cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
L'AUTONOMIA OSTETRICA IN UN CENTRO DI TERZO LIVELLO: STUDIO PROSPETTICO OSSERVAZIONALE SULL'OUTCOME MATERNO DEI TRAVAGLI A BASSO RISCHIO.
Creators: name: VISCONTI, ELENA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: One of the most important goals of modern obstetric care is to ensure compliance with the physiology while ensuring , with excellent supervision , good maternal and neonatal outcomes .
The aim of this study was to analyze maternal and neonatal outcomes of pregnant women at term low risk ( nulliparous and multiparous ) admitted in spontaneous labor and midwife assisted autonomy in a level III center .
We observed a group of low-risk women with a singleton pregnancy obstetrician , the situation in the longitudinal , cephalic presentation and admitted in spontaneous labor .
Our hypothesis is that , in hospitals run by the midwife labor in women at low risk on admission may be a possible way to secure the de-medicalization .
Maternal and neonatal outcomes considered were : type of delivery , episiotomy, , postpartum hemorrhage ( PPH) , transfusions , pH and Apgar score of newborns, the prevalence of SGA and LGA infants , admissions TIN , perinatal mortality .
Women at low obstetric risk ( 50.3 % of all parts of the center ) have been assisted by the midwife autonomy , according to the protocol in place . Women who were in the stages of labor with obstetric risk and therefore become at risk obstetrician excluded from our work. Medical supervision for emerging risk factors in the first or second stage of labor was required in 16.1 % and 8.6 % of cases, respectively . Epidural analgesia was performed in 29.8 % of cases. , Although the latter group of women was not considered by the autonomy midwife . There are only 22.9 % of low-risk women recruited and managed autonomously by the midwife .
The results suggest that in a hospital environment , labor, midwife managed independently in low-risk women with a lot of benefits can be realized without additional risks for the mother and the baby and avoiding complications due to transfers from other structures chosen for the confinement to ' hospital.
SATIRICAL AND HUMOROUS MOTIFS IN THE STORIES OF O. HENRY
Creators: name: Bekeeva, A.
Publisher: name: Sciences of Europe
Year: 2021
Subjects: American literature
short story
poetics
plot
love
devotion
humor
irony
humanity
good nature.

description: The article analyzes the features of the novelistic manner of the American writer O. Henry (William Sidney Porter), defines the novel as a variety or synonym of the story. It is noted that the novel is a narrative prose genre, which is characterized by brevity, a sharp plot, a neutral style of presentation, lack of psychologism and an unexpected denouement. The purpose of this study is to analyze the features of the novelistic manner of the American writer O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) and to define a novel as a variety or synonym of a short story. For this study, the novels of O. Henry are mainly «Little Speck in Garnered Fruit» and «The Romance of a Busy Broker» are analyzed. The work uses a set of research methods, including theoretical analysis of scientific sources, contextual and interpretative analysis, linguistic and stylistic analysis. As a genre of a short story, the novel became widespread in the literature of Americans in the middle of the XIX-early XX century. Representatives of the «shot story» were Washington Irving, Edgar Poe, Mark Twain. O. Henry, without violating the traditions of his predecessors, continues to write short stories, giving them an individual style based on irony, comic grotesque and satire. O. Henry's short stories are often characterized by a comic, tragic or sentimental plot. In this article, we will consider the humorous motives in the stories of O. Henry, the system of images, as well as stylistic techniques and expressive means that contribute to the creation of a humorous effect. In the works considered, his irony is a mood and love for people, good-nature and deep respect for human values. His favorite characters are people who have preserved humanity, conscientiousness and ease. The short stories of O. Henry are also distinguished by genre diversity, among them: a satire novel, a parody novel, a grotesque novel, etc.
Multiple Scale Reorganization of Electrostatic Complexes of PolyStyrene Sulfonate and Lysozyme
Creators: name: Cousin, Fabrice
name: Gummel, Jérémie
name: Clemens, Daniel
name: Grillo, Isabelle
name: Boué, François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a SANS investigation into the potential for these structural reorganization of complexes composed of lysozyme and small PSS chains of opposite charge if the physicochemical conditions of the solutions are changed after their formation. Mixtures of solutions of lysozyme and PSS with high matter content and with an introduced charge ratio [-]/[+]intro close to the electrostatic stoichiometry, lead to suspensions that are macroscopically stable. They are composed at local scale of dense globular primary complexes of radius ~ 100 Å; at a higher scale they are organized fractally with a dimension 2.1. We first show that the dilution of the solution of complexes, all other physicochemical parameters remaining constant, induces a macroscopic destabilization of the solutions but does not modify the structure of the complexes at submicronic scales. This suggests that the colloidal stability of the complexes can be explained by the interlocking of the fractal aggregates in a network at high concentration: dilution does not break the local aggregate structure but it does destroy the network. We show, secondly, that the addition of salt does not change the almost frozen inner structure of the cores of the primary complexes, although it does encourage growth of the complexes; these coalesce into larger complexes as salt has partially screened the electrostatic repulsions between two primary complexes. These larger primary complexes remain aggregated with a fractal dimension of 2.1. Thirdly, we show that the addition of PSS chains up to [-]/[+]intro ~ 20, after the formation of the primary complex with a [-]/[+]intro close to 1, only slightly changes the inner structure of the primary complexes. Moreover, in contrast to the synthesis achieved in the one-step mixing procedure where the proteins are unfolded for a range of [-]/[+]intro, the native conformation of the proteins is preserved inside the frozen core.
TRANSLATION OF ZHAMBYL ZHABAYEV'S POETRY INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND ITS RECEPTION ABROAD
Creators: name: Mashakova, A.
Publisher: name: Sciences of Europe
Year: 2021
Subjects: the Kazakh literature
translation
foreign languages.

description: The article deals with translation of Zh. Zhabayev’s poems into foreign languages. In Soviet times, his works have been translated into German, English, Spanish, Albanian, Slovak, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Chinese, Korean, Mongolian languages, and in the period of independence of Kazakhstan – into the Turkish language. Special attention was paid to the book «Jambil’in eserlerinden seçmeler», published in Ankara in 1996.
Von intermittierender zu kontinuierlicher Wasserverteilung in Entwicklungsländern
Creators: name: Klingel, Philipp
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2010
Subjects: Wasserverteilung
Wasserversorgung
intermittierend
Entwicklungsländer

description: In Entwicklungsländern ist der intermittierende Betrieb von Wasserverteilungssystemen gängige Praxis. Mit dieser unsachgemäßen Betriebsweise sind negative Auswirkungen verbunden, die letztlich eine Erfüllung der grundlegenden Aufgaben einer Wasserverteilung verhindern. Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist ein übertragbares Konzept zur Überführung intermittierend betriebener Wasserverteilungssysteme hin zu einer kontinuierlichen Betriebsweise sowie Werkzeuge zur Planung und Umsetzung des Konzepts.
S5W3
Creators: name: Meinhart, Ryan
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoamerica
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/61/mesoamerica
subject: Basin of Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3/basin-of-mexico
subject: Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/134/mexico
subject: Mexico (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/326/mexico-state-territory
subject: United Mexican States (Country)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/438/united-mexican-states-country
subject: Central Mexico, Teotihuacan Valley
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/7/central-mexico-teotihuacan-valley
subject: Central Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/135/central-mexico
subject: Teotihuacan Valley
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/154/teotihuacan-valley
subject: Teotihuacan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/202/teotihuacan
subject: Valley of Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/44/valley-of-mexico
subject: Classic Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/125/classic-period
subject: Terminal Formative
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/67/terminal-formative
subject: Teotihuacan Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/7765/teotihuacan-period
subject: Early Classic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5560/early-classic
subject: Teotihuacan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/7527/teotihuacan
subject: Teotihuacano
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/9224/teotihuacano
subject: Teotihuacan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/92/teotihuacan
subject: Town / City
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/255/town-city
subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
subject: Settlements
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/252/settlements
subject: Systematic Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/12/systematic-survey

description: Site Survey Form Scan for Square S5W3
Non-Collinear Ferromagnetic Luttinger Liquids
Creators: name: Sedlmayr, Nicholas
name: Eggert, Sebastian
name: Sirker, Jesko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The presence of electron-electron interactions in one dimension profoundly changes the properties of a system. The separation of charge and spin degrees of freedom is just one example. We consider what happens when a system consisting of a ferromagnetic region of non-collinearity, i.e. a domain wall, is coupled to interacting electrons in one-dimension (more specifically a Luttinger liquid). The ferromagnetism breaks spin charge separation and the presence of the domain wall introduces a spin dependent scatterer into the problem. The absence of spin charge separation and the effects of the electron correlations results in very different behaviour for the excitations in the system and for spin-transfer-torque effects in this model.
description: 6 pages, submitted to Journal of Physics: Conference Series for JEMS 2010
Interaction between phantom field and modified Chaplygin gas
Creators: name: Chattopadhyay, Surajit
name: Debnath, Ujjal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter, we have considered a flat FRW universe. Instead of considering only one candidate for dark energy, we have considered interaction between phantom field and modified Chaplygin gas. It has been shown that the potential of the phantom field increases from a lower value with evolution of the Universe. It has been observed that, the field has an increasing tendency and potential has also an increasing tendency with passage of cosmic time. In the evolution of the universe the crossing of $w=-1$ has been realized by this interacting model.
