cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Editorial: Medienpädagogik vorgestellt
Creators: name: Vollbrecht, Ralf
name: Dallmann, Christine
Publisher: name: Medienwelten – Zeitschrift für Medienpädagogik
Year: 2014

description: Die dritte Ausgabe von Medienwelten hat sehr viel länger auf sich warten lassen als wir geplant hatten. Wir als Herausgeber haben die Zeit jedoch genutzt, um noch ein weiteres, ergänzendes Konzept für die Zeitschrift zu entwickeln. In loser Folge sollen Sonderausgaben von Medienwelten unter dem Titel Medienpädagogik vorgestellt erscheinen. Hier können sich Kolleginnen und Kollegen mit einem medienpädagogischen Themenschwerpunkt ihrer Wahl präsentieren und eine Ausgabe von Medienwelten als Ko-Herausgeber/-in mitverantworten. Wer ein solches Konzept vorschlägt, sieht sich mit Erwartungen konfrontiert und steht gewissermaßen in einer Bringschuld. Als ein wesentliches Thema der medienpädagogischen Lehre an der TU Dresden präsentiert Ralf Vollbrecht daher in dieser Ausgabe das Thema Filmbildung und narrative Pädagogik.
description: Medienwelten – Zeitschrift für Medienpädagogik, Nr. 3 (2014): Medienpädagogik vorgestellt: Filmbildung und narrative Pädagogik (TU Dresden)
Measurement of the $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$ charge asymmetry in events with highly Lorentz-boosted top quarks in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair events with highly Lorentz-boosted top quarks decaying to a single lepton and jets is presented. The analysis is performed using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$. The selection is optimized for top quarks produced with large Lorentz boosts, resulting in nonisolated leptons and overlapping jets. The top quark charge asymmetry is measured for events with a $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$ invariant mass larger than 750 GeV and corrected for detector and acceptance effects using a binned maximum likelihood fit. The measured top quark charge asymmetry of (0.42 $_{-0.69}^{+0.64}$)% is in good agreement with the standard model prediction at next-to-next-to-leading order in quantum chromodynamic perturbation theory with next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections. The result is also presented for two invariant mass ranges, 750-900 and $\gt$ 900 GeV.
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/TOP-21-014 (CMS Public Pages)
Quantum Encoding and Analysis on Continuous Time Stochastic Process with Financial Applications
Creators: name: Zhuang, Xi-Ning
name: Chen, Zhao-Yun
name: Xue, Cheng
name: Wu, Yu-Chun
name: Guo, Guo-Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The continuous time stochastic process is a mainstream mathematical instrument modeling the random world with a wide range of applications involving finance, statistics, physics, and time series analysis, while the simulation and analysis of the continuous time stochastic process is a challenging problem for classical computers. In this work, a general framework is established to prepare the path of a continuous time stochastic process in a quantum computer efficiently. The storage and computation resource is exponentially reduced on the key parameter of holding time, as the qubit number and the circuit depth are both optimized via our compressed state preparation method. The desired information, including the path-dependent and history-sensitive information that is essential for financial problems, can be extracted efficiently from the compressed sampling path, and admits a further quadratic speed-up. Moreover, this extraction method is more sensitive to those discontinuous jumps capturing extreme market events. Two applications of option pricing in Merton jump diffusion model and ruin probability computing in the collective risk model are given.
description: 37 pages, 15 figures
Transport with hard-core interaction in a chain of asymmetric cavities
Creators: name: Suárez, Gonzalo
name: Hoyuelos, Miguel
name: Mártin, Héctor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate the diffusion of particles inside a chain of asymmetric cavities. We are considering particles that interact through a hard--core potential and are driven by an external force. We show that the difference in the current when the force is applied to the left and to the right strongly depends on the concentration inside the cavity. We found that, when the concentration is high enough, the hard--core interaction vanishes and inverts the asymmetric effect of the cavity. We also introduce a new equation, a modification to the Fick--Jacobs equation, to describe this system analytically. Finally, we used numerical simulations to verify the analytic results, finding a good agreement between theory and simulations.
description: XXVI IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics, CCP2014 August 11-14, 2014, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Mixing the Frames. Horizontal and Vertical Paralepsis as a Metaleptic Tool for Activating the Fantastic Linkage within a Model of Cognitive and Hermeneutical Processes. The Case of 'Josef K.' by Michele Mari
Creators: name: Remorini, Paolo
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Italian Literature
subject: Italian Language and Literature
subject: Modern Literature
subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Other Arts and Humanities
subject: cognitive narratology
subject: Fantasmagonia
subject: fantastic literature
subject: metalepsis
subject: Michele Mari
subject: paralepsis

description: Since Genette first coined the term paralepsis in 1972 to define an unexpected deviation from the focalization statute of a narrative, there have been few narratological studies on this figure. In the light of the works of cognitive science and narratology and some of its postulates, this article propose the construction of a model of the cognitive and hermeneutical processes involved in narrative experience and the placement, within this model, of possible linguistic, narrative and paradigmatic transgression, that can allow the fantastic linkage to emerge. At the same time this article propose an updated definition of paralepsis as a metaleptic tool, as unexpected information that does not concern only an alteration of focalization but an ontological transgression of the levels of narration, delimiting the scope of two potential categories, both with two subtypes (top-down and bottom-up vertical paralepsis; internal and external horizontal paralepsis), and applying its implications to the analysis of the short story 'Josef K.' by Michele Mari (present in the collection Fantasmagonia of 2012).
Study protocol for a cluster-randomized trial to compare human papillomavirus based cervical cancer screening in community-health campaigns versus health facilities in western Kenya
Creators: name: Smith, Jennifer
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background Despite guidelines for cervical cancer prevention in low-resource countries, a very small proportion of women in these settings undergo screening, and even fewer women are successfully treated. Using pilot data from western Kenya and World Health Organization recommendations, we developed a protocol to implement evidence-based cervical cancer screening and linkage to treatment strategies to the rural communities. We describe the protocol for a cluster-randomized trial to compare two implementation strategies for human-papillomavirus (HPV)-based cervical cancer screening program using metrics described in the RE-AIM (reach, efficacy, adaption, implementation and maintenance) framework. Methods The study is a three-year, two-phase cluster-randomized trial in 18 communities in western Kenya. During Phase 1, six control communities were offered screening in health facilities; and six intervention communities were offered screening in community health campaigns. Screening was done with human-papillomavirus testing through self-collected specimens. Phase 1 ended and we are working in partnership with communities to further contextualize the implementation strategy for screening, and develop an enhanced linkage to treatment plan. This plan will be tested in an additional six communities in Phase 2 (enhanced intervention). We will compare the reach, efficacy, cost-effectiveness and adaptability of the implementation strategies. Discussion Effective low-cost cervical cancer prevention technologies are becoming more widely available in low- and middle-income countries. Despite increasing government support for cervical cancer prevention, there remains a sizeable gap in service availability. We will use implementation science to identify the most effective strategies to fill this gap through development of context-specific evidence-based solutions. This protocol design and results can help guide implementation of cervical cancer screening in similar settings, where women are most underserved and at highest risk for disease. Trial registration This trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov , NCT02124252 .
Supplementary document for Hardware-algorithm collaborative computing with photonic spiking neuron chip based on integrated Fabry–Pérot laser with saturable absorber - 6187518.pdf
Creators: name: Xiang, Shuiying
name: Shi, Yuechun
name: Guo, Xingxing
name: ZHANG, YAHUI
name: Wang, Hongji
name: ZHENG, DIAN ZHUANG
name: Song, Ziwei
name: Han, Yanan
name: Gao, Shuang
name: Zhao, ShiHao
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 20502 Lasers and Quantum Electronics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supplemental Document
Recommendations and a possible solution to prevent authors from paying to publish in journals
Creators: name: Ramasubramania Iyer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: payment
publish,
journals
accountability
tax relief

description: Abstract Paying to publish in journals has raised the accountability of what is being done with the paid money. This short communication deals with a recommendation and a possible solution for authors from sciences and social sciences to avoid payment to publish in journals.
Metallicity Ceiling in Quasars from Recycled Stellar Winds
Creators: name: Cheng, Shelley J.
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Optically luminous quasars are metal rich across all redshifts. Surprisingly, there is no significant trend in the broad-line region (BLR) metallicity with different star formation rates (SFR) and the average N V/ C IV metallicity does not appear to exceed $9.5~Z_\odot$. Combined, these observations may suggest a metallicity ceiling. Aims: Here, we conduct an exploratory study on scenarios relating to the evolution of embedded stars that may lead to a metallicity ceiling in quasar disks. Methods: We develop a simple model that starts with gas in a ''closed box'', which is enriched by cycles of stellar evolution until eventually newly formed stars may undergo significant mass loss before they reach the supernovae stage and further enrichment is halted. Using the MESA code, we create a grid over a parameter space of masses ($>8~M_\odot$) and metallicities ($1-10~Z_\odot$), and locate portions of the parameter space where mass loss via winds occurs on a timescale shorter than the lifetime of the stars. Results: We find that for reasonable assumptions about stellar winds, sufficiently massive ($8-22~M_\odot$) and metal-rich ($\sim9~Z_\odot$) stars lose significant mass via winds and may no longer evolve to the supernovae stage, thereby failing to enrich and increase the metallicity of their surroundings. This suggests that a metallicity ceiling is the final state of a closed-box system of gas and stars.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted to A&A
Bayesian methods in clinical trials: a Bayesian analysis of ECOG trials E1684 and E1690
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Joseph
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2012

description: Abstract Background E1684 was the pivotal adjuvant melanoma trial for establishment of high-dose interferon (IFN) as effective therapy of high-risk melanoma patients. E1690 was an intriguing effort to corroborate E1684, and the differences between the outcomes of these trials have embroiled the field in controversy over the past several years. The analyses of E1684 and E1690 were carried out separately when the results were published, and there were no further analyses trying to perform a single analysis of the combined trials. Method In this paper, we consider such a joint analysis by carrying out a Bayesian analysis of these two trials, thus providing us with a consistent and coherent methodology for combining the results from these two trials. Results The Bayesian analysis using power priors provided a more coherent flexible and potentially more accurate analysis than a separate analysis of these data or a frequentist analysis of these data. The methodology provides a consistent framework for carrying out a single unified analysis by combining data from two or more studies. Conclusions Such Bayesian analyses can be crucial in situations where the results from two theoretically identical trials yield somewhat conflicting or inconsistent results.
Subsidized Senior Housing in the U.S.: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Park, Sojung
name: Amano, Takashi
name: Kim, Borin
name: Park, Soobin
name: Baek, Jihye
name: Ryu, Byeongju
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Objective: This scoping review described and synthesized existing literature on subsidized senior housing to determine to what extent empirical research available and the way the research has been conducted to identify strengths and gaps in the literature. Introduction: A flexible and diverse options of senior housing have emerged in many developed countries, which has largely been influenced by consumer preference for the high level of socialization and autonomy, coupled with access to personal care assistance services. This paper focuses on subsidized senior housing that provides a varying level of support and care, or subsidized senior housing. Inclusion criteria: This review will focus on empirical, peer-reviewed studies about senior housings publicly subsidized in the U.S. A such, studies about private-pay housing models or products will be excluded. Also, research done in non-U.S. context will be excluded. Since this review will focus on empirical research, literature for review will be limited to relatively recent studies published not earlier than 2010. Methods: An initial limited search of PsycINFO, CINAHL, MEDLINE, and PubMed will be undertaken to identify articles on the topic. The text words contained in the titles and abstracts of relevant articles, and the index terms used to describe the articles were used to develop a full search strategy. The search strategy, including all identified keywords and index terms, will be adapted for each included database and/or information source. The reference list of all included sources of evidence will be screened for additional studies.
Interferometry of $ε$ Aurigae: Characterization of the asymmetric eclipsing disk
Creators: name: Kloppenborg, Brian
name: Stencel, Robert
name: Monnier, John D.
name: Schaefer, Gail
name: Baron, Fabien
name: Tycner, Chris
name: Zavala, Robert T.
name: Hutter, Donald
name: Zhao, Ming
name: Che, Xiao
name: Brummelaar, Theo ten
name: Farrington, Chris
name: Parks, Robert
name: McAlister, Hal
name: Sturmann, Judit
name: Sturmann, Laszlo
name: Sallave-Goldfinger, P. J.
name: Turner, Nils
name: Pedretti, Ettoree
name: Thureau, Nathalie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a total of 106 nights of optical interferometric observations of the $ε$ Aurigae system taken during the last 14 years by four beam combiners at three different interferometric facilities. This long sequence of data provides an ideal assessment of the system prior to, during, and after the recent 2009-2011 eclipse. We have reconstructed model-independent images from the 10 in-eclipse epochs which show that a disk-like object is indeed responsible for the eclipse. Using new 3D, time-dependent modeling software, we derive the properties of the F-star (diameter, limb darkening), determine previously unknown orbital elements ($Ω$, $i$), and access the global structures of the optically thick portion of the eclipsing disk using both geometric models and approximations of astrophysically relevant density distributions. These models may be useful in future hydrodynamical modeling of the system. Lastly, we address several outstanding research questions including mid-eclipse brightening, possible shrinking of the F-type primary, and any warps or sub-features within the disk.
description: 105 pages, 57 figures. This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it
START Smart (Symptom Tracking for ADHD in Real Time using Smartphones): A Pilot Intervention Trial
Creators: name: Kennedy, Traci
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Child Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: ADHD
subject: executifive functioning
subject: inhibitory control
subject: mHealth
subject: mobile-health intervention
subject: personalized feedback
subject: self-monitoring
subject: symptom monitoring
subject: young adults

description: A pilot randomized controlled trial examining the feasibility and acceptability of a smartphone-based behavior monitoring and feedback intervention designed to reduce day-to-day ADHD symptoms and impairment for young adults.
Topological data analysis for revealing structural origin of density anomalies in silica glass
Creators: name: Tirelli, Andrea
name: Nakano, Kousuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological data analysis (TDA) is a new emerging and powerful tool to understand the medium range structure ordering of multi-scale data. This study investigates the density anomalies observed during cooling of liquid silica from topological point of view using TDA. The density of liquid silica does not monotonically increase during cooling; it instead shows a maximum and minimum. Despite tremendous efforts, the structural origin of these density anomalies is not clearly understood. Our approach reveals that the one-dimensional topology of the -Si-Si- network changes at the temperatures at which the maximum and minimum densities are observed in our MD simulations, while those of the -O-O- and -Si-O- networks change at lower temperatures. These results are also supported by conventional ring analysis. Our work demonstrates the value of new topological techniques in understanding the transitions in glassy materials and sheds light on the characterization of glass-liquid transitions.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures, in the main text
Lights, shadows and doubts on the policies for R&D in Italy
Creators: name: Terranova, Ferdinando
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: This article addresses the issue of R&D in Italy, the institutions that finance it, its operational tools, spin-offs and start-ups, put in place to ensure that the R&D can be transformed into productive innovation, both of the process and the product. The question that is addressed concerns the funding streams for the launch and development of the operational instruments. The picture that emerges is extremely diverse and irregular between sources of income from the European Union, national Government, national research bodies and agencies, both public and private, the Italian regions and local entities (EELL) directly and through their subsidiary companies. It leads to the question that this article attempts to answer: is the assertion that insufficient resources are devoted to R&D true? With regard to this, there are numerous legitimate doubts, and there is reason to believe that the fact there are so many channels for dispersing the resources devoted to R&D is primarily related to the excessive number of sources of funding, not to mention the evaluative procedures and timing for allocating funds. This is one aspect. The main issue is the lack of a widely shared programming policy, based on the priorities of the national and local communities for responses to their human needs.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 7 (2014): Architectural technologies research and development
Intrinsic efficiency of injection photocurrents in magnetic materials
Creators: name: Campos-Hernandez, Alonso J.
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Grushin, Adolfo G.
name: de Juan, Fernando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The generation of shift and ballistic photocurrents in non-centrosymmetric materials represents a promising alternative mechanism for light energy harvesting. Many studies have focused on finding the best suited materials by maximizing the photocurrent magnitude, but estimating the actual efficiency requires knowledge of the light-induced DC photoconductivity and is rarely considered. Using the recently proposed jerk current as photoconductivity, in this work we show that only ballistic photocurrents have finite efficiency in the limit of large relaxation times $τ$. Moreover, at zero temperature the only ballistic current which is finite for unpolarized light is the magnetic injection current, only present in magnetic materials. We present a band structure expression for the efficiency of such photocurrent, showing that it scales as $(\hbar Ω-E_g)^2$ near the band edge, and we present its frequency dependence for a simple tight-binding model. Our work provides a new tool to guide the search for efficient energy harvesting based on the magnetic injection current.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Innovation, technology transfer and development: the spin-off companies
Creators: name: Valente, Teodoro
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: The article starts from the identification of the reasons why Italy is less prone to technology transfer than other countries, and indicates some key issues for the diffusion of technological innovations and the development of human capital. In particular, technology transfer is not a generic form of exploitation of outcome of the research, it involves specific actions that have impact on economic production, such as the patenting and the creation of new companies (spin-offs). The author discusses the various forms of spin-offs of university research, the evolution of the phenomenon in the structures of the uni- versities, the stages of development of a spin-off company and the current fund- ing arrangements and to be promoted.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 7 (2014): Architectural technologies research and development
Latent Neural Stochastic Differential Equations for Change Point Detection
Creators: name: Ryzhikov, Artem
name: Hushchyn, Mikhail
name: Derkach, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automated analysis of complex systems based on multiple readouts remains a challenge. Change point detection algorithms are aimed to locating abrupt changes in the time series behaviour of a process. In this paper, we present a novel change point detection algorithm based on Latent Neural Stochastic Differential Equations (SDE). Our method learns a non-linear deep learning transformation of the process into a latent space and estimates a SDE that describes its evolution over time. The algorithm uses the likelihood ratio of the learned stochastic processes in different timestamps to find change points of the process. We demonstrate the detection capabilities and performance of our algorithm on synthetic and real-world datasets. The proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms on the majority of our experiments.
Direct comparison of domain wall behavior in Permalloy nanowires patterned by electron beam lithography and focused ion beam milling
Creators: name: Basith, M. A.
name: McVitie, S.
name: McGrouther, D.
name: Chapman, J. N.
name: Weaver, J. M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nominally identical permalloy nanowires, with widths down to 150 nm, were fabricated onto a single electron transparent Si$_{3}$N$_{4}$ membrane using electron beam lithography (EBL) and focused ion beam (FIB) milling. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) experiments were performed to compare the nanostructures produced by these two techniques in what we believe is the first direct comparison of fabrication techniques for nominally identical nanowires. Both EBL and FIB methods produced high quality structures with edge roughness being of the order of the mean grain size 5 -10 nm observed in the continuous films. However, significant grain growth was observed along the edges of the FIB patterned nanowires. Lorentz TEM \emph{in situ} imaging was carried out to compare the magnetic behavior of the domain walls in the patterned nanowires with anti-notches present to pin domain walls. The overall process of domain wall pinning and depinning at the anti-notches showed consistent behaviour between nanowires fabricated by the two methods with the FIB structures having slightly lower characteristic fields compared to the EBL wires. However, a significant difference was observed in the formation of a vortex structure inside the anti-notches of the EBL nanowires after depinning of the domain walls. No vortex structure was seen inside the anti-notches of the FIB patterned nanowires. Results from micromagnetic simulations suggest that the vortex structure inside the anti-notch can be suppressed if the saturation magnetization (M$_{s}$) is reduced along the nanowires edges. Whilst the two fabrication methods show that well defined structures can be produced for the dimensions considered here, the differences in the magnetic behavior for nominally identical structures may be an issue if such structures are to be used as conduits for domain walls in potential memory and logic applications.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
The Long-Term Impact of Summer Youth Employment Programs on Outcomes
Creators: name: Modestino, Alicia
name: Braga, Anthony
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law and Economics
subject: Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
subject: Economics
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Criminal justice; Youth; Workforce development

description: During the pandemic, many American cities have faced a sharp increase in violent crime among youth. Based on prior research evidence, cities have sought to expand their Summer Youth Employment Programs (SYEP) as one approach to curb youth violence while providing meaningful employment experiences that can increase the likelihood of post-secondary enrollment and completion. For example, one prior RCT study found that the Boston SYEP reduced violent crime by 35 percent during the 17 months after participating in the program (Modestino 2019). Similar SYEP program impacts on crime using an RCT design have also been found in Chicago (Heller 2014) and New York (Gelber, Isen, and Kessler 2014). In addition, more recent research evidence shows that the Boston SYEP also improves on-time high school graduation (Modestino, forthcoming 2022) and post-secondary enrollment (Modestino and Paul, forthcoming 2022). Yet, prior studies have primarily focused on whether summer jobs programs improve outcomes over a relatively short follow-up period of 1-2 years rather than the longer-term (e.g. 5 or more years). Although the initial short-term reduction in violent crime is likely welcome by localities, it may be the case that these impacts are short-lived—especially without further positive experiences to sustain any behavioral changes. Indeed, violent offending typically increases through age 25 years, or even later for youth of color living in low-income neighborhoods (Monahan, Steinberg, and Piquero 2015). Similarly, it might be the case that youth in the control group eventually graduate from high school and subsequently experience rates of post-secondary enrollment that are equivalent to the treatment group. This project will evaluate the long-term impacts of the Boston Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) on both violent crime and post-secondary enrollment using an embedded randomized control (e.g., lottery) design. Using data from the Boston SYEP for the summer of 2015, we will measure criminal justice outcomes through 2021 (up to six years post). A secondary goal of this research is to understand the mechanisms behind the program’s impacts. For example, SYEPs may make crime less attractive by raising career and academic aspirations through access to skill development, career mentoring, and employer networks so that youth stay out of trouble, based on the belief that “nothing stops a bullet like a job” (Cook and Ludwig, 2011). Using more granular administrative data on both crime and school interactions we will test these alternative mechanisms by which SYEPs may affect youth behavior in the long-run.
Third mission: university spin-offs in Italy amidst opportunities and problems
Creators: name: Giofrè, Francesca
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: This contribution investigates and discusses the distribution of spin-off businesses activated in the public universities, colleges and polytechnics at national level in relation to operational areas, with attention focused on civil engineering and architecture. The framework of reference for the spin-offs, one of the instruments of the third mission (1), has been reconstructed by processing the data made available by the National Agency for the Evaluation of the University System and Research and the indications of the X Netval Report on the Development of Italian Public Research. For university structures with spin-offs related to the areas of civil engineering and architecture, the data have been updated through information from web portals and direct inquiry.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 7 (2014): Architectural technologies research and development
Untersuchung der Möglichkeiten des datenmäßigen Abgleichs von Täterbegehungsmerkmalen zur Fallzusammenführung. Zusammenfassung
Creators: name: Steffen, Wiebke
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Bayern , Polizei , Mehrfachtäter
subject: 360

description: Zweitveröffentlichung
Interplay between pulsations and mass loss in the blue supergiant 55 Cygnus = HD 198478
Creators: name: Kraus, M.
name: Haucke, M.
name: Cidale, L. S.
name: Venero, R. O. J.
name: Nickeler, D. H.
name: Nemeth, P.
name: Niemczura, E.
name: Tomic, S.
name: Aret, A.
name: Kubat, J.
name: Kubatova, B.
name: Oksala, M. E.
name: Cure, M.
name: Kaminski, K.
name: Dimitrov, W.
name: Fagas, M.
name: Polinska, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Blue supergiant stars are known to display photometric and spectroscopic variability that is suggested to be linked to stellar pulsations. Pulsational activity in massive stars strongly depends on the star's evolutionary stage and is assumed to be connected with mass-loss episodes, the appearance of macroturbulent line broadening, and the formation of clumps in the wind. To investigate a possible interplay between pulsations and mass-loss, we carried out an observational campaign of the supergiant 55 Cyg over a period of five years to search for photospheric activity and cyclic mass-loss variability in the stellar wind. We modeled the H, He I, Si II and Si III lines using the nonlocal thermal equilibrium atmosphere code FASTWIND and derived the photospheric and wind parameters. In addition, we searched for variability in the intensity and radial velocity of photospheric lines and performed a moment analysis of the line profiles to derive frequencies and amplitudes of the variations. The Halpha line varies with time in both intensity and shape, displaying various types of profiles: P Cygni, pure emission, almost complete absence, and double or multiple peaked. The star undergoes episodes of variable mass-loss rates that change by a factor of 1.7-2 on different timescales. We also observe changes in the ionization rate of Si II and determine a multiperiodic oscillation in the He I absorption lines, with periods ranging from a few hours to 22.5 days. We interpret the photospheric line variations in terms of oscillations in p-, g-, and strange modes. We suggest that these pulsations can lead to phases of enhanced mass loss. Furthermore, they can mislead the determination of the stellar rotation. We classify the star as a post-red supergiant, belonging to the group of alpha Cyg variables.
description: 20 pages, 18 figures, 3 tables, accepted to Astronomy & Astrophysics
Erratum to: Allergen immunotherapy for IgE-mediated food allergy: protocol for a systematic review
Creators: name: Burks, Wesley
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Unfortunately this article [1] was published with an error in the Funding section. The BM4SIT project is not acknowledged. This section should be corrected to the below: Funding EAACI and the BM4SIT project (Grant Number 601763) in the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7.
Byung-Chul Han and Burnout
Creators: name: White, Andrew
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Burnout is a pervasive phenomenon associated with modern work culture. In this thesis burnout is analysed through the philosophy of Byung-Chul Han. Han argues that neoliberal society is creating pathologies engendered by an obsession with maximising achievement and performance and an inability to engage in negative (or Other) experiences. For Han, ours is a society of excessive positivity that is to be contrasted with the disciplinary society. The (idealised) achievement subject is conditioned by new power relations to express unbounded freedom. But this creates a paradox—the free constraint of maximising individual achievement and self-optimisation. Burnout arises from this paradoxical form of freedom, which becomes an immanent form of violence—the violence of positivity. Han supports this argument with an original concept of power and the claim that psychopolitical power has become invisible and has replaced class struggle with an inner struggle of the self. The solutions proposed by Han, rely on the value of experiences of negativity, which can provide the impetus to counteract obsessive activity and burnout, and a reengagement with the Other. This can be enriched by the view that contemplation and periods of inactivity can give expression to autonomy and meaning. The thesis presents and critically analyses Han’s original approach in contemporary critical theory, drawing on other seminal references (notably Foucault and Agamben) and the emerging secondary literature dedicated to his work.
Re-cycling social housing.Tools, methods, design strategies for innovating Social Housing processes and intervention models
Creators: name: Perriccioli, Massimo
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: The sustainable renewal of social housing can only be tackled nowadays with the help of design strategies which are able to deal with and coordinate three key issues: the transformation of housing requisites, the deployment of new operational and financial models for carrying out interventions, and the optimization of energy and material resources. The Social Housing cluster was set up a few months ago in the SITdA to coordinate multi-disciplinary research projects exploring the economic, social and environmental feasibility of experimental interventions designed to upgrade the existing built heritage in the light of the most recent energy standards, while at the same time responding to the new housing requisites emerging in the various regional contexts throughout Italy.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 7 (2014): Architectural technologies research and development
21 cm power spectrum in interacting cubic Galileon model
Creators: name: Dinda, Bikash R.
name: Hossain, Md. Wali
name: Sen, Anjan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show the detectability of interacting and non-interacting cubic Galileon models from the $Λ$CDM model through the 21 cm power spectrum. We show that the interferometric observations like the upcoming SKA1-mid can detect both the interacting and the non-interacting cubic Galileon model from the $Λ$CDM model depending on the parameter values.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, comments are welcome
Tracking the evolution of alternatively spliced exons within the Dscamfamily
Creators: name: Crayton, Mack E
name: Vision, Todd
name: Powell, Bradford C
name: Giddings, Morgan C.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2006

description: Abstract Background The Dscam gene in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, contains twenty-four exons, four of which are composed of tandem arrays that each undergo mutually exclusive alternative splicing (4, 6, 9 and 17), potentially generating 38,016 protein isoforms. This degree of transcript diversity has not been found in mammalian homologs of Dscam. We examined the molecular evolution of exons within this gene family to locate the point of divergence for this alternative splicing pattern. Results Using the fruit fly Dscam exons 4, 6, 9 and 17 as seed sequences, we iteratively searched sixteen genomes for homologs, and then performed phylogenetic analyses of the resulting sequences to examine their evolutionary history. We found homologs in the nematode, arthropod and vertebrate genomes, including homologs in several vertebrates where Dscam had not been previously annotated. Among these, only the arthropods contain homologs arranged in tandem arrays indicative of mutually exclusive splicing. We found no homologs to these exons within the Arabidopsis, yeast, tunicate or sea urchin genomes but homologs to several constitutive exons from fly Dscam were present within tunicate and sea urchin. Comparing the rate of turnover within the tandem arrays of the insect taxa (fruit fly, mosquito and honeybee), we found the variants within exons 4 and 17 are well conserved in number and spatial arrangement despite 248–283 million years of divergence. In contrast, the variants within exons 6 and 9 have undergone considerable turnover since these taxa diverged, as indicated by deeply branching taxon-specific lineages. Conclusion Our results suggest that at least one Dscam exon array may be an ancient duplication that predates the divergence of deuterostomes from protostomes but that there is no evidence for the presence of arrays in the common ancestor of vertebrates. The different patterns of conservation and turnover among the Dscam exon arrays provide a striking example of how a gene can evolve in a modular fashion rather than as a single unit.
Algebraic statistics of Poincaré recurrences in DNA molecule
Creators: name: Mazur, Alexey K.
name: Shepelyansky, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Statistics of Poincaré recurrences is studied for the base-pair breathing dynamics of an all-atom DNA molecule in realistic aqueous environment with thousands of degrees of freedom. It is found that at least over five decades in time the decay of recurrences is described by an algebraic law with the Poincaré exponent close to $β=1.2$. This value is directly related to the correlation decay exponent $ν= β-1$, which is close to $ν\approx 0.15$ observed in the time resolved Stokes shift experiments. By applying the virial theorem we analyse the chaotic dynamics in polynomial potentials and demonstrate analytically that exponent $β=1.2$ is obtained assuming the dominance of dipole-dipole interactions in the relevant DNA dynamics. Molecular dynamics simulations also reveal the presence of strong low frequency noise with the exponent $η=1.6$. We trace parallels with the chaotic dynamics of symplectic maps with a few degrees of freedom characterized by the Poincaré exponent $β\sim 1.5$.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Technology and architectural heritage. Research experiences in archaeological sites
Creators: name: Germanà, Maria Luisa
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: Although the architectural heritage is of considerable importance in Italy, we often encounter critical conditions that perpetuate emergencies rather than efficiency. Those working in this field complain of poor resources, procedural hitches and clashing skills. Visitors encounter indecorous or risky conditions, difficulty of use and an unsatisfactory integration with the socio-economic sphere. Methodological instruments of Architectural Technology are essential in order to tackle these critical conditions, which are most prominent in the borderline cases of archaeological sites, because of the clear break with contemporary life and the intrinsic vulnerability of archaeological structures. Although they are related to immaterial technology, these tools produce tangible effects, occasioning reliability in every intervention. The operational aspects are intermingled with the wider issues of quality and effectiveness of process with reference to the public client.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 7 (2014): Architectural technologies research and development
Likelihood-Free Parameter Estimation with Neural Bayes Estimators
Creators: name: Sainsbury-Dale, Matthew
name: Zammit-Mangion, Andrew
name: Huser, Raphaël
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Neural point estimators are neural networks that map data to parameter point estimates. They are fast, likelihood free and, due to their amortised nature, amenable to fast bootstrap-based uncertainty quantification. In this paper, we aim to increase the awareness of statisticians to this relatively new inferential tool, and to facilitate its adoption by providing user-friendly open-source software. We also give attention to the ubiquitous problem of making inference from replicated data, which we address in the neural setting using permutation-invariant neural networks. Through extensive simulation studies we show that these neural point estimators can quickly and optimally (in a Bayes sense) estimate parameters in weakly-identified and highly-parameterised models with relative ease. We demonstrate their applicability through an analysis of extreme sea-surface temperature in the Red Sea where, after training, we obtain parameter estimates and bootstrap-based confidence intervals from hundreds of spatial fields in a fraction of a second.
description: The American Statistician (2023)
Polizei und Jugendamt: Formen, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Zusammenarbeit bei der Bekämpfung der Jugendkriminalität
Creators: name: Steffen, Wiebke
name: Stolz, Edgar
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Bayern , Polizei , Kriminalität , Jugend , Jugendamt
subject: 360

description: Der Untersuchungsbericht hat zwei Schwerpunkte: (1) Beschreibung und Diskussion der gesetzlichen Aufgaben und der sich daraus ergebenden Handlungslegitimationen polizeilicher und nichtpolizeilicher Einrichtungen in den Bereichen Jugendpflege, Jugendschutz und Jugendstrafrecht. (2) Bestandsaufnahme und Bewertung der Zusammenarbeit mit den Jugendämtern und den Trägern der freien Jugendhilfe aus der Sicht der Bayerischen Landespolizei .
The strategic role of cross-sectoral research in the design of hospitals: the contribution of TESIS* research center
Creators: name: Del Nord, Romano
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: The design of buildings, such as hospitals where the complexity concerns as much the interpretation of the requirements framework as their required permeability to the ever accelerated dynamics of bio-technological innovations proposed by the market, requires continuous research which in- creasingly goes beyond the boundaries of the architectural discipline as it is currently codified. Constant dialogue with what scientific research produces in the international sphere and with culturally differentiated approaches becomes an imperative for those – professionals or institutions – wishing to operate with real time up-dating in order to increase the performance quality of their products. Scientific organizations that set themselves these objectives cannot disregard the constraints imposed by this scenario, with the consequent require- ment to actively position themselves in international networks which, with their constant cross-sectoral production, fuel the debate on foreseeable trends and the implications that all this determines with regard to design. The following article seeks to represent the coordinates of this new operating scenario of scientific research, highlighting the methods and the operating practices put in place by the TESIS Interuniversity Centre for Re- search of Florence.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 7 (2014): Architectural technologies research and development