cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Trans-disciplinary perspectives between people and environment : a case study of open public spaces in Rio de Janeiro
Creators: name: Crescencio, Diego
name: Drach, Patricia
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Many efforts are made to bring new trans-disciplinary perspectives in urban form. This paper is part of a research project about physical and behavioural approaches to the study of urban form, and it is grounded on hybridisation for a holistic understanding of complex and dynamic interactions between people and place. UNESCO states the importance of public space as crucial for sustainable cities and communities: providing ecosystem services, improving health and wellbeing, ensuring social inclusion and economic exchange, offering an opportunity to enrich the quality of life of all urban dwellers, leaving no one behind. However, it seems that few attempts have been made to achieve correlations between human perceptions and spatial patterns. Can we combine hybrid observational human behaviour framework to analyse trends and flows in open public spaces? This study aims to address this question. Two squares in Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood with distinct morphogenesis. Field survey of these spaces was conducted using a framework of observation of the human behaviour. Preliminary results indicate that quantitative and qualitative elements can be used to improve public spaces. The methodological approach was shown to be replicable in systematic investigation of different public spaces. Depending on future results and analyses, this research may shed light to new interdisciplinary perspectives and methods to study human behaviour in public spaces.
Interference Fracturing: Non-Uniform Distributions of Perforation Clusters that Promote Simultaneous Growth of Multiple Hydraulic Fractures
Creators: name: Peirce, Anthony
name: Bunger, Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: One of the important hurdles in horizontal well stimulation is the generation of hydraulic fractures (HFs) from all perforation clusters within a given stage despite the challenges posed by stress shadowing and reservoir variability. In this paper we use a newly-developed, fully coupled, parallel-planar 3D HF model to investigate the potential to minimize the negative impact of stress shadowing and thereby to promote more uniform fracture growth across an array of HFs by adjusting the location of the perforation clusters. In this model the HFs are assumed to evolve in an array of parallel planes with full 3D stress coupling while the constant fluid influx into the wellbore is dynamically partitioned to each fracture so that the wellbore pressure is the same throughout the array. The model confirms the phenomenon of inner fracture suppression due to stress shadowing when the perforation clusters are uniformly distributed. Indeed, the localization of the fracture growth to the outer fractures is so dominant that the total fractured area generated by uniform arrays is largely independent of the number of perforation clusters. However, numerical experiments indicate that certain non-uniform cluster spacings promote a profound improvement in the even development of fracture growth. Identifying this effect relies on this new model’s ability to capture the full hydro-dynamical coupling between the simultaneously evolving HFs in their transition from radial to PKN-like geometries.
title: Building height regulation : is it still relevant for the 21st century city?
Creators: name: Dijokiene, Dalia
name: Alistratovaite-Kurtinaitiene, Inesa
name: Cirtautas, Matas
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: In many Western countries the regulation of the city skyline and high-rises is already well established, while east European countries are still undergoing early capitalism processes, with tensions surrounding the dimension of values. What should dominate the city skyline: towers of old town churches or 21st century skyscrapers? During the past five years, the authors of the article have carried out several research projects tasked with identifying in the new built-up formation an optimal relation between the new and historic centres of Vilnius. In this paper the authors present the applied methods of modelling and assessment of height parameters. Each research project was unique and needed a tailor-made research methodology, depending on the analysed parameters. In principle the following questions had to be answered: 1) does the future object cohere with the characteristics of the existing urban structure; 2) how the height parameters of the future building relate to the neighbouring valuable historical parts of the town and how they affect the latter. It has been noted that such research projects help to form the character of individual urban parts and to preserve an optimal relation among them within the town’s overall image.
title: Urban morphology and urban design competitions in Serbia : between substantial and procedural aspects
Creators: name: Djokic, Vladan
name: Djordjevic, Aleksandra
name: Pešić, Mladen
name: Milovanovic, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: This research aims to open up a discussion about morphological perspective in the procedural and substantial aspects of urban design competitions, with the specific focus on Serbian context. The research builds on the previous findings concerning treatment of heritage in design competitions, presented on the 2020 ECTP-CEU Young planners' workshop. Research starts from the hypothesis that competitions offer the possibility of obtaining unique solutions, provide a platform for the presentation of new ideas, but also new views on the good, thus reducing the pressures of globalization, neoliberalism, and multiplication of identical and generalized patterns and forms. On the one side, research will offer understanding of the (1) procedural aspect (initiation, submission, evaluation, and implementation of urban design competitions) and (2) substantial aspect (competition brief content, design perspective, evaluation criteria structure) of urban design competitions. On the other side, the research will reflect on authors personal experience, both from the position of a jury member and a competition participant. Analysis of the above-stated elements could provide comprehensive insights into understanding the way how urban morphology can be used both as a method and theory in design process, and as a valuable element in evaluation process. This paper will argue for the need to strengthen the bond between urban morphology and urban design competitions, especially having in mind current urban development in post-socialist countries that are faced with various social and political pressures.
title: Heritage awareness and sustainability of built environment in architectural and urban design education : between best practices and real conditions
Creators: name: Djokic, Vladan
name: Milojevic, Milica
name: Milovanovic, Aleksandra
name: Djordjevic, Aleksandra
name: Pešić, Mladen
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: This paper presents the initial findings of the project on the Enhancing of Heritage Awareness and Sustainability of Built Environment in Architectural and Urban Design Higher Education (HERSUS), coordinated by University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture as a leading higher education institution, with partner institutions of Universita Iuav di Venezia, University of Cyprus – Department of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – School of Architecture and University of Sevilla – UNESCO Chair on Built Urban Heritage CREhAR in the digital era. The paper will present the review of the best practices on educating sustainability and heritage, specifically regarding mapping representation of (1) various scales in education, building practice and policy context in each country, and (2) scales across the consortium countries, aiming at identifying strengths connected to methods, materials and teaching experiences. The purpose of this initial phase is to support the participating Architectural Schools in establishing high-quality standards in the terms of sustainability of the built heritage, through cross-cultural communication and solving problems in an international environment. The paper will present the best practices on educating sustainability of heritage in different schools within European context, hence map (1) the relation of selected teaching courses, built projects and policies in regards to different scales – Landscape planning, Urban planning and design, and Architecture, Construction and Interior design, and (2) provide valuable insight for the context of Serbia regarding teaching and policy recommendations. Having in mind that majority of Serbian Network of Urban Morphology members are participating in this project, as well as the project leader, the special emphasis will be on the morphological perspective. The paper will highlight parallels of conditions and educational practices from different countries with the morphological tradition, observable through the existence of UM regional networks.
Utilising a Quantum Hybrid Solver for Bi-objective Quadratic Assignment Problems
Creators: name: Ayodele, Mayowa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.1.6

description: The intersection between quantum computing and optimisation has been an area of interest in recent years. There have been numerous studies exploring the application of quantum and quantum-hybrid solvers to various optimisation problems. This work explores scalarisation methods within the context of solving the bi-objective quadratic assignment problem using a quantum-hybrid solver. We show results that are consistent with previous research on a different Ising machine.
description: 4 pages
РЕЗУЛЬТАТЫ ЛЕЧЕНИЯ ПОСТРАДАВШИХ С ПОВРЕЖДЕНИЯМИ ПИЩЕВОДА В УСЛОВИЯХ МНОГОПРОФИЛЬНОГО СТАЦИОНАРА
Creators: name: Дулаев А. К.
name: Демко А. Е.
name: Тания С. Ш.
name: Бабич А. И.
Publisher: name: Политравма
Year: 2020
Subjects: повреждения пищевода; травма пищевода; ранение пищевода.

description: Ранения пищевода встречаются редко – в 1 % случаев всех травм и ранений. Летальность достигает 50 %, а осложнения наблюдаются у 70 % пострадавших. В настоящее время нет единых, утвержденных рекомендаций по лечению пациентов с повреждениями пищевода. Цель – проанализировать результаты лечения пострадавших с повреждениями (травмами, ранениями) пищевода и определить объективные признаки неблагоприятного прогноза течения заболевания. Материалы и методы. Проведен ретроспективный анализ результатов лечения 76 пациентов с повреждениями пищевода. Все пациенты разделены на 2 группы: выжившие в результате лечения – 61 человек и умершие – 15 человек. Изучены особенности клинической картины, данные лабораторной диагностики, выполненные оперативные вмешательства, структура осложнений и причина летальных исходов. Результаты. При поступлении гемодинамически стабильными были 42 пострадавших (67 %) 1-й группы и 9 (60 %) пострадавших 2-й. Достоверных отличий в превалировании того или иного симптома при поступлении в стационар у пациентов 1-й и 2-й групп не было. При анализе лабораторных показателей нами выявлено, что у пациентов 2-й группы при поступлении наблюдали меньший уровень дефицита оснований (BE) – у всех пострадавших этой группы он был менее -6 ммоль/л, в то время как у пациентов 1-й группы он был равен в среднем -2,5 ± 2 ммоль/л. Оперированы 100 % пострадавших. Различий в выборе того или иного оперативного доступа или объема оперативного вмешательства у пациентов 1-й и 2-й групп не было. Умерли все пациенты, у которых длительность операции составила более 120 минут. Пневмония встречалась чаще у пациентов 1-й группы (39 %), чем у пациентов 2-й (20 %). Септические осложнения в сочетании с полиорганной недостаточностью наблюдались чаще у пациентов 2-й (46 %), чем у пациентов 1-й группы (18 %). Заключение. Сочетание систолического артериального давления при поступлении ниже 90 мм рт. ст. с дефицитом оснований (BE) меньше -6 ммоль/л является объективным признаком неблагоприятного прогноза течения заболевания. Длительность оперативного вмешательства более 120 минут – независимый предиктор неблагоприятного прогноза течения заболевания. Время от момента получения травмы до поступления, наличие или отсутствие реоперации, недостаточность пищеводных швов в послеоперационном периоде, оперативный доступ и объем оперативного вмешательства достоверно не влияли на исход заболевания.
title: The visual structure of fictional space in video games : a wayfinding research in games based on real world cities
Creators: name: Eskidemir, Kahraman
name: Kubat, Ayse Sema
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Urban planning continues to play a novel and important role in creating video game environments with an implementation of real-world cities and settlements in their level design. Controlling a virtual character in a video game requires a strong sense of spatial involvement in a level design. Implementation of our physical world layout in virtual world with such devastating accuracy is one of the tricks in video game design to ensure this feeling. Video games allow to create different scenarios from past to future, from darkest dystopias to possible futures on historical cities or today's cities in our world. We aim to analyze comparison between in game maps and current maps of selected cities to study wayfinding of both virtual character perspective and people perspective. In order to compare these two perspectives, different games from different eras are selected; near-dystopian future of Washington; early 2030s, London. Washington model is interesting due to their game world and map were created based a viral pandemic event in game scenario. These games maps are compared with their real-world counterpart using Space Syntax method to obtain numerical values. In addition to analyses, the connection of landmark selection in games and counterparts are investigated. Axial and segment-based integration, and synergy values are measured with generated maps of both game and real-world equivalent of selected cities. Additionally, numbers of landmarks, distance and travel times were also calculated.
ТАМПОНИРОВАНИЕ В ХИРУРГИЧЕСКОМ ЛЕЧЕНИИ ТЯЖЕЛЫХ ПОВРЕЖДЕНИЙ ПЕЧЕНИ
Creators: name: Шапкин Ю. Г.
name: Чалык Ю. В.
name: Стекольников Н. Ю.
name: Кузяев Т. Р.
Publisher: name: Политравма
Year: 2020
Subjects: закрытая травма печени; тяжелые повреждения печени; «Damage control»; тампонирование печени.

description: Одной из основных причин смерти трудоспособного населения является множественная и сочетанная травма живота. Среди травматических повреждений органов брюшной полости повреждение печени занимает одно из ведущих мест, в связи с особенностями анатомического расположения и строения паренхимы. В конце XX века для лечения данной группы больных была разработана концепция «Damage control». Цель – проведение анализа результатов клинического применения марлевой тампонады в рамках концепции «Damage control» у больных с тяжелыми повреждениями печени. Материалы и методы. Проанализированы результаты оперативного лечения 248 пациентов с закрытой травмой печени, прооперированных в ГУЗ СГКБ № 6 им. В.Н. Кошелева на базе кафедры общей хирургии СГМУ им. В.И. Разумовского за период с 1976 по 2018 год. Подавляющее число пациентов (74 %) находились в возрасте от 20 до 50 лет. Результаты. При изучении результатов лечения 68 пациентов с тяжелой закрытой травмой печени было выделено три периода: с 1976 по 1992 г., с 1993 по 2008 г., с 2009 по 2018 г. В первом периоде работы клиники 87,5 % хирургических вмешательств были представлены резекцией печени. Летальность в первом периоде составила 75 %. В течение второго периода радикальные операции были вытеснены менее агрессивными методиками в сочетании с тампонированием. Это позволило уменьшить частоту летальных исходов до 54 %. В третьем периоде происходило активное использование первичной марлевой тампонады, что позволило снизить летальность до 46 %. Выводы. Активное внедрение в клинику первичного тампонирования в рамках концепции «Damage control» в хирургии тяжелых повреждений печени позволило улучшить результаты лечения пострадавших с политравмой. Отказ от выполнения резекций печени и применение марлевой тампонады с целью достижения первичного гемостаза позволяет снизить летальность при тяжелых закрытых повреждениях печени.