description: 6 pages
IL CANTO MATERNO IN GRAVIDANZA E DOPO IL PARTO: EFFETTI SULL'ATTACCAMENTO MATERNO-NEONATALE E SUL COMPORTAMENTO DEI NEONATI A TERMINE E PRE-TERMINE
Creators: name: PERSICO, GIUSEPPINA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: Parto prematuro e canto materno: effetti sull?attaccamento post-natale, sul benessere neonatale e sull?allattamento. Studio randomizzato controllato. TIN-Lullabies 2013

Abstract
Background: Mother- infant bonding has a well-established importance for the development, cognitive and behavioral well-being of the baby. Consider a premature birth: mother and infant are in a situation of greater vulnerability. That's why it is even more necessary that midwives must provide for the protection of their health. In this context, the use of maternal singing to the baby could be a tool to suggest mothers to be able to get into the complexity of the situation through a simple but significant and direct channel. Therefore, singing could be a connection that helps the mother and the baby to keep together in a situation in which contact is limited. Mother?s singing could increase the development of the attachment bond, that is crucial for the future health of the child.
Objectives: To assess the effect of lullaby maternal singing on postnatal attachment after a premature birth; to evaluate the effect of lullaby maternal singing on wellbeing and behavior of the newborn and on type of feeding up to 3.5 months after randomization.
Methods:: It is a single-center randomized controlled trial. Mother and infant whose birth took place between 32 and 34 gestational weeks will be enrolled at Maternal and Neonatal Department at San Gerardo Hospital in Monza. A total of at least 128 new mothers must be included in the study. The recruitment will be done within 48 hours of birth. The data collection will begin after the recruitment and it will end at 3.5 months from randomization. The demographic, social, obstetric data of mother and newborn will be detected and recorded in an appropriate form. The Postnatal Attachment (mother-infant) will be evaluated through Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale. Data about infant?s vital signs will be taken from the computerized clinical documentation. The data about breastfeeding will be taken during the intermediate evaluations during the hospitalization of babies in NICU and will continue after returning home.
Results: The research aims to analyze the effect of maternal singing of lullaby on post-natal attachment, well-being and behavior of the newborn, as well as the type of breastfeeding from birth to 3.5 months after enrollment in a sample of mothers and premature infants whose birth took place between 32 and 34 gestational weeks.
Conclusions: Maternal singing of lullaby could be another instrument that midwives can use during the assistance with mothers who live the experience of a premature birth. It could be a stimulus to increase mother-infant attachment and improve neonatal growth.
Cloning of a quantum measurement
Creators: name: Bisio, Alessandro
name: D'Ariano, Giacomo Mauro
name: Perinotti, Paolo
name: Sedlak, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze quantum algorithms for cloning of a quantum measurement. Our aim is to mimic two uses of a device performing an unknown von Neumann measurement with a single use of the device. When the unknown device has to be used before the bipartite state to be measured is available we talk about 1 -> 2 learning of the measurement, otherwise the task is called 1 -> 2 cloning of a measurement. We perform the optimization for both learning and cloning for arbitrary dimension of the Hilbert space. For 1 -> 2 cloning we also propose a simple quantum network that realizes the optimal strategy.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 2 of An NF-κB/OVOL2 circuit regulates glucose import and cell survival in non-small cell lung cancer
Creators: name: Zhang, Rui
name: Geng, Guo-Jun
name: Guo, Jian-Guang
name: Mi, Yan-Jun
name: Zhu, Xiao-Lei
name: Li, Ning
name: Liu, Hong-Ming
name: Lin, Jun-Feng
name: Wang, Jian-Weng
name: Zhao, Guang
name: Ye, Guan-Zhi
name: Li, Bo-An
name: Luo, Qi-Cong
name: Jiang, Jie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Figure S1. The protein expression of all critical enzymes involved in glucose metabolism in A549 and SK-MES-1 cells overexpressing OVOL2. Figure S2. P65 promotes the membrane translocation of endogenous GLUT1. Figure S3. Nuclear P65 protein level is not regulated by OVOL2.
Fundamentals of Inter-cell Overhead Signaling in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
Creators: name: Xia, Ping
name: Jo, Han-Shin
name: Andrews, Jeffrey G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Heterogeneous base stations (e.g. picocells, microcells, femtocells and distributed antennas) will become increasingly essential for cellular network capacity and coverage. Up until now, little basic research has been done on the fundamentals of managing so much infrastructure -- much of it unplanned -- together with the carefully planned macro-cellular network. Inter-cell coordination is in principle an effective way of ensuring different infrastructure components behave in a way that increases, rather than decreases, the key quality of service (QoS) metrics. The success of such coordination depends heavily on how the overhead is shared, and the rate and delay of the overhead sharing. We develop a novel framework to quantify overhead signaling for inter-cell coordination, which is usually ignored in traditional 1-tier networks, and assumes even more importance in multi-tier heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs). We derive the overhead quality contour for general K-tier HCNs -- the achievable set of overhead packet rate, size, delay and outage probability -- in closed-form expressions or computable integrals under general assumptions on overhead arrivals and different overhead signaling methods (backhaul and/or wireless). The overhead quality contour is further simplified for two widely used models of overhead arrivals: Poisson and deterministic arrival process. This framework can be used in the design and evaluation of any inter-cell coordination scheme. It also provides design insights on backhaul and wireless overhead channels to handle specific overhead signaling requirements.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures
STUDIES ON NATURAL AND EDIBLE BIOPOLYMERS. ISOLATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND CHEMICAL MODIFICATIONS OF POLY(Γ-GLUTAMIC ACID) (Γ-PGA) FROM BACILLUS SUBTILIS
Creators: name: BORGHESE, GIOVANNI
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: Poly(?-glutamic acid) (?-PGA) is a unusual anionic, water-soluble homopolyamide composed of D- and/or L-glutamic acid monomers, connected by amide bonds between ?-amino and ?-carboxyl groups, mainly produced by Gram-positive bacteria of the genus Bacillus.
