cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Evaluation of Open Source Software Innovativeness
Creators: name: Benkeltoum, Nordine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Product innovation assessment in software sector is a timely topic. Nevertheless, research on that subject is particularly scant. As a result, there is a lack of criteria to measure software innovativeness. In a context of theoretical and practical controversy in the open source field, this article assesses open source software innovativeness. Based on almost 500 cases studies and with the collaboration of 125 experts from industry, services and research fields, it suggests an innovation typology supported by the notion of functional added value. It provides also an innovation modelling framework that combines main evaluation methodologies. By showing the shortcomings of widely used innovation metrics, this research supports a new approach of innovativeness assessment specialized in each sector.
title: Vorschläge zur künftigen Arbeitsmarktpolitik: integrativ – investiv – innovativ. Gutachten für das Thüringer Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Technologie
Creators: name: Bäcker, Gerhard
name: Bosch, Gerhard
name: Weinkopf, Claudia
name: Institut Arbeit Und Qualifikation
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 30
subject: 300

description: IAQ: Publikationen aus dem Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation
Deepfakes on Demand: the rise of accessible non-consensual deepfake image generators
Creators: name: Hawkins, Will
name: Russell, Chris
name: Mittelstadt, Brent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68T01

description: Advances in multimodal machine learning have made text-to-image (T2I) models increasingly accessible and popular. However, T2I models introduce risks such as the generation of non-consensual depictions of identifiable individuals, otherwise known as deepfakes. This paper presents an empirical study exploring the accessibility of deepfake model variants online. Through a metadata analysis of thousands of publicly downloadable model variants on two popular repositories, Hugging Face and Civitai, we demonstrate a huge rise in easily accessible deepfake models. Almost 35,000 examples of publicly downloadable deepfake model variants are identified, primarily hosted on Civitai. These deepfake models have been downloaded almost 15 million times since November 2022, with the models targeting a range of individuals from global celebrities to Instagram users with under 10,000 followers. Both Stable Diffusion and Flux models are used for the creation of deepfake models, with 96% of these targeting women and many signalling intent to generate non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII). Deepfake model variants are often created via the parameter-efficient fine-tuning technique known as low rank adaptation (LoRA), requiring as few as 20 images, 24GB VRAM, and 15 minutes of time, making this process widely accessible via consumer-grade computers. Despite these models violating the Terms of Service of hosting platforms, and regulation seeking to prevent dissemination, these results emphasise the pressing need for greater action to be taken against the creation of deepfakes and NCII.
description: 13 pages
Platonic dynamical decoupling sequences for interacting spin systems
Creators: name: Read, Colin
name: Serrano-Ensástiga, Eduardo
name: Martin, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the NISQ era, where quantum information processing is hindered by the decoherence and dissipation of elementary quantum systems, developing new protocols to extend the lifetime of quantum states is of considerable practical and theoretical importance. A well-known technique, known as dynamical decoupling, uses a carefully designed sequence of pulses applied to a quantum system, such as a spin-$j$ (which represents a qudit with $d=2j+1$ levels), to suppress the coupling Hamiltonian between the system and its environment, thereby mitigating dissipation. While dynamical decoupling of qubit systems has been widely studied, the decoupling of qudit systems has been far less explored and often involves complex sequences and operations. In this work, we design efficient decoupling sequences composed solely of global $\mathrm{SU}(2)$ rotations and based on tetrahedral, octahedral, and icosahedral point groups, which we call Platonic sequences. We extend the Majorana representation for Hamiltonians to develop a simple framework that establishes the decoupling properties of each Platonic sequence and show its effectiveness on many examples. These sequences are universal in their ability to cancel any type of interaction with the environment for single spin-$j$ with spin quantum number $j\leqslant 5/2$, and they are capable of decoupling up to $5$-body interactions in an ensemble of interacting spin-$1/2$ with only global pulses, provided that the interaction Hamiltonian has no isotropic component, with the exception of the global identity. We also discuss their inherent robustness to finite pulse duration and a wide range of pulse errors, as well as their potential application as building blocks for dynamically corrected gates.
description: 32 pages, 11 figures
title: Erwerbsverläufe vor dem Rentenbeginn: Eine Analyse mit der VVL 2004
Creators: name: Brussig, Martin
name: Institut Arbeit Und Qualifikation
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 30
subject: 300

description: IAQ: Publikationen aus dem Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation
Multicomponent magneto-orbital order and magneto-orbitons in monolayer VCl3
Creators: name: Camerano, Luigi
name: Fumega, Adolfo O.
name: Profeta, Gianni
name: Lado, Jose L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Van der Waals monolayers featuring magnetic states provide a fundamental building block for artificial quantum matter. Here, we establish the emergence of a multicomponent ground state featuring magneto-orbital excitations of the 3d2-transition metal trihalide VCl3 monolayer. We show that monolayer VCl3 realizes a ground state with simultaneous magnetic and orbital ordering using density functional theory. Using first-principles methods we derive an effective Hamiltonian with intertwined spin and orbital degree of freedom, which we demonstrate can be tuned by strain. We show that magneto-orbitons appear as the collective modes of this complex order, and arise from coupled orbiton magnon excitations due to the magneto-orbital coupling in the system. Our results establish VCl3 as a promising 2D material to observe emergent magneto-orbital excitations and provide a platform for multicomponent symmetry breaking.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Simulations of contradirectional couplers in rib waveguides
Creators: name: Finlay, Eric
name: Kucera, Lee
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Dr. Lukas Chrostowski sponsored the project taken on by Lee Kucera and Eric Finlay for their ENPH 479 project course. The project had two primary objectives: to write a Lumerical script that would simulate a physical photonic device and to write a script to systematically test various iterations of the device for optimal properties. Lumerical is an industry program created to simulate electromagnetic wave propagation in different materials and geometries. A Lumerical script is a text file that controls the operation of the Lumerical program automatically. The project was centered on learning how Lumerical works and developing a script to complete actions automatically. The workflow consisted of each student working on the shared script file independently, collaborating when issues arose and going to the project sponsor for advice once intuition and current knowledge had been exhausted. Results at this time are a Lumerical script that exactly recreates the physical layout of the physical photonic device, but whose simulation results do not match the physical device. The simulation results (electromagnetic wave transmission) shows the expected general shape, but offset from where it should be. Since the simulated device has so far failed to give results that match the physical device, we are unable to draw conclusions about the final effectiveness of the simulation, potential avenues to improve the photonic device or which configuration is optimal. However, we feel that the program is close to giving the desired result, which will allow the project to move forward. The final recommendation of this project is to continue developing the script to simulate the existing device and simulate variations of this device. If it becomes apparent that the Lumerical software is unable to produce the results from the physical device, the script should be abandoned; this decision can only be made by the project sponsor, drawing on their experience with both the software and the field in general.
Scratch Copilot: Supporting Youth Creative Coding with AI
Creators: name: Druga, Stefania
name: Ko, Amy J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Creative coding platforms like Scratch have democratized programming for children, yet translating imaginative ideas into functional code remains a significant hurdle for many young learners. While AI copilots assist adult programmers, few tools target children in block-based environments. Building on prior research \cite{druga_how_2021,druga2023ai, druga2023scratch}, we present Cognimates Scratch Copilot: an AI-powered assistant integrated into a Scratch-like environment, providing real-time support for ideation, code generation, debugging, and asset creation. This paper details the system architecture and findings from an exploratory qualitative evaluation with 18 international children (ages 7--12). Our analysis reveals how the AI Copilot supported key creative coding processes, particularly aiding ideation and debugging. Crucially, it also highlights how children actively negotiated the use of AI, demonstrating strong agency by adapting or rejecting suggestions to maintain creative control. Interactions surfaced design tensions between providing helpful scaffolding and fostering independent problem-solving, as well as learning opportunities arising from navigating AI limitations and errors. Findings indicate Cognimates Scratch Copilot's potential to enhance creative self-efficacy and engagement. Based on these insights, we propose initial design guidelines for AI coding assistants that prioritize youth agency and critical interaction alongside supportive scaffolding.
description: 5 figures, 14 pages
Multiclass Arrhythmia Classification using Smartwatch Photoplethysmography Signals Collected in Real-life Settings
Creators: name: Han, Dong
name: Moon, Jihye
name: Díaz, Luís Roberto Mercado
name: Chen, Darren
name: Williams, Devan
name: Ding, Eric Y.
name: Tran, Khanh-Van
name: McManus, David D.
name: Chon, Ki H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most deep learning models of multiclass arrhythmia classification are tested on fingertip photoplethysmographic (PPG) data, which has higher signal-to-noise ratios compared to smartwatch-derived PPG, and the best reported sensitivity value for premature atrial/ventricular contraction (PAC/PVC) detection is only 75%. To improve upon PAC/PVC detection sensitivity while maintaining high AF detection, we use multi-modal data which incorporates 1D PPG, accelerometers, and heart rate data as the inputs to a computationally efficient 1D bi-directional Gated Recurrent Unit (1D-Bi-GRU) model to detect three arrhythmia classes. We used motion-artifact prone smartwatch PPG data from the NIH-funded Pulsewatch clinical trial. Our multimodal model tested on 72 subjects achieved an unprecedented 83% sensitivity for PAC/PVC detection while maintaining a high accuracy of 97.31% for AF detection. These results outperformed the best state-of-the-art model by 20.81% for PAC/PVC and 2.55% for AF detection even while our model was computationally more efficient (14 times lighter and 2.7 faster).
Identificazione degli equidi e benessere animale al macello
Creators: name: Giovannini, Roberto
Publisher: name: Rassegna di Diritto, Legislazione e Medicina Legale Veterinaria
Year: 2013

description: Scopo di questo lavoro è stato quello di affrontare la macellazione degli equidi e di descriverne le varie fasi, avendo cura di indicare limiti e criticità di ogni aspetto
description: Rassegna di Diritto, Legislazione e Medicina Legale Veterinaria, V. 10, N. 3 (2011)
Caudotomia e conchectomia: analisi della Legge N.201/2010
Creators: name: Rivara, Alexandra
name: Castellani, Ingrid
Publisher: name: Rassegna di Diritto, Legislazione e Medicina Legale Veterinaria
Year: 2013

description: Nel presente lavoro sono state analizzate la Legge N. 201/2010 e l’Ordinanza Ministeriale del 22 marzo 2011. Inoltre è stata fatta un’analisi sulla posizione dell’opinione pubblica riguardo alla Legge N. 201/2010.
description: Rassegna di Diritto, Legislazione e Medicina Legale Veterinaria, V. 10, N. 4 (2011)
Malaphoric $Z'$ models for $b \rightarrow s \ell^+ \ell^-$ anomalies
Creators: name: Allanach, Ben
name: Gubernari, Nico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study some phenomenological effects of kinetic mixing between the hypercharge field and a new $U(1)$ gauge field in specific $Z^\prime$ models that ameliorate the tensions between measurements and Standard Model predictions in $b \rightarrow s\ell^+ \ell^-$ decays. To this end, we rederive the dimension-6 SMEFT coefficients resulting from integrating out the kinetically-mixed (`malaphoric') $Z^\prime$ field. The kinetic mixing provides a family-universal component to the couplings of the $Z^\prime$ field, which can improve fits to lepton flavour universality observables. We show how kinetic mixing improves the best fit of the $B_3-L_2$ model to $b\rightarrow s$ data by 7.0 units of $χ^2$ while remaining compatible with other relevant data sets such as electroweak precision observables and measurements of $e^+ e^- \rightarrow \ell^+ \ell^-$ at LEP2.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures, fixed small bug in numeric part, added comments
Le fattorie didattiche
Creators: name: Ronchetti, Federica
name: Castellani, Ingrid
name: Fossati, Paola
Publisher: name: Rassegna di Diritto, Legislazione e Medicina Legale Veterinaria
Year: 2013

description: In questo articolo si è voluto fare una panoramica su cosa è una fattoria didattica in Italia e su come diventarlo;inoltre è stato fatto un confronto con le diverse realtà europee
description: Rassegna di Diritto, Legislazione e Medicina Legale Veterinaria, V. 10, N. 4 (2011)
Considerazioni in merito al quadro normativo relativo alla presenza dell’orso bruno (ursus arctos) nella realtà alpina
Creators: name: Luca, Pellicioli
name: Brumana, Davide
Publisher: name: Rassegna di Diritto, Legislazione e Medicina Legale Veterinaria
Year: 2013

description: Viene preso in considerazione il ritorno dell’orso (Ursus arctos) nell’arco alpino trattando il risvolto sia naturalistico sia normativo
description: Rassegna di Diritto, Legislazione e Medicina Legale Veterinaria, V. 10, N. 4 (2011)
Ischnothyreus peltifer
Creators: name: Brescovit, Antonio D.
name: Bonaldo, Alexandre B.
name: Ott, Ricardo
name: Chavari, João L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Ischnothyreus
Ischnothyreus peltifer

description: Ischnothyreus peltifer (Simon, 1891)
(Figs 20-25, 59)
 Ischnaspis peltifer SIMON, 1891:562 (four female syntypes from Saint Vincent, Antilles, in BMNH, and one female syntype from St.Vincent, in MNHN).
 Ischnothyreus peltifer: SIMON, 1893c:298 (not male, fig. 264, = Camptoscaphiella simoni Baehr); PLATNICK et al., 2012b:7, figs 1-99.
 Dysderina antillana BRYANT, 1942:324, figs 1, 7 (male holotype from Christiansted, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands, in MCZ; examined); CHICKERING, 1968a:80 (Syn.)
 Ischnothyreus omus SUMAN,1965:226, figs 1-8 (male holotype from Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii, in Bishop Museum, Honolulu). SAARISTO, 2001:345 (Syn.).
 Ischnothyreus formosus BRIGNOLI, 1974b:80, figs 12-18 (male holotype from Akau, Taiwan, in Zoological Museum, Hamburg); SAARISTO, 2001:345 (Syn.).
 Ischnothyreus sechellorum BENOIT, 1979:208, figs 7A-E (female holotype from Mahe, Seychelles Islands, in MRAC); SAARISTO, 1999:3 (Syn.).
 Diagnosis. Males of Ischnothyreus peltifer can easily be separated from those of I. velox by the large protuberance on the base of the cheliceral fang in males (Fig. 23) and narrow, posteriorly situated, sinuous ridge on the postepigastric scutum (Fig. 22) in females.
 Description. Male and female, see PLATNICK et al. 2012b:7, figs 1-99.
 Distribution. According to PLATNICK et al. (2012b), this Pantropical species was probably introduced in Americas from Asia. Our records indicated that it was present only in three Brazilian states, the Northern State of Pará, the Northeastern State of Bahia and in the Southeastern State of São Paulo (Fig. 59). Judging by the records obtained, at the moment this species is not sympatric with I. velox in Brazil.
 Material examined. BRAZIL. Pará: Belém, Ilha de Cotijuba (01°14’51.44”S - 48°32’47.14”W), ♀, XI.2004, L. Macambira leg. (MPEG 10271, PBI _ OON 40724); Bosque Rodrigues Alves (01°25’49”S - 48°27’23”W), 2♀, XI/2004, J. Barreiro leg. (MPEG 10478, 10479; PBI _ OON 40726, 40727); Belém, Mata de Várzea, ♂, 2♀, X.2004, L. Macambira leg. (MPEG 10709, PBI _ OON 40692); Bahia: Salvador, Baia do Aratu (12°47’32.8”S – 38°28’15.3”W), 3♂, ♀, 2007-2009, K. Benati leg. (IBSP 126042, 126086, 126131, 126135); Presidente Tancredo Neves (13°24’32”S - 39°20’05”W), 2♀, 07.II.2011, C. M. P. Leite (IBSP 166612, 166614); Itamaraju (16°57’58”S - 39°26’01”W), ♀, 14.IV.2011, C. M. P. Leite leg. (IBSP 166613); São Paulo: Ubatuba, Parque Estadual da Ilha Anchieta (23°32’S – 45°03’W), ♂, 23-30.VII.2001, Equipe Biota leg. (IBSP 69881).
description: Published as part of Brescovit, Antonio D., Bonaldo, Alexandre B., Ott, Ricardo & Chavari, João L., 2019, To boldly go: on invasive goblin spiders in Brazil (Araneae, Oonopidae), pp. 1-20 in Iheringia, Série Zoologia (e 2019033) (e 2019033) 109 on page 8, DOI: 10.1590/1678-4766e2019033, http://zenodo.org/record/13265874
title: Industry-wide minimum wages in Germany: uncertain progress along a bumpy road
Creators: name: Jaehrling, Karen
name: Weinkopf, Claudia
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 300

description: IAQ: Publikationen aus dem Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation
La semplificazione dell'attuazione dei principi del sistema HACCP in talune imprese alimentari
Creators: name: Rabolini, Germana
Publisher: name: Rassegna di Diritto, Legislazione e Medicina Legale Veterinaria
Year: 2013

description: Il presente lavoro si propone di valutare l’applicazione dell’HACCP nelle imprese in cui, data la loro natura, è opportuna una
semplificazione di tale processo
description: Rassegna di Diritto, Legislazione e Medicina Legale Veterinaria, V. 10, N. 4 (2011)
Vita e sapere. Dioniso, la musica, l’insegnante. Note a “La nascita della tragedia” di Nietzsche
Creators: name: Culotta, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: Nóema, N. 7-1 (2016): La conoscenza al lavoro. La formazione nell'età degli specialismi
Romanticism and Impressionism. A path between Turner and Monet
Creators: name: Moretti, Giampiero
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2016

description: The purpose of this paper is to further examine the aesthetical and theoretical relationship between the Romantic movement and French Impressionism, including its further development into pointillism and/or post-impressionism. The examination focuses on the German Romantic movement (from a theoretical viewpoint) as well as on the English Romantic movement (from a pictorial perspective: mainly, the Turner-Ruskin relationship). This hermeneutical journey takes place both through the analysis of specific works by main figures belonging to these art movements and through the examination of some of the theoretical concepts associated with their aesthetical doctrines, which have been referenced to either explicitly or implicitly.
description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N. 8 (2016)
Ischnothyreus velox Jackson 1908
Creators: name: Brescovit, Antonio D.
name: Bonaldo, Alexandre B.
name: Ott, Ricardo
name: Chavari, João L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Ischnothyreus
Ischnothyreus velox

description: Ischnothyreus velox Jackson, 1908
(Figs 26-30, 59)
 Ischnothyreus velox JACKSON, 1908:51, pl. 4, figs 9-13 (Lectotype male from greenhouse in Chester, England, in BMNH); SAARISTO, 2001:347 (desig. lectotype); PLATNICK et al., 2012b:27, figs 100-132.
 Ischnothyreus barrowsi CHAMBERLIN & IVIE, 1935:9, pl. II, fig. 7 (female holotype from Marco Island, Collier Co., Florida, USA, in AMNH). PLATNICK et al., 2012b:27 (Syn.).
 Ischnothyreus indressus CHICKERING,1968a:84, figs 13-20 (male holotype from Nevis, Leeward Islands, in MCZ; examined); PLATNICK et al., 2012b:27 (Syn.).
 Diagnosis. Ischnothyreus velox differ from I. peltifer by the males lacking a protuberance on the base of the fang; palps with rounded bulb and sperm pore larger than that of I. peltifer (Figs 28-30). Females of I. velox have a distinctively procurved ridge occupying most of the width of the postepigastric scutum (Fig. 27).
 Description. Male and female, see PLATNICK et al. 2012b:27, figs 100-132.
 Distribution. According to PLATNICK et al. (2012b), who recorded this species in the state of Amazonas, this Pantropical species was probably introduced in Americas from Asia. The present records in Brazil are anecdotic but depict a wide distribution in the Western and Central Amazonia, as well as in the Northeastern state of Sergipe (Fig. 59).
 Material examined. BRAZIL. Acre: Senador Guiomard, Reserva Extrativista Catuaba (10°12’51.4584”S - 67°45’17.1216”W), ♀, 2002, E. Morato et al. leg. (IBSP 86903); Amazonas: Benjamin Constant (04°22’58”S - 70°1’51”W), ♀, 2010, P. S. Pompeu et al. leg. (IBSP 166574); Coari, Rio Urucu, Base de Operações Geólogo Pedro de Moura (04°52’16”S - 65°20’04”W), ♂, ♀, 11-20.VII.2003, A. B. Bonaldo, J. Dias & D. Guimarães leg. (MPEG 10212, 10214; PBI _ OON 40693, 40725); Sergipe: Simão Dias, Toca da Raposa (10°43’46.992”S - 37°50’54.9702”W), 2♀, 20.VI.2014, no col. (IBSP 166579-166580).
description: Published as part of Brescovit, Antonio D., Bonaldo, Alexandre B., Ott, Ricardo & Chavari, João L., 2019, To boldly go: on invasive goblin spiders in Brazil (Araneae, Oonopidae), pp. 1-20 in Iheringia, Série Zoologia (e 2019033) (e 2019033) 109 on pages 8-10, DOI: 10.1590/1678-4766e2019033, http://zenodo.org/record/13265874
title: Highly-Dynamic Movements of a Humanoid Robot Using Whole-Body Trajectory Optimization
Creators: name: Eßer, Julian
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Dynamic Programming
subject: Dynamic Bipedal Walking
subject: Humanoid Robots
subject: Motion Planning
subject: Multi-Contact Optimal Control
subject: Whole-Body Trajectory Optimization
subject: 620

description: Motion planning for legged robots is a challenging problem and remains an open area of research. Particular difficulties arise from effective underactuation, the mechanism complexity, as well as nonlinear and hybrid dynamics. A common approach is to decompose this problem into smaller sub-problems that are solved sequentially. Recent research indicates that using a local optimal control solver, namely Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP), produces more efficient motions, with lower forces and impacts. This master’s thesis contributes in this direction by applying, evaluating and extending DDP-based whole-body trajectory optimization, pursuing three objectives. First, we develop a method for constraining DDP-like solvers in order to generate inherently balanced motion plans. Second, the proposed motion planning approach is evaluated for quasi-static and dynamic motions in a real-time physics simulation and in real-world experiments on the lightweight and biologically inspired RH5 humanoid robot. Finally, the limits of the approach and the system design are examined by solving highly-dynamic movements.
description: Die Bewegungsplanung für Laufroboter ist eine anspruchsvolle Aufgabe und bleibt ein aktives Forschungsgebiet. Besondere Schwierigkeiten ergeben sich aus der effektiven Unteraktuierung, der Komplexität der Mechanismen sowie der nichtlinearen und hybriden Dynamik. Ein verbreiteter Ansatz besteht darin, das Problem in kleinere Teilprobleme zu zerlegen, die nacheinander gelöst werden. Neue Forschungsergebnisse zeigen, dass Algorithmen aus dem Bereich der optimalen Regelung, insbesondere der Differenziellen Dynamischen Programmierung (DDP), effizientere Bewegungen mit geringeren Kräften und Stößen erzeugen. Diese Masterarbeit leistet einen Beitrag in diese Richtung, indem eine DDPbasierte Ganzkörper-Trajektorienoptimierung angewendet, bewertet und erweitert wird, wobei drei Ziele verfolgt werden. Erstens entwickeln wir eine Methode zur Beschränkung von DDP-artigen Algorithmen, um stabile Bewegungspläne zu erzeugen. Zweitens wird der vorgeschlagene Ansatz zur Bewegungsplanung für quasistatische und dynamische Bewegungen in einer physikalischen Echtzeitsimulation und in realen Experimenten mit dem leichten und biologisch inspirierten humanoiden Roboter RH5 evaluiert. Schließlich werden die Grenzen des Ansatzes und des Systemdesigns anhand hochdynamischer Bewegungen untersucht.
Thoughts on the nude body
Creators: name: Fabbri, Paolo
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2016

description: The image of nude appears to have ‘moved’, both because of the shift in our gaze and its point of reference. That is, unless this ‘negative emphasis’ is seen only as the uncri­ti­cal acceptance of that ‘polarizing question’ that declared the end of Clas­sical art and the decisive advent of modernity or as the effect of an hermeneutic excess ‒ of a philosophical definition of the nude impli­cit in our figurative culture – is it now the moment to go beyond the observation of the canonic nude and to develop new approaches to nudity? Despite its obviousness, the nude, too, is difficult to define. Where does the garment begin and the gown end? The skin and the flesh? How are we to describe the for­ces, movements and gestures of the body and its involucres?

I will argue that the nude should be neither a pictorial genre nor a philosophical concept, but a «thought of the body» (De Chirico). It is an aesthetic figure with the power of affection and perception, but also a conceptual figure. It is not a ‘critical operator’ ‒ a cognitive ‘walk-on’ or extra ‒ but an actor with the power of speech, capable of forming and transforming new relationships with observers.
description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N. 8 (2016)
Henri Matisse’s Ecrits et propos sur l’art. A phenomenological inquiry on nature, feeling and origin
Creators: name: Frattaroli, Federica
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2016

description: Through a phenomenological reading of Henri Matisse’s Ecrits et propos sur l’art the paper analyzes in their mutual connection the themes of nature, feeling and origin in relation to the Artist’s works (in particular the ones of the Fauvist period) and to his own reflection on art. Interpreting nature through feeling is something more than a solipsistic glance on reality linked to private emotions, it is, according to M. Merleau-Ponty’s theory of perception and expression, a way to create symbols of the living unity of consciousness and the external world. In conclusion, the paper shows the theme of the origin as Matisse’s pictorial way to meditate on the possibility of artistic creation in its necessary connection with the experience of the lifeworld. The constitutive ground of the lifeworld can only be represented into the effort of pure colors and arabesque to show a meditation on the temporal dimension of the origin in which a new disclosing sense can be expressed.
description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N. 8 (2016)
Picture, poetry and theatricality. Writing the Salons  Is ‘describing’ the salons
Creators: name: Mazzocut-Mis, Maddalena
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2016

description: If it is true that a painting can ‘think visually’, then Diderot was the first one to state it; he also said it better than anyone else. Diderot’s Salons show precisely that the ‘imaginal’ sense that arises from the fruition of pictures needs to be investigated on the basis of the concepts of ékphrasis and theatricality – understood as the capacity of exploring the power of pictures in close relation to the composition of the scene, the expressive and pantomimic gestures and what can be called a ‘theory of affections’.
description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N. 8 (2016)
St. Paul’s Hospital maternity guideline revisions
Creators: name: Jammu, Rachanpreet
name: Koepke, Alison
name: Rees, Shannon
name: Bob, Corina
name: Allen, Carrie
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Our clinical practice partner from St.Paul’s Hospital requested assistance in revision of selected maternity related practice standards. All clinical practice guidelines must be updated with new information every 4-5 years. Each of the following existing standards required review: • care of women with epidural analgesia in labour, • pregnancy induced hypertension, and • magnesium sulphate administration. The purpose of this project was to create interdisciplinary guidelines that are clear, evidence based and user friendly.
A Graphical Global Optimization Framework for Parameter Estimation of Statistical Models with Nonconvex Regularization Functions
Creators: name: Davarnia, Danial
name: Kiaghadi, Mohammadreza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Optimization problems with norm-bounding constraints arise in a variety of applications, including portfolio optimization, machine learning, and feature selection. A common approach to these problems involves relaxing the norm constraint via Lagrangian relaxation, transforming it into a regularization term in the objective function. A particularly challenging class includes the zero-norm function, which promotes sparsity in statistical parameter estimation. Most existing exact methods for solving these problems introduce binary variables and artificial bounds to reformulate them as higher-dimensional mixed-integer programs, solvable by standard solvers. Other exact approaches exploit specific structural properties of the objective, making them difficult to generalize across different problem types. Alternative methods employ nonconvex penalties with favorable statistical characteristics, but these are typically addressed using heuristic or local optimization techniques due to their structural complexity. In this paper, we propose a novel graph-based method to globally solve optimization problems involving generalized norm-bounding constraints. Our approach encompasses standard $\ell_p$-norms for $p \in [0, \infty)$ and nonconvex penalties such as SCAD and MCP. We leverage decision diagrams to construct strong convex relaxations directly in the original variable space, eliminating the need for auxiliary variables or artificial bounds. Integrated into a spatial branch-and-cut framework, our method guarantees convergence to the global optimum. We demonstrate its effectiveness through preliminary computational experiments on benchmark sparse linear regression problems involving complex nonconvex penalties, which are not tractable using existing global optimization techniques.
Estetica e conservazione del passato
Creators: name: Chiodo, Simona
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2016

description: The article investigates the relationship between aesthetics and the architectural preservation of the past through three issues: the analysis of the ontological status of the object to be preserved, the approaches to it and the taboo of death.
description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N. 8 (2016)
Supplementary document for Fast polarization-sensitive second harmonic generation microscopy based on off-axis interferometry - 6134882.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Xiang
name: Yu, Wenhui
name: Hu, Rui
name: Qu, Junle
name: Liu, Liwei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Sample preparation and Intensity dependence of collagen
P. Criton, J.-M. Chouvel (sous la direction de), Gilles Deleuze. La pensée-musique
Creators: name: Oliva, Stefano
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2016

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description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N. 8 (2016)
title: Virtuous circles between innovations, job quality and employment in Europe? Case study evidence from the manufacturing sector, private and public service sector: QuInnE, WP6, D 6.3
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 300

description: QuInnE – Quality of jobs and Innovation generated Employment outcomes – is an interdisciplinary project investigating how job quality and innovation mutually impact each other, and the effects this has on job creation and the quality of these job. The project is running from April 2015 through March 2018. The QuInnE project is financed by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme ‘EURO-2-2014 - The European growth agenda’, project reference number: 649497. Quinne project brings together a multidisciplinary team of experts from nine partner institutions across seven European countries.
description: IAQ: Publikationen aus dem Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation
title: Pay equity effects of minimum wages in different national industrial relations models: Paper prepared for the ILO Regulating for Decent Work conference, 6-8 July 2011
Creators: name: Grimshaw, Damian
name: Bosch, Gerhard
name: Rubery, Jill
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 300

description: IAQ: Publikationen aus dem Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation
La storia internazionale e la criminalità organizzata
Creators: name: Merlati, Mariele
Publisher: name: Rivista di Studi e Ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata
Year: 2015

description: La complessità del quadro internazionale attuale e la molteplicità dei suoi attori impongono allo storico delle relazioni internazionali di andare oltre il paradigma della centralità statale e di aprirsi allo studio dei fenomeni transnazionali. La criminalità organizzata è in questo quadro, a tutti gli effetti, attore consolidato del sistema internazionale e quindi a pieno titolo oggetto privilegiato dello sguardo dello storico. In questo saggio l’autore affronta il tema esplicitando il duplice contributo offerto dalla storia internazionale agli studi sulla criminalità organizzata: da un lato la storia può aiutare a meglio comprendere gli scenari in cui oggi la criminalità organizzata si muove, individuando cosa ci sia di inedito nel contesto dell’epoca post-bipolare che lo rende terreno fertile per il consolidarsi dei processi criminali; dall’altro, proprio la storia deve aiutare a rifletter su tutto ciò che, anche in ambito di criminalità organizzata transnazionale, inedito non è affatto, su ciò che trova le sue radici – o i suoi precedenti- ben più indietro che non negli ultimi decenni, sulle continuità, cioè, con la storia del novecento.
description: Rivista di Studi e Ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata, V. 1, N. 1 (2015): Rivista di Studi e Ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata
Lower Mainland afforestation site : an experimental carbon offset project
Creators: name: Todd, Jamie
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This paper describes the modeling of an afforestation project in the Lower Mainland. It follows the BC Forest Carbon Offset Protocol and it uses Tipsy 4.2 and the Canadian Carbon Budget Model to model forest stand dynamics and to examine the changing levels of ecosystem carbon throughout the project lifecycle. Over 100 years, the 10 hectare project sequesters 5,947 tonnes of carbon which is equal to 21,806 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents. Once offsets are modeled and verified, they can be marketed on either voluntary or compliance markets. Some of the issues surrounding carbon offsets include their permanence, their additionality, and their affect on the BC forest industry and these issues are discussed in this paper.
Il diritto internazionale e la criminalità organizzata
Creators: name: Ponti, Christian
Publisher: name: Rivista di Studi e Ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata
Year: 2015

description: Il saggio presenta alcuni spunti di riflessione riguardo agli studi sulla criminalità organizzata nella prospettiva del diritto internazionale e dell’Unione europea. Si sostiene che tali studi possono offrire un contributo prezioso per comprendere la strategia della Comunità internazionale nel contrasto alla criminalità organizzata transnazionale; per evidenziare le sue attuali criticità e i riflessi che essa produce negli ordinamenti interni, e quindi riguardo all’azione preventiva e repressiva degli Stati. Il saggio illustra, in particolare, i caratteri fondamentali del regime giuridico internazionale ed europeo in via di formazione, i risultati conseguiti e le possibilità future nell’armonizzazione delle legislazioni penali statali sulla criminalità organizzata; nell’aggressione ai patrimoni delle organizzazioni criminali; ed infine nella cooperazione giudiziaria e di polizia in materia penale. Il saggio si conclude con alcune osservazioni critiche in merito alle lacune che caratterizzano le politiche internazionali ed europee alla base dei due regimi giuridici in fieri.
description: Rivista di Studi e Ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata, V. 1, N. 1 (2015): Rivista di Studi e Ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata
title: Schriftliche Stellungnahme zur öffentlichen Anhörung von Sachverständigen in Berlin am 19. April 2010 zum Antrag der Fraktion der SPD Beschäftigte vor Arbeitslosigkeit schützen - Konditionen für Kurzarbeit verbessern - Drucksache 17/523 -
Creators: name: Bosch, Gerhard
name: Institut Arbeit Und Qualifikation
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 30
subject: 300

description: IAQ: Publikationen aus dem Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation
Doppler velocity of $m=1$ high-latitude inertial mode over the last five sunspot cycles
Creators: name: Liang, Zhi-Chao
name: Gizon, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Among the identified solar inertial modes, the high-latitude mode with azimuthal order $m=1$ (HL1) has the largest amplitude and plays a role in shaping the Sun's differential rotation profile. We aim to study the evolution of the HL1 mode parameters, utilizing Dopplergrams from the Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO), GONG, and HMI, covering together five solar cycles since 1967. We calculated the averages of line-of-sight Doppler signals over longitude, weighted by the sine of longitude with respect to the central meridian, as a proxy for zonal velocity at the surface. We measured the mode's power and frequency from these zonal velocities at high latitudes in sliding time windows of three years. We find that the amplitude of the HL1 mode undergoes very large variations, taking maximum values at the start of solar cycles 21, 22 and 25, and during the rising phases of cycles 23 and 24. The mode amplitude is anticorrelated with the sunspot number (corr=$-0.50$) but not correlated with the polar field strength. Over the period 1983-2022 the mode amplitude is strongly anticorrelated with the rotation rate at latitude $60^\circ$ (corr=$-0.82$), i.e., with the rotation rate near the mode's critical latitude. The mode frequency variations are small and display no clear solar cycle periodicity above the noise level ($\sim \pm 3$ nHz). Since about 1990, the mode frequency follows an overall decrease of $\sim 0.25$ nHz/year, consistent with the long-term decrease of the angular velocity at $60^\circ$ latitude. We expect that these very long time series of the mode properties will be key to understand the dynamical interactions between the high-latitude modes, differential rotation, and (possibly) magnetic activity.
description: accepted for publication in A&A (major changes: add a flowchart; apply a high-pass filter; extend to late 2024)
La mafia russa in Italia. Lavori in corso
Creators: name: Ingrascì, Ombretta
Publisher: name: Rivista di Studi e Ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata
Year: 2015

description: Il saggio riporta parte dei risultati di una ricerca sulla presenza della mafia russa in Italia condotta nel 2013, e in corso di aggiornamento, che si è avvalsa di materiale investigativo e giudiziario. Dopo aver affrontato i problemi di definizione posti dalla locuzione “mafia russa”, il saggio si concentra sull’invisibilità dei capitali illeciti provenienti dai Paesi dell’ex Unione Sovietica, le cui tracce, ben presenti in Italia, non sono sufficienti a provare il reato di riciclaggio, che richiede l’identificazione a monte del reato che li ha generati. Successivamente prende in considerazione la componente georgiana della mafia russa ricostruendone le caratteristiche e le attività criminali svolte in Italia dai componenti dell’ultimo livello della struttura organizzativa. Infine, il saggio si occupa della variante ucraina della mafia russa, dedita a pratiche estorsive, favoreggiamento all’immigrazione e sfruttamento alla prostituzione nei confronti di connazionali, interpretandola come espressione di un modello di semi-radicamento.  Nelle conclusioni si sostiene che lo sviluppo di organizzazioni criminali riconducibili alla mafia russa in Italia sia caratterizzato da tratti che ne mostrano un orientamento tipicamente mafioso e al contempo non rientrano nelle tipiche manifestazioni di colonizzazione del territorio, così come sono state realizzate dalle mafie autoctone in territori non tradizionalmente mafiosi.
description: Rivista di Studi e Ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata, V. 1, N. 1 (2015): Rivista di Studi e Ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata
title: The Influence of National Culture on Crew Resource Management and Team Performance in Aircraft Accident and Incident Reports
Creators: name: Kuang, Jenny Chia Yi
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2000

description: This study explored the influence of national culture on crew resource management (CRM) and team performance. Accident and incident reports involving foreign aircraft were qualitatively analyzed to discover the relationship between three of Hofstede's (1980, 1997) cultural values and the variables of teamwork behaviors, flightcrew task performance, and flightcrew error. The three cultural values used in the analysis were power distance, individualism and collectivism, and uncertainty avoidance. Low power distance flightcrews exhibited more instances of positive teamwork behaviors, fewer instances of negative teamwork behaviors, fewer instances of error behaviors, and more instances of task performance behaviors than high power distance countries. Individualist flightcrews exhibited more instances of positive teamwork behaviors, fewer instances of negative teamwork behaviors, fewer instances of error behaviors. and more instances of task performance behaviors. Flightcrews that were high in uncertainty avoidance exhibited more teamwork behaviors and fewer error behaviors than flightcrews that were low in uncertainty avoidance. Flightcrews low in uncertainty avoidance exhibited more instances of task performance behaviors than flightcrews high in uncertainty avoidance.
Calibration of piston-operated pipettes with air cushions : Guideline DKD-R 8-1
Creators: name: Members Of DKD’s Technical Subcommittee Volume And Density
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2024

description: This guideline defines the minimum requirements for the calibration procedure. Furthermore, it takes into account the special influences and the measurement uncertainty contributions for the calibration of piston-operated pipettes with air cushions. This guideline does not refer to pipettes without air cushions (positive displacement pipettes). This guideline applies to the calibration of single-channel piston-operated pipettes with a fixed volume, single-channel piston-operated pipettes with a variable volume and multi-channel piston-operated pipettes.