Structure-guided registration in learning based image analysis
Creators: name: Lee, Matthew Chung Hai
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Image registration is a key component in many medical image analysis pipelines and is useful in general computer vision applications. The goal of image registration is to find a transformation between the coordinate spaces of two images, such that the transformation aligns some Structure-of-Interest which exist in both images. Object tracking, image segmentation, multi-modal data fusion, longitudinal studies, label propagation, image labelling, population studies, image stitching and voxel based morphometry either rely on or at least benefit from image registration. In this thesis, three aspects of image registration are discussed. Firstly, we utilise image registration to perform image segmentation via template deformation, the registration of some prior shape model with an image. We utilise neural networks to perform this template registration, the networks implicitly embed Structure-of-Interest information during training, to utilise this during inference when Structure-of-Interest information is not readily available. This differs from the conventional template deformation paradigm, where one must construct some image to segmentation likelihood function for the registration algorithm, a proxy function for the true segmentation accuracy. Utilising neural networks circumvents having to do this, we are able to train a network directly using a segmentation loss without hand crafting such a loss function. Our method gives us the prior enforcing benefits of template deformations without the difficulty of deriving some approximation to the segmentation loss. Secondly, we develop a framework for combining iterative image registration with neural network based representation learning. Recent network based image registration has generally focused on improving the speed of registration, as neural networks are able to predict deformation fields in one shot, rather than iteratively converging during test time. We argue however that this comes at the cost of the accuracy of the registration. We propose a method that extracts out a feature representation that is well suited to be registered by any downstream registration algorithm. This exploits the ability of neural networks to discover rich representations of data and combining it with all the strengths of traditional registration algorithms. Thirdly, we show why image registration is useful, we introduce an algorithm which extends Gaussian processes such that they can be successfully applied to large scale, 3D medical data. Gaussian processes are not generally well suited to image data, as computing covariances between image pixels is often nonsensical, unless however images are registered. By utilising registration, we are able to introduce patch kernels to allow for more anatomically dependent covariances between images. Finally, we introduce two interesting new topics of research which we believe have relations and applications to image registration in a bid to further fuel discussion and investigation in the field.
Total and high molecular weight adiponectin and ethnic-specific differences in adiposity and insulin resistance: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Sulistyoningrum, Dian C.
name: Gasevic, Danijela
name: Lear, Scott A.
name: Ho, Joe
name: Mente, Andrew
name: Devlin, Angela M.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Ethnic-specific differences in insulin resistance (IR) are well described but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. Adiponectin is an insulin sensitizing adipocytokine that circulates as multiple isoforms, with high molecular weight (HMW) adiponectin associated with greatest insulin sensitivity. The objective of this study is to determine if plasma total and HMW adiponectin concentrations underlie ethnic-specific differences in IR. Methods Healthy Canadian Aboriginal, Chinese, European, and South Asian adults (N = 634) were assessed for sociodemographics; lifestyle; fasting plasma insulin, glucose, and total and HMW adiponectin; and adiposity measures [BMI, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, percent body fat, and subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue (quantified by computed tomography)]. The homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) assessed IR. Results South Asians had the greatest HOMA-IR, followed by Aboriginals, Chinese, and Europeans (P < 0.001). Plasma total and HMW adiponectin concentrations were lower in Chinese and South Asians than Aboriginal and Europeans (P < 0.05). Total and HMW adiponectin were inversely associated with HOMA-IR (P < 0.001). Ethnicity modified the relationship between HMW adiponectin and HOMA-IR with stronger effects observed in Aboriginals (P = 0.001), Chinese (P = 0.002), and South Asians (P = 0.040) compared to Europeans. This was not observed for total adiponectin (P = 0.431). At mean total adiponectin concentrations South Asians had higher HOMA-IR than Europeans (P < 0.001). Conclusions For each given decrease in HMW adiponectin concentrations a greater increase in HOMA-IR is observed in Aboriginals, Chinese, and South Asians than Europeans. Ethnic-specific differences in HMW adiponectin may account for differences in IR.
title: How can morphology contribute to urban management – a case of Daegu city, South Korea
Creators: name: Gohaud, Emillen
name: Lee, Sanghyun
name: Schuetze, Thorsten
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Up until recently, South Korean cities have been managed to serve and foster the economic growth of the country. Cities like Daegu grew following a form of liberal 'laissez-faire' accommodating the dominant car-focused ideology and the speculative large-scale construction market. Little debate was conducted on the different options and qualities of urban form. The role of the government was to facilitate private development rather than to input a specific direction to urban and architectural projects. The result is a form of 'generic city' with limited coherence in its urban fabric and poor preservation of its historical value. Recently, the local government turned to a more proactive role in the management of urban space, following the notion of cultural city. Urban morphology analysis is being introduced into the leading plan of Daegu city's Urban Design Department. But what can be the input of morphology in such an adverse context, where urban form and history have long been neglected, functionalist zoning is still the main urban planning tool, and car traffic the major determinant in planning? Using a typomorphological approach, the study aims to articulate city scales and develop policies and projects sensitive to the existing urban form. The results are discussed to establish the potential for urban form study to participate in the urban planning practice of public agencies in today's South Korea.
Neutron-induced astrophysical reaction rates for translead nuclei
Creators: name: Panov, I. V.
name: Korneev, I. Yu.
name: Rauscher, T.
name: Martínez-Pinedo, G.
name: Kelić-Heil, A.
name: Zinner, N. T.
name: Thielemann, F. -K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutron-induced reaction rates, including fission, are calculated in the temperature range 1.d8
description: 14 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables in paper, 2 in Annex and online tables examples
Astrophysical Reaction Rates From Statistical Model Calculations
Creators: name: Rauscher, T.
name: Thielemann, F. -K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical reaction rates in the temperature range 0.01*10^9<=T[K]<=10.*10^9 are calculated in the statistical model (Hauser-Feshbach formalism) for targets with 10<=Z<=83 (Ne to Bi) and for a mass range reaching the neutron and proton driplines. Reactions considered are (n,gamma), (n,p), (n,alpha), (p,gamma), (p,alpha),(alpha,gamma), and their inverse reactions. Reaction rates as a function of temperature for thermally populated targets are given by analytic seven parameter fits. To facilitate comparison with experimental rates, the stellar enhancement factors are also tabulated. Two complete sets of rates have been calculated, one of which includes a phenomenological treatment of shell quenching for neutron-rich nuclei. These extensive datasets are provided on-line as electronic files, while a selected subset from one calculation is given as printed tables. A summary of the theoretical inputs and advice on the use of the provided tabulations is included.
description: 22 pages of text and 1 table; accepted by Atomic Data Nuclear Data Tables; a preprint is also available from http://quasar.physik.unibas.ch/~tommy/adndt.html
Nuclear Partition Functions at Temperatures Exceeding 10^10 K
Creators: name: Rauscher, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nuclear partition functions were calculated for a grid of temperatures from 1.2x10^10 K to 2.75x10^11 K (1<=kT<=24 MeV) within a Fermi-gas approach, including all nuclides from the proton-dripline to the neutron-dripline with proton number 9<=Z<=85. The calculation is based on a nuclear level density description published elsewhere, thus extending the previous tables of partition functions beyond 10^10 K. Additional high temperature corrections had to be applied.
description: 12 pages with 2 figures, accepted by Ap. J. Suppl.; additional material can be downloaded from http://ftp.nucastro.org/astro/fits/partfuncs/
title: Urban identity in Hong Kong's New Town : a case study of Tung Chung's urban morphology
Creators: name: Goudsmit, Inge
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Despite the ambitions of the government to develop 'balanced developments', new towns in Hong Kong have long been criticised as 'dormitory towns'; the community has little connection with the place and a low sense of belonging and satisfaction. This paper examines the relationship between the urban morphology of new towns and the creation of culture, identity and social connection –and thus a sense of place, arguably an essential element to build a resilient and inclusive community. A long history of scholarly studies looked into how mega blocks negatively affect the vibrancy of street life and suggested that smaller blocks and mixed-use programs facilitate a stronger community that boasts its character. However, few examined how urban forms affect the sense of identity and culture of new towns in Asia. Using the theoretical framework of Lefebvre's Production of Space (1991), I will compare the designed city with the lived experience of daily life. This research compares built forms of several new towns developed in different phases in Hong Kong and then zooms in to Tung Chung through urban analysis. The comparison reveals that street blocks in newer new towns are increasingly larger and are void of street culture. A series of interviews with local stakeholders, reviews of local news reports and site observations further reveal first-hand experiences of residents. This allows us to draw a direct relationship between Tung Chung's urban forms - mainly its density, street network, block size and poor distribution of civic amenities - and residents' lack of sense of ownership. The population of Tung Chung is forecasted to triple and reach 270,000 in the coming decade, while Hong Kong is proactively developing plans for large-scale construction at its peripheries; this research hence serves as an important and timely insight for future policymaking, planning and design.
title: Is illegal dumping associated with some urban designs? Evidence from fix my street data, Brussels
Creators: name: Guyot, Madeleine
name: Thomas, Isabelle
name: Vanwambeke, Sophie O.
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The design of the urban streetscape influences our way of perceiving the city but also affects behaviour and well-being. In this paper, we analyse if incivilities and more particularly illegal dumping are related to the urban context, at a micro scale (presence of trees, sidewalk width,...) and a meso scale (urban fabric typology: historical, residential, industrial,…). Illegal dumping is costly for the community, is a major inconvenience for residents, and can lead to a feeling of insecurity. To simplify the reporting of nuisances, apps have been developed for citizens such as Fix My Street, launched in Brussels, Belgium in 2013. It enables to report incidents such as broken public lamps or blocked sewer. An 'Illegal dump' category was added in 2017 and has since become the most reported type of incident: between July 2017 and February 2020, 46 744 illegal dumps were reported. We investigate what urban streetscape features are associated with such reports in Brussels. Unfortunately, the use of Fix My Street is not spatially uniform nor exhaustive. To avoid this selection bias, we compare illegal dumps with a control group composed of other types of incidents (n=56,122). Logistic regressions (presence/absence) are performed to explore the association between illegal dumping and some urban morphometrics. Results show that the urban environment is associated with the probability of illegal dumping. On a meso scale, we observe fewer illegal dumps in office neighbourhoods and the green periphery, and many more in the historical fabric. On a micro scale, the typical street where dumping takes place is a narrow, quiet residential street with urban trees. A “broken window” effect is also observed: illegal dumping are more likely to reappear where there has already been a dump.
