cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Convergence of digital twin and human-data interaction: advancing customer experience in the built environment
Creators: name: Chan, Anson Tsz Kwan
name: Parn, Erika
name: Wang, Mudan
name: Brilakis, Ioannis
name: Nick, Lauezzari
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2025

description: Digital Twin (DT) demonstrates opportunities to advance Human-Data Interaction. Previous studies documented DT applications in manufacturing and construction industries to improve accuracy and efficiency. While these findings showcased DT’s benefits as a product or process, it lacks connection with humans - the users of DTs. This paper is the first to explore the potential of transitioning DT into Twin System to address Customer Experience (CX) challenges in the built environment. A literature review and focus group discussion were conducted to develop a 3-layered Twin System framework with 26 applications. The conceptualizations extend DT from a technology-focused aspect to a human-centric design.
Landau-Zener tunneling of a single Tb3+ magnetic moment allowing the electronic read-out of a nuclear spin
Creators: name: Urdampilleta, Matias
name: Klyatskaya, Svetlana
name: Ruben, Mario
name: Wernsdorfer, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A multi-terminal device based on a carbon nanotube quantum dot was used at very low tem- perature to probe a single electronic and nuclear spin embedded in a bis-phthalocyanine Terbium (III) complex (TbPc2). A spin-valve signature with large conductance jumps was found when two molecules were strongly coupled to the nanotube. The application of a transverse field separated the magnetic signal of both molecules and enabled single-shot read-out of the Terbium nuclear spin. The Landau-Zener (LZ) quantum tunneling probability was studied as a function of field sweep rate, establishing a good agreement with the LZ equation and yielding the tunnel splitting Δ. It was found that ? increased linearly as a function of the transverse field. These studies are an essential prerequisite for the coherent manipulation of a single nuclear spin in TbPc2.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, to appear in PRB
IMPROVING THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGING CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
Creators: name: Safarov, T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This article examines the issues of forming a legal framework for managing conflicts of interest in the Republic of Uzbekistan. In particular, international standards for resolving conflicts of interest were analyzed, causal conditions that impede the prevention of situational conflicts of interest, issues that prevent a full fair assessment of conflict situations, scientific and theoretical aspects for resolving personal and other interests, ways to distinguish between the qualifications of bribery and conflicts of interest, a comparative analysis of national and foreign legislation in this area was carried out, an analysis of the results of testing in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan was carried out, and the legislative establishment of restrictions on the prevention of conflict situations for public servants was argued.
Rethinking set theory
Creators: name: Leinster, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Mathematicians manipulate sets with confidence almost every day, rarely making mistakes. Few of us, however, could accurately quote what are often referred to as "the" axioms of set theory. This suggests that we all carry around with us, perhaps subconsciously, a reliable body of operating principles for manipulating sets. What if we were to take some of those principles and adopt them as our axioms instead? The message of this article is that this can be done, in a simple, practical way (due to Lawvere). The resulting axioms are ten thoroughly mundane statements about sets. This is an expository article for a general mathematical readership.
description: 8 pages, expository
PIERO MANZONI (1933-1963)SCRITTI E DOCUMENTI (1956-1963)
Creators: name: MARCONE, GASPARE LUIGI
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2019

description: Piero Manzoni (1933-1963). Scritti e documenti (1956-1963) focuses principally on two paths destined to intersect: a commentary on the texts published during the artist?s lifetime and a critical anthology composed of reviews, articles and texts published in Italy; in both cases the chronological extremes are the summer of 1956 and the February of 1963. A major primary source of material is without doubt the archive of the Fondazione Piero Manzoni in Milan, in part still under-explored by researchers. Documents, letters, texts and in some cases even new works have been found in private collections and in institutional archives and libraries. This paper is principally concerned with underling the various periods of Manzoni?s early career; that is to say, when the young artist was involved in direct exchanges and experiences with the great Italian artists ? who undoubtedly drew on stimuli from international culture ? of the previous generations. This germinal period was also the richest in terms of manifestos and texts, with relative drafts, proofs and notes, some already known and studied and others still awaiting clarification. In recent years there has been an increase in the number of publications and exhibitions on Manzoni?s ?later? years, analysing his output from around 1959-1960 through to his premature death, in substance from the period of the magazine Azimuth and the Galleria Azimut onwards, a period in which his work, projects and contacts had a European scope, delineating new forms and genealogies. Unfortunately, however, less attention has been paid to analysis of Manzoni?s early period, the formative years, his roots, his first solitary or ?nuclear? or slightly ?concretist? ventures that form the origins and foundations of the later European projects. The brief introductory essay primarily attempts to ?list? ideas, materials, reflections and figures very frequently ?new?, unpublished, forgotten or neglected. A commentary on the texts, Manzoni?s words and the thinking of his critics complete this endless study. A further twist is provided by this author?s own research; the material discovered during the past three years? study join and intersect with documents analysed previously which have in some cases first seen the light of day in articles published in monographical works, exhibition catalogues or conference papers. The more the research into Manzoni progresses, the clearer the idea of the infinite becomes ? the ?infinitable? as Manzoni himself would say ? in the sense that it is open-ended.
Improving risk controls following root cause analysis of serious incidents in healthcare
Creators: name: Peerally, Farhad M.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background Root cause analysis (RCA) is widely used following healthcare serious incidents, but does not necessarily lead to robust risk controls. This research aimed to examine current practices and to inform an understanding of what good looks like in formulating and implementing risk controls to improve patient safety.Methods First, I undertook a content analysis of 126 RCA reports over a three-year period from an acute NHS trust, with the goals of characterising (i)the contributory factors identified in investigations and (ii)the risk controls proposed in the action plans. Second, I conducted a narrative review of the academic literature on improving risk control practices in safety-critical industries, including but not limited to healthcare. Finally, I undertook a qualitative study involving 52 semi-structured interviews with expert stakeholders in post-incident management, analysed using the framework method.Results Content analysis of serious incident investigation reports identified the preoccupation of RCAs with identifying proximate errors at the sharp end of care, neglecting wider contexts and structures. Most (74%) risk controls proposed could be characterised as weak and were poorly aligned with identified contributory factors. Together, the narrative review and the findings of the interview study suggested eleven features essential to addressing these problems: systems-based investigations; a participatory approach, skilled and independent investigators; clear and shared language; including patients’ views; allocating time and space to risk control formulation; adding structure to risk control formulation; sustainable risk controls mapped to identified problems; purposeful implementation and better tracking of risk controls; a collaborative approach to quality assurance and improved organisational learning.Discussion and conclusion: RCAs as currently conducted, and the action plans that arise from them, are often flawed. The eleven features identified will be important in improving risk control formulation and implementation. To operationalise these features, there is a need for: professional and independent investigations, risk controls based on a sound theory of change, and improved cultures and structures for organisational learning.
The inside-out view on neutron star magnetospheres
Creators: name: Glampedakis, K.
name: Lander, S. K.
name: Andersson, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct hydromagnetic neutron star equilibria which allow for a non-zero electric current distribution in the exterior. The novelty of our models is that the neutron star's interior field is in equilibrium with its magnetosphere, thus bridging the gap between previous work in this area which either solves for the interior assuming a vacuum exterior or solves for the magnetosphere without modelling the star itself. We consider only non-rotating stars in this work, so our solutions are most immediately applicable to slowly-rotating systems such as magnetars. Nonetheless, we demonstrate that magnetospheres qualitatively resembling those expected for both magnetars and pulsars are possible within our framework. The "inside-out" approach taken in this paper should be more generally applicable to rotating neutron stars, where the interior and exterior regions are again not independent but evolve together.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
SHEEP AS ANIMAL MODEL IN MINIMALLY INVASIVE NEUROSURGERY IN EDEN2020
Creators: name: TROVATELLI, MARCO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2020

description: Glioblastomas (GBMs) is a malignant type of central nervous system tumours and its presentation is almost 80% of all malignant primary brain neoplasia. This kind of tumour is highly invasive infiltrating the white matter area and is confined to the central nervous with a very poor patient outcome survival around 10 months. Of the existing treatment approaches, Convection Enhanced drug Delivery (CED) offers several advantages for the patient but still suffers from significant shortcomings. Enhanced Delivery Ecosystem for Neurosurgery in 2020 (EDEN2020) is a European project supported with a new catheter development as the key project point in an integrated technology platform for minimally invasive neurosurgery. Due to the particular anatomy and size, sheep (Ovis aries) have been selected as experimental large animal model and a new Head Frame system MRI/CT compatible has been made and validated ad hoc for the project. In order to understand experimentally the best target point for the catheter introduction a sheep brain DTI atlas has been created. Corticospinal tract (CST), corpus callosum (CC), fornix (FX), visual pathway (VP) and occipitofrontal fascicle (OF), have been identified bilaterally for all the animals. Three of these white matter tracts, the corpus callosum, the fornix and the corona radiata, have been selected to understand the drugs diffusion properties and create a computational model of diffusivity inside the white matter substance. The analysis have been conducted via Focused Ion Beam using scanning Electron Microscopy combined with focused ion beam milling and a 2D analysis and 3D reconstruction made. The results showed homogeneous myelination via detection of ~40% content of lipids in all the different fibre tracts and the fibrous organisation of the tissue described as composite material presenting elliptical tubular fibres with an average cross-sectional area of circa 0.52?m2 and an estimated mean diameter of 1.15?m. Finally, as the project is currently ongoing, we provided an overview on the future experimental steps focalised on the brain tissue damage after the rigid catheter introduction.
Ballistic interferences in suspended graphene
Creators: name: Rickhaus, Peter
name: Maurand, Romain
name: Liu, Ming-Hao
name: Weiss, Markus
name: Richter, Klaus
name: Schönenberger, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene is a 2-dimensional (2D) carbon allotrope with the atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice. The low-energy electronic excitations in this 2D crystal are described by massless Dirac fermions that have a linear dispersion relation similar to photons. Taking advantage of this optics-like electron dynamics, generic optical elements like lenses, beam splitters and wave guides have been proposed for electrons in engineered ballistic graphene. Tuning of these elements relies on the ability to adjust the carrier concentration in defined areas, including the possibility to create bipolar regions of opposite charge (p-n regions). However, the combination of ballistic transport and complex electrostatic gating remains challenging. Here, we report on the fabrication and characterization of fully suspended graphene p-n junctions. By local electro-static gating, resonant cavities can be defined, leading to complex Fabry-Perot interference patterns in the unipolar and the bipolar regime. The amplitude of the observed conductance oscillations accounts for quantum interference of electrons that propagate ballistically over long distances exceeding 1 micron. We also demonstrate that the visibility of the interference pattern is enhanced by Klein collimation at the p-n interface. This finding paves the way to more complex gate-controlled ballistic graphene devices and brings electron optics in graphene closer to reality.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
THE INTERNET AND TERRORISM EXPRESSION CRIME：WHERE IS THE NEW BOUNDARY?
Creators: name: DONG, YAN
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2019

description: The main purpose of this thesis is to figure out the new boundary of terrorism expression crime in the internet age. Before answering this question, it provided the empirical evidence of how terrorists are radicalized by the terrorism propaganda online and proposed a new theoretical framework to explain this phenomenon. Accordingly, how the legal framework evolved during the past years to combat this phenomenon was reviewed. By comparing the national laws and typical boundary cases in the Supreme Court of the US, the UK and Italy, it finally proposed some suggestions for Chinese criminal justice system to find a balancing roadmap in terms of combating modern terrorism expression offenses while protecting freedom of expression, taking considerations of the constitutional context in different countries.
Real Space Renormalization in Statistical Mechanics
Creators: name: Efrati, Efi
name: Wang, Zhe
name: Kolan, Amy
name: Kadanoff, Leo P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper discusses methods for the construction of approximate real space renormalization transformations in statistical mechanics. In particular, it compares two methods of transformation: the "potential-moving" approach most used in the period 1975-1980 and the "rewiring method" as it has been developed in the last five years. These methods both employ a parameter, called χ, that measures the complexity of the localized stochastic variable forming the basis of the analysis. Both methods are here exemplified by calculations in terms of fixed points for the smallest possible values of χ. These calculations describe three models for two-dimensional systems: The Ising model solved by Onsager, the tricritical point of that model, and the three-state Potts model. The older method, often described as lower bound renormalization theory, provides a heuristic method giving reasonably accurate results for critical indices at the lowest degree of complexity, i.e. χ=2. In contrast, the rewiring method, employing "singular value decomposition", does not perform as well for low χvalues but offers an error that apparently decreases slowly toward zero as χis increased. It appears likely that no such improvement occurs in the older approach. A detailed comparison of the two methods is performed, with a particular eye to describing the reasons why they are so different. For example, the old method quite naturally employed fixed points for its analysis; these are hard to use in the newer approach. A discussion is given of why the fixed point approach proves to be hard in this context. In the new approach the calculated the thermal critical indices are satisfactory for the smallest values of χbut hardly improve as χis increased, while the magnetic critical indices do not agree well with the known theoretical values.
title: Fair Distribution of Vaccines Among Population Groups
Creators: name: Meister, Helmut
name: Grycko, Eugen
Publisher: name: MyCoRe Community
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Pandemic spread
subject: Prioritized Vaccination
subject: Simulation Model
subject: Comparative Game
subject: Equilibrium
subject: 510

description: Vaccination of a population of persons under limited resources is always a matter of controversial discussions. The common proceeding to overcome these medical and ethical problems as agreed in Germany in 2021 is a ranking of risk groups according to their lethal rates during the spread of the pandemics. The question arises whether this approach is really an optimal response to the pandemic development. One may argue, it is better to immunize those groups with the most intensive social activity rst, because they are the most dangerous group to other people. For an analysis of the situation we develop a simulation model for the spread of an infectious decease within a population divided into groups with dierent social activity and dierent lethal rates to examine the lethality rate of the whole population depending on the prioritization of vaccination. The result of the simulation runs suggests that the most vulnerable groups should be vaccinated rst, but does not identify a complete ranking of vaccination over all groups. Therefore in a second approach we model the situation as a comparative game with the focus on a fair distribution of a limited amount of vaccines. Game Theory provides the most suitable concepts to solve con ict situations with multiple actors competing against each other about vaccine application rates. We make use of such a concept for data generation. It seems that this approach prefers groups with high social activity but is also sensible to the lethal rates of other groups.
Coherent monochromatic phonons in highly-purified semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes
Creators: name: Honda, Yuki
name: Maret, Elizabeth
name: Hirano, Atsushi
name: Tanaka, Takeshi
name: Makino, Kotaro
name: Hase, Muneaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used a femtosecond pump-probe impulsive Raman technique to explore the polarization dependence of coherent optical phonons in highly-purified and aligned semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). Coherent phonon spectra for the radial breathing modes (RBMs) exhibit a different monochromatic frequency between the film and solution samples, indicating the presence of differing exciton excitation processes. By varying the polarization of the incident pump beam on the aligned SWCNT film, we found that the anisotropy of the coherent RBM excitation depends on the laser wavelength, which we consider to be associated with the resonant and off-resonant behavior of RBM excitation.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Appl. Phys. Lett
Pseudopotentials for correlated electron systems
Creators: name: Trail, J. R.
name: Needs, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A scheme is developed for creating pseudopotentials for use in correlated-electron calculations. Pseudopotentials for the light elements H, Li, Be, B, C, N, O, and F, are reported, based on data from high-level quantum chemical calculations. Results obtained with these correlated electron pseudopotentials (CEPPs) are compared with data for atomic energy levels and the dissociation energies, molecular geometries and zero-point vibrational energies of small molecules obtained from coupled cluster single double triple (CCSD(T)) calculations with large basis sets. The CEPPs give better results in correlated-electron calculations than Hartree-Fock-based pseudopotentials available in the literature.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures
BONE TURNOVER AND FRACTURE RISK IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES
Creators: name: CAIROLI, ELISA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2021

description: Introduction. Bone fragility is increasingly recognized as a complication of type 2 diabetes (T2DM). However, the underestimation of fracture (Fx) risk in T2DM using the classical assessment tools pointed out the need of clinical recommendations for the evaluation of bone health in T2DM. The multidisciplinary expert panel chaired by Chiodini suggested the diagnostic approaches for the detection of T2DM patients worthy of bone-active treatment (Chiodini I et al, Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2021). Aims. The aim of the study was to apply these algorithms to a well characterized cohort of postmenopausal women with T2DM to validate them in clinical practice. Materials and methods. The presence of the major T2DM-specific Fx risk factors (a disease duration ?10 years, one or more chronic T2DM complications, the use of insulin or thiazolidinediones and persistent poor glycaemic control) was ascertained at baseline in 107 female subjects with T2DM. They were conservatively followed-up. At baseline and after follow-up we evaluated bone mineral density (BMD) and the presence of clinical and morphometric vertebral Fx. Results. Following the flow-charts, 34 (31.8%) and 73 (68.2%) patients would have been pharmacologically and conservatively treated, respectively. Among the 49 patients without both clinical Fx and major T2DM-related risk factors, who would have been, therefore, conservatively followed-up, only one subject showed a prevalent vertebral Fx (sensitivity 90%, negative predictive value 98%). After the follow-up the BMD variation in T2DM patients who would have been pharmacologically treated did not differ from that observed in T2DM patients who would have been conservatively followed-up. Two patients experienced an incident Fx and both would have been pharmacologically treated at baseline. Conclusions. The clinical consensus recommendations established by the Italian multidisciplinary expert panel performed well in our sample of postmenopausal women with T2DM. Indeed, among those subjects with bone-active treatment indication as many as 15.3% of patients experienced an incident Fx fracture (incident rate 30 Fx per 1000 patient-years), thus confirming a high Fx risk worthy of specific treatment and, conversely, among those subjects without bone-active treatment indication no incident Fx were observed.
Temperature dependence of a vortex in a superfluid Fermi gas
Creators: name: Simonucci, S.
name: Pieri, P.
name: Strinati, G. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The temperature dependence of an isolated quantum vortex, embedded in an otherwise homogeneous fermionic superfluid of infinite extent, is determined via the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) equations across the BCS-BEC crossover. Emphasis is given to the BCS side of this crossover, where it is physically relevant to extend this study up to the critical temperature for the loss of the superfluid phase, such that the size of the vortex increases without bound. To this end, two novel techniques are introduced. The first one solves the BdG equations with "free boundary conditions", which allows one to determine with high accuracy how the vortex profile matches its asymptotic value at a large distance from the center, thus avoiding a common practice of constraining the vortex in a cylinder with infinite walls. The second one improves on the regularization procedure of the self-consistent gap equation when the inter-particle interaction is of the contact type, and permits to considerably reduce the time needed for its numerical integration, by drawing elements from the derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for composite bosons starting from the BdG equations.
description: 18 pgaes, 16 figures
Intrinsic atomic orbitals: An unbiased bridge between quantum theory and chemical concepts
Creators: name: Knizia, Gerald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modern quantum chemistry can make quantitative predictions on an immense array of chemical systems. However, the interpretation of those predictions is often complicated by the complex wave function expansions used. Here we show that an exceptionally simple algebraic construction allows for defining atomic core and valence orbitals, polarized by the molecular environment, which can exactly represent self-consistent field wave functions. This construction provides an unbiased and direct connection between quantum chemistry and empirical chemical concepts, and can be used, for example, to calculate the nature of bonding in molecules, in chemical terms, from first principles.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
O PLURALISMO SINGULAR
Creators: name: Pavao Santana, Jose Claudio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ano 11 – n. 40/2023 – https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8313079

Pode parecer contraditório o título deste breve escrito. Sim, porque

se é plural há reunião de elementos para traduzir que não se trata

de singular, no sentido de ser individual. É que o idioma ocial que

falamos tem dessas coisas.
FATTORI DI RISCHIO GENETICI NELLA MALATTIA DI ALZHEIMER E NELLA DEMENZA FRONTOTEMPORALE: STUDIO DI ASSOCIAZIONE DI GENI CANDIDATI POSIZIONALI E FUNZIONALI
Creators: name: DE RIZ, MILENA ALESSANDRA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Alzheimer?s disease (AD) and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) are two neurodegenerative and multifactorial diseases with complex etiology in which several genes involved in inflammation, oxidative damage and neuronal survival have been proposed to be candidate susceptibility factors. Given these premises, aims of this study have been to further analyze the association of candidate functional and positional genes in a population of 374 patient with AD, 291 with FTLD and 344 age matched controls. The first candidates studied have been the cell-dependent kinase inhibitor (CDKN) 2A and 2B, involved in cell cycle G1 phase progression, because abnormal cell cycle re-entry has been hypothesized to play a role in neurodegenerative disease, primarily AD. Allelic and genotypic frequencies of three tagging Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs), namely rs3731239 T/C, rs2811710 C/T and rs3217992 G/A, spanning CDKN2A and CDKN2B, and covering 100% gene variability, were analyzed. According to our data, CDKN2A and CDKN2B don?t likely act as risk factors for AD. Given the potential importance of kinesin KIF24, protein expressed in neurons and involved in axonal transport and neuron development, we studied the distribution of five Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNPs) located in the chromosome 9 haplotype identified via linkage analysis, including UBAP1 rs7018487, UBAP2 rs1785506 and rs307658, and KIF24 rs17350674 and rs10814083. A statistically significant increased frequency of the KIF24 rs17350674 AA genotype was observed in FTLD patients compared with controls, particularly in bvFTD and female patients, showing that KIF24 rs17350674 polymorphism may act as a risk factor for sporadic FTLD. BCL2-associated athanogene 1 (BAG1) is an anti-apoptotic factor interacting with tau and regulating its proteasomal degradation. A statistically significant decreased allelic frequency of the BAG-1 rs706118 SNP was observed in patients with FTLD, but not in AD. BAG-1 rs706118 SNP likely acts as protective factor for sporadic FTLD, but not for AD. Finally we studied the Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein hnRNP-A1, which may be linked to AD, because it could influence the maturation of the Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) mRNA, but also to FTLD, because it contains a glycine-rich consensus domain included in TAR DNA binding protein (TDP)43. In our study, hnRNP-A1 rs7967622 C/C genotype acts as risk factor only for FTLD in male population, while hnRNP-A1 relative expression levels were increased in AD patients, togheter with decreased levels of its transcription regulatory factor hsa-miR-590-3p. We confirmed the importance of genes influencing neuronal transport, metabolism and survival in both neurodegenerative diseases AD and FTLD; the observed differences are probably related to specific roles of these genes in pathogenic events occurring in FTLD only.
title: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Foundations, Applications, and Theory of Inductive Logic (FATIL2022)
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Thimm, Matthias
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 004

description: Inductive reasoning is one of the most important reasoning techniques for humans and formalises the intuitive notion of "reasoning from experience". It has thus influenced both theoretical work on the formalisation of rational models of thought in Philosophy as well as practical applications in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and, in particular, Machine Learning. The First International Conference on Foundations, Applications, and Theory of Inductive Logic (FATIL2022) brought together experts from all fields concerned with inductive reasoning.
Conformally flat sources for the Linet-Tian spacetime
Creators: name: Brito, Irene
name: da Silva, M. F. A.
name: Mena, Filipe C.
name: Santos, N. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the matching, across cylindrical surfaces, of static cylindrically symmetric conformally flat spacetimes with a cosmological constant $Λ$, satisfying regularity conditions at the axis, to an exterior Linet-Tian spacetime. We prove that for $Λ\leq 0$ such matching is impossible. On the other hand, we show through simple examples that the matching is possible for $Λ>0$. We suggest a physical argument that might explain these results.
description: Accepted for publication in General Relativity and Gravitation
D-JRP-PARADISE-WP4.4 Report of interlaboratory comparison of post-DNA extraction hybridization probe capture and MC-PCR for C. parvum and G. duodenalis
Creators: name: Troell Karin
name: De Jong Anton,
name: Van Der Ark Kees,
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cryptosporidium parvum
Giardia duodenalis
hybridization probe capture assay

description: This is a report from the OHEJP project: PARADISE, which deals with the  interlaboratory comparison of post-DNA extraction hybridization probe capture and MC-PCR for C. parvum and G. duodenalis 
Decohering localized waves
Creators: name: Rayanov, K.
name: Radons, G.
name: Flach, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the absence of confinement localization of waves takes place due to randomness or nonlinearity and relies on their phase coherence. We quantitatively probe the sensitivity of localized wave packets to random phase fluctuations and confirm the necessity of phase coherence for localization. Decoherence resulting from a dynamical random environment leads to diffusive spreading and destroys linear and nonlinear localization. We find that maximal spreading is achieved for optimal phase fluctuation characteristics which is a consequence of the competition between diffusion due to decoherence and ballistic transport within the mean free path distance.
description: Updated affiliation
HASPIN ROLE IN VESICLE DELIVERY AND POLARITY DISPERSION
Creators: name: QUADRI, ROBERTO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: The atypical protein kinase haspin is conserved in all eukaryotes and promotes the correct alignment of chromosomes on the metaphase plate by recruitment of the CPC. Here, using budding yeast as a model organism, we identified new functions for haspin paralogues (Alk1 and Alk2) in regulating actin and nuclear dynamics. Indeed, we show that haspin mutants experiencing mitotic delays accumulate actin and elongate their spindles entirely in daughter cells, with the consequence of generating anucleated mothers and binucleated daughters that are not vital. These defects are due to a hyperaccumulation of polarity proteins at the bud tip and indeed dispersion of these polarity factors or restoration of their physiological localization reduces the severity of the defects of haspin lacking cells. We also demonstrate that haspin regulates polarisome dispersion by affecting the distribution of Cdc42 activity in cells, particularly regulating the localization of Cdc24, the Cdc42 GEF. We report that localization of this GEF is regulated by Ras in mitosis and that haspin regulates the localization of Ras. We also noticed that loss of haspin causes a polarized delivery of exocytic vesicles towards the bud tip that could explain the defective localization of Ras in alk1?alk2? cells. Moreover, we identified Fab1 kinase as a putative interactor of Alk2 and provide evidences for a interplay between haspin and Fab1 complex.
Stenacidia violacea Reuter 1881
Creators: name: Greenslade, Penelope
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Sminthurididae
Stenacidia
Stenacidia violacea

description: Stenacidia violacea (Reuter, 1881)
 Sminthurus violaceus Reuter, 1881
Type locality: Losfdal, Finland. Holotype assumed to be lost.
 = Arrhopalites adelaidica Womersley, 1933 (partem, excluding lectotype) two ‘cotypes’, one female, one juvenile of Womersley 1933
 = Arrhopalites coccineus Salmon, 1941 syn. nov.
 = Jeannenotia stachi (Jeannenot, 1955): syn. Bretfeld 1999
 = Jeannenotia stachi australiensis Betsch and Massoud, 1970: syn. Greenslade (1994), Bretfeld (1999)
description: Published as part of Greenslade, Penelope, 2011, Synonymies of anomalous species of Arrhopalites from Australia and New Zealand, pp. 66-68 in Zootaxa 2996 on page 66, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202889
Composite Intrusion Detection in Process Control Networks
Creators: name: RRUSHI, JULIAN
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: An intrusion detection ensemble, i.e. a set of diverse intrusion detection algorithms employed as a group, has been shown to outperform each one those diverse algorithms employed individually. Moving along this line, we have devised an intrusion detection ensemble that inspects network packets that flow across the process control network of a digitally controlled physical system such as a power plant. Such process control specific intrusion detection ensemble is comprised of a statistical anomaly intrusion detection algorithm called the Estimation-Inspection (EI) algorithm, a physical process aware specification-based approach, a theory of deception for intrusion detection that we call mirage theory, and an alert fusion technique in the form of a Bayesian theory of confirmation. In this research we leverage evolutions of the content of specific locations in the random access memory (RAM) of control systems into means of characterizing the normalcy or abnormality of network traffic. The EI algorithm uses estimation methods from applied statistics and probability theory to estimate normal evolutions of RAM content. The physical process aware specification-based approach defines normal evolutions of RAM content via specifications developed manually through expert knowledge. Mirage theory consistently introduces deceptive evolutions of RAM content, and hence employs communicating finite state machines to detect any deviations caused by malicious network packets. The alert fusion technique also leverages evolutions of RAM content to estimate the degrees to which network traffic normalcy and abnormality hypotheses are confirmed on evidence. In this dissertation we provide a detailed discussion of these intrusion detection algorithms along with a detailed discussion of the alert fusion technique. We also discuss an empirical testing of the proposed intrusion detection ensemble in a small testbed comprised of Linux PC-based control systems that resemble the process control environment of a power plant; and in the case of the EI algorithm, a probabilistic validation via stochastic activity networks with activity-marking oriented reward structures.
Comparison of Different Algorithms for Sentiment Analysis: Psychological Stress Notes
Creators: name: Yoon, Sunmoo
name: Parsons, Faith E.
name: Sundquist, Kevin J.
name: Julian, Jacob E.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Burg, Matthew M.
name: Davidson, Karina W.
name: Diaz, Keith M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Natural language processing (Computer science)
Stress management
Stress (Psychology)

description: To visualize and compare three text analysis algorithms of sentiment (AFINN, Bing, Syuzhet), applied to 1549 ecologically assessed self-report stress notes obtained by smartphone, in order to gain insights about stress measurement and management.
Cognitive Interference Alignment for OFDM Two-tiered Networks
Creators: name: Maso, Marco
name: Cardoso, Leonardo S.
name: Debbah, Merouane
name: Vangelista, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this contribution, we introduce an interference alignment scheme that allows the coexistence of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) macro-cell and a cognitive small-cell, deployed in a two-tiered structure and transmitting over the same bandwidth. We derive the optimal linear strategy for the single antenna secondary base station, maximizing the spectral efficiency of the opportunistic link, accounting for both signal sub-space structure and power loading strategy. Our analytical and numerical findings prove that the precoder structure proposed is optimal for the considered scenario in the face of Rayleigh and exponential decaying channels.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. Accepted and presented at the IEEE 13th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2012. Authors' final version. Copyright transferred to IEEE
Remote sensing: Application potentials in Africa. TAB-Fokus
Creators: name: Gerlinger, Katrin
Publisher: name: Büro für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung beim Deutschen Bundestag (TAB)
Year: 2013

description: Remote-sensing satellites are a core area of German space technology and a focus of the federal government’s high-tech strategy which enjoys substantial public funding. Developing countries offer considerable application potential for remote-sensing data (e. g. weather services, environmental monitoring, agriculture and forestry, urban development, disaster management). User-oriented information services need to be developed in order to achieve these potentials. There are significant deficiencies in this regard in Africa, compared with other continents. The state, as an important sponsor, supporting authority and regulator of technology development, can offer substantial support for applications in developing countries.
Natural language understanding through emotions and stylistic elements
Creators: name: Raji, Shahab
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: In the context of text understanding, computational methods are used to study how humans utilize stylistic elements (visual and rhetorical) in combination with language to express emotions and opinions. In this dissertation, I present several computational experiments and annotated datasets for understanding the communicative meanings of these presentations. This involves studying computational models for predicting emotions, rhetorical relations, and lexical aspects. First, I explore to what extent distributional semantic models and other proposed resources can capture the intensity of emotions in lexical items. Using human judgment as gold standard, I employ language models for word-level emotion intensity prediction and present a technique to attain an emotional database. This new emotion database provides graded emotion intensity scores for English language words with regard to a fine-grained inventory of over 200 different emotion categories. In the next step, in a series of unsupervised, supervised, and self-supervised experiments, I estimate the word-level emotion intensity scores for specific emotions. The results indicate that: 1) the sentiment score of words can improve distributional models for emotion classification, and 2) language models perform better in practice in comparison to emotion lexicons. Next, I present a statistical analysis of the role of emojis in text as a visual element that conveys emotion. I quantify the strong connection between the emoji and emotions by collecting and analyzing large corpus tweets. I partially annotate the dataset with the syntactic role of emojis in the text. The empirical results illustrate that emojis are used mainly to intensify the emotion in a sentence; however, in some cases, they replace a word or phrase in the sentence or signal contrast in a sarcastic context. The last part of the dissertation focuses on the usage of the Persian language in different contexts and for different purposes. The majority of works in NLU challenges are concentrated on resource-rich languages like English. As an effort to deliver high-quality evaluation resources for Persian, I present two corpora to analyze stylistic and rhetorical elements in standard and poetic Persian text. The first corpus covers Persian literary text mainly focusing on poetry, annotated for century and style, with additional partial annotation of rhetorical figures. Next is a benchmark for textual entailment in Persian. This is part of a larger benchmark that covers a range of language understanding tasks in Persian (eg. reading comprehension, textual entailment, sentiment analysis, etc). This benchmark is the first work designed for studying various NLP tasks in Persian.
Numerical Approximation of Probability Mass Functions Via the Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform
Creators: name: Warr, Richard L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 30E10, 60G10, 60K15, 62N05, 90B25

description: First passage distributions of semi-Markov processes are of interest in fields such as reliability, survival analysis, and many others. The problem of finding or computing first passage distributions is, in general, quite challenging. We take the approach of using characteristic functions (or Fourier transforms) and inverting them, to numerically calculate the first passage distribution. Numerical inversion of characteristic functions can be numerically unstable for a general probability measure, however, we show for lattice distributions they can be quickly calculated using the inverse discrete Fourier transform. Using the fast Fourier transform algorithm these computations can be extremely fast. In addition to the speed of this approach, we are able to prove a few useful bounds for the numerical inversion error of the characteristic functions. These error bounds rely on the existence of a first or second moment of the distribution, or on an eventual monotonicity condition. We demonstrate these techniques in an example and include R-code.
title: On the relative ease of growth and user involvement in local responsive, two-side business models
Creators: name: Marx, Klemens
name: Ploier, Friedrich Walter
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: two-side business
subject: platform businesses
subject: local responsive
subject: scaling
subject: user engagement
subject: matchmaking

description: Platform businesses are anticipated with capacity-limit free, rapid growth and almost zero marginal costs. However, the implementation of a platform business and the inherent need to address the need and requirements of more than one customer group is a major challenge. Many companies struggle to establish a working platform, and several have even failed miserably. Particularly for platforms which must respond to specific local requirements it is essential to develop effective mechanisms to avoid growth limiting effects. Reaching a critical user mass and establishing a community where users of the platform actively engage is a key issue for any platform but particularly for local responsive platform businesses to counteract the with the local responsiveness anticipated costs. This thesis covers the case of CHillO, a platform business idea, that operates in the matchmaking market which must consider the aspect of local responsiveness to be successful. Today match-making is used in countless situations and in many ways. It’s all about bringing people together efficiently based on relevant information for the specific case. Most of today’s matchmaking services focus on connecting adults for the sake of finding business partners, employees, dates or life partners. CHillO extends the traditional approach to parents with kids seeking playfellows and family-friendly activities nearby. The mobile service is an easy 1-2-meet solution which incorporates family-friendly meeting places for families to have a joyful quality time. As such, CHillO will do the same as Uber does with taxis: It makes visible what is already there – playfellows, parents in a similar situation and play activities. This thesis combines a mix of theory and empirical work to answer these questions • How to build a scalable but local responsive platform business and its specific application to CHillO? • What are important factors that promote user engagement and how to generate revenues in platform businesses? • What are potential user groups, which are the most valuable user groups and which functionalities are valued the most? The result of this thesis is a scaling strategy, a user engagement strategy and a business plan for the first three years of operation of CHillO.
'Foreword'
Creators: name: Ponzanesi, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: To talk about multiculturalism today seems not only obsolete but also irrelevant. Yet nothing could be more untrue and problematic. Despite the decline in the popularity of the term and the somewhat shared feeling that multiculturalism has failed or is inadequate, multicultural coexistence and conviviality is more a reality than ever....