cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Affective Ecology for Sustainability
Creators: name: Barbiero, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2014

description: Affective Ecology is the branch of ecology that deals with our connecting with Nature. Its epistemological statute is interdisciplinary and founded upon two scientific hypotheses: the biophilia hypothesis and the theory of multiple intelligences. Biophilia can be defined as a set of innate learning rules that have evolved in the human species to enable individuals to benefit from a wholesome relationship with Nature; while naturalist intelligence is the ability to recognise living organisms and natural objects, to take care of them and to interact with them in subtle ways. Biophilia and naturalist intelligence can be considered as the two poles of an educational journey about the environment. Biophilia represents the mental energy that nourishes our relationship with Nature; whilst naturalist intelligence is the full realisation of our inborn biophilic potential to connect to the natural world, to pay it attention, to care and to empathise with it. Starting from this theoretical framework, we have evolved a programme of experimental research that has enabled us to make a number of observations regarding the fascination that Nature exercises upon our psyche. Fascination may indeed account for the affective bond that establishes between human beings and Nature in some circumstances and that may also provide a powerful emotive lever favouring of an ethic of sustainability.
description: Visions for Sustainability, No 1 (2014)
Bulk Reconstruction in Moduli Space Holography
Creators: name: Grimm, Thomas W.
name: Monnee, Jeroen
name: van de Heisteeg, Damian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It was recently suggested that certain UV-completable supersymmetric actions can be characterized by the solutions to an auxiliary non-linear sigma-model with special asymptotic boundary conditions. The space-time of this sigma-model is the scalar field space of these effective theories while the target space is a coset space. We study this sigma-model without any reference to a potentially underlying geometric description. Using a holographic approach reminiscent of the bulk reconstruction in the AdS/CFT correspondence, we then derive its near-boundary solutions for a two-dimensional space-time. Specifying a set of $ Sl(2,\mathbb{R})$ boundary data we show that the near-boundary solutions are uniquely fixed after imposing a single bulk-boundary matching condition. The reconstruction exploits an elaborate set of recursion relations introduced by Cattani, Kaplan, and Schmid in the proof of the $Sl(2)$-orbit theorem. We explicitly solve these recursion relations for three sets of simple boundary data and show that they model asymptotic periods of a Calabi--Yau threefold near the conifold point, the large complex structure point, and the Tyurin degeneration.
description: 44 pages plus appendices, 1 figure
The Effects of Race/Ethnicity, Age, and Area Deprivation Index (ADI) on COVID-19 Disease Early Dynamics: Washington, D.C. Case Study
Creators: name: Samuel, Raymond
name: Garcia, Daneila Chala
name: Adjei-Fremah, Sarah
name: Anwar, Azreen
name: Hemaktiathar, SeyyedPooya
name: Ifebirinachi, Chinenye Blessing
name: Lin, Feng-Chang
name: Anwar, Mohd
name: Lara, Niara
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2022

description:
The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated mitigation strategies have significant psychosocial, behavioral, socioeconomic, and health impacts, particularly in vulnerable US populations. Different factors have been identified as influencers of the transmission rate; however, the effects of area deprivation index (as a measure of social determinants of health, SDoH) as a factor on COVID-19 disease early dynamics have not been established. We determined the effects of area deprivation index (ADI) and demographic factors on COVID-19 outcomes in Washington, D.C. This retrospective study used publicly available data on COVID-19 cases and mortality of Washington, D.C., during March 31st–July 4th, 2020. The main predictors included area deprivation index (ADI), age, and race/ethnicity. The ADI of each census block groups in D.C. (n=433) were obtained from Neighborhood Atlas map. Using a machine learning-based algorithm, the outcome variables were partitioned into time intervals: time duration (Pi, days), rate of change coefficient (Ei), and time segment load (Pi×Ei) for transmission rate and mortality. Correlation analysis and multiple linear regression models were used to determine associations between predictors and outcome variables. COVID-19 early transmission rate (E1) was highly correlated with ADI (SDoH; r= 0.88, p=0.0044) of the Washington, D.C. community. We also found positive association between ADI, age (0–17 years, r=0.91, p=0.0019), and race (African American/Black, r=0.86; p=0.0068) and COVID-19 outcomes. There was high variability in early transmission across the geographic regions (i.e., wards) of Washington, D.C., and this variability was driven by race/ethnic composition and ADI. Understanding the association of COVID-19 disease early transmission and mortality dynamics and key socio-demographic risk factors such as age, race, and ADI, as a measure of social determinants, will contribute to health equity/equality and distribution of economic resources/assistance and is essential for future predictive modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic to limit morbidity and mortality.
The Third Way to Interacting $p$-form Theories
Creators: name: Broccoli, Matteo
name: Deger, Nihat Sadik
name: Theisen, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a class of interacting $(d-2)$-form theories in $d$ dimensions that are `third way' consistent. This refers to the fact that the interaction terms in the $p$-form field equations of motion neither come from the variation of an action nor are they off-shell conserved on their own. Nevertheless the full equation is still on-shell consistent. Various generalizations, e.g. coupling them to $(d-3)$-forms, where 3-algebras play a prominent role, are also discussed. The method to construct these models also easily recovers the modified 3$d$ Yang-Mills theory obtained earlier and straightforwardly allows for higher derivative extensions.
description: 10 pages, added comments and references, matches in content the published version
Unveiling biophilia in children using active silence training: an experimental approach
Creators: name: Barbiero, Giuseppe
name: Berto, Rita
name: Freire, Dinajara Doju
name: Ferrando, Maria
name: Camino, Elena
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2014

