cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Corpi e soggetti: l’invenzione del sé, tra biotecnologie e categorie giuridico-politiche
Creators: name: Santosuosso, Amedeo
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2005

description: The historical background of family relationship is outlined from a legal point of view. Then the impact of new biotechnologies, with special regard to the in vitro fertilization, is deeply discussed. Finally the question of who is the owner of rights and liberties (a fundamental issue that is constantly on the constitutional agenda and that has nowadays acquired new intensity due to the impact of life sciences and biotechnologies) is considered. After the end of the patriarchal legal systems and the progressive recognition of individual rights, such as racial, sexual, religious, and anti-discrimination rights, the question about who the (biological) entity is that these rights and liberties belong to seemed to have been solved for ever. Yet the question has again emerged in the last few decades.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 1 (2005): Concepire Generare Nascere
The NF-κB and IκB proteins: New discoveries and insights
Creators: name: Baldwin, Albert S., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: The transcription factor NF-κB has attracted widespread attention among researchers in many fields based on the following: its unusual and rapid regulation, the wide range of genes that it controls, its central role in immunological processes, the complexity of its subunits, and its apparent involvement in several diseases. A primary level of control for NF-κB is through interactions with an inhibitor protein called IκB. Recent evidence confirms the existence of multiple forms of IκB that appear to regulate NF-κB by distinct mechanisms. NF-κB can be activated by exposure of cells to LPS or inflammatory cytokines such as TNF or IL-1, viral infection or expression of certain viral gene products, UV irradiation, B or T cell activation, and by other physiological and nonphysiological stimuli. Activation of NF-κB to move into the nucleus is controlled by the targeted phosphorylation and subsequent degradation of IκB. Exciting new research has elaborated several important and unexpected findings that explain mechanisms involved in the activation of NF-κB. In the nucleus, NF-κB dimers bind to target DNA elements and activate transcription of genes encoding proteins involved with immune or inflammation responses and with cell growth control. Recent data provide evidence that NF-κB is constitutively active in several cell types, potentially playing unexpected roles in regulation of gene expression. In addition to advances in describing the mechanisms of NF-κB activation, excitement in NF-κB research has been generated by the first report of a crystal structure for one form of NF-κB, the first gene knockout studies for different forms of NF-κB and of IκB, and the implications for therapies of diseases thought to involve the inappropriate activation of NF-κB.
Lasioglossum sexnotatum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum sexnotatum

description: Lasioglossum sexnotatum (Kirby, 1802)
 16.V.2004, lisière friche calcaire, Malus, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
L’educazione delle donne nel cristianesimo antico: fra modelli tradizionali e nuovi paradigmi
Creators: name: Novembri, Valeria
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2005

description: In Roman society learned women were often regarded with suspicion, especially when they exhibited it in public. In accordance with philosophical views of Hellenistic times, and especially with Musonius Ruphus’ thought, Christians preached a substantial equality of men and women as to virtues and learning. In the IVth century Church Fathers created the first pedagogical program specifically elaborated for women: it was addressed to young girls who should devote themselves to virginity. Classical culture was banished; in spite of that, many Christian women, especially in the West, were more learned than we can expect.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 1 (2005): Concepire Generare Nascere
Centrally symmetric convex bodies and sections having maximal quermassintegrals
Creators: name: Makai, E.
name: Martini, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52A20

description: Let $d \ge 2$, and let $K \subset {\Bbb{R}}^d$ be a convex body containing the origin $0$ in its interior. In a previous paper we have proved the following. The body $K$ is $0$-symmetric if and only if the following holds. For each $ω\in S^{d-1}$, we have that the $(d-1)$-volume of the intersection of $K$ and an arbitrary hyperplane, with normal $ω$, attains its maximum if the hyperplane contains $0$. An analogous theorem, for $1$-dimensional sections and $1$-volumes, has been proved long ago by Hammer (\cite{H}). In this paper we deal with the ($(d-2)$-dimensional) surface area, or with lower dimensional quermassintegrals of these intersections, and prove an analogous, but local theorem, for small $C^2$-perturbations, or $C^3$-perturbations of the Euclidean unit ball, respectively.
description: 9 TEX pages
«Cosa bella mortal, passa, e non dura». L’enjeu esthétique de la vieillesse féminine à l’aube de l’époque moderne
Creators: name: Schuster Cordone, Caroline
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2006

description: The present article focuses on the physical decline and the aesthetic dimension of feminine decrepitude at the beginning of Modern Times, trough images and statements of art theorists, artists and poets. The centre of our reflection is the aged and aging female body, which represented the absolute opposite to the existing renaissance discourse on feminine beauty. Confronted with the praise of an always admired youth, how did written and pictorial sources express the alteration due to feminine aging, and were there any ways to react to the effects of old age? Possible answers to these questions emerge through the analysis of images and texts facing the problem, as well as trough the study of the representation of the aging process itself, visible in images depicting a young woman at the mirror facing her aged reflection.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 2 (2006): Invecchiare. Donne epoche culture
«Ho stabilito mia moglie come padre e madre della mia casa». Invecchiamento e diritti delle donne nell’Antica Mesopotamia
Creators: name: Tonietti, Maria Vittoria
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2006

description: Elderly people were highly respected in Mesopotamian society. But which were the problems or the advantages connected to aging? After a short survey of some aspects of women’s social status, evidence is given that aging could involve a major increase in women’s independence and power, mostly in the case of widowood. The vulnerability and plight of widow (and orphan) are proverbial in the literature of the Ancient Near East, and their protection was the common policy of Mesopotamia. Nevertheless, at least in medium and upper classes, widowhood might offer an opportunity for true independence. In Assyria, the widow without father-inlaw or sons, was given the right to go “wherever she pleases”. In later age, primary responsability for care fell upon the son, or even the daughter. Lack of sons could pose serious problems for the lower layers of the free population. But propertied women (even small property owners) could easily avoid the problem by adopting adults for the purpose of their sustenance.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 2 (2006): Invecchiare. Donne epoche culture
«Sposa, figlia, sorella e vecchia matre». Invecchiare donna in età moderna, tra demografia e cultura
Creators: name: Baernstein, P. Renée
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2006

description: New work in the history of aging demands that we integrate “hard” approaches such as demography and physiology with “soft” cultural approaches. This article considers the life stages of early modern Italian urban elite women, to argue that society compelled them to age earlier in cultural terms than in physical terms, especially when compared with men of the same social strata. Pressed to marry younger than their bodies might suggest, their health ravaged by early and accelerated childbearing, women reached “old age” by 40. Nonetheless, those who survived that far often lived very long indeed. Moreover, older widows often emerged as the effective head of the family while their sons grew to adulthood. This role as a transitional authority figure between long generations of men was little discussed in normative literature, but appears regularly in family memoirs and court cases.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 2 (2006): Invecchiare. Donne epoche culture
Noi, le altre e il “tempo” che passa. Sguardi incrociati sull’ età critica
Creators: name: Fusaschi, Michela
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2006

description: In the anthropological perspective the age is a social construction, responds to the social representations according to the circumstances in that it is located; the “old” age is, in fact, a transformation period during which the woman assume a new identity and position in the society. This article, briefly, discusses and compare the representations of menopause between Italians and migrants women, from different countries that live in Rome, as subjects of new transnational reality involving cultural conceptions of age and body.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 2 (2006): Invecchiare. Donne epoche culture
A Resource and Criticality Aware Cyber-Physical System with Robots for Precision Animal Agriculture
Creators: name: Kaur, Upinder
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics not elsewhere classified
Electronic sensors
Electronic instrumentation

description: Precision livestock farming (PLF) has emerged as a solution to address global challenges related to food scarcity, increasing demand for animal products, slim profit margins in livestock production, and growing societal concerns regarding farm animal welfare. By offering individualized care for animals, PLF aims to provide labor savings, enhanced monitoring, and improved control capabilities within complex farming systems, enabled by digital technologies. The adoption of an individual-centric approach to farming through PLF is anticipated to enhance farm productivity and ensure ethical treatment of animals while mitigating concerns associated with labor shortages in modern intensive farming operations. Real-time continuous monitoring of each animal enables precise and accurate health and well-being management. However, to achieve these benefits, large-scale animal farms require commercially viable technological solutions for individualized care and welfare. Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) offer precise monitoring and control and present a promising avenue for PLF but pose significant implementation challenges. In this work, a generalizable CPS architecture was formalized with active robotic nodes that can realize adaptive continuous real-time animal health monitoring to maximize productivity, animal welfare, and sustainability. Taking the example of dairy farming, a resource- and criticality-aware CPS was developed that enables real-time resource-aware sensing, adaptive control, and agile networking with an emphasis on handling emergencies autonomously. Using a decentralized approach, each node was made capable of optimizing its operation to be resource conscious, while also being able to identify emergency conditions in real-time. In this novel design, we accommodate the social dynamics of the herd and effectively address the various types of emergencies possible in PLF. Moreover, the communication was customized for the unique needs of animal agriculture, wherein it reduced latency and power consumption while ensuring collision-free two-way synchronization with adaptive range extension for emergency conditions. Further, since the CPS was centered around animals, a special robust security layer was also developed and implemented to protect the active embodied nodes against known and unknown malicious attacks. The proposed CPS reference architecture provides a foundation for implementing individualized care and welfare, ultimately improving the efficiency and sustainability of livestock operations.
Proposte di lettura critica delle narrazioni di invecchiamento
Creators: name: Cavigioli, Rita
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2006

description: While providing the readers of women’s fictions with some guidelines for developing their awareness of the age-based constructions that pervade the cultural imaginary of contemporary western societies, the essay argues that the choice of an “age-conscious” perspective affects narrative choices and genre development. After acknowledging the most significant theoretical contributions in Angloamerican humanistic gerontology and feminist age studies and their impact on literary analysis, the essay investigates the narrative strategies employed by most novels of aging. Finally, the author identifies emerging trends in Italian gender- and age-related discourses and changing notions of generational transmission.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 2 (2006): Invecchiare. Donne epoche culture
Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World: Defining, Refining, and Extending Theory and Research
Creators: name: Hussong, Andrea M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: This introduction to the Special Issue on Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World explores how increasing population diversity may provide a context for changes in the parenting of adolescents. In this issue, authors (1) explore the context for asking questions about parenting adolescents and diversity, (2) consider parents, adolescents, and parenting in different diversity contexts, and (3) reflect on crosscutting themes. Two articles examine the parenting in an international context and within changing domestic demographics. Four articles focus on parenting adolescents in traditionally marginalized groups with the goal of identifying lessons for supporting all youth in navigating an increasingly diverse world. Finally, two articles synthesize these articles to suggest important directions for future research.
Embracing theory as liberatory practice (Privette, 2023)
Creators: name: Privette, Chelsea
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420110
subject: Speech pathology
classificationCode: 420102
subject: Audiology
classificationCode: 470212
subject: Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies

description: Purpose: The purpose of this tutorial is to guide practitioners to a critical praxis of speech, language, and hearing. This tutorial provides a foundational knowledge of critical theory as an approach to framing, conceptualizing, and interpreting phenomena and demonstrates its application to the speech, language, and hearing profession.Method: This tutorial reviews critical theory as a category of frameworks that challenge existing power structures and provides a critical analysis of the profession’s approach to language using a raciolinguistic framework. Questions are included for the reader to guide self-reflection and preparation for enacting a critical praxis oriented toward justice. Recommended readings are provided for the reader to continue the journey beyond these pages.Results: The author presents a critical praxis of speech, language, and hearing, drawing directly from two additional critical frameworks: Black fugitivity and culturally sustaining pedagogy. This critical praxis is discussed within the context of three major areas—activism, assessment, and intervention—with a reconsideration of how to leverage skills, resources, and strategies in a way that centers (racial) identity formation and multimodal communication.Conclusion: Next steps are suggested, and readers are invited to become theorists who continue to develop a critical praxis for their context.Supplemental Material S1. Selected readings.Privette, C. (2023). Embracing theory as liberatory practice: Journeying toward a critical praxis of speech, language, and hearing. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 54(3), 688–706. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_LSHSS-22-00134Publisher Note: This article is part of the Forum: Reflect, Reframe, and Re-Imagine Theory and Practice in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.
From Brazil to Britain: the vicissitudes of participatory budgeting: the importance of context
Creators: name: Jamieson Malik, Gemma
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: This project asks: How was it that a participatory practice, originating in the demands of social movements in Brazil, came to fit within the prevailing neoliberal orthodoxy? It explores changes within both neoliberalism and the practice of Participatory Budgeting (PB) itself. It examines PB’s Brazilian origins and the ways in which the process, initially emerging from protest movements, became a formal institutional process and a feature of Brazil’s new democracy, post authoritarian rule. It then explores developments in the process itself within Brazil, before examining its translation to the UK. PB in the UK is explored through an examination of the political climate into which it came to be deployed (i.e. Blair’s New Labour) and two concrete examples of the process (in Manton, Nottinghamshire and Tower Hamlets, London). It focuses on the way in which the discursive environment of operation (the context) impacts upon PB in terms of both its form and its potential. These explorations raise important questions about the roles and relationships of, and between, the state and the citizen in contemporary representative democracy. Arguing that context matters, it demonstrates ways in which an increase in participation may have a positive democratic impact, but this is not a given; an increase in participation may serve to either enhance or diminish democracy. This work makes use of policy analysis and field word. It uses the discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe as a theoretical guide and asks what can be learnt about PB’s journey, state/citizen roles and relationships, and the relationship between participation and democracy by using this particular theoretical lens.
Approximating Ground and Excited State Energies on a Quantum Computer
Creators: name: Hadfield, Stuart
name: Papageorgiou, Anargyros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Approximating ground and a fixed number of excited state energies, or equivalently low order Hamiltonian eigenvalues, is an important but computationally hard problem. Typically, the cost of classical deterministic algorithms grows exponentially with the number of degrees of freedom. Under general conditions, and using a perturbation approach, we provide a quantum algorithm that produces estimates of a constant number $j$ of different low order eigenvalues. The algorithm relies on a set of trial eigenvectors, whose construction depends on the particular Hamiltonian properties. We illustrate our results by considering a special case of the time-independent Schrödinger equation with $d$ degrees of freedom. Our algorithm computes estimates of a constant number $j$ of different low order eigenvalues with error $O(ε)$ and success probability at least $\frac34$, with cost polynomial in $\frac{1}ε$ and $d$. This extends our earlier results on algorithms for estimating the ground state energy. The technique we present is sufficiently general to apply to problems beyond the application studied in this paper.
description: 21 pages, 1 figure
Quella certa età: l’invecchiare delle donne
Creators: name: Palomba, Rossella
name: Signoretti, Nicoletta
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2006

description: In the article we analysed attitudes of women over 60 towards the last phase of life and the changes perceived in their body and in their social role as compared to when they were young, their expectations towards the family, work ,voluntary work, and hobbies. A survey of 2344 women carried out by IRPPS is used. We also analysed if the image of older women hold by Italian society has changed because the attitudes of the “others” influence the way we live the ageing process and its changes. For this purpose we will use recent studies on TV advertisements and the image of older women they convey.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 2 (2006): Invecchiare. Donne epoche culture
«Les livres qu’elles dévorent». Romanzi erotici e letture delle donne nella Francia di Napoleone
Creators: name: Granata, Veronica
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2007

description: Starting from the analysis of the documents produced by the Napoleonic censorship, the article examines the word of women readers end women writers and his representation in nineteenth-century France. Through the literary production of two women novelists of the time, Mme Félicité de Choiseul-Meuse and Mme Elisabeth Guénard Brossin de Méré, both in balance between pedagogy and transgression, between morality and eroticism, the article deals with the theme of literature’s influence on the habits, the intellectual formation and the emotional sphere of post-revolutionary women.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 3 (2007): Soglie e finestre
Macropis europaea Warncke 1973
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Melittidae
Macropis
Macropis europaea

description: Macropis europaea Warncke, 1973
 18.VII.2013, Lysimachia punctata, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Millisecond single-molecule localization microscopy combined with convolution analysis and automated image segmentation to determine protein concentrations in complexly structured, functional cells, one cell at a time
Creators: name: Wollman, Adam J. M.
name: Leake, Mark C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a single-molecule tool called the CoPro (Concentration of Proteins) method that uses millisecond imaging with convolution analysis, automated image segmentation and super-resolution localization microscopy to generate robust estimates for protein concentration in different compartments of single living cells, validated using realistic simulations of complex multiple compartment cell types. We demonstrates its utility experimentally on model Escherichia coli bacteria and Saccharomyces cerevisiae budding yeast cells, and use it to address the biological question of how signals are transduced in cells. Cells in all domains of life dynamically sense their environment through signal transduction mechanisms, many involving gene regulation. The glucose sensing mechanism of S. cerevisiae is a model system for studying gene regulatory signal transduction. It uses the multi-copy expression inhibitor of the GAL gene family, Mig1, to repress unwanted genes in the presence of elevated extracellular glucose concentrations. We fluorescently labelled Mig1 molecules with green fluorescent protein (GFP) via chromosomal integration at physiological expression levels in living S. cerevisiae cells, in addition to the RNA polymerase protein Nrd1 with the fluorescent protein reporter mCherry. Using CoPro we make quantitative estimates of Mig1 and Nrd1 protein concentrations in the cytoplasm and nucleus compartments on a cell-by-cell basis under physiological conditions. These estimates indicate a 4-fold shift towards higher values in concentration of diffusive Mig1 in the nucleus if the external glucose concentration is raised, whereas equivalent levels in the cytoplasm shift to smaller values with a relative change an order of magnitude smaller. This compares with Nrd1 which is not involved directly in glucose sensing, which is almost exclusively localized in the nucleus under high and...
Singular conformally invariant trilinear forms, II The higher multiplicity cases
Creators: name: Clerc, Jean-Louis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E45, 43A80

description: Let $S$ be the sphere of dimension $n-1, n\geq 4$. Let $(π_λ)_{λ\in \mathbb C}$ be the scalar principle series of representations of the conformal group $SO_0(1,n)$, realized on $\mathcal C^\infty(S)$. For $\boldsymbol λ= (λ_1,λ_2,λ_3) \in \mathbb C^3$, let $Tri(\boldsymbol λ)$ be the space of continuous trilinear forms on $\mathcal C^\infty(S) \times \mathcal C^\infty(S) \times \mathcal C^\infty(S)$ which are invariant under $π_{λ_1} \otimes π_{λ_2} \otimes π_{λ_3} $. For each value of $\boldsymbol λ$, the dimension of $Tri(\boldsymbol λ)$ is computed and a basis of $Tri(\boldsymbol λ)$ is described.
The state of the healthy communities movement in Canada
Creators: name: Sherwood, David H.
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Community development--Canada
subject: Rural development--Canada
subject: City planning--Canada
subject: City planning--Citizen participation
subject: Réseau québecois de Ville et Villages en santé (RQVVS)
subject: Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition (OHCC)
subject: Mouvement acadien des communautés en santé du Nouveau-Brunswick (MACS-NB)
subject: Manitoba Healthy Communities Network, Inc.

description: This article has three components. It lists the status and contact names for the "healthy communities" movement across Canada, provides a summary of the common elements of good community capacity- building processes, and offers remarks by David Sherwood. After being involved in the healthy communities movement in the early years, David was pleasantly surprised at how the movement has continued with only limited resources. He thinks it is especially well adapted to communities that are geographically defined, such as medium-sized cities, rural areas and neighbourhoods. Despite its challenges, the model is still useful.
description: Le présent article comporte trois parties : une liste de personnes engagées dans le mouvement des communautés saines au Canada, un résumé des éléments essentiels au renforcement du processus des aptitudes communautaires, et les commentaires personnels de David Sherwood. L'auteur, qui s'était impliqué au début du mouvement des communautés saines, fut agréablement surpris, en s'y attardant à nouveau, de constater à quel point le mouvement avait gardé de la vitalité malgré le peu de ressources dont il dispose. Selon lui, les villes de moyenne importance ou les régions rurales pourraient profiter du modèle des communautés saines, malgré certaines difficultés intrinsèques au modèle.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: Contactez l'auteur pour la version française de cet article: sherwood@myexcel.ca.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5545/Article002.pdf?sequence=3
VUV diagnostic of electron impact processes in low temperature molecular hydrogen plasma
Creators: name: Komppula, J.
name: Tarvainen, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Novel methods for diagnostics of molecular hydrogen plasma processes, such as ionization, production of high vibrational levels, dissociation of molecules via excitation to singlet and triplet states and production of metastable states, are presented for molecular hydrogen plasmas in corona equilibrium. The methods are based on comparison of rate coefficients of plasma processes and optical emission spectroscopy of lowest singlet and triplet transitions, i.e. Lyman-band ($B^1Σ^+_u \rightarrow X^1Σ^+_g$) and molecular continuum ($a^3Σ^+_g \rightarrow b^3Σ^+_u$), of the hydrogen molecule in VUV wavelength range. Comparison of rate coefficients of spin-allowed and/or spin-forbidden excitations reduces the uncertainty caused by the non-equilibrium distributions of electron energy and molecular vibrational level, which are typically known poorly in plasma sources. The described methods are applied to estimate the rates of various plasma processes in a filament arc discharge.
Attraverso le soglie del tempo e dello spazio. Le orsoline di Angela Merici nell’Australia di oggi
Creators: name: Mazzonis, Querciolo
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2007

description: The Australian Ursulines represent an original case of contemporary female religiosity, which overcomes the boundaries of the religious and the secular, the past and the present, the female and the universal. Their model of religious life is a-institutional, inward-looking, a-hierarchical, democratic, and respectful of the members’ choices. Furthermore, in their participation to civic life, the Australian Ursulines promote innovative social and political initiatives. They have recently developed these characteristics in continuation with the spirit and thought of the sixteenth-century foundress of their order, Angela Merici.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 3 (2007): Soglie e finestre
Melitta haemorrhoidalis
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Melittidae
Melitta
Melitta haemorrhoidalis

description: Melitta haemorrhoidalis (Fabricius, 1775)
 26.VI.2004, friche chemin de fer, Campanula rapunculus, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Dieting: Goal Attributes and Dietary Strategies
Creators: name: Jasko, Katarzyna
name: Szastok, Marta
name: Maj, Marta
name: Szumowska, Ewa
name: Dukała, Karolina
name: Potoczek, Anna
name: Górska, Paulina
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Figures for preregistration
Soglie
Creators: name: Nadotti, Maria
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2007

description: The author approaches the concept of threshold by exploring the spatial and temporal dimensions in which it is experienced and shaped today. Rather than searching for and providing a definition, she engages the reader in actively sharing her own journey through, and ongoing dialogue with, images and writings: indoor environments, afterlife islands, lonely dark paths, embracing statues challenge and question both the author and the reader’s gaze –what do we see? what we don’t see? am I within or beyond the threshold? do I feel included or exluded? do I dare to step in and to move on or do I want to keep still and withdraw?– while writers and poets’s voices interact with the author’s caleidoscopic narratives on threshold as condition and source of both loss and encounter, security and threat, pain and hope, memories and visions. Emotionally charged and cognitively productive, spatial and temporal thresholds meet and merge in the third dimension of waiting: patience and resilience –like the queuers’ art of slow down/step aside/keep on moving– happen to be effective strategies of survival for travellers in the age of brutal speed and proliferating borders.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 3 (2007): Soglie e finestre
Growth hormone deficiency in adulthood and the effects of growth hormone replacement: A review
Creators: name: Clemmons, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1998

description: "GH DEFICIENCY in the human adult most commonly results from pituitary or peripituitary tumors and their treatment (1). The majority of these tumors are benign, and in a large series, pituitary adenoma was the commonest cause of adult hypopituitarism (2). The incidence of adultonset (AO) GH deficiency is not known, but indirect estimates based on the incidence of pituitary tumors suggest an incidence of 10 people/million annually. In contrast, childhood- onset (CO)GHdeficiency is most commonly idiopathic and is not necessarily associated with other pituitary hormone deficiencies. The limited supplies of pituitary-derived GH restricted research into the use of GH in adults and limited knowledge of the role ofGHafter the cessation of linear growth. An early study, in which a 35-yr-old hypopituitary adult reported increased vigor, ambition, and well-being after GH replacement, suggested that GH may have biological actions in adulthood (3). More recent evidence suggests that adults with hypopituitarism have reduced life expectancy (2, 4), possibly related to GH deficiency (5). The availability of recombinant GH has led to intensive investigation of the effects ofGHin health and disease, and over the past decade, numerous studies have focused on the effects of GH replacement in the adult with GH deficiency. The first placebo-controlled trials ofGHreplacement in the GH-deficient adult were reported in 1989 (6, 7). These and subsequent investigations have led to the recognition of a specific clinical syndrome in adults with long standing GH deficiency. This syndrome is associated with characteristic symptoms, signs, and investigative findings. The main features are listed in Table 1. Many studies have assessed the effects of GH replacement on these symptoms and signs. The majority of these data has resulted from both formal randomized placebo-controlled trials and smaller open studies. Consistently, these studies have demonstrated that adults with GH deficiency are both physically and psychologically less healthy than their age-matched peers, and that GH replacement results in substantial and sustained benefits. This review details the important features resulting from GH deficiency and summarizes the information, available up to the beginning of 1997, relating to the effects of GH replacement."
Ifigenia e le altre. Archetipi greci del sacrificio femminile o degli incerti confini tra sacrificio, oblazione eroica e crimine politico nella cultura ateniese del V secolo
Creators: name: Beltrametti, Anna
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2009

description: There are no clear historical evidences witnessing the practice of human sacrifices in ancient Greece. We have however numerous images and tragedies concerning human (and especially female) sacrifices, whose archetype is represented by Iphigenia. The present knowledge suggests to approach the study of female sacrifices not only in the perspective of history of religions, but also in that of semiotics. The motif of human female sacrifices, intertwined with the motif of sovereign power, seems to recur in tragedies written during particularly violent periods of Athenian history, and it often alludes to the political crime.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 4 (2008): «Correrò questo rischio» Sacrificio, sfida, resistenza
Multisensory structured language literacy intervention (Bowers & Ramsdell, 2023)
Creators: name: Bowers, Lisa M.
name: Ramsdell, Heather L.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420110
subject: Speech pathology
classificationCode: 520101
subject: Child and adolescent development

description: Purpose: Dyslexia is increasingly being defined, assessed, diagnosed, and treated in the educational system. The purpose of this clinical focus article is to elucidate ways in which speech-language pathologists (SLPs) can rethink how to implement literacy interventions to incorporate best practices from multisensory structured language (MSL) approaches and how they can be influential participants in the conversations of how to define and implement services for students who have written language disorders, including dyslexia, in the school setting.Method: This clinical focus article provides an operational definition of dyslexia, discusses the various roles and responsibilities of SLPs with respect to dyslexia, and describes the well-established evidence-based practices of MSL approaches as a means of rethinking literacy intervention.Results: Using a case study scenario based on an individual diagnosed with dyslexia, this clinical focus article presents similarities and differences between traditional speech-language pathology intervention approaches and MSL approaches to literacy intervention.Conclusions: MSL strategies may be considered in literacy intervention as a means to optimize the academic gains of children with dyslexia in a school setting. Furthermore, SLPs should be considered integral participants in discussions of policies and practices related to the diagnosis and treatment of literacy disorders, including dyslexia.Supplemental Material S1. Occupational therapy goals and objectives.Bowers, L. M., & Ramsdell, H. L. (2023). Rethinking literacy intervention: Addressing a practice gap with best practices from multisensory structured language approaches. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 54(3), 815–830. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_LSHSS-22-00133
Healthy communities: What have we learned?
Creators: name: Witty, David R.
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: City planning--Canada
subject: Community development--Canada
subject: Urban health--Canada
subject: Canadian Healthy Communities Project (CHCP)
subject: Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP)

description: Through the CHCP office located in CIP's national office, CIP played a significant leadership role in reaching out to Canadian communities, provinces and organizations, stimulating debate about, and offering support for, communities that are healthy in cultural, ecological, economic, physical and social terms. While the seeds of healthy communities were sown across Canada, they did not take root as expected, but have become localized in a few jurisdictions, such as Quebec, where broader concerns about social justice and environmental health remain on the political agenda. Lessons for CIP and others indicate the need for a sharper focus on political partnerships at the grassroots, local, regional, provincial and federal levels, and a willingness to commit energies and resources to stimulate debate and articulate bold visions for the twenty-first century.
description: Grâce au Projet canadien des communautés en santé dont les bureaux sont situés dans ceux de l'ICU, l'lnstitut joue un rôle important auprès des communautés canadiennes, des provinces et des organismes, en encourageant le dialogue et en promulguant les communautés saines aux plans culturel, écologique, économique, physique et social. Le concept des communautés en santé a été dissémine partout au pays mais n'a pris racine que dans certaines régions comme le Québec où des préoccupations de justice sociale et de salubrité de l'environnement font partie intégrante des politiques. L'ICU devra développer des partenariats politiques aux niveaux local, régional, provincial et fédéral. Il devra aussi consacrer plus d'efforts et de moyens à encourager le débat et à offrir des solutions hors du commun pour le XXIe siècle.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5546/Article001.pdf?sequence=3
Cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry as a quantum fluctuation
Creators: name: Kobakhidze, Archil
name: Manning, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We entertain a new paradigm according to which the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry is generated as a large-scale quantum fluctuation over the baryon-symmetric state that occurred during the cosmic inflation.
description: 5 pages
Antigoni allo specchio: la lezione d’Amore di Margherita Porete
Creators: name: Soleti, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2009

description: This article traces the historical figure of the Medieval mystical writer, Marguerite Porete, who wrote The Mirror of simple souls. Almost nothing is known about her life and education; therefore, the various theories about her were taken into consideration: she might have been a copyist; surely, she was a well-educated beguine, who was tragically burnt at the stake after refusing to recant her views. Throughout the pages of the Mirror, the author describes the Soul’s path to perfection which ends up in unity with Love overcoming the mediation of Reason: a message that goes beyond Scripture and dares to announce the existence of another Church. The views of the French beguine fit perfectly with the philosophical debates of the time. Nevertheless, theologians and clergymen tried, in vain, to get rid of any traces of it. In the second part of this essay Porete’s trial is briefly taken into consideration; she was condemned by a court which was, at the time, involved in the infamous templar affairs. With her, a “so called Beghard”, Guiard de Cressonessart, was held in trial, but he confessed in order to save his life, while the brave accused remained in silence and chose to burn at the stake in order for her lesson to live forever. As a deign successor of Sophocles’ Antigone, also Marguerite faced death: an inexorable gesture filled with an unexpected political resonance.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 4 (2008): «Correrò questo rischio» Sacrificio, sfida, resistenza
title: Healthy communities in Canada
title: Communautés en santé au Canada
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dubé, Pierre
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Community development--Canada
subject: Urban health--Canada
subject: Health planning--Canada
subject: Développement communautaire--Canada
subject: Santé urbaine--Canada
subject: Planification santé--Canada

description: It's with great pleasure that I present this issue of Plan Canada, which tries to come to grips with the current state of the healthy communities movement in Canada.
description: Il me fait plaisir de vous présenter ce numéro qui tente de faire le point sur les Communautés en santé au Canada.
description: Text in English and French.
description: From the senior editor
description: Le mot du rédacteur principal
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5547/1-Editorial.pdf?sequence=3
Farming is easy, becoming Brazilian is hard: North American soy farmers' social values of production, work and land in Soylandia
Creators: name: Ofstehage, Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Since the late 1980s, North American farmers have been migrating to Brazil to produce
soybeans and escape a general farm crisis in the United States. This paper analyzes their
work, values, social relations and relations with the land in order to understand
transnational farming and agrarian change from the perspective of transnational
farmers. North Americans’ migration to Brazil and soy production in Brazil can
inform our understanding of the mechanisms of the soy boom and unpack the relative
significance of social values at play in intensive, technified and financialized
agriculture. It also provides an evocative perspective of the soy boom as it engages
with issues of transnationalism, crisis, migration and change in business and farming
practices. Using ethnographic data, this paper explores the intimate and emerging
realities of agrarian change by detailing four elements of transnational farming –
migration, farm management, land use and work – through the narration of three
farmers’ career histories. These cases address the transformation of social values of
work, land and social relations through the processes of migration and agrarian
change. Farmers’ work, it is found, emerges out of an entanglement of regulations,
expertise, meanings of work and land, worker relations and the political economy of
Brazil and the United States.
Der Grundriss von Castel del Monte und der Silberne Schnitt
Creators: name: Kiem, Karl
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2023
Subjects: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II
Fibonacci
Leonardo of Pisa
Octagon
Castle
Silver Section

description: Castel del Monte (around/after 1240), located in Puglia, is a World Heritage Site. The plan of the building consists of three regular octagons: inner courtyard, main structure and towers. The origin of this design remains a mystery to this day. The attempts at explanation presented so far are based on an exclusively simple geometrical method. This ignores the extraordinarily high level of knowledge in mathematics at the court of the client, Emperor Frederick II, at the time of its conception and construction. Thus, closer examination shows that not only are the octagons in themselves in relation to the silver section, but also to each other. Furthermore, the accuracy of the construction shows that it must have been done with the help of a computational method. Against this background, the Castel del Monte may be understood above all as an expression of the high level of mathematics at the court of Emperor Frederick II.
On the Angular Resolution of the AGILE gamma-ray imaging detector
Creators: name: Sabatini, S.
name: Donnarumma, I.
name: Tavani, M.
name: Trois, A.
name: Bulgarelli, A.
name: Argan, A.
name: Barbiellini, G.
name: Cattaneo, P. W.
name: Chen, A.
name: Del Monte, E.
name: Fioretti, V.
name: Gianotti, F.
name: Giuliani, A.
name: Longo, F.
name: Lucarelli, F.
name: Morselli, A.
name: Pittori, C.
name: Verrecchia, F.
name: Caraveo, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the Angular Resolution of the AGILE gamma-ray imaging detector (GRID) that is operational in space since April 2007. The AGILE instrument is made of an array of 12 planes each equipped with a Tungsten converter and Silicon micros trip detectors and is sensitive in the energy range 50 MeV - 10 GeV. Among the space instruments devoted to gamma-ray astrophysics, AGILE uniquely exploits an analog readout system with dedicated electronics coupled with Silicon detectors. We show the results of Monte Carlo simulations carried out to reproduce the gamma-ray detection by the GRID, and we compare them to in-flight data. We use the Crab (pulsar + Nebula) system for discussion of real data performance, since its E^{-2} energy spectrum is representative of the majority of gamma-ray sources. For Crab-like spectrum sources, the GRID angular resolution (FWHM of ~4deg at 100 MeV; ~0.8deg at 1 GeV; ~0.9deg integrating the full energy band from 100 MeV to tens of GeV) is stable across a large field of view, being characterized by a flat response up to 30deg off-axis. A comparison of the angular resolution obtained by the two operational gamma-ray instruments, AGILE-GRID and Fermi-LAT, is interesting in view of future gamma-ray missions, that are currently under study. The two instruments exploit different detector configurations affecting the angular resolution: the former being optimized in the readout and track reconstruction especially in the low-energy band, the latter in terms of converter thickness and power consumption. We show that, despite these differences, the angular resolution of both instruments is very similar between 100 MeV and a few GeV.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