there are twelve peaks in the latter phase because of the reduction of crystal symmetry. With the help of careful symmetry analysis and first-principles calculations, we can make a systematic assignment for the observed Raman modes in both phases. The significant changes in line-width and the continuous evolution of Raman frequencies with temperatures were observed for the E$_g$ modes around the transition temperature, which suggests that the ferroelectric-like structural transition is a continuous order-disorder transition. The result sheds light on the coexistence of ferroelectricity and metallicity in the compound.
Cibo e Migrazioni
Creators: name: Cattarulla, Camilla
Publisher: name: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Year: 2019

description: Il presente numero è dedicato al cibo nel processo migratorio in America Latina, con particolare attenzione ai flussi europei ed extraeuropei del XIX e XX secolo. Il cibo è un elemento sempre in viaggio e come tale accompagna qualunque fenomeno migratorio determinando cambiamenti negli usi alimentari sia nelle collettività di partenza sia in quelle di arrivo. In un tale processo, il cibo mantiene un legame con la società di appartenenza e allo stesso tempo costruisce nuove identità: è un prodotto che crea e ‘alimenta’ nuovi spazi della vita culturale quotidiana a tutti i livelli sociali, entrando a far parte anche di quell’immaginario collettivo che definisce una comunità nazionale. Su questa doppia linea (migrazioni e identità) le tematiche preposte sono: il cibo della mescolanza; la cucina migratoria nei giorni festivi (domenica, feste nazionali, feste religiose); ricettari e migrazioni; cibo e integrazione culturale; cibo, linguaggio e socialità; cibo e nostalgia; cibo e imprenditoria migratoria.
description: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani, Vol 11, No 1 (2019): Comida y migraciones
Experimental and Numerical Characterization of Screw Elements Used in Twin-Screw Extrusion
Creators: name: Düphans, Vanessa
name: Kimmel, Vincent
name: Messing, Lukas
name: Schaldach, Gerhard
name: Thommes, Markus
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Hot melt extrusion by a co-rotating twin screw extruder is an important process in the pharmaceutical industry. Especially for quality by design aspects, a comprehensive process understanding is indispensable. The performance of conveying elements was determined as critical process parameter, and therefore an experimental and numerical framework was developed to analyze and compare variations. A test rig capable of measuring volume flow, pressure and torque with high accuracy and precision was designed and built. The 3D simulation was performed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). A stationary model with impulse transmission and an apparent motion of the screws was applied. The experimental data were fitted to the model of Pawlowski, and parameters for the pressure (A1, A2) and power characteristics (B1, B2) were determined. Good agreement between experimental data and the model was observed. The simulation was significantly faster compared to common methods, and the results were consistent with the literature. Systematic investigations of a native and worn screw were performed with CFD resulting in a transport capacity increase and a pressure build up decrease for all tested screw elements. An experimental and simulation setup was generated to assess the performance of co-rotating twin screw elements. The experiments provided high-quality data, and the simulations exhibited high flexibility with low computational effort.
Gastronomía alemana y espacios de sociabilidad en Buenos Aires a comienzos del siglo XX
Creators: name: Rodríguez, Fernando Diego
Publisher: name: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Year: 2019
Subjects: Buenos Aires; intellectuals; gastronomy; German immigration

description: During the first decades of the 20th Century, in Buenos Aires the practice of gathering in pubs and celebrating banquets represented both a group habit and a ritual of personal initiation for many intellectuals. Those habits and rituals were related to the creation of spaces of sociability. Moreover, intellectuals were choosing especially German places for eating and drinking. However, the expansion of this immigrant gastronomy also spread across other social segments. The aim of this article is to focus on those "German" way of cooking and drinking in Buenos Aires as a part of a culinary culture marked by hybridization.
description: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani, Vol 11, No 1 (2019): Comida y migraciones
Sapori italiani in Cile. I casi di Capitán Pastene e dell’impresa Ambrosoli
Creators: name: Borri, Claudia
Publisher: name: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Year: 2019
Subjects: Italian migration; Chile; food; Capitán Pastene; Ambrosoli

description: At the beginning of the 20th century, despite the number of Italian immigrants to Chile was not very high, they had a remarkable cultural impact in that country. In this context, our essay aims to analyse a phenomenon which has not been dealt with until today: the production of Italian food in the village of Capitán Pastene (1905) as well as in the confectionary factory Costantino Ambrosoli in Viña del Mar (1948). Their products had been obtained by adapting traditional Italian food to the taste of Chilean consumers and have now become very popular all over the country.
description: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani, Vol 11, No 1 (2019): Comida y migraciones
When crowds play god: a Promethean perspective on crowdfunding
Creators: name: Conboy, Kieran
name: Gleasure, Rob
name: Morgan, Lorraine
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Crowdfunding projects have been the subject of contrasting narratives. To many, they are the antithesis of predatory bottom-line business ventures, and to others, they are an under-regulated vehicle for immature, or unscrupulous project owners to exploit inexperienced and vulnerable investors. These differences are significant, given many use crowdfunding to build public awareness and project a positive image. We use the myth of Prometheus – the Greek god associated with “defiant progress” and technological advancement – as a sensitising lens to build a set of competing, dialectic archetypes. We then apply these archetypes through a Hegelian dialectic analysis of three high-profile crowdfunding campaigns. The overarching contribution of the study is that it provides a foundation for discussion of the positive and negative narratives surrounding crowdfunded project owners and explicates the limitations of crowdfunding as an enabler of positive systemic change. The dialectic approach provides a systematic means of identifying the essence of disagreement between narratives. While it may be too early to predict the outcomes for emerging technology-driven initiatives such as crowdfunding, the use of myth offers a sophisticated means to look for “rhyming” phenomena, where the phenomena at play are similar to the grand frailties of humankind throughout history.
Numerical framework for transcritical real-fluid reacting flow simulations using the flamelet progress variable approach
Creators: name: Ma, Peter C.
name: Banuti, Daniel T.
name: Hickey, Jean-Pierre
name: Ihme, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An extension to the classical FPV model is developed for transcritical real-fluid combustion simulations in the context of finite volume, fully compressible, explicit solvers. A double-flux model is developed for transcritical flows to eliminate the spurious pressure oscillations. A hybrid scheme with entropy-stable flux correction is formulated to robustly represent large density ratios. The thermodynamics for ideal-gas values is modeled by a linearized specific heat ratio model. Parameters needed for the cubic EoS are pre-tabulated for the evaluation of departure functions and a quadratic expression is used to recover the attraction parameter. The novelty of the proposed approach lies in the ability to account for pressure and temperature variations from the baseline table. Cryogenic LOX/GH2 mixing and reacting cases are performed to demonstrate the capability of the proposed approach in multidimensional simulations. The proposed combustion model and numerical schemes are directly applicable for LES simulations of real applications under transcritical conditions.
description: 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Dallas, TX
Processi di patrimonializzazione della cultura alimentare. I soldati della rivoluzione gastronomica peruviana a Torino
Creators: name: Maguolo, Silvia
Publisher: name: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Year: 2019
Subjects: Food anthropology; gastronomy; Perù; patrimonialisation; migration

description: This paper analyses the practices of two Peruvian restaurant owners in Turin in relation to the process of capitalization of the gastronomic culture of their country of origin. This complex mechanism of social engineering aligned with the process of valorisation of the contemporary culinary phenomenon involves a wide network of actors both in the politic and socio-economic field. Their work as ambassadors of the gastronomic culture in Italy proves to be a mission of personal emancipation that gives them the possibility to form an alternative identity within the migration discourse.
description: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani, Vol 11, No 1 (2019): Comida y migraciones
Future of the Indo-Russian strategic partnership
Creators: name: de Souza Mendes, Leandro
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: India and Russia have enjoyed cordial relations for over half a century. The friendly relationship was made official in 1971 with the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation signed by the Soviet Union and India. With the fall of the Soviet Union the dynamics of this relationship changed as both countries’ standings on the international fora also changed. On one side, the Soviet Union ceased to exist and Russia took its place without the status of superpower. On the other side, India became an essential part of global trade, attracting the once estranged United States. This research analysed both the Indo-Russian and the Indo-American relationship in order to understand the future of the former. The analysis of these relationships were made employing Balance of Power and Balance of Threat theories in order to better understand how these relations were formed. The findings indicate that a crucial part of the Indo-Soviet relations, arms import, is witnessing progressive reduction in participation by Russia as India pushes towards diversifying by importing arms from the West. The significance of this finding lays on understanding the impacts on Russia by the recent American rapprochement with India.