description: Biophilia – the innate tendency of human beings to focus on and to affiliate with natural life emotionally – occurs spontaneously in school children. In this study we hypothesized that the development of biophilia is facilitated by an active silence training (AST). In AST silent observation is used as a means to achieve self-knowledge, while games are used as a way of evoking fascination, i.e. to help directed attention to rest and to be restored. Therefore an experimental protocol was set up with aim of assessing how effective the AST would be in restoring the attention of 120 children of a primary school in Aosta (Italy). The results show that the experimental group’s performance on the attention test improved as a result of the AST, without affecting either systolic or diastolic blood pressure. Hence, AST seems to be a good way to restore children’s attentional capacity.
description: Visions for Sustainability, No 1 (2014)
Evolutionary trajectories of beta-lactamase NDM and DLST cluster in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: finding the putative ancestor
Creators: name: Sadeghi, Parisa
name: Mahnam, Karim
name: Salari-Jazi, Azhar
name: Aspatwar, Ashok
name: Faghri, Jamshid
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Pseudomonas aeruginosa has different antibiotic resistance pathways, such as broad-spectrum lactamases and metallo-β-lactamases (MBL), penicillin-binding protein (PBP) alteration, and active efflux pumps. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequencing methods were applied for double-locus sequence typing (DLST) and New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM) typing. We deduced the evolutionary pathways for DLST and NDM genes of P. aeruginosa using phylogenetic network. Among the analyzed isolates, 62.50% of the P. aeruginosa isolates were phenotypically carbapenem resistance (CARBR) isolates. Characterization of isolates revealed that the prevalence of blaNDM, blaVIM, blaIMP, undetermined carbapenemase, and MexAB-OprM were 27.5%, 2%, 2.5%, 12.5%, and 15%, respectively. The three largest clusters found were DLST t20–105, DLST t32–39, and DLST t32–52. The network phylogenic tree revealed that DLST t26–46 was a hypothetical ancestor for other DLSTs, and NDM-1 was as a hypothetical ancestor for NDMs. The combination of the NDM and DLST phylogenic trees revealed that DLST t32–39 and DLST tN2-N3 with NDM-4 potentially derived from DLST t26–46 along with NDM-1. Similarly, DLST t5–91 with NDM-5 diversified from DLST tN2-N3 with NDM-4. This is the first study in which DLST and NDM evolutionary routes were performed to investigate the origin of P. aeruginosa isolates. Our study showed that the utilization of medical equipment common to two centers, staff members common to two centers, limitations in treatment options, and prescription of unnecessary high levels of meropenem are the main agents that generate new types of resistant bacteria and spread resistance among hospitals.
Number of paths in oriented percolation as zero temperature limit of directed polymer
Creators: name: Fukushima, Ryoki
name: Junk, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that the free energy of directed polymer in Bernoulli environment converges to the growth rate for the number of open paths in super-critical oriented percolation as the temperature tends to zero. Our proof is based on rate of convergence results which hold uniformly in the temperature. We also prove that the convergence rate is locally uniform in the percolation parameter inside the super-critical phase, which implies that the growth rate depends continuously on the percolation parameter.
description: 26 pages, several corrections made
Lev Tolstoy and modern science
Creators: name: Ferrara, Enzo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2014

description: Modern Science, an essay written by Lev Nikolàevič Tolstoy in 1898 is here reproduced in its complete version, as a historical document containing philosophical reflections on the practical functions and the cultural and educational role science has, or should have, in contemporary societies. The text was cited by Aldous Huxley in the foreword to Science, Liberty and Peace, a booklet written in 1946 in the aftermath of the second world war, with the threat of nuclear doomsday on the horizon. Are science and technology really at the service of universal needs, as it is continuously claimed – Tolstoy asks, and Huxley echoes – or are their services rather directed to preserving the power of the elites or dominant classes against the multitude of the oppressed?
description: Visions for Sustainability, No 1 (2014)
Religious social capital and minority health: A concept analysis
Creators: name: Conley, Cherie
name: Fisher, Edwin B.
name: Hardison‐Moody, Annie
name: Randolph, Schenita
name: Gonzalez‐Guarda, Rosa
name: Lipkus, Isaac
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2022

description:
OBJECTIVE: Optimizing resources within environments where people live, work, and pray can aid nurses in improving public health. Religion and social capital significantly influence the health of individuals and communities, particularly among racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. A concept analysis of religious social capital was conducted to clarify how this resource is used in the context of health. DESIGN AND SAMPLE: Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis method guided this analysis. A search of PubMed, CINAHL, and PsycINFO, using keywords "religious social capital" and "health" yielded 152 publications. RESULTS: Antecedents were "defined religious social network," "voluntary membership," "shared values," and "trust." Attributes were "relationships (bonding bridging, and linking)," "information exchange and resource sharing," and "reciprocal participation." Consequences were "increased productivity," "increased resources," "better personal and community health," and "trust." A model case of African American women and HIV prevention was included to illustrate how religious social capital can be developed and optimized to promote health. CONCLUSION: Religious social capital is defined as increased individual and collective capabilities that result from voluntary and reciprocal participation in bonding, bridging, or linking social network relationships and activities. Religious social capital is an accessible resource that can be leveraged to improve minority health.
Trhypochthonius tectorum Berlese 1896
Creators: name: Revelo-Tobar, Harol
name: Ojeda, Margarita
name: García-Ayala, Leonardo J.
name: Palacios-Vargas, José G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Trhypochthoniidae
Trhypochthonius
Trhypochthonius tectorum

description: Trhypochthonius tectorum Berlese, 1896
 Trhypochthonius ca. tectorum: Vázquez (1999); Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000); Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002); Palacios-Vargas et al. (2003); Guzmán-Sánchez & Iglesias (2009); Vázquez et al. (2011).
 Distribution: Semicosmopolitan.
 Records in Mexico: Quintana Roo, State of Mexico, Queretaro and Chiapas
 Biogeographic province: Transmexican Volcanic Belt. Yucatan Peninsula. Sierra Madre Oriental. Veracruzan.
 Habitat: Leaf litter and soil of medium sub evergreen forest, lowland forest, mangrove and halophyte vegetation. Mangrove roots, moss. Tree canopy. Low flooded rainforest litter.
 References: Vázquez (1999): 61–62; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000): 149; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002): 273; Palacios-Vargas et al. (2003): 290–291; Vázquez (2008): 12; Guzmán-Sánchez & Iglesias (2009): 17–19; Vázquez et al. (2011): 54; Vázquez et al. (2016): 147–162.
description: Published as part of Revelo-Tobar, Harol, Ojeda, Margarita, García-Ayala, Leonardo J. & Palacios-Vargas, José G., 2024, Checklist Of Oribatid Mites (Acari: Oribatida) From Mexico, pp. 1-178 in Zootaxa 5465 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5465.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11613709
Prevalence and trends of hepatitis B and C virus biomarkers in Zimbabwe: comparative analyses of a nation’s blood-donor surveillance data and meta-analyses of population studies
Creators: name: Mabaya, Simbarashe
name: Munongo, Edmore
name: Mapako, Tonderai
name: Marowa, Lucy
name: Gasasira, Alex N.
name: Pasipanodya, Jotam G.
name: Mutenherwa, Menard
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The disproportionate burden of viral hepatitis, particularly hepatitis B virus (HBV) is experienced by people living in low-resourced sub-Saharan Africa, where the estimated prevalence is 3–7 times the global average. Therefore to inform policy, we describe the seroprevalence and trends of hepatitis C (HCV) and HBV biomarkers: anti-HCV antibody and hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), respectively, in Zimbabwe. We analysed data from 181,248 consecutive blood-donors, examined between January 2015 through December 2018. Additionally, we conducted a comprehensive literature review using PubMed and African Journals Online databases, meta-analysing selected papers from Zimbabwe, published between 1970 and 2020, that met specific criteria. Overall age-standardized prevalence rate (ASPR) for anti-HCV was 8.67 (95%CI, 0.25–17.09) per 100,000, while that for HBsAg was 2.26 (95%, 1.89–2.63) per 1000 blood-donors, per year. Meta-analysis of 9 studies comprising 220,127 persons tested for anti-HCV revealed ASPR of 0.05% (95% 0%–0.19%) in blood-donors and 1.78% (95%CI, 0.01%–5.55%) in the general population, for an overall pooled ASPR of 0.44 (95%CI, 0.19%–0.76%). 21 studies comprising 291,784 persons tested for HBsAg revealed ASPR of 0.65% (95%CI, 0.31%–1.00%) in blood-donors and 4.31% (95%CI, 1.77%–6.50%) in the general population for an overall pooled ASPR of 4.02% (95%CI, 3.55%–4.48%), after HBV vaccine introduction. HBsAg prevalence was significantly higher before HBV vaccine introductions. The prevalence of HBV is decreasing, consistent with the introduction of HBV vaccination, while HCV prevalence is increasing in Zimbabwe. This highlights the need for Improved blood-donor screening and more informative biomarker studies, particularly among repeat donors and children.
Experiences in Drawing From Nature
Creators: name: Longo, Claudio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2016

description: This paper discusses some advantages of learning to draw, focusing on landscapes. These advantages are considered to be 1. learning to observe; 2. learning to appreciate beautiful landscapes; 3. learning to concentrate and to coordinate hand and eye; 4. strengthening memory; 5. learning to appreciate the drawings of great masters. It proposes some examples of the author’s own activity and focuses on the differences between drawing from nature and from memory. Finally, the relevance of drawing for a more sustainable way of life is briefly discussed.
description: Visions for Sustainability, No 2 (2014)
SARS‐CoV‐2 Infections Among Patients With Liver Disease and Liver Transplantation Who Received COVID‐19 Vaccination
Creators: name: Lusina, Beth
name: Shore, Brandon M.
name: Webb, Gwilym J.
name: Moon, Andrew M.
name: Kulkarni, Anand V.
name: Barnes, Eleanor
name: Marjot, Thomas
name: García‐Juárez, Ignacio
name: Adali, Gupse
name: Wong, David K.
name: Masson, Steven
name: Dalekos, George N.
name: Barritt, A. Sidney
Publisher: name: Wolters Kluwer
Year: 2022

description:
Many safe and effective severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccinations dramatically reduce risks of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) complications and deaths. We aimed to describe cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection among patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) and liver transplant (LT) recipients with at least one prior COVID-19 vaccine dose. The SECURE-Liver and COVID-Hep international reporting registries were used to identify laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 in CLD and LT patients who received a COVID-19 vaccination. Of the 342 cases of lab-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections in the era after vaccine licensing, 40 patients (21 with CLD and 19 with LT) had at least one prior COVID-19 vaccination, including 12 who were fully vaccinated (≥2 weeks after second dose). Of the 21 patients with CLD (90% with cirrhosis), 7 (33%) were hospitalized, 1 (5%) was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), and 0 died. In the LT cohort (n = 19), there were 6 hospitalizations (32%), including 3 (16%) resulting in mechanical ventilation and 2 (11%) resulting in death. All three cases of severe COVID-19 occurred in patients who had a single vaccine dose within the last 1-2 weeks. In contemporary patients with CLD, rates of symptomatic infection, hospitalization, ICU admission, invasive ventilation, and death were numerically higher in unvaccinated individuals. Conclusion: This case series demonstrates the potential for COVID-19 infections among patients with CLD and LT recipients who had received the COVID-19 vaccination. Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 appears to result in favorable outcomes as attested by the absence of mechanical ventilation, ICU, or death among fully vaccinated patients.
Language, multilingualism, biocultural diversity and sustainability
Creators: name: Dodman, Martin
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2016

description: This paper examines the relationship between multilingualism, considered both as an environmental and personal phenomenon, and biocultural diversity, a biological, cultural and linguistic complex, each of which are essential components of the characteristics of resilience and transformability that underlie sustainable evolutionary processes. It argues that increasing language mortality and tendencies towards environmental and personal monolingualism put at has a fundamental role to play in the search for new pathways.
description: Visions for Sustainability, No 2 (2014)
Nature, Natural Resources and Valuation in the Anthropocene
Creators: name: Kopnina, Helen
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2016

description: Biodiversity, including entire habitats and ecosystems, is recognized to be of great social and economic value. Conserving biodiversity has therefore become a task of international NGO’s as well as grass-roots organisations. The ‘classical’ model of conservation has been characterised by creation of designated nature areas to allow biodiversity to recover from the effects of human activities. Typically, such areas prohibit entry other than through commercial ecotourism or necessary monitoring activities, but also often involve commodification nature. This classical conservation model has been criticized for limiting valuation of nature to its commercial worth and for being insensitive to local communities. Simultaneously, ‘new conservation’ approaches have emerged. Propagating openness of conservation approaches, ‘new conservation’ has counteracted the calls for strict measures of biodiversity protection as the only means of protecting biodiversity. In turn, the ’new conservation’ was criticised for being inadequate in protecting those species that are not instrumental for human welfare. The aim of this article is to inquire whether sustainable future for non-humans can be achieved based on commodification of nature and/or upon open approaches to conservation. It is argued that while economic development does not necessarily lead to greater environmental protection, strict regulation combined with economic interests can be effective. Thus, economic approaches by mainstream conservation institutions cannot be easily dismissed. However, ‘new conservation’ can also be useful in opening up alternatives, such as care-based and spiritual approaches to valuation of nature. Complementary to market-based approaches to conservation, alternative ontologies of the human development as empathic beings embedded in intimate ethical relations with non-humans are proposed.
description: Visions for Sustainability, No 2 (2014)
Towards affinoid Duflo Theorem I: Twisted differential operators
Creators: name: Stanciu, Ioan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a commutative ring $R$, we define the notions of deformed Picard algebroids and deformed twisted differential operators on a smooth, separated, locally of finite type $R$-scheme and prove these are in a natural bijection. We then define the pullback of a sheaf of twisted differential operators that reduces to the classical definition when $R=\mathbb{C}$. Finally, for modules over twisted differential operators, we prove a theorem for the descent under a locally trivial torsor.
Reflections on the Ethics of Technical and Literary Language in Primo Levi
Creators: name: Piredda, Patrizia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2016

description: In this article I will analyse the two modalities of writing which characterised Levi’s life, namely the technical writing of weekly professional reports, and the literary writing of poetry and short stories. I will above all focus on such texts as The Wrench, The Periodic Table, Other People’s Trades and the Essays and I will analyse the way in which chemistry lies at the basis of his poetic. The most significant difference between the above-mentioned forms of writing rests in the fact that Levi’s technical writing always describes reality on the basis of models created by sciences. Literary writing, on the other hand, does not reproduce a model nor describes a fixed order, because it functions as a way of representing the possibilities that lie beyond existence, i.e. it is a way of creating an order; literary writing does not restrict itself to describing an object, but instead produces new interpretations of the object, and consequently new interpretations of life. Therefore, I will analyse the function of metaphor because, from Levi’s perspective, it is necessary for good literature: in fact, thanks to its structure, metaphor is apt to show what cannot be described in a rigorous way, namely ethics and aesthetics.
description: Visions for Sustainability, No 2 (2014)
The impact of age and nodal status on variations in oncotype DX testing and adjuvant treatment
Creators: name: Iles, Kathleen
name: Strassle, Paula D.
name: Spanheimer, Philip
name: Roberson, Mya L.
name: Ollila, David W.
name: Gallagher, Kristalyn
name: Downs-Canner, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2022

description:
Oncotype DX (ODX) recurrence score (RS) is a validated tool to guide the use of adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) in hormone receptor+/HER2- breast cancer. In this analysis, we examine (1) characteristics associated with ODX testing and (2) the association between ODX RS and receipt of AC across age and nodal status. Women with HR+/HER2–, early-stage (T1-2, N0-1) breast cancers from 2010–2017 in the National Cancer Database were included. 530,125 met inclusion and 255,971 received ODX testing. Older women were less likely to receive testing; however, nodal positivity increased use of testing. High ODX RS was associated with increased mortality, though the association was not consistent across age and was most strongly associated with mortality among younger, node-negative women. Older women with high ODX RS, regardless of nodal status, were less likely to receive AC. Clinicians may be employing ODX RS to support treatment decisions against the receipt of AC.
Federated Learning: A Signal Processing Perspective
Creators: name: Gafni, Tomer
name: Shlezinger, Nir
name: Cohen, Kobi
name: Eldar, Yonina C.
name: Poor, H. Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The dramatic success of deep learning is largely due to the availability of data. Data samples are often acquired on edge devices, such as smart phones, vehicles and sensors, and in some cases cannot be shared due to privacy considerations. Federated learning is an emerging machine learning paradigm for training models across multiple edge devices holding local datasets, without explicitly exchanging the data. Learning in a federated manner differs from conventional centralized machine learning, and poses several core unique challenges and requirements, which are closely related to classical problems studied in the areas of signal processing and communications. Consequently, dedicated schemes derived from these areas are expected to play an important role in the success of federated learning and the transition of deep learning from the domain of centralized servers to mobile edge devices. In this article, we provide a unified systematic framework for federated learning in a manner that encapsulates and highlights the main challenges that are natural to treat using signal processing tools. We present a formulation for the federated learning paradigm from a signal processing perspective, and survey a set of candidate approaches for tackling its unique challenges. We further provide guidelines for the design and adaptation of signal processing and communication methods to facilitate federated learning at large scale.
description: 24 pages, 15 figures
title: Μελέτη τηλεοπτικής μονάδας εξωτερικών μεταδόσεων
title: External broadcast television unit study
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ξένος, Ιωάννης
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2023
Subjects: 1080i
BNC
HD
ΟΒ-Van
Eye diagram
Αξιοπιστία καλωδίων
Τηλεοπτική μονάδα εξωτερικών μεταδόσεων
Μεταφορά σήματος SDI
Μέτρηση καλωδίων
Οπτικές ίνες
Πλάτος σήματος
Υβριδικά καλώδια

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία έχει ως αντικείμενο την μελέτη μιας τηλεοπτικής μονάδας εξωτερικών μεταδόσεων (Outside Broadcast Van - OBvan). Στόχος της διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι να παρουσιάσει την δομή και την λειτουργία του van αλλά και να μελετήσει την συμπεριφορά ομοαξονικών καλωδίων, οπτικών ινών και υβριδικών καλωδίων κατά την μεταφορά σήματος HD SDI και πως αυτή επηρεάζεται όχι μόνο από τα τεχνικά χαρακτηριστικά του αλλά και από την χρήση τους. Ένας ακόμα επιμέρους στόχος της εργασίας είναι να δώσει την απαραίτητη γνώση στους μηχανικούς του van το πόσο σημαντικός είναι ο έλεγχος κάθε καλωδίου πριν από την χρήση του έτσι ώστε να αποφεύγονται οι αστοχίες που προκύπτουν λόγω καταπόνησης του καλωδίου από τη μια μέρα στην άλλη. Αναλυτικά στην διπλωματική εργασία αυτή θα γίνει ανάλυση της μονάδας εξωτερικών μεταδόσεων δηλαδή των σταδίων κατασκευής της, της δομής της και των μηχανημάτων που την αποτελούν, της καλωδίωσης και τέλος της ροής τους σήματος από το OB Van μέχρι τον τηλεθεατή. Στην συνέχεια θα γίνει παρουσίαση της προετοιμασίας μια τηλεοπτικής παραγωγής και των δυσκολιών που αντιμετωπίζει ο τεχνικός να μεταφέρει σήματα HD SDI με ασφάλεια και ποιοτικά σε κοντινές ή μακρινές αποστάσεις. Στην συνέχεια θα οριστεί το πλαίσιο πως θα γίνουν μετρήσεις μεταφοράς σήματος SDI μέσω ομοαξονικών καλωδίων, οπτικών ινών και μέσω σύνδεσης του CCU και της κάμερας (υβριδικά καλώδια). Με βάση αυτό το πλαίσιο θα γίνουν μετρήσεις με την βοήθεια της απεικόνισης «ματιού» (eye diagram) και τα αποτελέσματα θα αξιολογηθούν και θα οδηγήσουν σε ενδιαφέροντα συμπεράσματα. Κυρίος σκοπός της διπλωματικής εργασίας αυτής είναι να αποτελέσει βοηθητικό εργαλείο και πηγή γνώσεων στους επαγγελματίες των van στην Ελλάδα και στο εξωτερικό γιατί είναι μια μελέτη που αφορά καλώδια σε χρήση και όχι ιδανικά καλώδια που έρχονται κατευθείαν από τον κατασκευαστή. Για αυτό το λόγο η εργασία αυτή περιέχει πιο ρεαλιστικά προβλήματα και αποτελέσματα που συναντά ο μηχανικός καθημερινά στο χώρο εργασίας του.
Genotypic cluster analysis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae reveals a spectrum of sexual mixing including among HIV-serodiscordant men who have sex with men
Creators: name: Chromy, David
name: Heissenberger, Daniela
name: Lippert, Kathrin
name: Heger, Florian
name: Indra, Alexander
name: Hyden, Patrick
name: Bauer, Wolfgang Michael
name: Grabmeier-Pfistershammer, Katharina
name: Willinger, Birgit
name: Weninger, Wolfgang
name: Pleininger, Sonja
name: Geusau, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Men who have sex with men (MSM) are more vulnerable to acquiring sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In 2019, for instance, 74% of European Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Ng) cases among males affected MSM. A recent report by the World Health Organization showed that most of the 2020’ interim targets to end STIs by 2030 had not been met. A broadened understanding of STI transmission networks could guide future elimination strategies and reduce the STI burden. Therefore, we used whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to determine Ng-clusters and assess sexual mixing. WGS was performed on Ng-isolates collected at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria and was used for core genome multi-locus sequencing typing cluster analysis. Epidemiologic and infection-specific details were extracted from medical records. Genomic analysis and demographic data were available for 415 isolates, and 43.9% (182/415) were allocated to 31 Ng-clusters. Nine clusters comprised samples from heterosexual individuals only (women N = 4, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-negative men N = 49, HIV-positive man N = 1), nine clusters included MSM only (HIV-negative N = 22, HIV-positive N = 13) and 13 clusters included both heterosexuals and MSM (HIV-negative N = 75, HIV-positive N = 18). Current use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was reported by 22.8% of MSM. In multivariate analysis, only ‘MSM’ predicted clustering with isolates from HIV-positive individuals (adjusted odds ratio 10.24 (95% CI 5.02–20.90)). Sexual mixing of HIV-positive, HIV-negative MSM and non-MSM was frequently observed. Furthermore, HIV-serodiscordant clustering highlights the importance of PrEP rollout to avert HIV transmission. Our findings can inform future STI prevention strategies and continuous surveillance efforts are required to keep up with transmission dynamics.
Conveying Emotions in Arabic SDH the Case of  Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Creators: name: El-Taweel, Ghanimeh
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Social media have created strategies to convey emotions in written texts, namely emoticons and emojis. People in general adopt these text messages and emails, sometimes to mitigate difficult situations while charging messages with information about the emotions of the sender or speaker. Deaf people also use emoticons and emojis to communicate among themselves and with hearing people. It is known that expressing and understanding emotions is difficult for deaf people. This means they will also have difficulty understanding emotions in films. With this in mind, this research project aims to assess which strategies are most adequate to convey emotions in subtitles. Through an exploratory empirical study, four strategies are applied and tested in a real image movie clip: tagging, not adding extra information, adding emoticons and adding emojis. The testing was carried out in Qatar and Palestine to a reduced number of informants by which preliminary results have been achieved. There was not one conclusive strategy that conveyed emotions better than the others; however, emoticons was the least identified strategy. In order to validate these results, further research with bigger numbers of participants would be required. However, in the process, valuable information about the dynamics of deaf people in Qatar were collected, which will inform future research on the topic in the region.
"TURKIY GULISTON YOXUD AXLOQ" ASARINING BOSHLANG'ICH TA'LIMDA OGʻZAKI VA YOZMA NUTQNI RIVOJLANTIRISHDAGI PEDAGOGIK - PSIXOLOGIK AHAMIYATI
Creators: name: Abrorxonova, Kamolaxon
name: Rajabova, Sarvinoz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur maqolada Abdulla Avloniy qalamiga mansub “Turkiy Guliston yoxud axloq” asarining boshlang‘ich sinf o‘quvchilarining og‘zaki va yozma nutqini rivojlantirishdagi pedagogik va psixologik imkoniyatlari yoritilgan. Asardagi axloqiy nasihatlar, maqollar, hikmatli fikrlar orqali o‘quvchilarning fikrlash, o‘z fikrini bayon etish, odob-axloq va nutq madaniyatini shakllantirish yo‘llari tahlil qilingan. Ushbu maqola boshlang‘ich ta’lim jarayonida nutq kompetensiyalarini rivojlantirishda milliy-ma’naviy merosdan samarali foydalanish imkoniyatlarini ochib beradi.
Eulerian simulation of complex suspensions and biolocomotion in three dimensions
Creators: name: Lin, Yuexia L.
name: Derr, Nicholas J.
name: Rycroft, Chris H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 74F10 (Primary), 65M06 (Secondary), 65Y05

