cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bond dimension witnesses and the structure of homogeneous matrix product states
Creators: name: Navascues, Miguel
name: Vertesi, Tamas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the past twenty years, Matrix Product States (MPS) have been widely used in solid state physics to approximate the ground state of one-dimensional spin chains. In this paper, we study homogeneous MPS (hMPS), or MPS constructed via site-independent tensors and a boundary condition. Exploiting a connection with the theory of matrix algebras, we derive two structural properties shared by all hMPS, namely: a) there exist local operators which annihilate all hMPS of a given bond dimension; and b) there exist local operators which, when applied over any hMPS of a given bond dimension, decouple (cut) the particles where they act from the spin chain while at the same time join (glue) the two loose ends back again into a hMPS. Armed with these tools, we show how to systematically derive `bond dimension witnesses', or 2-local operators whose expectation value allows us to lower bound the bond dimension of the underlying hMPS. We extend some of these results to the ansatz of Projected Entangled Pairs States (PEPS). As a bonus, we use our insight on the structure of hMPS to: a) derive some theoretical limitations on the use of hMPS and hPEPS for ground state energy computations; b) show how to decrease the complexity and boost the speed of convergence of the semidefinite programming hierarchies described in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 020501 (2015)] for the characterization of finite-dimensional quantum correlations.
description: Accepted for publication in Quantum. We still do not acknowledge support from the European Research Council
Efficacy & safety of anti-malarial drugs (Chloroquine, and Hydroxy-chloroquine) in treatment of COVID-19 infection: a rapid systematic review & meta-analysis
Creators: name: Das, Rashmi
name: Jaiswal, Nishant
name: Dev, Nishanth
name: Jaiswal, Nikita
name: Naik, Sushree
name: Sankar, Jhuma
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Systematic review and meta-analysis of anti-malarial drugs in treatment of COVID-19 infection
EVALUATION OF A HEALTH LITERACY ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION IN DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
Creators: name: Weekley, Lindsay Dupell
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The purpose of this 12-week quality improvement (QI) project was to increase patients’ knowledge of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) through the incorporation of evidence-based health literacy principles in diabetes self-management education (DSME), ultimately leading to improved health outcomes.  Self-management is a critical component of chronic disease care and health literacy is a key factor in the successful initiation and maintenance of these behaviors that are central to controlling T2DM.        This QI project took place in an outpatient nutrition and diabetes education center. Participants included three diabetes educators and all adult patients who attended a series of three DSME group classes during the intervention period.  The project began with an evaluation of the program’s current curriculum and educational materials for understandability and actionability.  The diabetes educators revised the curriculum based on these results.  The diabetes educators were trained in health-literacy education principles and to administer the following assessments.  At the beginning of the first class, participants were given a health literacy assessment and a diabetes knowledge pre-test (DKT2).  At the end of the final class the same DKT2 test was administered to test the knowledge gained from the DSME.  Participant and staff satisfaction measures were also collected.         Primary outcomes measured included health literacy and the difference in pre- and post-DKT2 scores.  Additional outcomes included patient demographics, the changes made to the patient educational materials, patient and staff satisfaction, and frequency of implementation.        	Descriptive statistics were used for the demographic data and satisfaction measures.  An independent t-test was used to analyze the relationship between health literacy and the change in pre- and post-DKT2 scores.  A paired t-test was used to analyze the DKT2 scores.      There was significant improvement in diabetes knowledge following completion of this program (t = 3.86, p < 0.001).  Health literacy level did not affect the change in the pre- and post-DKT2 scores.        Providing educational materials that are both understandable and actionable as well as incorporating educational strategies to reach those with lower health literacy levels can be an effective means to providing high-quality DSME to all patients with the goal of improving health outcomes related to diabetes.
Tansian University, Umunya 2024/2025 Sales of Admission form is currently ongoing. Call 07044935866 (DR MRS AFOLAYAN T. M) from the School's Admin. Office for more information. Take note, The School Management also wishes to inform the General Public that Her Part-Time Form, Remedial, Transfer Form JUPEB/IJMB/Direct Entry/Pre-degree Form is out Form are also out and available. Call (DR MRS AFAOLAYAN T. M- Admin. Department) for any inquiry regarding Admission processing and assistance
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Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

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Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

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Year: 2024

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Progetto di connessione tra rurale ed urbano nei territori fragili. I paesaggi periurbani
Creators: name: Peraboni, Carlo
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: Marginality, fragility, fragmentation, consistency, continuity and interaction are assumptions and objectives underlying the design of the peri-urban areas. These concepts find in the new instruments of land government deals for the definition of projects connection that help to reconstruct an image of the peri-urban areas and to enhance the proximity between the different components of the landscape.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 9 No 1-2 (2011)
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Creators: name: Admin.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

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Manifesto “Paesaggio zero per la biodiversità”
Creators: name: Ostellino, Ippolito
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: This is the introductory essay of the Biennal Landscape Paesaggio Zero – second Edition. It aims to enrich the debate about Biodiversity, on thinking it over to achieve a proposal in line with the target of the Countdown 2010. Moreover, the essay explains the activity of the Landscape Observatory (Parco Po is one of the partner), telling practical actions in biodiversity conservation, protection and development. That are, in fact, good practices to assume as examples to achieve in particular target of biological conservation of species.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 9 No 1-2 (2011)
Un approccio paesaggistico nelle politiche di tutela della natura: verso il Piano di Azione per la tutela della biodiversità della Regione Toscana
Creators: name: Lombardi, Leonardo
name: Matina, Paolo
name: Casadio, Andrea
name: Pollutri, Antonio
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: In 2011 Tuscany will be the first Region in Italy to complete a building process of a Biodiversity Action Plan. We have been designing that plan thanks to the contribution of a great number of person from Tuscan universities and research centres, technicians from public administrations, practitioners and also with the participation of civil society groups such as environmentalists and stakeholders influenced by the plan. The Biodiversity Action Plan selects biodiversity targets, identifies human threats to those values, establishing goals and actions. The plan's main subjects are high natural value and traditional agricultural landscapes, sustainable forest management, changes in land use and land consumption. The qualifying aspects of the process are the engagement and the contribution of policy makers of key areas for biodiversity (such as agriculture, forestry, land use planning, protected areas) and landscape and wide-area approaches.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 9 No 1-2 (2011)
Analysis of Pain Hemodynamic Response Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS)
Creators: name: Rojas, Raul Fernandez
name: Huang, Xu
name: Ou, Keng Liang
name: Tran, Dat
name: Islam, Sheikh Md. Rabiul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Despite recent advances in brain research, understanding the various signals for pain and pain intensities in the brain cortex is still a complex task due to temporal and spatial variations of brain hemodynamics. In this paper we have investigated pain based on cerebral hemodynamics via near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). This study presents a pain stimulation experiment that uses three acupuncture manipulation techniques to safely induce pain in healthy subjects. Acupuncture pain response was presented and hemodynamic pain signal analysis showed the presence of dominant channels and their relationship among surrounding channels, which contribute the further pain research area.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures
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Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

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Year: 2024

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Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

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Summit University, Offa 2024/2025 Sales of Admission form is currently ongoing. Call 07044935866 (DR MRS AFOLAYAN T. M) from the School's Admin. Office for more information. Take note, The School Management also wishes to inform the General Public that Her Part-Time Form, Remedial, Transfer Form JUPEB/IJMB/Direct Entry/Pre-degree Form is out Form are also out and available. Call (DR MRS AFAOLAYAN T. M- Admin. Department) for any inquiry regarding Admission processing and assistance
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Year: 2024

description: Summit University, Offa 2024/2025 Sales of Admission form is currently ongoing. Call 07044935866 (DR MRS AFOLAYAN T. M) from the School's Admin. Office for more information. Take note, The School Management also wishes to inform the General Public that Her Part-Time Form, Remedial, Transfer Form JUPEB/IJMB/Direct Entry/Pre-degree Form is out Form are also out and available. Call (DR MRS AFAOLAYAN T. M- Admin. Department) for any inquiry regarding Admission processing and assistance
Paesaggi rurali sardi tra diversità biologiche e mixité urbana
Creators: name: Dessì, Adriano
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: Today, an insight into rural landscapes offers the peculiar opportunity of matching together a twofold conception of landscape. On the one hand we have the landscape meant as an always cultural fact (Roger A. 1996) – that is, a landscape deeply related to the customs and habitus established between communities and territory. On the other, we have a conception of landscape conceived as an always ecological and ecosystem fact, deeply rotted in the current issue about the relationship between biodiversity and human action. Although a differentiation between local landscapes’ structures and forms is increasingly more difficult to be found, it seems indispensable a rediscovery of those peculiar features that characterize historic rural landscapes in order to make projectual actions on the territory more specific and sustainable, and thus not only targeted to productive purposes.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 9 No 1-2 (2011)
Influence of Clinician Background on Surgery vs. Retreatment Recommendations
Creators: name: Mittelsteadt, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: This study analyzed the influence of clinician experience, training quality, and other clinician-specific factors on treatment recommendations for infected teeth with previous endodontic treatment. A survey was sent to members of the American Association of Endodontists which evaluated the aforementioned factors in addition to obtaining each participant’s initial treatment recommendations for a set of endodontically treated teeth (surgery vs. retreatment). Primary analysis evaluated the relationship of clinician background on the ratio of surgery to retreatment recommendations. No correlation was found between surgery to retreatment ratio with any training related factors. Data did reveal that, while satisfied with both retreatment and surgical training in residency, endodontists are more satisfied with that of nonsurgical retreatment.      Overall, this survey showed that endodontists are predisposed to electing retreatment over surgery. Among the variables explored to explain this trend, experience with CBCT in residency was associated with an increase in proportion of cases recommended for surgery. Gender, continuing education, and general practice experience had no effect on treatment recommendations.
G.G. Rizzo, Il giardino privato di Roberto Burle Marx, Il Sítio. Sessant’anni dalla fondazione. Cent’anni dalla nascita di Roberto Burle Marx, Roma, Gangemi, 2009
Creators: name: Corsani, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: The Sítio, a garden of 40 hectares, was founded by Roberto Burle Marx in 1949, at Guaratiba (Rio de Janeiro). It is also the center of the friendship between its author and Giulio G. Rizzo. In the book, Giulio Rizzo recalls its birth, the different phases of realization, the scientific and artistic components, the goals, the loving attention of its creator. He also condemns the absurdo actual management that makes it a intact ruin.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 9 No 1-2 (2011)
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Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

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A systematic review of genitourinary outcomes of transmasculine genital gender affirming surgery involving urethral lengthening
Creators: name: Scalia, Peter
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: There is a lack of consensus on genitourinary, sexual function, aesthetic, and quality of life outcomes and rates of complications following transmasculine gender affirming genital surgery involving the most common transmasculine genital reconstruction surgeries involving urethral lengthening including clitoral release with urethral lengthening (metoidioplasty) as well as one and two stage phalloplasty with urethral lengthening. Furthermore, there is little consensus on outcomes of vaginectomy approaches including mucosal excision versus fulguration/obliteration. The purpose of this review is to explore original research to determine the published outcomes and risk probabilities associated with these surgeries
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Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

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Examples of naked singularity formation in higher-dimensional Einstein-vacuum spacetimes
Creators: name: An, Xinliang
name: Zhang, Xuefeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The vacuum Einstein equations in 5+1 dimensions are shown to admit solutions describing naked singularity formation in gravitational collapse from nonsingular asymptotically locally flat initial data that contain no trapped surface. We present a class of specific examples with topology $\mathbb{R}^{3+1} \times S^2$. Thanks to the Kaluza-Klein dimensional reduction, these examples are constructed by lifting continuously self-similar solutions of the 4-dimensional Einstein-scalar field system with a negative exponential potential. The latter solutions are obtained by solving a 3-dimensional autonomous system of first-order ordinary differential equations with a combined analytic and numerical approach. Their existence provides a new test-bed for weak cosmic censorship in higher-dimensional gravity. In addition, we point out that a similar attempt of lifting Christodoulou's naked singularity solutions of massless scalar fields fails to capture formation of naked singularities in 4+1 dimensions, due to a diverging Kretschmann scalar in the initial data.
description: 34 pages, 5 figures; to match the published version which combines this number and arXiv:1509.07954
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Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

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Parchi e paesaggi d’Europa. Un programma di ricerca territoriale
Creators: name: Gambino, Roberto
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: The lecture traces a research programme for bulding a reference framework aiming to integrate nature conservation, landscape valorisation and territorial policies, in order to improve their effectiveness. It enlights basic principles, new paradigms and interpretative models leading the territorial project, as a collective project for the territorialgovernance.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 8 No 2 (2010)
Legami personali e di ricerca
Creators: name: Peano, Attilia
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: The collaboration for the first Gran Paradiso National Park draft Plan is the beginning of the cooperation with R. Gambino in researches about European protected areas. Such researches, far before the 394/91 law provision for Italy, have been developed considering the parks as laboratories of experimentation of policies and tools for an environmental, landscape and territorial integrated management.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 8 No 2 (2010)
Dal parco al progetto di territorio: evoluzione o discontinuità?
Creators: name: Magnaghi, Alberto
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: In celebrating Roberto Gambino, I underline the ethical role of his professional activity, systematically oriented to experiment scientific advancements of town planning towards territorial and landscape quality in fostering public interest. On the substantive level, I agree upon many statements, e.g. parks as workshops for putting landscape into value; nevertheless I underline some discontinuity (in objectives, tools, socio- economical implications) in moving from parks as policies for protecting specific areas “from” development, towards the territorial project as added value for the entire regional territory, “for” the quality of development itself.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 8 No 2 (2010)
The Dynamical Process of Meaning-Making Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Zambelli, Michela
name: Milani, Martina
name: Tagliabue, Semira
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: lifespan
subject: meaning in life
subject: meaning-making

description: This systematic review’s aim is to evaluate the current evidences on the conceptualization and measurement of the process of meaning-making (MM process). More details in the attached file
Development and application of a framework for model structure evaluation in environmental modelling
Creators: name: Van Hoey, Stijn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: model structure selection, environmental modelling, hydrology, respirometry

description: In a fast developing world with an ever rising population, the pressures on our natural environment are continuously increasing, causing problems such as floods, water- and air pollution, droughts,... Insight in the driving mechanisms causing these threats is essential in order to properly mitigate these problems. During the last decades, mathematical models became an essential part of scientific research to better understand and predict natural phenomena. Notwithstanding the diversity of currently existing models and modelling frameworks, the identification of the most appropriate model structure for a given problem remains a research challenge. The latter is the main focus of this dissertation, which aims to improve current practices of model structure comparison and evaluation. This is done by making individual model decisions more transparent and explicitly testable. A diagnostic framework, focusing on a flexible and open model structure definition and specifying the requirements for future model developments, is described. Methods for model structure evaluation are documented, implemented, extended and applied on both respirometric and hydrological models. For the specific case of lumped hydrological models, the unity between apparently different models is illustrated. A schematic representation of these model structures provides a more transparent communication tool, while meeting the requirements of the diagnostic approach.
Are extraverts really suffering more than introverts?
Creators: name: Kroencke, Lara
name: Balzarini, Rhonda
name: Zoppolat, Giulia
name: Slatcher, Richard
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: In this project, we examine the relationship between extraversion, social interactions, and well-being before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The preregistration file contains our hypotheses, methods, and planned statistical analyses.
Accretion, radial flows and abundance gradients in spiral galaxies
Creators: name: Pezzulli, Gabriele
name: Fraternali, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The metal-poor gas continuously accreting onto the discs of spiral galaxies is unlikely to arrive from the intergalactic medium (IGM) with exactly the same rotation velocity as the galaxy itself and even a small angular momentum mismatch inevitably drives radial gas flows within the disc, with significant consequences to galaxy evolution. Here we provide some general analytic tools to compute accretion profiles, radial gas flows and abundance gradients in spiral galaxies as a function of the angular momentum of accreting material. We generalize existing solutions for the decomposition of the gas flows, required to reproduce the structural properties of galaxy discs, into direct accretion from the IGM and a radial mass flux within the disc. We then solve the equation of metallicity evolution in the presence of radial gas flows with a novel method, based on characteristic lines, which greatly reduces the numerical demand on the computation and sheds light on the crucial role of boundary conditions on the abundance profiles predicted by theoretical models. We also discuss how structural and chemical constraints can be combined to disentangle the contributions of inside-out growth and radial flows in the development of abundance gradients in spiral galaxies. Illustrative examples are provided throughout with parameters plausible for the Milky Way. We find that the material accreting on the Milky Way should rotate at 70-80 per cent of the rotational velocity of the disc, in agreement with previous estimates.
description: MNRAS, in press; 16 pages, 9 Figures
Il contributo all’ANCSA
Creators: name: Gabrielli, Bruno
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: This paper, synthetically outlining the issues faced by the ANSCA from the 1960 Gubbio Congress, wishes to tell about the Roberto Gambino‘s contributions on these issues. In particular, his contribution on the landscape topics has allowed the ANCSA to link the issues about protection and revitalization of the Historical Centres with the territorial, environmental and social context. Basically, he has proposed to the ANCSA a highly integrated “look”, well balanced between institutional positions (UNESCO, etc.) and autonomous positions, aimed at enhancing above all the social aspects.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 8 No 2 (2010)
Under the glacier, the groundwater - the case of Skálafell area, Iceland
Creators: name: Vincent, Aude
name: Hart, Jane
name: Berry, Clément
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: hydrogeology
glacier
Iceland

description: The research addressing glaciers evolution under climate change is well developed, and is now looking not only at their mass balance, but also at the associated subsurface hydrology and downstream hydrology. However, the groundwater component is rarely considered, even though it will be required to forecast the evolution of water resources and of water linked hazards under climate change. The few available studies demonstrate the existence of sub-or pro-glacial aquifers. Some of them suggest strong coupling between rivers and the aquifer, observe the flooding due to water table rising following enhanced glacier melting, or expect stronger recharge in the future due to glacier melting. The present study is the first step of a wider project, GlacAq, aiming at filling this knowledge gap, by characterizing the particular hydrogeology encountered under and downstream of glaciers of alpine type, i.e. sub-, pro-and periglacial hydrogeology, and its sensibility to climate change, in order to provide operational management directions. Skálafell glacier area (Iceland) has been chosen as it has already been followed for climatic, glaciological, and surface hydrology data (Hart et al. (2015), Young et al. (2015)). The present work will use those data, as well as topographic and surface data from the National Land Survey of Iceland, and geological data, to run a comprehensive numerical modelling. The work conducted on the Skálafell site will lead both to the achievement of an operational understanding of a poorly known underground system, and to the anticipation of its hydrodynamic response to climate change. The foreseen mechanisms include an enhanced sub-glacial aquifer recharge, intense surface water bodies-aquifer exchanges, and the aquifer discharge either through springs, or to an offshore system. Those offshore stocks are being increasingly recognised, but their origins are still only guessed at. Skálafell site allows the exploration of the potential role of the glacier-aquifer pairing in the mechanism of deep recharge and formation of offshore fresh groundwater stocks in littoral areas will be performed.
Defects, disorder and strong electron correlations in orbital degenerate, doped Mott insulators
Creators: name: Avella, Adolfo
name: Oleś, Andrzej M.
name: Horsch, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We elucidate the effects of defect disorder and $e$-$e$ interaction on the spectral density of the defect states emerging in the Mott-Hubbard gap of doped transition-metal oxides, such as Y$_{1-x}$Ca$_{x}$VO$_{3}$. A soft gap of kinetic origin develops in the defect band and survives defect disorder for $e$-$e$ interaction strengths comparable to the defect potential and hopping integral values above a doping dependent threshold, otherwise only a pseudogap persists. These two regimes naturally emerge in the statistical distribution of gaps among different defect realizations, which turns out to be of Weibull type. Its shape parameter $k$ determines the exponent of the power-law dependence of the density of states at the chemical potential ($k-1$) and hence distinguishes between the soft gap ($k\geq2$) and the pseudogap ($k<2$) regimes. Both $k$ and the effective gap scale with the hopping integral and the $e$-$e$ interaction in a wide doping range. The motion of doped holes is confined by the closest defect potential and the overall spin-orbital structure. Such a generic behavior leads to complex non-hydrogen-like defect states that tend to preserve the underlying $C$-type spin and $G$-type orbital order and can be detected and analyzed via scanning tunneling microscopy.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Search for signatures of dust in the Pluto-Charon system using Herschel/PACS observations
Creators: name: Marton, Gabor
name: Kiss, Csaba
name: Balog, Zoltan
name: Lellouch, Emmanuel
name: Verebelyi, Erika
name: Klaas, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we explore the environment of Pluto and Charon in the far infrared with the main aim to identify the signs of any possible dust ring, should it exist in the system. Our study is based on observations performed at 70 um with the PACS instrument onboard the Herschel Space Observatory at 9 epochs between March 14 and 19, 2012. The far-infrared images of the Pluto-Charon system are compared to those of the point spread function (PSF) reference quasar 3C454.3. The deviation between the observed Pluto-Charon and reference PSFs are less then 1 sigma indicating that clear evidence for an extended dust ring around the system was not found. Our method is capable of detecting a hypothetical ring with a total flux of ~3.3 mJy at a distance of ~153 000 km (~8.2 Pluto-Charon distances) from the system barycentre. We place upper limits on the total disk mass and on the column density in a reasonable disk configuration and analyse the hazard during the flyby of NASAs New Horizons in July 2015. This realistic model configuration predicts a column density of 8.7x10^(-10) gcm^(-2) along the path of the probe and an impactor mass of 8.7x10^(-5) g.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
ASSESSING FUNDRAISING PRACTICES OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENTS:  AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF TIERED REWARD SYSTEMS
Creators: name: Lipsey, Javonte Uriah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Due to the implementation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, and rising expenses within the industry of intercollegiate athletics, there is a growing need for practitioners to reexamine their fundraising practices in order to maximize revenue. One fundraising strategy that is commonly used among intercollegiate athletic programs in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Subdivision is the concept of tiered reward systems. Currently, there is no published research or empirical analysis that examines the structure and pricing strategy of these systems. It is for this reason that this research paper is designed to provide an empirical examination of tiered reward systems. Ultimately, the findings in this study provide practitioners with valuable insight to the current economic landscape of tiered reward systems within intercollegiate athletic departments.       Keywords: Intercollegiate athletics, Tiered reward systems, Fundraising, Multiple regression analysis, Price
I parchi, strumenti moderni per la gestione integrata del territorio
Creators: name: Sammuri, Giampiero
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: The “peculiarity” of the park: Gambino research for the interpretation of the international framework and its comparison with the Italian background. Theoretical and practical contributions on critical issues of the national context: the Protected Area classification, the system policy of Protected Areas and their integration into territorial policies, the relationship between landscape and Protected Areas.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 8 No 2 (2010)
Concentric transmon qubit featuring fast tunability and an anisotropic magnetic dipole moment
Creators: name: Braumüller, Jochen
name: Sandberg, Martin
name: Vissers, Michael R.
name: Schneider, Andre
name: Schlör, Steffen
name: Grünhaupt, Lukas
name: Rotzinger, Hannes
name: Marthaler, Michael
name: Lukashenko, Alexander
name: Dieter, Amadeus
name: Ustinov, Alexey V.
name: Weides, Martin
name: Pappas, David P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a planar qubit design based on a superconducting circuit that we call concentric transmon. While employing a straightforward fabrication process using Al evaporation and lift-off lithography, we observe qubit lifetimes and coherence times in the order of 10us. We systematically characterize loss channels such as incoherent dielectric loss, Purcell decay and radiative losses. The implementation of a gradiometric SQUID loop allows for a fast tuning of the qubit transition frequency and therefore for full tomographic control of the quantum circuit. Due to the large loop size, the presented qubit architecture features a strongly increased magnetic dipole moment as compared to conventional transmon designs. This renders the concentric transmon a promising candidate to establish a site-selective passive direct Z coupling between neighboring qubits, being a pending quest in the field of quantum simulation.
description: 6 pages + 4 pages Supplemental Material, 6 figures
Bonding Description of the Harpoon Mechanism
Creators: name: Rodriguez-Mayorga, Mauricio
name: Ramos-Cordoba, Eloy
name: Salvador, Pedro
name: Sola, Miquel
name: Matito, Eduard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The lowest-lying states of LiH have been widely used to develop and calibrate many different methods in quantum mechanics. In this paper we show that the electron-transfer processes occurring in these two states are a difficult test for chemical bonding descriptors and can be used to assess new bonding descriptors on its ability to recognize the harpoon mechanism. To this aim, we study the bond formation mechanism in a series of diatomic molecules. In all studied electron-reorganization mechanisms, the maximal electron-transfer variation point along the bond formation path occurs when about half electron has been transferred from one atom to another. If the process takes places through a harpoon mechanism, this point of the reaction path coincides with the avoided crossing. The electron sharing indices and one-dimensional plots of the electron localization function and the Laplacian of the electron density along the molecular axis can be used to monitor the bond formation in diatomics and provide a distinction between the harpoon mechanism and a regular electron-reorganization process.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures
Minority Advantage? An Exploration of Minority Party Status as a Benefit for Ideological Extremists
Creators: name: Pinnell, Nathan E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The benefits resulting from majority party status in the House are generally thought to be dichotomous, accruing to the members whose party is in control and absent for those whose party is not. However, anecdotal evidence has suggested that, on occasion, the strategic interests of the majority can align with the policy interests of what I term "ideological extremists", or members who are outside the norm of policy preferences in their party. In those circumstances, the majority party benefits from making the minority take divisive or embarrassing votes, while ideological extremists are better able to position take. To explore whether the anecdotal evidence is indicative of a larger trend, I collected data and ran empirical tests on over 6,000 amendments receiving roll call votes in the House from the 97th-113th Congresses. My results suggest that ideological extremists are able to position take more frequently and on a wider array of issues while in the minority, although they are still relatively prolific while in the majority. Moreover, I find that ideological extremists perform worse in elections after they have been in the minority, indicating that whatever benefits they may enjoy do not directly translate to electoral rewards.
Fertilizzazioni incrociate tra geografia e pianificazione ambientale e paesaggistica
Creators: name: Dematteis, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: The cooperation with town an country planners, as Roberto Gambino, enabled the author to overcome the separation between geographical description and planning, conceiving descriptions as implicit projects and planning as a learning process, linked together in a circular performing way. This interactive cross fertilization is particularly clear when we consider the landscape as a symbolic representation intersecting and linking together ecosphere, semiosphere and sociosphere. This approach allow us to detect the “structural invariant” of places as the rules of sustainable transformation of them.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 8 No 2 (2010)
Forme di conoscenza e missioni della pianificazione, alcuni commenti parziali
Creators: name: Mazza, Luigi
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: The following notes are partial comments to two of the many issues considered by Gambino’s lecture: the knowledge mission of planning and the holistic approach. In particular, in the planning processes two knowledge types, analytical and normative, are identified and their contribution to the decision construction is briefly described. The fact that ‘landscape’ tends more and more to become ‘territory’, helps to clarify the relationship between knowledge and planning and the limits of an integrated approach.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 8 No 2 (2010)
Wave-function Visualization of Core-induced Interaction of Non-hydrogenic Rydberg Atom in Electric Field
Creators: name: Gao, W.
name: Deng, M.
name: Cheng, H.
name: Zhang, S. S.
name: Liu, H. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the wave-function feature of Rydberg sodium in a uniform electric field and found that the core-induced interaction of non-hydrogenic atom in electric field can be directly visualized in the wave-function. As is well known, the hydrogen atom in electric field can be separated in parabolic coordinates (η, ξ), whose eigen-function can show a clear pattern towards negative and positive directions corresponding to the so-called red and blue states without ambiguity, respectively. It can be served as a complete orthogonal basis set to study the core-induced interaction of non-hydrogenic atom in electric field. Owing to complete different patterns of the probability distribution for red and blue states, the interaction can be visualized in the wave-function directly via superposition. Moreover, the constructive and destructive interferences between red and blue states are also observed in the wave-function, explicitly explaining the experimental measurement for the spectral oscillator strength.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures