cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
La Valle del Salto Cicolano. Una prospettiva di recupero
Creators: name: Vaccari, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2018

description: La regione o cantone, se vogliamo usare un termine caro a Roberto Almagià, del Salto Cicolano è composto da un solco vallivo occupato dal Fiume Salto affluente del Velino che tra gli anni 1937 e 1940 è stato sbarrato originandol'omonimo lago. Lo sbarramento ha determinato l'inabissamento di un intero paese, Borgo San Pietro ricostruito sulla sponda, di una strada comunale e di una porzione del comune di Fiamignano. La valle è chiusa da Nord ad Est dalla catena della Nuria e dalla Montagna della Duchessa che come asserisce sempre Almagià " ... costituiscono una delle aree assolutamente disabitate più estese dell'Italia centrale" (1976, p. 29). Ad ovest la valle è circondata dalla catena del Navegna meno alta delle altre ma difficilmente accessibile a causa delle scarse e poco agibili vie di comunicazione. La creazione del lago e l'ammodernamento della rete viaria hanno cercato di rendere il cantone meno isolato, più facilmente raggiungibile e soprattutto di portare lavoro nella zona che fino agli anni cinquanta era prevalentemente agricola, circa l'84% della popolazione attiva era dedita all' agricoltura prevalentemente di sussistenza. Queste aspettative sono state profondamente disattese, tanto che oggi la situazione economica non è molto cambiata e la regione continua ad essere una delle più povere e meno visitate dell'Italia centrale e del Lazio.
description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 2 (2002)
Galaxy Colours in the AKARI Deep SEP Survey
Creators: name: Pearson, Chris P.
name: Jeong, Woong-Seob
name: Matsuura, S.
name: Matsuhara, H.
name: Nakagawa, T.
name: Shibai, H.
name: Kawada, M.
name: Takagi, T.
name: Lee, H. M.
name: Shirahata, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the segregation of the extragalactic population via colour criteria to produce an efficient and inexpensive methodology to select specific source populations as a function of far-infrared flux. Combining galaxy evolution scenarios and a detailed spectral library of galaxies, we produce simulated catalogues incorporating segregation of the extragalactic population into component types (Normal, star-forming, AGN) via color cuts. As a practical application we apply our criteria to the deepest survey to be undertaken in the far-infrared with the AKARI (formerly ASTRO-F) satellite. Using the far-infrared wavebands of the Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS, one of the focal-plane instruments on AKARI) we successfully segregate the normal, starburst and ULIRG populations. We also show that with additional MIR imaging from AKARI's Infrared Camera (IRC), significant contamination and/or degeneracy can be further decreased and show a particular example of the separation of cool normal galaxies and cold ULIRG sources. We conclude that our criteria provide an efficient means of selecting source populations (including rare luminous objects) and produce colour-segregated source counts without the requirement of time intensive ground-based follow up to differentiate between the general galaxy population.
description: Accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research. COSPAR, Beijing, 2006, E1.6 Advances in FIR and Submillimeter Astrophysics. (13 pages, 2 colour figures)
Hitting Time Statistics and Extreme Value Theory
Creators: name: Freitas, Ana Cristina Moreira
name: Freitas, Jorge Milhazes
name: Todd, Mike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37A50, 37C40, 60G10, 60G70, 37B20, 37D25, 37E05

description: We consider discrete time dynamical systems and show the link between Hitting Time Statistics (the distribution of the first time points land in asymptotically small sets) and Extreme Value Theory (distribution properties of the partial maximum of stochastic processes). This relation allows to study Hitting Time Statistics with tools from Extreme Value Theory, and vice versa. We apply these results to non-uniformly hyperbolic systems and prove that a multimodal map with an absolutely continuous invariant measure must satisfy the classical extreme value laws (with no extra condition on the speed of mixing, for example). We also give applications of our theory to higher dimensional examples, for which we also obtain classical extreme value laws and exponential hitting time statistics (for balls). We extend these ideas to the subsequent returns to asymptotically small sets, linking the Poisson statistics of both processes.
description: 35 pages, 1 figure, higher dimensional example added
Analysis of the bibliometric impact of novel biomolecules discovered in Panama through bioprospecting
Creators: name: Kesia M Barrows
name: Salado, Gustavo
name: Sanchez-Galan, Javier E.
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2021

description: In the last 20 years, important data have been generated on the identification and discovery of biomolecules with potential for health and biotechnology. This work has been achieved mainly through research organized by the Cooperative Group for Biodiversity of Panama (ICGB). Following the spirit described in the guidelines of the Nagoya Protocol "on access to genetic resources and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits derived from their use", an investigation by bibliometric re-analysis is presented. First a list of molecules found in Panama through bioprospecting are described and the existence of their structures is assessed. Also, key information about publishing articles relating to them are selected for instance: title, affiliation of the authors, abstracts, body and keywords in Spanish and English. The objective of this work is to identify how these biomolecules have been reported, how much is known about them and how this information has been subsequently used and by locals or foreigner scientists. Descriptive statistics of the data were calculated, segregated by type of molecule, region of the country of origin, journal of publication, country of publication, and others. Also, an automated script to collect this bibliometric information is presented. We foresee that this analysis, using the scientific production associated with these molecules, can help bring attention to these molecules and their products. Also, be a good starting point for the organization of this information for later bigger re-analysis effort or be used as reference for various biobanking projects that are being developed in our country.
Percorsi di marketing territoriale in uno spazio montano: il caso dell' XI comunità montana
Creators: name: Tondinelli, Milena
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2018

description: Sebbene, oggi, si sia consolidata l'idea della montagna quale sistema fragile e sensibile, gli interventi per la tutela e la valorizzazione di questa risorsa non sempre risultano appropriati e mirati. Ideare strategie veramente vincenti non è semplice e tale difficoltà nasce proprio dal fatto che "l'evoluzione della montagna va inquadrata in rapporto all'ambiente esterno, con tutte le opportunità che esso può offrire e con tutte le sfide che può lanciare, ma anche con tutti i pericoli che da questo possono derivare" (De Vecchis, 1998, p. 16).
description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 2 (2002)
Anoplodera pubera
Creators: name: Webster, Reginald
name: McCoqrquodale, David
name: Majka, Christopher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Anoplodera
Anoplodera pubera

description: Anoplodera pubera (Say, 1826) ** New Brunswick: Carleton Co., Jackson Falls, “Bell Forest”, 46.2210°N, 67.7210°W, 20.VI.2005, M.-A. Giguère & R.P. Webster, rich Appalachian hardwood forest, on flow- ers of Cornus sp. (4, RWC). Restigouche Co., Jacquet River Gorge PNA, 47.8030°N, 65.9926°W, 25.VI.2008, R.P. Webster, mixed forest, on flowers of Cornus sericea (1, NBM). Sunbury Co., Portobello Creek N.W.A., 45.8952°N, 66.2728°W, 28.VI.2004, R.P. Webster, silver maple floodplain forest, on flowers of Cornus sp. (5, RWC). This species, previously known as Strangalepta pubera, was transferred to the genus Anoplodera Swaine & Hopping 1928 by Miroshnikov (1998).
description: Published as part of Webster, Reginald, McCoqrquodale, David & Majka, Christopher, 2009, New records of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) for New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, Canada, pp. 285-308 in ZooKeys 22 (22) on pages 292-293, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.22.122, http://zenodo.org/record/576540
description: {"references": ["Miroshnikov AI (1998) Reclassification of longhorn beetles of the Anoplodera complex, tribe Lepturini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) of the Holarctic fauna: I. Entomological Review 78 (4): 437 - 465 [translation of: Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 77 (2): 384 - 421]."]}
Dynamical mean-field approach to disordered interacting systems and applications to quantum transport problem
Creators: name: Yan, Jiawei
name: Werner, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a non-equilibrium dynamical mean-field framework for simulating inhomogeneous Hubbard models with local disorders. Our approach treats electron interactions and disorders on equal footing, by considering only local dynamical fluctuations. The theory reduces to non-equilibrium dynamical mean-field theory in the presence of only electron-electron interactions and to the coherent potential approximation in noninteracting systems with disorders. Both time-dependent and steady-state problems are treated by implementing the theory on the three branch Kadanoff-Baym contour and two-branch Keldysh contour, respectively. Benchmarks on an $8$-site cube show that the method yields rather accurate spectral functions in both the weakly and strongly interacting regimes. In a cubic lattice, we demonstrate energy conservation after an interaction quench and thermalization after just a few hopping times in both clean and disordered systems. As an application, we study transport through a serial double quantum-dot sandwiched between two leads, focusing on the current and dot occupations after a voltage quench.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures
Bathygadus nipponicus
Creators: name: Iwamoto, Tomio
name: Nakayama, Naohide
name: Shao, Kwang-Tsao
name: Table, Hsuan-Ching Ho
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Gadiformes
Macrouridae
Bathygadus
Bathygadus nipponicus

description: Bathygadus nipponicus (Jordan and Gilbert, 1904)
Regania nipponica Jordan and Gilbert, 1904:605–606, fig. (holotype, USNM 50931, 590 + TL; Albatross sta. 3721, Suruga Bay, Japan, 207–250 fm [379–457 m]).
Bathygadus nipponicus: Gilbert and Hubbs, 1916:142 (listed).— Okamura, 1970:33 (compiled).— Howes and Crimmen, 1990:191–192 (in part; holotype data; see Remarks under B. garretti).— Chiou et al., 2004b:42, fig. 7 (1 spec., NET, re-identified as B. garretti).— Shao et al., 2008: table 2 4 spec., NEW, SWT, SCS).
Bathygadus (Melanobranchus) nipponicus: Gilbert and Hubbs, 1920:380 (in key).
MATERIAL EXAMINED (6 spec.).— SWT: ASIZP 64117 (1, 60 HL, 210+ TL); CD 193, 821 m; ASZIP 65633 (3, 44–60.2 HL, 150–375 TL) and ASZIP 65634 (1, 66 HL, 264+ TL); CD 229, 880– 1062 m. SCS: ASIZP 66126 (1, 83.0 HL, 480 TL); CD 320, 731 m.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES.— A species of Bathygadus with gular membrane scaled; chin barbel absent; dorsal profile behind head relatively low, nape not humpbacked; 1D II,8–10, P i15–i17; V 9 (rarely 10); GR 6+(17–22) (ASIZP 65634 had 2 rudiments and 6 developed rakers on upper arm); pyl. caeca 12–19; interorbital width 27–32% HL; orbit diameter 22–26%; upper jaw length 53–56%; none of fins with greatly elongated finray.
DISTRIBUTION.— Southern Japan to Taiwan (SWT, SCS) in 731–l062 m.
REMARKS.— Jordan and Gilbert (1904:605) gave the gill raker count as 5+ 16 in the holotype and only specimen in their original description of the species; this count was confirmed by Howes and Crimmen (1990:191). That the count is lower than the values in our specimens is somewhat unsettling, but we hold to our identification until the time more specimens become available and the holotype can be re-examined by one of us. So far as we can determine, our specimens represent only the second record of the species and the first from Taiwan. Chiou et al. (2004b:42, fig. 7) listed the species as a first record from Taiwan based on ASIZP 61227, but we re-examined that specimen and determined it to be B. garretti.
description: Published as part of Iwamoto, Tomio, Nakayama, Naohide, Shao, Kwang-Tsao & Table, Hsuan-Ching Ho, 2015, Synopsis of the Grenadier Fishes (Gadiformes; Teleostei) of Taiwan, pp. 31-126 in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 62 (3) on page 40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11512126
Rorty on Knowledge and Reality
Creators: name: Davis, Michael James
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Rorty
pragmatism
Peirce
Wittgenstein
epistemology
metaphysics
metaphilosophy
philosophy of language
history of philosophy
analytic philosophy
20th century philosophy
conceptual change
perception
justification
interpretation
representationalism
anti-representationalism
foundationalism
Sellars
Quine

description: The thesis identifies two strands in Rorty’s philosophy. One is an orientation towards practice in opposition to the traditional philosophical emphasis on theoretical knowledge. The other is Rorty’s anti-representationalist conception of knowledge. Rorty argues that these strands are mutually supporting, while the author argues they are incompatible. The nominal aim of Rorty’s anti-representationalism is to overcome many traditional dualisms of theoretical philosophy, such as subject and object, mind and world, and theory and practice. The thesis argues that anti-representationalism does not and cannot achieve this aim, since what is required to overcome these dualisms is the recognition of the practical basis of knowledge, with which anti-representationalism is incompatible. The author agrees with much of Rorty’s critique of foundationalist epistemology, but argues in opposition to Rorty that anti-representationalism does not follow necessarily from this critique. Where Rorty locates the error of traditional epistemology in the very notion that knowledge and language can represent the world, the author argues that this idea is benign. The fundamental problem is the desire to anchor our conceptual scheme to an external structure independently of human practice — but this idea can be rejected without abandoning the notion of representation. The thesis also looks to explain why Rorty takes anti-representationalism to follow naturally from a rejection of foundationalism. The motivation is located in Rorty’s fundamental metaphysical orientation, which is naturalistic. Anti-representationalism is the product of the wish to promote a naturalistic worldview without succumbing to scientism. In this way Rorty hopes to unite the manifest and scientific images of man. The author argues that this cannot be done from within a naturalistic metaphysics.
Monti Simbruini patrimonio di irrinunciabili risorse
Creators: name: La Greca, Orazio
name: Maravigna, Pierduilio
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2018

description: La tendenza ad una sempre più incisiva tutela ambientale degli spazi extraurbani pone il problema della mediazione tra il favorire lo sviluppo di determinate aree, specialmente montane, e la conservazione degli aspetti ecologici e paesaggistici mediante l'istituzione di spazi protetti. Questa dicotomia s'inserisce tra le problematiche connesse alle dinamiche antropogeografiche, da sempre registrate nel paesaggio italiano in generale e in quello appenninico in particolare. Una di queste aree appenniniche è quella dei Simbruini, compresa per circa metà della sua estensione nel Parco Naturale Regionale dei Monti Simbruini, istituito dalla Regione Lazio con la legge n. 8 del 29/1/1983 e costituito in Ente pubblico regionale con la legge n. 29 del 6/10/1997.
description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 2 (2002)
Gadomus magnifilis Gilbert and Hubbs 1920
Creators: name: Iwamoto, Tomio
name: Nakayama, Naohide
name: Shao, Kwang-Tsao
name: Table, Hsuan-Ching Ho
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Gadiformes
Macrouridae
Gadomus
Gadomus magnifilis

description: Gadomus magnifilis Gilbert and Hubbs, 1920
Figure 2.
Gadomus magnifilis Gilbert and Hubbs, 1920:398–401, fig. 4 (holotype USNM 78208; n. Mindanao; Albatross sta. 5515 in about 700 fm [1280 m]; 2 paratypes, Philippines; 508–554 fm [929–1014 m]).— Howes and Crimmen, 1990:197 (descr. from type spec.).— Shao et al., 2008: table 2 (1 spec., SWT, first record for Taiwan).
MATERIAL EXAMINED.— SWT: ASIZP 65627 (1, 70 HL, 385+ TL); CD 229, 880– 1062 m.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES.— A species of Gadomus with chin barbel about 29–72% of HL; length elongated P ray 2–3 times HL; prolonged ray in 1D and V greater than 1.5 times HL; 1D II,9–10; P i17–i18; V 8; outer gill rakers bluntly tipped, lathlike, short, about half orbit diameter, (5–6)+(21–23); pyl. caeca 24–29; interorbital width 16–17% HL; orbit diameter 21–24%; suborbital depth 10–15%; upper jaw length 55–60%; chin barbel 29–72% (compiled from Gilbert and Hubbs 1920 and ASIZP 65627).
DISTRIBUTION.— Taiwan (SWT) to n. Mindanao, Philippines, in 929–1280 m.
REMARKS.— Our identification of the single Taiwan specimen is tentative. Its barbel length is somewhat shorter (29% HL cf. 61–72%) and suborbital somewhat deeper (15% HL cf. 10%) than in the type specimens of G. magnifilis. The Taiwan specimen appears similar to G. introniger in its gill-raker count, barbel length, orbit diameter, and bluntly tipped gill rakers, but differs in having a slightly narrower interorbital (17% cf. 20–23%), slightly deeper suborbital (15% cf. 10–13%), and longer orbit-to-preopercle distance (51% cf. 44–49%). The pyloric caeca could not be counted in our specimen because they had been previously extracted and were unavailable; they may have offered additional clues to the correct identity. Gilbert and Hubbs (1920:396) considered G. denticulatus as closely related to G. magnifilis, but compared to our specimen, G. denticulatus has a much narrower interorbital space (1.5–1.8 into orbit diameter cf. 1.3), slightly larger orbit (23–24% HL cf. 21% in our spec.), and slightly fewer gill rakers (4–6)+(17–22) (23–27 total), cf. 6+23 (29 total).
description: Published as part of Iwamoto, Tomio, Nakayama, Naohide, Shao, Kwang-Tsao & Table, Hsuan-Ching Ho, 2015, Synopsis of the Grenadier Fishes (Gadiformes; Teleostei) of Taiwan, pp. 31-126 in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 62 (3) on pages 42-43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11512126
"L’ultimo spazio di libertà. Un approccio umanistico e culturale alla geografia del mare" di Enrico Squarcina
Creators: name: Malatesta, Stefano
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2017

description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 1 (2017): GEOGRAFIA E DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
Interference of cavity light by a single atom acting as a double slit
Creators: name: Zhou, Yijia
name: Li, Xinwei
name: Li, Weibin
name: Zhang, Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Young's double-slit interference experiment is central to quantum mechanics. While it has been demonstrated that an array of atoms can produce interference in light, it is a fundamental question to ask whether a single atom can act as a double slit when prepared in a superposition of two separate positions. Cohen-Tannoudji et al. [Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy, edited by M. Ducloy, E. Giacobino, and G. Camy (World Scientific, Singapore, 1992), pp. 3-14] showed that the cross section of the light scattered by a single atom is independent of the spatial separation. In this work, however, we show that when a single atom tunneling in a double well is coupled to an optical ring cavity, the interference phenomena arise if the tunneling rate is comparable to the cavity linewidth. Being driven by an external laser in the dispersive regime, the field emitted by the atom into the cavity exhibits an interference pattern when varying the double-well spacing. Super-Poissonian bunched light can also be generated near the destructive interference. Furthermore, we show that the atomic flux of the coherent tunneling motion generates directional cavity emission, which oscillates for many cycles before the decoherence of the atomic motion and the decay of the cavity photons. Our work opens ways to manipulate photons with controllable external states of atoms for quantum information applications and use cavity light as nondestructive measurements for many-body states of atomic systems.
description: 11 pages, 5+2 figures
Cetonurus globiceps Vaillant 1884
Creators: name: Iwamoto, Tomio
name: Nakayama, Naohide
name: Shao, Kwang-Tsao
name: Table, Hsuan-Ching Ho
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Gadiformes
Macrouridae
Cetonurus
Cetonurus globiceps

description: Cetonurus globiceps Vaillant, 1884
Figures 4A–B.
Macrurus globiceps Vaillant in Filhol 1884:183, fig. 2 (name and figure, Spanish Sahara; lectotype: MNHN 1886–0092; 7 paralectotypes).
Hymenocephalus crassiceps (non Günther, 1878): Vaillant, 1888:214–218, pl. 20, figs. 1, 1a-e (descr.; Atlantic off France, North Africa, and Azores)
Cetonurus robustus Gilbert and Hubbs, 1916:207–210, pl. 11, fig. 2 (holotype USNM 76870, Albatross sta. 4971, off central Hondo [Honshu], Japan, 33°23ʹ30ʺN, 135°34ʹ00ʺE; 649 fm [1187 m]; 4 paratypes, sta. 4973, 600 fm [1097 m])
Cetonurus globiceps: Sazonov and Shcherbachev, 1985 (descr., distr.). Iwamoto and Williams, 1999:169 (7 spec., w. and se. Australia, 792–1030 m).— Iwamoto and Graham, 2001:458 (17 spec., 940–1200 m).— Shao et al., 2008: table 2 (3 spec., SET, SCS, 998–1290 m; first Taiwan record)
MATERIAL EXAMINED (5 spec.).— SCS: ASIZP 65559 (1, 170+ TL); CD 136, 998– 1211 m; ASIZP 66095 (1, 270+ TL); CD 324, 1293 m. SWT: ASIZP 65620 (1, 331 TL); CD 228, 1262–1290 m. SET: ASIZP 67020 (1, 310+ TL, 61 HL); CP 353, 1205 m. Other material: ASIZP 68059 (1, 390 TL); Aurora, the Philippines.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES.— A species of Cetonurus with large orbit (24–28% HL); small scales (18–19 rows below 1D and 14–16 rows below 2D); and 3–4 rows of closely spaced teeth on premaxilla. Size to 510 mm TL.
DISTRIBUTION.— This species is widespread in tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific and Atlantic but is absent in the central and e. Pacific. In the w. Pacific it is found off Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand, and Australia. Four specimens were collected in the South China Sea and the s. coast of Taiwan at depths between 998 and 1293 m.
REMARKS.— The only congener, C. crassiceps (Günther, 1878), is a closely similar species that has been recorded from the Kermadecs, Hawaiian Islands, Vanuatu, Loyalty Ridge, Norfolk Ridge, Lord Howe Rise, and in the central and South Atlantic. Characters used by Sazonov and Shcherbachev (1985) to distinguish the only two members of the genus are weak and need to be further tested. Three of the specimens here listed were the basis for Shao et al.’s (2008:fig. 2) first record of the species from Taiwan.
description: Published as part of Iwamoto, Tomio, Nakayama, Naohide, Shao, Kwang-Tsao & Table, Hsuan-Ching Ho, 2015, Synopsis of the Grenadier Fishes (Gadiformes; Teleostei) of Taiwan, pp. 31-126 in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 62 (3) on page 46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11512126
Lampedusa, porta d’Europa tra integrazione e conflittualità
Creators: name: Gambino, Sonia
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2017

description: Analizzando gli scenari odierni e i recenti sconvolgimenti geopolitici
che hanno coinvolto i Paesi della riva del Sud del Mediterraneo,
Lampedusa, porta d’Europa, è diventata obiettivo di migranti economici
senza patria e senza status. Infatti, Lampedusa si presenta come un crocevia
importante, perché costituisce geograficamente il punto più meridionale
d’Europa ed è un’area di contatto, una frontiera naturale tra un occidente
ricco e tecnologicamente avanzato e un Sud meno ricco, soltanto in
parte modernizzato e flagellato da guerre, instabilità politiche e negazioni
dei diritti fondamentali. Dall’inizio del secolo, Lampedusa è stata interessata
da crescenti processi d’immigrazione incontrollata da parte dei paesi più
poveri della sponda meridionale del bacino del Mediterraneo, perdendo la
tradizionale veste di area d’emigrazione e inserendosi tra le aree d’accoglienza.
description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 2 (2011): Unità d'Italia e trasformazioni territoriali a cura di Riccardo Morri
Threshold corrections to rapidity distributions of Z and W^\pm bosons beyond N^2 LO at hadron colliders
Creators: name: Ravindran, V.
name: Smith, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Threshold enhanced perturbative QCD corrections to rapidity distributions of $Z$ and $W^\pm$ bosons at hadron colliders are presented using the Sudakov resummed cross sections at N${}^3$LO level. We have used renormalisation group invariance and the mass factorisation theorem that these hard scattering cross sections satisfy to construct the QCD amplitudes. We show that these higher order threshold QCD corrections stabilise the theoretical predictions for vector boson production at the LHC under variations of both renormalisation and factorisation scales.
description: 17 pages, 8 eps figures. This paper is dedicated to the memory of W.L.G.A.M. van Neerven
Coelorinchus asteroides Okamura 1963
Creators: name: Iwamoto, Tomio
name: Nakayama, Naohide
name: Shao, Kwang-Tsao
name: Table, Hsuan-Ching Ho
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Gadiformes
Macrouridae
Coelorinchus
Coelorinchus asteroides

description: Coelorinchus asteroides Okamura, 1963
Coelorhynchus asteroides Okamura, 1963:21, figs. 1–4 (holotype, FAKU 23801, 7 paratypes; off Owase, Mie Pref., Japan).— Okamura, 1970:189–192, pl. XLI, text-figs. 81, 82 (8 spec., s. Japan, 320–360 m).— Okamura in Masuda et al., 1984:98, pl. 83F. — Yatou in Okamura and Kitajima, 1984:235, 369 (5 spec., Okinawa Trough).
Caelorinchus asteroides: Chiou et al., 2004b:43, fig. 9 (2 spec., NE, SW Taiwan).
Coelorinchus asteroides: Shao et al., 2008: table 2 (3 spec., NET, SWT, 100–452 m).
MATERIAL EXAMINED (8 spec.).— NET: ASIZP 61339 (1, 302 TL); Da-xi; ASIZP 65658 (1, 250+ TL); Da-xi. SWT: ASIZP 61340 (1, 310 TL); Dong-gang; ASIZP 62194 (2, 224–224 TL); Dong-gang; ASIZP 65560 (1, 230+ TL); CD 140, 280– 452 m; ASIZP 70617 (1, 159 TL); Dong-gang. Other specimens: ASIZP 68016 (1, 375 TL); Aurora, 909– 922 m.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES.— 1D II, 7–9; P i15–i19; GR-I (inner) 5–7 (total); scales below midbase 1D. 3.0–4.5, below 2D. 4.0–5.5; pyl.caeca 40–50. Snout fairly broad, tipped with a slender sharp scute, length 39–46% HL, 1.3–1.5 times orbit, preoral length 32–35% HL; anterolateral margin of snout completely supported by bone; orbit 25–31% HL; upper jaw 22–29% HL. Nasal fossa naked ventrally; underside of head naked; median rostral series of scales 6–8, with spinules radiating in all directions; body scales with short, sharp lanceolate to triangular spinules in 4–11 slightly divergent rows, the median row strongest. Light organ group II, fossa narrow and short. Ground color grayish, silvery ventrally, abdomen bluish, paler anteriorly on chest; mouth dark, gill cavity blackish. Attains more than 390 mm TL.
DISTRIBUTION.— Geographically very confined; East China Sea from s. Japan to SCS off Taiwan, in 100–600 m.
REMARKS.— First recorded from Taiwan by Chiou et al. (2004b). Among the Taiwan members of the genus, C. asteroides is most likely to be confused with C. anatirostris, but it has fewer platelike scales on the median rostral ridge, and the spinule rows on these scales are arranged radially in all directions, compared to the lateral and posterior orientation of rows in C. anatirostris.
description: Published as part of Iwamoto, Tomio, Nakayama, Naohide, Shao, Kwang-Tsao & Table, Hsuan-Ching Ho, 2015, Synopsis of the Grenadier Fishes (Gadiformes; Teleostei) of Taiwan, pp. 31-126 in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 62 (3) on pages 50-51, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11512126
The Construct of Indigenous Australian 'Traditional Laws and Customs' in Contemporary Australian Law: A Conceptual Analysis
Creators: name: Anderssen, Diana
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2021

description: Indigenous Australians describe their traditional law as complex experiential, grounded and relational systems founded on rich philosophical and spiritual heritage. And yet for two hundred years, the sovereignty of the Anglo-Australian legal system was premised upon the notion that Indigenous Australian peoples were without law at all. Now, since the landmark 1992 decision of the High Court of Australia in Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1 ('Mabo'), the continuing existence of Indigenous Australian 'traditional laws and customs' is explicitly acknowledged in contemporary Australian law. This thesis is about the ideas of 'law' that enabled the existence of Indigenous Australian law to be denied and subsequently recognised. It is about the ways that Indigenous Australian law has been conceptualised in British and Anglo-Australian legal thought. This research asks how Indigenous Australian law is conceived in the Anglo-Australian legal doctrine that recognises its existence. I trace two hundred years of British and Anglo-Australian legal theory to understand how Indigenous Australian law was historically portrayed relative to the concept of 'law'. I investigate the theoretical underpinnings of the contemporary legal doctrine of recognition as disclosed by the leading judgment in the High Court decision of Members of the Yorta Yorta Community v Victoria (2002) 214 CLR 422 ('Yorta Yorta'), the most significant decision concerning the recognition of Indigenous Australian law since Mabo. I thus interrogate the jurisprudence that lies at the heart of Anglo-Australian sovereignty, and problematise the Anglo-Western concept of 'law' itself. In this thesis, I demonstrate that the theoretical foundations of the current 'recognition' of Indigenous law are virtually identical to those of 'terra nullius'. The theories relied upon by the High Court in Yorta Yorta not only contain a similar civilised-primitive dualism to those of terra nullius, but explicitly use negative perceptions of Indigenous Australia as the epitome of people without law. I conclude that the very definition of Indigenous Australian 'traditional laws and customs' in contemporary Australian law is based upon a denial of its status as 'law'. Further, since these negative perceptions of Indigenous Australia have been deliberately used to determine the conceptual parameters of 'law', I conclude that the modernist Anglo-Western concept of law itself depends upon the denial of law to Indigenous Australia.
Analysis of the bibliometric impact of novel biomolecules discovered in Panama through bioprospecting
Creators: name: Kesia M Barrows
name: Gusavo  Salado Carrera
name: Sanchez-Galan, Javier E.
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2021

description: In the last 20 years, important data have been generated on the identification and discovery of biomolecules with potential for health and biotechnology. This work has been achieved mainly through research organized by the Cooperative Group for Biodiversity of Panama (ICGB). Following the spirit described in the guidelines of the Nagoya Protocol "on access to genetic resources and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits derived from their use", an investigation by bibliometric re-analysis is presented. First a list of molecules found in Panama through bioprospecting are described and the existence of their structures is assessed. Also, key information about publishing articles relating to them are selected for instance: title, affiliation of the authors, abstracts, body and keywords in Spanish and English. The objective of this work is to identify how these biomolecules have been reported, how much is known about them and how this information has been subsequently used and by locals or foreigner scientists. Descriptive statistics of the data were calculated, segregated by type of molecule, region of the country of origin, journal of publication, country of publication, and others. Also, an automated script to collect this bibliometric information is presented. We foresee that this analysis, using the scientific production associated with these molecules, can help bring attention to these molecules and their products. Also, be a good starting point for the organization of this information for later bigger re-analysis effort or be used as reference for various biobanking projects that are being developed in our country.
Toward emulating nuclear reactions using eigenvector continuation
Creators: name: Drischler, C.
name: Quinonez, M.
name: Giuliani, P. G.
name: Lovell, A. E.
name: Nunes, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct an efficient emulator for two-body scattering observables using the general (complex) Kohn variational principle and trial wave functions derived from eigenvector continuation. The emulator simultaneously evaluates an array of Kohn variational principles associated with different boundary conditions, which allows for the detection and removal of spurious singularities known as Kohn anomalies. When applied to the $K$-matrix only, our emulator resembles the one constructed by Furnstahl et al. [Phys. Lett. B 809, 135719] although with reduced numerical noise. After a few applications to real potentials, we emulate differential cross sections for $^{40}$Ca$(n,n)$ scattering based on a realistic optical potential and quantify the model uncertainties using Bayesian methods. These calculations serve as a proof of principle for future studies aimed at improving optical models.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table; minor improvements, close to published version
THE ROLE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION: TRANSFORMING LEARNING AND TEACHING
Creators: name: Ergashev, Marufjon
name: Karimova, Malika
name: Khalilova, Laylo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: In recent years, digital technologies have revolutionized nearly every aspect of life, and higher education is no exception. From virtual classrooms to artificial intelligence-driven tools, digital innovations are transforming how students learn, how instructors teach, and how academic institutions operate. The increasing reliance on digital tools in education signals a major shift in the landscape of higher learning. This article explores the growing role of digital technologies in higher education, examining both the opportunities and challenges they present.
Detection of CFIRB with AKARI/FIS Deep Observations
Creators: name: Jeong, Woong-Seob
name: Pearson, Chris P.
name: Lee, Hyung Mok
name: Matsuura, Shuji
name: Kawada, Mitsunobu
name: Nakagawa, Takao
name: Oh, Sang Hoon
name: Shirahata, Mai
name: Lee, Sungho
name: Hwang, Ho Seong
name: Matsuhara, Hideo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Cosmic Far-Infrared Background (CFIRB) contains information about the number and distribution of contributing sources and thus gives us an important key to understand the evolution of galaxies. Using a confusion study to set a fundamental limit to the observations, we investigate the potential to explore the CFIRB with AKARI/FIS deep observations. The Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS) is one of the focal-plane instruments on the AKARI (formerly known as ASTRO-F) satellite, which was launched in early 2006. Based upon source distribution models assuming three different cosmological evolutionary scenarios (no evolution, weak evolution, and strong evolution), an extensive model for diffuse emission from infrared cirrus, and instrumental noise estimates, we present a comprehensive analysis for the determination of the confusion levels for deep far-infrared observations. We use our derived sensitivities to suggest the best observational strategy for the AKARI/FIS mission to detect the CFIRB fluctuations. If the source distribution follows the evolutionary models, observations will be mostly limited by source confusion. We find that we will be able to detect the CFIRB fluctuations and that these will in turn provide information to discriminate between the evolutionary scenarios of galaxies in most low-to-medium cirrus regions.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, uses elsart.cls, Accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research, 36th COSPAR Scientific Assembly Beijing, China, 16 ~ 23 July 2006
R-process beta-decay neutrino flux from binary neutron star mergers and collapsars
Creators: name: An, Yu
name: Wu, Meng-Ru
name: Guo, Gang
name: Tsai, Yue-Lin Sming
name: Huang, Shih-Jie
name: Fan, Yi-Zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This study investigates the antineutrinos production by $β$-decay of $r$-process nuclei in two astrophysical sites that are capable of producing gamma-ray bursts (GRBs): binary neutron star mergers (BNSMs) and collapsars, which are promising sites for heavy element nucleosynthesis. We employ a simplified method to compute the $β$-decay $\barν_e$ energy spectrum and consider a number of different representative thermodynamic trajectories for $r$-process simulations, each with four sets of $Y_e$ distribution. The time evolution of the $\barν_e$ spectrum is derived for both the dynamical ejecta and the disk wind for BNSMs and collapsar outflow, based on approximated mass outflow rates. Our results show that the $\barν_e$ has an average energy of approximately 3 to 9~MeV, with a high energy tail of up to 20 MeV. The $\barν_e$ flux evolution is primarily determined by the outflow duration, and can thus remain large for $\mathcal{O}(10)$~s and $\mathcal{O}(100)$~s for BNSMs and collapsars, respectively. For a single merger or collapsar at 40~Mpc, the $\barν_e$ flux is $\mathcal{O}(10-100)$~cm$^{-2}$~s$^{-1}$, indicating a possible detection horizon up to $0.1-1$~Mpc for Hyper-Kamiokande. We also estimate their contributions to the diffuse $\barν_e$ background, and find that both sources should only contribute subdominantly to the diffuse background when compared to that expected from core-collapse supernovae.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures
The role of GRASP65 and GRASP55 in C-terminal valine-dependent  transport to the cell surface of transmembrane proteins
Creators: name: Prencipe, Libera
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2008

description: The Golgi-matrix proteins GRASP65 and GRASP55 have recognized roles in maintaining the architecture of the Golgi complex, in mitotic progression and in unconventional protein secretion while, surprisingly, they have been shown to be dispensable for the transport of commonly used reporter cargo proteins along the secretory pathway.  However, it is becoming increasingly clear that many trafficking machineries operate in a cargo-specific manner, thus we have investigated whether GRASPs may control the trafficking of selected classes of cargoes. We have taken into consideration the C-terminal valine bearing receptors CD8 and Frizzled4 that we show bind directly to the PDZ domains of GRASP65 and GRASP55. We demonstrate that both GRASPs are needed sequentially for the efficient transport to and through the Golgi complex of these receptors, thus highlighting a novel role for the GRASPs in membrane trafficking. Our results open new perspectives for our understanding of the regulation of surface expression of a class of membrane proteins, and suggests the causal mechanisms of a dominant form of autosomal human familial exudative vitreoretinopathy that arises from Frizzled4 mutation involving its C-terminal valine.
Where can we really find the First Stars' Remnants today?
Creators: name: Trenti, M.
name: Santos, M. R.
name: Stiavelli, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A number of recent numerical investigations concluded that the remnants of rare structures formed at very high redshift, such as the very first stars and bright redshift z~6 QSOs, are preferentially located at the center of the most massive galaxy clusters at redshift z=0. In this paper we readdress this question using a combination of cosmological simulations of structure formation and extended Press-Schechter formalism and we show that the typical remnants of Population III stars are instead more likely to be found in a group environment, that is in dark matter halos of mass ~2x10^{13} h^{-1}M_sun. Similarly, the descendants of the brightest z~6 QSOs are expected to be in medium-sized clusters (mass of a few 10^{14} h^{-1}M_sun), rather than in the most massive superclusters (M>10^{15} h^{-1}M_sun) found within the typical 1 Gpc^3 cosmic volume where a bright z~6 QSO lives. The origin of past claims that the most massive clusters preferentially host these remnants is rooted in the numerical method used to initialize their numerical simulations: Only a small region of the cosmological volume of interest was simulated with sufficient resolution to identify low-mass halos at early times, and this region was chosen to host the most massive halo in the cosmological volume at late times. The conclusion that the earliest structures formed in the entire cosmological volume evolve into the most massive halo at late times was thus arrived at by construction. We demonstrate that, to the contrary, the first structures to form in a cosmological region evolve into relatively typical objects at later times. We propose alternative numerical methods for simulating the earliest structures in cosmological volumes.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures, ApJ accepted, high resolution version of the paper available at http://www.stsci.edu/~trenti/papers/halo_evolution.pdf
On level crossings for a general class of piecewise-deterministic Markov processes
Creators: name: Borovkov, K. A.
name: Last, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J75, 60G55

description: We consider a piecewise-deterministic Markov process governed by a jump intensity function, a rate function that determines the behaviour between jumps, and a stochastic kernel describing the conditional distribution of jump sizes. We study the point process of upcrossings of a level $b$ by the Markov process. Our main result shows that, under a suitable scaling $ν(b)$, the point process converges, as $b$ tends to infinity, weakly to a geometrically compound Poisson process. We also prove a version of Rice's formula relating the stationary density of the process to level crossing intensities. This formula provides an interpretation of the scaling factor $ν(b)$. While our proof of the limit theorem requires additional assumptions, Rice's formula holds whenever the (stationary) overall intensity of jumps is finite.
description: 25 pages
History of Prime Movers and Future Implications
Creators: name: Shubov, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motive and electrical energy has played a crucial role in human civilization. Since Ancient times, motive energy played a primary role in agricultural and industrial production as well as transportation. At that time, motive energy was provided by work of humans and draft animals. Later, work of water and wind power was harnessed. During the 19$^{\text{th}}$ century, steam power became the main source of motive energy in USA and Britain. Modern transportation and industry depend on the work of heat engines that use fossil fuel. A brief history of different sources of energy is presented in this work. The energy consumptions in pre-industrial and industrial societies are calculated. The lost opportunities for the Second Industrial Revolution (such as fast breeder reactors and thermonuclear power stations) are discussed. The case that the Solar Power will become the main source of energy by the second half of this century is presented. It is calculated that the Solar Power has the potential to bring about the new Industrial Revolution. Based on material and energy resources available in the Solar System, it is demonstrated that the Solar System Civilization supporting a population of 10 Quadrillion with a high standard of living is possible.
D7.3 Land Management Report
Creators: name: Namibia Biomass Industry Group
Publisher: name: SteamBioAfrica
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sustainability sciences

description: The SteamBioAfrica project responds to the need for research and initiatives to manage bush encroachment by utilising the biomass of invasive species to produce clean, secure, and reliable energy in the form of burning biofuel. This approach also facilitates land restoration and income generation. Harvesting methods such as selective thinning, are employed to promote sustainability, followed by appropriate aftercare. In conclusion, addressing and managing bush encroachment effectively requires the concerted and coordinated efforts of all stakeholders. Implementing sustainable land management practices is not only critical, but also significant and essential for mitigating the adverse effects of bush encroachment and restoring the region’s ecology. Bush encroachment is a significant environmental challenge that affects ecosystems worldwide, particularly in savanna and arid regions. This issue is characterised by the progressive invasion of woody vegetation at high densities. Namibia, Botswana and South Africa have experienced similar consequences, including reduced rangeland carrying capacity, lowered groundwater levels, biodiversity loss and diminished ecosystem services. The primary causes are climate change, land use practices and shifts in ecological factors, leading to ecological, economic, and social repercussions. Current control methods include mechanical and chemical interventions, fire management and integrated land management strategies. Despite these efforts, bush encroachment persists. Addressing this issue requires ongoing research into the ecological, socio-economic issues, and climatic factors that contribute to bush encroachment. Collaborative efforts with local communities and across neighbouring countries are essential, promoting shared solutions and sustainable land management at the grassroots level, which is likely to ensure long-term success. Moreover, the project should focus on enforcing policies and regulations that support land restoration and sustainable land use at local, national and regional levels.