Safe Value Functions
Creators: name: Massiani, Pierre-François
name: Heim, Steve
name: Solowjow, Friedrich
name: Trimpe, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Safety constraints and optimality are important, but sometimes conflicting criteria for controllers. Although these criteria are often solved separately with different tools to maintain formal guarantees, it is also common practice in reinforcement learning to simply modify reward functions by penalizing failures, with the penalty treated as a mere heuristic. We rigorously examine the relationship of both safety and optimality to penalties, and formalize sufficient conditions for safe value functions (SVFs): value functions that are both optimal for a given task, and enforce safety constraints. We reveal this structure by examining when rewards preserve viability under optimal control, and show that there always exists a finite penalty that induces a safe value function. This penalty is not unique, but upper-unbounded: larger penalties do not harm optimality. Although it is often not possible to compute the minimum required penalty, we reveal clear structure of how the penalty, rewards, discount factor, and dynamics interact. This insight suggests practical, theory-guided heuristics to design reward functions for control problems where safety is important.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in: Transactions of Automatic Control, special issue on Learning and Control
Additional file 1: of Using Theories of Change to inform implementation of health systems research and innovation: experiences of Future Health Systems consortium partners in Bangladesh, India and Uganda
Creators: name: Paina, Ligia
name: Wilkinson, Annie
name: Tetui, Moses
name: Ekirapa-Kiracho, Elizabeth
name: Debjani Barman
name: Ahmed, Tanvir
name: Shehrin Mahmood
name: Bloom, Gerry
name: Knezovich, Jeff
name: George, Asha
name: Bennett, Sara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
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: Science Policy

description: Figures of country Theory of Change diagrams. (DOCX 1673 kb)
Mito, sueño y escritura de la ambigüedad: “El hombre que siempre soñó” de Cristina Rivera Garza
Creators: name: Cannavacciuolo, Margherita
Publisher: name: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Year: 2019
Subjects: Contemporary Mexican Literature; dream; myth; mermaid; ambiguity

description: This paper considers how the short story “El hombre que siempre soñó” (2002) by Cristina Rivera Garza is built around three discursive axes. The first axis refers to a “realistic” narrative, following a chronological development of the history. The second one is articulated according to the dream as an interruption of the conventional flow of time, and through the incursion of the “revealing moment” (Zambrano, 1986). Between those two axes, we can find a third one, which is made in the latent construction of the mythical isotopy related to the ancient Mexican mermaid in the myths of the origins. The mythical image works then as an “interpreter” (Herrero, 2006) of “reality” and its hermetic background, and it configures as origin and motor of the dream.
description: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani, Vol 11, No 1 (2019): Comida y migraciones
Tripartite entanglement of fermionic system in accelerated frames
Creators: name: Khan, Salman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of tripartite entanglement of fermionic system in noninertial frames through linear contraction criterion when one or two observers are accelerated is investigated. In one observer accelerated case the entanglement measurement is not invariant with respect to the partial realignment of different subsystems and for two observers accelerated case it is invariant. It is shown that the acceleration of the frame does not generate entanglement in any bipartite subsystems. Unlike the bipartite states, the genuine tripartite entanglement does not completely vanish in both one observer accelerated and two observers accelerated cases even in the limit of infinite acceleration. The degradation of tripartite entanglement is fast when two observers are accelerated than when one observer is accelerated. It is shown that tripartite entanglement is a better resource for quantum information processing than the bipartite entanglement in noninertial frames .
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
"Mostra-me por que me julgas assim": A petição de António Vieira ao Conselho Geral da Inquisição Portuguesa (1665)
Creators: name: Jefferson De Lima, Wallas
name: Santos Silva, Edson
Publisher: name: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Year: 2019
Subjects: Inquisition legal proceeding; sebastianismo; António Vieira; D. João IV; new Christians

description: The aim of this paper is to analyze Antonio Vieira’s petitions (1608-1697), addressed to the Portuguese Inquisition, as a result of a legal proceeding pursued by the Court of Inquisition in Lisbon in 1663, due to his millennialist and messianic ideas inspired by António Gonçalves Annes Bandarra’s prophetism. Certainly, his arrest was also related to his criticism of inquisitorial activity, and to his persecution policy towards New Christians, during the reign of King John IV. This research uses Vieira’s own speech, in which he shows a concern about inquisitorial objections, the possible rise of Portugal as a political force and religious quarrels.
description: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani, Vol 11, No 1 (2019): Comida y migraciones
MATLAB simulation of the throughput rate of a cognitive radio communications system
Creators: name: Baliozian, Nerses
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The latest research has shown that around two thirds of the basic spectrum has not been efficiently utilised. This inefficiency has led to a shortage in frequency which has increased the price of occupying the bandwidth. Wireless applications have become more popular and the available spectrum of radio frequencies has become a precious asset. Research also shows that the frequency spectrum is not used completely at any given time. Some frequency bands are not used; some bands are overutilised, whereas other bands are underutilised. Taking all of the above into consideration, cognitive radio is considered the best solution to overcome the problem of underutilisation of frequency bands. In cognitive radio systems the idea of a secondary user, who is not the main user of the spectrum is introduced. The secondary user can only use the spectrum when the primary user, the main user of the spectrum, is not using the spectrum.This requires sensing the spectrum to check for the available spectrum bands and then using them accordingly. In this project different spectrum sensing techniques will be discussed. Furthermore, a MATLAB simulation for the throughput will be illustrated.
Additional file 1 of Reverse-engineering of gene networks for regulating early blood development from single-cell measurements
Creators: name: Jiangyong Wei
name: Xiaohua Hu
name: Xiufen Zou
name: Tianhai Tian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Extended gene network with 17 regulations. (DOCX 76 kb)
Geometric Algebra and Information Geometry for Quantum Computational Software
Creators: name: Cafaro, Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The art of quantum algorithm design is highly nontrivial. Grover's search algorithm constitutes a masterpiece of quantum computational software. In this article, we use methods of geometric algebra (GA) and information geometry (IG) to enhance the algebraic efficiency and the geometrical significance of the digital and analog representations of Grover's algorithm, respectively. Specifically, GA is used to describe the Grover iterate and the discretized iterative procedure that exploits quantum interference to amplify the probability amplitude of the target-state before measuring the query register. The transition from digital to analog descriptions occurs via Stone's theorem which relates the (unitary) Grover iterate to a suitable (Hermitian) Hamiltonian that controls Schrodinger's quantum mechanical evolution of a quantum state towards the target state. Once the discrete-to-continuos transition is completed, IG is used to interpret Grover's iterative procedure as a geodesic path on the manifold of the parametric density operators of pure quantum states constructed from the continuous approximation of the parametric quantum output state in Grover's algorithm. Finally, we discuss the dissipationless nature of quantum computing, recover the quadratic speedup relation, and identify the superfluity of the Walsh-Hadamard operation from an IG perspective with emphasis on statistical mechanical considerations.
description: 74 pages
Additional file 2: Figure S2. of Disease-specific health related quality of life patient reported outcome measures in Genodermatoses: a systematic review and critical evaluation
Creators: name: Frew, John
name: Davidson, Mark
name: Dedee Murrell
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: List of Articles Which Underwent Full Text Screening. (DOCX 22Â kb)
Incorporating climate change effects into the European power system adequacy assessment using a post-processing method
Creators: name: Harang, Inès
name: Heymann, Fabian
name: Stoop, Laurens P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The demand-supply balance of electricity systems is fundamentally linked to climate conditions. In light of this, the present study aims to model the effect of climate change on the European electricity system, specifically on its long-term reliability. A resource adequate power system -- a system where electricity supply covers demand -- is sensitive to generation capacity, demand patterns, and the network structure and capacity. Climate change is foreseen to affect each of these components.
 In this analysis, we focused on two drivers of power system adequacy: the impact of temperature variations on electricity demand, and of water inflows changes on hydro generation. Using a post-processing approach, based on results found in the literature, the inputs of a large-scale electricity market model covering the European region were modified. The results show that climate change may decrease total LOLE (Loss of Load Expectation) hours in Europe by more than 50%, as demand will largely decrease because of a higher temperatures during winter. We found that the climate change impact on demand tends to decrease LOLE values, while the climate change effects on hydrological conditions tend to increase LOLE values.
 The study is built on a limited amount of open-source data and can flexibly incorporate various sets of assumptions. Outcomes also show the current difficulties to reliably model the effects of climate change on power system adequacy. Overall, our presented method displays the relevance of climate change effects in electricity network studies.
PHz-wide spectral interference through coherent plasma-induced fission of higher-order solitons
Creators: name: Köttig, F.
name: Tani, F.
name: Travers, J. C.
name: Russell, P. St. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identify a novel regime of soliton-plasma interactions in which high-intensity ultrashort pulses of intermediate soliton order undergo coherent plasma-induced fission. Experimental results obtained in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers are supported by rigorous numerical simulations. The cumulative blueshift of higher-order input solitons with ionizing intensities results in pulse splitting before the ultimate self-compression point, leading to the generation of robust pulse pairs with PHz bandwidths. The novel dynamics closes the gap between plasma-induced adiabatic soliton compression and modulational instability.
