cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Endothelial Dysfunction and Procoagulant Activity in Acute Ischemic Stroke
Creators: name: Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institutes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Endothelium-dependent vasodilator function may be regarded as an index of inflammation. Endothelial dysfunction has been observed in stroke patients and has been related to stroke physiopathology, stroke subtypes, clinical severity, and outcome. Our aim was to measure systemic vascular function directly (using forearm flow mediated dilatation) in patients with acute ischemic stroke and to clarify whether recent acute ischemic stroke is associated with impaired vascular function. Patients who were not eligible for thrombolytic therapy because of delayed arrival were randomly recruited to the study after signing a consent form. All 43 patients were conscious and had an acute ischemic stroke. Brain CT was performed on admission, and clinical evaluation was carried out by a neurologist on admission and four days later. Vascular responsiveness was evaluated by ABI and by endothelial function measurements on admission. Levels of P-selectin were measured during the first 24 hrs and on day 4. Forty-three patients (28 men and 15 women) and 23 healthy men (control) were enrolled in the study. Patients were older (62.4±12.5 y vs 44.2±11.6 y, p=0.001), had worse endothelial dysfunction (–4.4±7.4% vs 16.6±7.6%, p=0.001), and had a higher BMI (28±6 vs 24±5, p=0.001). No gender effect was found in endothelial function (–5.1±7.8% vs –2.5±6.6%, p=0.25) and ABI (1.0±0.26 vs 1.0±0.5, p=0.29). However, men had lower BMIs compared to women (26.8±5.8 vs 31.4±5.5, p=0.01). The neurological scale decreased from 4.9±3.4 to 3.2±3.0 on day 4 (p=0.001). In men, it was 4.8±3.8 on admission, and decreased to 3.2±3.4 on day 4 (p=0.001). In women, it was 5.0±2.7, and decreased to 3.3±2.3 on day 4 (p=0.001). P-selectin levels were high on admission (68.0±55.5 pg/ml) and increased 4 days later (102.3±72.0 pg/ml) (p=0.01). Men had higher levels on admission (79.1± 66.7 pg/ml vs 48.9± 15.4 pg/ml, p=0.02) and rose on day 4 to 113.6±82.6 pg/ml (p=0.05); in women P-selectin increased from 48.9± 15.4 pg/ml to 83.5±46.4 pg/ml (p=0.01), without gender effect on day 4 (113.6±82.6 pg/ml [men] vs 83.5±46.4 pg/ml [women] (p=0.08)). None of the univariate models seemed statistically significant---gender (p=0.448), age (p=0.100), BMI (p=0.607), ABI (p=0.103), FMD% (p=0.456), and P-selectin (p=0.195). Patients with acute stroke had severe endothelial dysfunction during the first 24 hrs with high P-selectin levels that further increased over the first week. Vascular instability and procoagulant activity are still in progress in the first days following acute stroke and patients are at risk to develop more vascular events at that time.
Predictability of conversation partners
Creators: name: Takaguchi, Taro
name: Nakamura, Mitsuhiro
name: Sato, Nobuo
name: Yano, Kazuo
name: Masuda, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent developments in sensing technologies have enabled us to examine the nature of human social behavior in greater detail. By applying an information theoretic method to the spatiotemporal data of cell-phone locations, [C. Song et al. Science 327, 1018 (2010)] found that human mobility patterns are remarkably predictable. Inspired by their work, we address a similar predictability question in a different kind of human social activity: conversation events. The predictability in the sequence of one's conversation partners is defined as the degree to which one's next conversation partner can be predicted given the current partner. We quantify this predictability by using the mutual information. We examine the predictability of conversation events for each individual using the longitudinal data of face-to-face interactions collected from two company offices in Japan. Each subject wears a name tag equipped with an infrared sensor node, and conversation events are marked when signals are exchanged between sensor nodes in close proximity. We find that the conversation events are predictable to some extent; knowing the current partner decreases the uncertainty about the next partner by 28.4% on average. Much of the predictability is explained by long-tailed distributions of interevent intervals. However, a predictability also exists in the data, apart from the contribution of their long-tailed nature. In addition, an individual's predictability is correlated with the position in the static social network derived from the data. Individuals confined in a community - in the sense of an abundance of surrounding triangles - tend to have low predictability, and those bridging different communities tend to have high predictability.
description: 38 pages, 19 figures
Identification of UBAP1 mutations in juvenile hereditary spastic paraplegia in the 100,000 Genomes Project
Creators: name: Bourinaris, Thomas
name: Smedley, Damian
name: Cipriani, Valentina
name: Sheikh, Isabella
name: Athanasiou-Fragkouli, Alkyoni
name: Chinnery, Patrick
name: Morris, Huw
name: Real, Raquel
name: Harrison, Victoria
name: Reid, Evan
name: Wood, Nicholas
name: Vandrovcova, Jana
name: Houlden, Henry
name: Tucci, Arianna
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Brief Communication
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brief-communication

description: Abstract: Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of heterogeneous inherited degenerative disorders characterized by lower limb spasticity. Fifty percent of HSP patients remain yet genetically undiagnosed. The 100,000 Genomes Project (100KGP) is a large UK-wide initiative to provide genetic diagnosis to previously undiagnosed patients and families with rare conditions. Over 400 HSP families were recruited to the 100KGP. In order to obtain genetic diagnoses, gene-based burden testing was carried out for rare, predicted pathogenic variants using candidate variants from the Exomiser analysis of the genome sequencing data. A significant gene-disease association was identified for UBAP1 and HSP. Three protein truncating variants were identified in 13 patients from 7 families. All patients presented with juvenile form of pure HSP, with median age at onset 10 years, showing autosomal dominant inheritance or de novo occurrence. Additional clinical features included parkinsonism and learning difficulties, but their association with UBAP1 needs to be established.
Gravitational Self-force in a Radiation Gauge
Creators: name: Keidl, Tobias S.
name: Shah, Abhay G.
name: Friedman, John L.
name: Kim, Dong-Hoon
name: Price, Larry R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this, the first of two companion papers, we present a method for finding the gravitational self-force in a modified radiation gauge for a particle moving on a geodesic in a Schwarzschild or Kerr spacetime. An extension of an earlier result by Wald is used to show the spin-weight $\pm 2$ perturbed Weyl scalar ($ψ_0$ or $ψ_4$) determines the metric perturbation outside the particle up to a gauge transformation and an infinitesimal change in mass and angular momentum. A Hertz potential is used to construct the part of the retarded metric perturbation that involves no change in mass or angular momentum from $ψ_0$ in a radiation gauge. The metric perturbation is completed by adding changes in the mass and angular momentum of the background spacetime outside the radial coordinate $r_0$ of the particle in any convenient gauge. The resulting metric perturbation is singular on the trajectory of the particle and discontinuous across the sphere $r=r_0$. A mode-sum method can be used to renormalize the self-force, but the justification given in the published version of this paper \cite{sf2} referred to work by Sam Gralla \cite{gralla10} to justify the use of the renormalized self-force, and the radiation gauge we use does not satisfy the regularity conditions required by Gralla. Instead we show that the renormalized self-force, computed either from the retarded field for $r>r_0$ or for $rr_0$ and for $r
description: 38 pages, 3 Tables. Changes for publication. Accepted to PRD
title: Модель формирования деловой культуры в процессе подготовки менеджеров образования
title: Монография
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Осипова О.П.
Publisher: name: Московский педагогический государственный университет
Year: 2018

description: В предлагаемой монографии представлены результаты исследования по проблемам формирования и развития деловой культуры менеджеров образования при реализации магистерской программы в условиях дистанционного сопровождения образовательного процесса по направлению подготовки 44.04.01 «Педагогическое образование» (уровень магистратура). Монография может быть интересна профессорско-преподавательскому составу, студентам учреждений высшего педагогического образования, аспирантам, слушателям курсов профессиональной переподготовки, работникам образования.
description: The proposed monograph presents the results of research on the problems of formation and development of business culture education managers in the implementation of the master program in terms of remote support of the educational process in the direction of training 44.04.01 "Pedagogical education" (level master). The monograph may be of interest to the faculty, students of institutions of higher pedagogical education, post-graduate students, students of professional training, educators.
Simulating discontinuous gas flow and methane reactive transport in the saturated zone
Creators: name: Jain, Kartik
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: The release of natural gas to shallow groundwater systems from energy wells suffering integrity issues (termed gas migration, GM) can lead to adverse impacts on groundwater quality, safety concerns associated with explosion risks, and the release of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. The physiochemical processes occurring during GM are difficult to characterize and model. However, modeling is important to develop strategies for detecting and monitoring GM and formulate conceptual models. In this study: (i) A previously developed numerical model based on macroscopic invasion percolation (macro-IP) and multicomponent mass transfer was enhanced to simulate gas releases in the shallow subsurface. Model simulations were compared to previously conducted bench-scale gas injection experiments and results show that gas flow is highly sensitive to the entry pressure field distribution assigned within the model domain and the critical gas saturation used to model gas-water flow based on macro-IP. However, mass transfer and the resulting domain-scale dissolved-gas transport was relatively insensitive to these parameters. (ii) Hypothetical natural gas releases were simulated in a two-dimensional shallow confined aquifer to identify and evaluate GM indicators. Free-phase gas movement was modeled using macroscopic invasion percolation. The resulting free-phase gas distribution was then inputted to the multicomponent reactive transport model MIN3P. A variety of scenarios were tested to understand the impact on dissolved gas concentrations downgradient of the release. The scenarios included the presence of multiple sources of free-phase gas and different biogeochemical conditions in the aquifer. Simulations show that exsolution of dissolved background gases during simultaneous dissolution of free-phase hydrocarbons cause delayed and variable breakthrough of dissolved gas concentrations at monitoring points across the domain. The results suggest that monitoring of background dissolved gases with total dissolved gas pressure can help enhance the monitoring network at sites impacted by GM. It is clear from the modeling results that multicomponent mass transfer and transport need to be considered when interpreting GM indicators. The findings from this study will aid in taking necessary steps towards up-scaling and implementing numerical models at larger scales to simulate GM scenarios.
Airline Maintenance and the Flight Schedule
Creators: name: Etachmaier, Maximillian M.
name: Rothstein, Marvin
name: Etachmaier, Maximillian M.
name: Rothstein, Marvin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 15th Transportation Research Forum meeting, Oct. 10-12, 1974, San Francisco, CA
Automated Spatio-Temporal Weather Modeling for Load Forecasting
Creators: name: Keisler, Julie
name: Bregere, Margaux
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Electricity is difficult to store, except at prohibitive cost, and therefore the balance between generation and load must be maintained at all times. Electricity is traditionally managed by anticipating demand and intermittent production (wind, solar) and matching flexible production (hydro, nuclear, coal and gas). Accurate forecasting of electricity load and renewable production is therefore essential to ensure grid performance and stability. Both are highly dependent on meteorological variables (temperature, wind, sunshine). These dependencies are complex and difficult to model. On the one hand, spatial variations do not have a uniform impact because population, industry, and wind and solar farms are not evenly distributed across the territory. On the other hand, temporal variations can have delayed effects on load (due to the thermal inertia of buildings). With access to observations from different weather stations and simulated data from meteorological models, we believe that both phenomena can be modeled together. In today's state-of-the-art load forecasting models, the spatio-temporal modeling of the weather is fixed. In this work, we aim to take advantage of the automated representation and spatio-temporal feature extraction capabilities of deep neural networks to improve spatio-temporal weather modeling for load forecasting. We compare our deep learning-based methodology with the state-of-the-art on French national load. This methodology could also be fully adapted to forecasting renewable energy production.
Preferences for Transit Service by Homogeneous Groups of Individuals
Creators: name: Dobson, Ricardo
name: Nicolaidis, Gregory C.
name: Dobson, Ricardo
name: Nicolaidis, Gregory C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 15th Transportation Research Forum meeting, Oct. 10-12, 1974, San Francisco, CA
Mathematics and Morphogenesis of the City: A Geometrical Approach
Creators: name: Courtat, Thomas
name: Gloaguen, Catherine
name: Douady, Stephane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cities are living organisms. They are out of equilibrium, open systems that never stop developing and sometimes die. The local geography can be compared to a shell constraining its development. In brief, a city's current layout is a step in a running morphogenesis process. Thus cities display a huge diversity of shapes and none of traditional models from random graphs, complex networks theory or stochastic geometry takes into account geometrical, functional and dynamical aspects of a city in the same framework. We present here a global mathematical model dedicated to cities that permits describing, manipulating and explaining cities' overall shape and layout of their street systems. This street-based framework conciliates the topological and geometrical sides of the problem. From the static analysis of several French towns (topology of first and second order, anisotropy, streets scaling) we make the hypothesis that the development of a city follows a logic of division / extension of space. We propose a dynamical model that mimics this logic and which from simple general rules and a few parameters succeeds in generating a large diversity of cities and in reproducing the general features the static analysis has pointed out.
description: 13 pages, 13 figures
ЎЗБЕК ТИЛИ ПЕДАГОГИК ТЕРМИНОЛОГИЯСИДА ГИПОНИМИК МУНОСАБАТ МАСАЛАСИ
Creators: name: Yaxshiyeva, E'tibor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Мақолада ўзбек тили педагогик терминлари тизимида семантик муносабатларнинг амал қилиш масаласи доирасида фикр юритилади. Шунингдек, терминологик бирликлараро лексик-семантик муносабатлар, хусусан, гипонимия ва эвконимия ҳодисалари, уларнинг терминлар тизимидаги ўрни ва ҳолати ўзбек тили педагогик терминологияси мисолида таҳлил қилинган. Амалга оширилган кузатиш ва таҳлиллар натижасида педагогик терминларнинг ўзаро муносабатидаги гипонимлик, хусусан, гипероним ва гипоним мавқеи очиб берилади.
The Impact of Fares-Free Public Transport Upon Urban Residential Location
Creators: name: Batty, M.
name: Hall, P.G.
name: Starkie, D.N.M.
name: Batty, M.
name: Hall, P.G.
name: Starkie, D.N.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 15th Transportation Research Forum meeting, Oct. 10-12, 1974, San Francisco, CA
title: Bildungssprache und Sprachbildung im Fach Geschichte
Creators: name: Jostes, Brigitte
name: Beetz, Petra
name: Dorn, Constanze
name: Eichler, Constanze
name: Hermanowski, Lydia
name: Krüger, Stella
name: Maar, Verena
name: von Miller, Marion
name: Schroeder, Christoph
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: Sprachbildung und Deutsch als Zweitsprache (DaZ) sind in der Lehrkräftebildung für die Sekundarstufe an der Universität Potsdam bislang nicht systematisch als Querschnittsaufgabe verankert. Vor diesem Hintergrund verfolgte das Projekt „Sprachliche Heterogenität als Herausforderung in der Lehrkräftebildung“ (Leitung: Prof. Christoph Schroeder, Teilprojekt 3.2. des Projekts PSI, Laufzeit 2015-2018) das Ziel, eine fachübergreifende Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Thema anzustoßen. Zu diesem Zweck wurden in Kooperation mit fachdidaktischen Arbeitsbereichen Lehrveranstaltungen zu den Themen „Sprachliche Heterogenität“ und „Sprachbildung im Fach“ durchgeführt. Auf der Basis dieser Lehrveranstaltungen sind diese fachspezifischen Handreichungen entstanden. Als frei zugängliche Dokumente stehen sie sowohl Lehrenden als auch Studierenden als Informationsquellen zur Verfügung: Jeder thematische Unterpunkt enthält ein zentrales Schaubild oder Zitat, das mit einer knappen Erläuterung versehen ist. Für die Lehre können einzelne thematische Unterpunkte wie aus einem Baukasten ausgewählt werden, ohne dass alle Unterpunkte behandelt werden. Insbesondere die abgedruckten und transkribierten Schülerprodukte stellen einen Materialfundus für eine kompetenzorientierte und anwendungsbezogene Lehrkräftebildung im Bereich Sprachbildung / DaZ dar.
description: Bildungssprache und  Sprachbildung im Fach : Handreichungen Lehrkräftebildung, 1
Uncovering missing links with cold ends
Creators: name: Zhu, Yu-Xiao
name: Lü, Linyuan
name: Zhang, Qian-Ming
name: Zhou, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To evaluate the performance of prediction of missing links, the known data are randomly divided into two parts, the training set and the probe set. We argue that this straightforward and standard method may lead to terrible bias, since in real biological and information networks, missing links are more likely to be links connecting low-degree nodes. We therefore study how to uncover missing links with low-degree nodes, namely links in the probe set are of lower degree products than a random sampling. Experimental analysis on ten local similarity indices and four disparate real networks reveals a surprising result that the Leicht-Holme-Newman index [E. A. Leicht, P. Holme, and M. E. J. Newman, Phys. Rev. E 73, 026120 (2006)] performs the best, although it was known to be one of the worst indices if the probe set is a random sampling of all links. We further propose an parameter-dependent index, which considerably improves the prediction accuracy. Finally, we show the relevance of the proposed index on three real sampling methods.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures, 6 tables
Regional Cerebral Hyperperfusion Associated with Postictal Paresis
Creators: name: Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institutes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: VThe pathophysiology of postictal paresis and other symptoms of Todd's phenomenon are not fully understood. Various hypotheses about its mechanism include exhaustive neuronal firing, desensitization, and active suppression. This case series demonstrates CT perfusion findings of two patients with postictal paresis that show hyperperfusion, increased cerebral blood flow, increased cerebral blood volume, and decreased mean transit time in the intracranial distribution corresponding with neuronal symptoms. These findings may suggest an active process requiring adequate perfusion during Todd's phenomenon.
An Evaluation of Pipeline Transportation of Coal in Mines
Creators: name: Reed, Joseph R.
name: Hartman, Richard A.
name: Stefanko, Robert
name: Reed, Joseph R.
name: Hartman, Richard A.
name: Stefanko, Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 15th Transportation Research Forum meeting, Oct. 10-12, 1974, San Francisco, CA
SNG Transmission from Coal Complexes in Appalachia To Eastern Urban Centers: A Pipeline System Design Analysis
Creators: name: Subhawong, S.
name: Nichols, D.G.
name: Subhawong, S.
name: Nichols, D.G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 15th Transportation Research Forum meeting, Oct. 10-12, 1974, San Francisco, CA
Literary Impressionisms. Resonances of Impressionism in Swedish and Finland-Swedish Prose 1880-1900.
Creators: name: STORSKOG, CAMILLA CARITA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: This dissertation aims to locate and draw out resonances of impressionism in Swedish and Finland-Swedish prose at the end of the nineteenth century, a field hitherto overlooked in the critical debate on literary impressionism. Through the initial examination of the use of the term in an international context comprising the Scandinavian scene, the aim is to show the many alternative accesses to literary impressionism. By focusing on three landmark discussions on the theme in the Nordic countries of the late nineteenth-century (Herman Bang, the Kristiania Boh�me, August Strindberg) the inclusive, wide-ranging Scandinavian understanding of the relationship between impressionism and literature is introduced. Accordingly, the texts thereafter chosen for closer scrutiny are intended to disclose this extensive interpretation of impressionist writing: Helena Westermarck?s short story Aftonst�mning (Evening Mood) from 1890 is read as an example of interart transposition, i.e., as a piece of prose adopting a theme, as well as the compositional aesthetics, of painterly impressionism; Stella Kleve?s novels and short stories are instead seen as indicative of the narrative modes of a literary impressionism drawing on theatrical representation, as in Bang?s impressionist poetics, but also present textual features such as the ?metonymic mode? and ?delayed decoding?, elements central to the international approach to impressionist prose. The concluding analysis of fictional impressionists in the prose of authors such as Gustaf af Geijerstam, Mathilda Roos, and Georg Nordensvan advances a many-sided portrait of the impressionist painter while remaining true to this study?s pluralistic approach to literary impressionism by including a discussion of K. A. Tavaststjerna?s Impressionisten (The Impressionist) from 1892, whose protagonist is not an artist but a hypersensitive, impressionable subject. This last section also investigates how fiction is used to convey a critical discussion of the means and methods of painterly impressionism, as well as the function of the use of the visual arts in the texts.
Evaluating the spatial distribution of plant function in a prairie-oak savanna using spectroscopy
Creators: name: Hacker, Paul W.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: In Canada, prairie-oak ecosystems along the south-east coast of Vancouver Island are both the country’s most biodiverse and threatened. Anthropogenic land use change and fire suppression are altering the traditional composition of plant species and structure in these savannas, as well as reducing their total area. In 2001, Environment Canada published a study highlighting the impact of habitat fragmentation, the role of fire and the associated consequences of its removal, as well as the presence and effects of exotic species as fundamental ecosystem characteristics that are currently threatened, central to the recovery of prairie-oak savannas and require further scientific enquiry. Each of these fundamental characteristics required an enhanced understanding of the spatial distribution of plant species, lifeform and function. Due to the potential for high species richness and small individual plant footprints relevant data must be collected at fine spatial resolutions. Remote sensing, specifically drone-based imaging spectroscopy, presents a viable method for gathering information that can be used in analyses evaluating the aforementioned fundamental ecosystem characteristics. My research demonstrates the complexity facing studies examining prairie-oak savannas using imaging spectroscopy and provides evidence that plant diversity and function, as well as structural composition, can be spatially evaluated. This work also substantiates the capacity for remote sensing to detect a key exotic species, Cytisus scoparius (L.) Link (Scotch broom) and examine the effects of anthropogenic activities on the primary tree species associated with these ecosystems, Quercus garryana Douglas ex. Hook (Garry oak). Combined, this information directly addresses key knowledge gaps and provides land managers with a variety of new methods to monitor prairie-oak savannas.
VERNON LEE AND THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE. PLASTICITY, GENDER, GENRE
Creators: name: CANANI, MARCO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: Vernon Lee scholars have often studied her writings on the Italian Renaissance in connection with Walter Pater?s. Whilst acknowledging the evident influence of Walter Pater, such a critical perspective risks overlooking Lee?s own contribution to the Victorian creation of the ?Renaissance myth? ? which, in her case, was to outlive its fin-de-si�cle frenzy. Moving from the recent developments in Lee scholarship, this study investigates the presence and the function of the Italian Renaissance in Lee?s writings with specific focus on issues of gender and genre. From this perspective, Lee?s relationship with characters, places, villas, and masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance works as a catalyst for the construction of cultural memory, mediated through hybrid narrative forms. Chapter I explores the phenomenology of the Italian Renaissance as a nineteenth-century myth. In particular, it takes into consideration the works of Jules Michelet and Matthew Arnold, and it highlights the influence that Jacob Burckhardt and John Ruskin had on Victorian culture in spite of their diverging opinions. After grounding Lee?s work in the fin-de-si�cle tradition of Walter Pater and John Addington Symonds, chapter II investigates Lee?s two collections of Renaissance essays ? Euphorion and Renaissance Fancies and Studies ? from an intertextual perspective which unveils the gender specificity of Lee?s writings, but also the construction of gender that these essays deploy at a textual level. Chapter III explores Lee?s fascination with Italian landscapes, which she portrays as spaces of culture. The plasticity of landscape and its meanings ? which can be sensed in Lee?s prose, but also in Edith Wharton?s and D. H. Lawrence?s ? enables Lee to bounce back and forth in time, moving from contemporary Italy to the imagined landscapes of the Renaissance. This textual strategy is made possible by Lee?s theorization of the ?genius loci,? which also provides her with a starting point for endorsing cultural politics steered by democratic sympathies. Finally, chapter IV focuses on Lee?s fluid idea of literary genres. Indeed, the Renaissance is a ?trans-genre? topos that Lee repeatedly explores in her essays as well as in her travelogues, supernatural tales, and a number of unpublished writings dating from the first two decades of the twentieth century, long after the end of the fin-de-si�cle Renaissance frenzy.
Toward the Development of a Generalized Structure of Transportation Service Measures
Creators: name: Bruck, H.W.
name: Kneafsey, James T.
name: Bruck, H.W.
name: Kneafsey, James T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 15th Transportation Research Forum meeting, Oct. 10-12, 1974, San Francisco, CA
Predicting Rural Public Transportation System Effectiveness
Creators: name: Saltzman, Arthur
name: Blair, Marion
name: Johnson, Joyce
name: Burkhardt, Jon
name: Saltzman, Arthur
name: Blair, Marion
name: Johnson, Joyce
name: Burkhardt, Jon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 15th Transportation Research Forum meeting, Oct. 10-12, 1974, San Francisco, CA
title: Seaworthiness in the age of emerging technologies
Creators: name: Dogan, Furkan
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2026

description: This thesis examines the evolving concept of seaworthiness within the context of maritime law, 
with a particular focus on the new challenges presented by the introduction of Maritime 
Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) and the integration of advanced digital systems. As the 
industry undergoes rapid and significant technological advancements, traditional legal doctrines 
such as seaworthiness, which have historically ensured that vessels are sufficiently fit to encounter 
ordinary perils of the seas, are increasingly at risk of falling short. These doctrines, which have long 
served as a cornerstone of maritime law, are now facing pressures to adapt to a new era of 
technological innovation.
The need for this examination arises from the urgent necessity to reevaluate and potentially expand 
the concept of seaworthiness in order to address the unique and complex challenges posed by these 
emerging technologies. While these innovations undeniably enhance operational efficiency and 
offer numerous benefits to the maritime industry, they simultaneously introduce new and significant 
risks, particularly in the realm of cybersecurity. These risks, which were not previously accounted 
for under traditional legal frameworks, now demand careful consideration and the development of 
new legal standards.
At the core of this thesis is the suggestion of introducing the concept of ‘cyber-worthiness,’ a novel 
extension of the traditional seaworthiness doctrine. Cyber-worthiness briefly refers to a vessel’s 
readiness and resilience against cyber threats. The thesis argues that in the digital age, ensuring a 
vessel’s seaworthiness must include strong cybersecurity measures to guard against potential 
disruptions that could endanger the safety and integrity of maritime operations.
The novelty of this thesis lies in its comprehensive approach to incorporating cyber-worthiness into 
the existing legal framework of seaworthiness. While previous research has primarily focused on 
the physical and human aspects of maritime safety, this thesis systematically address the impact of 
cyber threats on seaworthiness and propose specific updates to maritime law. By bridging the gap 
between traditional legal doctrines and modern technological challenges, this research offers legal 
analysis and practical recommendations essential for maintaining the safety and legal compliance of 
maritime operations in the digital era.
ПУТИ УЛУЧШЕНИЕ РЕЗУЛЬТАТОВ ХИРУРГИЧЕСКОГО ЛЕЧЕНИЯ ДИССЕМИНИРОВАННОГО ЭХИНОКОККОЗА ПЕЧЕНИ И ОРГАНОВ БРЮШНОЙ ПОЛОСТИ
Creators: name: Отакузиев, А.З.
name: Ботиров, А.К.
name: Абдулхаева, Б.Х.
name: Ботиров, Ж.А.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Эхинококкоз печени (ЭП) тяжелое паразитарное заболевание, вызываемое личиночной стадией цепня эхинококка - Echinococcus granulosus, представляющий серьезную медицинскую, социальную и даже народнохозяйственную проблему. Разработка комплекса диагностических мероприятий, выбор оптимального доступа при наличии сочетанных и множественных форм поражения органов, решение проблем ликвидации и обработка остаточных полостей (ОП), делают проблему хирургического лечения диссеминированного эхинококкоза весьма актуальной в эндемических регионах, чем обусловлено большое количество научных работ, опубликованных в последние годы.
On the collisions between particles in the vicinity of rotating black holes
Creators: name: Grib, A. A.
name: Pavlov, Yu. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scattering of particles in the gravitational field of rotating black holes is considered. It is shown that scattering energy of particles in the centre of mass system can obtain very large values not only for extremal black holes but also for nonextremal ones. Extraction of energy after the collision is investigated. It is shown that due to the Penrose process the energy of the particle escaping the hole at infinity can be large. Contradictions in the problem of getting high energetic particles escaping the black hole are resolved.
description: 5 pages, no figure, published version. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1001.0756
The Taxicab Industry in Wisconsin: An Inventory and Look at Regulatory Policy
Creators: name: Zachar, John A.
name: Beimborn, Edward A.
name: Zachar, John A.
name: Beimborn, Edward A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 15th Transportation Research Forum meeting, Oct. 10-12, 1974, San Francisco, CA
Compensation-dependence of magnetic and electrical properties in Ga1-xMnxP
Creators: name: Winkler, T. E.
name: Stone, P. R.
name: Li, Tian
name: Yu, K. M.
name: Bonanni, A.
name: Dubon, O. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the control of the hole concentration in Ga1-xMnxP over a wide range by introducing compensating vacancies. The resulting evolution of the Curie temperature from 51 K to 7.5 K is remarkably similar to that observed in Ga1-xMnxAs despite the dramatically different character of hole transport between the two material systems. The highly localized nature of holes in Ga1-xMnxP is reflected in the accompanying increase in resistivity by many orders of magnitude. Based on variable-temperature resistivity data we present a general picture for hole conduction in which variable-range hopping is the dominant transport mechanism in the presence of compensation.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in Applied Physics Letters
A Bayesian analysis of the nucleon QCD sum rules
Creators: name: Ohtani, Keisuke
name: Gubler, Philipp
name: Oka, Makoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: QCD sum rules of the nucleon channel are reanalyzed, using the maximum entropy method (MEM). This new approach, based on the Bayesian probability theory, does not restrict the spectral function to the usual "pole + continuum"-form, allowing a more flexible investigation of the nucleon spectral function. Making use of this flexibility, we are able to investigate the spectral functions of various interpolating fields, finding that the nucleon ground state mainly couples to an operator containing a scalar diquark. Moreover, we formulate the Gaussian sum rule for the nucleon channel and find that it is more suitable for the MEM analysis to extract the nucleon pole in the region of its experimental value, while the Borel sum rule does not contain enough information to clearly separate the nucleon pole from the continuum.
description: 15 pages, 13 figures, 8 tables; several typos corrected, minor modifications, published version
Yunhe’uwe nén Ohnekanus
Creators: name: John, Amberley
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: As a Haudenosaunee artist/researcher, my work and thinking are influenced by community-based, Traditional Indigenous Knowledges (TIK) and my responsibilities as a mother. My objective is to create artwork expressing survival of land-based identity, ethics and values (Simpson, 2014), such as seven-generation sustainability. The art produced will create a visual, physical environment and invite viewers to reflect on Water and stories shared in this thesis. I argue that TIK embodied through art can transform how individuals see, value, and develop a relationship with Water. Indigenous art can teach humans to recognize that Water is a human right and more; Water is sentient and has rights independent of humans. Water needs to be understood beyond its current subjugation to capitalism, war, and unceasing domination. (Tamez, 2015) (Syilx Youth Water Group, 2014) (Nielson, 2014) The thesis exhibition consists of a series of 7 art pieces, two large mixed-media paintings and installation. Some reflect the threads of Water in our traditional stories, including the centrality of women, and embody Haudenosaunee mothering practices transmitting knowledges for future generations, specifically with my children and immediate kinship in mind. In my research I have valued the principles and teachings of Water through many distinct Indigenous Nations and Territories.
CHARACTERIZATION OF CLASSICAL AND ATYPICAL BSE IN GOAT:CLINICAL SIGNS, PATHOGENESIS AND DIAGNOSTIC ELEMENTS
Creators: name: VALLINO COSTASSA, ELENA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: The identification and characterization of atypical BSE is certainly one of the most interesting study in prion diseases. The identification, for the first time in Italy, of an atypical form of BSE in cattle called BASE (Bovine Amyloidotic Spongiform Encephalopathy) has given the way to a new line of comparative research of new forms of TSEs. Preliminary results of these studies have shown more aggressiveness of BASE than classical BSE, that is able to infect all species in which the disease was transmitted, including non-human primates and transgenic mice. Furthermore, BASE has shown a remarkable plasticity, being able to modify its pathological and biochemical phenotype depending on the species in which it was transmitted. In this regard, some of the results obtained in wild type mice let hypothesize a possible new theory about the origin of BSE. In SJL and C57BL mice in fact, BASE showed the ability to convert into BSE. Therefore it is possible that BSE agent could originate from BASE strain, after a conversion in peripheral tissues or in an intermediate host. Hence the need for a study of experimental transmission in goat species in which up to now the BASE has not been transmitted, in order to characterize this species in clinical pathological and biochemical BASE phenotype. The study allowed us to confirm the susceptibility of goats to atypical BSE, characterizing the phenotype from a pathological point of view. In addition, goat is a species of great interest of public health due to the fact that it is already susceptible to classical BSE. Therefore the study, through the application of highly sensitive diagnostic techniques for prion protein in central nervous system and in peripheral tissues will determine whether there are possible risks to humans if BASE, as BSE, could infect caprine species.
ESSAYS ON MACROECONOMIC VULNERABILITY FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Creators: name: MBOME, MARIE SILVERE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: Many studies identified financial market deepening as supporting macroeconomic stability and long-term growth. However, the role of the financial sector in increasing and propagating shocks has been considered only by few studies. The aim of this thesis is to empirically assess the effects of output volatility on growth and the limits of the financial sector in generating long-term and stable growth. First, we reexamine the linkage between output volatility and economic growth, considering cross-section dependence and heterogeneity. By doing so, we use the common correlated effects mean group estimator which accounts for cross-section dependence and heterogeneity. Our study focuses on a panel of 85 developed and developing economies from 1975 to 2006. We confirm the negative relationship between output volatility and economic growth. Moreover, we show that, as cross-country interdependence increases, economies get synchronized, thus more vulnerable to common shocks. This is particularly true for advanced countries where the negative effect of macroeconomic fluctuations on growth seem to be stronger than in developing countries. Thus, the findings advocating a positive effect of volatility on growth may be spurious. Second, we address the effects of financial development on economic growth for a sample of 64 developed and developing countries from 1980 to 2010. Our analysis using traditional GMM techniques and panel smoothing transition regression model (PSTR), suggests that the benefits from financial development crucially depend on the level of economic and financial development. Below a given level of income, financial development adversely affects growth. Also excessive finance tends to deter growth and increase macroeconomic instability.
GENOME-WIDE ANALYSIS OF JAPONICA RICE PERFORMANCES UNDER ALTERNATE WETTING AND DRYING AND PERMANENT FLOODING CONDITIONS.
Creators: name: ORASEN, GABRIELE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2018

description: A rice GWAS panel of 281 accessions of japonica rice was phenotypically characterized for traits related to phenology, plant and seed morphology, physiology, yield and grain ionome for two years in field conditions under permanent flooding (PF) or AWD. A genome-wide analysis approach uncovered a total of 360 significant marker-trait associations (MTAs), of which 105 were AWD-specific, 178 were PF-specific and 77 were in common between the two water management systems. AWD-specific associations were identified for several agronomic traits including days to maturation, days from flowering to maturation, leaf traits, plant height, panicle and seed traits, hundred grain weight, yield, tillering, mineral nutrient and toxic trace elements level in grains. Significant MTAs were detected across all the 12 rice chromosomes. The analysis of genes annotated in the Nipponbare reference sequence and included in the regions associated to the analyzed traits allowed the identification of several loci known to affect the respective traits. The high number of MTAs identified open new perspectives for the development of functional genomic and breeding strategies.
Brownian motion of molecules: a stochastic approach
Creators: name: Tsekov, Roumen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A stochastic Langevin equation is derived, describing the thermal motion of a molecule immersed in a rested fluid of identical molecules. The fluctuation-dissipation theorem is proved and a number of correlation characteristics of the molecular Brownian motion are obtained.
description: The paper is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Sofia
LIE SYMMETRY ANALYSIS AND GEOMETRICAL METHODS FOR FINITE AND INFINITE DIMENSIONAL STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
Creators: name: DE VECCHI, FRANCESCO CARLO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2018

description: The main aim of the thesis is a systematic application (via suitable generalizations) of Lie symmetry analysis, or more generally, of the various geometric techniques for differential equations, to the study of finite and infinite dimensional stochastic differential equations (SDEs). The work can be divided in three main parts. In the first part a new geometric approach to finite dimensional SDEs driven by a multidimensional Brownian motion is proposed, which is based on a new notion of random transformations of a stochastic process called stochastic transformations. After having studied the probabilistic and geometric properties of stochastic transformations, we provide a useful generalization of the well-known results of reduction and reconstruction of symmetric ODEs to the stochastic setting. We give many applications of previous results to some interesting SDEs among which the two dimensional Brownian motion, the Kolmogorov-Pearson equation, a generalized Langevin equation and the SABR model. Finally, using the previous theorems, we propose a symmetry-adapted numerical scheme whose effectiveness is verified through both theoretical estimates and numerical simulations. The second part contains an extension of the results obtained in the first part to finite dimensional SDEs driven by a general semimartingale taking values in a Lie group. In order to provide such an extension we use the notion of geometrical SDEs introduced by Serge Choen, and we introduce some new notions of stochastic invariance for semimartingales called gauge and time symmetries of a semimartingale. Using these mathematical tools we generalize the notion of stochastic transformations in this setting and we propose the natural definition of symmetry based on this group of transformations. The formulated theory allows us to analyze in detail an important class of SDEs with possible relevant applications to iterated random maps theory. In the third part we take advantage of the geometry of the infinite jets bundle to develop a convenient algorithm for the explicit determination of finite dimensional solutions to stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). In this setting we are able to propose a generalization of Frobenius theorem in the infinite jet bundles setting, which, exploiting the classical notion of characteristics of a PDE, allows us to find some sufficient conditions for the existence of finite dimensional solutions to an SPDE and then to explicitly reduce the SPDE to a finite dimensional SDE. Our techniques permits to individuate new finite dimensional solutions to interesting SPDEs among which the proportional volatility equation in Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework, a stochastic perturbation of Hunter-Saxton equation and a filtering problem related to affine type processes.
Economic Efficiency of Meat and Livestock Trucking Firms
Creators: name: Anderson, Dale G.
name: Budt, Wayne W.
name: Anderson, Dale G.
name: Budt, Wayne W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 15th Transportation Research Forum meeting, Oct. 10-12, 1974, San Francisco, CA