description: We present a numerical method specifically designed for simulating three-dimensional fluid--structure interaction (FSI) problems based on the reference map technique (RMT). The RMT is a fully Eulerian FSI numerical method that allows fluids and large-deformation elastic solids to be represented on a single fixed computational grid. This eliminates the need for meshing complex geometries typical in other FSI approaches, and greatly simplifies the coupling between fluid and solids. We develop the first three-dimensional implementation of the RMT, parallelized using the distributed memory paradigm, to simulate incompressible FSI with neo-Hookean solids. As part of our new method, we develop a new field extrapolation scheme that works efficiently in parallel. Through representative examples, we demonstrate the method's accuracy and convergence, as well as its suitability in investigating many-body and active systems. The examples include settling of a mixture of heavy and buoyant soft ellipsoids, lid-driven cavity flow containing a soft sphere, and swimmers actuated via active stress.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures (+ Supplemental Information: 26 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables, 6 movies, 1 dataset)
Quantum Gravity Phenomenology in the Infrared
Creators: name: Freidel, Laurent
name: Kowalski-Glikman, Jerzy
name: Leigh, Robert G.
name: Minic, Djordje
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum gravity effects are traditionally tied to short distances and high energies. In this essay we argue that, perhaps surprisingly, quantum gravity may have important consequences for the phenomenology of the infrared. We center our discussion around a conception of quantum gravity involving a notion of quantum spacetime that arises in metastring theory. This theory allows for an evolution of a cosmological Universe in which string-dual degrees of freedom decouple as the Universe ages. Importantly such an implementation of quantum gravity allows for the inclusion of a fundamental length scale without introducing the fundamental breaking of Lorentz symmetry. The mechanism seems to have potential for an entirely novel source for dark matter/energy. The simplest observational consequences of this scenario may very well be residual infrared modifications that emerge through the evolution of the Universe.
description: 10 pages;This paper has been awarded the Second Prize in the 2021 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation (typos corrected)
Mindful silence produces long lasting attentional performance in children
Creators: name: Berto, Rita
name: Barbiero, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2016

description: Biophilia is affected by the ability to focus on natural stimuli effortlessly, actually to be fascinated by Nature. Exposure to natural environments allows one's directed attention to rest and to restore from a state of mental fatigue. As we have reliably demonstrated in a precedent study (Visions for Sustainability 1, 31-38) mindfulness meditation is an effective intervention that improves children sustained attention through Active Silence Training (AST), a mindfulness-based educational proposal specifically tailored for children of primary school age. The AST is made up of Cooperative Play and Mindful Silence, namely activities to engage children’s involuntary attention. This study investigated which component of AST (i.e. Cooperative Play or Mindful Silence) was more effective in improving children’s attention. In a mixed research study 72 children (9-11 years) of a primary school in Aosta (Italy) were randomly assigned to one of three different training: i) Mindful Silence only, ii) Cooperative Play only, iii) both Cooperative Play and Mindful Silence, the original AST. At four time-points, sustained attention and physiological parameters were assessed. Results didn’t show any change in physiological parameters whereas it emerged that Mindful Silence training alone produced greater and longer-lasting improvements in children’s sustained attention than Cooperative Play or Play and Silence; Cooperative Play produced immediate but short-lasting changes. Mindful Silence training was identified as being able to improve children attentional capacities and an effective tool for stimulating biophilia.
description: Visions for Sustainability, No 2 (2014)
Loving openness towards Nature: Aldo Capitini and the moral value of biophilia
Creators: name: Falcicchio, Gabriella
name: Barbiero, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2016

description: Can the loving openness of human beings lead to “the liberation of qualities in animals that would otherwise remain hidden?” This observation made in 1959 by Aldo Capitini, the Italian philosopher and promoter of nonviolent theory and action, not only poses a question relative to neo-Darwinism, but it also offers a new and radical perspective on human evolution, bringing to the fore the moral value of biophilia. According to Stephen Kellert (1996), the relationship between Man and Nature comprises of nine basic values, and together they constitute the biological tendency of Man to affiliate himself with the natural world. The expression of these values has proved to be adaptive over the course of human evolution, developing into genetic inclinations over time. They include the moral value of ‘biophilia’, which concerns Humanity’s ethical and spiritual affinity towards Nature. On the one hand, the formation of a ‘biophilic ethics’ enhances the inclination of Man to protect Nature; on the other hand, it entails the search for underlying meanings in Nature. Aldo Capitini was extremely concerned about the moral value of Nature, revealing very early on a biophilic sensibility that, he believed, fuelled his motivation to promote nonviolence and, at the same time, generated new and profound sentiments towards living creatures. Indeed, the above-mentioned observation by Capitini recalls the unity of all “beings that form life”, each one of which was intended to be treated ethically and to participate actively in a relationship of openness towards the ‘thou’ in everybody. He considered it a human responsibility to engage in joyous friendships with all living beings, an approach which led him to vegetarianism – a liberating act for those who practice it, because it opens up unexpected horizons for Man’s complex association with Nature, opening the way to true ‘Compresence’, that offers insights to achieve new visions for sustainability.
description: Visions for Sustainability, No 3 (2015)
Non-autoregressive Transformer-based End-to-end ASR using BERT
Creators: name: Yu, Fu-Hao
name: Chen, Kuan-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Transformer-based models have led to significant innovation in classical and practical subjects as varied as speech processing, natural language processing, and computer vision. On top of the Transformer, attention-based end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models have recently become popular. Specifically, non-autoregressive modeling, which boasts fast inference and performance comparable to conventional autoregressive methods, is an emerging research topic. In the context of natural language processing, the bidirectional encoder representations from Transformers (BERT) model has received widespread attention, partially due to its ability to infer contextualized word representations and to enable superior performance for downstream tasks while needing only simple fine-tuning. Motivated by the success, we intend to view speech recognition as a downstream task of BERT, thus an ASR system is expected to be deduced by performing fine-tuning. Consequently, to not only inherit the advantages of non-autoregressive ASR models but also enjoy the benefits of a pre-trained language model (e.g., BERT), we propose a non-autoregressive Transformer-based end-to-end ASR model based on BERT. We conduct a series of experiments on the AISHELL-1 dataset that demonstrate competitive or superior results for the model when compared to state-of-the-art ASR systems.
Ampullobates nigriclavatus Grandjean 1962
Creators: name: Revelo-Tobar, Harol
name: Ojeda, Margarita
name: García-Ayala, Leonardo J.
name: Palacios-Vargas, José G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Hermanniellidae
Ampullobates
Ampullobates nigriclavatus

description: Ampullobates nigriclavatus Grandjean, 1962
 Distribution: Neotropical.
 Records in Mexico: Veracruz and Quintana Roo.
 Biogeographic province: Veracruzan. Yucatan Peninsula.
 Habitat: Leaf litter and soil of medium sub evergreen forest, lowland forest, mangrove and halophyte vegetation. Decaying trunks of Bursera simaruba and Spondias mombin.
 References: Estrada-Venegas (2000): 20; Vázquez & Prieto (2001): 78–79; Vázquez et al. (2016): 147–162.
description: Published as part of Revelo-Tobar, Harol, Ojeda, Margarita, García-Ayala, Leonardo J. & Palacios-Vargas, José G., 2024, Checklist Of Oribatid Mites (Acari: Oribatida) From Mexico, pp. 1-178 in Zootaxa 5465 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5465.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11613709
The contribution of psychology in connecting the civic and environmental dimensions of sustainability
Creators: name: Rossi, Giulia
name: Dodman, Martin
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2016

description: This paper examines the role of social sciences, and in particular that of psychology, in analyzing and defining the concept of sustainability and understanding ways of promoting sustainable human attitudes and behaviors. It is argued that there is a crucial interdependence between the civic and environmental dimensions of sustainable communities and that in this respect we need to explore how psychological bridging mechanisms between citizens, their communities and their environments can help build new pathways to individual and planetary wellbeing.
description: Visions for Sustainability, No 3 (2015)