Additional file 6 of Abstract analysis method facilitates filtering low-methodological quality and high-bias risk systematic reviews on psoriasis interventions
Creators: name: Gómez-García, Francisco
name: Ruano, Juan
name: Aguilar-Luque, Macarena
name: Alcalde-Mellado, Patricia
name: Gay-Mimbrera, Jesús
name: Hernández-Romero, José Luis
name: Sanz-Cabanillas, Juan Luis
name: Maestre-López, Beatriz
name: González-Padilla, Marcelino
name: Carmona-Fernández, Pedro J.
name: García-Nieto, Antonio
name: Isla-Tejera, Beatriz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Appendix 6. PRISMA-A IRR using Fleiss’ Kappa for two raters. (DOC 16 kb)
title: Le « storytelling » pour l’enseignement de l’anglais oral au primaire :
title: Quel effet sur les postures d’étude des élèves ?
titleType: Subtitle
title: Le « storytelling » pour l’enseignement de l’anglais oral au primaire :
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Pasche, Elisa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0

description: Ce mémoire a pour but d’étudier l’impact d’exercices réguliers de compréhension orale en anglais soutenus par des techniques de storytelling, sur les postures d’étude ou d’apprentissage des élèves, telle que définies par Bucheton et Soulé (2009). Leurs travaux mettent en exergue chez les élèves six postures possibles (réflexive, première, ludique/créative, scolaire, de refus, dogmatique) traduisant les caractéristiques de l’engagement des élèves dans les tâches : - La posture première correspond à se lancer dans la tâche sans trop réfléchir, en laissant jaillir toutes sortes d’idées ou de solutions sans y revenir davantage - La posture ludique/créative traduit le fait de succomber à la tentation toujours latente de détourner la tâche ou de la re-prescrire à son gré. - La posture réflexive est celle qui permet à l’élève non seulement d’être dans l’agir mais de revenir sur cet agir, de le « secondariser » pour en comprendre les finalités, les ratés, les apports. - La posture scolaire caractérise l’élève qui essaie avant tout de rentrer dans les normes scolaires attendues, et de se caler dans les attentes du maître. - La posture de refus (refus de faire, d’apprendre, refus de se conformer) est un indicateur qui renvoie en général à des problèmes identitaires, psycho-affectifs, à des violences symboliques ou réelles subies par les élèves. - La posture dogmatique est celle adoptée par un élève qui pense qu’il « sait déjà », et qui manifeste une non-curiosité affirmée. Nous proposons l’hypothèse que l’usage de techniques de storytelling aura un impact sur l’engagement des élèves dans les tâches de compréhension orale, et donc sur leurs postures d’étude. Notre objectif premier est donc de vérifier cette hypothèse. Nous allons aussi vérifier l’hypothèse que certaines postures ou combinaison de postures sont plus propices à l’apprentissage dans le cadre de la compréhension orale en anglais, comme l’a observé Bucheton (2000, 2006) dans la compréhension écrite en français. Et pour faire le lien entre ces deux problématiques, nous allons chercher à comprendre si l’usage du storytelling a un effet positif sur les postures et les apprentissages des élèves et comment, notre hypothèse étant que c’est le cas puisque cette technique nous a beaucoup été vantée en cours et par des collègues. Cette recherche vise donc à répondre à la question « comment le storytelling dans des situations de compréhension orale en anglais modifie-t-il les postures d’étude des élèves ? »
Structure and dynamics of cardiac troponin: a paramagnetic relaxation enhancement NMR study
Creators: name: Cordina, Nicole Maree
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Troponin is a large ~80 kDa, dynamic, heterotrimeric protein complex located on the thin filament of striated muscle, responsible for controlling the interaction of myosin with actin. The simple binding of Ca2+ to troponin initiates a series of protein conformational changes throughout the complex that then alter protein‐protein interactions in the muscle filament, leading to contraction. Despite the wealth of structural data on troponin, defining the molecular details of the conformational changes triggered by Ca2+ binding within the intact complex is still needed and experimentally remains a challenge. In this thesis, targeting of troponin with paramagnetic nitroxide spin labels enabled the techniques of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) to be utilised to address fundamental questions about the structure and dynamics of the cardiac muscle troponin complex. Long‐range structural information was derived from the paramagnetic relaxation enhancement (PRE) of the NMR signal in the presence of the nitroxide spin label. Inter‐nitroxide spin distances are also obtained from continuous wave and pulsed EPR techniques. Together, both approaches provided us with a movie detailing the conformational interplay between key regions of the cardiac troponin complex in response to Ca2+ binding and phosphorylation. More importantly, incorporation of a paramagnetic species NMR have allowed us to understand the key role that dynamics plays in fine‐tuning the Ca2+ troponin switch regulatory mechanism in the cardiac isoform, and how its structure is perturbed by disease causing mutations.