cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Disegno di Legge Cirinnà e contratti internazionali di maternità surrogata: l’ammissione della step child adoption avrebbe rischiato di generalizzare una pratica vietata in Italia?
Creators: name: Trilha Schappo, Kellen
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2016
Subjects: Step child adoption; surrogacy; fundamental rights; regulation; recognition

description: The Italian debate around the extension of the “step child adoption” provision for same-sex couples has been settled by the Senate, which approved a reduced version of the Cirinnà bill that has been confirmed by the Chamber of Deputies. The “step child adoption” provision was among the most disputed aspects of the bill, and has not been kept in the final version approved by the Senate. One of the arguments raised against this provision established a link between the possibility for a man to adopt his partner’s child and a hypothetical encouragement of international surrogacy. According to this view, a surrogate established in a country where the practice is admitted would carry the natural child of one of the men, and would abandon the newborn in order for this latter to be adopted by the other partner. The purpose of this short paper is to inquire, departing from the legal framework for surrogacy in Italy and abroad, whether the admission of the “step child adoption” provision within the Cirinnà bill would actually have an impact on the practice of international surrogacy. The perspective has been a qualitative one: the effects of the provision have been contemplated from the point of view of the surrogate and the child, main parties concerned by the practice, and those who shall be specifically contemplated by any effort of regulation in this matter.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 3 (2016)
Novel Constraints on Mixed Dark-Matter Scenarios of Primordial Black Holes and WIMPs
Creators: name: Boucenna, Sofiane M.
name: Kuhnel, Florian
name: Ohlsson, Tommy
name: Visinelli, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive constraints on mixed dark-matter scenarios consisting of primordial black holes (PBHs) and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). In these scenarios, we expect a density spike of the WIMPs that are gravitationally bound to the PBHs, which results in an enhanced annihilation rate and increased indirect detection prospects. We show that such scenarios provide strong constraints on the allowed fraction of PBHs that constitutes the dark matter, depending on the WIMP mass $m_χ$ and the velocity-averaged annihilation cross-section $\langle σv \rangle$. For the standard scenario with $m_χ = 100\,{\rm GeV}$ and $\langle σv \rangle = 3 \times 10^{-26}\,{\rm cm}^{3} / {\rm s}$, we derive bounds that are stronger than all existing bounds for PBHs with masses $10^{-12}\,M_{\odot} \lesssim M_{\rm BH} \lesssim 10^{4}\,M_{\odot}$, where $M_{\odot}$ is the solar mass, and mostly so by several orders of magnitude.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor changes to match published version
L’integrazione dei test genetici di nuova generazione nella pratica clinica. Le implicazioni della sentenza Myriad
Creators: name: Zanandreis, Giulia
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2016
Subjects: BioLaw; genetic testing; next generation sequencing; BRCA1/2, genetic information

description: The purpose of this contribution is to examine the main issues concerning the clinical integration of genetic tests that use new sequencing techniques, known as Next-Generation Sequencing. The analysis focuses on the potential, the limits and the future challenges resulting from the wide availability of the new tests, given the recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 3 (2016)
Consenso informato e DAT. Riprende il cammino parlamentare
Creators: name: Lenzi, Donata
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2016
Subjects: end of life issue; draft law; parliamentary debate; living wills; informed consent

description: The paper presents the present stage of the parliamentary debate on the law on informed consent and living wills in the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 3 (2016)
Buried remnants of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and connections to its surface elevation
Creators: name: Lacelle, Denis
name: Fisher, David A.
name: Coulombe, Stéphanie
name: Fortier, Daniel
name: Frappier, Roxanne
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: The Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) occupied a large part of North-America during the late Pleistocene. Determining the proper surface geometry and elevation of the LIS is of central importance to estimate global changes in sea-level and atmospheric circulation patterns during the late Pleistocene and Holocene. Despite largely disappearing from the landscape during the late Holocene, LIS remnants are found in the Penny and Barnes ice caps on Baffin Island (Canada) and ongoing permafrost degradation has been exposing relics of the LIS buried along its northern margin since the late Pleistocene. Here, we use the δ18O records of six LIS remnants and the late Pleistocene δ18O-elevation relation to establish ice elevation in their source area during the last glacial maximum (LGM). Contrary to some modeled reconstructions, our findings indicate an asymmetric LIS topography with higher ice on Keewatin Dome (~3200 m) and thinner ice in the prairies along the Plains divide (1700-2100 m) during LGM. The resiliency of icy permafrost to past warm intervals preserved relics of the LIS; these ice-marginal landscapes, now poised for thaw, should uncover more valuable clues about the conditions of the last major ice sheet on Earth.
Robust Multirobot Coordination in Dynamic Environments
Creators: name: M. Bernardine  Dias
name: Zinck, Marc
name: Zlot, Robert
name: Stentz, Anthony
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robustness is crucial for any robot team, especially when operating in dynamic environments. The physicality of robotic systems and their interactions with the environment make them highly prone to malfunctions of many kinds. Three principal categories in the possible space of robot malfunctions are communication failures, partial failure of robot resources necessary for task execution (or partial robot malfunction), and complete robot failure (or robot death). This paper addresses these three categories and explores means by which the TraderBots approach ensures robustness and promotes graceful degradation in team performance when faced with malfunctions.
title: ADCO, Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 590
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 590, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 590, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
A Connection Between Time Domain Model Order Reduction and Moment Matching for LTI Systems
Creators: name: Hund, Manuela
name: Saak, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate the time domain model order reduction (MOR) framework using general orthogonal polynomials by Jiang and Chen 2012 and extend their idea by exploiting the structure of the corresponding linear system of equations. Identifying an equivalent Sylvester equation, we show a connection to a rational Krylov subspace, and thus to moment matching. This theoretical link between the MOR techniques is illustrated by three numerical examples. For linear time-invariant systems, the link also motivates that the time domain approach can be at best as accurate as moment matching, since the expansion points are fixed by the choice of the polynomial basis, while in moment matching they can be adapted to the system.
description: 29 pages, 11 figures
The Feynman-Kitaev computer's clock: bias, gaps, idling and pulse tuning
Creators: name: Caha, Libor
name: Landau, Zeph
name: Nagaj, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a collection of results about the clock in Feynman's computer construction and Kitaev's Local Hamiltonian problem. First, by analyzing the spectra of quantum walks on a line with varying endpoint terms, we find a better lower bound on the gap of the Feynman Hamiltonian, which translates into a less strict promise gap requirement for the QMA-complete Local Hamiltonian problem. We also translate this result into the language of adiabatic quantum computation. Second, introducing an idling clock construction with a large state space but fast Cesaro mixing, we provide a way for achieving an arbitrarily high success probability of computation with Feynman's computer with only a logarithmic increase in the number of clock qubits. Finally, we tune and thus improve the costs (locality, gap scaling) of implementing a (pulse) clock with a single excitation.
description: 32 pages; v2: typos, references, and minor fixes, close to the published version
Multitrack Digital Inclusion and Data-Driven Peacemaking
Creators: name: Hirblinger, Andreas
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Track Two Diplomacy
Digital Peacemaking

description: This policy brief fleshes out how data-driven approaches can be leveraged within an inclusive, multitrack framework. This policy brief further presents a conceptual model for inclusive data-driven mediation support, consisting of two interrelated and complementary processes, namely vertical data sharing (between different tracks) and horizontal data dialogue (within the same track).
On-Off Intermittency in Time Series of Spontaneous Paroxysmal Activity in Rats with Genetic Absence Epilepsy
Creators: name: Hramov, A. E.
name: Koronovskii, A. A.
name: Midzyanovskaya, I. S.
name: Sitnikova, E.
name: van Rijn, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamic behavior of complex neuronal ensembles is a topic comprising a streamline of current researches worldwide. In this article we study the behavior manifested by epileptic brain, in the case of spontaneous non-convulsive paroxysmal activity. For this purpose we analyzed archived long-term recording of paroxysmal activity in animals genetically susceptible to absence epilepsy, namely WAG/Rij rats. We first report that the brain activity alternated between normal states and epilepsy paroxysms is the on-off intermittency phenomenon which has been observed and studied earlier in the different nonlinear systems.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Case Study of the Uber Failure in China: A Technoethical Analysis
Creators: name: Zhen, Yu
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: Technology and digitalization today have greatly accelerated the process of globalization and introduced new business approaches and concepts. Drawing on the notion of a sharing economy, the ride sharing economy introduced by Uber has created social controversy and debate. When Uber expanded to the market in China from 2013 to 2017 with the venture ending in failure, it marked the first time to introduce the concept of a ‘sharing economy’ to China. The ride sharing economy brought by Uber created economic, political, cultural, and social upheaval within society. Guided by the technoethical approach, a case study on the failure of Uber in China was conducted using a systematic literature review of essential research articles and news coverage from 2013 to 2017. Case study findings uncover the following main themes connected to Uber’s localization in China: safety, privacy, morals and ethics, environments, regulation and legislation, urban plan, labor identity, and labor fairness. The technoethical analysis reveals a gap between technology and ethical awareness, a need to pay more attention to ethical consequences, and a need for government laws and regulations to keep pace with new e-business technologies. This case study contributes new insight into Uber in China and the ride sharing economy from an ethical perspective.
A Note on St-Coloring of Some Non Perfect Graphs
Creators: name: Rubul Moran
name: Pegu, Aditya
name: I. J. Gogoi
name: A. Bharali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: ST-coloring
ST-chromatic number
ST-span
ST-edge span

description: For a graph G = (V,E) and a finite set T of positive integers containing zero, ST-coloring of a graph G is a coloring of the vertices with non negative integers such that for any two vertices of an edge, the absolute differences between the colors of the vertices does not belong to a fixed set T of non negative integers containing zero and for any two distinct edges their absolute differences between the colors of their vertices are distinct. The minimum number of colors needed for an efficient Strong T coloring of a graph is known as ST-Chromatic number. This communication is concerned with the ST-coloring of some non perfect graphs viz. Petersen graph, Double Wheel graph, Helm graph, Flower graph, Sun Flower graph. We compute ST-chromatic number of these non perfect graphs.
Reconstruction of the bubble nucleating potential
Creators: name: Amendola, Luca
name: Baccigalupi, Carlo
name: Konoplich, Rostislav
name: Occhionero, Franco
name: Rubin, Sergei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate analytically the bubble nucleation rate in a model of first order inflation which is able to produce large scale structure. The computation includes the first-order departure from the thin-wall limit, the explicit derivation of the pre-exponential factor, and the gravitational correction. The resulting bubble spectrum is then compared with constraints from the large scale structure and the microwave background. We show that there are models which pass all the constraints and produce bubble-like perturbations of interesting size. Furthermore, we show that it is in principle possible to reconstruct completely the inflationary two-field potential from observations.
description: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D, 19 pages, 2 ps figs included
Observational constraints on a modified-gravity model with an exponential function of the curvature using the expansion history, the RSD, and the Pantheon+SH0ES data
Creators: name: Acero, Mario A.
name: Oliveros, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Considering a well-motivated $f(R)$ modified-gravity model, in which an exponential function of the curvature is included, in this paper we implement a statistical data analysis to set constraints on the parameters of the model, taking into account an analytic approximate solution for the expansion rate, $H(z)$. Using a Monte Carlo Markov Chain-based analysis of the expansion rate evolution, the standardized SN distance modulus and the redshift space distortion observational data, we find that the preferred value for the perturbative parameter, $b$, quantifying the deviation of the $f(R)$ model from $Λ$CDM, lies in a region that excludes $b = 0$ at $\gtrsim 3.5 σ$ C.L., and that the predicted current value of the Hubble parameter, $H_0$, locates in between the two observational results currently under scrutiny from Planck and SH0ES collaborations. Under the implemented approximate solution, and with the constraints obtained for the parameters, the proposed $f(R)$ model successfully reproduces the observational data and the predicted evolution of interesting cosmological parameters resemble the results of $Λ$CDM, as expected, while an oscillatory behavior of the dark energy equation of state is observed, pointing to deviation from the concordance cosmological model. The results presented here reinforce the conclusion that the $f(R)$ modified-gravity model represents a viable alternative to describe the evolution of the Universe, avoiding the challenges faced by $Λ$CDM.
description: 19 pages (including references), 10 figures, 3 tables. Typos corrected. Accepted for publication
Le responsabilità nei confronti della scienza
Creators: name: Tomasi, Marta
name: Cartabia, Marta
name: Garattini, Silvio
name: Gori, Donatella
name: Martinelli, Lucia
name: D'Avack, Lorenzo
name: Di Segni, Riccardo Shemuel
name: Palazzani, Laura
name: Tognoni, Gianni
name: Toraldo Di Francia, Monica
name: Benciolini, Paolo
name: Rodriguez, Daniele
name: Scalera, Antonio
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2017

description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 1 (2017)
Robust Monocular Visual Odometry for a Ground Vehicle in Undulating Terrain
Creators: name: Zhang, Ji
name: Singh, Sanjiv
name: Kantor, George
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Here we present a robust method for monocular visual odometry capable of accurate position estimation even when operating in undulating terrain. Our algorithm uses a steering model to separately recover rotation and translation. Robot 3DOF orientation is recovered by minimizing image projection error, while, robot translation is recovered by solving an NP-hard optimization problem through an approximation. The decoupled estimation ensures a low computational cost. The proposed method handles undulating terrain by approximating ground patches as locally ﬂat but not necessarily level, and recovers the inclination angle of the local ground in motion estimation. Also, it can automatically detect when the assumption is violated by analysis of the residuals. If the imaged terrain cannot be sufﬁciently approximated by locally ﬂat patches, wheel odometry is used to provide robust estimation. Our ﬁeld experiments show a mean relative error of less than 1%.
Advanced maternal age: ethical and medical considerations for assisted reproductive technology
Creators: name: Harrison, BJ
name: Hilton, TN
name: Riviere, RN
name: Ferraro, ZM
name: Deonandan, R
name: Walker, MC
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017

description: Objectives: This review explores the ethical and medical challenges faced by women of advanced maternal age who decide to have children. Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) make post-menopausal pregnancy physiologically plausible, however, one must consider the associated physical, psychological, and sociological factors involved. Methods: A quasi-systematic review was conducted in PubMed and Ovid using the key terms post-menopause, pregnancy + MeSH terms [donations, hormone replacement therapy, assisted reproductive technologies, embryo donation, donor artificial insemination, cryopreservation]. Overall, 28 papers encompassing two major themes (ethical and medical) were included in the review. Conclusion: There are significant ethical considerations and medical (maternal and fetal) complications related to pregnancy in peri- and post-menopausal women. When examining the ethical and sociological perspective, the literature portrays an overall positive attitude toward pregnancy in advanced maternal age. With respect to the medical complications, the general consensus in the evaluated studies suggests that there is greater risk of complication for spontaneous pregnancy when the mother is older (eg, >35 years old). This risk can be mitigated by careful medical screening of the mother and the use of ARTs in healthy women. In these instances, a woman of advanced maternal age who is otherwise healthy can carry a pregnancy with a similar risk profile to that of her younger counterparts when using donated oocytes
Angular Schmidt spectrum of entangled photons: derivation of an exact formula and experimental characterization for non-collinear phase matching
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Girish
name: Taneja, Lavanya
name: Aarav, Shaurya
name: Jha, Anand K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive an exact formula for the angular Schmidt spectrum of the orbital angular momentum (OAM)-entangled states produced by parametric down-conversion (PDC). We show that our formula yields true theoretical spectrum without any convergence issue as has been the case with the previously derived formulas. Furthermore, we use this formula to experimentally characterize the angular Schmidt spectrum for non-collinear PDC. We report the measurements of very broad angular Schmidt spectra corresponding to angular Schmidt numbers up to 233, which, to the best of our knowledge, is the highest number reported so far. Our studies can be very important for OAM-based quantum information applications.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Multi-wavelength Observations of Dusty Star Formation at Low and High Redshift
Creators: name: Adelberger, K. L.
name: Steidel, C. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper examines what can be learned about high-redshift star formation from the small fraction of high-redshift galaxies' luminosities that is emitted at accessible wavelengths. We review and quantify empirical correlations between bolometric luminosities produced by star formation and the UV, mid-IR, sub-mm, and radio luminosities of galaxies in the local universe. These correlations suggest that observations of high-redshift galaxies at any of these wavelengths should constrain their star-formation rates to within 0.2--0.3 dex. We assemble the limited evidence that high-redshift galaxies obey these locally calibrated correlations. The characteristic luminosities and dust obscurations of galaxies at z ~ 0, z ~ 1, and z ~ 3 are reviewed. After discussing the relationship between the high-redshift populations selected in surveys at different wavelengths, we calculate the contribution to the 850um background from each. The available data show that a correlation between star-formation rate and dust obscuration L_dust/L_UV exists at low and high redshift. This correlation plays a central role in the major conclusion of this paper: most star formation at high redshift occurred in galaxies with 1 < L_dust/L_UV < 100 similar to those that host the majority of star formation in the local universe and to those that are detected in UV-selected surveys. (abridged)
description: Scheduled for publication in ApJ v544 Dec 2000. Significant changes to section 4. Characteristic UV and dust luminosities of star-forming galaxies at redshifts z~0, z~1, and z~3 presented. Existence of extremely obscured galaxies more clearly acknowledged. Original conclusions reinforced by the observed correlation between bolometric luminosity and dust obscuration at 0
title: ADCO, Premier cartulaire de l'abbaye de Molesmes (XIIe siècle), Cart. 142 (7 H 6), 128 pages, f. 0010v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2009
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Premier cartulaire de l'abbaye de Molesmes (XIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 142 (7 H 6), 128 pages, f. 0010v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Premier cartulaire de l'abbaye de Molesmes (XIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 142 (7 H 6), 128 pages, f. 0010v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Molesme
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q334044
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb137389344
Nonlinear refractive index of electric field aligned gold nanorods measured with a Hartmann-Shack wavefront aberrometer
Creators: name: Maldonado, Melissa
name: Menezes, Leonardo de S.
name: Araujo, Leonardo F.
name: da Costa, Greice K. B.
name: Carvalho, Isabel C. S.
name: Fontana, Jake
name: de Araujo, Cid B.
name: Gomes, Anderson S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The capability to dynamically control the nonlinear refractive index of plasmonic suspensions may enable innovative nonlinear sensing and signaling nanotechnologies. Here, we experimentally determine the effective nonlinear refractive index for gold nanorods suspended in an index matching oil aligned using electric fields, demonstrating an approach to modulate the nonlinear optical properties of the suspension. The nonlinear optical experiments were carried out using a Hartmann-Shack wavefront aberrometer in a collimated beam configuration with a high repetition rate femtosecond laser. The suspensions were probed at 800 nm, overlapping with the long-axis absorption peak of the nanorods. We find that the effective nonlinear refractive index of the gold nanorods suspension depends linearly on the orientational order parameter, S, which can be understood by a thermally induced nonlinear response. We also show the magnitude of the nonlinear response can be varied by ~60%.
Il diritto delle corti, la scienza e la tecnica: una tassonomia
Creators: name: Santosuosso, Amedeo
name: Pinotti, Giulia
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2017
Subjects: Science; Law; Transaction; Case law; Technology

description: This essay aims to analyze how Italian Courts interact with scientific knowledge and technology. In particular the authors create a database where they try to classify a relevant number of judicial decisions according to the way they relate to science. This attempt is a proof of concept of a project that could be extended also to judicial decisions by foreign Courts.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 1 (2017)
Low Mass Stars and the He3 Problem
Creators: name: Olive, Keith A.
name: Schramm, D. N.
name: Scully, Sean
name: Truran, J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The prediction of standard chemical evolution models of higher abundances of He3 at the solar and present-day epochs than are observed indicates a possible problem with the yield of He3 for stars in the range of 1-3 solar masses. Because He3 is one of the nuclei produced in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), it is noted that galactic and stellar evolution uncertainties necessarily relax constraints based on He3. We incorporate into chemical evolution models which include outflow, the new yields for He3 of Boothroyd & Malaney (1995) which predict that low mass stars are net destroyers of He3. Since these yields do not account for the high \he3/H ratio observed in some planetary nebulae, we also consider the possibility that some fraction of stars in the 1 - 3 solar mass range do not destroy their He3 in theirpost main-sequence phase. We also consider the possibility that the gas expelled by stars in these mass ranges does not mix with the ISM instantaneously thus delaying the He3 produced in these stars, according to standard yields, from reaching the ISM. In general, we find that the Galactic D and He3 abundances can be fit regardless of whether the primordial D/H value is high (2 x 10^{-4}) or low (2.5 x 10^{-5}).
description: 20 pages, latex, 9 ps figures
Robust Monocular Flight in Cluttered Outdoor Environments
Creators: name: Shreyansh  Daftry
name: Zeng, Sam
name: Arbaaz  Khan
name: Debadeepta  Dey
name: Melik-Barkhudarov, Narek
name: J. Andrew  Bagnell
name: Hebert, Martial
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, there have been numerous advances in the development of biologically inspired lightweight Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs). While autonomous navigation is fairly straightforward for large UAVs as expensive sensors and monitoring devices can be employed, robust methods for obstacle avoidance remains a challenging task for MAVs which operate at low altitude in cluttered unstructured environments. Due to payload and power constraints, it is necessary for such systems to have autonomous navigation and flight capabilities using mostly passive sensors such as cameras. In this paper, we describe a robust system that enables autonomous navigation of small agile quad-rotors at low altitude through natural forest environments. We present a direct depth estimation approach that is capable of producing accurate, semi-dense depth-maps in real time. Furthermore, a novel wind-resistant control scheme is presented that enables stable way-point tracking even in the presence of strong winds. We demonstrate the performance of our system through extensive experiments on real images and field tests in a cluttered outdoor environment.
21st Century BioLaw: a proposal
Creators: name: Casonato, Carlo
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biolaw; Law and life sciences; Health law; Medical law; Anthropocene

description: Providing legal rules for life sciences is not an easy task. On the one hand, for instance, scientific results change rapidly and new areas for research are continuously emerging. On the other hand, legislative procedures are time-consuming and the law risks to be always late. Scientific complexity and ethical divisiveness are also uneasy to deal with by political bodies and courts, requiring precise and specific expertise. In the light of the tricky relationship between life sciences and the law, the article recommends three features that are supposed to help the law in efficiently cope with contemporary and future scientific challenges: openness, updateness, attentiveness.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 1 (2017)
Study on Microaddress Recorder for Location Tracking
Creators: name: Shaveta Bhatia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Global positioning system
geocoding engine
my location listener
location intelligence
google maps

description: When we think about location-based services, the first thing that comes to mind is a physical location. Location Intelligence with tracking has expanded on mobile networks during this time period, thanks to apps operating on smart phones with GPS. Location-based services are expanding to meet the needs of a wider user base while also addressing a number of basic issues. This article covers the Micro Address Recorder location tracking application, which is used to monitor a person at minute locations in defined areas. This application is built on combining a person's current position with distances from two adjacent locations to determine their precise position. The study also includes a thorough analysis of the data in several areas, as well as recommendations for further study.
Robust Extraction of Multiple Structures from Non-uniformly Sampled Data
Creators: name: Unnikrishnan, Ranjith
name: Hebert, Martial
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The extraction of multiple coherent structures from point clouds is crucial to the problem of scene modeling. While many statistical methods exist for robust estimation from noisy data, they are inadequate for addressing issues of scale, semi-structured clutter, and large point density variation together with the computational restrictions of autonomous navigation. This paper extends an approach of nonparametric projection-pursuit based regression to compensate for the non-uniform and directional nature of data sampled in outdoor environments. The proposed algorithm is employed for extraction of planar structures and clutter grouping. Results are shown for scene abstraction of 3D range data in large urban scenes.
End-to-End Hybrid Refractive-Diffractive Lens Design with Differentiable Ray-Wave Model
Creators: name: Yang, Xinge
name: Souza, Matheus
name: Wang, Kunyi
name: Chakravarthula, Praneeth
name: Fu, Qiang
name: Heidrich, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hybrid refractive-diffractive lenses combine the light efficiency of refractive lenses with the information encoding power of diffractive optical elements (DOE), showing great potential as the next generation of imaging systems. However, accurately simulating such hybrid designs is generally difficult, and in particular, there are no existing differentiable image formation models for hybrid lenses with sufficient accuracy.
 In this work, we propose a new hybrid ray-tracing and wave-propagation (ray-wave) model for accurate simulation of both optical aberrations and diffractive phase modulation, where the DOE is placed between the last refractive surface and the image sensor, i.e. away from the Fourier plane that is often used as a DOE position. The proposed ray-wave model is fully differentiable, enabling gradient back-propagation for end-to-end co-design of refractive-diffractive lens optimization and the image reconstruction network. We validate the accuracy of the proposed model by comparing the simulated point spread functions (PSFs) with theoretical results, as well as simulation experiments that show our model to be more accurate than solutions implemented in commercial software packages like Zemax. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model through real-world experiments and show significant improvements in both aberration correction and extended depth-of-field (EDoF) imaging. We believe the proposed model will motivate further investigation into a wide range of applications in computational imaging, computational photography, and advanced optical design. Code will be released upon publication.
Molecular junctions and molecular motors: Including Coulomb repulsion in electronic friction using nonequilibrium Green's functions
Creators: name: Hopjan, Miroslav
name: Stefanucci, Gianluca
name: Perfetto, Enrico
name: Verdozzi, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theory of molecular motors based on the Ehrenfest dynamics for the nuclear coordinates and the adiabatic limit of the Kadanoff-Baym equations for the current-induced forces. Electron-electron interactions can be systematically included through many-body perturbation theory, making the nonequilibrium Green's functions formulation suitable for first-principles treatments of realistic junctions. The method is benchmarked against simulations via real-time Kadanoff-Baym equations, finding an excellent agreement. Results on a paradigmatic model of molecular motor show that correlations can change dramatically the physical scenario by, e.g. introducing a sizable damping in the self-sustained van der Pol oscillations.
description: 7 pages , 3 figs + Suppl. Information
Bio-diritto e bio-politica. Il corpo e la legge nella filosofia di Michel Foucault
Creators: name: Amato, Pierandrea
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2017
Subjects: Foucault; Politics; Law; Medicine; Death

description: This paper is dedicated to the contribution that Michel Foucault’s philoso-phy can provide the definition of the epistemological status of bio-law. The essay is focused both on Foucault’s thesis on the birth of modern biology – elaborated dur-ing the Sixties – and on the critics to sovereignty theory of the following decade. Assuming at first this point of view, the paper examines the change of nature in juridical decisions on life, when life itself becomes an object of mechanical reproduction. According to this kind of problems, the paper aims to underline the difference between body and flesh in Michel Foucault’s political thought.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 1 (2017)
Growing condensate in two-dimensional turbulence
Creators: name: Chertkov, M.
name: Connaughton, C.
name: Kolokolov, I.
name: Lebedev, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a numerical study, supplemented by phenomenological explanations, of ``energy condensation'' in forced 2D turbulence in a biperiodic box. Condensation is a finite size effect which occurs after the standard inverse cascade reaches the size of the system. It leads to emergence of a coherent vortex dipole. We show that the time growth of the dipole is self-similar, and it contains most of the injected energy, thus resulting in an energy spectrum which is markedly steeper than the standard $k^{-5/3}$ one. Once the coherent component is subtracted, however, the remaining fluctuations have a spectrum close to $k^{-1}$. The fluctuations decay slowly as the coherent part grows.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. This version includes some additional phenomenological explanations of the results, additional references and improved figures
The Jewish "Other" in Ivo Andrić‘s The Bridge on the Drina
Creators: name: Azoulay, Stephanie
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Bosnia
Drina
Ivo Andrić
Jewish
Lotte
Other
women

description: This article analyzes the representation of Jewish characters in Ivo Andrić‘s novel The Bridge on the Drina. The analysis progresses chronologically through the novel, taking note of the increased frequency and length of the Jewish characterizations that reflect the community‘s evolution, growing freedoms, and increased visibility in Višegrad, Bosnia between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. The author pays particular attention to the lone Jewish female character in the novel, Lotte, whose Otherness—as a Jew, an impoverished widow, a woman, and a foreigner—is utilized by Andrić to portray actions, choices, and behaviours that are outside the norm for a woman of her era The trajectory of Lotte‘s character, a steady rise and a steep downfall precipitated by the First World War, serves as an important metaphor for many of the novel‘s central themes: secularization, modernization, migration, and the ultimate fallibility of imperial rule.
Low Surface Brightness Galaxies in the Core of the Coma Cluster
Creators: name: Ulmer, M. P.
name: Bernstein, G. M.
name: Martin, D. R.
name: Nichol, R. C.
name: Pendleton, J. L.
name: Tyson, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a search for low surface brightness galaxies (hereafter LSBs) in the Coma cluster. Bernstein et al. report on deep CCD observations in R of a 7.5 by 7.5 arcminute region in the core of the Coma cluster, and we extend this work by finding and measuring 36 LSBs within this field. We report both R and Bj results. The average magnitude based on the best fit exponential to the images is 22.5 (R) and the typical exponential scale is 1.3 arcseconds. The range of exponential scales is 0.4 to 1.2 kpc (distance modulus 34.89), and the range of central surface brightnesses is 24 to 27.4 R magnitudes per square arcsecond. Many of these objects are similar in terms of scale length and central surface brightness to those found by others in nearby clusters such as Fornax (Bothun, Impey and Malin), as well as in the low luminosity end of the dwarfs cataloged in the review by Ferguson and Binggeli. We find no evidence for a dependence of color on central surface brightness or on distance from the D galaxies or the X-ray center of Coma. We also find that these LSBs make a small contribution to the overall mass of the cluster. We discuss these results in terms of possible scenarios of LSB formation and evolution.
description: 41 pages, Latex, 6 Postscript figures. AJ in press
title: SynEst (English-to-Estonian) Synthetic Estonian Parallel Corpus
Creators: name: Fišel, Mark
Publisher: name: Center of Estonian Language Resources
Year: 2024

description: Synthetic parallel corpus with original English texts, machine-translated into Estonian and filtered.

Original English text sources:
- NewsCrawl (https://data.statmt.org/news-crawl) up to year 2021
- ParaCrawl v9 (https://paracrawl.eu): the English side of parallel corpora between English and German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Lithuanian, Latvian, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian and Chinese
- United Nations Parallel Corpus (https://conferences.unite.un.org/uncorpus)
- OpenSubtitles (https://opus.nlpl.eu) monolingual English texts

Additional unfiltered data (not included in count):
- Reddit data (downloaded via https://github.com/microsoft/DialoGPT) in English
The Fernie Ledger
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: Fernie, B.C. : D. V. Mott and G. G. Meikle
Year: 2016

description: The Nakusp Ledge was published in Nakusp, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, from October 1893 to December 1894. The paper was subsequently published as the Ledge both in New Denver, from December 1894 to December 1904, and in Fernie, from January to August 1905. The Ledge was published by Robert Thornton Lowery, a prolific newspaper publisher, editor, and printer who was also widely acclaimed for his skill as a writer. After moving to Fernie, the paper continued to be published under variant titles, including the Fernie Ledger and the District Ledger, from August 1905 to August 1919.
“The Best Interests of the Parents”. La maternità surrogata in Europa tra Interessi del bambino, Corti supreme e silenzio dei legislatori
Creators: name: Rosani, Domenico
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2017
Subjects: Surrogacy; Best interests of the child; Children’s rights; European Court of Human Rights; Comparative law

description: This paper analyses the relevant case-law of the Supreme and Constitutional Courts of Germany, Austria and Italy with regard to surrogate motherhood and the protection of the child’s rights. After a brief overview of the legal regimes in the three countries which ban this practice without providing a regulation of the consequences of illegal surrogacies, the author moves on to inquiring how the Courts are adopting the principles stated by the ECtHR. The child’s rights and best interests are essential for the recognition of parenthood for the intended parents and the continuation of the common life with them. The German Federal Court of Justice, as well as the Austrian Constitutional Court, has already accepted to give to the position of the involved child the priority. Italy, on the contrary, is showing more resistance, although a recent judgment of the Court of Cassation – taking account of the German case-law – acquitted the intended parents. The mere recognition of the parent relationship and granting of the possibility for them to live together with the child could however encourage parents to go abroad in order to make use of surrogacy. In the author’s view, this should be prevented providing sanctions for the intended parents, without using the involved child as a means to an end.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 1 (2017)
Bibliometric Analysis of Neurology Articles Published in General Medicine Journals
Creators: name: Wilson, Mitch
name: Sampson, Margaret
name: Barrowman, Nick
name: Doja, Asif
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021

description: Importance A significant portion of neurology literature is published in general medicine journals. Despite this, a detailed examination of publication patterns of neurology articles in these journals has not yet been carried out. Objective To examine the publication patterns of neurology articles in general medicine journals during a 10-year period using a bibliometric approach. Design, Setting, and Participants This cross-sectional bibliometric analysis identified the top 5 general medicine journals using the 2017 Journal Citations Report. Four other medical subspecialties (ie, immunology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, and pulmonology) were selected for comparison of publication patterns with neurology. Using MEDLINE, the 5 journals were searched for articles published between 2009 and 2018 that were indexed with the following MeSH terms: nervous system diseases, immune system diseases, endocrine system diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, and respiratory tract diseases. Data analysis was conducted from February 2019 to December 2020. Main Outcomes and Measures Publications were characterized by journal, specialty, and study design. These variables were used for comparison of publication numbers. Results The general medicine journals with the 5 highest journal impact factors (JIF) were New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM; JIF 79.3), Lancet (JIF 53.3), JAMA (JIF 47.7), BMJ (JIF 23.6), and PLOS Medicine (JIF 11.7). Our bibliometric search yielded 3719 publications, of which 1098 (29.5%) were in neurology. Of these 1098 neurology publications, 317 (28.9%) were published in NEJM, 205 (18.7%) in Lancet, 284 (25.9%) in JAMA, 214 (19.5%) in BMJ, and 78 (7.1%) in PLOS Medicine. Randomized clinical trials were the most frequent neurology study type in general medicine journals (519 [47.3%]). The number of publications in each of the other specialties were as follows: immunology, 817; endocrinology, 633; gastroenterology, 353; and pulmonology, 818. Conclusions and Relevance The results of this study provide some guidance to authors regarding where they may wish to consider submitting their neurology research. Compared with other specialties, neurology-based articles are published more frequently in general medicine journals.
Charm and Bottom Quark Production Cross Sections Near Threshold
Creators: name: Smith, J.
name: Vogt, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cross sections for charm and bottom quark production in the threshold region are discussed. We consider the effects of an all order resummation of initial state soft-plus-virtual gluon radiation on the total cross sections compared to the order $α_s^3$ results.
description: 16 pages LaTeX, 5 figures, to be published in Z. Phys. C