Musiklernen: Die primäre Sozialisation und ihre Wirkung auf das Musiklernen
Creators: name: Mötz, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Musiklernen
Musikpädagogik
Musikdidaktik
Musikunterricht
primäre Sozialisation
sekundäre Sozialisation
Musikinstrument
Instrumentenunterricht

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit beleuchtet den Einfluss der primären Sozialisation auf das Musiklernen in der sekundären Sozialisation. Die Untersuchung stützt sich auf literaturbasierte Daten, die aus der Soziologie, der Philosophie mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Phänomenologie und der Pädagogik gewonnen wurden. Die dieser Arbeit zugrundeliegende Fragestellung lautet: «Welche Rolle spielt die primäre Sozialisation für den Unterricht in der sekundären Sozialisation in Bezug auf das Erlernen eines Instruments?» Die Auseinandersetzung mit den unterschiedlichen Daten zeigt, dass die primäre Sozialisation auf das Erlernen eines Instruments so grossen Einfluss ausübt, dass sie den Unterricht in der sekundären Sozialisation prägt. Wegen der Vielschichtigkeit der Fragestellung ist die hinzugezogene Literatur, wie die Erkenntnisse der Habitusforschung durch Pierre Bourdieu oder der Musiksoziologie von Theodor Adorno, gerade deshalb in verschiedenen Disziplinen verortet. Nicht zuletzt aber auch wegen dem Phänomen Musik, welche sich der Sprache entziehen kann. Die Arbeit beschreibt die Umgebung der primären Sozialisation als einen entscheidenden Faktor für das Erlernen eines Instruments. Das Vertraut-Werden mit Musik in den ersten Lebensjahren, insbesondere der Umgang mit Musik in der primären Sozialisation, äussert sich zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt im Erlernen eines Instruments. Dabei wird in dieser Arbeit die Rolle des familiären Milieus ebenso beleuchtet, wie die Wirkung der musikpädagogischen Traditionen und gesellschaftlichen Werte, die das Musiklernen begünstigen. Der interdisziplinäre Erkenntnisgewinn dieser Arbeit richtet sich in vornehmlicher Weise an Musikpädagoginnen und Musikpädagogen mit Interessen an soziologischen Fragestellungen.
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title: Anatomy of the critical urban mixedness : the Barcelona Eixample grid during the lockdown 2020
Creators: name: Gómez-Escoda, Eulàlia
name: Crosas, Carles
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Within the framework of a wide research on urban mixticity, this paper analyses the image of Barcelona during the 8-week lockdown in Spring 2020, in which only essential movements were allowed. As it happened in many other confined cities, in this dystopian scenario characterized by empty streets, the disposition of activities became as much or even more important than in the active city itself, because it turned the "additional value" that commerce represents into "essential value" in the exceptional context. From this perspective, it's worth understanding to what extend citizens were able to find minimum services in the immediate vicinity of their place of residence. The research focuses on comparing the differences in quantity, variety and proximity of essential services present in diverse urban fragments through GIS mapping tools. Series of maps provide overall views on: the intensity of use to which each service is subjected; latent logics of their physical proximity; and alterations in regular urban fabrics due to a combination of activities and population distribution. This investigation aims to contribute to the understanding of the necessity of the urban mixture giving clues about the distribution of services and activities, stressing the importance of urban proximity in the urban agenda for a more liveable city. The research points, on the one side, the uniqueness of the case of Barcelona for the compactness of the urban fabric and the contiguity of activities; and on the other side, the differences and similarities in the performance of three different fragments of twenty-four blocks in the Eixample grid during the lockdown, evaluating how the urban landscape changed during that time.
title: Intorno al ragionamento giuridico
Creators: name: Carratta, Antonio
name: Pino, Giorgio
name: De Caro, Mario
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2022

description: Negli ultimi decenni, molti aspetti del ragionamento giuridico sono stati oggetto di attenta osservazione: vi è stata una proliferazione di studi sulla struttura dell’interpretazione, sull’argomentazione giuridica, sul ruolo della logica e della retorica nel discorso interpretativo, sul ragionamento probatorio e sulle modalità della sua costruzione… Ma una vasta terra incognita rimane ancora da esplorare. E, nonostante siano già apparse notevoli sistemazioni della materia, non solo sembra che ci sia ancora molto da dire e da chiarire sui temi “classici” del ragionamento giuridico come quelli cui si è fatto cenno poco sopra; ma temi e strumenti nuovi si affacciano continuamente sulla scena, anche grazie ai notevoli progressi compiuti soprattutto nelle scienze cognitive e nelle nuove tecnologie.
title: Market halls as activators of public space. Barcelona's metropolitan food system
Creators: name: Gómez-Escoda, Eulàlia
name: Fuertes, Pere
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Barcelona is characterized by a unique food supply system based on 38 public market halls, 2,331 supermarkets, 1,997 food stores and 1,562 bakeries evenly dispersed in the urban fabric. The city is a model of what happens in the 35 municipalities that surround it and make up its metropolitan area, where another 52 markets catalyze food trade around them. As happened in many other European cities, market halls were open-air exchange spaces until they were covered as cities modernized, a process that ordered circulation in public space, extracting from it a relationship with food that had been inherent to urban condition for centuries. But while in the 60's many cities began to dismantle their public food system, Barcelona disregarded this trend and continued to erect market halls until tripling their number, reinforcing a multi-scale constellation dispersed throughout the metropolitan territory. The case becomes even more unique when looking at the metropolis, in which 30% of the market halls were built from 1976, the year of the elaboration of the General Metropolitan Plan in force since then. Today, patterns can be detected in which the proximity of a market hall triggers the use of nearby ground floors for commercial activities related to food and other daily programs, and intensifies the use of the public space around it. This article presents an ongoing investigation in which, on the one hand, the architecture of the ninety market halls is analyzed, with the hypothesis that each building type determines the surrounding urban space in different ways; and on the other hand, the urban fabric in which markets are inserted, the population density that they serve, and the variety of food trade in their proximity are observed and compared.
Creating a gold medal Olympic and Paralympics health care team: a satisfaction survey of the mobile medical unit/polyclinic team training for the Vancouver 2010 winter games
Creators: name: Brown, D R
name: Heidary, Behrouz
name: Bell, Nathaniel
name: Appleton, Leanne
name: Simons, Richard K
name: Evans, David C
name: Hameed, S M
name: Taunton, Jack
name: Khwaja, Kosar
name: O’Connor, Michael
name: Garraway, Naisan
name: Hennecke, Peter
name: Kuipers, Donna
name: Taulu, Tracey
name: Quinn, Lori
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: The mobile medical unit/polyclinic (MMU/PC) was an essential part of the medical services to support ill or injured Olympic or Paralympics family during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympics winter games. The objective of this study was to survey the satisfaction of the clinical staff that completed the training programs prior to deployment to the MMU. Methods Medical personnel who participated in at least one of the four training programs, including (1) week-end sessions; (2) web-based modules; (3) just-in-time training; and (4) daily simulation exercises were invited to participate in a web-based survey and comment on their level of satisfaction with training program. Results A total of 64 (out of 94 who were invited) physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists completed the survey. All participants reported favorably that the MMU/PC training positively impacted their knowledge, skills and team functions while deployed at the MMU/PC during the 2010 Olympic Games. However, components of the training program were valued differently depending on clinical job title, years of experience, and prior experience in large scale events. Respondents with little or no experience working in large scale events (45%) rated daily simulations as the most valuable component of the training program for strengthening competencies and knowledge in clinical skills for working in large scale events. Conclusion The multi-phase MMU/PC training was found to be beneficial for preparing the medical team for the 2010 Winter Games. In particular this survey demonstrates the effectiveness of simulation training programs on teamwork competencies in ad hoc groups.
Respiration monitoring with a fibre optic sensor
Creators: name: Liang, Yuanxin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The continuous monitoring of respiration is an important requirement in intensive care units and for sleep, sport and olfactory studies. Fibre optic (FO) sensors offer an attractive solution to respiration monitoring, as they are relatively non-invasive, intrinsically safe and immune to electromagnetic interference. A variety of FO respiration sensors have been reported in the literature. This research has shown that fibre Bragg gratings (FBGs) can be used to monitor human respiration. A prototype sensor device has been developed using fibres manufactured by a phase mask technique. There are two FBGs used in this prototype. The first grating is referenced to room temperature, while the active grating was mounted inside a breathing mask. A broadband light source and a low power 1550 nm laser diode were used for the initial evaluation. The light reflected from the reference grating provides a probe wavelength for the active grating via a fibre optic circulator. In this way, any shift in the wavelength of the active grating is translated into a change in the transmitted optical power, which is measured with a photodiode. To be able to predict the flow rate, volume and breathing rate, the principle of heat transferred from the ambient environment into the fibre core has been studied, and a thermodynamic model has been established. The recoating material that is used to protect the optical fibre sensor is also considered in the model. Therefore the model can be used in future work to calculate the effect of different materials that may be used for recoating. A breathing simulator was designed to provide stable breathing cycles so that the FBG sensor could be tested under ideal conditions for both quantitative and qualitative analysis. A comparison was made between the FBG sensor, a pressure sensor and a thermocouple in order to show their respective advantages and disadvantages. Human subject testing was then performed in order to access the sensor under realistic operational conditions. This test was also used to assess the potential for predicting peak flow during inspiration as required for practical application in olfactory studies. The results show that the optical sensor can well monitor human respiration. It is possible to make the monitoring system work in a linear response regime, provided that the pair of FBGs is mismatched by a small amount. Based on the thermodynamic model and the results from the breathing simulator and the human subject tests, it is also possible to predict the peak flow rate, volume and the breathing rate using the response of the optical sensor.
Loa "Lámparas de plata fina": edición a cargo de Alejandro García-Reidy
Creators: name: Garcia-Reidy, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Spanish Golden Age drama
Spanish Golden Age Literature

description: An edition in PDF by Alejandro García-Reidy, part of the MANOS Digital Library
description: Este trabajo se ha beneficiado de la ayuda de I+D+i «MANOS. Ampliación y exploración de la base de datos de manuscritos teatrales áureos (ASODAT Tercera Fase)» (ayuda PID2022-136431NB-C61 financiada por MCIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 y por FEDER «Una manera de hacer Europa»).
Time Heals All Wounds: The Time Loop Beyond Groundhog Day, Disability, and Higurashi Gou and Sotsu (2020-21)
Creators: name: Herzig, Gavin
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Disabilities
subject: Time-travel films
subject: Anime (Television programs)
subject: Neurodiversity
subject: Mass incarceration
subject: Dismemberment
subject: Generational trauma
subject: Post-traumatic stress disorder
subject: Groundhog Day
subject: Misogyny

description: Linear time is out of joint with and oppressive to alternate bodies, minds, and lives in a plethora of ways. In recent years, critical interventions such as Alison Kafer’s crip time and Elizabeth Freeman’s chrononormativity have revealed the oppressive force of time on marginalised groups. The time loop structure inherently complicates the linear flow of time, providing a space for readers and authors to resist these norms and find alternative ways of reimagining worlds. Traditional time loop narratives emphasize the time loop as a positive reforming tool in which people learn moral lessons to return to status quo society. In analysing the intersectionality of the issues many groups have with time, I problematise this assumption, coining the term chronopolitics to describe the antagonistic relationship time has to a variety of marginalized groups and how it abets their abjection within the status quo. I examine the recent phenomenon of what I have termed the Hostile Time Loop, a subversion of the traditional model of benevolent time loops. In these Hostile Time Loops, protagonists grapple with the time loop as a systemic mechanism which is bent not on their rehabilitation, but on their destruction. The primary works discussed in this thesis are Higurashi: When They Cry – Gou and its sequel Sotsu, (2020-21) and their limitations and successes in resisting chronopolitics. These works are built upon a cascading series of subversions of the time loop model. In this critique, a particular focus is cast on crip time, the manner in which disability is codified and castigated through norms related to time, and its intrinsic presence within the system of the time loop. Time loops place tension on representations of disability, for they simultaneously create an infinite amount of disability in their constant trauma-inducing mechanisms, yet the function of time as a loop also erases experiences of disability.
Time Heals All Wounds: The Time Loop Beyond Groundhog Day, Disability, and Higurashi Gou and Sotsu (2020-21)
Creators: name: Herzig, Gavin
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Disabilities
subject: Dismemberment
subject: Groundhog Day
subject: Time-travel films
subject: Post-traumatic stress disorder
subject: Generational trauma
subject: Misogyny
subject: Mass incarceration
subject: Neurodiversity

description: Linear time is out of joint with and oppressive to alternate bodies, minds, and lives in a plethora of ways. In recent years, critical interventions such as Alison Kafer's crip time and Elizabeth Freeman's chrononormativity have revealed the oppressive force of time on marginalised groups. The time loop structure inherently complicates the linear flow of time, providing a space for readers and authors to resist these norms and find alternative ways of reimagining worlds. Traditional time loop narratives emphasize the time loop as a positive reforming tool in which people learn moral lessons to return to status quo society. In analysing the intersectionality of the issues many groups have with time, I problematise this assumption, coining the term chronopolitics to describe the antagonistic relationship time has to a variety of marginalized groups and how it abets their abjection within the status quo. I examine the recent phenomenon of what I have termed the Hostile Time Loop, a subversion of the traditional model of benevolent time loops. In these Hostile Time Loops, protagonists grapple with the time loop as a systemic mechanism which is bent not on their rehabilitation, but on their destruction. The primary works discussed in this thesis are Higurashi: When They Cry – Gou and its sequel Sotsu, (2020-21) and their limitations and successes in resisting chronopolitics. These works are built upon a cascading series of subversions of the time loop model. In this critique, a particular focus is cast on crip time, the manner in which disability is codified and castigated through norms related to time, and its intrinsic presence within the system of the time loop. Time loops place tension on representations of disability, for they simultaneously create an infinite amount of disability in their constant trauma-inducing mechanisms, yet the function of time as a loop also erases experiences of disability.