cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Integrated quality: a target for sustainable schools
Creators: name: Antonini, Ernesto
name: Boeri, Andrea
name: Gaspari, Jacopo
name: Longo, Danila
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: Recent surveys on the condition of the Italian school building stock provide information on its relevant seismic behavior and fire safety levels, however no information is made available on its thermo-hygrometric conditions and energy behaviour, despite the fact that the former has a considerable impact on the use and physical conditions of indoor environments and the latter plays a fundamental role in limiting the buildings operating costs, as literature abundantly shows. This paper reports the results of a study carried out on a sample of Italian school buildings, substantiating their high levels of energy consumption, and describes the application of a specific method of analysis used for identifying the main causes of these, therefore allowing to propose some possible strategies for retrofitting, aimed to improving the building energy efficiency and environmental quality, by way of simulations and validation of their relevant effects and benefits.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 5 (2013): Environment emergency
The relationships of psychological and environmental factors with reward processing in adolescence in the general population: a scoping review.
Creators: name: Bentivegna, Francesca
name: Flouri, Eirini
name: Papachristou, Efstathios
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Child Psychology
subject: Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Psychological Phenomena and Processes
subject: adolescence
subject: adversity in childhood
subject: externalising problems
subject: gambling task
subject: internalising problems
subject: parenting
subject: reward processing
subject: self-regulation

description: This scoping review will explore the existing literature, as well as the gaps, on the link, in childhood and adolescence, between reward processing, measured using gambling tasks, and a) psychological factors including internalising/externalising symptoms and self-regulation, and b) environmental factors such as adversity in childhood and parenting, at the population level. Moreover, this review will help us identify key aspects of these factors in the context of reward processing. Finally, we will map and summarise the available evidence in order to inform the analyses to be carried out among these factors and reward processing.
Observation of proton-tagged, central (semi)exclusive production of high-mass lepton pairs in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
name: TOTEM Collaborations
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: p: spectrometer
p p: scattering
scale: electroweak interaction
CERN LHC Coll
background
exclusive production
kinematics
electron
lepton
muon
5/3

description: The process pp$\to\ell^+\ell^-$p$^{(*)}$, with $\ell^+\ell^-$ a muon or an electron pair produced at midrapidity with mass larger than 110 GeV, has been observed for the first time at the LHC in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV. One of the two scattered protons is measured in the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer (CT-PPS), which operated for the first time in 2016. The second proton either remains intact or is excited and then dissociates into a low-mass state p$^{*}$, which is undetected. The measurement is based on an integrated luminosity of 9.4 fb$^{-1}$ collected during standard, high-luminosity LHC operation. A total of 12 $\mu^+\mu^-$ and 8 e$^+$e$^-$ pairs with $m(\ell^{+}\ell^{-}) >$ 110 GeV, and matching forward proton kinematics, are observed, with expected backgrounds of 1.49 $\pm$ 0.07 (stat) $\pm$ 0.53 (syst) and 2.36 $\pm$ 0.09 (stat) $\pm$ 0.47 (syst), respectively. This corresponds to an excess of more than five standard deviations over the expected background. The present result constitutes the first observation of proton-tagged $\gamma\gamma$ collisions at the electroweak scale. This measurement also demonstrates that CT-PPS performs according to the design specifications.
Renewing the models of process through digital design: the challenge launched by ADITAZZ with the “Small Hospital – Big Ideas” International competition
Creators: name: Del Nord, Romano
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: The critical issues facing the construction industry, can only be overcome with a policy of actions and strategies that should be shared and implemented by all stakeholders interested in fostering innovation, that is the driving force of growth. Our role is to envisage new forms of innovation that might affect the “way” we conceive and design buildings as well the “way” we manage processes, enhancing the methodology and the means that have always been at the core of technological culture. In this context, it is interesting to evaluate the multidisciplinary digital design that the American group ADITAZZ has developed for a recent International Competition, sponsored by Kaiser Permanente. Aditazz Realization Platform (ARP) has allowed to produce multi-aggregation scenarios to meet the criteria of the Competition. This design, based on a digital and multidisciplinary culture is of great interest for the potentials of contemporary technology.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 6 (2013): Quality and effectiveness of the building process
Quantum coherence in multipartite systems
Creators: name: Yao, Yao
name: Xiao, Xing
name: Ge, Li
name: Sun, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the unified framework of exploiting the relative entropy as a distance measure of quantum correlations, we make explicit the hierarchical structure of quantum coherence, quantum discord and quantum entanglement in multipartite systems. On this basis, we introduce a new measure of quantum coherence, the basis-free quantum coherence and prove that this quantity is exactly equivalent to quantum discord. Furthermore, since the original relative entropy of coherence is a basis-dependent quantity, we investigate the local and nonlocal unitary creation of quantum coherence, focusing on the two-qubit unitary gates. Intriguingly, our results demonstrate that nonlocal unitary gates do not necessarily outperform the local unitary gates. Finally, the additivity relationship of quantum coherence in tripartite systems is discussed in detail, where the strong subadditivity of von Neumann entropy plays an essential role.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures. Any comments are appreciated
The Huqoq Excavation Project: 2014–2017 Interim Report
Creators: name: Magness, Jodi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Excavations at Huqoq in Israel's eastern Lower Galilee are bringing to light a Late Roman synagogue, a medieval public building, and the remains of ancient and modern (pre-1948) villages. In this interim report, we describe the major discoveries of the 2014–2017 seasons, including the extraordinary figural mosaics decorating the synagogue floor. Our discoveries provide evidence of a Galilean Jewish community that flourished through the 5th and 6th centuries C.E.—a picture contrasting with recent claims of a decline in Jewish settlement under Byzantine Christian rule. The possibility that the medieval public building might also be a synagogue has important implications for understanding Galilean Jewish settlement in the Middle Ages, about which almost nothing is known. The excavations also shed light on the last phase of the settlement's long history: the development of the modern village of Yakuk in the 19th through 20th centuries.
The scientific work of Giuseppe Ciribini
Creators: name: Bosia, Daniela
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: The scientific work of Giuseppe Ciribini (1913-1990), professor emeritus of Technology of Architecture, trace a period of more than fifty years of transformations in the field of construction and architecture, including the Second World War, reconstruction, up to the post-industrial era, characterized by profound social changes and scientific and technological innovations. It is recognized in Ciribini a maturation of thought articulated and always projected into the future, which has profoundly changed the Technology of Architecture, opening it to wider research perspectives.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 6 (2013): Quality and effectiveness of the building process
CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH POST-COVID-19 SEQUELS IN THE SCOPE OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE: SCOPING REVIEW PROTOCOL
Creators: name: Cardins, Karla
name: Veríssimo e Oliveira, Lannuzya
name: de Morais Freitas, Claudia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: This is a protocol of a scoping review that aims to understand the care for people with post-COVID-19 sequels in the scope of Primary Health Care. And it will include the following steps: identification of the research question; identification of relevant publications; selection of publications; data extraction; analysis and synthesis of evidence. Data will be extracted, synthesized and presented in a descriptive way, as indicated in the checklist proposed by PRISMA-ScR. Controlled and free vocabularies will be used for the bibliographic survey in the following databases: PUBMED, BVS, LILACS, Web of Science, BDENF, Scopus, CINAHL, Medline. After the searches, the data will be exported to an online bibliographic reference manager, through which it will be possible to exclude duplicate publications and proceed with the selection of publications by reading the titles and abstracts by two independent reviewers. Research published in full and free of charge in Portuguese, Spanish or English, which aimed to identify care for people with post-COVID-19 sequels in the scope of Primary Health Care, will be included. And editorials, theoretical essays, abstracts of event proceedings and review articles will be excluded. The publications included will be submitted to a narrative synthesis after data extraction, which will be conducted using a specific form.
Effects of Three Different Exercise Strategies for Optimizing Aerobic Capacity and Skeletal Muscle Performance in Older Adults: A Pilot Study
Creators: name: Tavoian, Dallin
name: Russ, David W.
name: Law, Timothy D
name: Simon, Janet E.
name: Chase, Paul J
name: Guseman, Emily Hill
name: Clark, Brian C.
Publisher: name: Health Research Alliance
Year: 2023
Subjects: Exercise physiology

description: Results of a 12-week clinical trial assessing the effects of high-intensity interval training, aerobic exercise, or resistance exercise on physical performance in older adults.
Comparisons Across Geographic Entities and Tasks
Creators: name: Devos, Thierry
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: automatic
subject: diversity
subject: ethnicity
subject: iat
subject: implicit

description: We will examine the relationship between three context diversity measures (representation, variety, and integration) and implicit bias at a relatively proximal context (county or Metropolitan Statistical Area) nested under a more distal context (state). The context diversity to implicit bias relationship will be investigated with data for four Implicit Association Tests (IAT): the Black-White Attitude IAT, the Black-White Weapon IAT, the Asian-European American IAT and the Native-European American IAT on Project Implicit (https://implicit.harvard.edu).
ACC/AHA/ESC Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Supraventricular Arrhythmias - Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Develop Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Supraventricular Arrhythmias)
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Supraventricular arrhythmias are a group of common rhythm disturbances. The most common treatment strategies include antiarrhythmic drug therapy and catheter ablation. Over the past decade, the latter has been shown to be a highly successful and often curative intervention. To facilitate and optimize the management of patients with supraventricular arrhythmias, the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF), the American Heart Association (AHA), and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) created a committee to establish guidelines for better management of these heterogeneous tachyarrhythmias. This document summarizes the management of patients with supraventricular arrhythmias with recommendations for diagnostic procedures as well as indications for antiarrhythmic drugs and/or nonpharmacologic treatments.
The scalar radius of the pion from Lattice QCD in the continuum limit
Creators: name: Gülpers, Vera
name: von Hippel, Georg
name: Wittig, Hartmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend our study of the pion scalar radius in two-flavour lattice QCD to include two additional lattice spacings as well as lighter pion masses, enabling us to perform a combined chiral and continuum extrapolation. We find discretisation artefacts to be small for the radius, and confirm the importance of the disconnected diagrams in reproducing the correct chiral behaviour. Our final result for the scalar radius of the pion at the physical point is $\left\langle r^2\right\rangle^π_{\rm S}=0.600\pm0.052$ fm$^2$, corresponding to a value of $\overline{\ell}_4=4.54\pm0.30$ for the low-energy constant $\overline{\ell}_4$ of NLO chiral perturbation theory.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, uses svjour.cls
Requalification Pilot projects of Nearly Zero Energy Building for “smart” district and cities
Creators: name: Dassori, Enrico
name: Morbiducci, Renata
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: The authors present the first results of the European project R2CITIES winner of the call “Smart Cities and Communities, 2011”. The main objective of R2CITIES is to develop a replicable strategy for the design, construction and management of entire residential neighborhoods with ‘almost zero’ consumption. The experience, both in the competition participation and in the course of the phases of the project, it is particularly significant especially for the synergy that has necessarily developed at international level, including Municipality, researchers, industries, non-profit companies and finance companies. Regarding the role of the University is evident the contribution in terms of knowledge and strength of cohesion between the different actors involved.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 6 (2013): Quality and effectiveness of the building process
Realistic Neutral Atom Image Simulation
Creators: name: Winklmann, Jonas
name: Tsevas, Dimitrios
name: Schulz, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Neutral atom quantum computers require accurate single atom detection for the preparation and readout of their qubits. This is usually done using fluorescence imaging. The occupancy of an atom site in these images is often somewhat ambiguous due to the stochastic nature of the imaging process. Further, the lack of ground truth makes it difficult to rate the accuracy of reconstruction algorithms. We introduce a bottom-up simulator that is capable of generating sample images of neutral atom experiments from a description of the actual state in the simulated system. Possible use cases include the creation of exemplary images for demonstration purposes, fast training iterations for deconvolution algorithms, and generation of labeled data for machine-learning-based atom detection approaches. The implementation is available through our GitHub as a C library or wrapped Python package. We show the modeled effects and implementation of the simulations at different stages of the imaging process. Not all real-world phenomena can be reproduced perfectly. The main discrepancies are that the simulator allows for only one characterization of optical aberrations across the whole image, supports only discrete atom locations, and does not model all effects of CMOS cameras perfectly. Nevertheless, our experiments show that the generated images closely match real-world pictures to the point that they are practically indistinguishable and can be used as labeled data for training the next generation of detection algorithms.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
Toward the simplification of the design process chain aimed at optimizing the productive processes to improve innovation and competitiveness
Creators: name: Pizzi, Emilio
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: The demand within the process of building construction requires necessarily a deeper definition in terms of time and cost management. It means that new instruments of control are to be are to be inserted in the first phases of any design. The prefiguration of scenarios and the presetting of rules and constraints along with the adoption of new digital fabrication softwares assume particular importance in process more and more oriented into a file to factory/fabrication method.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 6 (2013): Quality and effectiveness of the building process
The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of galactic globular clusters. VI. The internal kinematics of the multiple stellar populations in NGC 2808
Creators: name: Bellini, A.
name: Vesperini, E.
name: Piotto, G.
name: Milone, A. P.
name: Hong, J.
name: Anderson, J.
name: van der Marel, R. P.
name: Bedin, L. R.
name: Cassisi, S.
name: D'Antona, F.
name: Marino, A. F.
name: Renzini, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerous observational studies have revealed the ubiquitous presence of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters and cast many hard challenges for the study of the formation and dynamical history of these stellar systems. In this Letter we present the results of a study of the kinematic properties of multiple populations in NGC 2808 based on high-precision Hubble Space Telescope proper-motion measurements. In a recent study, Milone et al. have identified five distinct populations (A, B, C, D, and E) in NGC 2808. Populations D and E coincide with the helium-enhanced populations in the middle and the blue main sequences (mMS and bMS) previously discovered by Piotto et al.; populations A, B, and C correspond to the redder main sequence (rMS) that in the Piotto et al. was associated with the primordial stellar population. Our analysis shows that, in the outermost regions probed (between about 1.5 and 2 times the cluster half-light radius), the velocity distribution of populations D and E is radially anisotropic (the deviation from an isotropic distribution is significant at the ~3.5-sigma level). Stars of populations D and E have a smaller tangential velocity dispersion than those of populations A, B, and C, while no significant differences are found in the radial-velocity dispersion. We present the results of a numerical simulation showing that the observed differences between the kinematics of these stellar populations are consistent with the expected kinematic fingerprint of the diffusion towards the cluster outer regions of stellar populations initially more centrally concentrated.
description: 6 pages, 5 figure, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Understanding One's Character through the Voice: Dimensions of Personality Perception from Chinese Greeting Word“Ni Hao”
Creators: name: Wu, Qi
name: Jiang, Zhongqing
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Chinese; personality perception; voice perception; first impression

description: Understanding One's Character through the Voice: Dimensions of Personality Perception from Chinese Greeting Word“Ni Hao” . A project for a publication in Journal of Social Psychology to earn open materials badges.
NASA Open-Source Science Initiative and Transform to Open Science at AAS 2023 Winter Meeting
Creators: name: Crawford, Steve
name: Ojha, Roopesh
name: McClure, Matthew
name: Ansdell, Megan
name: Murphy, Kevin
name: Baynes, Katie
name: Gentemann, Chelle
name: Ivey, Yvonne
name: Hall, Cynthia
name: Martinez, Isabella
name: Mceniry, Shawn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: NASA's Open-Source Science Initiative (OSSI) and and Transform to Open Science (TOPS) teams participated in the 2023 meeting of the American Astronomical Society from Jan 8 through Jan 12, where team member's presented on the goals and purpose of both OSSI and TOPS.
(Industrial) Research on Building Production: results and future developments
Creators: name: Alaimo, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: In accordance with the most recent management mandate, ISTeA (Italian Society of Science, Technology and engineering of Architecture) has devoted its efforts to outlining those topics which are of fundamental importance for the activity of its stakeholders, in line with the road maps of national and Community funding programmes and with the strategic objectives of (Industrial) Research which range from the energy-environmental performance of buildings and districts to automation in construction within the context of Smart Cities and Social Innovation. These research programmes need to be planned and negotiated with industrial stakeholders and carried out in partnership with them. This explains why the 2011 ISTeA Conference produced a number of position papers, the 2012 Conference traced the state of the art in the topics identified and the 2013 Conferencedeals with the non-instrumental relationship between Building Production and ICT.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 6 (2013): Quality and effectiveness of the building process
Average degree conditions forcing a minor
Creators: name: Harvey, Daniel J.
name: Wood, David R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Mader first proved that high average degree forces a given graph as a minor. Often motivated by Hadwiger's Conjecture, much research has focused on the average degree required to force a complete graph as a minor. Subsequently, various authors have consider the average degree required to force an arbitrary graph $H$ as a minor. Here, we strengthen (under certain conditions) a recent result by Reed and Wood, giving better bounds on the average degree required to force an $H$-minor when $H$ is a sparse graph with many high degree vertices. This solves an open problem of Reed and Wood, and also generalises (to within a constant factor) known results when $H$ is an unbalanced complete bipartite graph.
A kinematic study of the disc-outflow system around a high-mass protostar G59.783+0.065 probed by methanol and water masers
Creators: name: Nakamura, M.
name: Motogi, K.
name: Nakamura, H.
name: Yonekura, Y.
name: Fujisawa, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Class II CH3OH masers are used as a convenient tracer of disc-like structures in high-mass star formation. However, more than half of them show a complex distribution in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) maps. The origin of such a complex distribution is still unknown. We conducted VLBI monitoring observations to unveil the origin of a complex class II CH3OH maser in the high-mass star-forming region G59.783+0.065. We observed the CH3OH maser at 6.7 GHz and the H2O maser at 22 GHz to probe detailed circumstellar kinematics and structures by the Japanese VLBI network and the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry. We found similar bipolar distributions in both masers, specifically two clusters located 2000 au apart along the East-West direction. We detected a linear distribution of CH3OH masers in the Western cluster. A position-velocity diagram shows that the Western CH3OH masers trace a rotating disc-wind or infalling component inside an edge-on disc-like structure. In contrast to the simple bipolar expanding motions of the H2O masers, the CH3OH masers exhibited complex motions despite their spatial coincidence. Some of the Eastern CH3OH masers showed bipolar expansions similar to the H2O masers, while others displayed random or even inward motions. Such complex kinematics and their close association with the H2O maser could occur at the boundary between outflow and inflow. We suggest that the complex distribution of class II CH3OH masers, like G59.783+0.065 arises from several distinct circumstellar structures that simultaneously achieve maser excitation.
description: Accepted to MNRAS, 22 pages, 17 figures, 13 tables
Exploring the experiences of people with diabetes in the workplace – a scoping review
Creators: name: Ng, Ashley
name: Hasan, Bahar
name: Hasan, Bahar
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Chronic Disease Management
subject: Diabetes

description: In order to adequately self-manage a chronic condition such as diabetes while maintaining productivity and efficiency at work, support is required from the workplace. It is unknown whether people who live with diabetes require additional support physically or mentally when working within the healthcare sector due to constant exposure to the medical environment on top of managing their own experience. To better understand these experiences, it is pertinent that the experiences of people with diabetes within the workforce in general is explored. To the best of our knowledge, there has not been a systematic review conducted to explore the experiences of people with diabetes within the workplace.
Effectiveness, sustainability and quality. Criticality of the building process in public works in Italy
Creators: name: Maspoli, Rossella
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: In the Italian case are outlined, compared to other European countries, in the 2000s, the limits of the policies for the architectural quality and, in parallel, the deficiencies of the technical regulations for public works contracts. Object of analysis and research are intervention strategies to improve the overall quality of the public sector, which concerns the procedures for project technical verification and validation, the development of tools for the implementation of the quality plan, the prospects for process innovation coherent the Regulation of the Public Contracts Code.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 6 (2013): Quality and effectiveness of the building process
Level of Detail and Level of Development: Commissioning processes and Information Modelling
Creators: name: Ciribini, Angelo
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: The essence of Information Modelling in the Construction Industry lies in the methods of evolution of the information content through the lifecycle of the commission and the work. Such progress in the levels of development of the model is profoundly different from normal progress as it is strongly affected by the goals of whoever is managing the Information Model itself. The subjects that appear to benefit most from this seem to be governments, delegated project contractors, authorities or promoters and finally and in particular, lenders.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 6 (2013): Quality and effectiveness of the building process
Application of project risk management and performance indices in the construction sector: a case study
Creators: name: Ciaramella, Andrea
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: In the construction sector, proper risk management may contribute effectively to improving decision-making processes. Principals and operators (businesses and professionals) may derive benefits from reducing environmental variability and uncertainty, limiting costsdue to errors and the improper use of resources and significantly improving the quality of information streams. The article illustrates the results of two studies, the first conducted in the United Arab Emirates and the second carried out in Italy, with a similar methodological approach and objectives: verifying the nature of the main risks in construction, identifying to which party (owner or contractor) responsibility for such risks is assigned in practice, representing the circumstances in which responsibility is to be considered shared and emphasising the risks with the greatest probability of occurrence. The classification of identified risks allowsprincipals not so much to prevent occurrences that may have impacts on a project as to limit and contain the events (risk reduction), partly through constant monitoring and control of activities, which is the most important critical factor to success.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 6 (2013): Quality and effectiveness of the building process
An abundance of rare functional variants in 202 drug target genes sequenced in 14,002 people
Creators: name: Tang, Zhengzheng
name: Li, Yun
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Rare genetic variants contribute to complex disease risk; however, the abundance of rare variants in human populations remains unknown. We explored this spectrum of variation by sequencing 202 genes encoding drug targets in 14,002 individuals. We find rare variants are abundant (1 every 17 bases) and geographically localized, so that even with large sample sizes, rare variant catalogs will be largely incomplete. We used the observed patterns of variation to estimate population growth parameters, the proportion of variants in a given frequency class that are putatively deleterious, and mutation rates for each gene. We conclude that because of rapid population growth and weak purifying selection, human populations harbor an abundance of rare variants, many of which are deleterious and have relevance to understanding disease risk.
Ab initio calculation of the shock Hugoniot of bulk silicon
Creators: name: Strickson, Oliver
name: Artacho, Emilio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a simple annealing procedure to obtain the Hugoniot locus (states accessible by a shock wave) for a given material in a computationally efficient manner. We apply this method to determine the Hugoniot locus in bulk silicon from ab initio molecular dynamics with forces from density-functional theory, up to 70 GPa. The fact that shock waves can split into multiple waves due to phase transitions or yielding is taken into account here by specifying the strength of any preceding waves explicitly based on their yield strain. Points corresponding to uniaxial elastic compression along three crystal axes and a number of post-shock phases are given, including a plastically-yielded state, approximated by an isotropic stress configuration following an elastic wave of predetermined strength. The results compare well to existing experimental data for shocked silicon.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
The control, at the design stage, of risks related to buildings management over time
Creators: name: Martani, Claudio
name: Talamo, Cinzia
name: Paganin, Giancarlo
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: In the present paper an apparatus of tools and methods is presented to evaluate, at the design stage, the risks over a set of objectives through buildings lifetime. To this purpose a tool is first presented to relate technological requirements of each technical elements to the pertinent maintenance interventions. Then a process is also proposed to estimate the risks on user requirements runningMonte Carlo simulations. The risk management process proposed in the present work aims to support designers and promoters in making predictions on the outcomes of long, not standardized, multivariable dependent processes – as the building process is – in order to indicate the attitude of a designed building to meet a framework of important objectives through its lifetime.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 6 (2013): Quality and effectiveness of the building process
Tools and procedures for a “maintenance oriented” design for buildings of worship
Creators: name: Talamo, Cinzia
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: The paper describes the results, achieved in the first year, of a three years research dealing with the themes connected with the methods and the tools for planned maintenance and concerning the proposal of a system of supports for a design “maintenance oriented”. The starting hypothesis is that most of maintenance problems emerging during the life time of a building are due to a lack of attention towards the use phase that both clients and designers demonstrate. Starting from this point of view the aim of the research was to develop and to check a system of supports, useful both for clients and for designs of buildings of worship, consisting in guide lines, procedures and evaluation tools, graduate according to the different steps of design process and carried out in order to assume and to verify the requirement of maintainability.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 6 (2013): Quality and effectiveness of the building process
Evolution of competing magnetic order in the Jeff=1/2 insulating state of Sr2Ir1-xRuxO4
Creators: name: Calder, S.
name: Kim, J. W.
name: Cao, G. -X.
name: Cantoni, C.
name: May, A. F.
name: Cao, H. B.
name: Aczel, A. A.
name: Matsuda, M.
name: Choi, Y.
name: Haskel, D.
name: Sales, B. C.
name: Mandrus, D.
name: Lumsden, M. D.
name: Christianson, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the magnetic properties of the series Sr2Ir1-xRuxO4 with neutron, resonant x-ray and magnetization measurements. The results indicate an evolution and coexistence of magnetic structures via a spin flop transition from ab-plane to c-axis collinear order as the 5d Ir4+ ions are replaced with an increasing concentration of 4d Ru4+ ions. The magnetic structures within the ordered regime of the phase diagram (x<0.3) are reported. Despite the changes in magnetic structure no alteration of the Jeff=1/2 ground state is observed. The behavior of Sr2Ir1-xRuxO4 is consistent with electronic phase separation and diverges from a standard scenario of hole doping. The role of lattice alterations with doping on the magnetic and insulating behavior is considered. The results presented here provide insight into the magnetic insulating states in strong spin-orbit coupled materials and the role perturbations play in altering the behavior.
title: Verifying Opacity of Discrete-Timed Automata
Creators: name: Klein, Julian
name: Kogel, Paul
name: Glesner, Sabine
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: opacity
subject: verification
subject: timed automata
subject: tick automata

description: Opacity is a powerful confidentiality property that holds if a system cannot leak secret information through observable behavior. In recent years, time has become an increasingly popular attack vector. The notion of opacity has therefore been extended to timed automata (TA). However, the verification of opacity of TA has been proven to be undecidable for the commonly used dense time model. To make the problem decidable, state of the art approaches consider weaker notions of opacity or heavily restrict the class of considered TA, resulting in unrealistic threat models. In this paper, we address the problem of verifying opacity of TA without restrictions. For this purpose, we consider a discrete time setting. We present a novel algorithm to transform TA to equivalent finite automata (FA) and then use known methods to verify opacity of the resulting FA. To improve the efficiency of our algorithm, we use a novel time abstraction that significantly reduces the state space of the resulting FA, improving the scalability of our approach. We validate our method using randomized systems, as well as four case studies from the literature showing that our approach is applicable in practice.
ACC/AHA guidelines for percutaneous coronary intervention (revision of the 1993 PTCA guidelines) - Executive summary: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Revise the 1993 Guidelines for Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary angioplasty) Endorsed by the society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: The American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) Task Force on Practice Guidelines was formed to gather information and make recommendations about appropriate use of technology for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease. Percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) are an important group of technologies in this regard. Although initially limited to PTCA, and termed percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), PCI now includes other new techniques capable of relieving coronary narrowing. Accordingly, in this document, rotational atherectomy, directional atherectomy, extraction atherectomy, laser angioplasty, implantation of intracoronary stents and other catheter devices for treating coronary atherosclerosis are considered components of PCI. In this context PTCA will be used to refer to those studies using primarily PTCA while PCI will refer to the broader group of percutaneous techniques. These new technologies have impacted the effectiveness and safety profile initially established for PTCA. Moreover, important advances have occurred in the use of adjunctive medical therapies such as glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa receptor blockers. In addition, since publication of the previous Guidelines in 1993, greater experience in the performance of PCI in patients with acute coronary syndromes and in community hospital settings has been gained. In view of these developments, further review and revision of the guidelines is warranted. This document reflects the opinion of the third ACC/AHA committee charged with revising the guidelines for PTCA to include the broader group of technologies now termed PCI.
Design enhancing instruments: Post Occupancy Evaluation in Hospice Design
Creators: name: Ferrante, Tiziana
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: During construction , in this case of a healthcare facility, the “management”phase can determine, depending on the life cycle of the building, how long it can effectively last. Among different assessment methodologies, the Post Occupancy Evaluation methodology can still be considered the most reliable one, as it accounts for the specific needs of those who are directly interested and involved in the evaluation process: i.e. its users. Such instruments pertaining to health and social care allow us to acknowledge the degree ofsatisfaction recorded by a pool of users considered to be “fragile”, proving quite useful for Public Administrations and private enterprises to improve the quality of service in terms of efficiency and effectiveness as well as providing additional design input for new construction and/or redevelopment. This paper discusses a survey conducted on hospices.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 6 (2013): Quality and effectiveness of the building process
Quality control in maintenance and management process of school building in the Province of Salerno
