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Riflessioni con Maria Goula sull’architettura del paesaggio europea
Creators: name: Cassatella, Claudia
name: Torello, Francesca
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: Maria Goula, architetto, è Professore di Teoria del Paesaggio presso il Corso di Laurea Specialistica di Paesaggio, Scuola Tecnica Superiore di Architettura di Barcellona (ETSAB), ed è membro del Comitato organizzatore della Biennale Europea di Paesaggio di Barcellona. Le autrici l’hanno incontrata in occasione della sua presenza a Torino per la rassegna internazionale Creare Paesaggi. Realizzazioni, teorie e progetti in Europa (luglio 2004), e le hanno chiesto una riflessione sull’architettura del paesaggio in Europa sui temi della terza edizione della biennale, “Only with nature”, e sulla situazione della professione e dell’insegnamento a Barcellona.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 1 No 1 (2004)
Support Mean Levels and Fluctuations
Creators: name: Eller, Jami
name: Girme, Yuthika
name: Simpson, Jeffry
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Fluctuations
subject: Interpersonal relationships
subject: Longitudinal
subject: Social support

description: This registration is the Study 2 preregistration examining support fluctuations in an additional dataset.
Gli ecomusei in Italia e in Europa tra paesaggio e folklore una risorsa per la valorizzazione del territorio
Creators: name: Boatti, Antonello
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: L’articolo tratta del concetto di ecomuseo come bene culturale, integrato nel territorio e impregnato con tutti i segni dell’attività dell’uomo e quindi in grado di costituire l’archetipo di una rinnovata progettualità che sappia fondere cultura, storia, territorio e paesaggio. Partendo dall’origine della parola, l’autore fa un excursus cronologico dello sviluppo di quest’idea attraverso l’analisi di alcuni esempi realizzati, trattando poi nello specifico le problematiche italiane ed europee e traendo alcune conclusioni sull’utilità ed il campo di applicazione degli ecomusei.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 1 No 1 (2004)
Construction and Analysis of Multi-Index Financial Model
Creators: name: Lovric, Domagoj
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2023
Subjects: Modern portfolio theory
Multi-index model
Index Investing

description: This paper presents an empirical study of the expansion of the single-index model into a multi-index model with a careful selection of indices. A total of 91 multi-index models were built and tested using advanced statistical methods in the range from 2015 to 2018. This narrowed down the selection to 14 quality multi-index models which needed to be tested for the balance between simplicity and goodness of fit. Using the Akaike Information Criterion it was found that a seven-factor model provided the best trade-off between the two criteria. Nevertheless, it is up to the reader to decide what is of more importance, the fit quality or simplicity. Using the chi-square test, for the case of maximising the model quality benchmarked against the single-index model, a multi-index model has seen a reduction in chi-square value from 6588 to 4678. This model consisted of the market factor, 10 and 30- Year U.S. Treasury Bond, Gold, Oil, CMA and RMW which were proven to provide the most explanation behind the stock price movements as confirmed by the cited literature. Furthermore, this model was tested for its predictive power by testing it in the year 2019 which led to the conclusion that the model was overfitted due to the over-leniency of the Akaike Information Criterion and when it comes to predictiveness, a three-factor model is recommended. The last objective was to test the models in the extreme market events, so the range of 2020-2021 was selected which had unusual market movements caused by the global pandemic. The results reveal that none of the multi-index models outperformed the single-index model during the extreme market events due to the high correlation of all stocks with the market.
Near-Infrared Polarimetric Adaptive Optics Observations of NGC 1068: A torus created by a hydromagnetic outflow wind
Creators: name: Lopez-Rodriguez, E.
name: Packham, C.
name: Jones, T. J.
name: Nikutta, R.
name: McMaster, L.
name: Mason, R. E.
name: Elvis, M.
name: Shenoy, D.
name: Alonso-Herrero, A.
name: Ramirez, E.
name: Martin, O. Gonzalez
name: Hoenig, S. F.
name: Levenson, N. A.
name: Almeida, C. Ramos
name: Perlman, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present J' and K' imaging linear polarimetric adaptive optics observations of NGC 1068 using MMT-Pol on the 6.5-m MMT. These observations allow us to study the torus from a magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) framework. In a 0.5" (30 pc) aperture at K', we find that polarisation arising from the passage of radiation from the inner edge of the torus through magnetically aligned dust grains in the clumps is the dominant polarisation mechanism, with an intrinsic polarisation of 7.0%$\pm$2.2%. This result yields a torus magnetic field strength in the range of 4$-$82 mG through paramagnetic alignment, and 139$^{+11}_{-20}$ mG through the Chandrasekhar-Fermi method. The measured position angle (P.A.) of polarisation at K$'$ is found to be similar to the P.A. of the obscuring dusty component at few parsec scales using infrared interferometric techniques. We show that the constant component of the magnetic field is responsible for the alignment of the dust grains, and aligned with the torus axis onto the plane of the sky. Adopting this magnetic field configuration and the physical conditions of the clumps in the MHD outflow wind model, we estimate a mass outflow rate $\le$0.17 M$_{\odot}$ yr$^{-1}$ at 0.4 pc from the central engine for those clumps showing near-infrared dichroism. The models used were able to create the torus in a timescale of $\geq$10$^{5}$ yr with a rotational velocity of $\leq$1228 km s$^{-1}$ at 0.4 pc. We conclude that the evolution, morphology and kinematics of the torus in NGC 1068 can be explained within a MHD framework.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures, Accepted by MNRAS
La pianificazione del paesaggio: principi innovativi ed esperienze applicate. il caso studio della Valle dei Templi di Agrigento
Creators: name: Campioni, Giuliana
name: Ferrara, Guido
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: La Convenzione Europea del Paesaggio, sottoscritta il 20 ottobre 2000 dagli Stati membri del Consiglio d’Europa, aggiorna il concetto stesso di paesaggio, direzionandolo verso lo sviluppo sostenibile. Il piano del paesaggio redatto per la Valle dei Templi di Agrigento, una fra le più importanti aree archeologiche protette della Sicilia, applica le nuove idee della Convenzione Europea, al fine di dimostrare che la conservazione, pianificazione e gestione effettiva di una eredità paesaggistica di questo tipo consiste in un processo di arricchimento e di crescita delle diversità e, soprattutto, nel provocare un’evoluzione e uno sviluppo equilibrati. D’altro canto, se il caso studio del paesaggio di Agrigento è essenzialmente riferito ad un patrimonio storico di eccezionale interesse, risultato di rilevanti diversità ambientali e culturali, bisogna anche ricordare che esso costituisce una risorsa economica da cui possono essere estratti particolari benefici, con particolare riferimento al turismo.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 1 No 1 (2004)
Gemeinde Tramelan-Dessous, Sekretär Chr. Béguélin-Wittwer, an Louis Rollier (1859-1931)
Creators: name: Rollier, Louis
name: Tramelan-Dessous: Gemeinderat
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1901

description: Brief aus Tramelan-Dessous.
Zusätzlich darauf vermerkt: Notizen von Louis Rollier
DEVELOPMENT OF «WHOLE» EVALUATION ALGORITHM OF THE CONTROL QUALITY OF «CUPOLA – MIXER» MELTING DUPLEX PROCESS
Creators: name: Demin, Dmitriy
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Metallurgy
subject: Materials Science and Engineering
subject: Engineering
subject: algorithm for evaluating the «whole» control quality
subject: controller circuit
subject: cupola melting
subject: thermal processing

description: The object of research is the control of the «cupola – mixer» duplex process, the subject of research is the quality of the «whole» control system for melting. The term «whole» means that it is not individual control operations that are evaluated, but the ability of the control system operating in the workshop to provide specified requirements for the quality of cast iron. One of the most problematic places is the lack of algorithms for the managerial staff to obtain objective information about the quality of management of duplex melting processes. This leads to the fact that it is not possible to get an answer to the question in which particular area or at which particular time point of the process implementation violations were made regarding the control of the heat. In the course of the study, methods were used to calculate sample statistical functions, test hypotheses about the form of the distribution law, regression analysis, analysis of variance, and probability theory methods. These methods were integrated into a general algorithm, called the algorithm for assessing the «whole» quality of control of the duplex melting process. The proposed algorithm allows to quantify the quality of duplex process control by such an indicator as the probability of deviations in chemical composition. As well as the duration of the unsteady mode corresponding to the stabilization time of the chemical composition by process control operations provided for by the control system adopted in the workshop. The practical implementation of the algorithm based on a series of industrial meltings has been completed. The obtained results of testing the algorithm make it possible to consider it an effective tool for obtaining objective information about the quality of control of the duplex process of «cupola – mixer» melting. This is due to the fact that the correct formulation and solution of the problem ensured the receipt of adequate results. In contrast to existing empirical estimates, the proposed algorithm allows to develop options for improving control processes. As a justification for this conclusion, conceptual options for the technical implementation of the regulatory system are proposed. In particular, a simple regulator circuit is proposed, which provides the possibility of maintaining a constant temperature of cast iron and cupola productivity by regulating the level of idle and metal charges. In this case, the process is controlled by supplying control signals to the actuators of the hopper gates with coke and a metal charge formed by manual or automated control systems.
Radio Surveys of Star Formation in the Milky Way with the Next Generation of Interferometers
Creators: name: Mutale, Mubela
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2023
Subjects: HII regions
Star formation
Massive stars
Surveys
Catalogues
Compact sources
ISM
Radio
Submillimetre
Infra-red
Evolution
Statistical lifetime
Outer Galaxy

description: This thesis embodies work that contributes towards building our knowledge on the birth of massive stars. It presents three projects that study young HII regions which, being a direct product of the birth of massive stars, offer a unique window into this process. I have mapped a 2.3°×2.3° region around W49A with the first Galactic Plane survey to explore the subarcsecond and sub-mJy regime at 14 GHz. I have detected a total of 1238 compact sources from which I have identified 82 as young HII regions. I have derived SEDs for a subsample of the sources using 4 KuGARS sub-bands and CORNISH at 5 GHz. The derived spectrum shows that the HII regions are optically thick at 5 GHz and optically thin at 14 GHz. Their sizes imply they are in transition between the ultracompact (UC) and hypercompact (HC) stages. This process is contiguous with no sharp transition and no visible boundaries between the evolutionary stages, putting into question the need for multiple classifications. The observed trends suggest that HC and UC HII regions are in fact the same object. I have estimated the time they spend in high emission measure (EM) as an analogue to the lifetime of an HII region spent in the HC phase of its evolution. Using 108 pc cm−6 as an arbitrary boundary between high and low EM, I estimate that HII regions spend ∼41% of their lifetime in high EM, something of the order 104 years. I carried out targeted observations toward 78 molecular clumps with star forming properties in the Outer Galaxy using the C-band of the VLA. This was in order to search for embedded UC HII regions, which would indicate ongoing star formation. Only 9 clumps have an embedded radio source, none of which are detected for the first time, implying massive star formation in the Outer Galaxy is not as prevalent as in the Inner Galaxy. I present a catalogue of compact sources extracted from the MeerKAT-GPS, an L-band survey of the southern Galactic Plane covering around half the GP from 252° < l < 358°, 2° < l < 60° and |b| < 1.5° down to a nominal depth of ∼ 10-30 μJy. The catalogue contains 409790 compact sources above 5σ . I have extracted a subsample of 350 UC HII regions identified as counterparts to the RMS UC HII region samples in a search for extended emission associated with UC HII regions - this would conclusively explain the lifetime problem. However, I have found extended emission around ∼ 1/3 of the sources, a lower ratio than found in previous studies (∼ 8/10). The lower ratio seen in this complete sample means we cannot rely entirely on extended components to explain the large number of observed UC HII regions.
The far-infrared emission of the radio-loud quasar 3C318
Creators: name: Podigachoski, P.
name: Barthel, P. D.
name: Peletier, R. F.
name: Steendam, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 3C318, a radio-loud quasar at z=1.574, is a subgalactic-sized radio source, and a good test-bed for the interplay between black hole and galaxy growth in the high-z Universe. Based on its IRAS, ISO, and SCUBA detections, it has long been considered as one of the most intrinsically luminous (L$_{\mathrm{IR}}$ > 10$^{13}$ L$_{\odot}$) infrared sources in the Universe. Recent far-infrared data from the Herschel Space Observatory reveal that most of the flux associated with 3C318 measured with earlier instruments in fact comes from a bright nearby source. Optical imaging and spectroscopy show that this infrared-bright source is a strongly star-forming pair of interacting galaxies at z=0.35. Adding existing Spitzer and SDSS photometry, we perform a spectral energy distribution analysis of the pair, and find that it has a combined infrared luminosity of L$_{\mathrm{IR}}$ = 1.5 $\times$ 10$^{12}$ L$_{\odot}$, comparable to other intermediate-redshift ultra-luminous infrared galaxies studied with Herschel. Isolating the emission from 3C318's host, we robustly constrain the level of star formation to a value a factor of three lower than that published earlier, which is more in line with the star formation activity found in other Herschel-detected 3CR objects at similar redshift.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A
When Does Income Inequality Cause Polarization?
Creators: name: Gunderson, Jacob Robert
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Income inequality has increased across developed democracies in the past thirty years (Piketty, 2014). Conventional wisdom suggests that high income inequality should be associated with political parties taking polarized positions as the left struggles to increase redistribution to its relatively poor voters while the right aims to entrench the position of economic elites (Meltzer and Richard, 1981; Han, 2015; Winkler, 2019). However, this general argument masks substantial within-country and cross-sectional variation. I argue that the connection between party positions and income inequality is contingent upon the construction of partisanship and the content of national elections. This thesis uses data from European national elections from 1996 to 2016 to show that when partisanship is expressed along economic lines - as indicated by a high degree of income differentiation between parties - and when economic issues are salient, the predicted effect of income inequality holds. When these factors are weak, however, income inequality has no discernible relationship with polarization.
The evolving relation between star-formation rate and stellar mass in the VIDEO Survey since $z=3$
Creators: name: Johnston, Russell
name: Vaccari, Mattia
name: Jarvis, Matt
name: Smith, Mathew
name: Giovannoli, Elodie
name: Häußler, Boris
name: Prescott, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the star-formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass ($M_*$) relation of a star-forming (SF) galaxy sample in the XMM-LSS field to $z\sim 3.0$ using the near-infrared data from the VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) survey. Combining VIDEO with broad-band photometry, we use the SED fitting algorithm CIGALE to derive SFRs and $M_*$ and have adapted it to account for the full photometric redshift PDF uncertainty. Applying a SF selection using the D4000 index, we find evidence for strong evolution in the normalisation of the SFR-$M_*$ relation out to $z\sim 3$ and a roughly constant slope of (SFR $\propto M_*^α$) $α=0.69\pm0.02$ to $z\sim 1.7$. We find this increases close to unity toward $z\sim2.65$. Alternatively, if we apply a colour selection, we find a distinct turnover in the SFR-$M_*$ relation between $0.7\lesssim z\lesssim2.0$ at the high mass end, and suggest that this is due to an increased contamination from passive galaxies. We find evolution of the specific SFR $\propto(1+z)^{2.60}$ at $\log(M_*)\sim$10.5, out to $z\lesssim2.4$ with an observed flattening beyond $z\sim$ 2 with increased stellar mass. Comparing to a range of simulations we find the analytical scaling relation approaches, that invoke an equilibrium model, a good fit to our data, suggesting that a continual smooth accretion regulated by continual outflows may be a key driver in the overall growth of SFGs.
description: 19 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Digital Decisions and Online Heritage: an Examination of the Response of the GLAM Sector to the Opportunities of the Internet Since 2000
Creators: name: Casey, Helen
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2023
Subjects: Heritage
Digital Heritage
Digitisation
Virtual Museums
Virtual Collections
Online Collections
Rijksmuseum

description: The digitisation of a critical mass of heritage collections has been an aspiration for successive UK governments and the heritage sector since the year 2000, with the stated aim of reaching new unserved audiences and thereby democratising heritage. But analysis shows that only an estimated 8.5% of the UK’s collections have been digitised and shared with the public. This research argues that there is a gap between what the UK Government believes is the purpose and value of digitisation and that expressed within the heritage discourse, and that this has been a barrier to digitisation. It examines predictions made during the years 1997-2003, a time when digitisation was being widely debated, and identifies three themes: Digital death and Obsolescence (fears linked to the speed of technological change), Ownership and the Public/Private web (the benefits and threats of sharing collections online) and Authority and Democratisation (the sharing of the curatorial role with visitors and the notion that digitisation can democratise heritage). Interviews with digital heritage professionals reveal they believe cost, time and copyright concerns to have been the main barriers to digitisation. I show that these practical challenges have been exacerbated by external pressures: technological, economic and social but predominantly political. The 2018 DCMS Culture is Digital report identifies the main barrier as a lack of digital maturity, but I argue this could equally be described as a lack of business maturity. I conclude that mass digitisation is unlikely to be a priority for heritage unless it can be successfully monetised, but that the Covid-19 crisis has created a new focus on this. I recommend that heritage organisations should take the lead from commercially successful museums like the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands, which has successfully digitised almost its entire collection and shared it with no restrictions. I recommend that if the government wants to professionalise the sector, it needs to give British heritage organisations the same creative and financial freedom the Rijksmuseum has enjoyed. For UK heritage organisations, I recommend that a culture of open sharing might prove to be the key to democratising heritage, while at the same time helping them to discover the value and purpose of digitisation.
Push button reproduction attempt of a research claim from Elmer et al. (2020)
Creators: name: Somo, Angela
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: We selected the claim that social networks between students are less connected, and thus will show a higher rate of students being socially isolated. This reflects the following statement from the paper’s abstract: “We find that interaction and co-studying networks had become sparser, and more students were studying alone.” To test the expected lower mean outdegree in each network in the current year compared to the previous, the authors apply one-sided, independent-samples t-tests with Welch’s correction since group sizes are different and variance should thus not be assumed equal. The results revealed that students reported fewer studying partners during lockdown than prior. From Figure 1c, p < 0.05.
X-Shooter study of accretion in Chamaeleon I
Creators: name: Manara, C. F.
name: Fedele, D.
name: Herczeg, G. J.
name: Teixeira, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the analysis of 34 new VLT/X-Shooter spectra of young stellar objects in the Chamaeleon I star forming region, together with four more spectra of stars in Taurus and two in Chamaeleon II. The broad wavelength coverage and accurate flux calibration of our spectra allow us to estimate stellar and accretion parameters for our targets by fitting the photospheric and accretion continuum emission from the Balmer continuum down to 700 nm. The dependence of accretion with stellar properties for this sample is consistent with previous results from the literature. The accretion rates for transitional disks are consistent with those of full disks in the same region. The spread of mass accretion rates at any given stellar mass is found to be smaller than in many studies, but is larger than that derived in the Lupus clouds using similar data and techniques. Differences in the stellar mass range and in the environmental conditions between our sample and that of Lupus may account for the discrepancy in scatter between Chamaeleon I and Lupus. Complete samples in Chamaeleon I and Lupus are needed to determine whether the difference in scatter of accretion rates and the lack of evolutionary trends are robust to sample selection.
description: Accepted for publication on A&A. Revised version submitted after language editing
THE IMPACT OF PROSTHODONTIC TREATMENT ON A NORTH CAROLINA HUMAN IMMUNIDEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) COHORT
Creators: name: Jackson, Gabrielle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Background: Among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), oral care is among the highest unmet needs affecting quality of life and overall wellness. The impact of prosthodontic treatment on HIV patients has not been comprehensively documented.       Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between prosthodontic rehabilitation and different quality of life measures in HIV-positive subjects before and after prosthodontic treatment.       Methods: A convenience sample of HIV positive subjects (n=22) were rehabilitated with removable prostheses: complete dentures, immediate dentures, cast or acrylic partial dentures; mean age 46; 78% men. Four validated questionnaires were administered at 6-month intervals over a 24-month period: OHIP-14 (Oral Health Impact Profile), SF-8 (Medical Outcomes Short Form 8), SADS (Social Avoidance and Anxiety) and FAY (Feelings About Yourself). Wilcoxon signed-rank tests compared average questionnaire responses before treatment to average questionnaire responses after treatment.       Results: Clinical measures included CD4 count, HIV viral load, oral signs and symptoms, and stage of HIV. P-values <0.05 were considered statistically significant and exact, two-sided p-values were utilized. For each of the four instruments, improvements were detected before and after treatment. Average mean responses on the Likert scale before and after prosthodontic intervention were as follows: OHIP-14 - (1.80, 1.13 ns); SADS- (2.70, 2.44 ns) FAY- (1.95, 1.96 ns); and SF-8 (1.35, 1.01 p=0.02).       Conclusions: Prosthodontics intervention leads to qualitative improvement in the general health and wellness of HIV positive patients.
Environmental sustainability vs livability of the compact city?
Creators: name: Dessì, Valentina
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2015

description: Improvements of energy efficiency and ecosystem services, as well as the revitalization of the city, are often conflicting goals. However, through the reorganization of the urban form or the services compatible with the existing high density, it is possible to obtain appreciable results from the point of view of sustainability as well as liveability. Examples of two winning cities of the European Green Capital Award, show that successful urban regeneration is based on the densification of the city - which means to reorganize the mobility, the system of urban spaces and green on a compact existing fabric (Vitoria-Gasteiz) – otherwise on the activation of mechanisms of densification which do not involve further soil consumption (Bristol).
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 10 (2015): Urban regeneration
Local development/sustainable development. New integrations between «city and countryside»
Creators: name: Forlani, Maria Cristina
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2015

description: Urban regeneration is fast becoming a priority within the panorama of design activities performed by architects and urban planners. However, there is a great difficulty in identifying a renewed and shared approach that, in light of the current economic and environmental crisis, has assumed characteristics of unprecedented complexity. Consequently there is a need for an attentive study of the ‘reality’ of both governance (beginning with current legislative measures) and ‘knowledge’ (ex-amining the environment as an ecosystem) in order to participate in the configuration of a new ‘manifesto’ of environmental design. The competences of ‘technologists’ may/must be called upon to ‘direct’ a trans-disciplinary approach to this future ecosystem-based project.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 10 (2015): Urban regeneration
Inclusive Processes and project anticipation for urban and territorial regeneration
Creators: name: Fanzini, Daniele
name: Rotaru, Irina
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2015

description: This paper refers to the theme of urban regeneration in the long term perspective, studying the particular intersection area between the future studies and the processes defining the contemporary design culture. The goal is to propose a first delimitation of the core of a research field that could be called ‘project anticipation’ and possible competitive areas of interest for technological and environmental design. This investigation is motivated by the belief that the actual profound transformations impose a fast and strong cultural maturation of the technologist who has to advance from the role of technical director to the one of main actor of change. The resumption of long-term project and the ability to create perspective visions leading institutions and social and economic players in the present complexity result as indispensable requirements which determine the integration of the new dimension of project on the temporary scale of ideas.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 10 (2015): Urban regeneration
ABRASION EFFECTS ON TIME-LASTING CERAMIC STAINS AND GLAZES: A COMPARISON OF COLOR STABILITY AND GLOSS RETENTION
Creators: name: Camino Navarro, Renata
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Purpose: The purpose of this in vitro study was to evaluate the effect of toothpaste related abrasion on color stability and gloss retention of extrinsically stained ceramics.  Currently there is insufficient literature that evaluates the effects of toothpaste abrasion on the long term esthetics of extrinsically stained monolithic zirconia restorations.      	Materials and Methods: Monolithic Zirconia Partially Stabilized (PSZ), Monolithic Zirconia Fully Stabilized (FSZ), Monolithic Lithium Disilicate (CAD) and Feldspathic Porcelain were evaluated. For each material, 12 specimens of 10mm diameter x 1.2 height were fabricated. All specimens were stained and glazed according to manufacturer’s instructions and brushed using a simulation tooth brushing machine (ZM 3.12, Mechatronic, Germany). The color stability (ΔE) and gloss will be examined at baseline, 0.5, 1, 3 and 6 years of simulated tooth brushing with the aid of an ISO standard spectrophotometer (X-rite Ci 7600).      Results: Significant differences in color stability were found after 5 years with both types of toothpaste (P <.0001), all ceramic materials observed presented statistically significant differences after 3 years (P 0.0007) and 5 years (P <0.0001). Glassy ceramics were significantly more affected than zirconia ceramics (P < .0001). There was a statistical significant difference in gloss retention after 6 months (0.5 cycle).       Conclusion: Long-term color stability and gloss retention of extrinsically stained monolithic zirconia concerns us. Charcoal toothpaste significantly increases the rate of stain and gloss loss.
Qualitative metropolis. A new culturally encoded concept with qualitative regeneration of formal and informal settlements. The rule and the model
Creators: name: Contin, Antonella
name: Ortiz, Pedro B.
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2015

description: The city of today copes with an on-going syntactic transformation. Our research question horizon, then, is the metropolitan extension: its management, its architectural dimension and landscapes. From a metabolic point of view, the growth needs a discontinuity in its structure that regulates the logic disposal of no longer sustainable elements. For this reason we believe that even the architecture and the urban discipline need a strong discontinuity regarding the disciplinary experiences of recent past years. The aim of the paper is to present a possible vision for socio- economic development of the territories, through a physical approach, and a high quality architectural and urban operations carried out within a new metropolitan system, according to the metro-matrix strategy that we have experimented in various fast growing cities projects.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 10 (2015): Urban regeneration
Formal groups and congruences
Creators: name: Vlasenko, Masha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a criterion of integrality of an one-dimensional formal group law in terms of congruences satisfied by the coefficients of the canonical invariant differential. For an integral formal group law a p-adic analytic formula for the local characteristic polynomial at p is given. We demonstrate applications of our results to formal group laws attached to L-functions, Artin--Mazur formal groups of algebraic varieties and hypergeometric formal group laws. (This is the final version submitted to a journal; new parts are added in the section on hypergeometric formal group laws.)
Towards the eco-quarters for the Pescara urban regeneration
Creators: name: Radogna, Donatella
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2015

description: The subject of the experimentation is the definition of some strategies for an efficient, responsible and sustainable building requalification, in the conversion of the public housing settlements of Pescara in eco-quarters, according to the aim of supplying a contribution to the local administration for the urban regeneration policies. Considering the high pollution indicators, the study aspires to an environmentally, economically and socially suitable cohabitation of the territorial and climatic and built elements. So we propose some requalification hypothesis, for an enhancement of the housing supply in a new urban mould with a positive environmental balance and able to cheer the considered context cultural and social conditions up.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 10 (2015): Urban regeneration
Albergo Diffuso as a model of original hospitality and sustainable development of small historical villages
Creators: name: Dall'Ara, Giancarlo
name: Villani, Teresa
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2015

description: This paper fits within the wider context related to the definition of restoration strategies and models, and revitalization of small historical towns and villages, focusing on touristic use and on the Albergo Diffuso (AD) model. This latter, in its functional elements, includes solutions to solve degeneration and gradual depopulation problems, typical in these cases, by enhancing both tangible and intangible resources. The purpose of this research study was to verify, about 20 years after the first implementations, to what extent and by means of what type of intervention the AD model influenced regeneration processes of historical villages and refunctionalization of reused building heritage. By means of an exploratory investigation and an in situ monitoring activity, it was possible to outline an initial measurement of both direct and indirect results following the application of ADs. The activities confirmed the virtuosity of the model and identified both critical issues and strong points, directly connected to the type of users and to the sustainability features of the interventions.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 10 (2015): Urban regeneration
title: Open tibial shaft fractures requiring flap coverage: the impact of orthoplastic reconstruction on outcomes
Creators: name: Al-Hourani, Khalid
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/03zjvnn91
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Introduction
Open tibial shaft fractures requiring soft tissue coverage (Gustilo-Anderson type IIIB) have been associated with unacceptably high deep infection rates. There remains considerable variation in orthoplastic management. The aim of this thesis was to evaluate the effect of a standardised two-stage orthoplastic protocol in the management of type IIIB open tibial fractures requiring flap coverage, with a primary outcome of deep infection rate.
Methods
This thesis consists of nine peer-reviewed research articles. The two-stage orthoplastic protocol was analysed. For studies from the study unit, retrospective analysis was undertaken from a main database for clinical/functional outcomes between May 2014 and January 2018. For studies where established literature was present, a systematic review and meta-analysis was undertaken for the variable studied.
Results
Deep infection rate ranged from 7.1%-8.9% in all studies. In those who did and did not experience an infection, there was no difference when devitalised bone was retained, or if temporary plate was retained. On meta-analysis, debridement earlier than 12 hours and use of definitive intramedullary nail was associated with lower complication rates. Time from definitive fixation to definitive flap cover of upto 2 days was associated with a lower infection rate compared to delay greater than 2 days.
Conclusion
The novel two-stage orthoplastic was not associated with inferior clinical or functional outcomes. It also appears as though a time to debridement of less than 12 hours and definitive intramedullary nailing is associated with a lower deep infection rate. Additionally, a single-stage “fix and flap” approach is associated with a lower deep infection rate, however a delay of up to 2 days between definite fixation and soft tissue cover appears safe. These results should be considered within the strict context of an orthoplastic approach.
Use of digital resources in the confection of occlusal splints: a scoping review
Creators: name: Figueroa, Felipe
name: Gutierrez, Javier
name: Salinas, Javier
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Introducción: Los tratornos temporomandibulares son un amplio espectro de patologías que afectan múltiples estructuras de la zona orofacial. Existen diversos enfoques terapéuticos entre los cuales destacan las férulas oclusales, que tradicionalmente han sido confeccionadas de manera análoga. Objetivos: El presente estudio tiene como objetivo llevar a cabo una revisión de alcance de la evidencia disponible sobre la utilización de recursos digitales en la planificación y/o confección de dispositivos oclusales en pacientes con trastornos temporomandibulares con necesidad de tratamiento mediante férulas oclusales. Diseño: Se utilizaran bases de datos en línea, tales como Pubmed, Web of Science, EBSCOhost y Scopus para identificar artículos publicados que utilizaron como variables principales de estudio la planificación y/o confección de dispositivos oclusales que utilicen medios digitales para el tratamientos de trastornos temporomandibulares entre los años 2000 y 2020.
Krylov approximation of ODEs with polynomial parameterization
Creators: name: Koskela, Antti
name: Jarlebring, Elias
name: Hochstenbach, Michiel E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a new numerical method to solve linear ordinary differential equations of the type $\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}(t,\varepsilon) = A(\varepsilon) \, u(t,\varepsilon)$, where $A:\mathbb{C}\rightarrow\mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ is a matrix polynomial with large and sparse matrix coefficients. The algorithm computes an explicit parameterization of approximations of $u(t,\varepsilon)$ such that approximations for many different values of $\varepsilon$ and $t$ can be obtained with a very small additional computational effort. The derivation of the algorithm is based on a reformulation of the parameterization as a linear parameter-free ordinary differential equation and on approximating the product of the matrix exponential and a vector with a Krylov method. The Krylov approximation is generated with Arnoldi's method and the structure of the coefficient matrix turns out to have an independence on the truncation parameter so that it can also be interpreted as Arnoldi's method applied to an infinite dimensional matrix. We prove the superlinear convergence of the algorithm and provide a posteriori error estimates to be used as termination criteria. The behavior of the algorithm is illustrated with examples stemming from spatial discretizations of partial differential equations.
description: 22 pages, 10 figures
Densifying the city: urban recycle as a strategic system to refurbish the built environment
Creators: name: Belpoliti, Vittorino
name: Borin, Paola
name: Davoli, Pietromaria
name: Marzot, Nicola
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2015

description: The persisting economic crisis and the necessity for more sustainable construction processes imply the need for innovative strategies to reuse the existing building stock. Retrofit and recycling plans are already active for whole city districts, adopting the urban densification strategy to reduce the consumption of resources, promoting the functional, technological, and energy refurbishment of the existing city districts The study introduces considerations and tools to increase the efficiency of retrofit action onto abandoned and degraded area through the improvement of their energy and environmental performances.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 10 (2015): Urban regeneration
The Influence of Age on the Recovery from Worksite Resistance Exercise
Creators: name: Trivisonno, Abbie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Worksite resistance exercise can reduce injuries and improve performance in the fire service. This study examined the influence of age on the recovery from a worksite exercise routine. Nineteen young and 19 older firefighters completed an acute bout of resistance exercise in addition to pre- and post-testing 24, 48, and 72 hours post-exercise. Upper- and lower-body strength, muscle activation, ultrasonography, countermovement jump, and muscle soreness were measured to assess recovery. Linear mixed model (controlling for work-related fatigue) results revealed no (group × time) interactions. Group effects indicated the young firefighters exhibited greater lower-body force, jump performance, and better muscle quality than the older firefighters (P≤0.047). Time effects indicated that upper-body force, lower-body rapid forces, early muscle activation, and jump performance decreased and muscle soreness and size increased (P≤0.044). These results suggest that age does not influence recovery from worksite resistance exercise in firefighters.
Killing sections and sigma models with Lie algebroid targets
Creators: name: Bruce, Andrew James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53C15, 53C07, 53D17, 53C22, 53Z05

description: We define and examine the notion of a Killing section of a Riemannian Lie algebroid as a natural generalisation of a Killing vector field. We show that the various expression for a vector field to be Killing naturally generalise to the setting of Lie algebroids. As an application we examine the internal symmetries of a class of sigma models for which the target space is a Riemannian Lie algebroid. Critical points of these sigma models are interpreted as generalised harmonic maps.
description: 11 pages. Comments welcomed
Match on Action
Creators: name: Innes-Ker, Åse
name: Redei, Anna
name: Langkjaer, Birger
name: van de Weijer, Joost
name: Gregersen, Andreas
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Replication and extension of match-on-action Shimamura et al
A versatile method to generate multiple types of micropatterns
Creators: name: Segerer, F. J.
name: Röttgermann, P. J. F.
name: Schuster, S.
name: Alberola, A. Piera
name: Zahler, S.
name: Rädler, J. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Micropatterning techniques have become an important tool for the study of cell behavior in controlled microenvironments. As a consequence, several approaches for the creation of micropatterns have been developed in recent years. However, the diversity of substrates, coatings and complex patterns used in cell science is so great that no single existing technique is capable of fabricating designs suitable for all experimental conditions. Hence, there is a need for patterning protocols that are flexible with regard to the materials used and compatible with different patterning strategies to create more elaborate setups. In this work, we present a versatile approach to micropatterning. The protocol is based on plasma treatment, protein coating, and a PLL-PEG backfill step, and produces homogeneous patterns on a variety of substrates. Protein density within the patterns can be controlled, and density gradients of surface-bound protein can be formed. Moreover, by combining the method with microcontact printing, it is possible to generate patterns composed of three different components within one iteration of the protocol. The technique is simple to implement and should enable cell science labs to create a broad range of complex and highly specialized microenvironments.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, and 2 pages supplementary information (3 supplemental figures)
A Pilot Deep Survey for X-Ray Emission from fuvAGB Stars
Creators: name: Sahai, R.
name: Sanz-Forcada, J.
name: Contreras, C. Sanchez
name: Stute, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of a pilot survey for X-ray emission from a newly discovered class of AGB stars with far-ultraviolet excesses (fuvAGB stars) using XMM-Newton and Chandra. We detected X-ray emission in 3 of 6 fuvAGB stars observed -- the X-ray fluxes are found to vary in a stochastic or quasi-periodic manner on roughly hour-long times-scales, and simultaneous UV observations using the Optical Monitor on XMM for these sources show similar variations in the UV flux. These data, together with previous studies, show that X-ray emission is found only in fuvAGB stars. From modeling the spectra, we find that the observed X-ray luminosities are ~(0.002-0.2 ) Lsun, and the X-ray emitting plasma temperatures are ~(35-160) x 10^6 K. The high X-ray temperatures argue against the emission arising in stellar coronae, or directly in an accretion shock, unless it occurs on a WD companion. However, none of the detected objects is a known WD-symbiotic star, suggesting that if WD companions are present, they are relatively cool (<20,000 K). In addition, the high X-ray luminosities specifically argue against emission originating in the coronae of main-sequence companions. We discuss several models for the X-ray emission and its variability and find that the most likely scenario for the origin of the X-ray (and FUV) emission involves accretion activity around a companion star, with confinement by strong magnetic fields associated with the companion and/or an accretion disk around it.
description: accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal