cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Resource Allocation Strategies in Highly Distributed and Heterogeneous Computing Systems
Creators: name: Faticanti, Francescomaria
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2021

description: The spread of IoT devices has led to the design of new extensions of cloud computing, such as fog computing, providing IoT applications with reduced latency, location-awareness and mobility support. The term cloud-to-things continuum in this context refers to the fact that the computation is no longer confined to a few data centers but workloads can be displaced from the central cloud to the edge of network involving multiple infrastructure owners and several devices with different computational characteristics. This heterogeneity impacts the capability of the infrastructure owner of satisfying the QoS requirements of clients. Consequently, solving the placement and orchestration problems among the cloud-to-things continuum becomes key to ensure the profitability for the involved stakeholders. This thesis focuses on the algorithmic solutions for the problem of placement and the orchestration of microservice-based applications in such a distributed and heterogeneous context. On one hand, the placement problem involves the design of efficient solutions for the deployment of applications on a fog infrastructure, a type of problem which typically is NP-hard, even assuming a complete knowledge of applications' requirements and resource availability. In this thesis, the focus is on the design of approximated solutions for the NP-hard problems behind such resource allocation tasks. The orchestration of fog applications, on the other hand, deals with the maintenance of applications' QoS requirements under partial information about applications requests arrivals. For each applications' module, orchestration algorithms involve the decision of deployment either in fog or in cloud as the applications requests vary over time. In order to deal with this problem, we developed solutions based on stochastic optimisation techniques. The proposed methods outperform standard cloud-native solutions and suggest new approaches for inter-operability between different fog regions. Additionally, numerical results confirm the scalability properties of all the proposed solutions and their efficiency in terms of infrastructure owner's costs, for the placement side, and in terms applications' QoS, for the orchestration part.
Collaboration, competition, and co-opetition: Interorganizational dynamics between private child welfare agencies and child serving sectors
Creators: name: Chuang, Emmeline
name: Pérez-Jolles, Monica
name: McBeath, Bowen
name: Collins-Camargo, Crystal
name: Bunger, Alicia C.
name: Wells, Rebecca
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Human service agencies are encouraged to collaborate with other public and private agencies in providing services to children and families. However, they also often compete with these same partners for funding, qualified staff, and clientele. Although little is known about complex interagency dynamics of competition and collaboration in the child-serving sector, evidence suggests that competition can undermine collaboration unless managed strategically. This study explores the interrelationship between competition and collaboration, sometimes referred to as “co-opetition.” Using a national dataset of private child and family serving agencies, we examine their relationships with other child serving sectors (N=4460 pair-wise relationships), and explore how variations in patterns of collaboration and competition are associated with several organizational, environmental and relational factors. Results suggest that most relationships between private child welfare agencies and other child serving agencies are characterized by both competition and collaboration (i.e. “co-opetition”), and is most frequently reported with other local private child welfare agencies. Logistic regression analyses indicate that co-opetition is likely to occur when private child welfare agencies have a good perceived relationship or a sub-contract with their partner. Findings have implications for how agency leaders manage partner relationships, and how public child welfare administrators structure contracts.
3D-2D transition in mode-I fracture microbranching in a perturbed hexagonal close-packed lattice
Creators: name: Heizler, Shay I.
name: Kessler, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mode-I fracture exhibits microbranching in the high velocity regime where the simple straight crack is unstable. For velocities below the instability, classic modeling using linear elasticity is valid. However, showing the existence of the instability and calculating the dynamics post-instability within the linear elastic framework is difficult and controversial. The experimental results give several indications that the microbranching phenomenon is basically a three-dimensional phenomenon. Nevertheless, the theoretical effort has been focused mostly in two-dimensional modeling. In this work we study the microbranching instability using three-dimensional atomistic simulations, exploring the difference between the 2D and 3D models. We find that the basic 3D fracture pattern shares similar behavior with the 2D case. Nevertheless, we exhibit a clear 3D-2D transition as the crack velocity increases, while as long as the microbranches are sufficiently small, the behavior is pure 3D-behavior, while at large driving, as the size of the microbranches increases, more 2D-like behavior is exhibited. In addition, in 3D simulations, the quantitative features of the microbranches, separating the regimes of steady-state cracks (mirror) and post-instability (mist-hackle) are reproduced clearly, consistent with the experimental findings.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures
title: Benign Osteoporotic Versus Malignant Neoplastic Vertebral Compression Fractures : A Comprehensive Imaging Features Review
Creators: name: Ilic, Srdja
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Bones
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Acute
subject: Cancer
subject: Demineralisation-Bone

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To review imaging findings in benign osteoporotic and malignant neoplastic vertebral fractures;To emphasize the key imaging findings in both benign and malignant fractures;To point out possible pitfalls in the differentiation of acute osteoporotic...
(401382) James Kinloch
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Congenital pulmonary vascular anomalies. Review of radiological findings
Creators: name: Valero Macià, Andrea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pulmonary vessels
subject: Thorax
subject: Vascular
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Arteriovenous malformations
subject: Congenital

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Review of the different types of pulmonary vascular congenital anomalies and their characteristics in the tomographic...
title: Encephalic death: what the radiologist needs to know
Creators: name: Diarra, Daouda
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Trauma
subject: Vascular
subject: CAD
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Surgery
subject: Blood
subject: Oedema
subject: Trauma

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To know the technique for performing a cerebral angioscan for suspected brain death. Prove the circulatory arrest on a cerebral angioscanner. Specify the key elements of the...
(401383) [Sir] Hispnea. Guthrie Snyth Kinloch
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Trends in local public child welfare agencies 1999–2009
Creators: name: Jolles, Mónica Pérez
name: Wells, Rebecca
name: Chuang, Emmeline
name: McBeath, Bowen
name: Collins-Camargo, Crystal
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: US public child welfare agencies have faced increasing pressure in the first decade of this century to demonstrate efficiency and accountability, even as the Great Recession increased pressures on millions of families and undermined human service funding. This paper reports on analyses of the two cohorts of local public child welfare agencies from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being to identify changes in their structure and practice. Local agency adaptations have included some structural integration and apparently increased use of subcontracting, including investigations. Collectively, these trends appear to be fostering a tighter coupling of local child welfare agencies with other service providers. Some of these connections may improve families’ access to a range of services. However, the increased reliance on private providers may also undermine accountability and flexibility to respond to changing needs.
Summary of the ATLAS experiment's sensitivity to supersymmetry after LHC Run 1 - interpreted in the phenomenological MSSM
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A summary of the constraints from the ATLAS experiment on $R$-parity conserving supersymmetry is presented. Results from 22 separate ATLAS searches are considered, each based on analysis of up to 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at the centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 and 8 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The results are interpreted in the context of the 19-parameter phenomenological minimal supersymmetric standard model, in which the lightest supersymmetric particle is a neutralino, taking into account constraints from previous precision electroweak and flavour measurements as well as from dark matter related measurements. The results are presented in terms of constraints on supersymmetric particle masses and are compared to limits from simplified models. The impact of ATLAS searches on parameters such as the dark matter relic density, the couplings of the observed Higgs boson, and the degree of electroweak fine-tuning is also shown. Spectra for surviving supersymmetry model points with low fine-tunings are presented.
description: 58 pages plus author list + cover page (75 pages total), 21 figures, 7 tables, submitted to JHEP; all figures including additional auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/SUSY-2014-08/
Risky sexual behavior and substance use among adolescents: A meta-analysis
Creators: name: Sutton, Marnie
name: Lochman, John E.
name: Ford, Haley
name: DeCoster, Jamie
name: Ritchwood, Tiarney D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: This study presents the results of a meta-analysis of the association between substance use and risky sexual behavior among adolescents. 87 studies fit the inclusion criteria, containing a total of 104 independent effect sizes that incorporated more than 120,000 participants. The overall effect size for the relationship between substance use and risky sexual behavior was in the small to moderate range (r = .22, CI = .18, .26). Further analyses indicated that the effect sizes did not substantially vary across the type of substance use, but did substantially vary across the type of risky sexual behavior being assessed. Specifically, mean effect sizes were smallest for studies examining unprotected sex (r = .15, CI = .10, .20), followed by studies examining number of sexual partners (r = .25, CI = .21, .30), those examining composite measures of risky sexual behavior (r = .38, CI = .27, .48), and those examining sex with an intravenous drug user (r = .53, CI = .45, .60). Furthermore, our results revealed that the relationship between drug use and risky sexual behavior is moderated by several variables, including sex, ethnicity, sexuality, age, sample type, and level of measurement. Implications and future directions are discussed.
title: Differential diagnosis of cervical cystic lesions on ultrasound
Creators: name: Gherman, Diana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound-Power Doppler
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer
subject: Congenital
subject: Cysts

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To summarize the most common cystic lesions found in the cervical region To emphasize the importance of ultrasound in the evaluation of neck cysts To highlight some essential ultrasonographic features that guide a correct differential...
La transazione amministrativa
Creators: name: Cassatella, Antonio
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Trento
Year: 2020

description: Muovendo da un?analisi della conflittualit� amministrativa e degli strumenti funzionali alla composizione delle liti di cui sia parte la p.a., questo studio si concentra sulla possibilit� di comporre la controversia attraverso il contratto di transazione. Si individuano le alterazioni subite dal tipo contrattuale di diritto comune ad opera della disciplina speciale applicabile alla p.a. Il tema � approfondito mediante un raffronto con le soluzioni praticate in altri ordinamenti, considerando anche il modo attraverso cui il diritto dell?Unione europea incide su di esso. Si formula una proposta ricostruttiva che parte dall?individuazione del contesto istituzionale entro cui matura la scelta di transigere, ricavando da esso le implicazioni relative alla struttura e disciplina del contratto. Ne discende l?individuazione di uno specifico tipo contrattuale, caratterizzato da significative peculiarit� rispetto al modello del Codice civile.
Catastrophizing and Parental Response to Child Symptom Complaints
Creators: name: Romano, Joan M.
name: Langer, Shelby L.
name: Levy, Rona L.
name: Walker, Lynn S.
name: Whitehead, William E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: This study investigated whether catastrophic thinking about pain by children with functional abdominal pain or by their parents is associated with health outcomes in the child. Subjects were 132 parent-child dyads. Child catastrophizing predicted child depression, anxiety and functional disability. Parents’ catastrophizing cognitions about their own pain predicted self-reported protective responses to their children’s abdominal pain (responding in ways that encourage illness behavior). Protectiveness, in turn, predicted child functional disability. All findings held despite controlling for child age, gender, and symptom severity. These results suggest that catastrophic cognitions play an important role in how children and parents cope and respond to functional abdominal pain, and may have implications for assessment and treatment in the clinical setting.
FLAME Deliverable 3 - 2nd Periodic Progress Report (D1.3)
Creators: name: Giannaros, Theodore
name: Papavasileiou, Georgios
Publisher: name: National Observatory of Athens
Year: 2022
Subjects: progress report

description: This progress report covers the activities of the FLAME project during the second year (January 2022 – December 2022) of its implementation at the National Observatory of Athens (NOA).
title: Contribution of imaging to the diagnosis of malignant otitis externa
Creators: name: IHSSANE, GHANBOURI
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Infection

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Progressive necrotizing otitis externa (PNOE) is a serious infection originating in the external auditory canal (EAC). It was first described in 1959 by Meltzer and Kelemen. It occurs mainly in debilitated individuals such as immunocompromised...
(401384) Lady Jessie Montgomery L[ans]den
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Mercato agroalimentare e disintermediazione: la dimensione giuridica della filiera corta
Creators: name: Orlandi, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento. Facolt� di giurisprudenza
Year: 2018

description: Short food supply chains (SFSC) are production-consumption systems that have few or no intermediaries between farmers and consumers. They are a growing alternative to the mainstream agri-food system, which is dominated by large corporations operating in the global market that mass produce and distribute food. The continued rapid spread of SFSCs in the western hemisphere is a direct consequence of the farmers and consumers? will to regain control over their production and consumption choices, and so to reach coherence between their actions and social and environmental values. Lawmakers are now paying more attention to the regulation and promotion of the various types of SFSCs, as they recognized their role in the achievement of social, economic and environmental goals. In this regard, the research will first present the progressive loss of bargaining power that producers are suffering due to the increase in both the use of vertical integration contracts and the market concentration of the food-processing and distribution industries. It will then analyze how evolving regulations in the EU and the USA are incentivizing the adoption of SFSCs and if the food legislation of both countries, which are based primarily on conventional long supply chain issues, are suitable for these types of food chains. Finally, the study will focus on the Italian legal system by describing the evolution of the direct marketing discipline and identifying the main legislative actions designed to promote some particular types of SFSCs. Then, it will analyze a case study on the farmers markets located in the City of Bologna. It will be compared the municipal by-laws regulating farmers markets with the results of interviews conducted with stakeholders in order to identify any barriers to the presence of this specific marketing channel. The outcomes of the research highlight that while SFSCs have the potential to mitigate the negative side effects of the mainstream food system, they must be properly regulated and promoted. The rising success of these alternative food systems, in particular, may require an additional regulatory effort at various levels of legislations, in order to prevent an uncontrolled and chaotic growth of the phenomenon.
Mechanism of 5-fluorouracil required resistance in human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line Bel 7402
Creators: name: Liu, Geng Tao
name: Huang, Min
name: Jin, Jing
name: Wei, Huai Ling
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: AIM: To investigate the resistance mechanism of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) in Bel7402/5-FU cells which was established in our lab by in vitro continuous stepwise exposure of human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cell line Bel7402 to 5-FU.
title: Intestinal malrotation. Review of radiological findings
Creators: name: Valero Macià, Andrea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Small bowel
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Congenital

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Review of the different types of intestinal malrotation and their characteristics in the tomographic...
title: Does conventional radiography still play some role in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) patients?
Creators: name: Potočnik Tumpaj, Vesna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Paediatric
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: Education
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The learning objectives are (Fig. 1): When and why conventional radiography in JIA? Radiographicchanges, early and late, in JIA, complication evaluation, and follow-up. Differentialdiagnosis of...
Classification of regular parametrized one-relation operads
Creators: name: Bremner, Murray
name: Dotsenko, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 18D50, Secondary 13B25, 13P10, 13P15, 15A54, 17-04, 17A30, 17A50, 20C30, 68W30

description: Jean-Louis Loday introduced a class of symmetric operads generated by one bilinear operation subject to one relation making each left-normed product of three elements equal to a linear combination of right-normed products: \[ (a_1a_2)a_3=\sum_{σ\in S_3}x_σ\, a_{σ(1)}(a_{σ(2)}a_{σ(3)})\ ; \] such an operad is called a parametrized one-relation operad. For a particular choice of parameters $\{x_σ\}$, this operad is said to be regular if each of its components is the regular representation of the symmetric group; equivalently, the corresponding free algebra on a vector space $V$ is, as a graded vector space, isomorphic to the tensor algebra of $V$. We classify, over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, all regular parametrized one-relation operads. In fact, we prove that each such operad is isomorphic to one of the following five operads: the left-nilpotent operad defined by the identity $((a_1a_2)a_3)=0$, the associative operad, the Leibniz operad, the dual Leibniz (Zinbiel) operad, and the Poisson operad. Our computational methods combine linear algebra over polynomial rings, representation theory of the symmetric group, and Gröbner bases for determinantal ideals and their radicals.
description: 31 pages, final version, accepted for publication in Canadian Journal of Mathematics
Additional file 1 of The altered transcriptome of pediatric myelodysplastic syndrome revealed by RNA sequencing
Creators: name: Zubovic, Lorena
name: Piazza, Silvano
name: Tebaldi, Toma
name: Cozzuto, Luca
name: Palazzo, Giuliana
name: Sidarovich, Viktoryia
name: Sanctis, Veronica De
name: Bertorelli, Roberto
name: Lammens, Tim
name: Hofmans, Mattias
name: Moerloose, Barbara De
name: Ponomarenko, Julia
name: Pigazzi, Martina
name: Masetti, Riccardo
name: Mecucci, Cristina
name: Basso, Giuseppe
name: Macchi, Paolo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. The altered transcriptome of pediatric myelodysplastic syndrome revealed by RNA sequencing.
title: Hospital-to-domicile monitoring of COVID patients in a&e department via chest ct-scan: preliminary experience from a spoke hospital
Creators: name: Giangregorio, Antonio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Infection

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate how many COVID patients which were discharged from A&E after being assessed via phenotype (clinical examination) together with radiological (CO-RADS) evaluation required...
Promoting energy conservation and environmental protection with behavioral economics: Theory and evidence
Creators: name: Fanghella, Valeria
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2021

description: This Doctoral thesis studies how nudges can help protect the environment. Three empirical and one theoretical studies investigate applications of green nudges and identify situations where they should, or should not, be used to promote environmental conservation. In Chapter 1, we explore the interplay between nudges and financial policy instruments using an incentivized online experiment that reproduces daily energy behaviors. We find that these two tools do not perform better when implemented together than individually. Our results suggest that in some situations, displacements between behavioral and financial policy tools are more likely to arise than synergies. Chapter 2 presents a field study in which a behavioral intervention is used to promote energy conservation in the workplace. Using a difference-in-difference approach, we find a significant reduction in branches? monthly consumption outside the work schedule only, but not on overall consumption. Our findings suggest that nudges that are effective in the household context do not necessarily prompt behavioral change in the working environment. In Chapter 3, we develop a behavioral model for the usage of in-home displays that provide real-time feedback on energy consumption, focusing on social housing. On top of the cost-benefit analysis between financial and moral utility, on the one hand, and the effort from using them, on the other hand, we add the role of cognitive biases. This study seeks to improve the design of behavioral policies aimed at tackling energy poverty. Chapter 4 presents an incentivized online experiment that studies moral cleansing in the interpersonal and environmental domains. We find that bad behaviors that impact others trigger costly moral cleansing, whereas those that impact the environment do not even trigger costless cleansing. This empirically shows that people perceive environmental issues differently from other moral issues.
A quantum entropy source based on Single Photon Entanglement
Creators: name: Leone, Nicol�
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2022

description: In this thesis, I report on how to use Single Photon Entanglement for generating certified quantum random numbers. Single Photon Entanglement is a particular type of entanglement which involves non-contextual correlations between two degrees of freedom of a single photon. In particular, here I consider momentum and polarization. The presence of the entanglement was validated using different attenuated coherent and incoherent sources of light by evaluating the Bell inequality, a well-known entanglement witness. Different non-idealities in the calculation of the inequality are discussed addressing them both theoretically and experimentally. Then, I discuss how to use the Single Photon Entanglement for generating certified quantum random numbers using a semi-device independent protocol. The protocol is based on a partial characterization of the experimental setup and the violation of the Bell's inequality. An analysis of the non-idealities of the devices employed in the experimental setup is also presented In the last part of the thesis, the integrated photonic version of the previously introduced experiments is discussed: first, it is presented how to generate single photon entangled states exploiting different degrees of freedom with respect to the bulk experiment. Second, I discuss how to perform an integrated test of the Bell's inequality.
(401379) Margaret Fulton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Performance Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms in Post-operative Life Expectancy in the Lung Cancer Patients
Creators: name: Danjuma, Kwetishe Joro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The nature of clinical data makes it difficult to quickly select, tune and apply machine learning algorithms to clinical prognosis. As a result, a lot of time is spent searching for the most appropriate machine learning algorithms applicable in clinical prognosis that contains either binary-valued or multi-valued attributes. The study set out to identify and evaluate the performance of machine learning classification schemes applied in clinical prognosis of post-operative life expectancy in the lung cancer patients. Multilayer Perceptron, J48, and the Naive Bayes algorithms were used to train and test models on Thoracic Surgery datasets obtained from the University of California Irvine machine learning repository. Stratified 10-fold cross-validation was used to evaluate baseline performance accuracy of the classifiers. The comparative analysis shows that multilayer perceptron performed best with classification accuracy of 82.3%, J48 came out second with classification accuracy of 81.8%, and Naive Bayes came out the worst with classification accuracy of 74.4%. The quality and outcome of the chosen machine learning algorithms depends on the ingenuity of the clinical miner.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, ISSN (Print): 1694-0814 | ISSN (Online): 1694-0784
Deep Learning Models Resizing for High Energy Physics experiments
Creators: name: Di Luca, Andrea
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2022

description: This thesis is focused on the development of novel approaches to improve the explainability of Deep Neural Network models in High Energy Physics to reduce the size of a certain model by dropping irrelevant input information. We show that it is possible to reduce the size of a signal-background classification problem by automatically ranking the relative importance of available particle jet input features. Variables are importance-sorted with a decision tree algorithm. The selected features can be used as input quantities for the classification problem at hand. A k-fold cross-validation is applied to raise the confidence in the extracted ranking. On the same line, a new Neural Network layer, called CancelOut, is presented as a tool to reduce the input parameter size by keeping the performance the highest during the training of the model. Both strategies are tested with the case of highly boosted di-jet resonances decaying to two b-quarks, to be selected against an overwhelming QCD background with a Deep Neural network. The data are produced via a pseudo experiment simulation.
(401380) Cuthbert Orlebar
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Helical Quantum Edge Gears in 2D Topological Insulators
Creators: name: Chou, Yang-Zhi
name: Levchenko, Alex
name: Foster, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that two-terminal transport can measure the Luttinger liquid (LL) parameter $K$, in helical LLs at the edges of two dimensional topological insulators (TIs) with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We consider a Coulomb drag geometry with two coplanar TIs and short-ranged spin-flip inter-edge scattering. Current injected into one edge loop induces circulation in the second, which floats without leads. In the low-temperature ($T \rightarrow 0$) perfect drag regime, the conductance is $(e^2/h)(2 K + 1)/(K + 1)$. At higher $T$ we predict a conductivity $\sim T^{-4K+3}$. The conductivity for a single edge is also computed.
description: 5+4 pages, 1 figure. Published version
Additional file 1 of Implementing social accountability for contraceptive services: lessons from Uganda
Creators: name: Boydell, Victoria
name: Nanono Nulu
name: Hardee, Karen
name: Gay, Jill
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1. Interview Guides.
Multi-hazard analysis of steel structures subjected to fire following earthquake
Creators: name: Covi, Patrick
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2021

description: Fires following earthquake (FFE) have historically produced enormous post-earthquake damage and losses in terms of lives, buildings and economic costs, like the San Francisco earthquake (1906), the Kobe earthquake (1995), the Turkey earthquake (2011), the Tohoku earthquake (2011) and the Christchurch earthquakes (2011). The structural fire performance can worsen significantly because the fire acts on a structure damaged by the seismic event. On these premises, the purpose of this work is the investigation of the experimental and numerical response of structural and non-structural components of steel structures subjected to fire following earthquake (FFE) to increase the knowledge and provide a robust framework for hybrid fire testing and hybrid fire following earthquake testing. A partitioned algorithm to test a real case study with substructuring techniques was developed. The framework is developed in MATLAB and it is also based on the implementation of nonlinear finite elements to model the effects of earthquake forces and post-earthquake effects such as fire and thermal loads on structures. These elements should be able to capture geometrical and mechanical non-linearities to deal with large displacements. Two numerical validation procedures of the partitioned algorithm simulating two virtual hybrid fire testing and one virtual hybrid seismic testing were carried out. Two sets of experimental tests in two different laboratories were performed to provide valuable data for the calibration and comparison of numerical finite element case studies reproducing the conditions used in the tests. Another goal of this thesis is to develop a fire following earthquake numerical framework based on a modified version of the OpenSees software and several scripts developed in MATLAB to perform probabilistic analyses of structures subjected to FFE. A new material class, namely SteelFFEThermal, was implemented to simulate the steel behaviour subjected to FFE events.
Milky Way scattering properties and intrinsic sizes of active galactic nuclei cores probed by very long baseline interferometry surveys of compact extragalactic radio sources
Creators: name: Pushkarev, A. B.
name: Kovalev, Y. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured the angular sizes of radio cores of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and analyzed their sky distributions and frequency dependencies to study synchrotron opacity in AGN jets and the strength of angular broadening in the interstellar medium. We have used archival very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) data of more than 3000 compact extragalactic radio sources observed at frequencies, $ν$, from 2 to 43 GHz to measure the observed angular size of VLBI cores. We have found a significant increase in the angular sizes of the extragalactic sources seen through the Galactic plane ($|b|\lesssim10^\circ$) at 2, 5 and 8 GHz, about 1/3 of which show significant scattering. These sources are mainly detected in directions to the Galactic bar, the Cygnus region, and a region with galactic longitudes $220^\circ\lesssim l\lesssim260^\circ$ (the Fitzgerald window). The strength of interstellar scattering of the AGNs is found to correlate with the Galactic H$α$ intensity, free-electron density, and Galactic rotation measure. The dependence of scattering strengths on source redshift is insignificant, suggesting that the dominant scattering screens are located in our Galaxy. The observed angular size of Sgr A$^\ast$ is found to be the largest among thousands of AGN observed over the sky; we discuss possible reasons of this strange result. Excluding extragalactic radio sources with significant scattering, we find that angular size of opaque cores in AGN scales typically as $ν^{-1}$ confirming predictions of a conical synchrotron jet model with equipartition.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables, published by MNRAS; full electronic table 2 (redshifts updated) is available from ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/cats/J/MNRAS/452/4274/
Evolutionary analysis of the human microbiome using ancient metagenomic samples
Creators: name: Huang, Kun
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2021

description: Studying the evolutionary history of human microbiome members is indispensable to understanding how our microbiota complexity has been shaped over time. While recent decades have witnessed remarkable progress in investigation of the human microbiome within different evolutionary contexts, reconstructing a time-resolved divergence history for human microbiome members is still extremely challenging. Longitudinal metagenomics studies have shown the potential of addressing such challenges, but it is limited in tracking the evolutionary change in a short term. By contrast, leveraging the microbial genomic information preserved in the ancient metagenomic samples from the long past is emerging as a powerful strategy to study the long-established evolutionary history of the human microbiome. In this thesis, I aimed to devise a novel methodology that allows for efficiently reconstructing a time-resolved evolutionary history of human microbiome species using ancient metagenomic data. To this end, I firstly started from comparing four newly excavated paleofeces samples to a large body of contemporary metagenomic datasets. I observed that our human gut microbiota has diverged from its ancestral state in both microbial composition and metabolic pathways. This could be related to the change of lifestyle during human history. To better understand the divergence time of microbiome members, I secondly developed a novel computational pipeline which can precisely reconstruct and date strain-level phylogenies for microbiome species using carbon dated ancient metagenomic samples as calibration under Bayesian molecular clocking framework. The application of this tool has uncovered the unprecedented evolutionary diversity, in the context of geography and time period, of three Methanobrevibacter species from the human oral microbiome, and reconstructed a delicate time-resolved evolutionary history for common gut microbial species, such as Prevotella copri, Eubacterium rectale, Methanobrevibacter smithii and others mainly populating in the human gut microbiota. This approach promises that more underlying evolutionary history about the human microbiome will be unveiled in the foreseen future.
(401376) Grace [Sophia] Leadbetter
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Acute liver failure due to natural killer-like T-cell leukemia/lymphoma: A case report and review of the Literature
Creators: name: Tang, Wozhan
name: Dunphy, Cherie H.
name: Russo, Mark W.
name: Dellon, Evan S.
name: Morris, Shannon R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Acute liver failure (ALF) is a medical emergency requiring immediate evaluation for liver transplantation. We describe an unusual case of a patient who presented with ascites, jaundice, and encephalopathy and was found to have ALF due to natural killer (NK)-like T cell leukemia/lymphoma. The key immunophenotype was CD2+, CD3+, CD7+, CD56+. This diagnosis, which was based on findings in the peripheral blood and ascitic fluid, was confirmed with liver biopsy, and was a contraindication to liver transplantation. A review of the literature shows that hematologic malignancies are an uncommon cause of fulminant hepatic failure, and that NK-like T-cell leukemia/lymphoma is a relatively recently recognized entity which is characteristically CD3+ and CD56+. This case demonstrates that liver biopsy is essential in diagnosing unusual causes of acute liver failure, and that infiltration of the liver with NK-like T-cell lymphoma/leukemia can cause acute liver failure.
(401378) John Allan Hunter Paton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Additional file 1 of New perspectives of purple starthistle (Centaurea calcitrapa) leaf extracts: phytochemical analysis, cytotoxicity and antimicrobial activity
Creators: name: Dimkić, Ivica
name: Petrović, Marija
name: Gavrilović, Milan
name: Uroš Gašić
name: Ristivojević, Petar
name: Slaviša Stanković
name: Peđa Janaćković
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Quantified phenolics and their yield (mg/kg) in C. calcitrapa extracts. Table S2. Proposed metabolites and m/z peak areas in five different C. calcitrapa extracts using UPLC–MS/MS4 analysis.
title: Non-Neoplastic Lesion of The Pituitary Gland: A Comprehensive Imaging Review Including Surgical Anatomy
Creators: name: Roul, Pradeep
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: Head and neck
subject: Paediatric
subject: MR
subject: Normal variants
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Congenital
subject: Endocrine disorders

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To discuss laboratory and clinical data regarding the pituitary gland that may be useful for radiologists to elaborate differential diagnosis of pituitary pathologies with a brief discussion of its embryology and surgical anatomy. To illustrate the...
title: Uncommon Uses of Ultrasound Contrast
Creators: name: Valero Macià, Andrea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Paediatric
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Image registration

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Show unusual uses of ultrasound...