Creators: name: Pinto, Maria Rita
name: De Medici, Stefania
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: The instance of existing school asset care, maintenance and regeneration represents the opportunity to develop some researches based on an model for an integrated management of the maintenance of learning spaces quality and efficiency, in order to re-think and modify them as “shared urban strategic resources” through which directly to involve the users operating both in schools and in neighbourhoods. An intervention philosophy has therefore emerged, based on the principle of ‘resilience’ within the school-city macrosystem: a complex system where technological, ecological and social elements co-exist and co-evolve within a vision linking the resource preservation culture with the living sustainability culture.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 6 (2013): Quality and effectiveness of the building process
Extended $s$-wave pairing symmetry on the triangular lattice heavy fermion system
Creators: name: Zhang, Lan
name: Wang, Yu-Feng
name: Zhong, Yin
name: Luo, Hong-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the pairing symmetry of the Kondo-Heisenberg model on triangular lattice, which is believed to capture the core competition of Kondo screening and local magnetic exchange interaction in heavy electron compounds. On the dominant background of the heavy fermion state, the introduction of the Heisenberg antiferromagnetic interaction ($J_H$) leads to superconducting pairing instability. Depending on the strength of the interactions, it is found that the pairing symmetry prefers an extended $s$-wave for small $J_H$ and high conduction electron density but a chiral $d_{x^2-y^2}+id_{xy}$-wave for large $J_H$ and low conduction electron density, which provides a phase diagram of pairing symmetry from the calculations of the ground-state energy. The transition between these two pairing symmetries is found to be first-order. Furthermore, we also analyze the phase diagram from the pairing strengths and find that the phase diagram obtained is qualitatively consistent with that based on the ground-state energy. In addition, we propose an effective single-band BCS Hamiltonian, which is able to describe the low-energy thermodynamic behaviors of the heavy fermion superconducting states. These results further deepen the understanding of the antiferromagnetic interaction which results in a geometric frustration for the model studied. Our work may provide a possible scenario to understand the pairing symmetry of the heavy fermion superconductivity, which is the one of active issues in very recent years.
title: Design and Development of Novel Targeted Anticancer Drugs
Creators: name: Akpughe, Ewoma
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
Year: 2023

description: Despite major advances in treatments for cancer, the delivery of small molecule chemotherapeutics to tumour cells selectively and the circumvention of multidrug resistance persist as obstacles that limit their efficacy in the clinical setting. One approach to improve the selective targeting of anticancer agents is their conjugation to essential vitamins. The sodium multivitamin transporter (SMVT) is overexpressed in many cancer cells and translocate biotin.

In this research, two series of novel biotin-aminoanthraquinone conjugates were synthesised and characterised by high-resolution mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopic methods. Members of these series were designed to incorporate the dual features of a biotin ligand for recognition by SMVT and a lysosomotropic pharmacophore to promote targeted delivery to the lysosomes of cancer cells by exploiting differences to normal cells for lysosomal accumulation and disruption, leading to cell death. First-generation (Series 1) compounds had 1,5-diamino-AQ chromophores, whereas second-generation (Series 2) had 1-amino-4-hydroxy-AQ chromophores.

First-generation conjugates, EA13 and EA14, and unconjugated analogues EA16(II) and EA19, exhibited potent anti-proliferative activity (IC50 values in the low micromolar range) against the SMVT-expressing MCF-7 breast carcinoma cell line. Confocal microscopy studies showed that none of the Series 1 compounds localised within the lysosomes. The involvement of the SMVT protein in their mechanism of action was not established. Second-generation (Series 2) biotin conjugates, EA23, EA35 and EA39, were potently anti-proliferative against MCF7 and accumulated strongly in the lysosomes, a pattern shared by EA22, the unconjugated precursor to EA23.

Lysosomal-targeting lead compounds retained strong anti-proliferative activity in the HCT-15 colon carcinoma cell line, which has high P-glycoprotein expression, suggesting they may have the potential to circumvent a major mechanism of drug resistance. Key biotin-aminoanthraquinone conjugates have been shown to accumulate in the lysosomes of both MCF-7 and HCT-15 cancer cells, avoiding other organelles and the nucleus, may have the potential for the design of new drugs with improved therapeutic index and less systemic side effects.
The OEFamily and the OpenEnergyPlatform (OEP) - A framework for research data management and a community database for energy data
Creators: name: Hülk, Ludwig
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: OpenEnergyFamily, OpenEnergyPlatform, OEP

description: Overview slides on the OpenEnergyFamily (OEFamily) tools and standards that use the official icons. Ludwig Hülk (Reiner Lemoine Institut) created these slides and published them under a CC-BY-4.0 license without institute branding on every page, so that they may be used by others to talk about the OEFamily.

 

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