?-PGA is hygroscopic and water-soluble; in the salt form is able to form gels containing water in more than 3,000 times its weight. It is fairly resistant to hydrolysis, although it is degraded in basic medium at high temperature; it appears to be insensitive to common proteases such as pepsin or tripsin. ?-PGA is completely innocuous and edible. The popular food known as natto in Japan or dan-douchi in China, a soybean fermented compound that contains about 1% of ?-PGA, has formed part of the diet of Asian people for hundreds of years.
Due to its biodegradability and to the intrinsic absence of toxicity as well as to the classification as GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe) of the main producers, i.e. Bacilli, ?-PGA represents one of the naturally occurring polymers of interest for the production of environmentally friendly derivatives.
Although having been known and even used for industrial applications for a long time, and considerable efforts having been spent in investigating its chemical and biological properties, much lies ahead to be elucidated about this polymer biosynthesis and conformational aspects. In addition, its potential applications appear to be still almost unexploited in the Western world.
This Ph.D. thesis deals with the bioproduction, characterization and derivatization of ?-PGA from Bacillus subtilis in order to obtain novel biomaterials useful for biopackaging, biomolecule immobilization, and as drug carriers. In particular, the problems we have addressed were: the optimization of productivity, by means of genetic engineering technologies; the characterization of the polymer, with regard to its stereochemical composition and molecular weight, which deeply affect its chemical-physical properties and reactivity; the development of effective methodologies for chemical modification of the polymer, in view of preparing derivatives of pharmaceutical and technological interest. Finally, we also established a synthetic approach for the preparation of standard samples with controlled stereochemistry necessary for conformational studies.
STUDIO DEL SONNO IN PAZIENTI CON LESIONE MIDOLLARE ACUTA: VALUTAZIONE DEL CONTROLLO AUTONOMICO CARDIOVASCOLARE
Creators: name: ROSA, SILVIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: Introduction. In patients with Spinal cord injuries (SCI), an altered autonomic cardiovascular control (ACC) has been described. Sleep is characterized by changes in ACC, namely a predominant sympathetic modulation during REM and an enhanced parasympathetic control during NREM sleep (N2 and N3). However, data on ACC during sleep in SCI patients are still lacking.
Therefore, aim of the present study was to assess ACC during sleep in SCI patients.
Methods. 21 SCI patients (cervical, C, n=8 and thoracic, T, n= 13) underwent a polysomnography within 1 year from the acute injury. ECG and respiratory traces were extracted and ACC was assessed using power spectral (PS) and symbolic analysis (SA). Consecutive segments of 250�50 beats were selected accordingly to the sleep stages (N2, N3, REM). Briefly, PS identifies the low frequency (LF) and the high frequency oscillation (HF). LF is marker of sympathetic modulation, while HF is marker of vagal modulation and synchronous with respiration. SA identifies three main indices, 0V%, index of sympathetic modulation, 2LV% and 2UV%, markers of vagal modulation. Statistical analyses were performed using a two-way ANOVA analysis.
Results. PS results revealed a higher LF and a lower HF in T compared to C, regardless of sleep stage (42 vs 32 and 52 vs 64, p< 0.01); as to the differences through sleep stages, 0V% was significantly lower in N2 and N3 compared to REM in T (26 and 22 vs 39%, p=0.004) and in N3 compared to REM in C (18 vs 39%, p=0.003), while 2LV% decreased in REM compared to N2 and N3 in both groups.
Conclusion. Our data showed that cervical SCI, but not thoracic SCI, are characterized by a decreased cardiac sympathetic modulation. Interestingly, the dynamic autonomic changes during N2, N3 and REM are maintained through sleep stages and similar in the two groups.
Interference in the perception of correlation in two population scatterplots
Creators: name: Elliott, Madison Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Rensink & Baldridge (2010) first operationalized a methodology to study perceptual performance for single population scatterplots. Rensink (2014) emphasized that this methodology could be extended to understand the perception of more complex displays. In this paper, the original methodology is extended to examine the perception of two-population scatterplots, containing target and distractor populations. In three experiments, we investigated the nature of performance for a discrimination task used to measure viewer precision (defined by parameter k in our analysis) and accuracy (defined by parameter b in our analysis). The results show that perception for two-population scatterplots is non-trivially different from the perception of single population scatterplots. Namely, there is a significant degree of interference for selecting and discriminating the target populations in each display. This interference occurs due when the target and distractor populations are featurally distinct from one another, violating assumptions from Feature Integration Theory and Guided Search. Discrimination performance also degrades as a function of the density of the distracting population. Findings from this work not only help solidify a methodology to study the mechanisms underlying ensemble selection and inhibition in the presence of multiple populations, but also guide design choices for the creation of more complex scatterplot displays.
SORVEGLIANZA EPIDEMIOLOGICA E MOLECOLARE DELLA LISTERIOSI IN REGIONE LOMBARDIA, 2005 � 2012
Creators: name: GUAITA, ANNA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: Listeriosis is a rare but severe disease emerging especially in fragile subjects, likely due to association with deprivation. Non pregnancy-related infections, food-acquired, mainly affect immunocompromised and older subjects. Considering the aging of national and regional population and the increase of immunosupressant therapy and pathologies is crucial to increase the knowledge about Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) infection.

The objectives of this study are: 1) describe listeriosis in Lombardy Region; 2) analyze L. monocytogenes strains with serotyping, Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE), and MultiLocus Sequence Typing (MLST); 3) cross-match the information with capture-recapture method and statistical analysis.

We analyzed the collected data over eight years (2005-12) from special laboratory surveillance network (LSN), comparing with Lombardy database of infectious disease (MAINF) data, reported over the same period and we underlined the critical points. In 2005-2012, 192 strains of L.monocytogenes were collected from laboratory network while 366 invasive listeriosis cases were notified to MAINF surveillance system. In the 2011 we observed an increase of cases either in the MAINF (i.e 73 cases) or in the LSN (i.e. 44 L. monocytogenes strains) database. The pregnancy-related cases were 24 (only one from a mother-child pair), while the non-pregnancy related ones were 168. The 36% of these 168 were over 65 years old and 83% had underlying risk factors (HIV, diabetes, neoplastic disease,?).

Analyzing the L. monocytogenes strains we found that the most common serotypes were 1/2a (59.5%), 1/2b (9.1%), and 4b (28.1%). By using PFGE we realized that collected by LSN strains were characterized by 15 pulsotypes based on the PFGE profiles; 10 clusters were identified and the largest cluster included 39 isolated strains, identified along the whole considered period. The MLST technique gave twelve sequence types (ST). In the most numerous sequence type we recognised 39 L. monocytogenes strains; the ST number 21 was found in human cases but also in rodents.

We compared two surveillance systems with the estimated amount of cases noting that the observed cases were underestimated. This tells us that our surveillance systems miss information.
The statistical analysis underlined that the temporal distribution of cases was not random, but instead the cases concentrated in 2010 and 2011.

The results of our surveillance work are satisfactory and we think that it is useful to compare and analyze the microbiological and epidemiological data coming from two sources to increase the statistics. The laboratory-based surveillance network of listeriosis can improve in sensitivity to better and more quickly detect cases, contribute to identify epidemic clones, and investigate the infection source.
L'INCORONAZIONE IMPERIALE NEL MONDO BIZANTINO. TESTIMONIANZE STORICHE, ARTISTICHE E NUMISMATICHE
Creators: name: TORNO GINNASI, ANDREA GABRIELE CARLO MARIO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: The research deals with the study of the iconographical theme of the divine coronation of the Byzantine Emperor, with particular attention to the luxury art and numismatics of the middle period. The subject represents the translation, in figurative terms, of the political ideas about the celestial origins of kingship. This concept, widespread in the Byzantine sources, reveals an ancient and far tradition: the first chapter is dedicated, in fact, to the Persian and Hellenistic cultural and artistic experiences which influenced the further thought of Constantinople. The second one concerns the early developments in the Byzantine ideology with attention to the period from the foundation of the Capital in 324 to the beginning of the 9th century, and the iconographic premises for the creation of the subject. The third and the fourth chapters deal with the codification of the image during the middle Byzantine period; the last section is dedicated to the review of the main research results with a brief summary of the developments during the last Byzantine age and a further remote fascination which still survives in the oriental tradition.
The main aim of the research is the complete sampling of the known art works which present the figurative motif and the examination of all the possible variants, with particular attention to the historical context and implications between image and patronage. Another important aspect is the survey of the Byzantine coronation ceremony and the study of the possible relations with the art production.
An alternative to mode fitting
Creators: name: Mosser, Benoit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The space mission CoRoT provides us with a large amount of high-duty cycle long-duration observations. Mode fitting has proven to be efficient for the complete and detailed analysis of the oscillation pattern, but remains time consuming. Furthermore, the photometric background due to granulation severely complicates the analysis. Therefore, we attempt to provide an alternative to mode fitting, for the determination of large separations. With the envelope autocorrelation function and a dedicated filter, it is possible to measure the variation of the large separation independently for the ridges with even and odd degrees. The method appears to be as accurate as the mode fitting. It can be very easily implemented and is very rapid.
description: Proceedings of the 4th HELAS International Conference held in Lanzarote, 2010
An effective microwave system to achieve solid disintegration and nutrient release of sewage sludge
Creators: name: Ning, Ruihuan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: In order to achieve solid disintegration and nutrient recovery from sewage sludge, research on the microwave/hydrogen peroxide advanced oxidation process (MW/H₂O₂-AOP) has been underway within the research group led by Dr. Victor Lo since 2004. In an effort to promote the commercialization of the technology, a series of sludge experiments, salt water experiments, simplification of the system and a comparison study of different total phosphorus determination methods were conducted to further understand, simplify, and standardize the treatment process. The sludge experiments were carried out to test the impact of temperature and hydrogen peroxide dosage on the treatment efficiency of the custom-designed 915MHz continuous-flow pilot scale system. The microwave system, designed to withstand high temperature and pressure, delivered energy effectively into the reaction vessel. High temperature and/or high H₂O₂ dosage implemented in this system yielded high treatment efficiency in terms of solid disintegration, nutrient release, and altering of physical properties. The inter-relationship between chemical changes and physical transformation was also documented. The clear solution after the treatment was ideal for struvite crystallization and anaerobic digestion processes. The results would provide the basic knowledge for designing an industrial-scale MW/H₂O₂-AOP system. A comparison study among different phosphorus determination methods suggested alternatives to currently used phosphorus determination methods. It was discovered that microwave digestion at both 95 and 120 ⁰C resulted in comparable measurements as the wet digestion followed by ICP, indicating the possibility of shortening digestion time from 2 hours to 10 min using microwave digestion. Simplification to the feed line of the microwave system offered operational advantage because it separated the feed line from the recirculation line, reducing confusions and complications in operation. It also minimized the chance of a two-stage cavity pump running dry. The salt water experiments were designed to characterize the system after it was modified to withstand higher temperature above 110 ⁰C. It was discovered that changing flow influenced temperature rise per pass. Ion concentration of the substrate influenced heating rate by influencing reflected power from the substrate.
INTEGRATED RESPONSES OF A WILD SPECIES PARIETARIA JUDAICA (L. 1753) TO DIRECT AND INDUCED IRON DEFICIENCY GROWTH CONDITIONS
Creators: name: TATO, LILIANA MARIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: Iron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient in plants as it takes part in major metabolic pathways such as photosynthesis and respiration and is linked to many enzymes that accomplish many other cellular functions (DNA synthesis, nitrogen fixation, hormone production). Fe deficiency, a major abiotic stress, reduces crop yields, especially in calcareous soils in which the solubility of Fe is extremely low because of the high soil pH.
Parietaria judaica is a wild sinantropic Strategy I plant that implements many integrated mechanisms allowing to successfully complete the life cycle in highly calcareous environments.
In this work the main mechanisms by which P. judaica overcomes the low bioavailability of Fe have been identified. P. judaica was subject to direct and induced Fe deficiency growth conditions in hydroponic systems. Strategy I biochemical mechanisms of FeII-reduction and rhizosphere acidification were studied, as well as low organic acids and phenolics in root exudates. It was suggested that the accumulation and exudation of phenolic compounds plays a central role in the adaptive strategy of P. judaica to cope with Fe deficiency conditions.
Key enzymes of primary and secondary metabolism were assayed in order to identify the metabolic rearrangement that occurs under Fe deficiency conditions. The data analysed confirm that under Fe deficiency the metabolic rearrangement takes place by modifying allocation of carbon skeletons between primary and secondary metabolism. It was observed that secondary metabolism constitutes the main concern under this stress condition as P. judaica sustains the supply of substrates using non oxidative ways.
Phenolic composition was characterized by HPLC analyses in P. judaica focusing on phenolic composition changes due to low Fe availability. Phenolic compounds found in P. judaica belong mainly to the mono- and di- caffeoylchinic acids group. The chlorogenic acid was resulted the most sensible component under Fe deficiency stress.
Morphological and architectural modifications of root system were also analysed. P. judaica changes its root system according to the experimental treatment imposed. The differences found in direct and induced Fe-Deficiency conditions were oriented to increase the root contact surface with the medium. In particular, the root architecture reflected the plant nutritional status.
Comparing the data obtained from high bicarbonate and highly alkaline buffer conditions it was observed that P. judaica has no problems to acquire Fe in highly alkaline environments, suggesting that in a highly chalky environment the availability of bicarbonate itself constitutes the real factor of stress.
N6W5
Creators: name: Meinhart, Ryan
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoamerica
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/61/mesoamerica
subject: Basin of Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3/basin-of-mexico
subject: Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/134/mexico
subject: Mexico (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/326/mexico-state-territory
subject: United Mexican States (Country)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/438/united-mexican-states-country
subject: Central Mexico, Teotihuacan Valley
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/7/central-mexico-teotihuacan-valley
subject: Central Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/135/central-mexico
subject: Teotihuacan Valley
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/154/teotihuacan-valley
subject: Teotihuacan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/202/teotihuacan
subject: Valley of Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/44/valley-of-mexico
subject: Classic Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/125/classic-period
subject: Terminal Formative
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/67/terminal-formative
subject: Teotihuacan Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/7765/teotihuacan-period
subject: Early Classic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5560/early-classic
subject: Teotihuacan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/7527/teotihuacan
subject: Teotihuacano
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/9224/teotihuacano
subject: Teotihuacan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/92/teotihuacan
subject: Town / City
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/255/town-city
subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
subject: Settlements
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/252/settlements
subject: Systematic Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/12/systematic-survey

description: Site Survey Form Scan for Square N6W5
title: Χώρος και Παιδί
title: Space and Child
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Λάππα, Αγγελική
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2021
Subjects: Σχολείο
Σχολικός xώρος
Αρχιτεκτονική για παιδιά

description: Σκοπός και στόχος της παρούσας εργασίας είναι να εξετάσει την έννοια του σχολικού χώρου και πώς αυτός εξελίσσεται με την πάροδο των ετών. Αφού πρώτα γίνει αναφορά στον τρόπο που το παιδί μαθαίνει θίγοντας όλα τα γνωστά μοντέλα μάθησης, γίνεται προσπάθεια να αναφερθούμε σε έννοιες όπως ο χώρος, ο χρόνος, το φως σε συνάρτηση με τη διαδικασία της μάθησης. Ειδικά αναφορά γίνεται στον σχολικό χώρο και στην εξέλιξή του στα ελληνικά δεδομένα. Από τα πρώτα επαναστατικά χρόνια μέχρι και σήμερα, είναι αλήθεια πως τα πράγματα έχουν αλλάξει δραματικά. Πλέον ο σχολικός χώρος δεν είναι αποτέλεσμα απλά μιας ομάδας αρχιτεκτόνων αλλά απαιτείται μια πολυπαραγοντική προσέγγιση που απαιτεί την ύπαρξη πολλών ειδικοτήτων που έχουν στο επίκεντρο ενδιαφέροντος τους το παιδί.
Quantum backreaction in evolving FLRW spacetimes
Creators: name: Koivisto, Tomi
name: Prokopec, Tomislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum fluctuations of a nonminimally coupled scalar field in D-dimensional homogeneous and isotropic background are calculated within the operator formalism in curved models with time evolutions of the scale factor that allow smooth transitions between contracting and expanding and between decelerating and accelerating regimes. The coincident propagator is derived and used to compute the one-loop backreaction from the scalar field. The inflationary infrared divergences are absent in Bunch-Davies vacuum when taking into account a preceding cosmological era or spatial curvature which can be either positive or negative. It is found that asymptotically, the backreaction energy density in the minimally coupled case grows logarithmically with the scale factor in quasi-de Sitter space, and in a class of models decays in slow-roll inflation and grows as a power-law during super-inflation. The backreaction increases generically in a contracting phase or in the presence of a negative nonminimal coupling. The effects of the coupling and renormalization scale upon the quantum fluctuations together with the novel features due to nontrivial time evolution and spatial curvature are clarified with exact solutions and numerical examples.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures
ANALISI DEL METABOLISMO GLUCIDICO IN PAZIENTI CIRROTICI SOTTOPOSTI A TRAPIANTO EPATICO: RUOLO DELLA SECREZIONE BETA CELLULARE E DELL'INSULINORESISTENZA.
Creators: name: MASSERINI, BENEDETTA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: Impaired glucose metabolism is frequently described in cirrhotic patients. The pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus (DM) in this population is complex and not precisely known. Insulin resistance (IR) plays a central role in the glucose metabolism disturbance and it has been speculated that genetic and environmental factors and some etiologic agents in liver disease impair insulin secretion.
Aim of the study: evaluate ? cell secretion and insulin sensitivity in a cohort of cirrhotic patients undergoing liver transplantation (LT).
107 cirrhotic patients (31 female e 76 male) were evaluated before LT. The patients who underwent LT were evaluated 3, 6, 12 months after surgery. To evaluate insulin resistance HOMA-IR was used. To assess the ? cell secretion, a state-of-art modelling of glucose/C-peptide curves during OGTT was used. Two outputs were provided: dynamic evaluation (1st phase) and proportional evaluation (2nd phase).
Before LT the prevalence of DM and prediabetes (pre DM) were 50.5% and 31.8 % respectively. DM patients showed a lower insulin secretion (both 1st and 2nd phase) and tended to have higher HOMA-IR when compared to pre DM and non DM subjects.
After LT glucose metabolism improved (impaired glucose metabolism: 6 months 61.1%, 12 months 65.6%). HOMA-IR was decreased (pre LT: 5.48�5.14, 3 months post LT: 2.17�1.62, 6 months post LT: 2.28�1.44, 12 months post LT: 2.36�1.73 P=0.0017). No differences in ? cell secretion was found.
When the population who underwent LT was divided in 2 groups according to the improvement or not of glucose metabolism, higher insulin secretion was found in improved subjects (2nd phase). No differences in HOMA-IR, age, duration of hepatic disease, family history of type 2 DM, immunosuppressive therapy were observed.
In conclusion IR and reduced insulin secretion was observed in cirrhotic diabetic patients. After LT an improved glucose metabolism was observed. Insulin sensitivity was increased in all patients and higher ? cell secretion was observed only in subjects with improved glucose metabolism.
Barrier efficiency of sponge-like La2Zr2O7 buffer layers for YBCO-coated conductors
Creators: name: Molina, Leopoldo
name: Tan, Haiyan
name: Biermans, Ellen
name: Batenburg, Kees J.
name: Verbeeck, Jo
name: Bals, Sara
name: Van Tendeloo, Gustaaf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solution derived La2Zr2O7 films have drawn much attention for potential applications as thermal barriers or low-cost buffer layers for coated conductor technology. Annealing and coating parameters strongly affect the microstructure of La2Zr2O7, but different film processing methods can yield similar microstructural features such as nanovoids and nanometer-sized La2Zr2O7 grains. Nanoporosity is a typical feature found in such films and the implications for the functionality of the films is investigated by a combination of scanning transmission electron microscopy, electron energy-loss spectroscopy and quantitative electron tomography. Chemical solution based La2Zr2O7 films deposited on flexible Ni-5at.%W substrates with a {100}<001> biaxial texture were prepared for an in-depth characterization. A sponge-like structure composed of nanometer sized voids is revealed by high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy in combination with electron tomography. A three-dimensional quantification of nanovoids in the La2Zr2O7 film is obtained on a local scale. Mostly non-interconnected highly facetted nanovoids compromise more than one-fifth of the investigated sample volume. The diffusion barrier efficiency of a 170 nm thick La2Zr2O7 film is investigated by STEM-EELS yielding a 1.8 \pm 0.2 nm oxide layer beyond which no significant nickel diffusion can be detected and intermixing is observed. This is of particular significance for the functionality of YBa2Cu3O7-δ coated conductor architectures based on solution derived La2Zr2O7 films as diffusion barriers.
description: Accepted for publication in Superconductor Science and Technology
Nativeness, social distance and structural convergence in dialogue
Creators: name: Kim, Christina S.
name: Chamorro, Gloria
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This study extends the logic of prior studies showing phonetic convergence between interlocutors to the structural domain. We ask whether listeners’ adaptation of the syntactic forms they produce depends on their perceptions about their interlocutor's social proximity and linguistic competence, using structural priming as a measure of convergence. Two experiments compared structural priming in dialogues between native British English speakers and (i) other native British English speakers, (ii) native speakers of North American English, and (iii) non-native speakers of English, to assess to what extent interlocutor characteristics influence structural convergence in dialogue. Our findings suggest that rates of structural convergence depend both on a speaker's pre-existing structural biases for particular verbs, and their perception of (linguistic or social) similarity to their interlocutor. This suggests that low-level mechanisms underlying structural convergence may be mediated by beliefs about how interlocutors are socially situated with respect to each other.
Orbital selective and tunable Kondo effect of magnetic adatoms on graphene: Correlated electronic structure calculations
Creators: name: Jacob, D.
name: Kotliar, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the effect of dynamical correlations on the electronic structure of single Co adatoms on graphene monolayers with a recently developed novel method for nanoscopic materials that combines density functional calculations with a fully dynamical treatment of the strongly interacting 3d-electrons. The coupling of the Co 3d-shell to the graphene substrate and hence the dynamic correlations are strongly dependent on the orbital symmetry and the system parameters (temperature, distance of the adatom from the graphene sheet, gate voltage). When the Kondo effect takes place, we find that the dynamical correlations give rise to strongly temperature-dependent peaks in the Co 3d-spectra near the Fermi level. Moreover, we find that the Kondo effect can be tuned by the application of a gate voltage. It turns out that the position of the Kondo peaks is pinned to the Dirac points of graphene rather than to the chemical potential.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures