cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mass customization process for the Social Housing. Potentiality, critical points, research lines
Creators: name: Di Sivo, Michele
name: Angelucci, Filippo
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: The demand for lengthening the life cycle of the residential estate, engendered with the economical and housing crisis since the last few years, brings out, in the course of time, the need for conservation and improvement works of the property house performances, through the direct involvement of the users. The possibility of reducing maintenance and adjustment costs may develop into a project resource, consistent to the participation and cooperation principles, identifying social housing interventions. With this aim, the BETHA group of the d’Annunzio University is investigating the potentiality of technological transfer of the ‘mass customization’ process from the industrial products field to the social housing segment, by detecting issues, strategies and opportunities.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
Production chain and innovative technologies for living
Creators: name: Arbizzani, Eugenio
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: The continued growth of residential demand, coupled with the significant decline of the housing market, is encouraging the development of many procedural and constructive experiments on the theme of affordable housing for a range of users increasingly unable to access home ownership. The spread of an approach to planning that is socially, economically and technologically sustainable, represents a culture of quality that is once more measurable, which makes it possible today to define innovative building models for the industrial and production chain. The use of innovative and integrated industrialised building systems may be one of the supporting factors in the achievement of the objectives of social housing.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
Acousto-optic modulation of a photonic crystal nanocavity with Lamb waves in microwave K band
Creators: name: Tadesse, Semere A.
name: Li, Huan
name: Liu, Qiyu
name: Li, Mo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Integrating nanoscale electromechanical transducers and nanophotonic devices potentially can enable new acousto-optic devices to reach unprecedented high frequencies and modulation efficiency. Here, we demonstrate acousto-optic modulation of a photonic crystal nanocavity using Lamb waves with frequency up to 19 GHz, reaching the microwave K band. The devices are fabricated in suspended aluminum nitride membrane. Excitation of acoustic waves is achieved with interdigital transducers with periods as small as 300 nm. Confining both acoustic wave and optical wave within the thickness of the membrane leads to improved acousto-optic modulation efficiency in the new devices than that obtained in previous surface acoustic wave devices. Our system demonstrates a novel scalable optomechanical platform where strong acousto-optic coupling between cavity-confined photons and high frequency traveling phonons can be explored.
ACC/AHA guideline update for perioperative cardiovascular evaluation for noncardiac surgery - Executive summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Update the 1996 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery)
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: These guidelines represent an update of those published in 1996 and are intended for physicians who are involved in the preoperative, operative, and postoperative care of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. They provide a framework for considering cardiac risk of noncardiac surgery in a variety of patient and surgical situations. The overriding theme of these guidelines is that preoperative intervention is rarely necessary simply to lower the risk of surgery unless such intervention is indicated irrespective of the preoperative context. The purpose of preoperative evaluation is not simply to give medical clearance but rather to perform an evaluation of the patient’s current medical status; make recommendations concerning the evaluation, management, and risk of cardiac problems over the entire perioperative period; and provide a clinical risk profile that the patient, primary physician, anesthesiologist, and surgeon can use in making treatment decisions that may influence short- and long-term cardiac outcomes. The goal of the consultation is to identify the most appropriate testing and treatment strategies to optimize care of the patient, provide assessment of both short- and long-term cardiac risk, and avoid unnecessary testing in this era of cost containment.
Socio-economic drivers of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Africa: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Cannon, Lesley-Ann
name: Oladimeji, Elizabeth
name: Goon, Daniel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Research Project. Despite significant research advances so far in the diagnosis and treatment, there is a paucity of synthesized evidence on how socio-economic factors are associated with DR-TB. This review aims to address this gap by synthesizing available evidence and data on the main socio-economic drivers of DR-TB infection in Africa.
New standards for new poverties. Ecosystemic strategies and governance of the chain
Creators: name: Clemente, Carola
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: The impact and duration of the economic crisis we are experiencing is having a profound influence on the extended construction chain, it conditions the productive system, the system of products and services, and the system of demand, that is, the community of users of the built product. Manmade territory is the site of the clash between competing stakeholders and is the location of some of the most critical social, economic and environmental areas. To put an end to the progressive impoverishment of the productive fabric, of the users and managers of housing, it is necessary to rethink the operating standards of the entire chain, otherwise we risk the collapse of the system of building production and the support structures for housing difficulty.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
The meteor of the Neighbourhood Contracts through the case of the San Siro district in Milan
Creators: name: Fianchini, Maria
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: The study deals with the San Siro public housing neighbourhood in Milan, whose size and amount of issues make the district as a system in itself disjointed to the urban context. Features and conditions of this area, would require an hard work (and simultaneously offered great opportunities) for researching and field-testing innovative solutions for building and social rehabilitation of the great public housing settlements, as originally outlined in the «Neighbourhood Contracts». On the contrary, funds assigned to this complex by the second competition for «Neighbourhood Contracts», doesn’t seem to have started any innovative process of intervention on built environment, but rather letting an involutional model.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
Ultimate low system dark count rate for superconducting nanowire single-photon detector
Creators: name: Shibata, Hiroyuki
name: Shimizu, Kaoru
name: Takesue, Hiroki
name: Tokura, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dark count rate (DCR) is a key parameter of single-photon detectors. By introducing a bulk optical band-pass filter mounted on a fiber-to-fiber optical bench cooled at 3 K and blocking down to 5 micrometer, we suppressed the DCR of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector by more than three orders of magnitude. The DCR is limited by the blackbody radiation through a signal passband of 20 nm bandwidth. The figure of merit, system detection efficiency, and DCR were 2.7 x 10^11, 2.3 %, and 0.001 Hz, respectively. Narrowing the bandwidth to 100 GHz suppresses the DCR to 0.0001 Hz and the figure of merit increases to 1.8 x 10^12.
description: to appear in Optics Letters
Quantum dynamics with spatiotemporal control of interactions in a stable Bose-Einstein condensate
Creators: name: Clark, Logan W.
name: Ha, Li-Chung
name: Xu, Chen-Yu
name: Chin, Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical control of atomic interactions in a quantum gas is a long-sought goal of cold atom research. Previous experiments have been hindered by short lifetimes and parasitic deformation of the trap potential. Here, we develop and implement a generic scheme for optical control of Feshbach resonance in quantum gases, which yields long condensate lifetimes sufficient to study equilibrium and non-equilibrium physics with negligible parasitic dipole force. We show that fast and local control of interactions leads to intriguing quantum dynamics in new regimes, highlighted by the formation of van der Waals molecules and partial collapse of a Bose condensate.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
The Bohr radius and the Hadamard convolution operator
Creators: name: Khasyanov, Ramis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30A10, 30B10, 30C80, 30J99

description: The concept of the Bohr radius of a pair of operators is introduced. In terms of the convolution function, a general formula for calculating the Bohr radius of the Hadamard convolution type operator with a fixed initial coefficient is obtained. We apply this formula to the problems of the Bohr radius of the operators of differentiation and integration. Using the concept of the Bohr radius of a pair of operators, we generalize the theorem of B.Bhowmik and N.Das on the comparison of majorant series of subordinate functions.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure, to be published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
A smart laboratory for the redevelopment of A.T.E.R. settlements in L'Aquila
Creators: name: Forlani, Maria
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: The research proposes the development of the heritage of social housing as a public experiment to measure up to the quality parameters required for the achievement of a ‘European model of the city.’ The goal is configuring a development that can return, or provide, the liveability to the settlements considered, conscious of the territorial reality characterized by widespread housing system and consistent with the evolving needs (social, economic and environmental) and the emerging socio-economic and environmental criticalities. The work is developed from knowledge of the settlement and the territorial system connected, as the basis for prefiguration of a scenario in which you identify a few privileged areas of action for the main urban and territorial dynamics, the management of ‘flows’, and new areas of discussion related to the problem of time, communication, mobility and logistics. You configure structural and managerial innovations (enhancement of territorial potentialities and integration of productive sectors; building cycle based on the recovery and rehabilitation). A ‘closed loop system’ where urban regeneration is powered and built from local resources.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
Bio-Inspired Aggregation Control of Carbon Nanotubes for Ultra-Strong Composites
Creators: name: Han, Yue
name: Zhang, Xiaohua
name: Yu, Xueping
name: Zhao, Jingna
name: Li, Shan
name: Liu, Feng
name: Gao, Peng
name: Zhang, Yongyi
name: Zhao, Tong
name: Li, Qingwen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High performance nanocomposites require well dispersion and high alignment of the nanometer-sized components, at a high mass or volume fraction as well. However, the road towards such composite structure is severely hindered due to the easy aggregation of these nanometer-sized components. Here we demonstrate a big step to approach the ideal composite structure for carbon nanotube (CNT) where all the CNTs were highly packed, aligned, and unaggregated, with the impregnated polymers acting as interfacial adhesions and mortars to build up the composite structure. The strategy was based on a bio-inspired aggregation control to limit the CNT aggregation to be sub 20--50 nm, a dimension determined by the CNT growth. After being stretched with full structural relaxation in a multi-step way, the CNT/polymer (bismaleimide) composite yielded super-high tensile strengths up to 6.27--6.94 GPa, more than 100% higher than those of carbon fiber/epoxy composites, and toughnesses up to 117--192 MPa. We anticipate that the present study can be generalized for developing multifunctional and smart nanocomposites where all the surfaces of nanometer-sized components can take part in shear transfer of mechanical, thermal, and electrical signals.
Seasonally Varying Outgassing as an Explanation for Dark Comet Accelerations
Creators: name: Taylor, Aster G.
name: Farnocchia, Davide
name: Vokrouhlicky, David
name: Seligman, Darryl Z.
name: Steckloff, Jordan K.
name: Micheli, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Significant nonradial, nongravitational accelerations with magnitudes incompatible with radiation-driven effects have been reported in seven small, photometrically inactive near-Earth objects. Two of these objects exhibit large transverse accelerations (i.e., within the orbital plane but orthogonal to the radial direction), and six exhibit significant out-of-plane accelerations. Here, we find that anisotropic outgassing resulting from differential heating on a nucleus with nonzero spin-pole obliquity, averaged over an eccentric orbit, can explain these accelerations for most of the objects. This balanced outgassing model depends on three parameters -- the spin pole orientation (R.A. and Dec.) and an acceleration magnitude. For these "dark comets" (excepting 2003 RM), we obtain parameter values that reproduce the observed nongravitational accelerations. We derive formulae for the component accelerations under certain assumptions for the acceleration scaling over heliocentric distance. Although we lack estimates of these objects' spin axes to confirm our values, this mechanism is nevertheless a plausible explanation for the observed accelerations, and produces accurate perturbations to the heliocentric motions of most of these objects. This model may also be applied to active objects outside of the dark comets group.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures. Published in Icarus
Invisible decays of the heavier Higgs boson in the minimal supersymmetric standard model
Creators: name: Ananthanarayan, B.
name: Lahiri, Jayita
name: Pandita, P. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the possibility that the heavier CP-even Higgs boson~($H^0$) in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) decays invisibly into neutralinos in the light of the recent discovery of the 126 GeV resonance at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). For this purpose we consider the minimal supersymmetric standard model with universal, non-universal and arbitrary boundary conditions on the supersymmetry breaking gaugino mass parameters at the grand unified scale. Typically, scenarios with universal and nonuniversal gaugino masses do not allow invisible decays of the lightest Higgs boson~($h^0$), which is identified with the $126$ GeV resonance, into the lightest neutralinos in the MSSM. With arbitrary gaugino masses at the grand unified scale such an invisible decay is possible. The second lightest Higgs boson can decay into various invisible final states for a considerable region of the MSSM parameter space with arbitrary gaugino masses as well as with the gaugino masses restricted by universal and nonuniversal boundary conditions at the grand unified scale.The possibility of the second lightest Higgs boson of the MSSM decaying into invisible channels is more likely for arbitrary gaugino masses at the grand unified scale. The heavier Higgs boson decay into lighter particles leads to the intriguing possibility that the entire Higgs boson spectrum of the MSSM may be visible at the LHC even if it decays invisibly, during the searches for an extended Higgs boson sector at the LHC. In such a scenario the nonobservation of the extended Higgs sector of the MSSM may carefully be used to rule out regions of the MSSM parameter space at the LHC.
description: Latex, 19 pages, 23 figs.; sequel to arXiv:1405.7163 and arXiv:1306.1291
NF-κB Antiapoptosis: Induction of TRAF1 and TRAF2 and c-IAP1 and c-IAP2 to Suppress Caspase-8 Activation
Creators: name: Baldwin, Albert
name: Mayo, Marty W.
name: Wang, Cun-Yu
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1998

description: Tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) binding to the TNF receptor (TNFR) potentially initiates apoptosis and activates the transcription factor nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB), which suppresses apoptosis by an unknown mechanism. The activation of NF-κB was found to block the activation of caspase-8. TRAF1 (TNFR-associated factor 1), TRAF2, and the inhibitor-of-apoptosis (IAP) proteins c-IAP1 and c-IAP2 were identified as gene targets of NF-κB transcriptional activity. In cells in which NF-κB was inactive, all of these proteins were required to fully suppress TNF-induced apoptosis, whereas c-IAP1 and c-IAP2 were sufficient to suppress etoposide-induced apoptosis. Thus, NF-κB activates a group of gene products that function cooperatively at the earliest checkpoint to suppress TNF-α–mediated apoptosis and that function more distally to suppress genotoxic agent–mediated apoptosis.
IU.R Residential Urban Interfaces. Strategies and tools for a renewal project
Creators: name: Borgianni, Sabrina
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: In the contemporary city, quality of urban space is a key element in life quality and a driving force for the competitiveness. The increasing complexity of relationships and the evolving needs and use patterns reflect urban complexity in a corresponding physical space: the urban interface, an entity that mediates the sociospatial relationships between public and private sphere and that assumes strategic importance in redevelopment of suburbs. Research, carried out on a case ‘study project’, defines the criteria for a Residential Urban Interface approach as a tool for micro-urban redevelopment which merge into the proposed Project Plan, the metaproject field aimed at process design, space design and design of management and use scenario.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
Novel mechanism for vorticity generation in black-hole accretion disks
Creators: name: Bhattacharjee, Chinmoy
name: Das, Rupam
name: Mahajan, Swadesh M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vorticity generation in accretion disks around Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes is investigated in the context of magnetofluid dynamics derived for both General Relativity (GR), and modified gravity formulations. In both cases, the Kerr geometry leads to a "stronger" generation of vorticity than its Schwarzschild counterpart. Of the two principal sources, the relativistic drive peaks near the innermost stable circular orbit (isco), whereas the baroclinic drive dominates at larger distances. Consequences of this new relativistic vorticity source are discussed in several astrophysical settings.
description: 8 figures
Modeling of Annual and Daily Electricity Demand of Retrofitted Heat Pumps based on Gas Smart Meter Data
Creators: name: Bayer, Daniel R.
name: Pruckner, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.6

description: Currently, gas furnaces are common heating systems in Europe. Due to the efforts for decarbonizing the complete energy sector, heat pumps should continuously replace existing gas furnaces. At the same time, the electrification of the heating sector represents a significant challenge for the power grids and their operators. Thus, new approaches are required to estimate the additional electricity demand to operate heat pumps. The electricity required by a heat pump to produce a given amount of heat depends on the Seasonal Performance Factor (SPF), which is hard to model in theory due to many influencing factors and hard to measure in reality as the heat produced by a heat pump is usually not measured. Therefore, we show in this paper that collected smart meter data forms an excellent data basis on building level for modeling heat demand and the SPF. We present a novel methodology to estimate the mean SPF based on an unpaired dataset of heat pump electricity and gas consumption data taken from buildings within the same city by comparing the distributions using the Jensen-Shannon Divergence (JSD). Based on a real-world dataset, we evaluate this novel method by predicting the electricity demand required if all gas furnaces in a city were replaced by heat pumps and briefly highlight possible use cases.
Industrialised constructive systems for residential buildings: the CCCabita system
Creators: name: Civiero, Paolo
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: The integration between the working reality of the building site, scientific research and industrial production encourages the creation of technological systems capable of providing new forms of housing that meet planning requirements on issues related to sustainability, speed of construction and containment of costs arising from the various demands of the market. Open industrialised systems represent the transposition into the constructive field of technological research in the productive chain and they restore the synthesis on the front of the possibilities of development of industrial systems in construction, ensuring the adoption of the most innovative technical solutions and favouring the wider variability of the different housing models.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
Antlia B: A faint dwarf galaxy member of the NGC 3109 association
Creators: name: Sand, D. J.
name: Spekkens, K.
name: Crnojević, D.
name: Hargis, J. R.
name: Willman, B.
name: Strader, J.
name: Grillmair, C. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of Antlia B, a faint dwarf galaxy at a projected distance of $\sim$72 kpc from NGC 3109 ($M_{V}$$\sim$$-$15 mag), the primary galaxy of the NGC 3109 dwarf association at the edge of the Local Group. The tip of the red giant branch distance to Antlia B is $D$=1.29$\pm$0.10 Mpc, which is consistent with the distance to NGC 3109. A qualitative analysis indicates the new dwarf's stellar population has both an old, metal poor red giant branch ($\gtrsim$10 Gyr, [Fe/H]$\sim$$-$2), and a younger blue population with an age of $\sim$200-400 Myr, analogous to the original Antlia dwarf, another likely satellite of NGC 3109. Antlia B has \ion{H}{1} gas at a velocity of $v_{helio,HI}$=376 km s$^{-1}$, confirming the association with NGC 3109 ($v_{helio}$=403 km s$^{-1}$). The HI gas mass (M$_{HI}$=2.8$\pm$0.2$\times$10$^{5}$ M$_{\odot}$), stellar luminosity ($M_{V}$=$-$9.7$\pm$0.6 mag) and half light radius ($r_{h}$=273$\pm$29 pc) are all consistent with the properties of dwarf irregular and dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the Local Volume, and is most similar to the Leo P dwarf galaxy. The discovery of Antlia B is the initial result from a Dark Energy Camera survey for halo substructure and faint dwarf companions to NGC 3109 with the goal of comparing observed substructure with expectations from the $Λ$+Cold Dark Matter model in the sub-Milky Way regime.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to ApJL
Solar retrofitting in social housing: a case study in Savona
Creators: name: Giachetta, Andrea
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: In relation to the social Housing’s theme, sustainable requalification interventions on the building heritage in the urban fringes dating back to the WWII postwar play an important role as those are characterized by buildings which offer poor energy performances. These interventions are potentially very effective, although at the same time they raise implementation and management issues, with which it is fundamental to confront, with a view to pursue serious housing and social policies. With this object in view, the introduction of a recently completed intervention in a social housing borough in Savona, also through the use of passive solar systems, offers suggestions and hints for reflection, due to the repeatibility of some adopted solutions and design principles.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 4 (2012): Social housing
Forty years of environmentally conscious building technology design
Creators: name: Matteoli, Lorenzo
name: Peretti, Gabriella
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: This short essay analyzes the environmental approach throughout the history of Architectural Technology, starting from building details up to the present attention to the smart city, land maintenance and urban retrofit, seen as complex research activities, political strategies, design and entrepreneurial actions which have the scope to transform present day urban crusts into organic textures, climatologically consistent, reactive, user-friendly, efficient and with a low environmental impact. The exercise identifies some research and teaching trends for Architectural Technology in order to promote debate and the analysis of the historical perspective and present situation of the discipline.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 5 (2013): Environment emergency
Universal Dependencies for Hittite
Creators: name: Molina, Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Digital Humanities
hittitology
anatolian studies
universal dependencies

description: In the recent years universal dependencies (UD) became the standard for digital treebanks, they are an essential part of annotated linguistic corpora, and they are widely used for comparison of language features in linguistic research. This paper describes the UD annotation for Annotated Corpus of Hittite Clauses (ACHC). It is an ongoing project, starting from previously achieved number of UD-annotated clauses.
A Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Three Different Exercise Strategies for Optimizing Aerobic Capacity and Skeletal Muscle Performance in Older Adults: Protocol for the DART Study
Creators: name: Tavoian, Dallin
name: Russ, David W.
name: Law, Timothy D
name: Simon, Janet E.
name: Chase, Paul J
name: Guseman, Emily Hill
name: Clark, Brian C.
Publisher: name: Health Research Alliance
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified
Exercise physiology

description: Protocol paper for a clinical trial investigating the effects of high-intensity interval training in older adults, relative to aerobic exercise or resistance exercise.
A Clinical Prediction Model for the Early Identification of the Need for Major Intervention in Patients with Traumatic Hemorrhage
Creators: name: Tran, Alexandre
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Hemorrhage

description: Background: There is a lack of well-validated clinical decision tools to assist clinicians with risk stratification of bleeding trauma patients. Objective: This thesis derives and validates a clinical prediction score in order to identify patients requiring major interventions for traumatic hemorrhage. Methods: We created a model based on the pre-specification of predictors. We conducted a systematic review of prediction models and a survey of traumatologists to identify candidate predictors. We conducted a derivation study of 748 trauma patients from 2014 to 2017. Results: The final model included systolic BP, clinical exam, lactate, FAST and CT. The c-statistic was 0.953 (naïve) and 0.952 following optimism-correction with bootstrap validation. Discussion: This thesis utilizes pre-specification to minimize reliance on small datasets and potential for over-optimism. Pre-specification is based on the best available knowledge within the literature and clinical expert community. Conclusion: A simple score is proposed for risk stratification of bleeding trauma patients.
Environmental Design with Regard to Emergency and Scarce Resources: a few Method Reflections
Creators: name: Tucci, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: The essay illustrates a few method or project approach reflections on a range of questions: the ones faced by all branches of knowledge of ‘Environmental Design’. Today, those branches are asked to tackle the broader ‘environmental question’ in a more and more crucial and binding way, and to provide answers to more and more frequent emergency situations, dealing also with increasingly scarce resources in our cities and territories. A few questions are posed: which logic-cognitive phases is it necessary to bear in mind to set a proper changing action? Which criteria – or meta-criteria – is it convenient to adopt in order to direct process, project and product choices? Which is the ideal framework of reference requirements which a changing action should always respect and bear in mind? A framework of possible operative indications may be based on the interdisciplinary approach, typical of Environmental Design, and on meta-criteria; the purpose is to define an open system with nine method requirements for seeking the proper processes for protecting, safeguarding, preserving as well as recovering and changing the environment, increasing its value.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 5 (2013): Environment emergency
Responsiveness, adaptability, transformability: the new quality requirements of the built environment
Creators: name: Angelucci, Filippo
name: Di Sivo, Michele
name: Ladiana, Daniela
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: In light of the recently emerged situation of resource shortage, a reasonably 'sustainable' recovery process and qualification of the built environment can be realized at various scales and levels of intervention, only through returning to the project’s inter-systemic and performance based concept. In this sense, a significant contribution can be made by the technological planning field, from defining the resilience of a complex socio-ecological system, interpreted as «dynamic capacity of adaptation and reorganization as a result of a change», through interpreting the attitudes of responsiveness, adaptability and transformability as necessary requirements to be able to achieve the integrated quality of settlement systems.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 5 (2013): Environment emergency
A mega-Analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder
Creators: name: Lin, Danyu
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Prior genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of major depressive disorder (MDD) have met with limited success. We sought to increase statistical power to detect disease loci by conducting a GWAS mega-analysis for MDD. In the MDD discovery phase, we analyzed more than 1.2 million autosomal and X chromosome single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 18 759 independent and unrelated subjects of recent European ancestry (9240 MDD cases and 9519 controls). In the MDD replication phase, we evaluated 554 SNPs in independent samples (6783 MDD cases and 50 695 controls). We also conducted a cross-disorder meta-analysis using 819 autosomal SNPs with P less than 0.0001 for either MDD or the Psychiatric GWAS Consortium bipolar disorder (BIP) mega-analysis (9238 MDD cases/8039 controls and 6998 BIP cases/7775 controls). No SNPs achieved genome-wide significance in the MDD discovery phase, the MDD replication phase or in pre-planned secondary analyses (by sex, recurrent MDD, recurrent early-onset MDD, age of onset, pre-pubertal onset MDD or typical-like MDD from a latent class analyses of the MDD criteria). In the MDD-bipolar cross-disorder analysis, 15 SNPs exceeded genome-wide significance (P less than 5 × 10−8), and all were in a 248 kb interval of high LD on 3p21.1 (chr3:52 425 083–53 822 102, minimum P=5.9 × 10−9 at rs2535629). Although this is the largest genome-wide analysis of MDD yet conducted, its high prevalence means that the sample is still underpowered to detect genetic effects typical for complex traits. Therefore, we were unable to identify robust and replicable findings. We discuss what this means for genetic research for MDD. The 3p21.1 MDD-BIP finding should be interpreted with caution as the most significant SNP did not replicate in MDD samples, and genotyping in independent samples will be needed to resolve its status.
Environment and development in Reconstruction Plans in L'Aquila territory
Creators: name: Forlani, M. Cristina
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: The operational engagement on the Plans for Reconstruction (earthquake 2009) could allow to propose territorial development in terms of sustainability, informed by energy considerations and the opportunity to establish new activities, related to local economies, based on the search for possible sources of renewable energy and virtuous use of water and waste cycle. In particular, the reclassification of settlements could predispose transition elements, oriented to new concepts of living, which prelude to the definition of a sustainable "city"; we specifically refer to the possibility of developing a "smart" service network and regulating the housing dimension. It lacked, so far, the involvement of the "regional policy" for the guidance and support for the configuration of administrative and financial situations, suitable for a wide participation in fund raising, beyond the mere physical reconstruction.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 5 (2013): Environment emergency
The Building sector commitment to promote the sustainability of construction products: a common European approach for the Environmental Product Performances
Creators: name: Gargari, Caterina
name: Hamans, Chris
name: Torricelli, M. Chiara
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: The industry of construction products plays an important role in Europe in promoting the sustainability of the built environment in a life cycle perspective. Within the framework of the European initiatives for a sustainable competitiveness, manufacturers are interested in promoting a life cycle approach along the building chain. However both, institutions and building operators, in general still have to go a long way on designing and applying a sustainable and competitive industrial policy. This paper aims to describe the European background, the regulatory framework, identifying gaps and the actions to be undertaken to promote a market for sustainable products and sustainable buildings. In particular this paper deals with the assessment and communication of the environmental performance of construction products between the operators in the building chain, as a prerequisite for the sustainability of the built environment, and outlines the strategies to implement a proper evaluation and communication process.
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Validation of an In Vitro Mutagenicity Assay Based on Pulmonary Epithelial Cells from the Transgenic MutaMouse: Intra-Laboratory Variability and Metabolic Competence
Creators: name: Hanna, Joleen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Genotoxicity
Assay Validation

description: Genetic toxicity tests used for regulatory screening must be rigorously validated to ensure accuracy, reliability and relevance. Hence, prior to establishment of an internationally-accepted test guideline, a new assay must undergo multi-stage validation. An in vitro transgene mutagenicity assay based on an immortalized cell line derived from MutaMouse lung (i.e., FE1 cells) is currently undergoing formal validation. FE1 cells retain a lacZ transgene in a λgt10 shuttle vector that can be retrieved for scoring of chemically-induced mutations. This work contributes to validation of the in vitro transgene (lacZ) mutagenicity assay in MutaMouse FE1 cells. More specifically, the work includes an intra-laboratory variability study, and a follow-up study to assess the endogenous metabolic capacity of FE1 cells. The former is essential to determine assay reliability, the latter to define the range of chemicals that can be reliably screened without an exogenous metabolic activation mixture (i.e., rat liver S9). The intra-laboratory variability assessment revealed minimal variability; thus, assay reproducibility can be deemed acceptable. Assessment of metabolic capacity involved exposure of FE1 cells to 5 known mutagens, and subsequent assessment of changes in the expression of genes involved in xenobiotic metabolism; induced transgene mutant frequency (±S9) was assessed in parallel. The results revealed that the FE1 cell line is capable of mobilising several Phase I and Phase II gene products known to be involved in the bioactivation of mutagens. Collectively, the results presented support the contention that the FE1 cell mutagenicity assay can be deemed reliable and reproducible. Consequently, the assay is an excellent candidate for continued validation, and eventual establishment of an OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) Test Guideline.
The triumph of the smart city
Creators: name: Oberti, Ilaria
name: Pavesi, Angela Silvia
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: Globally, one in two people living in cities, megacities are more than twenty, and both figures are expected to increase. In light of this scenario, the major challenge is the ability to grow the urban areas with efficiency and improving the quality of citizens’ life. In the city of the future, the environment, the people and the technology have to be devised in an integrated and sustainable way: this is what underlies the concept of the smart city.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 5 (2013): Environment emergency
ACC/AHA 2002 guideline update for the management of patients with chronic stable angina - Summary article: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on the Management of Patients With Chronic Stable Angina)
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: "The American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) Task Force on Practice Guidelines regularly reviews existing guidelines to determine when an update or a full revision is needed. This process gives priority to areas in which major changes in text, and particularly recommendations, are merited on the basis of new understanding or evidence. Minor changes in verbiage and references are discouraged. The ACC/AHA/American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM) Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Chronic Stable Angina, which were published in June 1999, have now been updated. The full-text guideline incorporating the updated material is available on the Internet (www.acc.orgor www.americanheart.org) in both a track-changes version showing the changes in the 1999 guideline in strike-out (deleted text) and highlighting (new text) and a “clean” version that fully incorporates all the changes. This summary article describes the 4 most important areas of change reflected in the update in a format that we hope can be read and understood as a stand-alone document. Interested readers are referred to the full-length version on the Internet to completely understand the location of these changes within the full-length guideline, as well as their proper context. The full-length guideline includes some additional changes that are not reflected in this summary article. All new references appear in bold-faced type; all original references appear in normal type. Although the primary focus of this guideline is on symptomatic patients, asymptomatic patients with known or suspected coronary disease are included in this update and are described in Section V."
Green technologies for the environmental upgrading of infrastructures
Creators: name: Battisti, Alessandra
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: Over the last few decades, the globalization phenomenon has determined the exponential development - from an economic, cultural and political standpoint - of traffic flows, the number of means and infrastructures involved in communication and exchange. At the same time, these represent one of the most complicated environmental issues of contemporary times, but perhaps also one of the most outstanding opportunities for setting up processes aimed at upgrading the territory and its constructions, towards environmental regeneration and social reorganization. These, in turn, would produce and spread (as in some already established examples of infrastructure upgrading) innovative and more sustainable forms of urban lifestyles. The present contribution aims at illustrating the former, beginning with research and experiments involving the development of eco-friendly meta-design models for the correct employment of “green technologies” in: meta-project research for small mobility facilities; expansion and redevelopment works for the Stazione Termini; experiments in design for some energy-efficient underground metro stops in Rome.
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The construction of urban qualities. The case study of the centrality of Torre Spaccata in Rome
Creators: name: Cangelli, Eliana
name: Sibilla, Maurizio
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: The evolution of the settlement arrangements in Rome is determined, in large part, by the implementation of the 18 centralities under the New Town Planning, which will be a testing ground for experimenting with new living profiles. Using a case study of Torre Spaccata, the authors demonstrate the contribution of the environmental project to the construction of an urban development model that is attentive to the energy and environmental characteristics of the settlement arrangements. The experiment is set up as verification of the methodological approach of the environmental project, serving as a transfer of the disciplinary knowledge body in a implemental process which sets out research lines to deepen professional knowledge and planning.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 5 (2013): Environment emergency
Geochronology and Geochemistry of Calcite-Filled Fractures, Southern Ontario: Insight Into Cretaceous Deformation
Creators: name: Jennifer, Spalding
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Geochronology
subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Cretaceous deformation
subject: Calcite veins

description: The St. Lawrence Platform is located along the northern shoreline of Lake Ontario, currently in an intra-cratonic setting exposing relatively flat-lying middle Ordovician sedimentary strata. The purpose of this study is to gain insight on recent brittle deformation events that have deformed the bedrock. Based on structural field observations, broadly trending E-W extensional joints are the youngest stress recorded in the bedrock. These joints are partially filled and sealed with calcite mineralization and were strategically sampled to gain insight on the source and timing of fluid flow. Trace element geochemistry and stable isotope (δ18O and δ13C) analysis on calcite mineralization indicate that their compositions are analogous to the host rock, thus, fluids originate from connate fluids that were released from pore space during deformation. In addition, U-Pb geochronology via LA-ICP-MS methods yield a model age of 101 ± 6 Ma (MSWD: 2.3). The date of calcite crystallization is contemporaneous with the establishment of North America’s modern compressive stress field, and is linked to a Cretaceous tectonic plate reorganization event that was global in scale. This study demonstrates that calcite veins can serve as a tool to date brittle deformation in limestone, which could have direct applications in hydrocarbon exploration, paleohydrology, and the consideration for locating sites to host deep geological repositories.
Grey To Green: ‘ecotechgreen’ an environmental response for urban infrastructures
Creators: name: Bellini, Oscar Eugenio
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: The question posed by ever more ecological towns requires a rethinking of the aesthetics and of the nature of ‘grey infrastructures’ that deface the urban landscape and for which a new planning and landscape sensitivity is called for. The employment of vegetation as the project material can assist the mitigation and insertion into the high density context also in terms of recovery and requalification for a sustainable solution. Intervening in many environmental aspects, ‘ecotechgreen’ becomes the premise for a new environmental planning with which to transform towns into more efficient ecosystems. This paper presents partial results in the ongoing research into different planning approaches relative to these urban components.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 5 (2013): Environment emergency