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Antimicrobial activity of essential oils (Citrus bergamia Risso & Poiteau, Melaleuca alternifolia and Chenopodium botrys) on pathogen strains isolated in milk samples from mastitic sheep
Creators: name: Naccari, Clara
name: Cicero, Nicola
name: Orlandella, Bianca Maria
name: Naccari, Vincenzo
name: Palma, Ernesto
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: The aim of this investigation was to study in vitro antibacterial activity of essential oils (EOs) (Citrus bergamia Risso & Poiteau, Melaleuca alternifolia and Chenopodium botrys) on pathogenic strains isolated in milk samples from mastitic sheep. The in vitro antibacterial activity showed that EOs induced higher bacterial inhibition against pathogens isolated in mastitic milk (Staphylococcus xylosus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Streptococcus salivarius, Enterococcus faecium, Streptococcus agalactiae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa) than common antimicrobial agents used in veterinary medicine, with Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) and Minimum Bactericidal Concentration (MBC) values significantly lower, excepted for P. Aeruginosa. The antibacterial activity of EOs has been attributed to the chemical composition of each phyto-complexes, constituted by monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes and their associated alcohols, identified by GC-MS analysis, with a synergic action in the bacterial cells. The results obtained confirmed in vitro antimicrobial activity of these EOs and their potential use in the treatment of sheep mastitis infection.
Algebraic Correlation Function and Anomalous Diffusion in the HMF model
Creators: name: Yamaguchi, Yoshiyuki
name: Bouchet, Freddy
name: Dauxois, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the quasi-stationary states of the Hamiltonian Mean-Field model, we numerically compute correlation functions of momenta and diffusion of angles with homogeneous initial conditions. This is an example, in a N-body Hamiltonian system, of anomalous transport properties characterized by non exponential relaxations and long-range temporal correlations. Kinetic theory predicts a striking transition between weak anomalous diffusion and strong anomalous diffusion. The numerical results are in excellent agreement with the quantitative predictions of the anomalous transport exponents. Noteworthy, also at statistical equilibrium, the system exhibits long-range temporal correlations: the correlation function is inversely proportional to time with a logarithmic correction instead of the usually expected exponential decay, leading to weak anomalous transport properties.
Radiated energy fraction of SPI-induced disruptions at ASDEX Upgrade
Creators: name: Heinrich, Paul
name: Papp, Gergely
name: Jachmich, Stefan
name: Artola, Javier
name: Bernert, Matthias
name: de Marné, Pascal
name: Dibon, Mathias
name: Dux, Ralph
name: Eberl, Thomas
name: Hobirk, Jörg
name: Lehnen, Michael
name: Peherstorfer, Tobias
name: Schwarz, Nina
name: Sheikh, Umar
name: Sieglin, Bernhard
name: Svoboda, Jakub
name: Team, the ASDEX Upgrade
name: Team, the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Future large tokamaks will operate at high plasma currents and high stored plasma energies. To ensure machine protection in case of a sudden loss of plasma confinement (major disruption), a large fraction of the magnetic and thermal energy must be radiated to reduce thermal loads. The disruption mitigation system for ITER is based on massive material injection in the form of shattered pellet injection (SPI). To support ITER, a versatile SPI system was installed at the tokamak ASDEX Upgrade (AUG). The AUG SPI features three independent pellet generation cells and guide tubes, and each was equipped with different shatter heads for the 2022 experimental campaign. We dedicated over 200 plasma discharges to the study of SPI plasma termination, and in this manuscript report on the results of bolometry (total radiation) analysis. The amount of neon inside the pellets is the dominant factor determining the radiated energy fraction ($f_{rad}$). Large and fast fragments, produced by the 12.5° rectangular shatter head, lead to somewhat higher values of frad compared to the 25° circular or rectangular heads. This effect is strongest for neon content of $< 3\times10^{20}$ neon atoms ($f_\textrm{neon} \lesssim 1.25\%$ neon) injected, where a lower normal velocity component (larger fragments) seems slightly beneficial. While full-sized, 8 mm diameter, 100% deuterium ($D_2$) pellets lead to a disruption, the 4 mm or shortened 8 mm pellets of 100% $D_2$ did not. The disruption threshold for 100% $D_2$ is found to be around $1\times10^{22}$ $D_2$ molecules inside the pellet. While the radiated energy fraction of non-disruptive SPI is below 20%, this is increased to 40% during the TQ and VDE phase of the disruptive injections. For ($D_2$-Ne-mix pellets, frad values of $< 90$% are observed, and the curve saturates around 80% for 10% neon mixed into the 8 mm pellets ($2\times10^{21}$ neon atoms).
description: 17 pages, 10 figures
The Concept of God at Nicea
Creators: name: Edwards, Mark
Publisher: name: Apulia Theologica
Year: 2025

description: Questo articolo si occupa principalmente delle implicazioni filosofiche dei termini del Credo niceno del 325 che fanno riferimento all’ousia o all’essere di Dio. Si sofferma, in particolare, sulla sostituzione di «dall’ousia del Padre» con il più antico «dall’hypostasis del Padre» e nota il pericolo del corollario implicito che l’ousia possa essere una cosa distinta dal Padre. Il testo passa poi in rassegna i vari significati che nella tradizione cristiana sono stati attribuiti alla parola homoousios e le ragioni della diffidenza con cui i cristiani cattolici prima di Nicea la consideravano. Le sezioni conclusive si chiedono se ousia e ipostasi siano sinonimi negli anatemi e se «da cose che non sono» significhi lo stesso che «da cosa prossima». Nel corso dell’argomentazione viene richiamata l’attenzione su altre caratteristiche enigmatiche del Credo, ad esempio l’accostamento del neologismo cristiano pantokrator con poietes, che sembra essere un ritorno all’uso filosofico greco dal più biblico ktistes.
description: Apulia Theologica, V. 10 N. 2 (2024): Apulia theologica vol. 10, fascicolo 2
Efficient and Sustainable Treatment of Tannery Wastewater by a Sequential Electrocoagulation-UV Photolytic Process
Creators: name: Sameh, Jallouli
name: Wali, Ahmed
name: Buonerba, Antonio
name: Zarra, Tiziano
name: Belgiorno, Vincenzo
name: Naddeo, Vincenzo
name: Ksibi, Mohamed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tannery wastewater contains large amounts of pollutants that, if directly discharged into ecosystems, can generate an environmental hazard. The present investigation has focused the attention to the remediation of wastewater originated from tanned leather in Tunisia. The analysis revealed wastewater with a high level of chemical oxygen demand (COD) of 7376 mgO2/L. The performance in reduction of COD, via electrocoagulation (EC) or UV photolysis or, finally, operating electrocoagulation and photolysis in sequence was examined. The effect of voltage and reaction time on COD reduction, as well as the phytotoxicity were determined. Treated effluents were analysed by UV spectroscopy, extracting the organic components with solvents differing in polarity. A sequential EC and UV treatment of the tannery wastewater has been proven effective in the reduction of COD. These treatments combined afforded 94.1 % of COD reduction, whereas the single EC and UV treatments afforded respectively 85.7 and 55.9 %. The final COD value of 428.7 mg/L was found largely below the limit of 1000 mg/L for admission of wastewater in public sewerage network. Germination tests of Hordeum Vulgare seeds indicated reduced toxicity for the remediated water. Energy consumptions of 33.33 kWh/m3 and 314.28 kWh/m3 were determined for the EC process and for the same followed by UV treatment. Both those technologies are yet available and ready for scale-up.
ChaMPlane Discovery of Candidate Symbiotic Binaries in Baade's and Stanek's Windows
Creators: name: Berg, M. van den
name: Grindlay, J.
name: Laycock, S.
name: Hong, J.
name: Zhao, P.
name: Koenig, X.
name: Schlegel, E. M.
name: Cohn, H.
name: Lugger, P.
name: Rich, R. M.
name: Dupree, A. K.
name: Smith, G. H.
name: Strader, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have searched the OGLE-II archive for candidate counterparts of X-ray sources detected in two low-extinction windows included in our Galactic bulge Chandra/HST survey. We find that a significant number - i.e. in excess of the expected level of random associations - can be matched with probable M-giants. Their X-ray properties can be understood if these sources are symbiotic binaries where the X-rays are typically, either directly or indirectly, the result of a white dwarf accreting from the wind of a cool giant. Optical and near-infrared properties of selected sources are consistent with a symbiotic nature, although none of the spectra collected for 8 out of 13 candidate counterparts show the high-ionization nebular emission lines observed for many symbiotics. The hard X-ray emission for several sources (power-law photon indices -1.5 ~< Gamma ~< 1.5) suggests our sample includes systems similar to the symbiotics recently detected with INTEGRAL and Swift.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures (1 color figure), accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Cosmologies with variable parameters and dynamical cosmon: implications on the cosmic coincidence problem
Creators: name: Grande, Javier
name: Sola, Joan
name: Stefancic, Hrvoje
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamical dark energy (DE) has been proposed to explain various aspects of the cosmological constant (CC) problem(s). For example, it is very difficult to accept that a strictly constant Lambda-term constitutes the ultimate explanation for the DE in our Universe. It is also hard to acquiesce in the idea that we accidentally happen to live in an epoch where the CC contributes an energy density value right in the ballpark of the rapidly diluting matter density. It should perhaps be more plausible to conceive that the vacuum energy, is actually a dynamical quantity as the Universe itself. More generally, we could even entertain the possibility that the total DE is in fact a mixture of vacuum energy and other dynamical components (e.g. fields, higher order terms in the effective action etc) which can be represented collectively by an effective entity X (dubbed the ``cosmon''). The ``cosmon'', therefore, acts as a dynamical DE component different from the vacuum energy. While it can actually behave phantom-like by itself, the overall DE fluid may effectively appear as standard quintessence, or even mimic at present an almost exact CC behavior. Thanks to the versatility of such cosmic fluid we can show that a composite DE system of this sort (``LXCDM'') may have a key to resolving the mysterious coincidence problem.
description: LaTeX, 13 pages, 5 figures
Power-Aware Run-Time Scheduler for Mixed-Criticality Systems on Multi-Core Platform
Creators: name: Ranjbar, Behnaz
name: Nguyen, Tuan D. A.
name: Ejlali, Alireza
name: Kumar, Akash
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In modern multi-core Mixed-Criticality (MC) systems, a rise in peak power consumption due to parallel execution of tasks with maximum frequency, specially in the overload situation, may lead to thermal issues, which may affect the reliability and timeliness of MC systems. Therefore, managing peak power consumption has become imperative in multi-core MC systems. In this regard, we propose an online peak power and thermal management heuristic for multi-core MC systems. This heuristic reduces the peak power consumption of the system as much as possible during runtime by exploiting dynamic slack and per-cluster Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS). Specifically, our approach examines multiple tasks ahead to determine the most appropriate one for slack assignment, that has the most impact on the system peak power and temperature. However, changing the frequency and selecting a proper task for slack assignment and a proper core for task re-mapping at runtime can be time-consuming and may cause deadline violation which is not admissible for high-criticality tasks. Therefore, we analyze and then optimize our run-time scheduler and evaluate it for various platforms. The proposed approach is experimentally validated on the ODROID-XU3 (DVFS-enabled heterogeneous multi-core platform) with various embedded real-time benchmarks. Results show that our heuristic achieves up to 5.25% reduction in system peak power and 20.33\% reduction in maximum temperature compared to an existing method while meeting deadline constraints in different criticality modes.
Τα Περί Διδασκάλου (De Magistro) σύγγραμμα του ιερού Αυγουστίνου:
Creators: name: Δινοπούλου-Βαγιωνά, Αναστασία Χρήστου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2011
Subjects: Αυγουστίνος
Περί Διδασκάλου
Εσωτερικός Διδάσκαλος
St.Augustine
The Teacher
De Magistro

description: Ο ιερός Αυγουστίνος είναι άγιος της Εκκλησίας, ένας από τους εκκλησιαστικούς Πατέρες της Δύσης αλλά και φιλόσοφος, του οποίου οι θεολογικές και φιλοσοφικές απόψεις παραμένουν μέχρι τις μέρες μας ευρέως διαδεδομένες. Στην πιο γόνιμη θεολογική περίοδο των Μέσων χρόνων το περιεχόμενο του έργου του Περί Διδασκάλου αποτέλεσε αντικείμενο σχολιασμού και συζητήσεων. Ακόμα και στις μέρες μας μελετάται ενδελεχώς, επειδή πρόκειται για μια σημαντική φιλοσοφική και παιδαγωγική πηγή, αλλά και επειδή θίγει προβλήματα που σχετίζονται με τη σημασία και την αξία της γλώσσας. Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας σε πρώτο επίπεδο είναι η σκιαγράφηση του διαλόγου που αναπτύσσεται στο έργο ανάμεσα στον Αυγουστίνο και το γιο του, αφού πρώτα τοποθετηθεί σε ένα ευρύτερο χρονολογικό και πραγματολογικό πλαίσιο. Και σε ένα δεύτερο επίπεδο, στόχος είναι να γίνει μια θεώρηση του έργου από θεολογική, φιλοσοφική και παιδαγωγική σκοπιά. Τέλος, θα πρέπει να ληφθούν υπόψη και κάποιες άλλες παράμετροι, όπως είναι η πολύπλοκη αλλά και στριφνή γλώσσα όπως αυτή αναδύεται μέσα από την αγγλική μετάφραση του έργου καθώς επίσης και το ανεπαρκές βιβλιογραφικό υλικό ειδικά για αυτό το έργο ενός γενικά τόσο σχολιασμένου συγγραφέα, το οποίο δυσκολεύει την ερμηνευτική του προσέγγιση. Ωστόσο, επιχειρείται μια ανάλυση που φρονούμε ότι δεν αποκλίνει από τα πλαίσια της θεματικής.
description: Saint Augustine is a saint of Church, one of the Church Fathers of the West but also a philosopher, whose theological and philosophical views kept widespread until nowadays. The most fruitful period of Middle years of theological content of his work De Magistro was the subject of comment and discussion. Even nowadays is studied thoroughly, because this is an important philosophical and pedagogical, but also because it raises problems related to the importance and value of the language. The purpose of this task, on a first level, is the outline of the project dialogue developed between Augustine and his son, having first placed in a broader chronological and pragmatologic framework. And on a second level, the aim is to be considered from a theological, philosophical and educational perspective. Finally, some other parameters should be taken into account and, such as complex language like this surfaces through the English translation of the project as well as the bibliographic material especially inadequate for this project of an author so much commented, which makes the interpretative approach. However, an analysis that does not deviate from the context of the thematic is attempted.
High school students’ perceptions of nursing as a career choice
Creators: name: Maloney, Maureen Patricia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study was to identify high school students' perceptions of nursing as a career choice. The conceptual framework used in this study was based on Osipow's self-concept theory (1983) and Gottfredson's (1981) theory of career aspiration. In this framework, career decision-making was viewed as a four stage process involving six factors: self-concept, career image, career preference, career accessibility, range of acceptable careers, and career choice. The three concepts from the conceptual framework explored in this study were, career image, preference, and accessibility. Students from three senior secondary schools in the Richmond School District and one high school in the Vancouver School District participated in the study. The sample consisted of 602 students in grades 11 and 12 from seven different classes. There were 262 males and 340 females. Data was collected using an adapted version of the Career Questionnaire developed by Kohler and Edwards (1990). Results showed that overall, high school students perceived nursing positively. In all three sub-categories, the mean scores were high, which indicated that students perceived nursing favourably. The possible range for the total mean score was 41 to 205. Males had a mean total score of 133.1, and females were significantly higher at 137.5 (p = 0.001). Students were frequently undecided in their responses, particularly in relation to questions involving money. Informational sources about nurses were primarily observation, followed by television, knowing someone who was a nurse, printed material, and lastly, through school. Although high school students had a positive image of nursing, few (8%) were considering it as a career choice. Recruitment in nursing is an under-explored and poorly understood phenomenon. Given the reluctance of high schools students to select nursing as a career choice, further research is needed to discover effective and efficient recruitment strategies. Therefore, it important to determine those factors that are most influential during high school students' career decision-making.
Accélération des cartes auto-organisatrices sur tableau de dissimilarités par séparation et évaluation
Creators: name: Conan-Guez, Brieuc
name: Rossi, Fabrice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, a new implementation of the adaptation of Kohonen self-organising maps (SOM) to dissimilarity matrices is proposed. This implementation relies on the branch and bound principle to reduce the algorithm running time. An important property of this new approach is that the obtained algorithm produces exactly the same results as the standard algorithm.
description: A para\^itre
Photo-induced phase transition and associated time scales in the excitonic insulator Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$
Creators: name: Saha, Tanusree
name: Golez, Denis
name: De Ninno, Giovanni
name: Mravlje, Jernej
name: Murakami, Yuta
name: Ressel, Barbara
name: Stupar, Matija
name: Ribic, Primoz Rebernik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the non-equilibrium electronic structure and characteristic time scales in a candidate excitonic insulator, Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$, using time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with a temporal resolution of 50 fs. Following a strong photoexcitation, the band gap closes transiently within 100 fs, i.e., on a time scale faster than the typical lattice vibrational period. Furthermore, we find that the characteristic time associated with the rise of the photoemission intensity above the Fermi energy decreases with increasing excitation strength, while the relaxation time of the electron population towards equilibrium shows an opposite behaviour. We argue that these experimental observations can be consistently explained by an excitonic origin of the band gap in the material. The excitonic picture is supported by microscopic calculations based on the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism for an interacting two-band system. We interpret the speedup of the rise time with fluence in terms of an enhanced scattering probability between photo-excited electrons and excitons, leading to an initially faster decay of the order parameter. We show that the inclusion of electron-phonon coupling at a semi-classical level changes only the quantitative aspects of the proposed dynamics, while the qualitative features remain the same. The experimental observations and microscopic calculations allow us to develop a simple and intuitive phenomenological model that captures the main dynamics after photoexcitation in Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$.
Recurrence Patterns and Clinical Management after a Positive Sentinel Node Biopsy in Melanoma Patients
Creators: name: de Menezes, Jacqueline N.
name: Arra, Dante A. S. M.
name: Lôbo, Matheus M.
name: Pinto, Clovis A. L.
name: Lima, João P. S. N.
name: Silva, Milton J. B.
name: Neto, João P. Duprat
name: Bertolli, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Introduction melanoma patients who become stage III after a positive sentinel node biopsy (SNB) may have several patterns of recurrence patients and methods retrospective analysis of melanoma patients who have undergone SNB in a single institution from 2000 to 2015. Results There were 111 recurrences (45.1%) among 246 (20.3%) SNB positive patients and median DRFS was 77.7 months. After initial treatment, further recurrences occurred in 68 (77.3%) patients, regardless the site of initial recurrence conclusions multimodal strategies are recommended to achieve better results when managing stage III melanoma patients after a positive SNB
Bulk Superconductivity in the Dirac Semimetal TlSb
Creators: name: Zhou, Yuxing
name: Li, Bin
name: Lou, Zhefeng
name: Chen, Huancheng
name: Chen, Qin
name: Xu, Binjie
name: Wu, Chunxiang
name: Du, Jianhua
name: Yang, Jinhu
name: Wang, Hangdong
name: Fang, Minghu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A feasible strategy to realize the Majorana fermions is searching for a simple compound with both bulk superconductivity and Dirac surface states. In this paper, we performed calculations of electronic band structure, the Fermi surface and surface states, as well as measured the resistivity, magnetization, specific heat for TlSb compound with a CsCl-type structure. The band structure calculations show that TlSb is a Dirac semimetal when spin-orbit coupling is taken into account. Meanwhile, we first found that TlSb is a type-II superconductor with $T_c$ = 4.38 K, $H_{c1}$(0) = 148 Oe, $H_{c2}$(0) = 1.12 T and $κ_{GL}$ = 10.6, and confirmed it to be a moderately coupled s-wave superconductor. Although we can not determine which bands near the Fermi level $E_F$ to be responsible for superconductivity, its coexistence with the topological surface states implies that TlSb compound may be a simple material platform to realize the fault-tolerant quantum computations.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
Introduction to graphs
Creators: name: Hartmann, Alexander K.
name: Weigt, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graph theory provides fundamental concepts for many fields of science like statistical physics, network analysis and theoretical computer science. Here we give a pedagogical introduction to graph theory, divided into three sections. In the first, we introduce some basic notations and graph theoretical problems, e.g. Eulerian circuits, vertex covers, and graph colorings. The second section describes some fundamental algorithmic concepts to solve basic graph problems numerically, as, e.g., depth-first search, calculation of strongly connected components, and minimum-spanning tree algorithms. The last section introduces random graphs and probabilistic tools to analyze the emergence of a giant component and a giant q-core in these graphs. The presented text is published as the third chapter of the book "Phase Transitions in Combinatorial Optimization Problem" (Wiley-VCH 2005). Together with introductions to algorithms, to complexity theory and to basic statistical mechanics over random structures, it provides the technical basis for the more advanced chapters. These cover the analysis of phase transitions in combinatorial optimization problems, algorithmic and analytical approaches based on statistical physics tools (replica and cavity methods), the analysis of various search algorithms and the development of efficient heuristic algorithms, based on message passing techniques (warning, belief, and survey propagation).
description: 45 pages, with permission of Wiley-VCH, see http://www.wiley.com
Una Chiesa, una Cattedra, un Vescovo
Creators: name: Nigro, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Apulia Theologica
Year: 2025

description: Recensione sul testo di Salvatore Rubino edito da CLV, Roma 2023
description: Apulia Theologica, V. 10 N. 1 (2024): Apulia theologica vol. 10, fascicolo 1
Τα αυτοβιογραφικά ποιήματα του Θεοδώρου Μετοχίτη, συμβολή στην ερμηνεία τους:
Creators: name: Κουρή, Στυλιανή-Ειρήνη Σταμάτη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2011
Subjects: Θεόδωρος Μετοχίτης
Αυτοβιογραφικά ποιήματα
ΕΙΣ ΕΑΥΤΟΝ
Theodore Metochites
Autobiographical Poems

description: Η παρούσα μεταπτυχιακή διπλωματική εργασία προσπαθεί να διερευνήσει και να ερμηνεύσει τα Ε̕ις ̔Εαυτόν ποιήματα του Θεοδώρου Μετοχίτη μέσα στα πλαίσια του Βυζαντινού Ουμανισμού, όπως αυτός διαμορφώθηκε κατά τον δέκατο τέταρτο αιώνα. Σύμμειξη του αρχαίου λόγου και των χριστιανικών κειμένων κατά την Παλαιολόγεια εποχή, είναι η βάση για κάθε φιλοσοφική και λογοτεχνική ανέλιξη και δημιουργία, και ο Μετοχίτης φυσικά κινείται εντός αυτού του πλαισίου. Έτσι, μία εισαγωγή στην επικρατούσα βυζαντινή πνευματική ζωή της εποχής του Ανδρόνικου Β΄ θεωρήθηκε απαραίτητη και σκιαγραφείται στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο της εργασίας. Το δεύτερο κεφάλαιο δίνει μία σύντομη βιογραφική εικόνα της ζωής και της πορείας του Μετοχίτη σαν κρατικού λειτουργού και βυζαντινού ανθρωπιστή. Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο γίνεται μία προσπάθεια ανάλυσης και ερμηνείας των Εις Εαυτόν ποιημάτων του. Σε αυτά ο Μετοχίτης φαίνεται να αποτυπώνει την διαδρομή της ψυχής του από την στιγμή της συμφοράς του μέχρι την στιγμή της απελευθερώσεώς του από τα πάθη, τις αμαρτίες και την συγχώρεση από τον Θεό με την ελπίδα της κατάληξης στο λιμάνι της γαλήνης, στην αγκαλιά του Θεού· είναι η αιώνια εικόνα του ανθρώπου μέσα στο θέατρο της ζωής. Τέλος, στο τέταρτο κεφάλαιο εκθέτονται κρίσεις και απόψεις για τον άνθρωπο Μετοχίτη και το ποιητικό του έργο από διάφορους επιφανείς βυζαντινολόγους που ασχολήθηκαν με αυτό, ενώ το πέμπτο κεφάλαιο συνοψίζει τα συμπεράσματα που προκύπτουν από την ερμηνευτική προσπάθεια των αυτοβιογραφικών ποιημάτων του Μετοχίτη.
description: A contribution in the analysis and interpretation of the Theodore Metochites' s Poems to Himself is reported in the present work. classical antiquity and sacred books during the late byzantine period are the basis of any philosophical and literary achievement; and Metochites followed precisely this tradition. Thus, an introduction to the prevailing byzantine culture at the time of the emperor Andronicus II is considered essential and is outlined in chapter one. Chapter two deals with some biographical aspects and the path of life of Metochites as a great statesman and byzantine humanist. In the third chapter an analysis and interpretation of his poems to himself is attempted. It comes out that Metochites describes the course of his soul from the moment of his misfortune and not only, up to his release from his passion and sins, and his forgiveness from God. It is the recurrent story of the humankind in this life. Finally, in chapter four criticisms and opinions expressed by different eminent bizantinologists about the man Metochites and his work are reported, whereas the fifth chapter points out some conclusions that can be drawn from the interpretation of Metochites' s autobiographical poems.
Review of the book: Hedtke, Reinhold. (2018). Das Sozioökonomische Curriculum und die Grundlagen der sozioökonomischen Bildung (The Socioeconomic Curriculum and the Foundations of Socio-economic Education). Wochenschau Verlag
Creators: name: Engartner, Tim
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2019

description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, Vol 18 No 2 (2019)
Low energy upscattering of UCN in interaction with the surface of solid state
Creators: name: Serebrov, A.
name: Vassiljev, A.
name: Lasakov, M.
name: Krasnoschekova, I.
name: Fomin, A.
name: Geltenbort, P.
name: Siber, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In connection with the problem of anomalous losses of ultracold neutrons (UCN) in the storage in the material traps the measurements of quasi-elastic scattering of UCN in collisions with trap surface have been carried out. It was observed that the probability of quasi-elastic scattering of UCN from energy interval 0-77 neV to 90-200 neV is (2.2+/-0.2)*10^-8 per collision therefore the process of quasi-elastic scattering can not explain the effect of anomalous losses which is on the level 3*10^-5.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
Recurrence patterns and clinical management after a positive sentinel node biopsy in melanoma patients
Creators: name: de Menezes, Jacqueline N.
name: Arra, Dante A.S.M
name: Lôbo, Matheus M
name: Pinto, Clovis A.L.
name: Lima, João P.S.N
name: Silva, Milton J.B.
name: DupratNeto, João P
name: Bertolli, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Introduction Melanoma patients who become stage III after a positive sentinel node biopsy (SNB) may have several patterns of recurrence Patients and methods Retrospective analysis of melanoma patients who have undergone SNB in a single institution from 2000 to 2015. Results There were 111 recurrences (45.1%) among 246 (20.3%) SNB positive patients and median DRFS was 77.7 months. After initial treatment, further recurrences occurred in 68 (77.3%) patients, regardless the site of initial recurrence Conclusions Multimodal strategies are recommended to achieve better results when managing stage III melanoma patients after a positive SNB
Broadband Transistor-Injected Dual Doping Quantum Cascade Laser
Creators: name: Lin, Zhiyuan
name: Wang, Zhuoran
name: Yuan, Guohui
name: Leburton, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel design-friendly device called the transistor-injected dual doping quantum cascade laser (TI-D2QCL) with two different doping in each stack of a homogeneous superlattice is proposed. By adjusting the base-emitter bias Vbe of the bipolar transistor to supply electrons in the dual doping regions, charge quasi-neutrality can be achieved to generate different optical transitions in each cascading superlattice stack. These transitions are then stacked and amplified to contribute to a broad flat gain spectrum. Model calculations of a designed TI- D2QCL show that a broad flat gain spectrum ranging from 9.41um to 12.01um with a relative bandwidth of 0.24 can be obtained, indicating that the TI- D2QCL with dual doping pattern may open a new pathway to the appealing applications in both MIR and THz frequency ranges, from wideband optical generations to advanced frequency comb technologies.
Theory in biomedical ethics: the compatibility of principlism and care ethics
Creators: name: McWhinney, Larissa L.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The subject of this thesis is the relationship between "principlism," a dominant trend in the theory of biomedical ethics, and a recently articulated alternative account of ethics known as "care ethics." I will argue that, rather than being competing or mutually exclusive approaches to moral theory, these two perspectives are compatible and that their partnership is mutually beneficial. I will situate my arguments within the larger philosophical debate between theorists and anti-theorists. I will contend that principlism has evolved to a position more closely allied with anti-theory than with theory. Due to the fact that care ethics has been nurtured by anti-theoretical roots, principlism's current philosophical orientation predicts the compatibility of the two perspectives in biomedical ethics. By clarifying terminology and providing reasons for promoting care ethics, I will elucidate some of the causes for the assumption that care ethics and principlism are unsuited to each other. By demonstrating how care ethics can inform the principles of principlism without offending their structure, I will indicate how the two approaches to biomedical ethics are actually well matched. To further dispel scepticism, I will address the criticism that care ethics does not display the necessary methodological requirements for moral theory. I will contend not only that care ethics can meet the standards for a legitimate philosophical school of thought and that it does not fall into the disarray of situationalism, but also that the methodological characteristics it possesses should be adopted by conventional moral theory. Using these strategies, I intend to argue that the contributions from care ethics to biomedical ethics are abundant, and that the partnership between principlism and care ethics is not only possible but that it should be encouraged and promoted.
Numerical search for a fundamental theory
Creators: name: Vanchurin, Vitaly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a numerical test of fundamental physics based on the complexity measure of a general set of functions, which is directly related to the Kolmogorov (or algorithmic) complexity studied in mathematics and computer science. The analysis can be carried out for any scientific experiment and might lead to a better understanding of the underlying theory. From a cosmological perspective, the anthropic description of fundamental constants can be explicitly tested by our procedure. We perform a simple numerical search by analyzing two fundamental constants: the weak coupling constant and the Weinberg angle, and find that their values are rather atypical.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX, expansion and clarification, references added
Η υπερβολική μετρική και μία εφαρμογή της σε εκτιμήσεις της αυξητικότητας ολόμορφων συναρτήσεων:
Creators: name: Εφραϊμίδης, Ιάσων Δημητρίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2011
Subjects: Παραλλαγή λήμματος Schwarz
Υπερβολική μετρική
Solynin
Variation of Schwarz Lemma
Hyperbolic metric

description: Σε αυτή τη διπλωματική εργασία, παρουσιάζεται η απόδειξη ενός θεωρήματος του A.Yu. Solynin και η απαραίτητη θεωρία για την κατανόησή της. Το θεώρημα αποδείχθηκε το 2008 και δηλώνει ότι η εφαρμογή του λήμματος Schwarz στην κλάση του Καραθεοδωρή - δηλαδή σε συναρτήσεις ολόμορφες στο μοναδιαίο δίσκο, με f(0)=1 και θετικό πραγματικό μέρος - μπορεί να γενικευθεί. Αυτό που έδειξε ο Solynin είναι ότι η προϋπόθεση του θετικού πραγματικού μέρους μπορεί να αντικατασταθεί από μια ασθενέστερη γεωμετρική ιδιότητα για την εικόνα της συνάρτησης και τα αποτελέσματα να διατηρήσουν την ισχύ τους. Απαραίτητα εργαλεία είναι η υπερβολική μετρική, η πόλωση ενός τόπου, η έννοια της υποταγής (subordination) δύο ολόμορφων συναρτήσεων και το μεγάλο θεώρημα του Montel. Περιγράφονται επίσης οι έννοιες του αναλυτικού στοιχείου και της αναλυτικής επέκτασης αυτού κατά μήκος μίας καμπύλης, έτσι ώστε να αποδειχθεί το θεώρημα του μονόδρομου. Δίνεται μία λεπτομερής κατασκευή της ελλειπτικής modular συνάρτησης λ, η οποία χρησιμοποιείται στις αποδείξεις των θεωρημάτων ομοιομορφοποίησης και Montel. Αποδεικνύεται η ισχυρή μορφή του λήμματος του Ahlfors και με αυτό δίνονται απλές αποδείξεις των θεωρημάτων Picard, Huber, Liouville.
description: In this thesis, we present a theorem of A.Yu. Solynin and the necessary theory for understanding its proof. The theorem was proved in 2008 and claims that the application of the Schwarz lemma in the class of Caratheodory - i.e. all holomorphic functions on the unit disk with f(0)=1 and positive real part - can be generalized. What Solynin proved was that the positive real part condition can be replaced by a weaker geometric property for the image of the function and the results can remain valid. For the proof of the theorem, necessary tools are the hyperbolic metric, polarization of a region, subordination of two holomorphic functions and the big Montel theorem. Moreover, we describe the concepts of an analytic element and analytical continuation along a curve, in order to prove the monodromy theorem. We give a detailed construction of the elliptic modular function, which is needed in the proofs of Montel and uniformization theorems. We prove the strong form of Ahlfors' Lemma and with it we give simple proofs of Picard, Huber and Liouville theorems.
XMM observations of BAL Quasars with polar outflows
Creators: name: Wang, Junxian
name: Jiang, Peng
name: Zhou, Hongyan
name: Wang, Tinggui
name: Dong, Xiaobo
name: Wang, Huiyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have selected a sample of broad absorption line (BAL) quasars which show significant radio variations, indicating the presence of polar BAL outflows. We obtained snapshot XMM observations of four polar BAL QSOs, to check whether strong X-ray absorption, one of the most prominent characteristics of most BAL QSOs, also exist in polar outflows. Two of the sources are detected in X-ray. Spectral fittings show that they are X-ray normal with no intrinsic X-ray absorption, suggesting the X-ray shielding gas might be absent in polar BAL outflows. Comparing to non-BAL QSOs, one of two X-ray nondetected sources remains consistent with X-ray normal, while the other one, which is an iron low-ionization BAL (FeLoBAL), shows an X-ray weakness factor of > 19, suggesting strong intrinsic X-ray absorption. Alternative explanations to the nondetection of strong X-ray absorption in the two X-ray detected sources are 1) the absorption is more complex than a simple neutral absorber, such as partial covering absorption or ionized absorption; 2) there might be significant jet contribution to the detected X-ray emission. Current data is insufficient to test these possibilities, and further observations are required to understand the X-ray nature of polar BAL outflows.
description: 11 pages, including 2 figures, ApJ letter accepted
title: Der junge Marx in der DDR-Lyrik
title: Young Marx in the Lyric of the GDR
Creators: name: Geist, Peter
Publisher: name: Trier University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Reception of Marx
subject: Marx
subject: German Lyric
subject: GDR
subject: GDR Poetry
subject: Ernst Bloch
subject: Anthropocene

description: Despite the compulsory exegeses of Marx conducted at universities in the GDR, which most poets completed, the work of the young Marx exerted a genuine creative fascination upon many of them, varying by gravity and intensity depending on the historical period. Bertolt Brecht, Hans Mayer, and Robert Havemann acted as mediators of Marx for the poets who emerged to dominate the lyric poetry of the GDR since the mid-1960s (Sarah Kirsch, Karl Mickel, Volker Braun, among others). Ernst Bloch’s most important work, „Das Prinzip Hoffnung“ (“The Principle of Hope”), which revolves around the utopian core idea of “the reconciliation of man and nature,” harkens back to the writings of the young Marx and can be regarded as central to the latter’s reception at the time. This is particularly evident in poems by Volker Braun and Karl Mickel, which will be considered here in more detail. Since the 1970s, however, socialist critique in poetry has increasingly been overlaid by a critique of civilization. This refocusing on the ‘globalist Marx,’ which had already been prepared by Karl Mickel’s poem „Der See“ (“The Lake”) (1963), has resulted in both the intensified resumption of Marxian / Blochian emblematics (Volker Braun) and a decided departure from any “principle of hope” (Günter Kunert). With postmodernism and the Wendezeit, lyrical insistence upon Marx seemed to have become obsolete. Yet along with the renaissance of nature poetry since the turn of the 21st century, Marx’s thinking – and particularly, the tradition of ‘Young Marx’ – has reemerged with new relevance to the “poetry of now” generation (Daniel Falb and others), who react critically to anthropogenic influence upon the climate and biosphere. In this context, the concept of the ‘Anthropocene’ occupies a key position in contemporary poetological reflection as well as in the practice of writing.
Περιγραφή και ταξινόμηση γυρεοκόκκων δασικών ειδών της Ελλάδας:
Creators: name: Τάντσης, Χρυσόστομος Χρήστου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2011
Subjects: Παλυνολογία
Γυρεόκοκκοι
Ακετόλυση
Palynology
Pollen grains
Acetolysis

description: Συλλέχθηκε γύρη από 69 επιλεγμένα ξυλώδη δασικά είδη της Ελλάδας, η οποία επεξεργάστηκε με τη μέθοδο της ακετόλυσης και από το υλικό που προέκυψε δημιουργήθηκαν δυο τύποι πλακιδίων, για κάθε ξυλώδες είδος, τα μόνιμα και τα ημιμόνιμα. Τα μόνιμα πλακίδια παρατήρησης εντάχθηκαν στο ερμπάριο γύρης του Εργαστηρίου Δασικής Βοτανικής – Γεωβοτανικής του Α.Π.Θ. Από τα ημιμόνιμα ελήφθησαν φωτογραφίες των γυρεοκόκκων στο οπτικό μικροσκόπιο (στις κλίμακες 400x και 100x) για τη δημιουργία φωτογραφικού αρχείου. Με τη χρήση του ειδικού λογισμικού προγράμματος Axion Vision Rel. 4.8.1 μετρήθηκαν ορισμένα μορφολογικά χαρακτηριστικά επί των φωτογραφημένων γυρεοκόκκων. Η συγκεκριμένη μέθοδος παρατήρησης και μέτρησης των γυρεοκόκκων, που εφαρμόστηκε για πρώτη φορά στο εργαστήριο Δασικής Βοτανικής – Γεωβοτανικής του Α.Π.Θ., υπερέχει σημαντικά σε σχέση με την κλασσική μέθοδο, τόσο ως προς την αποτελεσματικότητα όσο και ως προς την διαδικασία εφαρμογής.Το πλήθος των διεθνών παλυνολογικών όρων και η περιορισμένη, μέχρι τώρα, απόδοσή τους στην ελληνική γλώσσα, αντιμετωπίστηκε με τη δημιουργία ενός σχετικού λεξιλογίου που μπορεί να αποτελέσει βοήθημα για τους Έλληνες που ασχολούνται με το αντικείμενο αυτό και ιδιαίτερα στους νεοαπασχολούμενους.
description: Pollen was collected from 69 selected woody forest species.Each pollen quantity was elaborated with the method of acetolysis and as a result two types of slides were created ,corresponding in every single woody kind. The first type of the slides is called permanent and intergrated into the pollen herbarium of the laboratory of Forest Botany-Geobotany of Αristotle University of Thessaloniki The second one is called semi-permanent. By the use of these, pictures of pollen grains were taken, by using a light microscope (scales 400x and 100x) and lead to the creation of a pollen album. Moreover, by the use of a special software programm, which called Axion Vision Rel.4.8.1.,some morphological features were measured in pollen grain pictures.This method of observation and measure of pollen, which was first put into effect in the laboratoty of. Forest Botany-Geobotany of Αristotle University of Thessaloniki, transcended importantly, in comparison with the classic method , in the effectiveness and process of the application.The large amount of the international palynological termsand the limited rendering in greek was treated with the creation of a relative glossary. This can be a very helpful quide for the greeks, and especially for the current occupated people, who entered this scope.
Estimating Stellar Parameters from Spectra using a Hierarchical Bayesian Approach
Creators: name: Shkedy, Z.
name: Decin, L.
name: Molenberghs, G.
name: Aerts, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method is developed for fitting theoretically predicted astronomical spectra to an observed spectrum. Using a hierarchical Bayesian principle, the method takes both systematic and statistical measurement errors into account, which has not been done before in the astronomical literature. The goal is to estimate fundamental stellar parameters and their associated uncertainties. The non-availability of a convenient deterministic relation between stellar parameters and the observed spectrum, combined with the computational complexities this entails, necessitate the curtailment of the continuous Bayesian model to a reduced model based on a grid of synthetic spectra. A criterion for model selection based on the so-called predictive squared error loss function is proposed, together with a measure for the goodness-of-fit between observed and synthetic spectra. The proposed method is applied to the infrared 2.38--2.60 \mic ISO-SWS data (Infrared Space Observatory - Short Wavelength Spectrometer) of the star $α$ Bootis, yielding estimates for the stellar parameters: effective temperature \Teff = 4230 $\pm$ 83 K, gravity $\log$ g = 1.50 $\pm$ 0.15 dex, and metallicity [Fe/H] = $-0.30 \pm 0.21$ dex.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
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Creators: name: Zecca, Cosimo
Publisher: name: Apulia Theologica
Year: 2025

description: Recensione sul testo di Cosimo Posi edito da Cittadella, Assisi 2024
description: Apulia Theologica, V. 10 N. 1 (2024): Apulia theologica vol. 10, fascicolo 1